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| Random Stuff From The Week of June 15-June 19 2009:http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/us_tec_music_downloading
A woman is fined $1.92 million for sharing 24 songs off the internet. I think this is completely outrageous. I can't believe any judge or any jury in the nation would let this pass. Why aren't people taking to the streets? Would you ever fine someone $2 million for stealing a CD? Of course not. There's the concept that the punishment must match the crime. This has gone too far.
Driving around the south bay again has made me enjoy driving much more again. The speed limit goes above 30 and I'm not in constant fear of being hit or hitting a pedestrian or getting a ticket. It's a much different experience when I get to play with all 6 gears instead of just 3.
Being at home is like being put into the "do nothing" box. I sleep in, am lethargic all day, take naps, waste time. I don't know what it is. But it's not just me. I think my sister is like this also. It feels like I've been here forever, but it's only been the first full week. Even going back to my apartment for a few hours revives a drive that I just don't have here. I've moved my futon/bed, table and chair into my room in SJ, so the structure is there. I'll move the rest of my stuff next week. Because I'm not in the room I was in before, my desktop doesn't have a LAN cable. I'll have to crawl around in the attic to run a cable and drill through the ceiling again. | | |
| Today is the most *perfect* day to be sitting outside of Strada. Oh, how I wish I were still at Berkeley.
Instead, I rode my bike to the Stanford Dish hike loop. It's just behind campus a short bike ride away on a small hill. The walk was most excellent. The temperature was warm enough to wear a T-shirt, but cool enough that you didn't get hot at all. The valley visible for miles around. You could see the skyline of SF and Oakland, and east to Fremont, and south to San Jose. My life. All within sight. Nearly 360 degrees. The clouds were the perfect poofy, kind of low, cotton candy variety with enough to fill the sky but not so much to block out the blue. There was even a rainbow.
I didn't know where to go when I came back, because I wanted to be somewhere with a plug, but outside, and not in the sun, so I could use my laptop. I biked all around campus and didn't find such a place, so I lay down on a bench next to the library for a while, before coming inside. I'm sitting on a couch in one of the reading rooms. It's not ideal, but still fairly soothing.
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| News on TVIs it just me, or have there just been a slew of plane crash/accident reportings recently. Every time you turn your head, another one goes down.
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I was watching the 10pm news on channel 2 KTVU. And then I turn the channel to 5 CBS and the preview is completely different. Usually the "news" is prettymuch the same across all the networks, because just how much news is there anyways?
But somehow channel 2 failed to mention this:
http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/local/401779_schene28.html
A 15 year old girl is prettymuch just attacked by a police officer inside of a cell.
[Discussion on metafilter]
Youtube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RmE6bDtvGlQ
I'm sorry, but it seems like such a thing happening (especially with the recent events around here) seems a tad more important than some woman ignoring traffic regulations.
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| Quality or QuantityThis seems to be one of "those stories" that just gets passed around the design circle. I've heard this now from multiple sources:
"The ceramics teacher announced on opening day that he
was dividing the class into two groups. All those on the left side of
the studio, he said, would be graded solely on the quantity of work
they produced, all those on the right solely on its quality.
His procedure was simple: on the final day of class he would bring
in his bathroom scales and weigh the work of the “quantity” group:
fifty pound of pots rated an “A”, forty pounds a “B”, and so on. Those
being graded on “quality”, however, needed to produce only one
pot—albeit a perfect one—to get an “A”.
Well, came grading time and a curious fact emerged: the works of
highest quality were all produced by the group being graded for
quantity. It seems that while the “quantity” group was busily churning
out piles of work—and learning from their mistakes—the “quality” group
had sat theorizing about perfection, and in the end had little more to
show for their efforts than grandiose theories and a pile of dead clay." - DesignSojourn [saved]
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