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better things to waste your time on better things to waste your time on friday july 29 2011 networking nightmare sorry for the extended silence i ve been busy partly with a family situation that prompted me to reluctantly join facebook and partly with google as a newcomer to both facebook and google i m simultaneously overwhelmed by all the data suddenly streaming into my life from google and from relatives via facebook underwhelmed by facebook s interface and enthralled by google and i mean that in both the wow and i ve sold my soul to google senses things are starting to settle down though and i m looking forward to the weekend i hope to drop by the oklahoma freethought convention tomorrow at least long enough to sit in on erv s talk i ve seen erv a k a abbie smith give a couple of other presentations and they were simultaneously entertaining and informative i m not as familiar with the other scheduled speakers matt dillahunty aronra the thinking atheist matt silverstein and dr william g morgan so i ll just be playing it by ear once abbie is done have a good weekend y all and social networking in general although i ve used linkedin for about a year and have participated in various user forums to some degree for decades starting in the era of dial up bulletin board systems bbss if the phrase hi maggi means anything to you you re probably in my neighborhood both age and location wise posted by ckbep at 4 03 pm 2 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels miscellaneous tuesday july 19 2011 meriting badges i ve capitulated i ve joined google plus a k a google or just g and for the most part i m enjoying it although i m following or have circled so many celebrities that my google stream is getting quite long i really need a way to collapse comments so i don t have to scroll forever to get past the stuff posted by the followers of the people i m following a sure sign of google s popularity however fleeting it may be is the number of celebrities and celebrity impersonators it s attracted in the three weeks it s been live google would obviously be pleased to have celebrities endorse google by using it so the company is working on a celebrity acquisition plan and a scheme for verifying that celebrities are who they claim to be william shatner would probably have appreciated an opportunity to prove his identity before his google account was suspended but the error has been corrected google isn t the only new feature that google is working on this week google news a computer generated news site that aggregates headlines from news sources worldwide groups similar stories together and displays them according to each reader s personalized interests has implemented a system of badges for subjects that you read up on frequently by default your badges are shown only to you but you can share publicize them if you want i m not sure whether i want to earn let alone share google badges since at first blush they seem about as useful as those cheesy certificates i got in elementary school for reading library books during summer vacation and to earn badges i d have to actually click on links to read news articles no more pretending to be up to date on current events by just skimming headlines pc world suggests that if badges catch on it s going to become increasingly easy to spot spammers simply looking to promote a brand without any knowledge of it authentic businesses and individuals behind them will get a credibility boost by displaying their high level badges maybe so but google still needs to work on the algorithms that determine the subjects of articles before i ll take the badge system seriously i m on my way to earning a badge about google itself which is appropriate since i ve recently read about a dozen articles on the company but instead of giving me points for reading articles on scientology google hints that i might qualify for a badge on prominent scientologist tom cruise bleah well celebrities to me anyway people like john halamka who doesn t seem to be posting anything to google yet and greg laden who is active on google would probably not be considered celebrities by most people posted by ckbep at 9 41 pm no comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels miscellaneous thursday july 14 2011 resigning to the inevitable laura fotusky the municipal clerk of the tiny town of barker in upstate new york has resigned her position so she won t have to issue marriage licenses to same sex couples ms fotusky believes that god designed marriage as a divine institution to protect our families and our culture and our society and so same sex marriage goes against his plan ms fotusky is the first city clerk in new york to resign rather than be involved in same sex marriages but may not be the last gov andrew cuomo says that those who enforce the laws of the state don t get to pick and choose which laws so if you can t enforce the law then you shouldn t be in that position damn right now if we could just get pharmacists who refuse to dispense emergency contraception or any contraceptives at all as is the case at so called pro life pharmacies and high school biology teachers who balk at teaching evolution because of their own creationist beliefs to follow ms fotusky s brave example and quit their jobs too when asked to perform a task that s perfectly legal and in line with your skill set and job description but not your church s teachings resignation is the obvious and honorable solution posted by ckbep at 9 09 pm no comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels lgbt tuesday july 12 2011 insisting on id i ve been hoping that google would be a better more private alternative for social networking than facebook one of the reasons i don t use facebook is their policy that users must sign up under their real names and now i hear that google has the same policy to be nit picky the real name requirement seems to be tied to google profiles not directly to google but the two services are tightly linked and i believe that you have to have a google profile to use google eric schmidt the former ceo of google said in a cnbc interview a couple of years ago if you have something that you don t want anyone to know maybe you shouldn t be doing it in the first place for the average person who just wants to keep in touch with classmates coworkers friends and relatives don t do stupid stuff or at least don t post evidence of stupid stuff you ve done where the whole world can see it is a reasonable attitude for those who have legitimate reasons to conceal their legal name gender likeness and location from all but selected individuals it s less reasonable whistleblowers victims of abuse and those suffering from embarrassing medical or psychiatric conditions for example need social interaction just as much as or more than the rest of us but are unlikely to seek it in a public forum and as the cnet article points out people s online names while not on their birth certificates often are a real persona reputation and all that s one reason i prefer to be known as ckbep that and the fact that being an atheist in a state that s so red it s maroon requires a certain amount of discretion there s no dishonor in declining to pin a target on your own chest which are visible to everyone posted by ckbep at 10 08 pm no comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels atheism miscellaneous friday july 8 2011 posting early apparently i m not the only one who prepares posts in advance i try to be a little more careful about what i actually publish though in case you haven t already heard the news story shown at the top of the screenshot is the correct one the final flight of the us space shuttle program successfully launched earlier today despite forecasts of foul weather and a brief delay to ensure that a vent arm whatever that is had properly retracted i ve got plans for saturday so i m posting a day early have a great weekend y all posted by ckbep at 12 25 pm no comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels miscellaneous thursday july 7 2011 writing off penmanship i ve been waiting with trepidation for the day when schools officially embrace sms inspired abbreviations like u r you are l8r later and i 3 u i heart love you and spelling tests disappear or at least are graded more leniently so i shouldn t have been surprised to hear that indiana public schools will no longer be required to teach cursive handwriting but i was although my own handwriting is often illegible even to myself i m oddly fond of cursive maybe because it s been championed by people i admire my mother s gorgeous handwriting looks like an example from a penmanship manual because that s how we were taught to write back then she says when i took a couple of semesters of russian in college the instructor a native russian allowed the class to print in cyrillic of course only for the first half of the first semester after that she started deducting points from homework assignments and tests that weren t written in cursive in russia only little children print she explained i m thrilled to wave bye bye to most skills that are obsolete or nearly so thanks to electronic banking i ve only had to write about ten checks in the last five years i never really got the hang of manual record turntables and almost always produced that horrid zipping scratching sound when putting the needle on a vinyl record typing on an actual typewriter i even had a manual non electric student model in my youth and using wite out correction fluid are now as antiquated as getting up from the sofa to change tv channels there are some things i ll miss though i never got and now never will get my chance to pilot the space shuttle darn it and there are a few practices that i stubbornly refuse to let die i mow my lawn with an old fashioned push mower it s good for the environment and my cardiovascular system i baked a cake from scratch just last week i handle most correspondence via emails or greeting cards but i still write condolence letters by hand even though i first compose them on computer then copy them out in pen writing still has its place indiana schools that want to teach cursive handwriting will be allowed to do so but my guess is that most won t bother andree anderson of the indiana university northwest urban teacher education program says that cursive lessons have been a low priority for a while now keyboard proficiency will be the new focus and eventually even that will be supplemented or replaced by something else voice commands multi touch gestures like pinch to zoom neural implants who knows i think that the use of paper and pencil will eventually be limited to the briefest of notes probably no more than will fit on a post it until someone invents disposable devices that ll display text and stick to pretty much anything we ve got to at least have post its posted by ckbep at 9 37 pm no comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels miscellaneous tuesday july 5 2011 aging in absentia had she lived princess diana would have celebrated her 50th birthday last friday but even in death she can t escape reporters and the post mortem version of paparazzi newsweek s tina brown spins a yarn of what diana s life could have been like if she d lived after she d broken up with dodi al fayed as ms brown assumes that she would have brown s conjectures about the middle aged diana s taste in men what cosmetic procedures she d have used and whether she d have forgiven those who wronged her could serve as the outline for a romance novel they d have to find a better cover picture for the novel than the age progressed and updated photo that accompanied the newsweek article though one of the minor perhaps only consolations of losing someone who died much too young is that in your memory they ll always be young thanks newsweek for screwing with my memories the periodical s motive for publishing the article and the modified photograph is i m sure to titillate readers and sell as many magazines as possible i think they chickened out though given the popularity of television dramas like csi crime scene investigation why not just go whole hawg and print a projection of what diana s actual remains look like today n b i thought about including a copy of the doctored photo with this post then decided it s not an image that i want to perpetuate if you want to see it go check out the article and photo on newsweek s site i couldn t find the original of the modified photo but did find one that could serve as a reasonable comparison here s how i d prefer to remember diana posted by ckbep at 6 53 pm no comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels miscellaneous older posts home subscribe to posts atom ckbep s blog 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