Obvious #1: Government is a FOR PROFIT organization

https://www.princeton.edu/~mgilens/Gilens%20homepage%20materials/Gilens%20and%20Page/Gilens%20and%20Page%202014-Testing%20Theories%203-7-14.pdf

What?? This is news to people?

How many times do we have to listen to convincing evidence/reasons to start doing something about it?

I'm genuinely curious.

Artificial Blood! (Link)

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/health/healthnews/10765132/Artificial-blood-will-be-manufactured-in-factories.html

Wow, then vampires will be happy, humans won't bleed to death, people won't have to donate blood, dialysis would be easy and you can get a blood change whenever you want one!

Office Night 1: Worst Fear

This is a hard one to write.

Sometimes, one's worst fears come true. You know what my worst fear in the field of computing is? It's having no choice but to solve blocking bugs under tight schedules, which disrupt all the other schedules I've got going in my life.

Which, by the way, doesn't sound that bad once you're in it. 

It's not a fear in the conventional sense. It makes me angry at everybody who's gone home and hasn't stayed. It makes me angry at the API developers who made my life difficult. It makes me fear when I would finish.

Until the smart a** next door solves it within the hour and I'm left wondering why I didn't get it, or didn't ask them to help immediately. By then, the anger has become a calm resignation as if the rock pinning me to the keyboard has been lifted. 

It's time to go home.

Fear: A Poem

Fear is a good thing.
It shows you care.
If I ever enter another degree program,
I would care far less.

I believe,
There's nothing you should do,
nothing you shouldn't do.
All are only choices.

Even the most whole, loving person
has to have their fears.
Being completely fearless
is probably a mental disorder.

Fear is what makes things fun.
If I wasn't afraid of falling off horses,
or being trampled by hooves,
I wouldn't feel the thrill of riding on one.
Nor would I love it nearly as much.

I once did a ropecourse.
It was a tightrope between two big treetrunks,
20 meters high, 20 meters long.
I did a meter the first time gripping upside down.
3 meters the second on top,
10 meters upside down
and all the way on the fourth time.

I'm happy with my fears,
thank you very much,
just don't beat me over the head about it.