My Google Reader’s unread items has been at the 1000+ mark now for months. I just don’t have time to click through each item. The thought of scrolling through 1000+ items is daunting, and has led me to ignore my Google Reader altogether.
I’ve thought about it a lot, and have come to the conclusion that I would get more from my feeds if they came in through my Twitter timeline. There would be no pressure to go through ‘unread’ items, just as I have no intention of reading every single tweet that goes through my timeline.
Zoe and I have been watching Deep Space Nine lately, after someone told us “it gets better in the later seasons”. While we have mixed feelings about the show so far, we keep watching it.
What we don’t like about Deep Space Nine
The number one pet peeve about Deep Space Nine that we have is that all aliens, even during “first contact”, speak English! This just does not make sense. I can accept the all aliens look mostly like humans, except with unique facial features, and that all aliens are at the same level of technological advance, but c’mon people. Not even all Earthlings speak English.
The number two pet peeve is the intro sequence. It is about four minutes too long, and SO boring!
What we like about Deep Space Nine
Star Trek is filled with all kinds of issues of racism, er, specism, especially Deep Space Nine, which sparks a lot of ethical discussion. The Ferengi and the Humans don’t get along very well, especially since it is common and expected among the Ferengi to stab one another in the back for the smallest amount of profit.
How can you treat someone equal when they will not think twice about throwing you out the airlock for a penny?
The most interesting thing about Deep Space Nine is that the show gradually begins to explore different races, or factions, among a species. The idea that an entire planet believes the same thing and follows one leader isn’t very believable.
DS9 starts to explore civil wars on Bajor, after an occupation by the ancient-Roman-like Cardassians. After ousting the evil Cardassians, the Bajorans turn to fighting amongst each other over power over the people.
What do you think? We know that racism is bad - does that extend to alien species, like the Ferengi?
Zoe’s Mom found her parents’ old slide projector, with thousands of slides. There are pictures of weddings in the 60’s, 70’s and 80’s, pictures of missions trips in Africa, and lots of old family photos.
She dusted it off and began scanning the slides into the computer. When the old laptop started to buckle under the weight of 1000’s of scans, she called us. We set her up with an FTP account so that she can upload the photos to our server, and Zoe began searching for a script to allow easy browsing of the online photos.
Yes, it is time again for some more maths. In this Venn Diagram, the green represents places where the grass is green, and the pink represents places where the girls are pretty. Where they intersect we find Paradise City (oh won’t you please take me home, yeaaeaaah).
I dare you not to have this song in your head now.
Here’s the video in case you don’t know the song, or because of me you really want to hear it now. Or, if you are saying right now, “Oh I wanna go, I wanna go, oh won’t you please take me home”.
Hello all, I’m here today to talk to you about Maths. And Google Code. I’ve been playing around with Google Code, and have found that it allows me to create charts, as many charts in as many forms as I want. Oh, Google Google Google Google Google. Oh, we are going to have some FUN!
I now present you with a pie chart of my favourite bars, and a bar graph of my favourite pies.
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