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]]> Comment on Bread! by M Tai http://www.craig.snoeyink.org/blog/2007/12/15/bread/comment-page-1/#comment-51 M Tai Sat, 05 Jan 2008 04:42:00 +0000 http://www.craig.snoeyink.org/blog/?p=65#comment-51 all I can say is... what? no garlic?! hahaha. I guess that if you serve your pita with your hummus you'll get your garlic fill that way. :-) glad to see that you're becoming such a cooking connoisseur! all I can say is… what? no garlic?! hahaha. I guess that if you serve your pita with your hummus you’ll get your garlic fill that way. :-) glad to see that you’re becoming such a cooking connoisseur!

]]> Comment on Day: 1 by Craig Snoeyink http://www.craig.snoeyink.org/blog/2007/11/01/day-1/comment-page-1/#comment-50 Craig Snoeyink Tue, 06 Nov 2007 02:28:00 +0000 http://www.craig.snoeyink.org/blog/?p=63#comment-50 Holy crap is this getting corny but you know what... I don't care!! you are reading this at your own risk. From here on out I am having fun. Holy crap is this getting corny but you know what… I don’t care!! you are reading this at your own risk. From here on out I am having fun.

]]> Comment on Recycling huh,….. what is it good for…. by Craig Snoeyink http://www.craig.snoeyink.org/blog/2007/10/23/recycling-huh-what-is-it-good-for/comment-page-1/#comment-49 Craig Snoeyink Fri, 26 Oct 2007 15:13:00 +0000 http://www.craig.snoeyink.org/blog/?p=62#comment-49 Republican... *shiver*. :-)<br/><br/>I have a feeling both Republicans and Democrats would disagree: Democrats because I am basically saying don't recycle and Republicans because I am basically saying don't spend money. :-) Republican… *shiver*. :-)

I have a feeling both Republicans and Democrats would disagree: Democrats because I am basically saying don’t recycle and Republicans because I am basically saying don’t spend money. :-)

]]> Comment on Recycling huh,….. what is it good for…. by M Tai http://www.craig.snoeyink.org/blog/2007/10/23/recycling-huh-what-is-it-good-for/comment-page-1/#comment-48 M Tai Thu, 25 Oct 2007 13:03:00 +0000 http://www.craig.snoeyink.org/blog/?p=62#comment-48 dude, you sound like me in this blog... Republican. :-D haha! good point on the bottled water though - those things are really only worth having as emergency stash in your vehicle (i.e., in times of bad weather). hope you are well! dude, you sound like me in this blog… Republican. :-D haha! good point on the bottled water though – those things are really only worth having as emergency stash in your vehicle (i.e., in times of bad weather). hope you are well!

]]> Comment on Don’t read this. by Potchka http://www.craig.snoeyink.org/blog/2007/06/06/dont-read-this/comment-page-1/#comment-47 Potchka Thu, 21 Jun 2007 19:54:00 +0000 http://www.craig.snoeyink.org/blog/?p=56#comment-47 Im going through the same thing with my grandpa right now, he turned 90 years old on June 8th. I think when he goes I won't cry, I will have been ready for it so long that I won't be upset. I'll be upset when I want to share something special and he isn't there. If it weren't for the intervention of modern medicine he would have died 25 years ago. <br/><br/>3 years ago I watched a good friend of mine, Becky Glick die of an infection in the lining of her heart. Slow, very, very slow death. But in the end that time helped her come to peace with so many things in her life, she told me the day before she died her suffering was not without meaning also her famous quote, "I wish for you what you wish for yourself." <br/><br/>Recently I had life and death put in my hands, twice actually, one significantly more traumatic than the other. I've been in a haze for a while now. Even if it is just a roll of the dice, if we have the power to choose it makes us feel safer I think, that is all. The dog mauled squirrel twitching in shock or the elderly marine-surgeon dying slowly of heart disease.... if we could choose for them or for ourselves when it would happen would all do it and probably all live forever happy and healthy. I think it is less about chance and more about consequence from some end or another. Be it some truck driver falling asleep at the wheel and killing a close friend or dying of heart disease after a life of unhealthy indulgence. Even though it might not be the consequence of the deceased...it is someone's consequence. Im going through the same thing with my grandpa right now, he turned 90 years old on June 8th. I think when he goes I won’t cry, I will have been ready for it so long that I won’t be upset. I’ll be upset when I want to share something special and he isn’t there. If it weren’t for the intervention of modern medicine he would have died 25 years ago.

3 years ago I watched a good friend of mine, Becky Glick die of an infection in the lining of her heart. Slow, very, very slow death. But in the end that time helped her come to peace with so many things in her life, she told me the day before she died her suffering was not without meaning also her famous quote, “I wish for you what you wish for yourself.”

Recently I had life and death put in my hands, twice actually, one significantly more traumatic than the other. I’ve been in a haze for a while now. Even if it is just a roll of the dice, if we have the power to choose it makes us feel safer I think, that is all. The dog mauled squirrel twitching in shock or the elderly marine-surgeon dying slowly of heart disease…. if we could choose for them or for ourselves when it would happen would all do it and probably all live forever happy and healthy. I think it is less about chance and more about consequence from some end or another. Be it some truck driver falling asleep at the wheel and killing a close friend or dying of heart disease after a life of unhealthy indulgence. Even though it might not be the consequence of the deceased…it is someone’s consequence.

]]> Comment on Of Presidents and Differential Equations by Anonymous http://www.craig.snoeyink.org/blog/2007/05/24/of-presidents-and-differential-equations/comment-page-1/#comment-46 Anonymous Thu, 24 May 2007 23:33:00 +0000 http://www.craig.snoeyink.org/blog/?p=55#comment-46 <i>It is hard to name a group of people that actually have benefited from his presidency.</i><br/><br/>Not for me...<br/><br/>- the oil industry<br/>- the insurance industry<br/>- the banking industry (you know how hard it is for private citizens to declare bankruptcy now? thanks to Bush)<br/>- the arms / armaments industry<br/>- the entertainment industry (always looking for ways to increase control over digital media, and have the nay-sayers arrested)<br/>- any corporation or business that lobbies against eco-laws, because being green hurts their bottom line / denies them more real estate<br/>- the FBI (picked up some of the surveillance and info-gathering powers the CIA used to own)<br/>- policemen who enjoy beating people up<br/>- prosecutors who detest habeus corpus<br/>- anyone who thinks that torture is an effective method of obtaining solid information<br/>- anyone who favors thousand-year-old myths over science<br/>- "patriots" who love their freedom...yet still believe that civil rights are for Commies<br/>- everyone in the Department of Homeland Security<br/>- everyone in the Transportation Security Agency<br/>- military contractors, both manufacturers and service sector<br/>- "pro-lifers" who bomb clinics<br/>- fundies against the separation of church and state<br/>- Christians who want to erase Islam from existence (but who never seem to have any problems with Judaism)<br/>- xenophobes who hate all foreigners and immigrants for the crime of being born elsewhere<br/>- sexually insecure paranoids who want to attack everyone else for either being happy with their sex lives or for being gay<br/>- the top 10% wealthiest Americans, basically any family in America who actually has issues with estate tax laws<br/>- hardline Israelis<br/>- hardline Iranians<br/>- Moqtada al-Sadr and his 300,000 followers<br/>- Al-Qaeda (read the letter that the Madrid train bombers wrote and issued to the press) It is hard to name a group of people that actually have benefited from his presidency.

Not for me…

- the oil industry
- the insurance industry
- the banking industry (you know how hard it is for private citizens to declare bankruptcy now? thanks to Bush)
- the arms / armaments industry
- the entertainment industry (always looking for ways to increase control over digital media, and have the nay-sayers arrested)
- any corporation or business that lobbies against eco-laws, because being green hurts their bottom line / denies them more real estate
- the FBI (picked up some of the surveillance and info-gathering powers the CIA used to own)
- policemen who enjoy beating people up
- prosecutors who detest habeus corpus
- anyone who thinks that torture is an effective method of obtaining solid information
- anyone who favors thousand-year-old myths over science
- “patriots” who love their freedom…yet still believe that civil rights are for Commies
- everyone in the Department of Homeland Security
- everyone in the Transportation Security Agency
- military contractors, both manufacturers and service sector
- “pro-lifers” who bomb clinics
- fundies against the separation of church and state
- Christians who want to erase Islam from existence (but who never seem to have any problems with Judaism)
- xenophobes who hate all foreigners and immigrants for the crime of being born elsewhere
- sexually insecure paranoids who want to attack everyone else for either being happy with their sex lives or for being gay
- the top 10% wealthiest Americans, basically any family in America who actually has issues with estate tax laws
- hardline Israelis
- hardline Iranians
- Moqtada al-Sadr and his 300,000 followers
- Al-Qaeda (read the letter that the Madrid train bombers wrote and issued to the press)

]]> Comment on Of Presidents and Differential Equations by Anonymous http://www.craig.snoeyink.org/blog/2007/05/24/of-presidents-and-differential-equations/comment-page-1/#comment-45 Anonymous Thu, 24 May 2007 19:19:00 +0000 http://www.craig.snoeyink.org/blog/?p=55#comment-45 What do you mean <b>apparent increasing gap between rich and poor</b>. There <i>IS</i> an increasing gap between rich and poor.<br/><br/>Furthermore, George W. will easily be recognized as the worst president in the history of the United States. Everybody who comes after him would have to do a fenomenal job of work to be worse than this guy.<br/><br/>Have fun paying off all the debt W. has saddled you with. What do you mean apparent increasing gap between rich and poor. There IS an increasing gap between rich and poor.

Furthermore, George W. will easily be recognized as the worst president in the history of the United States. Everybody who comes after him would have to do a fenomenal job of work to be worse than this guy.

Have fun paying off all the debt W. has saddled you with.

]]> Comment on United We Stand by Kevin http://www.craig.snoeyink.org/blog/2007/02/15/united-we-stand/comment-page-1/#comment-44 Kevin Fri, 23 Mar 2007 19:43:00 +0000 http://www.craig.snoeyink.org/blog/?p=52#comment-44 It took me a while to fully digest this post, but now that I do I completely agree and can think of several examples that fit with the idea of being happier when belonging to small groups.<br/><br/>Throughout high school and then college, I was part of the "Swim Team" group, and life was good and happy and I identified very strongly with the swim team. Even within the swim team I considered myself part of the "Sprint Group" because we spent a lot of time together geographically (in the same practice lane) and swam the same events.<br/><br/>Fast forward to today when I work for a super-conglomerate that I don't identify with at all. I'm not unhappy, but I've sort of felt an empty feeling that I couldn't quite explain until just now. There is a smaller group of younger people at work, but we're only loosely tied together and have limited shared experiences.<br/><br/>I spend a lot of time reading online and consider myself a "redditer", but that group is loosely defined and definitely not the same as really being part of a small group.<br/><br/>Am I ready for the revolution? Doesn't look like it. It took me a while to fully digest this post, but now that I do I completely agree and can think of several examples that fit with the idea of being happier when belonging to small groups.

Throughout high school and then college, I was part of the “Swim Team” group, and life was good and happy and I identified very strongly with the swim team. Even within the swim team I considered myself part of the “Sprint Group” because we spent a lot of time together geographically (in the same practice lane) and swam the same events.

Fast forward to today when I work for a super-conglomerate that I don’t identify with at all. I’m not unhappy, but I’ve sort of felt an empty feeling that I couldn’t quite explain until just now. There is a smaller group of younger people at work, but we’re only loosely tied together and have limited shared experiences.

I spend a lot of time reading online and consider myself a “redditer”, but that group is loosely defined and definitely not the same as really being part of a small group.

Am I ready for the revolution? Doesn’t look like it.

]]> Comment on Free Will by Josh Staiger http://www.craig.snoeyink.org/blog/2006/12/17/free-will/comment-page-1/#comment-43 Josh Staiger Tue, 19 Dec 2006 06:26:00 +0000 http://www.craig.snoeyink.org/blog/?p=49#comment-43 I remember back in <a HREF="http://www.joshstaiger.org/archives/2003/12/gogo.html" REL="nofollow">autonomous robotics class</a> one lesson you learn early on is that unless you program randomness into your robot's algorithm it was very easy for your robot to get into "infinite loops" due to its environment whereby it would encounter an obstacle and go into evasion mode only to end up right back where it started in front of the obstacle ... and it repeats the same mistake forever.<br/><br/><a HREF="http://mypage.iu.edu/~rdbeer/" REL="nofollow">Dr. Beer</a> made an interesting point that humans have a built-in mechanism for staying out of infinite loops: it's called boredom.<br/><br/>Anyway, just thought I'd share. I remember back in autonomous robotics class one lesson you learn early on is that unless you program randomness into your robot’s algorithm it was very easy for your robot to get into “infinite loops” due to its environment whereby it would encounter an obstacle and go into evasion mode only to end up right back where it started in front of the obstacle … and it repeats the same mistake forever.

Dr. Beer made an interesting point that humans have a built-in mechanism for staying out of infinite loops: it’s called boredom.

Anyway, just thought I’d share.

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