Are we really this stupid? I’m hoping they just polled stupid people 🙂
“Unfortunately, there are several other possible sources of error in all polls or surveys that are probably more serious than theoretical calculations of sampling error.”
Or more hopefully, “Fortunately”.
A twist to the story I linked to the other day about a story about photograph, the woman who took the photo has of course been fired. I knew that the government had put in place rules to prevent photos or any media coverage of the returning casualties and wondered how this photo was being allowed. I guess it wasn’t.
I need to look but somewhere this morning I saw a web site with a bunch of photos of flag draped coffins. It was at The Memory Hole which seems to be down at the moment.
Phase one completed last night. I was able to hook the iBook up to the stereo and made music come out of the stereo from iTunes on the iBook. I wasn’t able to make it “see” the iTunes library on my main PC yet. I was able to get the iBook to see a shared folder on the PC and I can play individual music files. All I need to do now is find a way to get iTunes on the iBook and iTunes on the PC to look at the same music library. There are some descriptions of similar things.
This is a reminder to me to try and make this work somehow.
I like the idea of being able to play the music files on my “main” PC from anywhere in the house. I would especially like to play them over one of the stereo’s either in my room or the living room. A couple of these devices would do the trick, but I don’t have that kind of money.
How about this then. Really all I need is a Wi-Fi enabled device that has audio outputs and can play music files (MP3, ACC, WAV etc). I think the little iBook would qualify. So I think all I need is to hook the iBook audio output to one of the inputs on the stereo and then run a music file player, say maybe iTunes, and let it play the music files on my main PC. I think already have some mini stereo to RCA cables to hook the iBook to the stereos, so all I need to do is figure out how to point iTunes running on the iBook to the iTunes library on my main PC.
To play music I just bring the iBook to the room I want to listen in and plug it in to the stereo and bring up iTunes. Hm, I wonder if there is some way to hook a remote control up to the iBook?
Looks like I might be up late tonight trying to make this thing work, after skating, and flute lesson, and dinner, and homework, and lunches, and laundry, and taking out the garbage and recycling, and…
A story about a photograph and so much more.
“Silicio knows what it is like to lose a child. The mother of three sons suffered the death of her oldest to a brain tumor when he was 19. ‘It kind of helps me to know what these mothers are going through, and I try to watch over their children as they head home,'”
GOLF HABS GOLF! Dana laments the departure of the Vancouver Canucks from the Stanley Cup Playoffs. As the Canucks go golfing because their season is over, I can’t wait for the Montreal Canadiens to get down here to beautiful sunny Florida and spend some time out on the links before they take on the Tampa Bay Lightning. Maybe they will even spend some time over on Dale Mabry taking in some of the finer adult entertainment establishments 🙂
If the Lightning can turn it on during this series I think they’ve got a chance to advance.
Ole Eichhorn points me to the PBS show World in the Balance.
The first thing I thought of was the first movie in Godfrey Reggio’s Qatsi trilogy Life out of Balance. I find it is very interesting to watch people’s reaction to his films.
Halley points my post over on the Worthwhile blog. She highlights the part of the Happiness article about the meaningfull life and specifically the difference between pleasurable activity and philanthropic activity. Makes me think about the things I do as a double parent for my girls. Some of the things that give me the most gratification are those things I do with or “for” my daughters. Is the time parents spend with their children somehow very much like the philanthropic activities of kindness and giving? Is that one of those things that parents get from their children that makes life so fufilling, and one of the things that we find so hard to explain to someone who doesn’t have children?
Somehow this sounds to me like the “Car” manufacturers are now having to modify the safety designs of their products to help protect the occupants from SUV’s and Pickup Trucks. This test simulates a side impact at 31 mph by a 3000 pound plus vehicle. It is estimated that the driver that killed Cindy was travelling at 55 mph. I think it will be a few years before they can build a safe affordable vehicle that could protect the occupants at those speeds. Especially if it’s a big SUV or pickup that hits you going 55 mph.
“People typically record high satisfaction levels in their early twenties. These then fall steadily towards middle age, before troughing at around 42. Most of us then grow steadily happier as we get older, …”
From an article on happiness. I should be getting happier every day now that I’m done troughing.
oops, “Unsurprisingly, the number one predictor of happiness is wealth.” Guess I really need to invest in lottery tickets.
“Oswald estimates that a thriving marriage, for instance, is equivalent to an uplift of about £50,000 on his happiness distribution. But that isn’t to say that money can never buy contentment. On the contrary, says Oswald, a £1m windfall is more than sufficient to lift someone at the bottom of his happiness curve towards the top.”
I don’t know if what I’ve been through means I have a double hurdle in the loss of happiness and the negative impact of no longer having a thriving marriage which will take down my “happiness distribution”.
