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I just booked tickets to Kuala Lumpur, Now just have to find return flights either from singapore or from KL.
Chuck is presenting a paper in June on an asian math conference and he invited me to tag along.
I didn’t even bat an eye! Yes!!!
I’m singing to my self right now! I’m so excited and I just can’t hide it come on come one! YEAH!
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“They all maximize what they think they’re being paid for,” he says. He laughs. “It’s a tough environment for a player now because you have a lot of teams starting to think differently. They’ve got to rethink how they’re getting paid.”
The No-Stats All-Star – NYTimes.com.
The feeling of oneness you get, the feeling that you are not alone in your struggle, I’d have to confess I had that moment in the movie hero when the emperor shi huang ti was telling the unamed assassin(jet li) knowing that someone truly understands him, an of all people his enemy , he is ready to die! I felt a lot less than him. I was happy knowing that I am not alone.
Who, then, are ideologists? They are people needy of purpose in life, not in a mundane sense (earning enough to eat or to pay the mortgage, for example) but in the sense of transcendence of the personal, of reassurance that there is something more to existence than existence itself. The desire for transcendence does not occur to many people struggling for a livelihood. Avoiding material failure gives quite sufficient meaning to their lives. By contrast, ideologists have few fears about finding their daily bread. Their difficulty with life is less concrete. Their security gives them the leisure, their education the need, and no doubt their temperament the inclination, to find something above and beyond the flux of daily life.
If this is true, then ideology should flourish where education is widespread, and especially where opportunities are limited for the educated to lose themselves in grand projects, or to take leadership roles to which they believe that their education entitles them. The attractions of ideology are not so much to be found in the state of the world—always lamentable, but sometimes improving, at least in certain respects—but in states of mind. And in many parts of the world, the number of educated people has risen far faster than the capacity of economies to reward them with positions they believe commensurate with their attainments. Even in the most advanced economies, one will always find unhappy educated people searching for the reason that they are not as important as they should be.
The Persistence of Ideology by Theodore Dalrymple, City Journal Winter 2009.
All of this worked well enough in mathematical theory and simulations, but Palem couldn’t prove his concept until he built and tested a chip. The first test results came back late last year.
All of this worked well enough in mathematical theory and simulations, but Palem couldn’t prove his concept until he built and tested a chip. The first test results came back late last year.
Rice professor’s discovery may save your iPhone battery | Houston & Texas News | Chron.com – Houston Chronicle.
Didn’y know about this, (stupid me) I’ll try to visit next time I’m home!
The latest come-on among international tourists is bird watching.
The first volume of the book “Bird Watching in the Philippines,” prepared by the DOT and the Wild Bird Club of the Philippines, has been promoting St. Paul National Park and Rasa Island in Palawan, Mt. Palay-Palay in Cavite, the coastal lagoon in Parañaque City, Subic Bay in Zambales, Balanga wetlands in Bataan, Candaba in Pampanga, Hundred Islands and Bani wetlands in Pangasinan, Olango Island and Alcoy in Cebu and the Philippine Eagle Center in Davao City.
RP tourism up 1.5% – INQUIRER.net, Philippine News for Filipinos.
Its boring but I have decided that this year I’ll give most people the same birthday gift. After reading Para Kay B about two weeks ago I decided that it is my default gift for this year. Great to hear that buying the book means helping other writers bring their works to life!
Ricky Lee puts up foundation for aspiring, struggling writers
02/06/2009 | 03:58 PM
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Kinikilala bilang isa sa pinakamahusay at nirerespetong scriptwriter sa industriya, ang malalim na pagmamahal sa pagsusulat ang nagtulak kay Ricky Lee upang sa kabila ng kahirapan sa buhay ay pinili niyang ipagpatuloy ang kanyang pangarap na maging isang mahusay na manunulat.
Ngayon ay isa na sa haligi sa mundo ng scriptwriting, ang higit na kahanga-hanga kay Ricky ay ang kagustuhan niyang makatulong sa mga batang manunulat na kapos sa pinansiyal na kakayahan para ipagpatuloy ang kanilang pangarap at sa mga kapwa mga manunulat na ngayon ay medyo kapos sa buhay.
FOUNDATION FOR WRITERS. Sinabi ni Ricky sa PEP Philippine Entertainment Portal na isang foundation ang inuumpisahan na nilang itayo para sa mga kapwa manunulat, ang Writers’ Studio Foundation.
“Nag-a-apply na kami sa SEC [Securities and Exchange Commission], nagpa-process na. Yung nobelang naisulat ko, yung Para Kay B, after that, may dalawa pa akong nobelang ilalabas this year. Yung part of proceeds ng mga libro na nilalabas ko, mapupunta sa foundation.
“Halos thirty years naman na akong nagtrabaho as scriptwriter, naisip ko na lapitan ko na ngayon lahat ng mga nakatrabaho kong direktor, artista na sa kahit papaanong paraan ay nakatulong naman ako sa kanila. Ibalik naman nila ngayon sa mga writer.
“Eventually, kung makakahanap kami ng tie-up sa mga eskuwelahan, sa ngayon may mga nakausap na akong ibang mga kaibigang artista at direktor na nangakong mag-pledge ng scholarhips. Si Mother [Lily Monteverde] naman, magdo-donate ng office. Saka, di ba, may free workshops ako sa scriptwriting? Magiging parte yun ng foundation,” lahad ng batikang manunulat.
Ang focus ng mga gustong tulungang manunulat ni Ricky ay hindi lamang mga batang manunulat na gustong i-pursue ang kanilang kagustuhang maging magaling na manunulat kundi maging yung ibang mga kasamahan na ngayon ay kapos sa trabaho at pagkakitaan.
“Para siyang MOWELFUND for writers. Tutulong siya sa mga scriptwriters na mga bata, mula sa probinsiya, yung mga mahihirap lang, walang pera, gustong mag-aral sa Manila. Gaya ko noon, umalis ako sa Daet para mag-aral ng college, gustung-gusto kong magsulat, hindi ko alam kung saan ako pupunta. Gusto ko yung gaya ko rin noon ang situation na gustong magpunta ng Maynila at mag-aral, gusto ko silang matulungan.
“Hanggang ito sa pinakamatatanda nating mga writers. Di ba, marami sa mga kaibigan nating writers abf walang trabaho, pampaospital? Sana hanggang sa kanila makatulong yung foundation. Sa mga gustong magpahatid ng tulong, my e-mail is lagoon@pldtdsl.net,” pagbibigay-impormasyon niya pa.
GMANews.TV – Ricky Lee puts up foundation for aspiring, struggling writers – Entertainment – Official Website of GMA News and Public Affairs – Latest Philippine News – BETA.<Emphasis Mine>
Never alone
January 24, 2009
From William Deresiewicz’s article The End of Solitude in the new edition of the Chronicle of Higher Education:
The two emotions, loneliness and boredom, are closely allied. They are also both characteristically modern. The Oxford English Dictionary’s earliest citations of either word, at least in the contemporary sense, date from the 19th century … Loneliness is not the absence of company, it is grief over that absence. The lost sheep is lonely; the shepherd is not lonely. But the Internet is as powerful a machine for the production of loneliness as television is for the manufacture of boredom. If six hours of television a day creates the aptitude for boredom, the inability to sit still, a hundred text messages a day creates the aptitude for loneliness, the inability to be by yourself. Some degree of boredom and loneliness is to be expected, especially among young people, given the way our human environment has been attenuated. But technology amplifies those tendencies. You could call your schoolmates when I was a teenager, but you couldn’t call them 100 times a day. You could get together with your friends when I was in college, but you couldn’t always get together with them when you wanted to, for the simple reason that you couldn’t always find them. If boredom is the great emotion of the TV generation, loneliness is the great emotion of the Web generation. We lost the ability to be still, our capacity for idleness. They have lost the ability to be alone, their capacity for solitude.
Posted by nick at January 24, 2009 02:11 PM<emphasis mine>
Rough Type: Nicholas Carr’s Blog: Never alone.
I’ve always tried to walk my own path, this makes me seem weird to most people. I remember reading a phrase that stuck to me “The Age of Distraction”. We are living in the age of distraction, what is it? Let’s see, watch revolutioinary road, and remember the scene between leo , kate and michael shannon. It was the Hopeless Emptiness Scene. And I would be lying if I sad that I am probably in that mobious strip trying to find my way out. Mobious strip and revolutionary road, seems quite apt. IN my defense at least I know I am in a mobius strip like road and I must be revolutionary enough to escape. (Damn hate it when I can’t seem to let a couple of words go). I try to fight , I don’t know if I am winning, I hope I do! I hope you do to!
When I think about all the hours I wasted this past year on Facebook, and imagine the good I could have done instead, it depresses me. Instead of scouring my friends’ friends’ photos for other possible friends, I could have been raising money for Darfur relief, helping out at the local animal shelter or delivering food to the homeless. It depresses me even more to know that I would never have done any of those things, even with all those extra hours.<Emphasis Mine>
Why I’m Quitting Facebook | Newsweek Culture | Newsweek.com.
Being on Facebook is like volunteering to receive spam, and the more successful you are at finding friends, the more spam you get! In the end, Facebook is really the emptiest, loneliest place on the whole World Wide Web
Why I’m Quitting Facebook | Newsweek Culture | Newsweek.com.
Damn I haven’t read this part when I liked to the first page, seems we were thinking the sme thing!
Law professor Charles Nesson and John Palfrey, director of the Berkman Center for Internet & Society (which Nesson co-founded), made their position clear. “Recently, the president of the Recording Industry Association of America, Cary Sherman, wrote to Harvard to challenge the university administration to stop acting as a ‘passive conduit’ for students downloading music,” they wrote in 2007. “We agree. Harvard and the 22 universities to which the RIAA has sent ‘pre-litigation notices’ ought to take strong, direct action… and tell the RIAA to take a hike.”
Those notices were an attempt by the RIAA to get schools involved in the litigation process. Universities would, in theory, pass RIAA settlement letters on to students after being provided with an IP address suspected of illicit file-sharing. The schools would be “doing their part,” while the recording industry got its missives delivered without needing to bother with courts and judges and subpoenas.
“Universities should have no part in this extraordinary process,” wrote Nesson and Palfrey. “The RIAA’s charter is to promote the financial interests of its corporate members—even if that means preserving an obsolete business model for its members. The university’s charter is quite different… The university strives to create knowledge, to open the minds of students to that knowledge, and to enable students to take best advantage of their educational opportunities. The university has no legal obligation to deliver the RIAA’s messages. It should do so only if it believes that’s consonant with the university’s mission.”
It wasn’t quite a declaration of war, but it did amount to an Army unit trotting out a massive howitzer, oiling it up, and firing off some test shots. Powerful interests at Harvard Law were displeased enough by the RIAA actions to speak out, but they weren’t yet ready to play an active role.
That is, until Boston University graduate student Joel Tenenbaum got in touch with Nesson in 2008. Nesson took the case, acting as Tenenbaum’s attorney, but he outsourced the work of research, strategy, and brief writing to a set of eager Harvard Law students. The students would quickly mount an ambitious defense, not just of Joel Tenenbaum, but of the claim that the RIAA legal campaign was unconstitutionally excessive and improper. Armed with a law library, Twitter, a Web site, and caffeine, the students have already made sure that the upcoming Tenenbaum trial will eclipse the Minnesota Jammie Thomas case for sheer spectacle.<Emphasis Mine>
And, if things go their way, the world will get the chance to see it all live on the Web.
How Harvard Law threw down the gauntlet to the RIAA – Ars Technica.