AirJair's Radio Weblog

Sat, 10 Dec 2005 07:21:22 GMT

This guy Theo Jansen does moving sculptures based on computer models. The programs create "creatures" through evolutions. You gotta check the video.

Tue, 22 Nov 2005 12:58:09 GMT

I believe that every human has a finite number of heart-beats. I don't intend to waste any of mine running around doing exercises. Neil Armstrong

Thu, 17 Nov 2005 18:58:20 GMT

John Wooden "You cannot live a perfect day without doing something for someone who will never be able to repay you." Dan Zadra "Worry is a misuse of imagination." Virgin to use biofuels?

Tue, 15 Nov 2005 14:45:26 GMT

Sacha Guitry "You can pretend to be serious; you can't pretend to be witty."

Tue, 25 Oct 2005 12:06:44 GMT

This was too cool not to blog. The 2005 hurricane season. From Nasa. Sped up. Fascinating.

Thu, 20 Oct 2005 04:23:06 GMT

It's all about the economy. An excellent analysis of the Presidential economic strategies of Bush and Clinton. Of note: 1. Clinton relied on the tech boom to keep the economy going. The wheels were coming off when it was handed to Bush. 2. Gore would have probably gone with new energy technology, as the next tech boom subsistute. 3. Bush went with real estate. The solution to that was typically Bush. They played a game of chicken. They made a bet that the major exporting economies of the far east would simply lend the US the money, even knowing that it would most likely be repaid at cents on the dollar. They were correct; Japan, South Korea and China ponied up and bought enough dollars to keep the US dollar from collapsing. All three are export driven mercantilist economies, and China in particular, using the mercantilist route to industrialize, was willing to pay the price later for the jobs, technology transfer and production facility transfer now. The next problem to be solved was the commodity problem. Commodity prices had spent thirty years declining, but that downward trend had swung to the upside, led by oil and the energy sector in general. Oil drives inflation, because it can't be easily substituted away from. In 2001 the Bush administration looked at the world and what they saw was that the only oil that could be easily brought into the market was Iraqi oil. Iraq had become the world's swing producer - or it would be, if all that oil could actually be gotten onto the market. There were two ways to do this, remove the sanctions, or invade. The Bush administration didn't trust Saddam with all the money which removing sanctions would give him. So they found an excuse to invade. How the economy worked at the agonist. And how it works now: part 2

Tue, 18 Oct 2005 14:09:28 GMT

World break dancing competition. Wow.

Mon, 17 Oct 2005 01:46:04 GMT

This site is really cool. People ask questions, and it's amazing how informative the answers are.

Mon, 17 Oct 2005 01:35:07 GMT

I've joined the Getting things done GTD cult. Basically it's approaching time management as an engineering problem. The 43 folders system is great. Dave Allen's book (Getting things done) made me realize, not only that I had a bad system in place. I had NO system. Here is a very interesting NYT article called "Meet the Life hackers" (follow the link from Boing boing)

Wed, 12 Oct 2005 07:52:59 GMT

The Shining.remixed as a comedy.

Fri, 07 Oct 2005 15:06:52 GMT

A must see Jon on Letterman