There are a few more matches to watch - I think part of learning the game is watching enough rounds to pick up the finer points like chains and the archive (which was important in the game I played as it earned me one of my two keys).
I read this right before career day for the middle schoolers. They had a big map of the US they'd been discussing in the room I was in, so this was an interesting read right before encountering that. There was also a kings and queens of England poster which, on a career day where I'm explaining I didn't start in tech but in Tudor/Stuart history, was amusing.
"The reason is not hard to guess. The country perceives itself to be a republic, not an empire. It was born in an anti-imperialist revolt and has fought empires ever since, from Hitler’s Thousand-Year Reich and the Japanese empire to the “evil empire” of the Soviet Union. It even fights empires in its dreams. Star Wars, a saga that started with a rebellion against the Galactic Empire, is one of the highest-grossing film franchises of all time."
"At various times, the inhabitants of the US empire have been shot, shelled, starved, interned, dispossessed, tortured and experimented on. What they haven’t been, by and large, is seen."
2/16/2019: Top 10 (the full first series) by Alan Moore, Gene Ha and Zander Cannon [issues 1-12]
I enjoyed it. A lot little hidden items like The Hamburgler, Mary Poppins, the Hall of Justice (as the precinct hall) tucked away even for someone who wasn't paying particular attention. The overall storyline wasn't cohesive (in the sense that Watchmen was), but basically Hill Street Blues meets a town full of super heroes.
The U.S. soldiers in northern Russia, the U.S. Army’s 339th regiment, were chosen for the deployment because they were mostly from Michigan, so military commanders figured they could handle the war zone’s extreme cold. Their training in England included a lesson from Antarctic explorer Ernest Shackleton on surviving below-zero conditions. Landing in Archangel, just below the Arctic Circle, in September 1918, they nicknamed themselves the Polar Bear Expedition.
2/13/2019: Six Strategies To Maintain Employee Motivation - Rebecca Skilbeck, Forbes.com I'm in a business focus. Probably the 57 exercises swinging part of my brain over to something non-technical.
1. Set Goals to create meaning - which reminds me, I need to set mine for my team. She talks line of sight. That's difficult when there are reorgs going on - but it's easier with a single focus to the product (and how it ties into business value).
2. Celebrate the milestones - and accomplishments. I did this today. Trying to make it part of the retros, among other things. I like her idea of setting mini-milestones in order to feel like there's progress and reason to celebrate. For us, that might be our first POC customer. Crap, that's the roadmap that's on my list to create. It needs to mark those milestones.
3. Provide Meaningful Feedback: tie it to benefits to the company/teams (ah, the GraphQL feedback I gave today tied it to multiple teams...good me?). LOL, I like the five positive to one negative "rule".
4. Empower Problem Solving and Learning
5. Follow thorugh on promises - trust. There's a psychological contract.
Sort of depressing, although I'm not so sure it's supposed to be. Maybe I think it's worse because I do have a kid, and going back to some stage before that seems....strange. And splitting my house payment into two smaller houses that are more expensive is depressing. And splitting my income into two smaller incomes so no one can really do anything fun is depressing. And not having spare cash to just throw at my kid in college is depressing. And splitting retirement funds so that no one has quite enough is depressing. Depressing. Her dating woes make me sad, and I have friends who have divorced and found significant others through dating apps and in the old fashioned way (work/church/bar). It sounds awful. Personally, I picture myself getting on my bicycle and living in tents and on my bike for years and meeting someone (if I was divorced) who just sort of biked past me, and maybe wanted to hook up, but they're all sweaty, and gross...ok
You can order Mama Pat's noodles on Amazon...bit spendy compared to my usual Ramen bulk purchases from United Noodles, but might be worth trying...hmm...good cause too.
You can see this if you take a break from drinking - you'll have a few friends upset because they think not drinking says something about their drinking. It doesn't. But they're in the same headspace as the meat paradox (drinking comes with costs/tradeoffs, even if only financial). And, to go to the extreme end of this, it applies to turning horrible acts into a process - almost gamifying them in terms of how many and how efficient instead of human terms. You can figure out what historical political and business cultures that created without much effort. And...you can apply it to political thought at the moment. It's pretty much one of the underpinnings of human culture across the board once you start watching for signs.
Added it to my steam wish list, although I should really finish Bards Tale first (and figure out Scythe). Too much online entertainment in this day and age. But this looks fun, old school RPG style which I grew up on.
I would not have guessed Can Oral is pronounced Jon Rahl.
Kind of cool it has an ending process like Nier Automata where the game can end early based on a decision.
Take a math / ethics idea and turn it into a story. Bought myself an e-copy to read (versus the library because I like having a few story books in my Kindle for airplane/emergencies).
Nothing specifically new, but the idea that 6.5 billion accounts (roughly) have been hacked means there's a bulk of data there that can be stitched together (ML wise) to make some assumptions about account specifics. Nasty.
Science Alert article with some video of snakes catching bats and the iguana escaping (non pack snakes, though they look like it) in a Beeb documentary.
Chronological with callouts/highlights. High level with supporting data. Not a very in depth article. But it made me want to spend some more time in Tableau.
"How can you ever know, really know, that any piece of information you see on a screen is true? Some will find this disorienting, terrifying, paralyzing. Others will feel at home in it. "
I did not know there was an International Arthurian Society. Should have guessed. Apparently one of the board members or past presidents is out of U of WI, Madison.
"This is fascinating because it is the first time that exoplanet statistics, which suggest that super-Earths and Neptunes are the most common type of planets, coincide with observations of protoplanetary discs," said Feng Long
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