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Seventy years ago (1943), the land that you are now standing on was once surrounded by water. The upper portions of Lake Conestee have long since filled with sediment making this island feature less conspicuous. The sandy loam surface soils are ideal for sparkleberry, native azaleas, and upland hardwoods.
This high ground once provided a secure campsite for early Native American hunting parties (1,000 to 3,000 years before present). Large game hunted in this area included white-tailed deer still common in the Upstate. American bison, elk, black bear, and cougar were also native here, but were hunted out soon after European settlement.
Little is known about the Conestee area before the Revolutionary War. Cherokee Indians controlled this territory until the colonial period. Although these pre-Cherokee natives did not reside permanently in the vicinity of Conestee, archaeological investigations indicate that they regularly used the Reedy River corridor for travel and this island as a rest area.
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Prime Minister Manmohan Singh embarks on a visit to the US to attend the Nuclear Security Summit where he is expected to pitch for firm response to the challenges of proliferation and possibility of terrorists gaining access to nuclear material. India and Pakistan have upset balance of nuclear deterrence: Hillaryworld Updated: Apr 10, 2010 12:38 IST
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Saturday embarked on a visit to the US to attend the Nuclear Security Summit where he is expected to pitch for firm response to the challenges of proliferation and possibility of terrorists gaining access to nuclear material.
During the eight-day visit, Singh will also travel to Brazil to attend the Brazil-Russia-India-China (BRIC) and India-Brazil-South Africa (IBSA) Summits, where Iran's controversial nuclear programme and the impending UN sanctions would be among the key issues of discussions.
In the first leg of the tour, Singh will be in Washington for four days during which he will attend the two-day Nuclear Security Summit on April 12 and 13 and meet US President Barack Obama and some other world leaders.
The Summit, an initiative of Obama, will focus on dangers posed by clandestine proliferation and illicit trafficking of nuclear material and the possibility of terrorists acquiring atomic material.
Singh is expected to share India's apprehensions about terrorists acquiring weapons of mass destruction. The threat is greater in Pakistan, where nuclear material is believed to be not too safe.
Ahead of his visit, the Prime Minister said nuclear terrorism and proliferation of sensitive technologies are "legitimate concerns" which require "firm responses".
He emphasised the need for "highest standards of security" in the nuclear field to reinforce public faith in the benefit of atomic science.
"India welcomes President Obama's initiative to hold a Summit on Nuclear Security," said Singh, who will join leaders of 42 other countries in discussing ways to strengthen global initiatives for securing nuclear material and installations amid concerns of terrorists gaining access to these.
Singh said he expected the Summit to focus on nuclear terrorism and proliferation of sensitive nuclear materials and technologies.
"These are legitimate concerns which require firm responses," the Prime Minister said.
Noting that nuclear energy was poised to play a growing role in addressing the developmental challenges of the present times, he said, "This will be possible only if we, as individual nations, and as a global community ensure the highest standards of security which reinforce public faith in the benefits of nuclear science."
He pointed out that India was an important stakeholder in this global endeavour. Talking about India's well developed and indigenous nuclear energy programme, which dates back six decades, Singh said, "We have an impeccable record of security, safety and non-proliferation which reflects in our conduct as a responsible nuclear power."
The Prime Minister underlined that India has been a consistent advocate of complete and universal global nuclear disarmament.
"We were among the first countries in the world to call for a world free of nuclear weapons. I am encouraged by the fact that this approach is finding greater resonance today," he said, adding India will continue to call for more meaningful progress in this direction.
At the Summit, Singh is expected to underline the need for greater impetus to securing nuclear material through physical protection and legal mechanisms.
Singh is also likely to propose setting up of an International Nuclear Safety Centre in India. India sees the Summit and its associated preparatory process as important elements in strengthening international resolve to cooperate on nuclear security and supporting the expanded use of nuclear energy for peaceful purposes.
"This will be to India's benefit given our concerns on terrorism as well as our interest in the expansion of civil nuclear energy," Foreign Secretary Nirupama Rao said a few days back while talking about the upcoming Summit.
During his stay in Washington, Singh will meet Obama, French President Nicolas Sarkozy, Kazakhstan President Nursultan Nazarbaev and Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper.
At BRIC and IBSA Summits, Iran's controversial nuclear programme and the impending UN sanctions would be among the key issues of discussions.
"These groupings reflect the growing role of emerging economies in shaping the global economic order," the Prime Minister said.
He said the IBSA process has come of age as it today encompasses a wide range of activities which supplement the excellent bilateral relations that India enjoys with each of these countries.
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Countries like Iran, North Korea, Cuba and Venezuela have not been invited for the Summit in Washington. However, Iran's nuclear issue and the controversy surrounding it will be discussed under the BRIC format in Brasilia by Singh, Russian President Dmitry Medvedev, Chinese President Hu Jintao and Brazilian President Lula da Silva.
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The Maze Runner Trailer
Yes, we know. Young adult books are pretty "in" these past years. And we know, a lot of people can't stand this trend anymore. But screw that, I'm doing a review of a YA (young adult) book "transform" in a movie anyway! You might also have noticed, but I do pretty much all my trailer reviews on YA films…But I am a young adult…I have the rights. Don't judge me.
A group of boys, with no memories of their past lives, must escape a massive maze infested with deadly creatures. (source: IMDB)
Like I said, I do like YA movies, and it does "touch" my generation. Sure, I am not a fan of aaaall of theses movies (like Twilight…) but this one is extremely interesting! Maybe because the movie isn't about a girl heroin… Anyway, I am definitely going to watch it either in cinema or in dvd (and read the books, because yay books!).
Are you a big fan of Young Adult movies/books? Are you going to watch or read The Maze runner? Let me know in the comments below!
The Maze Runner is coming out on September 19th, 2014.
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What kind of datastore do I want?
So I have a dataset. This dataset consists of a well defined set of values and a key/value list providing additional data.
Our current approach is to flatten the key value store into columns, named for the keys, add any columns to our SQL table, and load the data.
The table is now a skazillion columns wide.
The use case is to basically do a select * on the table once we've populated some bonus columns according to some values in the fixed schema.
The developers working on this tell me that dealing with this in a flat sql table SQL is evil and they want to do a key/value table instead.
I'm 100 percent certain that that's just going to cause mass chaos and break everything, but what's the actual correct way to do this? Some kind of nosql thing?
nosql (like MongoDB) would work.
but if you want to keep things cleaner in SQL try this:
- Core table, all common/required columns
- Entitiy (key to Table1 record) Attribute Value table that is exposed in your ORM as a dictionary string string (or other appropraite object structure)
Keeps the benefits of reporting and stuff in SQL and allows arbitrary key value pairs for extra things that aren't on all objects.
like MongoDB
FWIW, the article linked here would suggest it may not scale well:
FWIW, the article linked here would suggest it may not scale well:
well yes.
i didn't say it would work well.....
I think @Weng lost enough sanity already judging by that story. Do give him a break
svieira last edited by
Depending on the database you have, you may already have a good solution - several DBs out there support key-value columns in formats like
JSON, and
HSTORE. Take a look and see if yours already supports one of these.
Since it's read-only (and it sounds like you won't be doing filtering of any kind on it) you can probably even get away with a
TEXTcolumn if your DB of choice doesn't support any of the above.
Well, I know Postgres can index
hstorewould probably suit the purpose the best.
Of course, we don't know the DB engine that's already used now, maybe it actually has an appropriate datatype but whoever designed the database is not aware of it.
SQL Server 2008 R2. If I'm not mistaken, XML column support blew in 2005, which is where this app originated.
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The table is now a skazillion columns wide.
And that is a problem because... why?
The developers working on this tell me that dealing with this in a flat sql table SQL is evil
Do they have a reason?
and they want to do a key/value table instead.
Are all the values the same type?
I'm 100 percent certain that that's just going to cause mass chaos and break everything, but what's the actual correct way to do this?
I think you already did it correct.
And that is a problem because... why?
Because my boss+1 prefers the opinion of a line developer who's been on his team for decades over the opinion of a system architect on a team he was drafted to take over two years ago.
Do they have a reason?Outdated misconceptions about rows not being able to exceed 8kb and vague stupidity about the current model being unsustainable.
Are all the values the same type?
All variable length strings.
I think you already did it correct.Me too.
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We've been through several alternatives on that one, mostly _OPTIONS child tables and name=value; strings in an OPTIONS column (VARCHAR2(255), VARCHAR2(4000), occasionally CLOB). All nice and dandy as long as you think you're only using them in code anyway. And then it's been in a production release and you find out you need to do SQL on it after all.
Go columns.
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What you have is a political problem, not a technical problem.
You can either tell boss + 1's line developer to show you the money (i.e. prove his assertions), or you can just cave in and say, "whatever you wanna do." Or quit I guess.
But your question asks for a technical solution, and I don't think one exists.
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Curious would this be the way you do it if you had 20 predefined types?
We initially build a static survey tool. It then morphed to 20 different versions because each group wanted/needed different questions.
Since at the time the fastest solution was to just add columns to the table that is what we did.
Then we had a shake-up at work. New PM takes over as says we should have 20 different tables, one for each type.
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is a problem because... why?
It's all fun and games until you end up with an object having a million properties in your code. Which needs to map exactly to the columns - you can't, for example, aggregate VALUE_JAN through VALUE_DEC into an array, or the whole homegrown DB-to-objects cancer of a mapper blows up. And then you get to define all these properties again in your business logic layer, except now instead of
{get; set;}you have to do
{get { return dao.PropertyName; } set { dao.PropertyName = value; } }.
All this, of course, has zero relation to the case at hand. But I needed to vent.
Yeah. Not applicable to our situation. I'll explain when I get to a real keyboard and can psuedocode
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Load it into a hash?
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Outdated misconceptions about rows not being able to exceed 8kb
Still applicable in SQL Server, certainly in 2008R2.
There are built in workarounds, like VARCHAR(MAX) being a pointer to the actual string, but there is still an 8k limit on the row length after the savings are taken into account.
Source: I once had to come up with a creative workaround when importing an Excel file with around 500 columns, blowing out the limit by a long way
Varchar doesn't count at all anymore. All these fields are Varchar.
It just overflows the variable length fields into another page, which hurts performance a bit when touching those particular rows.
Fixed size columns must all total up to less than 8 bytes though.
Citation: The docs and experimentation.
There are also specialized wide tables. Not sure on the specifics there, but they exist.
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I used XML columns in a SQL Server 2005 app - a bit of a pain to query, since you need to suddenly think in XPATH when you were just thinking in SQL, but nothing ridiculously painful (and not applicable at all if the use case is simply write / read not query). That said, the columns were options sets on small tables (~10K not ~100B) so I didn't have a chance to encounter other performance or maintenance issues.


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Maybe my problem is I'm looking for a traditional man, one who is okay with taking things day-by-day, paying for certain types of dates like movies or eating out every now and then (when I'm not cooking), making a majority of (not all) of the initiation of contact, etc. All I really ask is that they're respectful, clean (hygiene-wise), have good work ethic, and honestly it's a bonus if they're taller but I've dated some guys that were my height as well.
I can't say there aren't good guys out there, because I've dated some really nice men. They've always ended up falling through because "things get too comfortable" and that freaks them out, or they move. The moving I understand, but I don't know why it's bad if we're dating several years and they want out just because even though it's working well, things aren't as "exciting" and "new" anymore? This concept is actually kind of stressful for me because I'm not the type to get bored easily doing the same things repetitively. I realize that probably makes me strange in the whole grand scheme of things these days, since the world (I'm speaking VERY generally here) seems to be running on some kind of "always looking for the next exciting thing" mentality on steroids.
I don't knock online dating; I know of some very good success stories, but it hasn't worked out for me. The guys always range from not being honest about who they are or they make me incredibly uncomfortable because I get an alert they're checking my profile every ten minutes (this actually made me get off the site I was using so super fast and I'm not keen to try again, and I never went on a date with these people). Every long term relationship I've had has been someone I've met in person. Maybe it's because I'm living in a city environment, but people just don't seem to be interested in dating long-term out here. Everything needs to be quick, hook-up, and move on.
Anyone have suggestions on where to meet someone? Or is online dating the best or only way?
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There is a lot to unpack in this ha-ha. I'll start by saying the city dating scene is a joke. I just moved out of Chicago after living there a few years and it was rough. City dating is just different.
Online dating is awful too. It is basically a peacock show and the brightest win. Guys have to try harder on dating sites. They just do. Most women don't message first. Most men don't get 100 women a day stopping on their profile. Also chemistry can only go so far in text. Get the app meetup for your phone. Join some social groups of things that interest you and meet people there. Online there is always that iffy side where as in person you can read people better and actually know who you're talking to.
It is completely possible and completely preferable to meet your partner in person. It's how it has been done for hundreds of thousands of years. But you have to be willing to work at it now. While I lived in Chicago I made it a point to try and talk to as many people as I could. Accumulate friends and sooner or later you'll meet someone you really like.
Just take it slow and remember, you don't NEED to be in a relationship, it is something you want. Take the time to get to know someone like people used to do. If you want a quick relationship you are going to have to be pretty damn lucky for it to work out.11|00|0
Glad to know I'm not the only one who feels the way I do about dating in the city! Thanks for your thought out response, it's appreciated. And the candor. Responses like this on the Internet are refreshing, if you know what I mean.
I'm with you on not needing, but wanting to be in a relationship. Guess my frustration is more, it's not that I TRY to be a "boring" person, but on a scale of am I the kind always doing something new every single day or do I have a routine I like and am okay with and would like to meet someone beating to a similar drum, I'm definitely the latter, and it apparently makes me super boring lmao. Just wondering if I'll ever meet someone cool with a relationship that's stable and just generally easy flowing.
When I talk about relationships with people I have to tell them this all the time. You do not meet someone two years already into your relationship. Sure the routine part is the part everyone wants to end up at. Where there is no more guessing and it's safe and you guys just know you'll be doing things together. But no one starts that way. You can't be afraid to get out of your comfort zone a little. If you have a routine you like now that's totally normal and fine, but adding a partner fundamentally changes that no matter what you do. So why not have a little fun with it? If your hobby is underwater basket weaving, then find a guy who is into that. If you just like drinking wine and watching TV, I promise you a lot of men out there would love to come home at the end of the work day to drink a beer and veg out with you. Just give a little and find someone who is willing to give as you do. Time is your friend not your enemy. I can tell you are someone who wants longevity


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Whitesnake are the latest band to announce they are confident of receiving an invitation from Led Zeppelin to join them on a forthcoming world tour.
The Stairway To Heaven hitmakers staged a reunion concert in London in December (07) and have left fans waiting to find out whether they will schedule any more shows.
Many bands, including The Cult and Stone Temple Pilots, have since come forward to express their interest in landing a support slot if the newly reformed rockers decide to embark on a global tour.
And Whitesnake have now joined the list of hopefuls, with frontman David Coverdale insisting they are very likely to be given a coveted place alongside the legendary band.
He tells British newspaper the Daily Mirror, "I'm expecting a call from Jimmy (Page, Led Zeppelin guitarist) any day asking my band Whitesnake to support them on a world tour.
"Am I on board? You bet! (It's) probably worth billions!"
And Coverdale is convinced that if Led Zeppelin do tour - it will far outstrip the efforts of fellow veteran rockers The Rolling Stones.
He adds, "Unlike rolling out the wheelchairs with the umpteenth Rolling Stones World Tour, a Led Zeppelin tour will be incredible."


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Dynamic reorganization of the actin microfilament networks is dependent on the reversible phosphorylation of myosin light chain. To assess the potential role of protein phosphatases in this process in living nonmuscle cells, we have microinjected the purified type-1 and type-2A phosphatases into the cytoplasm of mammalian fibroblasts. Our studies reveal that elevating type-1 phosphatase levels led to the rapid (within 30 min) and fully reversible disassembly of the actin microfilament network as determined by immunofluorescence analysis. In contrast, microinjection of equivalent amounts of the purified type-2A phosphatase had no effect on actin microfilament organization. Metabolic labeling of cells after injection of purified phosphatases was used to analyze changes in protein phosphorylation. Concomitant with the disassembly of the actin microfilaments induced by type-1 phosphatase, there was an extensive dephosphorylation of myosin light chain. No such change was observed when cells were injected with type- 2A phosphatase. In addition, after extraction of fibroblasts with Triton X-100, the type-1 phosphatase could be specifically localized by immunofluorescence to a fibrillar network of microfilaments. Furthermore, neutralizing type-1 phosphatase activity in vivo by microinjection of an affinity-purified antibody, prevented the reorganization of actin microfilaments that we had previously described following injection of cAMP-dependent protein kinase. These data support the notion that type 1 and type-2 phosphatases have distinct substrate specificity in living cells, and that type-1 phosphatase plays a predominant role in the dephosphorylation of myosin light chain and thus in the modulation of actin microfilament organization in vivo in intact nonmuscle cells.
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I just finished writing a Patreon essay. You may have heard me talking about them on my podcast. I love writing them so much though they're not easy to write (is anything?).
In this latest Patreon essay, I write about how bad we are, as humans, at predicting what will actually make us happy. I won't go into the science of it here, but this is the main takeaway: We guess wildly at what will make us happy, and then we get it wrong, over and over again. It's human nature, and it's part of the way we work.
It might sound familiar to you.
We dream of the totally free Saturday afternoon when the spouse has the kids, and you have the cafe. You know exactly how it will go. You'll get there, grab your favorite chair by the outlet, and you'll proceed to write the brilliant prose you know you're capable of. It will be everything you've been waiting for.
Fact is, it doesn't go like that, does it? Even when the seat is open, and your computer is plugged in, and your latte is perfect, something isn't quite right. It's your brain. It won't settle. It won't do what you need it to do which is to get some goddamn words on the page that don't suck all the suckitude of suckery sucktown.
We predict what will make us happy (or sad) and we are wrong, over and over again.
It helps me to know this.
Nothing is going to go the exact way I imagine it, either for the good or the bad, and that kind of lets me off the worry hook.
Brain science shows us that the thing you fear the most won't be as bad as you think it will be. It also shows us that the fantasy–the lottery win, the subsequent small-island purchase–also won't be as good as we think it will.
That means all you have is now. This imperfect, perfect moment you're sitting in right now.
Now is all.
Don't wait for after retirement. Or next weekend. Or when the kids are in grade school. Whatever you're waiting for, it's not enough.
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The only way you're going to be one is to write messily, sloppily, and badly NOW.
Go write something. Anything. A blog post. A letter to your aunt who would die of shock if she got something in the mail from you. A love letter. A letter to the editor. A Facebook post that says something instead just a status update. The first chapter of your book (it will be terrible! It's supposed to be, I promise!).
You have right now. And it's better than okay–it's all you need.
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Or at least my fellow passengers on the Lorelei, the steamboat that figures in Mark Siegel's outstanding web comic, Sailor Twain.
I mean, just look at this. Here's the first page.
Missives From the Reality-Based World
25 Mar 2011 at 09:12
General Foolishness, One Thousand Words
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Or at least my fellow passengers on the Lorelei, the steamboat that figures in Mark Siegel's outstanding web comic, Sailor Twain.
I mean, just look at this. Here's the first page.
21 Mar 2011 at 16:22
…they'd begin to realize that some things will always be misogynistic.
You'd be wrong.
Because if it doesn't smell like a car air freshener, there's no way I'm climbing inside it.
EDIT: This was apparently a mockup ad for a feminine hygiene product submitted for an award, that somehow got leaked to a legitimate ad site (Ads of the World) — see the comments. Evidently the actual owners of the actual product used in this mockup were incensed, and rightly so, by the misogynistic presentation.
Fair enough; it seems to me that removing the branding ought to take care of their issues, but I do believe I'll take a moment to soapbox here.
1. Do not ever release anything — even for a contest (especially for a contest) — that might come back to bite you in the ass.
2. This trend I see among ad houses toward releasing ad mocks for competitions has to stop. Either be honest enough to submit real work, or stop pretending to be ballsy and cutting-edge for the sake of the contests.
And by the way, guys — really poor taste on the ad, mockup or no.
05 Feb 2011 at 22:12
Meditations (Crossposted from KDM)
One of the more difficult parts about moving, for me at least, has always been the attrition. Deciding what's going with me and what's being donated — or, in some cases, simply pitched out — has always been more difficult than I think it should be.
Nowhere is this more obvious than with my book collection. It'll come as a microscopic surprise that I have a fairly substantial library, probably 80% of which I've read. The rest is on the waiting list. When your library contains some 500 titles, that's obviously a pretty big I'll-get-to-it-soon stack.
Why on Earth would anyone even want that many books? I used to be asked that sometimes by classmates when I was in high school. (One even commented, in all seriousness, "I've never been so bored that I had to read." It goes without saying that she and I never dated.)
To some extent, this is my father's influence. I used to go into his study as a child and stare in utter, silent awe at the wall of books there. The collection showed a wide range of tastes, including literature, fantasy, and SF. The first time I read Dangerous Visions, I was about fourteen, and it was from his collection.1 DV was not the kind of book you'd normally think of a young teen reading, but that was how it went in my family. As long as it was a book, and wasn't from a porn shop, there was no censorship.
27 Jan 2011 at 20:54
Meditations (Crossposted from KDM)
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We will probably never fully understand just why Jared Loughner decided to do what he did1 on that day in Tucson. This should actually make us feel better about ourselves, when you think about it. I'd far rather be baffled by a spate of irrational killings than have a clue as to the reasoning behind them.2
This hasn't stopped an immediate and intense response from quite a lot of people, in quite a few corners, each apparently trying to simultaneously absolve themselves of guilt while assigning it to others. Ironically, the argument about incendiary language in political discourse has itself become quite incendiary. So it goes.
Rather than seek to attach blame to one "side" or another,3 I'd like to discuss the language we use regularly in discussion of any kind, which is frequently over-the-top and improper for our purposes. By "improper" I do not necessarily mean insulting, offensive, and so on; instead, I simply mean the wrong set of words.
For example, many years ago, Hostess advertised their Twinkies and other baked candies as being "wholesome". I believe I know what wholesome means, and it is not a word that I would apply to something made almost entirely of sugar and so pumped with preservatives that, assuming its packaging remains undamaged, it has an essentially infinite shelf life. Usage of the word wholesome is, here, improper. We might call Twinkies flavorful; we might call them convenient; we might call them tasty. We would be hard-pressed to defend calling them wholesome.
This is a good example of deceptive labeling. It could be argued that, since Twinkies do not contain cyanide, they are technically wholesome; however, wholesome is not a synonym for nonlethal. Using a word that is conventionally associated with healthy cheapens the value of that word, and robs it of effective meaning — particularly if that word is being used to describe something that, eaten in anything but extreme moderation, is in no way healthy at all.
19 Jan 2011 at 22:55
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One time, many years ago, a monk was walking along in the forest. Suddenly a robber leapt out and demanded money, food, and so on. The monk, of course, had nothing to give; this infuriated the robber, who began ranting about all the travelers he'd beaten, how dangerous he was, etc. The monk listened, unfazed, for so long that eventually the robber became impressed. He wanted to know how the monk could be so apparently at ease in the face of such dire threat, when the robber himself — who was in a position of power — seemed unable to let go of his anger.
Eventually the robber confessed that stealing was an ingrained part of his personality. "Wherever I am, no matter who I'm with, when I see something, my urge is to steal it. It doesn't matter whether it's something I need; just to see someone possessing anything makes me want it for myself. I've actually tried to stop stealing, but I just can't. I know I'll be caught one day and executed, but I simply can't help myself. Is there anything I can do to make it stop?"
The monk pondered for a moment. "When you get the urge to steal, simply be aware of it," he said.
The robber blinked. "That's all?"
"Yes, that's all."
Bemused, the robber parted ways with the monk.
A year or so later, they met up again on the road. The monk didn't recognize his onetime adversary; the man had converted, and was now a monk as well — no longer a robber. "Somehow," he said, "just being aware of my urge to steal helped it to fade and lose its power over me. How did you know it would work?"
The monk shrugged. "Every lust is a thought," he said, and in that moment the former robber was enlightened.
These stories always seem to be about wandering monks. I don't actually recall the full thread of this one, and I can't seem to find the reference anywhere; the monk might have been Bodhidharma, who was the itinerant Buddhist that brought the practice to China.1 It really doesn't matter what the particulars are, because the essence of the story is what I'm focusing on here.
08 Jan 2011 at 19:45
Meditations (Crossposted from KDM)
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Hands up, everyone who's seen Castaway, the movie with Tom Hanks about the guy who ends up stranded for years on a deserted island. That's a lot of you — good.
If you recall, Hanks was on a delivery aircraft, something similar to DHL or FedEx. The plane crashed, and he was the only survivor. After the crash, he managed to make it to a small island in the middle of nowhere. He started going through the freight that washed ashore along with him, looking for anything that could help him survive. Among many things, he found a volleyball, of the Wilson brand. That volleyball turned out to be one of the most significant elements to the story, to his survival, and — I think — became a fascinating enquiry into the nature of mind.
What began happening, you may remember, was that he started talking to the volleyball. At first it was clearly something that made him feel foolish, but over time it became so regular that he was having lengthy, complicated conversations with Wilson. Rationally, we can recognize just how weird such behavior is — after all, if someone started acting that way at the office, treating a pencil sharpener as a personal confidante, we'd quickly become worried about his sanity — but in the case of one person stranded in total isolation, it might seem a bit more sensible.
We're social animals. In one form or another, we like human contact. Sometimes the contact isn't what we'd prefer, but by and large it's something we need on a psychological and emotional level. One of the worst punishments that a prisoner can be subjected to is solitary confinement; we even punish our children with time-outs, isolating them briefly from interaction with all others. People locked into sensory deprivation tanks actually begin hallucinating after less than an hour, partly because the stimulus-hungry mind ends up all alone with itself and, lacking anything to keep itself occupied, it begins making things up.
So, in a mind left with total isolation and something that looks vaguely like a human face, it's not difficult to imagine that face becoming more and more real.
30 Dec 2010 at 10:00
Meditations (Crossposted from KDM)
A little while ago, I was a volunteer shopper for Code 3/Clothe the Kids (third year for me). This is a local charity that exists because of the combined efforts of the KPD, the KFD, the Kiwanis, and others. Disadvantaged kids are taken shopping for clothes by volunteer adults, who have a predetermined budget. The purpose is to ensure that the kids have some decent outfits without being subject to undue parental influence.
That latter requirement became clear in years past; originally, some parents would take the kids' clothes, get a refund, and turn around and spend the money on cigarettes and booze (true story). The system is considerably less exploitable now, but attempts to work around the limits still get made, every year.
This year, "my" kid was a boy of about eight. It started off well; he seemed amiable and not particularly shy, and picked out some shirts, undies, shoes, and other necessities. Then came the moment all the kids love: The troll down the toy aisle.
The rules are fairly clear. The majority of the budget is to be spent on clothing, with only ten to fifteen dollars or so spent on the gewgaws. "My" kid, who seemed at first to have such a good operational grasp of the procedure, quickly lost track of what we were doing.
He wanted a Nerf dart gun, one of the high-end ones that ran about $40. Well, no, too expensive. All right then, how about this MP3 player? $30. No, sorry, still over the budget. Okay, well, here's a radio-controlled Humvee. $40, and we're back up to way over the line.
Back to the electronics, where he confided that his dad had asked that he pick up a CD boombox for his and his sister's bedroom. In addition to the cost — yes, again over the allowance — it became clear that he was now operating under a parent's instruction, which is a no-no for the shopping day.
I worked with him a little about budgets, explaining that the toy allowance was only so large. He could have one thing that was just that large, or two smaller things that, added together, were that large; or three littler things that added up, and so on. Explained in those terms, he seemed to get what I was saying, and made a counter-offer: If we put back some of the clothes, can we get the radio or the Humvee then?
Clever lad. He lacked foresight, but he understood the idea of bargaining.
23 Dec 2010 at 09:32
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No, not John McCain — just one of his cheerleaders, old man Chuck Asay. Behold.
This cadre of old bigots can't die off soon enough to suit me. Fortunately, Asay's cretinous outlook is no longer relevant to the majority of Americans. That's probably why he's being such a prat, actually. He's throwing a little tantrum because no one wants to play the game by his rules any more.
Tough shit.
20 Dec 2010 at 23:18
Meditations (Crossposted from KDM)
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In recent days, here in Arizona, there's been discussion about privatization of prisons — hardly anything new — and state parks. The argument seems to be two-pronged: Private, for-profit industries tend to run efficiently; and by passing maintenance and facility costs off to companies, we're able to free up funds in the tax budget which could be used for other things — or possibly not. In principle, taxes could simply be reduced instead.
To turn our attention to the latter argument first, Arizona has been cutting its state budget, steadily, for some time now. It's cut so completely that recently, AHCCCS terminated paying for organ transplants and, incidentally, the lives of a few of its own citizens. (Death panel, indeed.) Large portions of state-mandated systems, such as the courts, have found themselves reduced to less than a bare-bones budget, with only a few officials being forced to handle the caseloads of entire counties.
We've also done away with rest stops, and for a while the DPS terminated its helicopter service in the Kingman area, essentially leaving all of Mohave County without any kind of aerial search-and-rescue or law-enforcement ability.
However, it's worth noting that cutting these services has not, in fact, led to a reduction in taxes — so where has the money disappeared to? Is it really possible that the state is running at such a deficit that years of systematic budget and service cuts have had no effect at all on its operation? If so, it might be practical to suggest that no amount of budget cutting will actually do anything to keep the state's balance in the black.
This conclusion seemingly leaves us with two choices: Raising taxes, or privatizing.
06 Dec 2010 at 22:01
Meditations (Crossposted from KDM)
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This is a crosspost both from the Kingman Daily Miner, and from my Sangha of Kingman blog. Just a little commentary on DADT, and what it looks like from a (my) Buddhist POV.
The question of whether gays and lesbians should be allowed to serve in the US armed forces has been bandied about for years. You can always gauge how close we are to an election cycle by how often this topic surfaces; it's one of those things — as with flag burning or posting the Decalogue in public places — that's sure to get people riled. When people get riled, they tend to vote.
The current policy, charmingly called Don't Ask, Don't Tell, came into being during the Clinton years. It was seen as a sort of compromise at the time, but for those who wanted the ban lifted entirely on sexual orientation, it was difficult to see exactly where the compromise was. Succinctly, during enlistment, you used to be asked, "Are you now, or have you ever been, a practicing homosexual?"1 Now, they don't ask. You don't have to tell. That was the compromise.
The other side of the policy is that if a soldier later reveals a nonheterosexual orientation, he or she can be tried under court martial and issued a discharge, because homosexual behavior is against the military code of conduct. However, even revealing the presence of a lover, while remaining celibate when away from that person, is also grounds for discharge. The subtle message is that merely thinking about engaging in homosexual conduct is against the rules. Freedom of thought is thus quashed. This seems unreasonable in almost any light, and arguably goes against the spirit of our national founders' intent.
02 Dec 2010 at 10:36
O, Pine With Me, You Must be F***ing Kidding
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Chuck Asay is one of those old-timey white guys who has more than outlived his usefulness to the planet. Born in 1942, he's the direct beneficiary of most of the social-support systems that were erected during his youth, those same systems he wants to see dismantled now in the name of "conservatism" and — probably — that odious variety of pseudo-libertarianism which is really just a thin veneer of legitimacy masking a rapacious, pig-ignorant selfishness.
With his latest cartoon, though, he really pushed my buttons. Behold the quintessence of subhuman dipshittery contained in his "art":
05 Oct 2010 at 16:47
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Okay, I'm afraid you're going to have to tolerate a little gloating. I'm working on our annual report again — these things always end up being such massive projects for just a few pages of document — and this year I'm doing it as a journal or scrapbook. I've got these borders that look like pasted-in pages; I've got Polaroid frames; I even worked out a way to make images in those Polaroid frames look like actual Polaroid images, complete with variable color weirdness.
What else I have is all the text entered in a handwriting typeface called "Journal". The problem with it is one endemic to all handwriting typefaces — the baseline is far too regular and the strokes too consistent for it to really look like handwriting.
One way to deal with that would be to hand-set the baseline shift and stroke attributes of each character, but I do not have that kind of time. Another way would be to create a nice OTF set that uses discretionary items to create variable text effects; but again, I don't have the time to do that either.
What I do have, though, is a Mac, and AppleScript. Oh, and quite some experience writing code in a previous life.
That was how I was able to produce the results you see below in a nicely automatic fashion.
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Dear Parent/Carer
I am writing at the start of the new academic year with information on SMHW (Show My Homework) and our new A5 student pocket diaries.
Since introducing SMHW in 2015 the school has been able to ensure that all students are supported in their completion and management of homework. This in turn has supported their progress as homework activities have helped to consolidate and extend their learning.
This academic year we will continue to use SMHW to set homework with instructions and resources being available on desktop computers, laptops, tablets and mobiles. As parents/carers you will continue to have access to your son/daughter's homework using the log on details that you have previously been provided with. This year we will also be ensuring that students record homework in their new A5 student pocket diaries. Students will only need to record if homework has been set as the full details (instructions, resources, deadlines etc) will be available on SMHW. It is hoped that this will further help you as parents in supporting you child. In instances where students do not have access to SMHW at home the diary can be used to record the full details of any homework set. Form tutors will also provide information on green/yellow/red points, uniform/equipment checks and attendance/punctuality in the diaries on a fortnightly basis. Where necessary detention arrangements will also be provided.
We appreciate that as students move through the school and prepare for adult life they will need to take responsibility for managing their own workload. However, we recognise that students will require support in developing the necessary skills in order to this. These are important skills that we promote and develop with students during their time at school. Therefore as parents we would recommend looking at SMHW and the pocket diary with your son/daughter. The frequency of this will change as your son/daughter progresses through the school and will also depend on how successfully they manage their homework. Homework and diaries will be monitored in school by form tutors and pastoral staff at designated times during each half term. To support this monitoring we would ask you to check and sign the diary on a fortnightly basis.
Parents of students in Year 7 will receive SMHW instructions and access information later this half term in preparation for using it next half term. Parents of students in Year groups 8 to 11 should use existing passwords to access SMHW. In some instances the App may need to be updated or deleted and re-installed (from the App Store or Google play) due to updates over the summer holiday. If you would like to be re-issued with your password or would like support with using SMHW please contact the school.
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My recent blog about being off Zoloft for good! 🙂
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Writing down my experiences with BPD, depression, and anxiety both in and out of therapy along the way
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I can never quite get past the fact that when I blog about fashion, recipes and/or home decor I almost ALWAYS see my highest blog traffic. I mean, I love a great sweatshirt or pair of boots, a cute side table and a super new recipe as much as the next girl, BUT sometimes I hold myself back from talking about those things in this space because I am afraid that someone will stop by and they will think that I am the sum of those things. So I take these long hiatus from blogging so that I don't just put out those type of posts. And then I realize that just means that I'm simply silent. We KNOW this about me. It's already been well-established, right?
If you've been hanging around for more than two weeks you KNOW that this blog has too often been plagued by sprees of silence. I'm trying to keep talking. Really, I am. In fact, this might seem random, but I've been thinking a lot lately about just why I miss Xanga {God rest it's sweet cyber soul} and after mourning it's slow painful death for the past few years, I finally realized why I still miss it. I miss Xanga because it felt like a daily journal. The thing that I *think* blogs were intended to be. It was a place where we all connected to each other in a way that was more intimate and encouraging than browsing a quick status update. When Xanga lost it's steam, Google's Feed Reader helped to keep that feeling of connectivity but when Google decided to pull that service, we were left with a gaping hole in the social media sphere. Instead, we've turned blogging into a spectacle where we feel this uncomfortable compulsion to put out and publish a mini-magazine complete with edited photos. It's a LOT of work and honestly, it isn't always so fulfilling.
Sometimes I just want to write about my day and *gasp* FORGO all photos. I mean, I can't even publish a blog post without photos easily with my current blog theme. UGH. I think that it all starts to feel like too much. I want it to be easy– because it's not work. It's an outlet and an avenue for connecting with people, but as of yet, it is NOT a job. Nor do I want to treat it as one {unless I'm bringing in some bank through the blog– then I can reconsider}.
So I will do my best to keep talking here. Sometimes I will have fun photos, a new treat to share or pictures of myself being ridiculous in an outfit. And I will give myself grace and tell myself that it's ok to do those things {because I like seeing those posts on other blogs too}. But sometimes I will talk about what's on my heart and remind the world that for lots of people life is pretty ugly. And outside of Jesus and the love that we show to them because of Jesus, it can be suffocatingly hopeless. {This is usually when crickets start chirping here and readers drop like flies, but that's O.K.}


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Earlier today, DPNM Sam Bregman led a conference call with New Mexico Secretary of State Candidate Maggie Toulouse-Oliver and Pratt Wiley, Director of Voter Expansion at the DNC to discuss the Voter Expansion Project and its impact on New Mexico.
The Voter Expansion Project was announced in a video by former President Bill Clinton to DNC supporters.
"As Democrats, we support greater participation and inclusion – this is a Democratic core value. It's not enough to just oppose voting restrictions: we need to aggressively promote one of the most fundamental rights we have in this country—the right to vote." said Sam Bregman, Chairman of the Democratic Party of New Mexico. (DPNM)
He added, "Unfortunately Secretary of State Duran and the Republican Party have adopted a strategy to disenfranchise and intimidate large segments of the voting population, including Native Americans and Latinos throughout New Mexico. That will change come November."
Maggie Toulouse-Oliver, candidate for Secretary of State said, "I believe in ensuring that the right to vote is expanded to everyone, not just members of my own party," said Toulouse Oliver. "The Voter Expansion Project is a huge step forward toward the reality of guaranteeing and protecting the right to vote for every citizen in New Mexico."
The DNC Voter Expansion Project will ensure that the Democratic Party not only protects Americans' right to vote, but that we also work proactively with states across the country to expand voting. The DNC's Voter Expansion Project will ensure that every eligible voter can register, that every registered voter can vote, and that every vote is accurately counted.


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Any lobbyist or employee of a regulated firm cannot serve as a government regulator for 10 years after the last day on which they acted as a lobbyist or an employee of a regulated company.
Any lobbyist or employee of a regulated firm cannot serve as a government regulator for 10 years after the last day on which they acted as a lobbyist or an employee of a regulated company.
I'm sure they're probably using Baofengs like everyone else who likes to freeband.
Packet radio is done every single day on HF on up. With APRS, you can get messages from one coast to the other and back again without any internet or phone connection.
If you DO have an Internet connection, http://www.aprs.fi/ even shows you where all of the beacons, digipeaters, and stations are at a given time, and allows you to see all of the packets that are sent.
I hate to say it, but I told you so. I said it then, and I'll say it now. The moment Obama appointed yet... another... lobbyist to head the FCC, one who spent years as a cable company and telecom lobbyist:
Net... Neutrality... Was DEAD... PERIOD.
Need I remind all of you Obama-lovers of this little tid bit from no other website but ethics.change.gov:
"I am in this race to tell the corporate lobbyists that their days of setting the agenda in Washington are over. I have done more than any other candidate in this race to take on lobbyists â" and won. They have not funded my campaign, they will not run my White House, and they will not drown out the voices of the American people when I am president."
-- Barack Obama, Speech in Des Moines, IA
November 10, 2007
I informed you thusly...
For accessing sequential data, serial interfaces do pretty well. You send an address once, and just keep on clocking out (or in) high speed serial data and the flash controller in the card increments the address automagically.
The problem comes with XIF implementations that are highly random, and change access addresses often. That is not fast on a serial flash where address setups take a long time.
Congress can impeach Supreme Court justices just like they can impeach the President.
MicroSD uses a cheap n-wire serial interface. Embedded FLASH, especially that which is used for XIF, is parallel and much much faster, and more expensive owing to the larger packages with higher numbers of pins for parallel interfaces.
It's being sold direct by the Chinese manufacturer:
Unit B 9/F. Lockhart Centre
301-307 Lockhart Road Wanchai
Hong Kong Central
Hong Kong
Cutting out markups by US retailers can only lower the final consumer price. Units will ship directly from China most likely, and most US consumers will be surprised when they receive bills from the shipper for US Customs clearance. It's unlikely they will be able to get away with checking the "Gift" box on the customs forms for 10 million phones.
Unit B 9/F. Lockhart Centre
301-307 Lockhart Road Wanchai
Hong Kong Central
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I did the same thing. I cut the cord when I bought my first home, since at the time I couldn't afford the $200/month Comcast wanted for Cable, Internet, and Phone (which they all but demanded you bundle by charging twice as much for any one of them without the other two).
I got DSL from a CLEC (because you could still do that at the time) for $25/month, and got Fios internet-only when that came around about 5 years later.
I've moved since then, and I sold my TVs in the process. I don't have a TV in my house, now, and it has been absolutely liberating for the last 3 years.
Human beings are terrible at planning ahead. Just look at the financial condition of just about any modern nation. Knee deep in debt with only plans to spend more money without thinking about how to pay it off. It takes bankruptcy for them to change their ways.
Same goes for renewable energy - yeah there is some token adoption as long as it is heavily subsidized. It will take actual depletion of the current resource to drive full-scale adoption.
IPv4 is just another example of human-driven resource exhaustion with immense resistance to the future plan until the current resource is actually completely exhausted.
If someone who doesn't like me makes an "anonymous" call to 911 to report that I'm running meth lab in my garage, does that also give the cops the right to ransack my house looking for a meth lab?
It's sad that "probable cause" has been diluted to the point that it has.
Hasn't this already been going on with "anonymous" tips from the DEA and DHS leading to traffic stops where "parallel construction" is used to fabricate grounds for probable cause after the fact? I guess this ruling removes the need to do the whole "parallel construction" thing?
"Doubt" and "blind repudiation" are not the same thing, although proponents of AGW Theory believe they are.
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This mod is one of the best mods ever made for Fallout Tactics!
The mod was made by GunnerShi and improved by.
The mod is real time only!
If you play in turn-base you will likely encounter lots of bugs and experience crashing.
Use the Mod Launcher to install!
As Enclave 2 enters its first stages of development we decided to finalize Enclave and give it some much needed attention, there are just too many problems to leave unfixed!
While working on our other projects we've found new ways of modding, mastered sprite creating and collected a vast amount of knowledge, it's time to share it with this project and many others to come!
The Abrams tank seen in Enclave will be getting updated with a new fully animated 32 direction Abrams Tank and turret.
Sprite in game, seen in Enclave 2's concept screenshots:
Don't worry, the Enclave APC will be getting updated too!! :D
A new fully animated 32 direction BTR-80 sprite and turret.
The 1 direction Vertibird will be replaced with a 32 direction animated vertibird. (it will be much darker in game)
Hay guys/girls I found a Tool that helps with lag, encounter rate, even crashing! And many other performance issues that make this old game a pain.
V3.3 is the last version that I'll be releasing, all bugs reported after this will be compiled in a patch so if you find anything please tell me!
Hello everyone. As you may or may not know "Fallout: Last Vegas" is now obsolete, "Project Safehouse" is the successor to this canceled project. Project...
How to get the Enclave mod working early in the demo version of the Mod Manager (v1.0).
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To install (Make a backup of your BOS.exe) then simply replace your "BOS.exe" in your "Fallout Tactics" folder. Fixes the "Sniper" perk and "TagName...
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when is ver 3.3 coming?? this mod looks ****** amazing!!!!!!!!!
This mod is no longer being supported till the release of Enclave V3.3
It's coming, please stand by...
Isn't enclave 3.3 released already (dec 9 2014)? or did you mean to say enclave 2? A release date would be nice, mod looks awesome, been waiting for years now.
He means Enclave 3.4
Final issue, should work after fix, i downloaded properly, but when i launch it from the new mod manager, the manager closes, and it doesn't launch
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I've never been able to really get into tactics, but this looks promising. I love the Enclave.
This is one of the most complex mods I have ever played even for a Fallout game. So many types of weapons, ammo, items and vehicles to choose from.
Was there a walkthrough/game guide for this mod?
There is no walkthrough or guide as of yet.
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Highest Rated (2 agree) 9/10
(Updated the existing review with new info in parentheses.) Pros: This mod is challenging and provides better gameplay than Tactics. This mod adds new weapons and vehicles in addition to adding new locations to the East Coast not seen in Fallout 1 or Fallout 2. If you love the Enclave, then you will definitely love this mod since you are set after the events of Fallout 2 in a war against the NCR and the Brotherhood to establish control of the East Coast once again. Cons: There is a nasty bug that…
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The deadline for ordering prints to be delivered in time for Christmas is Wednesday 12th December. All orders need to be by this date – unfortunately there can be no extensions so head over to my proofing site and place an order via my new online ordering system! =)
The office will be closed from Friday 21st December and will be reopening on Monday 7th January – emails and phone calls will be returned on Monday 7th January (obviously I will deal with phone/email enquires from my four lovely couples who's weddings I am photographing over this time!)
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I photographed Jessi June on April 10, 2012 at her hotel in San Jose, California. Jessi is a full time professional model. I paid her a modest sum for this shoot, which I almost never have to do anymore. Yesterday a model I agreed to do a trade with suggested I begin charging models. I don't want to do that because then I'll have to worry about insurance and other business related issues I don't have to concern myself with when I pursue photography just for fun.
Why did I make an exception and pay Jessi?
Because I wanted very much to meet Jessi to ask her about her fascinating life.
I paid her so I could interview her. She's so busy making money I don't think she would have agreed to simply meet me for an interview, although I didn't ask.
The pictures here are just icing on the cake to make this post more interesting to my readers.
What makes Jessi June interesting to me?
She travels the United States full time, and models in most of the places she stops. Photographers learn of her travel destinations on Model Mayhem, the large and important website for models, photographers, stylists and Adobe Photoshop experts. She supports herself with her modeling earnings, including buying gas for her blue Toyota Tundra. When I found her profile on Model Mayhem, it included the map above that shows her past and future itinerary.
I find Jessi to be inspiring. I want to tour the United States and photograph people in the cities I visit. It might be more difficult for me to accomplish because I am not a sexy 20 year old woman. But I am getting to be a pretty good photographer, and maybe such photographers are difficult for local women to find in the more remote locations I would like to visit.
Even if I don't get to photograph beautiful models on my trip, I will get to photograph others, since I have started blogging rather seriously over on my personal blog. I feel like I can walk up to nearly any interesting person and ask to interview them, now that I've done it several times with good results. I can see myself interviewing and photographing the owner of a gas station or restaurant that catches my eye.
When I drove across the United States in 2002, I asked a woman running a desolate gas station in the middle of nowhere in Nevada what US Route 50 was like, since the Nevada portion of Route 50 is called "The Loneliest Road in America." She said she didn't know because she never traveled and had never been on Route 50.
She was only an hour away from Route 50, and that was the only major road around. She was in her twenties and she must have had an interesting, if perplexing, story, and I wish I had asked her to explain why she was working alone at a deserted filling station with no desire to leave. There was no other business at the exit where her station was located so it really felt like the middle of nowhere. I was driving my MCI bus conversion, so at least I made a big purchase from her.
I am a big fan of the Richard Avedon masterwork book of photographs In The American West. I would like to do a project like that myself, but in my style and with my Canon 5D Mark II, or its successor like the 5D Mark III, which I really want to upgrade to for its superior auto-focus capabilities.
Jessi was very gracious, and told me entertaining stories. I have her permission to write about her online, as well as her permission to publish the photographs that I took of her. Jessi knows a lot about the technology world, so we had things in common to talk about.
The shoot was short, as I only paid for an hour, since my goal was the interview, not the photography. Jessi is talented, as you can see from her portfolio on Model Mayhem that shows her wide range. My pictures here could have been better if we had both been concentrating on the pictures, instead of talking so much. Many of my shots of her I snapped between her sentences. It was an amazing multi-tasking hour. I recommend Jessi June, particularly for inexperienced photographers, as she requires almost no direction to appear photogenic.
Thank you Jessi!
Note: I made a couple of small corrections to this post May 16, 2012 at 9:20pm, at the request of Jessi June. I had spelled her name Jessie June rather than Jessi June, which I had to fix asap, and I did. Sorry Jessi — that's a first for me. I hope that the search engines find the updated version. I also slightly reworded the paragraph that mentions her vehicle, to be more precise, at Jessi's request. For example, I identify her Toyota Tundra where earlier I simply said late model vehicle. I had intended to provide her more anonymity, but she said her fans know what she drives already. Thanks for the suggestions Jessi!