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I've actually been wanting to take a stab at teaching piano, so I could practice on you, even if remotely.
The best teacher I ever had was Angela Bonilla of Vancouver, British Columbia. She is from Colombia, and has a master's in concert piano from the conservatory in versailles, france so she is no slouch.
Most piano teachers have very set methods. For example one teacher I had was very fixated on how I should learn certain specific songs from certain specific lesson books. Those books are admittedly good books, but there are certain songs that I could just never learn how to play, which frustrated both of us.
But Angela would observe what specific problems I had, then on the spot would come up with very simple exercises that, when I practiced them, would solve those specific problems.
Each time I tried to learn a new song she would observe new problems, then develop new exercises.
That is how I would teach you. It is very uncommon for teachers of any sort to do something like that.
But yes, muscle memory is how one learns many things. I understand that it is actually straightforward to learn how to shred on a guitar, it just takes a lot of time and patience.
My piano compositions. All creative commons and the sheet music to two of them. It would be very easy for you to play "Emergence". "Recursion" is easier than it looks.
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I don't recall the car make or model. It belonged to a friend of mine so I can ask him if you really want to know.
The controls for the radio were mounted on the steering column, in which a way that he could hold the wheel securely, and steer with both hands, while adjusting the radio.
The best music player UI I've ever personally seen was in my first-gen iPad. Too bad I sold it when I was broke and hungry. Someday I will buy a new iPad, but if apple has "improved" it then surely I will hurl my new iPad off the golden gate bridge.
The very worst UI for a music player I've ever seen was in my iPhone 4, when held in landscape mode. When held in Portrait mode it was a good UI design for the Portrait mode of such a small screen. But when rotated to landscape, rather than laying out the familiar, helpful UI in a broader, shorter way, it changed entirely to something that made no sense to me.
What absolutely drove me berserk was that most of Apple's own Apps would not permit Landscape text entry. I'm a big guy. I have big fingers, and I'm old so I don't see so well. Using the on-screen keyboard on an iPhone in portrait mode makes me want to hurl it into the sea as well.
Some of my best friends are Jewish.
Actually it was Kuro5hin's LilDebbie who started doing it over there. I picked it up from him.
The Jewish faith holds that it is disrespectful to ever destroy a document that has the word "God" written on it, if it is spelled correctly. The explanation I read pointed out that the attics of very old synagogues held used collection of worn-out Torah, because they spell the word correctly and so would be disrespectful to destroy.
My understanding is that it is not considered blasphemy to do so, only disrespectful.
Among Jewish people it is customary to write "G-d" unless one can be reasonably sure that the resulting document will never be destroyed.
While I no longer believe, I was raised as a Presbyterian. Religion at one time was a big part of my life. I'm not sure I follow the arguments of those who regard religion as evil incarnate because the belief in supernatural beings is unrealistic or unscientific.
Consider that these days, it is very uncommon for most Americans to ever speak to their neighbors.
But among religious people, we get to know the others in our church. I am often advised by those who don't even believe, to attend church anyway as it's a good way to meet women who want to get married and have children, as I want to.
The best dye for that is Titanium White - Titanium Dioxide. However it is rather expensive; Zinc Oxide is good, not as good as Titanium Dioxide, but far cheaper.
If we all painted our roofs white, I expect it would have a measurable effect.
This doesn't happen to other users as far as I can tell. It has only recently started happening to me.
If I separate two paragraphs with a blank line then press the Submit button, until recently the blank line would result in separate paragraphs above and below the blank line.
But more recently all of my comments post as just one giant paragraph, which makes them hard to read.
For example this particular comment should have five separate paragraphs but I expect it will post as just one.
I don't see any option for it in my user options. Could it be because I cannot be bothered to update Firefox? That's because I grew weary of Mozilla.org pushing out frequent new versions without fixing any bugs that actually affected me.
My point had nothing to do with the chemical formula of the primer.
Lead styphnate is admittedly more stable than fulminate of mercury, but it is bound within a potential well within which it does not detonate.
However every particle's wavefunction extends throughout the Universe, other than in regions whose potential is higher than the potential energy of the particle itself.
While the amplitude of that wavefunction is very low in the portions of space that would lead to spontaneous detonation, it is still non-zero.
working out of my home as a consultant gets pretty lonely, so I like to ride the bus and train so I can meet new friends.
But I recently started to be dismayed at how many people stare glued to their phones during their public transit rides. Typically it is half the passengers.
Wouldn't we be better off if we spoke to our neighors?
Just now I walked pass a kiosk in an electronics shop that had a screen with the text "Use Skype while watching your favorite movie".
I regard using Skype while watching my favorite movie as the problem, not the solution. If one is to watch a movie, especially one's favorite, one lives a more fulfilling life if one gives it one's full attention.
Similarly, if one uses Skype, both ends of the dialog get more out of it if both parties are not at the same time distracted by a movie.
Read a book lately? I was a voracious reader when I was a kid, but these days it's everything I can do to read the damn newspaper. Books are out of the question.
human nature, for example.
I don't believe in G-d, but I own a bible and read it from time to time. It helps me to understand other people. G-d has nothing to do with that.
... fertilization.
I think it was the NYT that discussed this a week or two ago. A woman who carried a gene for a cruel genetic disease wanted to have children, but not to pass on the disease. So she opted for In Vitro Fertilization, with the fertilized zygotes being genetically tested. She has had I think two or three children from zygotes that tested negative.
If everyone who carries her disease gene does this, than a rare but terrible scourge could be eliminated from the earth. Her father, for example, is doomed to die young and is already suffering.
However I myself have Bipolar-Type Schizoaffective Disorder. It is as yet unclear whether that is a unique disease or the, uh, "lucky" combination of Manic Depression and Schizophrenia.
The cause of Schizophrenia is as yet unclear but is thought to be due to infectious disease of the brain. It may have other causes, as it is likely to be more than one disease, each of which causes the psychotic symptoms of delusions and hallucinations.
Manic Depression is quite clearly genetic, due to studies in which twins were adopted out to different parents at birth. There is a strong correlation between whether one twin is Bipolar, and whether the other is. That can't be due to environmental factors, or how one is raised.
Manic depression is arguably a horrible disease. I myself have attempted suicide in a serious way a number of times, the last time in 2010 when I wrapped my car around a concrete highway overpass post at a hundred miles per hour. But dammit I forgot to unbuckle my seatbelt. It was a sudden decision, the end it all, you see.
However Manic Depressives are well-documented to be uncommonly creative. Besides coding, I have a BA in Physics, while I did not complete my doctorate I stymied my fellow students, even the faculty, with my insight into the nature of reality when was in grad school. I draw, paint, sculpt, compose for and play the piano, sing and play drums. I invent all manner of things. I could have lots of patents if I could be bothered to ever file for them.
Kay Redfield Jamison is a noted authority on manic depression, and a Johns Hopkins University psychology professor. She speculates that Manic Depression has persisted through evolution despite its obvious disadvantages because "it brings new ideas into the social consciousness". Hollowell and Ratey propose a similar theory for why Attention Deficit Disorder has persisted through evolution as well. Their theory is that people with ADHD are able to connect otherwise unrelated ideas in a way that the brains of normal people would be incapable of, thereby synthesizing novel ideas.
For example despite being bent on suicide the whole time I worked at Medior, I invented then implemented a novel lossless bitmapped graphics compression algorithm and format, that enabled the company to stuff more assets on its multimedia CD-ROMs.
Now suppose you chose In Vitro Fertilization because you or your mate had spent your whole lives contemplating suicide. You have a choice of a normal zygote, or one that will quite obviously bear a child who will be Bipolar as an adult.
Which one do you choose?
Were manic depression eliminated from the species, what would our society be like a thousand years from now? Jamison's new ideas wouldn't be getting contributed to the social consciousness nearly as much anymore.
It has a great deal of wisdom about human nature. That it is unscientific in origin doesn't make it false, or like your stopped clock analogy, only coincidentally true.
The "$" subject terminator is a Kuro5hin-ism for "Subject-Only Comment". However, Slash does not permit those, so I'm supplying this comment body so Slash stops complaining.
In the Summer of 1979, when I was fifteen, I was in the Youth Conservation Corps at Yerba Buena Island, the small island in the middle of San Francisco Bay that has a tunnel through which passes the Oakland Bay Bridge. We mostly cut firebreaks but we also built a nature trail.
We stayed in an old firehouse that was right next to the Coast Guard Base, and dined in the Coast Guard enlisted men's mess.
During that Summer the Coast Guard made a huge bust of a ship bringing marijuna in from Mexico, in between the hulls of a double-hulled ship. That must have been an intelligence operation, to know which ship to search.
Shortly after the bust, my friends in the YCC reported that they were readily able to score pot from the Coast Guard men.
We all know that fusion happens in the core of the Sun because it is so hot and has such high pressure.
Actually it's not hot enough, and the pressure is not high enough to initiate fusion.
We get fusion anyway due to quantum tunneling. That is, particles can escape a potential well if there is a finite distance to another place of low potential. Imagine a marble rolling around in a bowl, but not energetically enough to pop over the rim. Quantum tunnelling provides that from time to time, the marble will spontaneously appear outside the bowl.
It is for that reason that I never go near not a gun but a bullet. Quantum tunnelling: Fulminate of Mercury can spontaneously detonate.
I still have the very first Apple Developer CD. I wasn't a registered developer then I found it in a used music store!
It has an audio file on it with a radio ad that Apple used to play around Silicon Valley, seeking to attract engineers. Something like "Work for Apple Computer and you can change the world!"
I don't doubt that Apple changed the world, but note how many job board posts you see from companies claiming that they'll change the world. In some cases the founders are being unrealistic, in some cases they're trying to pull the wool over the eyes of potential applicants.
"Work for PHB Inc. and you can change the World!"
What kind of sense does that make?
Even if the guy really did record the movie, simply recording a film that you already paid to see does not cause anyone any loss.
If he distributed the recording, then there would be some economic loss due to lost ticket sales. But at the very worst, distributing infringing creative works should be regarded as the equivalent of stealing the money that is lost.
Even if the guy really was recording, why is that a criminal offense? That should be a purely civil matter, not something law enforcement should be involved in.
It would not be hard at all to find the users who are consistently moderated up in stories relating to a given job skill.
Say every time the Linux kernel is discussed, several of your comments get moderated to five.
Now a headhunter needs a Linux kernel coder. They call over to the good folks at Dice, who supply them your email.
How is it that we landed men on the moon in ten years, but we can't write some web applications in six years?
Or consider that the US involvement in the second world war was just four years, enough time for us to develop two different kinds of nuclear weapons, as well as build vast numbers of ships and airplanes that actually worked.
I've seen contract gigs like the following, more than once, on boards such as Guru.com.
One specific contract offer wanted code that would reset the, uh, "users" homepage to a URL to be specified by the client, then make it impossible for the "user" to set any other homepage.
That's it.
Perhaps I'm in the wrong business. It's a lot harder than I thought to get a job as an iOS developer, but I am really good with assembly code, debugging and reverse engineering. Perhaps I should write malware for the Russian Mob.
True story:
Some Colorado copper miners went on strike back in the day. The copper company hired a "security" firm to show them the error of their ways by opening fire on them with gatling guns.
These men lived in canvas tents with their wives in children. They had nowhere to take cover other than in the tents.
There is a damn good reason we have these labor laws.
My grandfather served in the Aleutian Islands during the Korean War. They found a floating crane had been sunk in the bay. They pulled it up out of the water, repaired it, and actually got it working again.
So the people at Grandpa's navy base proudly told the Pentagon what they'd accomplished. The Pentagon's reply?
They were ordered to sink it back into the bay.
Otherwise it would cut into sales of newly-manufactured floating cranes.
Back in the day I became quite good friends with a homeless mentally ill woman. She was out of her damn tree, but really quite pleasant, friendly and good-looking.
She'd been sleeping on my couch for a month when my housemate received his phone bill. While he and I were out of the house, she had rung up $7,000.00 in 900 and 976 psychic hotlines.
I was eventually able to convince Pacific Bell to reverse ALL of the charges, but my housemate was hopping mad.
... any time of the day or night, carrying around my Retina Display MacBook Pro, chatting up the meanest, nastiest ugliest hoodlums.
Because I look just like a Hell's Angel.
In reality I'm a coder with a degree in Physics. You could knock me flat by looking at me funny.
It's all about how you carry yourself.
Whenever someone is seriously ill or has died, an announcement is sent to a distribution list that mistakenly includes me. Just now I was notified that someone who I had never heard of had suddenly died. My reply to the entire list:
Dear Friends,
I am very sorry for your pain.
I need to correct an unfortunate error with your email distribution
list. My name is Michael D. Crawford, my address is
mdcrawford@gmail.com. Your email distribution includes a Marsha
Crawford, but also at mdcrawford@gmail.com. That's definitely not
Marsha's address, it has been mine for many years.
This means that Marsha cannot receive your announcements of concerns.
I suggest you find some alternate way to contact her, to find out her
proper address.
Best Wishes,
Michael D. Crawford
mdcrawford@gmail.com
http://www.warplife.com/mdc/
Rather more seriously is that I required so many years to get off a distribution list for a hospital in New Zealand, where a doctor worked who was also named Michael Crawford. Whenever a particularly ill patient required extra attention from the medical staff, an announcement was broadcast to this list, but Dr. Crawford never got the message.
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I have bipolar-type schizoaffective disorder. It is somewhat like being manic depressive and schizophrenic at the same time.
studies of twins who were adopted to different families at birth lead us to conclude manic depression is genetic.
schizophrenia is thought to be due to infectious disease. One possibility is the mother having influenza during one's gestation.
It has been known since the nineteen fifties that there is a strong correlation between having cats as a small child, and being schizophrenic as an adult. We have not yet confirmed the cause of this, but it is thought to be due to the same cat feces parasite that causes toxoplasmosis in pregnant women. In fact I myself had two cats since I was an infant.
there are many, many different types of schizophrenia, so they may all be distinctly different diseases, with different causes.
Money is tight, so I'm short the Apple Tax to do iOS development. But I have a jailbroken device.
What do I do to install my own App, that I developed myself, on my own jailbroken device?
I looked into this a while back but could not find instructions.
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I've actually been wanting to take a stab at teaching piano, so I could practice on you, even if remotely. The best teacher I ever had was Angela Bonilla of Vancouver, British Columbia. She is from Colombia, and has a master's in concert piano from the conservatory in versailles, france so she is no slouch. Most piano teachers have very set methods. For example one teacher I had was very fixated on how I should learn certain specific songs from certain specific lesson books. Those books are admittedly good books, but there are certain songs that I could just never learn how to play, which frustrated both of us. But Angela would observe what specific problems I had, then on the spot would come up with very simple exercises that, when I practiced them, would solve those specific problems. Each time I tried to learn a new song she would observe new problems, then develop new exercises. That is how I would teach you. It is very uncommon for teachers of any sort to do something like that. But yes, muscle memory is how one learns many things. I understand that it is actually straightforward to learn how to shred on a guitar, it just takes a lot of time and patience. My piano compositions. All creative commons and the sheet music to two of them. It would be very easy for you to play "Emergence". "Recursion" is easier than it looks.
I don't recall the car make or model. It belonged to a friend of mine so I can ask him if you really want to know. The controls for the radio were mounted on the steering column, in which a way that he could hold the wheel securely, and steer with both hands, while adjusting the radio. The best music player UI I've ever personally seen was in my first-gen iPad. Too bad I sold it when I was broke and hungry. Someday I will buy a new iPad, but if apple has "improved" it then surely I will hurl my new iPad off the golden gate bridge. The very worst UI for a music player I've ever seen was in my iPhone 4, when held in landscape mode. When held in Portrait mode it was a good UI design for the Portrait mode of such a small screen. But when rotated to landscape, rather than laying out the familiar, helpful UI in a broader, shorter way, it changed entirely to something that made no sense to me. What absolutely drove me berserk was that most of Apple's own Apps would not permit Landscape text entry. I'm a big guy. I have big fingers, and I'm old so I don't see so well. Using the on-screen keyboard on an iPhone in portrait mode makes me want to hurl it into the sea as well.
Some of my best friends are Jewish. Actually it was Kuro5hin's LilDebbie who started doing it over there. I picked it up from him. The Jewish faith holds that it is disrespectful to ever destroy a document that has the word "God" written on it, if it is spelled correctly. The explanation I read pointed out that the attics of very old synagogues held used collection of worn-out Torah, because they spell the word correctly and so would be disrespectful to destroy. My understanding is that it is not considered blasphemy to do so, only disrespectful. Among Jewish people it is customary to write "G-d" unless one can be reasonably sure that the resulting document will never be destroyed. While I no longer believe, I was raised as a Presbyterian. Religion at one time was a big part of my life. I'm not sure I follow the arguments of those who regard religion as evil incarnate because the belief in supernatural beings is unrealistic or unscientific. Consider that these days, it is very uncommon for most Americans to ever speak to their neighbors. But among religious people, we get to know the others in our church. I am often advised by those who don't even believe, to attend church anyway as it's a good way to meet women who want to get married and have children, as I want to.
The best dye for that is Titanium White - Titanium Dioxide. However it is rather expensive; Zinc Oxide is good, not as good as Titanium Dioxide, but far cheaper. If we all painted our roofs white, I expect it would have a measurable effect.
This doesn't happen to other users as far as I can tell. It has only recently started happening to me. If I separate two paragraphs with a blank line then press the Submit button, until recently the blank line would result in separate paragraphs above and below the blank line. But more recently all of my comments post as just one giant paragraph, which makes them hard to read. For example this particular comment should have five separate paragraphs but I expect it will post as just one. I don't see any option for it in my user options. Could it be because I cannot be bothered to update Firefox? That's because I grew weary of Mozilla.org pushing out frequent new versions without fixing any bugs that actually affected me.
My point had nothing to do with the chemical formula of the primer. Lead styphnate is admittedly more stable than fulminate of mercury, but it is bound within a potential well within which it does not detonate. However every particle's wavefunction extends throughout the Universe, other than in regions whose potential is higher than the potential energy of the particle itself. While the amplitude of that wavefunction is very low in the portions of space that would lead to spontaneous detonation, it is still non-zero.
working out of my home as a consultant gets pretty lonely, so I like to ride the bus and train so I can meet new friends. But I recently started to be dismayed at how many people stare glued to their phones during their public transit rides. Typically it is half the passengers. Wouldn't we be better off if we spoke to our neighors? Just now I walked pass a kiosk in an electronics shop that had a screen with the text "Use Skype while watching your favorite movie". I regard using Skype while watching my favorite movie as the problem, not the solution. If one is to watch a movie, especially one's favorite, one lives a more fulfilling life if one gives it one's full attention. Similarly, if one uses Skype, both ends of the dialog get more out of it if both parties are not at the same time distracted by a movie. Read a book lately? I was a voracious reader when I was a kid, but these days it's everything I can do to read the damn newspaper. Books are out of the question.
human nature, for example. I don't believe in G-d, but I own a bible and read it from time to time. It helps me to understand other people. G-d has nothing to do with that.
... fertilization. I think it was the NYT that discussed this a week or two ago. A woman who carried a gene for a cruel genetic disease wanted to have children, but not to pass on the disease. So she opted for In Vitro Fertilization, with the fertilized zygotes being genetically tested. She has had I think two or three children from zygotes that tested negative. If everyone who carries her disease gene does this, than a rare but terrible scourge could be eliminated from the earth. Her father, for example, is doomed to die young and is already suffering. However I myself have Bipolar-Type Schizoaffective Disorder. It is as yet unclear whether that is a unique disease or the, uh, "lucky" combination of Manic Depression and Schizophrenia. The cause of Schizophrenia is as yet unclear but is thought to be due to infectious disease of the brain. It may have other causes, as it is likely to be more than one disease, each of which causes the psychotic symptoms of delusions and hallucinations. Manic Depression is quite clearly genetic, due to studies in which twins were adopted out to different parents at birth. There is a strong correlation between whether one twin is Bipolar, and whether the other is. That can't be due to environmental factors, or how one is raised. Manic depression is arguably a horrible disease. I myself have attempted suicide in a serious way a number of times, the last time in 2010 when I wrapped my car around a concrete highway overpass post at a hundred miles per hour. But dammit I forgot to unbuckle my seatbelt. It was a sudden decision, the end it all, you see. However Manic Depressives are well-documented to be uncommonly creative. Besides coding, I have a BA in Physics, while I did not complete my doctorate I stymied my fellow students, even the faculty, with my insight into the nature of reality when was in grad school. I draw, paint, sculpt, compose for and play the piano, sing and play drums. I invent all manner of things. I could have lots of patents if I could be bothered to ever file for them. Kay Redfield Jamison is a noted authority on manic depression, and a Johns Hopkins University psychology professor. She speculates that Manic Depression has persisted through evolution despite its obvious disadvantages because "it brings new ideas into the social consciousness". Hollowell and Ratey propose a similar theory for why Attention Deficit Disorder has persisted through evolution as well. Their theory is that people with ADHD are able to connect otherwise unrelated ideas in a way that the brains of normal people would be incapable of, thereby synthesizing novel ideas. For example despite being bent on suicide the whole time I worked at Medior, I invented then implemented a novel lossless bitmapped graphics compression algorithm and format, that enabled the company to stuff more assets on its multimedia CD-ROMs. Now suppose you chose In Vitro Fertilization because you or your mate had spent your whole lives contemplating suicide. You have a choice of a normal zygote, or one that will quite obviously bear a child who will be Bipolar as an adult. Which one do you choose? Were manic depression eliminated from the species, what would our society be like a thousand years from now? Jamison's new ideas wouldn't be getting contributed to the social consciousness nearly as much anymore.
It has a great deal of wisdom about human nature. That it is unscientific in origin doesn't make it false, or like your stopped clock analogy, only coincidentally true.
The "$" subject terminator is a Kuro5hin-ism for "Subject-Only Comment". However, Slash does not permit those, so I'm supplying this comment body so Slash stops complaining.
In the Summer of 1979, when I was fifteen, I was in the Youth Conservation Corps at Yerba Buena Island, the small island in the middle of San Francisco Bay that has a tunnel through which passes the Oakland Bay Bridge. We mostly cut firebreaks but we also built a nature trail. We stayed in an old firehouse that was right next to the Coast Guard Base, and dined in the Coast Guard enlisted men's mess. During that Summer the Coast Guard made a huge bust of a ship bringing marijuna in from Mexico, in between the hulls of a double-hulled ship. That must have been an intelligence operation, to know which ship to search. Shortly after the bust, my friends in the YCC reported that they were readily able to score pot from the Coast Guard men.
We all know that fusion happens in the core of the Sun because it is so hot and has such high pressure. Actually it's not hot enough, and the pressure is not high enough to initiate fusion. We get fusion anyway due to quantum tunneling. That is, particles can escape a potential well if there is a finite distance to another place of low potential. Imagine a marble rolling around in a bowl, but not energetically enough to pop over the rim. Quantum tunnelling provides that from time to time, the marble will spontaneously appear outside the bowl. It is for that reason that I never go near not a gun but a bullet. Quantum tunnelling: Fulminate of Mercury can spontaneously detonate.
I still have the very first Apple Developer CD. I wasn't a registered developer then I found it in a used music store! It has an audio file on it with a radio ad that Apple used to play around Silicon Valley, seeking to attract engineers. Something like "Work for Apple Computer and you can change the world!" I don't doubt that Apple changed the world, but note how many job board posts you see from companies claiming that they'll change the world. In some cases the founders are being unrealistic, in some cases they're trying to pull the wool over the eyes of potential applicants. "Work for PHB Inc. and you can change the World!"
What kind of sense does that make? Even if the guy really did record the movie, simply recording a film that you already paid to see does not cause anyone any loss. If he distributed the recording, then there would be some economic loss due to lost ticket sales. But at the very worst, distributing infringing creative works should be regarded as the equivalent of stealing the money that is lost. Even if the guy really was recording, why is that a criminal offense? That should be a purely civil matter, not something law enforcement should be involved in.
It would not be hard at all to find the users who are consistently moderated up in stories relating to a given job skill. Say every time the Linux kernel is discussed, several of your comments get moderated to five. Now a headhunter needs a Linux kernel coder. They call over to the good folks at Dice, who supply them your email.
How is it that we landed men on the moon in ten years, but we can't write some web applications in six years? Or consider that the US involvement in the second world war was just four years, enough time for us to develop two different kinds of nuclear weapons, as well as build vast numbers of ships and airplanes that actually worked.
I've seen contract gigs like the following, more than once, on boards such as Guru.com. One specific contract offer wanted code that would reset the, uh, "users" homepage to a URL to be specified by the client, then make it impossible for the "user" to set any other homepage. That's it. Perhaps I'm in the wrong business. It's a lot harder than I thought to get a job as an iOS developer, but I am really good with assembly code, debugging and reverse engineering. Perhaps I should write malware for the Russian Mob.
True story: Some Colorado copper miners went on strike back in the day. The copper company hired a "security" firm to show them the error of their ways by opening fire on them with gatling guns. These men lived in canvas tents with their wives in children. They had nowhere to take cover other than in the tents. There is a damn good reason we have these labor laws.
My grandfather served in the Aleutian Islands during the Korean War. They found a floating crane had been sunk in the bay. They pulled it up out of the water, repaired it, and actually got it working again. So the people at Grandpa's navy base proudly told the Pentagon what they'd accomplished. The Pentagon's reply? They were ordered to sink it back into the bay. Otherwise it would cut into sales of newly-manufactured floating cranes.
Back in the day I became quite good friends with a homeless mentally ill woman. She was out of her damn tree, but really quite pleasant, friendly and good-looking. She'd been sleeping on my couch for a month when my housemate received his phone bill. While he and I were out of the house, she had rung up $7,000.00 in 900 and 976 psychic hotlines. I was eventually able to convince Pacific Bell to reverse ALL of the charges, but my housemate was hopping mad.
... any time of the day or night, carrying around my Retina Display MacBook Pro, chatting up the meanest, nastiest ugliest hoodlums. Because I look just like a Hell's Angel. In reality I'm a coder with a degree in Physics. You could knock me flat by looking at me funny. It's all about how you carry yourself.
Rather more seriously is that I required so many years to get off a distribution list for a hospital in New Zealand, where a doctor worked who was also named Michael Crawford. Whenever a particularly ill patient required extra attention from the medical staff, an announcement was broadcast to this list, but Dr. Crawford never got the message.
-in? I have bipolar-type schizoaffective disorder. It is somewhat like being manic depressive and schizophrenic at the same time. studies of twins who were adopted to different families at birth lead us to conclude manic depression is genetic. schizophrenia is thought to be due to infectious disease. One possibility is the mother having influenza during one's gestation. It has been known since the nineteen fifties that there is a strong correlation between having cats as a small child, and being schizophrenic as an adult. We have not yet confirmed the cause of this, but it is thought to be due to the same cat feces parasite that causes toxoplasmosis in pregnant women. In fact I myself had two cats since I was an infant. there are many, many different types of schizophrenia, so they may all be distinctly different diseases, with different causes.
Money is tight, so I'm short the Apple Tax to do iOS development. But I have a jailbroken device. What do I do to install my own App, that I developed myself, on my own jailbroken device? I looked into this a while back but could not find instructions.