I still don't like it, but I think I'm pleased that they decided to basically ignore Mr. Libeskind. I am certainly pleased that they have scrapped the name Freedom Tower, which always struck me as vaguely oxymoronic. Towers, pyramids and the like are not about freedom at all, but rather about the power to organize a vast number of people and resources towards a single goal of questionable utility.
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03:16:28 PM,
Monday 8 June 2009
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I could spend a month just walking around Manhattan. Well, except my feet. But the rest of me would be perfectly content. Buildings and crowds both make me happy.
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11:15:24 AM,
Monday 8 June 2009
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Domino's website is pretty spiffy, especially the little tracker thingie that tells you when your pizza went in the oven and when it's ready to be picked up. The thin crust pizza, however, is pretty reprehensible. I'm pretty sure it was some sort of pre-baked cracker.
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05:54:54 PM,
Friday 5 June 2009
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That was quite possibly the most exhausting vacation ever. My parents visited, and we reformed the garden, repaired the stone and concrete wall, wired new outlets, generally straightened out the basement and installed a bathroom fan,. The last involved drilling a 4" hole in the side of the house. Ladders are emotionally draining.
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04:54:57 PM,
Thursday 4 June 2009
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I believe I've mentioned this before, but the problem with cycling to work is that I don't need a key to start a bicycle, which means I can get all the way there before realizing I have no way to get into the cabinet with my laptop, and, even if I did, I don't have my SecureID fob, so I wouldn't be able to connect.
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09:56:22 AM,
Thursday 4 June 2009
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I have put up maps in my house using homemade wheat paste. (over some wallpaper which is not essential to our lifestyle). Making paste is fun! Hanging things flat, however, is astonishingly difficult.
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03:23:51 PM,
Saturday 30 May 2009
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Say you have 9 people. 3 are completely eccentric (100%), 3 are moderately odd (50%), and 3 are painfully ordinary (0%). And lets say you divide them into two cohorts: strange, and normal. You begin with only the eccentrics classed as strange. So the totals look like this:
Strange: 100%
Normal: 25%
Now lets say that one of the boring people develops some quirks, at the same time, we become less tolerant, and class any non-conformity as strange... we then have
Strange: 71%
Normal: 0%
So even though our population has become odder, both our cohorts have become more normal. (This showed up at work, where two plans seemed to get cheaper, while overall costs went up, because a middling group switched plans)
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04:40:23 PM,
Friday 29 May 2009
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The latest attempt to revive capitated payments: don't call it an HMO! It's an Accountable Care Origanization! I haven't read enough to know whether this approach solves anything other than the public relations mess surrounding HMOs, but anything that moves us away from fee-for-service is a good idea.
I'm strongly of the opinion that the healthcare system is going to collapse before it's fixed, and no sort of solution is possible until the employer system is killed, doctors are on salaries, and the walk-in health clinic is a viable business model. At the moment, since maximizing services delivered is the way to pay the rent, and the way to do that is with overbooked appointment calendars.
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03:00:52 PM,
Friday 29 May 2009
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I should take more pictures. I seem to be reluctant to take house pictures, because it needs sorting out.
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03:00:46 PM,
Friday 29 May 2009
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Best. Political. Scandal. Ever. Duck houses are just the latest, of course. We have also had horse manure, moat cleaning, changing light bulbs, along with undeniably serious tax dodges and embezzlement.
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03:04:27 PM,
Tuesday 26 May 2009
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We have ivy growing on the inside of our garage. I think some pruning may be in order.
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01:09:30 PM,
Tuesday 26 May 2009
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We went to the Lexington Stop and Shop yesterday, and for the first time used the you-scan thing, where you take a grocery scanner around with you, scanning and bagging as you go. It is actually pretty neat. I haven't generally been a fan of self-checkout, because it was too finicky. This is much better. I'm astonished that they're doing it, though, that the reduced labor costs would pay for what I assume would be an increase in scanning errors / outright shoplifting.
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11:43:29 AM,
Tuesday 26 May 2009
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