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Won't go into too much detail...
Positive Attributional Style / Positive Psychology / Learned Optimism - "Optimists explain positive events as having happened because of them (internal). They also see them as evidence that more positive things will happen in the future (stable), and in other areas of their lives (global). Conversely, they see negative events as not being their fault (external). They also see them as being flukes (isolated) that have nothing to do with other areas of their lives or future events (local)" An interesting test here: http://www.stanford.edu/class/msande271/onlinetools/LearnedOpt.html
Moral Instincts: http://www.nytimes.com/2008/01/13/magazine/13Psychology-t.html Everyone acts from moral principles provided by evolution. People just their and others actions by assigning particular actions to a moral sphere. The assignment of actions to moral spheres and the relative importance of different moral spheres varies from person to person and culture to culture.
Memetics: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Memetics this is the route to understanding culture.
Pervasiveness of natural selection: Biological, cultural, and language evolution. Internal competitive processes. Genetic programming. Evolution is not something special that happens, in my mind it's just a step up from something like heat.
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Habits - success is a matter of establishing good life habits for study, work, caretaking, etc.
Emotional Understanding - http://www.ruebenstrunk.de/emeocomp/4e.HTM Understanding how cognitive judgements affect the emotions that others are feeling
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Thinking like an economist
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Recent meme
I guess these are all made up by single teenagers or twenty-somethings. Some of the questions seem really adolescent (#50) and this one in particular could be made more smartass-proof by altering the questions to require explication instead of yes/no answers. However that would require more time to generate and answer so I won't go into it now. |
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Please come to our solstice party December 21st at 7:00pm. RSVP if you will attend. We will burn our traditional yule effigy, sing, drink, and have fun till the cows come home or until your host is exhausted. |
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This Sunday, November 25, around noon we are having a post-thanksgiving potluck until mid-afternoon or later. Please come by and hang out with our family and check out our new porch. Bring leftovers or beverages or just yourselves. It will all be very low-key.
Watch this space for information about our annual solstice party to welcome in the new year. Friday december 21st (the solstice is at 1:06 am central time). Bring in the new year right with the burning of the 2007 effigy. It's always great fun and there is always a great fire :)
Anyways call, email, or comment with RSVPs or questions. |
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A very interesting bit of legal history...
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2007/08/070823110231.htm
For example, in late medieval France, the term affrèrement -- roughly translated as brotherment -- was used to refer to a certain type of legal contract, which also existed elsewhere in Mediterranean Europe. These documents provided the foundation for non-nuclear households of many types and shared many characteristics with marriage contracts, as legal writers at the time were well aware, according to Tulchin.
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The effects of entering into an affrèrement were profound. As Tulchin explains: "All of their goods usually became the joint property of both parties, and each commonly became the other's legal heir. They also frequently testified that they entered into the contract because of their affection for one another. As with all contracts, affrèrements had to be sworn before a notary and required witnesses, commonly the friends of the affrèrés."
Tulchin argues that in cases where the affrèrés were single unrelated men, these contracts provide "considerable evidence that the affrèrés were using affrèrements to formalize same-sex loving relationships. . . . I suspect that some of these relationships were sexual, while others may not have been. It is impossible to prove either way and probably also somewhat irrelevant to understanding their way of thinking. They loved each other, and the community accepted that. What followed did not produce any documents."
Aug. 27th, 2007 @ 06:58 pm
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Just got back from the meeting. It's the second time I've gone. Got to see the Propellor kits in person. Showed off my new BIoloid. It looks and walks a lot like a pigeon at the moment. I just added a pan/tilt to the head. There are three IR sensors (right, left, forward; or as I like to call them +-X, +Z) and I"m going to try saccading the head around to build up an IR image of the environment over time.
Aug. 16th, 2007 @ 10:48 pm
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It's got me thinking back to the old college gang and seeing them at the Back Room.
Also, Colette is gone for a week visiting my parents. It's very relaxing ::)
"Oh please, don't let these shakes go on." plus groovy solo equals ROCK GODS
Now "Burning for you" is on. "Time ain't no reason, got no time to slow. Time everlasting, time to play B-sides, time ain't on my side, time I'll never know".
Next up is "Godzilla" since its one of my few clear memories of the concerts.
Also, I've been using "MediaMonkey" to organize my music collection. It's really stepped up my music listening. It has a good built-in search. some very nice organizing tools including auto-tagging and auto-renaming, winamp-compatible media player and a great library. Try it.
Jul. 30th, 2007 @ 09:53 pm
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No more, no less.
Jun. 27th, 2007 @ 05:28 pm
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Use these all the time and your life will improve.
"I'm still learning." - This is a great one. It helps eliminate any shame or embarrassment from making mistakes. It's great if you get paralyzed by fear of failure. For extra special goodness tell yourself how you learned from the situation. This insures that the learning actually occurs :)
"It'll come to me" - When I'm trying to remember something (instead of saying "I can't remember"). Usually it does.
"I'll remember to do that next time" - Whenever I forget part or all of a routine (such as making a task list or flossing or whatever). Best if you actually say what it is you are going to remember, such as "I'll remember to floss tonight" (better) or "I'll remember to floss from now on" (best).
Jun. 25th, 2007 @ 09:00 pm
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Saturday we had a load of french drain gravel delivered, 3 yards. For those of you keeping track thats 81 cubic feet. We spent about six hours saturday moving rocks and today I'm standing tall, able to move again. it was only a few tons of rock but it makes me glad I don''t have to work my body for a living.
Jun. 25th, 2007 @ 07:36 am
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Johari
Nohari
Jun. 22nd, 2007 @ 03:54 pm
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OK, so I bough HL2 off of Steam and Galactic Civilizations II (Great game, BTW) off of Stardock Central. Already, having two different interfaces for the same thing is already making me antsy. Maybe I want to manage my XBox live stuff (hypothetically speaking here, I haven't used it) from my PC? I'm sure there are tens to hundreds of online software stores that might have stuff I want. I would rather just master one interface and use it for everything.
So I'm wondering if anybody knows of a system that either aggregates information from these different online distribution services and is there any existing protocol for this?
A possible downside is loss of advertising and revenue and mindshare from the frontend. But in my mind, the front end should be just a utility and the actual sales of the product should be the product. Also there are features such as reviews and rankings which might be in some services but not others. I'm sure you could just embed a web browser and have links for special functionality.
A nonspecific frontend would also let you do things like local search, categorizing, and so forth.
Jun. 20th, 2007 @ 05:39 pm
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| » Ditching |
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Come over tomorrow if you want to help us dig a french drain. Refreshments provided.
Jun. 2nd, 2007 @ 03:00 pm
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| » I live in a jungle |
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Wildlife living in or seen regularly in my back yard:
Bewick's Wren
Mockingbirds
Cardinals
Doves
Pigeons
Hummingbirds (don't remember species)
Red-bellied Woodpeckers
Screech Owls
Grackles
Cedar Waxwing
Honeybees
Bumblebees
Yellowjackets
Hornets
Paper Wasps
Click beetles, large and small
Lightning bugs
Butterflys and moths (several species)
Housefly
Horsefly
June Bug
Mosquito
Cane Fly
Numerous other grubs and beetles and agricultural pests
Earthworms
Squirrels
Raccoons
Opossums
Meadow Jumping Mouse
Mediterranean Geckos
Texas Spiny Lizard
Green Anole
Corn Snake
Ground Skink
Ringneck Snake
Rough Earth Snake
Texas Rat Snake
Woodhouse's Toad
There is probably more but that's all I can think of right now.
May. 22nd, 2007 @ 10:03 am
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Hello everybody.
We have a ditch that needs digging. A french drain, to be specific. And what better way to assemble a work crew than bribing them with beer and sausage? We're thinking this Sunday or Sunday June 3rd earlyish to beat the heat. Who's interested in helping out and scoring some BBQ in the process?
May. 16th, 2007 @ 02:02 pm
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Song identification meme game:
1: Random play.
2: Post the first lines of the first 20 songs (with words) that play.
3: There is no 3.
4: Post and let everyone you know guess what song and artist the lines come from.
5: Strike out the songs when someone guesses correctly.
1. Infinite dreams, I can't deny them.
2. I don't get blind most of the time I don't drink wine
3. Like the black birds, I'm a do it fluid
4. One two, One two keep it on
5. Why are you doing this to me, am I not living up to what I'm supposed to be?
6. Between mars and jupiter there's a gap for another planet, now we're back yeah baby
7. Rage in the cage, and piss upon the stage, there's only one sure way, to bring the giant down
8. Let 'er rip... Here we go... WHEE!!!!
9. If you want more beats for your buck there's no luck
10. This is your fate on earth... Check it check it out, check it out, check it check it out
11. My name is crash, sidewinding, I flash like a burning flare.
12. You're a thousand light years running through my brain
13. Just sit back and max and relax off tracks that I kick
14. Just when everything was making sense, you took away all my self-confidence
15. And out of the darkness, the Zombie did call
16. Far be it for me to say you're loose son, far be it for me to say you're no one
17. I'm going to cry, I live and die, I search and find, I waste my time
18. Where is the ritual? And tell me, where, where is the taste?
19. Well, I can hear the trumpets blowing, screaming out the end of time
20. Feeling so frustrated, even antiquated, 'cause you can't update me if i'm overrated
Apr. 30th, 2007 @ 11:02 am
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Positive Attributional Style
Definition: Optimists have a positive explanatory style, or positive way of explaining events in their lives. Optimists explain positive events as having happened because of them (internal). They also see them as evidence that more positive things will happen in the future (stable), and in other areas of their lives (global). Conversely, they see negative events as not being their fault (external). They also see them as being flukes (isolated) that have nothing to do with other areas of their lives or future events (local). For example, if an optimist gets a promotion, she will likely believe it’s because she’s good at her job (internal), and will receive more benefits and promotion in the future (global and stable). If she’s passed over for the promotion, it’s likely because she was having an off-month (local and unstable) because of extenuating circumstances (external), but will do better in the future.
Attributional Style
Some basic metacognitive skills needed to think optimistically.
Once you start monitoring your self-talk for these sorts of thoughts I think you'll be amazed.
Apr. 22nd, 2007 @ 11:24 am
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