Wednesday, April 20, 2011

supergreen?

I just ordered several blocks of soap - olive oil, palm oil. Here's the plan: I'm going to use a grater to turn it into soap powder, as I need it. I'll use this soap powder to hand wash my dishes.

Hopefully, my soap will arrive with no plastic packaging. That's why it's super green. I'll report.

My plan is: wash my dishes with nothing from a plastic bottle - hopefully nothing with a plastic bag or wrapper, either. We'll see.

I'm watching a pretty darned compelling movie at hulu: Flow: For the Love of
Water
. Kudos to Hulu.

goals

sell things in 100% non-plastic packaging
(subtopic: establish a network of zero plastic food service providers)

take home services to the next level

sell information about building web2.0 infrastructure

Tuesday, April 19, 2011

interface

It's embarassing being a Japanophile and pop culture maven. The Japanese and my own people despise me equally. Also, I'm like a child, except less capable. But, I am what I am. Fighting it only makes it worse.

I read Edwin O. Reischauer's Japan, the Story of a Nation. The brief description of the Meiji Restoration sort amazed me. Who were these people, who had a vision of modernity for the nation, and organized the nation to realize it.

But, few details were provided. At any rate, here I am, watching silly movies and cartoons, because it's the only thing I seem to be able to do. But here's a cartoon about the Restoration (sort of)!

This creepy movie channel, Crackle, is doing a lot of things right. Example: you can watch episode after episode of a cartoon ... just let it run. (The other great thing, besides that there are lots of movies and shows to watch, is: when it hangs up, and you reload the page to reset it, it starts up right where you were. That's extremely well done.)

Why do I call it creepy? So many slasher flicks. But, the truth is, I even like some of those. There are lots of popular films I'm glad to get a chance to see, too. So, I'm on a big movie watching exploration.

Jeepers, I just burned a kitchen towel into a pile of ashes. Explanation, eventually.

Monday, April 18, 2011

kitch


in order to qualify as kitch, a thing has to be both tacky and fun ... and in some way good ... based on reading a third of the book ...

code

The problem is one of the elements of CAD. The project is: developing a CAD that is freely available to anyone, running on line in the browser, with an easily understood interface, limitless representational and publishing power, and supported by advertising.

code

with line AB perpendicular to rectangular plane segment wh through its center (and thus establishing the formula for the plane), and given A, B, w, h, f and O, where A,B, and O are coordinate sets for points, calculate the location of point i, the intersection of line AO and plane wh, in terms of its perpendicular distance from lines w and h