Archive for December, 2009

happy 2010!

happy new year, tinuum readers!
Hope 2010 brings you lots of joy and happiness, and that you achieve the good things that each of you strive towards.
Above, all, I’m wishing for – to pseudo-quote from one Brian Walker’s interpretation of the I-Ching – “balance and equanimity in all our thoughts and actions“, for everyone everywhere. Tall [...]

it’s all them pooting moo-cows

tee hee… OK I admit to just wanting moo-cows on my homepage (aren’t they adorable)?
Makes you think though…

It’s not all high tea and crumpets

What’s going on with the UK?
Like a billion little pin-pricks, the myriad stories of the UK turning into a giant big-brother, police state are circulating, just under the surface of the regular media. I hadn’t been paying it no mind; I don’t necessarily remember the UK being that way, and it’s always a bit jarring [...]

Running scared of ‘Precious’?

I don’t know why I’m writing this now, having seen this movie yonks ago… but I was recently thinking about it so I might as well post my thoughts.
The trailer for Precious hides little, and I find that more than a few people have been put off seeing it at all, possibly because of:
1) fear [...]

We of bounded rationality

I came across a fascinating article at the Communications of the ACM site about negotiation agents.

Complex accounting is routing strategy. It’s here to stay.

[updated : 2009-12-19]
The only thing that’s interesting about the copenhagen climate summit is the strategies that nations employ to wriggle out of real and tangible cuts in emissions.
The interconnectedness of environmental and other systems on our planet has made us turn, naturally, to network theory for gaining useful insights. This is becoming more so with [...]

handleTheImpossible(*state snafuState){ /*hmm…*/ }

WP (Wordpress) was being supremely annoying the other day…  all the earlier drafts of a certain post kept clamouring for attention and I just wanted to say, *I know*… but this is the version I want for my post. Now will all you others just GO AWAY.
I wasn’t getting anywhere so I decided to force the [...]

Poor directional hearing : a maladaptation that works?

I recently learned that, under certain circumstances, poor directional hearing can be a bit of a blessing. It works kind of like “ignorance is bliss”. Case in point:
There is a lunatic in my building. Statistically there always had to be one, so that is not the point of this story. The point is that the [...]

Festival of the Gynnies

I was doing some research on bots (specifically androids/gynoids) to help get me back into this short story I was writing. I love anything to do with bots, even if I have problems with some of the actual, real-life ones we’ve built so far (yeah i know – sorry, Fritz Lang’s golden gal and Terminator’s [...]

rising apette spotted at a small angle theta from…

“Comfy?! SEX SHOULDN’T BE COMFY!!“
- chiwetel Ejiofor as Lola, in the movie ‘Kinky Boots’.
[I warn you that, even for the tinuum, this is going to be a spectacularly nonsensical (to you), rambling post. And downright incoherent.].
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Since you are still here I will ask you this: have you sworn an oath of allegiance to Mother Nature, [...]

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