(Thought was having a bad allergy day. Now it seems like I have caught some kind of nasty flu. kicking my a___. But thank god for laptops and the internet. Watching bad television as a child was so awful by comparison.)
Source date (UTC): 2014-10-20 15:59:00 UTC
(personal)
First meaningful hike since I’ve been here. My lungs loved it. So it seems like physical activity is on the menu again – finally. My body has recovered enough now. May not seem much to others, but to me, the ability to hike again is awesome. (and necessary given the awesome food in l’viv)
Today
1) DONE: UI for profile completeness,
2) DONE: UI For personality, moral, and IQ profiles.
3) DONE: Hike “the mountain.” (No idea what the park is called but you can see all of L’viv from the top of it.
4) STARTED: 10K foot API for central server functionality (skills, survey data,financial info.
5) UNDONE Finish outline of Oversing Help for Andreii. Send it to him.
6) UNDONE: Video of “Ancestral Lands”. Add talking points (takeaways). Render it. Publish it.
If I’m lucky: (I won’t be)
7) Banking. Just not happening…. you can only get 1K out of the banking system per person per day. I have no idea how this cash-based economy is functioning at the moment.
Source date (UTC): 2014-10-15 13:56:00 UTC
(personal)
Slept 16 hours. Hopefully it was for the purpose of fighting off that flu that is going around. :/
Source date (UTC): 2014-10-15 02:15:00 UTC
(personal)
Today
1) UI for profile completeness, UI for showing survey results. Admin Report for survey results. Meet with Don and plan it out.
2) 10K foot API for central server functionality (skills, survey data,financial info)
3) Video of “Ancestral Lands”. Add talking points (takeaways). Render it. Publish it.
If I’m lucky:
4) Banking.
Source date (UTC): 2014-10-13 04:48:00 UTC
Some days I think I should just go work in a hut somewhere on an island and leave my work for posterity to judge, appreciate or discard. Other days I see ripples of what little I have done over the past year alone affecting people that don’t even know me. Other days I get messages from friends that do know me that mean I have an impact on their lives. And it’s those things that make me care enough about people so that I **DON’T** go sit on a beach somewhere.
Today is a good day. Thank all of you who help me on the journey. Especially the people who constantly challenge me. At least, those who challenge me with worthy ideas – I have to admit that while I try to never give up, I am getting tired of silly arguments – but I know that if I cannot answer silly arguments convincingly that I have not reduced the ideas to something digestible. Conversely, I’m disheartened by all the extant ideas that are too hard to grasp as it is. Or that cannot be grasped because they conflict with our intuitions, and often with our self image, and even more often with our strategies.
I am too conscious at this point of how great a leap it is. Ethics and institutions are one thing. But error reduction by moral constraint is just going to be one of those things that is an uncomfortable and undesirable truth.
Source date (UTC): 2014-10-12 06:10:00 UTC
(personal)(reminder)
I want to try to work on a cover of this that’s harder, probably relying on percussion, not voice — not sure it’s possible. Drop the chorus. make a replacement for Hallelujah that’s more literal. A little punk/hard-soft. Might take me a long time. But…
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The song, originally written by Leonard Cohen, is about love which has soured and gone stale. Cohen used a lot of religious imagery, including references to some of the more notorious women in the bible.
Well I heard there was a secret chord
That David played and it pleased the Lord
But you don’t really care for music, do you?
Well it goes like this: The fourth, the fifth
The minor fall and the major lift
The baffled king composing Hallelujah
Your faith was strong but you needed proof
You saw her bathing on the roof
Her beauty and the moonlight overthrew you
She tied you to her kitchen chair
She broke your throne and she cut your hair
And from your lips she drew the Hallelujah
Baby I’ve been here before
I’ve seen this room and I’ve walked this floor (you know)
I used to live alone before I knew you
And I’ve seen your flag on the marble arch
And love is not a victory march
It’s a cold and it’s a broken Hallelujah
There was a time when you let me know
What’s really going on below
But now you never show that to me, do you?
But remember when I moved in you
And the holy dove was moving too
And every breath we drew was Hallelujah
Maybe there’s a God above
All I’ve ever learned from love
Was how to shoot somebody who outdrew you
And it’s not a cry that you hear at night
It’s not somebody who’s seen the light
It’s a cold and it’s a broken Hallelujah
Source date (UTC): 2014-10-11 17:47:00 UTC
Jul 01, 1975Mustang. 1967. Blue.
Source date (UTC): 2014-10-05 17:19:00 UTC
Jan 01, 2013
Source date (UTC): 2014-10-05 17:17:00 UTC
You tagged Veronika SergeevnaOct 05, 2012I met V in a club. She can dance like few women in the world, and she had amazing eyes and unmatched cocky confidence. On a lark, I held up the key to my Porsche, and my old wedding ring, and said “I’ll give you these if you will have my babies.” Which of course, she didn’t buy for a minute, but it was a good line to start with. 🙂
Source date (UTC): 2014-10-05 12:52:00 UTC
I love London. But it makes me tired.
Source date (UTC): 2014-10-03 13:14:00 UTC