My personal glimpse into the first half of the 21st Century for some yet to be known future
Sunday, January 18, 2015
Saturday, January 17, 2015
Accosted
My wife and I are at the grocery store. She just walked up to the ginger inbetween two older gentlemen looking for various other vegetables and things. One gentlemen almost immediately asks here for advice on how to pick good ginger. I can only presume he felt comfortable/secure in asking her because she is Chinese American. He thanked her and moved on with his fine pick of ginger.
Then immediately, the other gentlemen engaged her in a conversation about her heritage, Chinese language, etc. I didn't interfere because it was more adorable than anything.
We finally broke away with our fine pick of ginger.
Then immediately, the other gentlemen engaged her in a conversation about her heritage, Chinese language, etc. I didn't interfere because it was more adorable than anything.
We finally broke away with our fine pick of ginger.
Labels:
Allie,
Infamous Story,
My Life
Location:
Hudson, United States
Friday, January 16, 2015
It finally happened
Its Trouble blog is 13 years old. It had one major facelift in 2002, just before Blogger.com's buyout by Google (2003). Its Trouble has had a subtle renaming; I had to remove the apostrophe in "It's" because it was bad for linking. As a result, the name looks fine, but has a drastic typo that should bug me more than it really does.
The 2002 facelift for Its Trouble was created by Jennifer Szabo, who has since renounced all things webdesign. The design of pretty cool for its time. It was certainly unique, with the curled parchment theme. I had my website loaded up with services, custom pages, and moderately useful functionality. Everything worked nicely. However, as time went on, stuff stopped working as old services went away and external websites died off. For example, there are a lot of really good comments on my early posts which are lost due to the original comment service going away. I was not able to maintain the overall website because Google shutdown FTP access for blogspot accounts, only allowing me to edit my home page. As a result, I have several dead pages which I will never be able to change or remove. Images, services, and weblinks stopped working on these pages many years ago. Its Trouble has been on a slow decline in terms of presentation, all the while having new content with 1000+ posts.
Well, I finally bit the bullet. I embraced the new Blogger.com stuff and updated my website with the biggest facelift in over a decade. The problem with Blogger.com is that everything is canned. You have only so many layout styles, and only so many templates, and only so many useful widgets. It is way more limited than Wordpress.
Even still, the new design is cleaner. There's noting broken. Its functionality is limited to the bare basics allowed by Blogger.com. I was able to keep a similar color scheme and background image as before. It's not half bad. I'm fairly happy with the result, if not a little disappointed that I cannot do much more.
Use in good health!
Well, I finally bit the bullet. I embraced the new Blogger.com stuff and updated my website with the biggest facelift in over a decade. The problem with Blogger.com is that everything is canned. You have only so many layout styles, and only so many templates, and only so many useful widgets. It is way more limited than Wordpress.
Even still, the new design is cleaner. There's noting broken. Its functionality is limited to the bare basics allowed by Blogger.com. I was able to keep a similar color scheme and background image as before. It's not half bad. I'm fairly happy with the result, if not a little disappointed that I cannot do much more.
Use in good health!
Sunday, January 11, 2015
Thursday, January 08, 2015
Monday, December 22, 2014
Friday, December 19, 2014
Awesome hall of shame devices - Interesting link
There's a cool article with ten hall of shame automotive devices that are/were supposed to do something or another to improve your vehicle's gas mileage, performance, and even ectoplasm removal (because I guess ghosts are slowing your car down؟). Popular Mechanic Gas Saving Gadgets (backup link) covers it all. My favorite is the magnets used to "straighten" fuel molecules to improve ignition efficiency. (If anything, the magnets would add more weight to your car, thus reducing fuel efficiency).
Wednesday, December 17, 2014
Oh, the irony.
A sign posted on the glass that demands that no signs be posted on the glass.
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Tuesday, December 16, 2014
Monday, December 15, 2014
Apparently, the term "high speed" in "High speed Internet" has lost all meaning at hotels.
Apparently, the term "high speed" in "High speed Internet" has lost all meaning at hotels.
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Sunday, December 14, 2014
Thursday, December 11, 2014
Saturday, December 06, 2014
"To good to be true" - Criticism of scientific studies grows
It is almost ironic, the other day I posted this article Reason Why I'm Skeptical of Skepticism which criticized over reliance on many study conclusions without actual supporting or valid data within the studies. Now, just a few days later, there is a new published "study of studies" which reinforces the idea of being skeptical of scientific study conclusions, Excess Success for Psychology Articles in the Journal Science. This study exposes that many studies in Psychology have issues, where the declared conclusions are simply "to good to be true" based on the strength of the data. The inference being that there may be a general problem with all fields of science.
I have a feeling a growing criticism of the current system is going to force changes into the process of study publishing and utilization.
"Not every experiment is methodologically sound, and some experiments (even if methodologically sound) do not clarify the status of a theoretical idea. There is little reason to publish such experimental results, whether they are statistically significant or not. Unfortunately, in day-to-day scientific practice it is quite easy to interpret an unsuccessful outcome as being irrelevant to the theory or as being methodologically flawed and therefore not worth reporting."In other words, data is cherry-picked in support of the theory rather than attempting to take contrary results into account. This is basically throwing out the Scientific Method when it doesn't result in data this supports a theory. In other cases, data collection is just too imprecise to form a suitable theory. Kind of like garage-in-garbage-out.
I have a feeling a growing criticism of the current system is going to force changes into the process of study publishing and utilization.
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