Have a Happy Thanksgiving, everyone!

I'm looking forward to Thanksgiving and -- in theory, at least -- not being at work.

In practice, I'm looking at this merge which is up to 39% complete after running for nearly 24 hours and thinking I may end up pushing a key on it sometime before I head down to Chambanacon.

We'll see.

OK, so you're probably already sick of seeing this stuff here, right? So, maybe it's just ME that feels the full reality of my only having been doing this a WEEK at this point.

The reason I ask is that I just had the coordinator of the section of ChicagoNow where The Job Stalker appears jump down my throat about a whole raft of things, most of which I felt were totally unjustified, especially given that I've only been writing this for a week! This morning I got an e-mail in which I was being berated for not having done assorted concepts that I discussed in the interview, being too "conversational", and, essentially, not offering expert advice. From my perspective, I've just gotten this started (oh, and look, a holiday weekend), and have only been "laying the groundwork" for the tone, focus, and direction of the blog. There were various things that I thought I needed to "discuss" up front as to where I was coming from, but that seems to have made it sound "too much like a personal blog". I pointed out that I was not an "expert" (if I were, I'd be in an HR department or have a head-hunting business!), but somebody that's been very focused on the process of finding a job, and has been unlucky enough to have had a lot of practice in that process. I also have planned a "link feature" for every Friday, but there's just been one Friday so far, and the feature slid into Saturday last week, and ended up going into the blog today (essentially this being "Friday") for this week.

I'm sort of freaking out about this, as I thought I was doing a swell job so far getting this moving in the direction that I had envisioned and I'm very worried that this gal may give me the boot ... and I really busted my butt to get into that position!

Have any of you guys actually been reading that over there? If so, could you give me feedback as far as what I've posted so far? As I said, I was shocked to have gotten a barrage of criticism just one week in, especially considering how much time and effort I've been throwing at this!

thinking of the beauty of earlier versions of language suggests that when a country is strong and young, it takes pride in its language - and decadence goes along with sloppiness.

- in http://writerspleasure.livejournal.com/763334.html

one: over last month or two, been considering application of pareto-optimal analysis to diplomacy: stable international relations in metternichean paradigm (council of europe style arrangement) as parallel to economic pareto-optimality. today, walking down into town, realized pareto optimality applied to national political-economic system in centrist political system could be basically identical to rawlsian optimality - got there by considering kelz' posting of feministing re a. lambert - side article was "am i really a lesbian?" - got me thinking about social categories - walking past st kilda's girl's school with chi, i had imaginary dialogue with leftist critic - said, "well, i choose to regard everyone as an individual - [not an idolated atom, but as] an instantiation of the buddha-spark [- perfectly equal in their own being and not a member of a social category except quasi-accidentally - race/gender/class are things that happen, in a sense, to said spark. see ideas of maya, lila, atman/brahman.]" that equal-spark idea/image made me think of how rawls' goal of the equipotential society [note while writing this: relate to driesch someday - driesch's morphological work as socially applicable too - his "harmonious equipotential" picture of morphogenesis, with its balanced interplay of "prospective potency" and "potential fate" - is a good picture of a free society and its opportunities. i've always sensed the driesch's picture was extendable beyond morphogenesis and had philosophical import. end note while writing this] ... equipotential society always makes me think of a kind of very equal silvery light. as does the buddha spark idea. and the rawlsian light made me think suddenly of the pareto optimality. this might be able to be worked into a significant vision of the free society - note how it brings in aristotelian teleology, without mysticism, and how that would relate to self-realization (we realize our prospective potencies and fates - and we're surrounded by interinfluencing systems of prospective potencies and fates - and it is with and against and for those systems we realize our own p.p.'s and p.f.'s.)

two: before leaving for walk to town, musing on kelz' link, thought of person's dilemma re. "am i really a lesbian?" - realized, given the continuum theory of bisexual response, that this is a boundary problem as in math - that then cohered with my two theories of inborn social archetypes and ev-psych-vectorial social space - and i got a new thought that a lot of the concepts/archetypes we carry around are produced by ripping them from their dynamics (that we are often moving toward and away from archetypes and their energies) and their vectoriality. this produces "the lesbian" or "the leftist" or whatever type static concept that we're so in reaction against today (yet almost irr4esistibly use). further elaboration now: in this view, we are not = or != x, but moving toward or away from x in an n-dimensional social hilbert space - and at that, only vectorially! that is, X is but one vector-axis of our movements. a lot of questions of identity that take the form of "am i X?" - where X is taken to be a static entity - can better, more self-caringly - and more accurately! - be expressed as a vectorial direction in social space.

my creativity seems to be ramping up - prefatory to starting serious work on beth book, beyond fragmentation, and others.

FIRE is deeply concerned about new policies at University of Minnesota-Twin Cities proposed by the College of Education and Human Development. According to documents published by the college (see http://blog.lib.umn.edu/cehd/teri), it intends to mandate certain beliefs and values-"dispositions"-for future teachers. The college also intends to redesign its admissions process so that it screens out people with the "wrong" beliefs and values-those who either do not have sufficient "cultural competence" or those who the college judges will not be able to be converted to the "correct" beliefs and values even after remedial re-education. These intentions violate the freedom of conscience of the university's students. As a public university bound by the First Amendment to the United States Constitution, the university is both legally and morally obligated to uphold this fundamental right.

- http://www.thefire.org/index.php/article/11321.html

x posted to libertarianism and therightfangirl communities as it seems i've been banned from posting on talk politics having pissed off the moderator for not giving more vehnom or such extreme, wordy opinions before posting an article. i messaged him something along the lines that the world's english teachers, conflict resolution mediators and libel attorneys would like to note when 'like, admire' and such words were not considered opinions?@%!^ geesh... meanwhile, there are fewer people i could tolerate being around on a holiday - Obama and my immediate relatives i could neither tolerate...
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So it seems the campaigning continues. Note who paid for this message below. It actually wasn't too bad until I got to the February statement and the whole changing the world BS.

sigh... at least w/ the lesser of the evils (Bush) we knew he was genuinely sincere. This guy, propaganda all the way and no clue. I don't even think he'll have a dog-cam for the holiday section of the website. As a coat pin a sane dem friend of mine gave me, "I never thought I'd miss NIXON!"
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"President Barack Obama" <info@barackobama.com>
Absender in den Kontakten speichern
An:

(Name here) --

Tomorrow, Thanksgiving Day, Americans across the country will sit down together, count our blessings, and give thanks for our families and our loved ones.

American families reflect the diversity of this great nation. No two are exactly alike, but there is a common thread they each share.

Our families are bound together through times of joy and times of grief. They shape us, support us, instill the values that guide us as individuals, and make possible all that we achieve.

So tomorrow, I'll be giving thanks for my family -- for all the wisdom, support, and love they have brought into my life.

But tomorrow is also a day to remember those who cannot sit down to break bread with those they love.

The soldier overseas holding down a lonely post and missing his kids. The sailor who left her home to serve a higher calling. The folks who must spend tomorrow apart from their families to work a second job, so they can keep food on the table or send a child to school.

We are grateful beyond words for the service and hard work of so many Americans who make our country great through their sacrifice. And this year, we know that far too many face a daily struggle that puts the comfort and security we all deserve painfully out of reach.

So when we gather tomorrow, let us also use the occasion to renew our commitment to building a more peaceful and prosperous future that every American family can enjoy.

It seems like a lifetime ago that a crowd met on a frigid February morning in Springfield, Illinois to set out on an improbable course to change our nation.

In the years since, Michelle and I have been blessed with the support and friendship of the millions of Americans who have come together to form this ongoing movement for change.

You have been there through victories and setbacks. You have given of yourselves beyond measure. You have enabled all that we have accomplished -- and you have had the courage to dream yet bigger dreams for what we can still achieve.

So in this season of thanks giving, I want to take a moment to express my gratitude to you, and my anticipation of the brighter future we are creating together.

With warmest wishes for a happy holiday season from my family to yours,

President Barack Obama




Paid for by Organizing for America, a project of the Democratic National Committee -- 430 South Capitol Street SE, Washington, D.C. 20003. This communication is not authorized by any candidate or candidate's committee.

This email was sent to:

So it seems the campaigning continues. Note who paid for this message below. It actually wasn't too bad until I got to the troops part (what happened to ending wars from the campaign such dufas?) and February statement w/ the whole changing the world (positive inference) BS.

sigh... at least w/ the lesser of the evils (Bush) we knew he was genuinely sincere. goofy and stupid, sure but his heart was in it. This guy, propaganda all the way and no clue. I don't even think he'll have a dog-cam for the holiday section of the website. As a coat pin a sane dem friend of mine gave me, "I never thought I'd miss NIXON!"
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"President Barack Obama" <info@barackobama.com>
Absender in den Kontakten speichern
An:

(Name here) --

Tomorrow, Thanksgiving Day, Americans across the country will sit down together, count our blessings, and give thanks for our families and our loved ones.

American families reflect the diversity of this great nation. No two are exactly alike, but there is a common thread they each share.

Our families are bound together through times of joy and times of grief. They shape us, support us, instill the values that guide us as individuals, and make possible all that we achieve.

So tomorrow, I'll be giving thanks for my family -- for all the wisdom, support, and love they have brought into my life.

But tomorrow is also a day to remember those who cannot sit down to break bread with those they love.

The soldier overseas holding down a lonely post and missing his kids. The sailor who left her home to serve a higher calling. The folks who must spend tomorrow apart from their families to work a second job, so they can keep food on the table or send a child to school.

We are grateful beyond words for the service and hard work of so many Americans who make our country great through their sacrifice. And this year, we know that far too many face a daily struggle that puts the comfort and security we all deserve painfully out of reach.

So when we gather tomorrow, let us also use the occasion to renew our commitment to building a more peaceful and prosperous future that every American family can enjoy.

It seems like a lifetime ago that a crowd met on a frigid February morning in Springfield, Illinois to set out on an improbable course to change our nation.

In the years since, Michelle and I have been blessed with the support and friendship of the millions of Americans who have come together to form this ongoing movement for change.

You have been there through victories and setbacks. You have given of yourselves beyond measure. You have enabled all that we have accomplished -- and you have had the courage to dream yet bigger dreams for what we can still achieve.

So in this season of thanks giving, I want to take a moment to express my gratitude to you, and my anticipation of the brighter future we are creating together.

With warmest wishes for a happy holiday season from my family to yours,

President Barack Obama




Paid for by Organizing for America, a project of the Democratic National Committee -- 430 South Capitol Street SE, Washington, D.C. 20003. This communication is not authorized by any candidate or candidate's committee.

This email was sent to:

From now until December first, I am offering 20% off, storewide. No coupons, not codes, just order and enjoy the savings! I have over 80 new items listed this week (whew, I've been busy!) so come take a look around. :-)





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Happy Holidays!

570,000 pager messages from 9/11 released - Activist group is publishing texts, many of them from government officials

main site: http://911.wikileaks.org/
index, in 5 min segments: http://911.wikileaks.org/files/index.html

c/o http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/34149853/ns/us_news-security/

[ edit: i'm dubious of the following on the pages linked above: "The archive is a completely objective record of the defining moment of our time. We hope that its entrance into the historical record will lead to a nuanced understanding of how this event led to death, opportunism and war." my emphases there. ]

You are losing me, Mr. President

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ClimateGate Totally Ignored By TV News Outlets Except Fox

"Despite last Friday morning's bombshell that hacked e-mail messages from a British university suggested a conspiracy by some of the world's leading global warming alarmists -- many with direct ties to the United Nations' Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change -- to manipulate temperature data, ABC, CBS, CNN, MSNBC, and NBC through Monday evening have completely ignored the subject.
LexisNexis searches indicate that NPR appears to also be part of this news boycott."









Bozell Column: When the Press Favors Secrecy
"Here’s a dirty little secret about The New York Times. It likes to leak things. Important things. Things that change the course of the public conversation. From the Pentagon Papers to the ruined terrorist-surveillance programs of the Bush era, the Times has routinely found that secrecy is a danger and sunlight is a disinfectant.
Until now."

"Unlike our secret terror-fighting efforts, there is no grave matter of national security to protect here. There is only a danger of shredding the undeserved reputation of some global-warming alarmists as nonpartisan, nonideological, just-the-facts scientists with no preconceived environmentalist or statist agenda.
The networks also have ignored this emerging scandal with all the ignorance they could muster. But in the seven days after the New York Times revealed the existence of an NSA program to monitor communications to terrorist cells abroad, the three networks ran a combined 23 stories about the program, more than one story, per network, per night."

"When conservatives are wrong, conservatives are wrong. When liberals are wrong, everyone does it, don’t you know?
It’s also important to note that these folks play a rough game of hardball. This isn’t about science. It’s politics – the brass-knuckles sort. In another e-mail from Jones to Mann [...] 'I can't see either of these papers being in the next IPCC report,' Jones writes. 'Kevin and I will keep them out somehow -- even if we have to redefine what the peer-review literature is!'
In another, Jones and Mann discuss how they can pressure an academic journal to reject the work of climate skeptics, perhaps with a boycott:"

[I don't care about their use of the word "trick." Stop letting Liberals distract us from the real issue! What I care about is deleting data before it can be exposed to the public and silencing all skeptics only because they are skeptics. Everyone should care about that!]

"This kind of censor-your-opponents activity ought to disgust a journalist who values openness and rigorous debate above all. Every day the networks avoid this story, they’re saying they don’t really care about either of those values."

The same applies to all Liberals who know of this. I will ask again. When their ideology depends on a constant stream of lies, not a difference of opinion, but on lies and destruction of opposing views, what does that say of their ideology, or of them?

"All men having power ought to be distrusted to a certain degree." --James Madison

quicknews wishes you all a very happy Thanksgiving and many blessings to be thankful for.

Navy SEALs Face Assault Charges for Capturing Most-Wanted Terrorist

Grand Jury Indicts 4 Men for Alleged Plot to Support Hezbollah

Poll: Obama's Performance Rating Hits Lowest Mark Yet

Iran Begins Large-Scale War Games


Editorial Cartoon

Commentary: The End of HSAs; Harry Reid wants to kill consumer-driven health care.

Sodom in the nation's capital

Major Hasan and Holy War; A domestic Islamic threat is real, and the FBI is unprepared to fight it.

No Bondholder Left Behind; The Dodd-Frank bills for unlimited bailout authority.

The End of Bolivian Democracy Elections scheduled for December 6 will mark the official end of the Bolivian democracy.

Cyclones and Global Warming; A survivor in India says carbon cuts won't help.

"It is a happy circumstance in human affairs that evils which are not cured in one way will cure themselves in some other." --Thomas Jefferson, letter to John Sinclair, 1791

RULES OF TELEVISION DRAMAS!

1. SERIAL KILLERS EXIST, OH MY GOSH WHAT THE FUCK BAR BAH KEYOOO.

2. They have a CHEMICAL GENETIC BRAIN TENDENCY to KILLING PRETTY WHITE PEOPLE in CREATIVE MANNERS.

3. Pretty white people have a CHEMICAL GENETIC BRAIN TENDENCY to act as though screaming and flailing are more adequate defensive mechanisms than guns.*

4. CAPSLOCK OF SHOCK AND GORE! DSM IV quoting! Rape! Murder! Gross-out! Shock! Voyeurism!

*This is why humanity originated in Africa. We know this because our shows are backed by SCIENTIFICALLY-PROVEN SCIENCE!

email from one of the big sound restorers out there: Aaron Z. Snyder's award-winning restoration of Nikisch Beethoven 5th Symphony with the Berlin Philharmonic - Mr. Snyder (MIT) developed an unique method to enhance the latent bass in the acoustic recording recorded in 1913.

- http://www.filefactory.com/file/156d5a/

[ nikisch is one of the legendary conductors - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur_Nikisch ]

i rejoiced in reading that those experiments of lightning-strikes-in-water-and-primitive-atmosphere produced biological precursors. maybe if we add gamma rays - since the small arc discharges in the experiments wouldn't do the trick - we'll go further.

[ the gamma-ray factor] could be argued as a possible part of the mechanism for biogenesis. perhaps we'll have to add "capable of gamma-ray lightning" to our qualifications for planets capable of supporting life. i remember heisenberg being an early proponent of the role of radiation in mutation.

- http://writerspleasure.livejournal.com/764703.html

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jeff_duntemann and Carol arrived in town this afternoon and joined us for dinner. Katie and Julie were delighted to see them.

Jeff and Carol survived despite this.

This has been one of those "amazing collapsing days" where things I've gotten done have taken WAY more time than I'd anticipated, and the stuff that I meant to get to (I still have a project sitting here which I'd planned on getting to at 9am!) has been sliding further into "later". Good thing that I run on a 24/7 time sheet!

This is (obviously, from the graphic over there ===>) is another post about there being another post up on The Job Stalker blog ... I was wondering if I was going to get that written, but it was one of those "I can't stand to slog into that project, so I guess I'll do this now" feints my brain made this afternoon. If you click through there you'll get info on my activities last night, and stuff about networking in general.

Needless to say, I'm still "feeling my way through" here on how to share the ChicagoNow stuff in LiveJournal, but since the content there is only a click away, I don't see any good reason to double-post the same material. If you want to know about that stuff ... hey, you've got a mouse in your hand! This does, however, lead these posts into something of a "meta" zone of blogging about blogging about the job search, and I'm trying to figure out how to best frame these in a way that's not going to be too horribly boring for you to read!

I also had a brief "panic moment" that I might have slipped up on the NaBloPoMo thing (were I not to have posted there, and then posted about that posting here), but my brief earlier post about my new Lulu book filled the "post a day" requirement, if in the most minimal way.

Anyway, there's plenty of stuff to clicky-clicky on, so have at it ...

• 20:46 @tlingenf that sucks man! Hope it wasn't too bad. #
• 10:17 @themightyemu Why are you talking about Tina that way? #

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