| Shouting vs. Spanking |
[Nov. 7th, 2009|11:56 am] |
great article, via Less Wrong:The yelling isn't just disproportionate to the behavior, it has nothing to do with the behavior. She's angry about other things, but she's yelling about the milk.
The kid has learned nothing about good and bad behavior. In fact, they've learned that "bad behaviors" merit only calm discussion, while things that annoy Mom or Dad are met with wrath.
Watch your kid: are they more terrified of your reaction when they are caught in a lie, or when they accidentally knock over a glass?
The natural thing to do would be to yell about bad behavior ("did you push that boy on the playground?!?!") and be calmly annoyed when they spill milk. But.
But that doesn't happen, because the parent isn't being honest. |
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| Heinlein invented the waterbed? |
[Nov. 7th, 2009|10:58 am] |
Well, not really, but apparently his popularization of the concept prevented the inventor of the modern waterbed from getting a patent! Le Wik:A form of waterbed was invented in the early 1800s by the Scottish physician Neil Arnott...Dr. William Hooper of Portsmouth, England, patented a waterbed in 1883. He devised it to relieve bed sore pains in his patients. Unable to contain the water and control its temperature, his invention was a market failure.
The modern waterbed was created by Charles Hall in 1968, while he was a design student at San Francisco State University in California. Fellow SFSU students Paul Heckel and Evan Fawkes also contributed to the concept. Hall originally wanted to make an innovative chair. His first prototype was a vinyl bag with 300 pounds (136 kg) of cornstarch, but the result was uncomfortable. He next attempted to fill it with Jell-O, but this too was a failure.[citation needed] Ultimately, he abandoned working on a chair, and settled on perfecting a bed. However, because a waterbed is described in the novels Beyond This Horizon (1942), Double Star (1956), and Stranger in a Strange Land (1961) by Robert A. Heinlein, Hall was unable to obtain a patent on his creation. |
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| Your Congress at work |
[Nov. 7th, 2009|09:54 am] |
The 'debate' this morning in the US House of Representatives on health care.
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| Help! |
[Nov. 7th, 2009|11:04 am] |
Ok so I'm experimenting. I'm trying to make a short mead. Theere is plenty of historical evidence that the wine-style meads were not tradtional and are a modern contrivance.
Furthermore, I'm tired of waiting for it to finish and bottle condition to be drinkable.
I'm using a dried English Ale Yeast. I was too foolish to keep the package or take note of the brand and strain as I should have. I pitched in a bit of the wort/must in a jar and poured it into my primary. The primary has been covered in my closet for a week with an average temperature of about 75 degrees F.
Today, I sanitized my secondary and tools and got to work racking it. Once I racked it and put the bubbler on it...NO BUBBLES!!!
There is an obvious pressure difference when I put the airlock on but no bubbling at all. When I put my previous "traditonal" meads into the secondary there was a lot of action.
Oh my OG reading was 1.40 today the gravity was 1.83. That isn't much change.
The yeast seems as dead as Michael Jackson. Any idea how to proceed. Oh as a side note the wort/must tastes great but it's still cloyingly sweet which says to me that not enough fermentation has taken place.
Could I repitch and just add it to the secondary as is? I was planning on bottling in beer bottles and carbonating like beer with priming sugar. Could I have killed the yeast. More information: I sterilized with bleach since I was out of metabisulfate. 1/4 cup per gallon but I did rinse everything before adding the wort to the primary and the secondary.
HELP!!
x-posted to homebrewing. |
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| We Can Beat Navy |
[Nov. 7th, 2009|04:59 am] |
Our rival is our friend. The only matchup in college football where this is true. |
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| Fish. |
[Nov. 7th, 2009|02:31 am] |
Our fish died today. It was a betta that we've had for three years or so.
That fish was awesome. It lived through two weeks with the heater at 50 in the winter. It lived through murky tank water, probably not being fed for several days in a row. It evaded the cats. It was pronounced dead by one of us at least ten times, but always came back to full health, swimming around and flaring its gills when you would look at it funny. The fish was a warrior.
Also, check this video out:
http://espn.go.com/video/clip?id=4628040&categoryid=2378529 |
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| Foxwoods main event, Day 2 |
[Nov. 7th, 2009|12:58 am] |
This morning, as I was in the shower, I thought to myself, "it'd be nice to like, 10x my stack today."
Turns out my expectations were too low! It's not often you get to go from 30k to nearly 400k on the second day of the tournament, but good things happened. All of the next three hands happened in the first (400/800/100) level.
Big hand #1: I raise to 2100 from middle position with 22 and get two callers. One has just moved to the table with a ton of chips. The flop comes A82 rainbow, they check to me, I bet 3000, the guy with lots of chips check-raises to 9k, I call. Turn is a 5, he checks I check. He asks me for a count as the river is dealt (24000ish) and puts me in, I snap-call, and he says "nice hand". Up to 72k.
Big hand #2: Really aggressive guy raises to 2600 early, button calls, I make it 10500 with KK, original raiser folds, button calls. Flop is Q76 with two hearts, I bet 11k, he moves in for his 60k, I call. He has Ah8h and I fade everything. Up to 110k.
Big hand #3: AK opens from middle position, I 3-bet with AA, he shoves, I call, I hold. Up to 185k at the first break!
I only had one more big pot the entire day. In the 500/1000/100 level, I open to 2500 with Ks6s and am called in three places. Flop is AsJcTs, checked to me, I bet 6k, player on my immediate left raises to 16k, all fold, I put him in for another 45k. He thinks for a while and calls with AT. I hit a spade on the turn and a queen on the river, just to put the punctuation on my run-good. That took me to 267k.
The rest of the day was pretty calm. I don't really remember how I went from 260k to 394k at the end of the day. The rest of the pots I won were quite small. I called a 2-barrel from Christian Harder that added another 20k to my stack, but really, I don't even remember how I accumulated chips, which is nice. I guess I 3-bet a bunch of times and was never called, and I never really lost a pot of significance. I hope to do more of the same.
Weird funny hand: On the last break of the day, a crowd gathered around the one remaining hand still going. I came over to look at a T42 rainbow flop, and all of Jason Mercier's chips in the middle against a single opponent. It is a very big pot; the bet was effectively for over 100k and there was at least that much in the middle. The guy facing the bet starts trying to extract information from Jason. First, he asks, "will you show if I fold?" Jason does not answer. After another minute, he says "will you show your aces if I fold?" Then a few more minutes go by -- at this point we are over seven minutes into the break -- and he asks, "will you show your aces if I fold my kings?" Finally eight minutes into the break he releases his cards. Jason immediately perks up, "you had kings?" pointing to the unprotected (and still unmucked hand). He then gives the guy a disgusted look and says "right, you had kings. You're wasting my fucking time." It was really funny.
Annoyance: At one point the ace of spades was dealt on the river and we noticed it was really bent. So we asked the floor for a new one. The dealer puts in the new deck and we continue playing; the floor gets us (what we thought was) a new ace of spades. Then on the next dealer push someone shows down AA and again it is pointed out that the ace of spades is bent. We ask the floor to replace it. The process repeats. After the next dealer push I am dealt the As5h early and muck the 5. I leave the As in front of me face down. It is so bowed the middle of the card is not touching the felt. I say, "anyone want to guess what card this is?" I can't believe the floor had the gall to give us back the same card *twice* and just think we wouldn't notice or care. We're playing for nearly a million dollars and they can't bother to get a new card fro a $3 deck.
Praise: For playing five 90-minute levels with no dinner break! I'm now quite convinced this is how all tournaments should be.
Anyway, I am hoping for someone really bad with a lot of chips sitting to my right tomorrow. Based on plays I've seen, I know that there are some of them still left in the field. :p
In other news, poker is fun and exciting again! |
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