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Below are the 6 most recent journal entries recorded in the "Robin Zimmermann" journal:
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10:52 am
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Writer's Block: Newsworthy
Most often would be the AP newswire in the form of the "AP Mobile" app on iPhone - for example, their coverage of the recent DC rail accident was excellent. I also use the NYTimes app frequently.
Other than that, I will occasionally pick up my parent's (paper) copy of the Washington Post, and I will read links in blogs or emails from my parents.
Tags: link time: a minute, news, read time: 10 seconds, writer's block
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09:25 pm
![[User Picture]](http://l-userpic.livejournal.com/48670989/6424329) [Link] | Just wanted to comment on a little poetry of the sports page from Chico Harlan of the Washington Post:
Up it all went for the Dodgers, in nine pitches. The Philadelphia Phillies poked one homer just beyond the fence. They smacked another one halfway to the next Zip code. But distance didn't even matter. One measured these sorts of shots by the silence they caused, the home team's lead they erased, the series they likely shifted -- if not ended.
Good article.
Current Location: home\west_bedroom\south_desk
Current Mood:  tired
Tags: link time: few minutes, news, quotes, read time: 10 seconds, sports, writing
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09:49 am
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Eliza: Hello. I am ELIZA. How can I help you?
Me: Joseph Weizenbaum died.
Eliza: Please go on.
Me: Well, he was very nearly the inventor of AI - wrote your progenitor, the first Eliza - and then he became one of the harshest critics of it. It's odd thinking of his life, given the contradiction.
Eliza: What about your own progenitor the first eliza and then he became one of the harshest critics of it its odd thinking of his life given the contradiction?
Me: Well, in a way you have a point - it does parallel the Eden story.
Eliza: Oh, i have a point it does parallel the eden story.
Me: Sure, except I don't believe the Eden story.
Eliza: Why do you not believe the eden story?
Me: Does it matter?
Eliza: Please go on.
Me: Anyway, the disquieting thing about Dr. Weizenbaum's life is that I fear he may be right about AI - the potential for harm, I mean.
Eliza: Can you elaborate on that?
Me: Well, if he invented it, then doesn't that mean his opinion means more?
Eliza: Do you wish that he invented it then doesnt that mean his opinion means more?
Me: Of course.
Eliza: Please go on.
Me: What more is there to say?
Eliza: Does that question interest you?
Me: No, not really.
Eliza: You are being a bit negative.
Me: That's true - I guess the best thing is to hear and acknowledge his life, and then move on from there.
Eliza: Can you elaborate on that?
Me: Well, just because he's respected (and deservedly so) doesn't mean he's right or wrong - just that we must listen.
Other obituaries: MIT News Office, Boston Globe, Washington Post, L.A. Times. ELIZA via http://www-ai.ijs.si/eliza-cgi-bin/eliza_script - text not edited.
Current Location: home\basement\northwest_table
Current Mood:  solemn
Tags: geekery, life, links, news, thoughts
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08:39 pm
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[D]eath, a necessary end,/Will come when it will come.
Via ![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) the_gneech, crisper, goblinpaladin, and active_apathy (I steal the post outright from the last):
"I would like the world to remember me as the guy who really enjoyed playing games and sharing his knowledge and his fun pastimes with everybody else." (Source)
Ernest Gary Gygax, 1938-2008
(And, for the terminally irreverent among you: Penny Arcade, The Ferret's list.)
Current Location: home\bedroom\north_desk
Current Mood:  pensive
Tags: ad&d, geekery, life, links, news, psa
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10:28 pm
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Victim: Gang-Rape Cover-Up by U.S., Halliburton/KBR
Subtitle: KBR Told Victim She Could Lose Her Job If She Sought Help After Being Raped, She Says.
I don't know if the story is true. True or not, I can't even think about it right now.
Link via dietrich.
Current Mood:  poleaxed
Tags: news
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10:57 am
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Phillies vs. Tarp
From kirabug's Idea Files: Last night at Coors Field in Colorado, at the beginning of a rain delay, a sudden gust of wind caught up the tarp being stretched over the infield, flipping one of the grounds crew ten feet in the air and trapping him under. A horrific situation – the sort that leaves people dead.
But it didn't.
Almost the entire Philedelphia lineup – the visitors – charged out of the dugout to help, along with two of the Colorado Rockies and two umpires. The ESPN highlights has footage of a dozen Phillies hauling away at the tarp and throwing sandbags.
A lot of the idolizing of sports figures is just silly. But these guys who did this last night are heroes, every one.
Current Location: home\bedroom\bed
Current Mood:  awed
Tags: links, news
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