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Please Hang With Me While I Fix The Feed

Ike — Fri, 30 Jul 2010 22:25:05 +0000

My apologies to those who subscribe to my feed – I’m trying to figure out what’s causing it to do screwy things.

Space and Time

Ike — Fri, 25 Jun 2010 23:16:05 +0000

How space affects a woman’s perception of time.

Conclusion:

Apparently, space increases overall satisfaction.

Facebook Exit Strategy

Ike — Tue, 18 May 2010 18:09:37 +0000

Just so I can find it later, my Facebook Exit Strategy:

1) Set Facebook Death Date. 2) Arrange contact info for friends. 3) Kill account. 4) Return in 30 days, make placeholder.Sun May 16 02:56:58 via TwikiniIke Pigott
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Regression to the Mean

Ike — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 15:04:28 +0000

It’s time for the return of the Demotivational Devotional.

(made with the Despair.com Do-It-Yourself De-Motivator)

I am Back

Ike — Mon, 18 Jan 2010 19:36:14 +0000

For now.

What a long strange trip it has been.

Just a claim

Ike — Fri, 27 Nov 2009 18:17:44 +0000

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Easter Egg Surprise

Ike — Thu, 23 Apr 2009 05:20:41 +0000

I posted this to my 12seconds account, but it was too good not to share.

Delayed-action Easter Surprise on 12seconds.tv

Capitol Punishment

Ike — Thu, 20 Nov 2008 13:17:29 +0000

The is the first part of my Modest Proposals for Change. Change I can believe in.

Get Congress out of Washington.

Greater Washington is one of the most segregated, dysfunctional cities on the planet. Having our elected representatives spend the majority of their time in a toxic place cannot be good for their outlook. Even worse are those that cocoon themselves within the padded and happy bubble of private schools and swank surroundings. They go, they plug in, and they lose touch.

So let’s get them out of there.

Telecommute. Don’t Pollute.

If telecommuting is the wave of the future, let’s get our Federal government in front of that movement.

Let’s get them back to their home districts. Let them do video conferencing with their committees. Let them vote remotely, and have every vote electronically tabulated (no more voice-vote games). Let them eat breakfast with their constituents. Let them be more open and transparent, with more meetings available for people to peruse online.

Most importantly, let’s get them out of a cluster that is convenient for lobbyists. K-Street can only exist if there is in fact a street close enough to lobby all of them on the cheap. No lobbyists, no revolving doors, no secret huddles. Let them lobby in person by flying around the country, where they can be tracked. Let them lobby over the phone, where there are records that can be subpoenaed, and make those phone records public and searchable too.

We the People don’t trust our Congressmen as far as we can throw them. So let’s keep them close enough that we can throw them. Maybe, just maybe, we’ll get a better degree of representation. It would certainly cost less than what we have now.

Why Does Facebook Hate My Wife

Ike — Sun, 07 Sep 2008 00:16:20 +0000

My Facebook experience is episodic, intermittent, and intense. I really don’t hang there much, but occasionally I get a flurry of requests from a new pack of old friends who have just discovered it and I interact with them a bit. Facebook is not my life.

Recently, my wife asked me to get her started with a Facebook page. Apparently she has had a couple of friends ask if she’s on, so she wants an account.

My efforts to start her page have hit a snag. Apparently, she’s not allowed for some reason:

Our automated system will not approve this name.

No specific reason given, and my email to their support staff got an automated response five days ago. No other contact.

Also, absolutely nothing on the help pages to give clarification as to why they deny accounts.

How much were they worth again? For what Microsoft paid in, it could have bought an even more-difficult-to-comprehend Seinfeld commercial.

Facebook, you have until Tuesday. Then I start a countdown clock on you.

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Cutting Loose

Ike — Wed, 20 Aug 2008 20:42:39 +0000

My wife sent me the following in an email:

Superman’s cape has bit the dust! Ryan was spotted with a pair of scissors earlier today and when asked what he was doing replied, “Cutting off superman’s cape” When asked why he was doing this the small human responded, “Because I don’t want him to fly.”

It’s easy to gravitate to the cape as the source of flight, when really it was meant as an artistic convention to demonstrate movement in a two-dimensional, still-frame comic medium. But at some point, we cut the strings when we realize the cape isn’t necessary anymore. (Besides, Batman doesn’t fly and he has a cape…)

Which leads me back to a question posed the other day. When do we finally reach the point where we ditch the old technology? I know of two accomplished and very intelligent classmates of mine who graduated high school without being able to tell the time on an analog clock. (I can vouch that one has since learned, and probably the other…)

The fact remains that one could indeed be fully functional in 1986 without needing that particular skill, and moreso today. So when do we realize that the magic isn’t in the hands and the gears? When can we cut the ties?

I think there are several factors that play a role in allowing us to assign certain standards to the fate of the buggy whip. What I haven’t figured out is the relative importance and ranking of those factors:

Percentage adoption
Generational immersion of replacement
Fear of translation

And for that matter – what besides the analog clock and the shoelace is destined for the dustbin of history? (Considering that for many us, the dustbin is history too.)

[tags]Ike Pigott, Occam’s RazR, technology[/tags]