Posted by Stephen Waits Tue, 24 Oct 2006 16:55:07 GMT
I went to a talk by Dr. Arnie Baker last week with Cathy. He showed some of the case for Floyd’s innocence (by the rules). It was quite compelling, and I’m not certain that Floyd should not be held as a doper.
The talk drew quite a crowd and now they’ve got video of it posted online! Get it here.
Go watch it, tell me what you think!
Update: Better, easier to access, mirrors are up at archive.org.
Posted by Stephen Waits Sat, 21 Oct 2006 17:01:45 GMT
I’m really interested in voting systems. For example, here’s a recent post I made about Rivest’s ThreeBallot system.
Now college students are setting out to design, publish, and attack new voting systems in VoComp. We won’t have the results for another year, but I’m looking forward to what comes out of this.
Via comp.risks.
Posted by Stephen Waits Mon, 16 Oct 2006 02:03:43 GMT
Posted by Stephen Waits Wed, 04 Oct 2006 17:57:00 GMT
They do. Have you ever noticed? Next time you’re out with a group of people, take notice of who drinks what. In my experience, fat people often drink Diet Coke (or similar), and skinny people drink something else.
And I know fat people who’ve been drinking it for years and years, and they keep getting fatter!
Here’s a message to you fat Diet Coke drinking people: it’s not freaking working! In fact, I think it may be working against you!!! And that’s not even getting into the artificial sweetener you’re poisoning yourself with.
Oh, along those lines, I caught an episode of The Biggest Loser one night last week. OMFG, these are the most pathetic fucking people I’ve ever seen in my life. I was laughing, almost hysterically, in utter disbelief at the crybaby victim mentality on display. That’s not even a fair description - I don’t know how to describe it except that I was blown away. Wow.. the show is aptly named.
Posted by Stephen Waits Tue, 18 Jul 2006 07:08:41 GMT
Jeff is some guy’s cat. He kills and eats things. Watch a photojournal of Jeff’s kills. There’s even an RSS feed. Consider me a subscriber.
It’s interesting to me that Jeff knows, naturally, what he can an can’t safely eat. Look at 6/6/06 or 7/3/06 for a few fine examples of this.
Jeff rules!
Posted by Stephen Waits Tue, 13 Jun 2006 21:59:47 GMT
Posted by Stephen Waits Wed, 24 May 2006 16:11:50 GMT
This guy captured ants, removed them from their nest, and then cast the nest. I can’t imagine the work involved in digging the cast out. See pictures here.
Posted by Stephen Waits Wed, 11 Jan 2006 05:48:14 GMT
This is an excellent explanation of the Challenger Disaster.
Posted by Stephen Waits Sun, 08 Jan 2006 17:54:01 GMT
This free 2006 skywatching book (pdf) is really good. I am pleasantly surprised!
Via Slashdot.
Posted by Stephen Waits Tue, 03 Jan 2006 14:24:13 GMT
It’s Houston. San Diego ranks 9th “most fit”. Fit cities are on the West Coast and in the Southwest. Fat cities are everywhere else.
Posted by Stephen Waits Mon, 02 Jan 2006 17:30:45 GMT
An article in Outside magazine details one amateur cyclist’s experiments with HGH, EPO, Testosterone, and Anabolic Steroids. The article is just over two years old, but remains interesting.
Posted by Stephen Waits Thu, 29 Dec 2005 20:54:50 GMT
A report links Fructose consumption with obesity. To me the key to weight maintenance is still primarily caloric intake versus calories burned. I’ve witnessed this first hand, in myself, and in observation of others. However, eating the right things has to be a good thing too, and I’m certain processed sugars like fructose aren’t on the “right things” list.
Posted by Stephen Waits Thu, 29 Dec 2005 20:31:53 GMT
Check out these snippets of Mel Gibson’s Playboy Interview, from July 1995. It’s an older interview, and this is only a snippet, but it’s still new to me and still appalling. The whole thing is stupid. Instances of stupidity that don’t even need explanation to any rational person:
How come apes aren’t people yet?
Or how about:
There’s a big credibility gap. The carbon dating thing that tells you how long something’s been around, how accurate is that, really?
Well, read something about it, and you’ll find out!
But, one particular piece of idiotic ignorance really jumped out at me:
I’ve got one of Darwin’s books at home and some of that stuff is pretty damn funny. Some of his stuff is true, like that the giraffe has a long neck so it can reach the leaves.
He’s saying that Darwin was mostly wrong, but got some of it right. As evidence of what Darwin got right, Gibson mentions something that he might have actually gotten wrong!
The thing is.. The giraffe’s neck gets in the way of eating and drinking. Sure, it can reach higher leaves, but it makes drinking water and eating lower leaves very difficult (no, it can’t just bend its neck down). And lots of animals survived on eating the lower vegetation alone, so why not the giraffe? And why just a long neck? If being tall was key to survival then it seems that it could have evolved to be generally tall, rather than just having a long neck.
Yah, Darwin got a lot of things right, as did his predecessors, and he made mistakes. However, I’m certain that he got much more right than Mel Gibson.
He goes on to trash women as basically inferior. Smart guy, this one.
Gibson’s words scream of ignorance and a very low mental capacity. The bottom line is, Mel Gibson is DUMB!
I won’t ever watch another of his movies again. I’m sorry I’ve already watched some of his crap in my past. Now, I’m completely done with him.
Now, there’s a chance that these excerpts are illegitimate; regardless, I stand by my own opinions of him.
Posted by Stephen Waits Fri, 23 Dec 2005 04:38:00 GMT
The northern hemisphere winter solstice has passed. Finally the days have stopped shrinking. We won’t really notice for a bit, sinusoids and all, but still, it’s nice to know we’re on our way. I remember our friend Lonna telling us years ago how happy she is when we get past this day! So, Happy Winter Solstice Day Lonna!