The Ides of march

The definition is:

# Kalends (1st day of the month)
# Nones (the 7th day in March, May, July, and October; the 5th in the other months)
# Ides (the 15th day in March, May, July, and October; the 13th in the other months)

so, Be aware of kalends of March!!

March 1: Kalends;
March 2: VI Nones;
March 3: V Nones;
March 4: IV Nones;
March 5: III Nones;
March 6: Pridie Nones (Latin for "on the day before");
March 7: Nones;
March 15: Ides

An Altruistic Intellectual Working Models

Some years ago, late '04 I think, I wrote to some friends(almost all of whom have their advanced degree by now) about an intellectual work model that is without identity and monetary reward (but not without individualism nor identity). I admit that it's kind of childish, but it goes something like this: (and I apologize to my own blog if I've already posted this before)

"""

• Researchers are given secure and secret access to a research forum under uninformative pseudonyms.
• Each person may be allowed to have more than one identity, but they cannot change the name once it is established.
• They discuss/produce with each other under pseudonym.
• They will share ideas, data, analysis, and perform simultaneous and instantaneous peer review--but entirely anonymous.
• Posts are read-only. Corrections can be posted, but original public posts are kept immutable.
• In order to guarantee anonymity, one approach is to use trusted reviewers (voted by democratically based on past behavior). These trusted reviewers will receive all discussions and summarize into either notes, or short write ups.
• All significant participants to a piece of research(poster, scripts, paper, book, code, algorithm, ASCII art, etc., etc.) are listed as an author/owner(using pseudonym).
• Reputation is established purely based on collective recognition of past timely contribution and clarity of explanation. External reputation is also established by external recognition--see later point on that.
• The ultimate empirical approach by blinding participants to irrelevant aspects such as: race, sex, height, age, language, geographic location, time zones, financial status, government backing, religion, left/right handedness, balding or not, eye color, B.O. hidden agendas (so optimizes intellectual output without regard to the underlying motivation because past experience indicate some of best research come out of very racist and very evil scientist--thus the "mad scientist" cartoon caracture)
• This intellectual work organization can participate in the larger scientific community by submitting work (with pseudonym affiliated with this organization) to established venues.
• Larger work can be published as books but following conventional publication review, editorial and approval process. Money goes toward the organization for future research.
• Patents belong to the organization and the anonymous authors. It's licensing is managed by authors who will come to agreement via small amount of private discussion and public declaration of decision.
• Some small number of public servants must be delegated to implement outward facing aspects of the operation.

"""

Criticism 0: It looks like I thought of this while failing out of graduate school... Couldn't quite compete in reality, so tried to make up a virtual world where I might have a chance.

Criticism 1: Try to think of an antagonistic environment that this was trying to overcome. The anonymous authors could come up with some kind of code to communicate with empathetic reviewer, (or if possible, through non-empathetic reviewer) in order to gang up on somebody that they don't like. So, ..., if you piss some people off, they can still kick you out.

Criticism 2: It's hard to guarantee responsible posting. What if somebody fakes data?

Criticism 3: They can always hack the computer and find out who's who in real life and dis you in person. There is probably no escaping reality... Sadly, digital security is not trustworthy enough yet for this to

Criticism 4: Sciences as they are is already very political. It is probably not possible to hide who the actual researcher is because of his research approaches.

Criticism 5: Allows for research motivated, (possibly entirely), by evil motivations.

Criticism 6: Ignores a most fundamental aspects of modern research: money; nobody will give money to such an organization, and without money, this is effectively without merit.

Criticism 7: Without monetary return, nobody would participate and contribute money making content.

Criticism 8: Who will be it's public officers? There is no single person who is trust worthy to all.

Criticisim 9: The organization's relationship to the real world is not addressed sufficiently. What if it breaks a law?...

Criticism 10: How to handle ownership of, say, a professor's work who has obligation to his university, or scientist's work to his company?

Criticism 11: Hasn't been thought through carefully in terms of how it works, what it does (who decides topic? can it even be productive without any legal or social restrictions?) , and how it works with existing research/intellectual world.

Criticism 12: What's the difference between intellectual work and artistic work?

Criticism 13: More trouble than it's worth. Might as well admit that the world sucks and live with it... When people find out that they can't take advantage of other people, they will not participate.

James Joyce

"My mouth is full of decayed teeth and my soul of decayed ambitions."

Also, some impressive statistics, Ulysses, a book with out plot, written by James Joyce about a day in Dublin Ireland, has 33k unique words, half of which are only used once!

After he discovered his rotten problem inside.

sticks and stone may break my bones...

...but you are one dumb hobbo.

--archie Bunker


Sticks and stocks may break my bones, but....

...I will never be hungary again!!!!!


sigh... got some wires crossed here...

Nothing unreal exists.

some very down to earth metaphysics.

Another one from S&C

Carrie: [[to miranda]] Sweety, RELAX!! Chew... don't worry, you'll get laid !!...

Where dimples come from

Well, according to Carrie from S&C, it comes from couples having sex during pregnancy... Ohh, yeah, and he has to be reasonably endowed...

Okay, here's the non-passive form:

Title: Should I have sex while pregnant???

Miranda: Should I have sex when I am pregnant?
Carrie: Yes, lots of people are pregnant and have sex.
Miranda: What if he is big?
Carrie: Lot's of guys are big...,
Miranda: Are you sure ??...[[reluctantly about to giveup]]
Carrie: Yes... Besides, where do you think dimples comes from...


[[well, have to imagine to very well dressed girl on S&C, chatting casually about it while walking down the side walk in the C]]

stupid semi-religious joke about vegitarian

"Why should men be vegietarian..."
1: "Well, because he knows how painful it is to have a rib taken... and all the other consequences from the things that it is ade from"
1: "Why should men not be vegietarian"
1: "Well... The stuff that ribs are made of are just so damned good."

MLK quote for the holiday

"You won't remember your enemies' words... But you will remember your friends' silence."

faint, this has to be the worst

人之初：At the begining of life.
　　性本善：Sex is good.
　　性相近：Basically，all the sex are same.
　　习相远：But it depends on how the way you do it.
　　苟不教：If you do not practise all the time.
　　性乃迁：Sex will leave you..
　　
　　教之道：The way of learning it
　　贵以专：is very important to make love with only one erson.
　　
　　昔孟母：Once a great mother， Mrs Meng
　　择邻处：chose her neighbour to avoid bad sex influence.
　　
　　子不学：If you don‘t study hard，
　　断机杼：Your Dick will become useless.
　　
　　窦燕山 Dou， the Famous
　　有义方 owned a very effective exciting medicine
　　教五子 All his five son took it!
　　名俱扬 and their sexual ability were well-kown.
　　
　　养不教 If your children don‘t know how to do it，
　　父之过 It is all the father’s fault.
　　教不严 If they had lots of problems with it，
　　师之惰 their teacher must be too lazy to tell them details on sex.
　　
　　子不学 You may refuse to study this
　　非所宜 but that is a real mistake
　　幼不学 If you don‘t learn it in childhood，
　　老何为 you will lose your ability when aged
　　
　　玉不琢 If you don‘t exercise your dick，
　　不成器 It won‘t become hard and strong.
　　人不学 If you don‘t learn sex，
　　不知义 You can by no means enjoy its sweetness

boss... that's too much color!!

[[u gota imagine her kinda liking it... then it's really weird]]

打卡时，总经理对女同事们说：
「美丽的小姐们！要不要来个脑筋急转弯？」
众脂粉们心想，又来了。
「听好喔：【什么东西最硬？女孩子最喜欢，特别
是结了婚的女人，更是爱死了。】脑筋急转弯！开
始！」
众脂粉们又开始脸红了，低头都想走开。
「喂喂！还没说出答案啊？」
「不来了啦，总经理你最色了啦！」

「不来了啦，总经理你最色了啦！」

「喂喂，又想到哪去了，答案是【钻石】啦！」

unix t-shirt

find
talk
whoami
whatis
uname
quota
set
mv
whereis
unzip
strip
touch
finger
top
mount
compress
!!
more
yes
jobs
umount
sleep

ignorant bliss and informed despair

some adjetives for Andy's spining poster.

咬文嚼字 from 论点

女人反对重男轻女，部又常常跑到“减肥训练班”。
脸皮厚的人，最常说的一句话是“我待你不薄”。
招聘大都是“有经验者尤先”，招婿则相反。
有人请假的理由是“病假”，只因为病是假的。
从电话费的帐单中，最能体会出“言多必失”的道理。
没钱的流浪者，叫“游民”，有钱的流浪者， 叫“游客”。
青春不要“留白”，可也千万别“留黑”。
有件事做失败时，本钱仍在，那是“减肥”。
有钱人喜欢在别人面前哭穷，是“贫嘴”。
对某些有成就的人来说，“失恋”才是他们的“成功之母”。
喜帖，今名乃“喜舱”，主人喜悦，客人“贴”钱。
大学生只有当月末囊空如洗时，才会给双亲写寥寥数语，因为，惟有家书才能“抵万金
”。
白手起家的富翁，有的是从“黑手”干起的。
以前，父母的话对子女是一言九鼎；而今，子女对父母的话则是一言九“顶