LJ Adventures, Negatives and Positives, Slinky Linkies

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It has been lax of me, but I should make mention that tau_iota_mu_c stayed a couple of nights a few weeks back and was excellent company. Further, caseopaya and I recently dined with ser_pounce and wolf_in_winter; a great evening and a repeat experience has been booked. Yesterday spent a joyous discussion on basic accounting (and many other things) with splodgenoodles and tenbears. I now have an enormous bag of herbs courtesy of their garden.

Negative side. Current annoying state-owned corporatised service is earning my wrath is Australia Post. They managed to confuse my surname with my firstname and thus the paid postal redirection has been failing. Just as I have several boxes of books coming in from overseas. Annoying to say the least. Other annoyances include a work colleague who's incompetent, abrasive and ambiguous. Thank goodness I have some managerial authority. Anyone good at organising events? An (average) paying job is coming up.

On the positive side, I've put in notice at Borderlands. The loss of income is incidental, the gain of time is really, really good. Also have written an article on our "parliamentarians and councilors education" kit for Prosper Australia, put up the notes from my slides at the AUUG conference on open source economics. Finally, I've put up my presentation on Ray Kurzweil's Age of Spiritual Machines

US admits loss in Baghdad. A working (kind of) invisibility cloak. Can you tell as Sunni from a Shi'a?. What makes women bad at maths? Believing that they are bad at maths (top link of the week award to cheshire_bitten)

Comments

[tau-iota-mu-c.livejournal.com]

I have only had a single letter sent through redirection. I find that hard to believe, given the amount of personally addressed spam I used to get.

I wonder if they are smart enough to equate Tim with Timothy?

[purrdence.livejournal.com]

I do think attitude plays a large part in how well you learn something. I've too many students, who come in the first day and go "This subject is hard." That's the attitude they carry and don't try and then go "see? I did badly. I told you so."

US admits loss

[gamoonbat.livejournal.com]

I added you as a friend after reading your posts to angel80. What is lost on some American newsfolk and apparently most of the foreign press, is the understanding that George W. Bush and the American right wing have of the "lessons of Vietnam." According to their interpretation, we were winning the Vietnam War when Tet occurred and would have kept winning if the press had not been duped and convinced the American people to turn against our military. So what the interview really shows is not that the president is admitting defeat but that he is entirely out of touch both with current events and with history. While I think he is in fact fairly intelligent, he has very strong, simple ideas formed by staying within a very small circle of extreme right wing thought.

[evil-genius.livejournal.com]

http://community.livejournal.com/libertarianism/1809474.html?thread=52565058

[beingfrank.livejournal.com]

Charlie has organised events. He might be interested.

[ser-pounce.livejournal.com]

Yes, it was a lovely evening. When are you free for more catching-up goodness? :)

AustraliaPost are useless. How could they mix up your names? It's not like Lafayette is very common first name. :)