Author: Kier
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Working the Pole, Cat vs Lizards, Star Trek Rumors, Disturbing Statistics, New Games, and a Spike-covered Bear Hunting Suit
Ridiculously busy day, again. And my time at home after has been largely spent watching videos that have come out of E3… so many awesome looking games that I’ll likely never play (and, if I did, likely would get quickly frustrated with). I remember when computer games first became “a thing.” Right back around when…
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Shocking Lightning, Soggy Bears, Militarized Police, Turing Test Fudge, Really Questionable Politics, and an End to Board Cheese
I’m pretty open about the fact that I have a number of issues with the politicians who run the country, supposedly in our name. This has been the case through at least two decades at this point. Today there’s a story about a state senator from Virginia who’s resigning from his position. Ostensibly in order…
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Detecting Sarcasm, Grumpy and Grumpy, Questionable Bling, and an Impressive Ninja Warrior Run
Most of today was spent buried under many lines of code and text revisions. There wasn’t a whole lot of time (well, time that wasn’t spent in meetings) for anything else. I’m sure I missed out on a lot of interesting stuff–with how the Facebook feed works these days, I may see some of it…
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Creative Living, Tone Deaf ‘Comedy’, Brain Science, Net Neutrality Sniping, and Reset the Net
A year ago, a light got directed into a dark corner of our government. How that light got turned on is a bit questionable, but it happened and now there’s no way to deny that our intelligence agencies are more than a little out of control. Without the knowledge of a large part of the…
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Authenticity, Spooked, For the Love of Villains, Poor Decisions Make the News, and Taking Risks
One of the articles today talks about how keeping our kids super safe may actually be doing them more harm than good. It raised the question in the comment thread of just how much has the world changed since I was a kid? On a macro level, sure, lots of changes–we’ve got no more Soviet Union…