Todd’s Twins: 20 Years ago
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You collect funny SPAM messages.You talk to your computers, not because you’re bored, but because you’re afraid they might be.Your household ratio of computers to humans is at least 4:1.You are completely free of tan lines.When someone says ‘organized sports’ you think ‘LAN party’You have lost most of your social abilities. You never used them anyway.When you must converse with others, you speak a cryptic language of acronyms decipherable only by another geek.No ‘warranty seal’ is safe in your presence.You have a gigantic box of spare cables that you never use.You could never be convinced to part with it.You want your 21 Trinitron CRT monitor to be buried with you.You understand why 42 and AYBABTU are funny, and still laugh at both.Youre afraid of the telephone.Youre always free on Friday night. Free to play your favorite MMORPGYou consider Geek a complement.Your non geek friends have no idea what you do for a living.Camping in the woods, without electricity, or wireless access is your idea of a nightmare not a vacation.You have over 30 E-mail accounts, and check them all regularly.You understand computers better than people.Feel free to add your own revelationslink
I know. Who has? But if you can find it I really recommend watching this video (brought to my attention by Peter Suber on the SPARC Open Data list – thank you!). It’s a very interesting presentation by Hans Rosling where he de-bunks a few myths about the developing world. Rosling is professor of international health at Sweden’s world-renowned Karolinska Institute. He is also the founder of Gapminder, a non-profit that brings vital global data to life. In the first 15 minutes he provides a fascinating overview of the changes that have occurred in the world over the last 40 years in terms of child survival rates, average number of children per woman, life expectancy at birth, distribution of income, GDP per capita. The graphics he employs to make this understandable and engaging are wonderful. In the last 5 minutes he turns to the issue of the availability and usability of data (digital curation bells!!) Rosling poses the question “why are we not using the data we have?” and answers: “The data is hidden down in the databases. And the public is there, and the Internet is there but we have still not used it effectively. All that information we saw changing in the world [in the demonstration] does not include publicly funded statistics. There are some web pages like this …but people put prices on them, stupid passwords and boring statistics. And this won’t work!” He then asks, what is needed? His answer - linking data to design. That’s where Gapminder comes in. The website describes its purpose as: “… filling a gap. There has been a market failure in distributing global data. A lot of people are interested in the data, but don’t get access to it (and if they manage to access the data, they need to be advanced skilled statisticians to analyze it). Gapminder wants to make data more accessible and easier to use for instant visual analysis. We believe decision makers, politicians as well as education at almost all levels lack adequate tools.”The software is proving popular with many. Ben Hyde has blogged:These gapminder charts are just marvelous. They are a exemplar of what we should expect from data presentation going forward. Printed datalink
Years after his mother dies during childbirth, young Ben (Sterling Beaumon) and his embittered, alcoholic father Roger (Napoleon Dynamite’s Jon Gries in one of many bad wigs on display this week) arrive on the island to work for DHARMA, finding it far more hospitable than the castaways would years later. As Ben comes of age on the island, he’s haunted by ghostly visions of the mother he never met (Carrie Preston aka Michael Emerson’s spouse) while coming to resent his father, who commits the unforgivable sin of continuously forgetting his son’s birthday.As Ben reflects on a betrayal from his past he secretly plots another. With great reservation and under protest, Ben agrees to take Locke (having provided the corpse of his father as proof of his commitment to the island) to see Jacob, the highly-secretive leader of “the Others” The encounter between Jacob and Locke begins somewhat anticlimactically, with Ben introducing Locke to an empty chair and claiming emphatically that Jacob is sitting before them, going so far as pantomiming a one-sided conversation where he introduces the two of them. Locke quickly goes from skeptical to irate, berating Ben as a fraud whom he intends to expose, lashing out less at Ben’s rouse and more at his own foolishness at believing any one person could possibly explain the unexplainable phenomenon of the island.If Hurley (Jorge Garcia) has often stood in as an audience surrogate for skeptics then Locke (Terry O’Quinn) is the voice of the show’s true-believers, long clinging to the hope that all of the show’s divergent threads will somehow come together in an elaborate tapestry. For all the supposed communicating Ben does with Jacob, he never heard the plea for help that Locke did, which calls into question both Ben’s sanity and his standing with the island “Gods.” We learned last week that Ben intended to humiliate Locke to keep him in his place and this week found “the Others” In killing Locke, Ben guarantees his role as Alpha male and spiritual leader to “the Others” While obvious in hindsight, I must confess to being only slightly less surprised than Locke that he ended up with a bullet in the belly, dying in a mass grave (filled with the skeletal remains of the DHARMA Initiative members) with Ben standing over him gun in hand.If Reservoir Dogs has taught us anything it’s that, painful as it might be, it takes a very long time to succumb to a gun shot wound. I had harbored the hope that Locke would grow into a position of prominence with “the Others”, placing him at odds with his former friends, playing up the inherent Lord of the Flies echo in the show, but, alas, that will likely never come to fruition.If there’s a fundamental flaw to last night’s flashbacks it’s the decision to focus almost exclusively on Ben’s childhood years, leading up to his seduction by “the Others”, only to build towards an ellipse encompassing almost twenty years. That the actor Michael Emerson is a full twelve years older than Carbonell has lead some fans to speculate that Alpert is everything from a clone to a robot to an immortal subject of the island’s anti-aging properties, an unfortunate bit of confusion that probably could have been avoided simply by creating a new character for young Ben to interact with.To mine eyes the interesting story here is in Ben’s gradual indoctrination and manipulation at the hands of the Others and not how little Ben laid in wait to have his revenge.
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For info or to register, call Nathan Kalama 822-2166.Sun May 20 11AM-1PM - Celebrate Global Peace Meditation Day at the 1st Annual Global Aloha Peace Meditation, at the mouth of the Wailua River at Lydgate Park (in front of the Aloha Beach Resort Hotel). For info call 245-4142.ONGOING EVENTS:Monday:Mon 9-11AM - Help remove invasive species and care for fascinating plants at the National Tropical Botanical Garden. Call Lea 332-7324 ext 228 or email volunteer@ntbg.org.Mon 5-7PM - African Drumming class with Ernest at Lydgate Park, Kamalani Pavilion.Tuesday:Tue 8:30-11:30AM - Limahuli Garden and Preserve in Ha’ena invites the community to volunteer Tuesday mornings. Call Terri 821-0212, Mary 346-1105, Kim 346-5967 for directions & info.Thu 7-8:30PM - African Dance class taught by Isaac and Oshenda with live drumming at All Saints Church Gym in Kapa’a.Friday:Fri 6PM - Free parenting classes at Kapa’a Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints. For reservations or info call 742-2623.Sun 6-10PM - Adult Night Open Freeplay Basketball at the Kilauea Gym.daily:National Tropical Botanical Garden announces free self-guided tours of the McBryde Garden daily for Hawaii state residents (photo I.D. For info call 245-1755.Sat May 26 10AM - National Tropical Botanical Garden presents a tour of the site of the future Botanical Research Center, and a visit to the Allerton Home and Gardens on Lawa’i Beach. For reservations and info, call Kaua’i Historical Society 245-3373Sat May 26 10AM-3PM - Exploring the Art and Activism of a Life Based on Freedom, a retreat with Alan Clements, human rights activist, author and former Buddhist monk. Through Fri 6/8.Sat-Sun June 2-3 9AM-4PM - Huli-Huli & Plate Lunch fundraiser by the REINSTATED HAWAIIAN GOVERNMENT in Hanapepe, at the corner of Kaumuali’i Highway and the road going to Salt Pond.Sun June 3 4PM - Monthly Moku Puni O Kauai meeting of the REINSTATED HAWAIIAN GOVERNMENT at Salt Pond Beach Park. For info, disability accommodation and to register, contact Charles Lyden, tel 441-1591 or fax 735-8274, or email crl47@hotmail.com.Sat June 9 7:30 AM - West Kaua’i Medical Center/KVMH 3rd Annual Charitable Golf Tournament, Po’ipu Bay Golf Course. For info call 338-9452, 482-0808 or email skline@hhsc.orgSat June 9 8AM-12 noon - America’s Boating Course will be presented by Kauai’s Coast Guard Auxiliary at the Kauai Veteran’s Building (Kapule Highway). For info contact SOS Kaua’i President Paul Clark 651-3452 or email paul@saveourseas.org.Wed June 13 6:30-7:30 PM - The Truth about Hawaiian Sharks, a lecture by Terry Lilley, marine biologist with Save Our Seas, at Princeville Public Library. For info call 245-4142.Sat July 7 9-11AM - How to Chant Your Genealogy, at Hilton Kaua’i Beach Resort. For info or to register, call Nathan Kalama 822-2166.Sat July 14 8AM-12 noon - America’s Boating Course will be presented by Kauai’s Coast Guard Auxiliary at the Kauai Veteran’s Building (Kapule Highway). For info and to register, contact Jim Jung 822-0448.Sat Aug 11 8AM-12 noon - America’s Boating Course will be presented by Kauai’s Coast Guard Auxiliary at the Kauai Veteran’s Building (Kapule Highway). For info call Fran 635-0165 or Kendall 742-8066.FARMERS MARKET SCHEDULE:Mon 12 noon Koloa Ball ParkMon 3PM Lihu’e - Kukui Grove Shopping Center (Sears parking lot)Tue 2PM Hanalei - Waipa Farms (north of town)Tue 3PM Kalaheo Neighborhood CenterTue 3PM Wailua Homesteads ParkWed 3PM Kapa’a New Town ParkThu 3:30PM Hanapepe ParkThu 4:30PM Kilauea Neighborhood CenterFri 3PM Lihu’e - Vidinha Stadium (off Rice Street)Sat 9AM Kekaha Neighborhood CenterSat 9:30AM Hanalei Community CenterSat 11:30AM Kilauea - Keneke Street (near Post Office) If you have a NON-PROFIT event you’d like to post on the KKCR community calendar, it is best to E-MAIL the info to “events@kkcr.org”
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20 years ago the Twins were also 17-17 and coming off of a loss. There are a few decent ones today.Best Favorite: Cleveland -130Best Dog: Kansas City 163Good Dog: Baltimore 145Twins: Take the Twins -200.
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You collect funny SPAM messages.You talk to your computers, not because you’re bored, but because you’re afraid they might be.Your household ratio of computers to humans is at least 4:1.You are completely free of tan lines.When someone says ‘organized sports’ you think ‘LAN party’You have lost most of your social abilities. You never used them anyway.When you must converse with others, you speak a cryptic language of acronyms decipherable only by another geek.No ‘warranty seal’ is safe in your presence.You have a gigantic box of spare cables that you never use.You could never be convinced to part with it.You want your 21 Trinitron CRT monitor to be buried with you.You understand why 42 and AYBABTU are funny, and still laugh at both.Youre afraid of the telephone.Youre always free on Friday night. Free to play your favorite MMORPGYou consider Geek a complement.Your non geek friends have no idea what you do for a living.Camping in the woods, without electricity, or wireless access is your idea of a nightmare not a vacation.You have over 30 E-mail accounts, and check them all regularly.You understand computers better than people.Feel free to add your own revelationslink
I know. Who has? But if you can find it I really recommend watching this video (brought to my attention by Peter Suber on the SPARC Open Data list – thank you!). It’s a very interesting presentation by Hans Rosling where he de-bunks a few myths about the developing world. Rosling is professor of international health at Sweden’s world-renowned Karolinska Institute. He is also the founder of Gapminder, a non-profit that brings vital global data to life. In the first 15 minutes he provides a fascinating overview of the changes that have occurred in the world over the last 40 years in terms of child survival rates, average number of children per woman, life expectancy at birth, distribution of income, GDP per capita. The graphics he employs to make this understandable and engaging are wonderful. In the last 5 minutes he turns to the issue of the availability and usability of data (digital curation bells!!) Rosling poses the question “why are we not using the data we have?” and answers: “The data is hidden down in the databases. And the public is there, and the Internet is there but we have still not used it effectively. All that information we saw changing in the world [in the demonstration] does not include publicly funded statistics. There are some web pages like this …but people put prices on them, stupid passwords and boring statistics. And this won’t work!” He then asks, what is needed? His answer - linking data to design. That’s where Gapminder comes in. The website describes its purpose as: “… filling a gap. There has been a market failure in distributing global data. A lot of people are interested in the data, but don’t get access to it (and if they manage to access the data, they need to be advanced skilled statisticians to analyze it). Gapminder wants to make data more accessible and easier to use for instant visual analysis. We believe decision makers, politicians as well as education at almost all levels lack adequate tools.”The software is proving popular with many. Ben Hyde has blogged:These gapminder charts are just marvelous. They are a exemplar of what we should expect from data presentation going forward. Printed datalink
Years after his mother dies during childbirth, young Ben (Sterling Beaumon) and his embittered, alcoholic father Roger (Napoleon Dynamite’s Jon Gries in one of many bad wigs on display this week) arrive on the island to work for DHARMA, finding it far more hospitable than the castaways would years later. As Ben comes of age on the island, he’s haunted by ghostly visions of the mother he never met (Carrie Preston aka Michael Emerson’s spouse) while coming to resent his father, who commits the unforgivable sin of continuously forgetting his son’s birthday.As Ben reflects on a betrayal from his past he secretly plots another. With great reservation and under protest, Ben agrees to take Locke (having provided the corpse of his father as proof of his commitment to the island) to see Jacob, the highly-secretive leader of “the Others” The encounter between Jacob and Locke begins somewhat anticlimactically, with Ben introducing Locke to an empty chair and claiming emphatically that Jacob is sitting before them, going so far as pantomiming a one-sided conversation where he introduces the two of them. Locke quickly goes from skeptical to irate, berating Ben as a fraud whom he intends to expose, lashing out less at Ben’s rouse and more at his own foolishness at believing any one person could possibly explain the unexplainable phenomenon of the island.If Hurley (Jorge Garcia) has often stood in as an audience surrogate for skeptics then Locke (Terry O’Quinn) is the voice of the show’s true-believers, long clinging to the hope that all of the show’s divergent threads will somehow come together in an elaborate tapestry. For all the supposed communicating Ben does with Jacob, he never heard the plea for help that Locke did, which calls into question both Ben’s sanity and his standing with the island “Gods.” We learned last week that Ben intended to humiliate Locke to keep him in his place and this week found “the Others” In killing Locke, Ben guarantees his role as Alpha male and spiritual leader to “the Others” While obvious in hindsight, I must confess to being only slightly less surprised than Locke that he ended up with a bullet in the belly, dying in a mass grave (filled with the skeletal remains of the DHARMA Initiative members) with Ben standing over him gun in hand.If Reservoir Dogs has taught us anything it’s that, painful as it might be, it takes a very long time to succumb to a gun shot wound. I had harbored the hope that Locke would grow into a position of prominence with “the Others”, placing him at odds with his former friends, playing up the inherent Lord of the Flies echo in the show, but, alas, that will likely never come to fruition.If there’s a fundamental flaw to last night’s flashbacks it’s the decision to focus almost exclusively on Ben’s childhood years, leading up to his seduction by “the Others”, only to build towards an ellipse encompassing almost twenty years. That the actor Michael Emerson is a full twelve years older than Carbonell has lead some fans to speculate that Alpert is everything from a clone to a robot to an immortal subject of the island’s anti-aging properties, an unfortunate bit of confusion that probably could have been avoided simply by creating a new character for young Ben to interact with.To mine eyes the interesting story here is in Ben’s gradual indoctrination and manipulation at the hands of the Others and not how little Ben laid in wait to have his revenge.
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For info or to register, call Nathan Kalama 822-2166.Sun May 20 11AM-1PM - Celebrate Global Peace Meditation Day at the 1st Annual Global Aloha Peace Meditation, at the mouth of the Wailua River at Lydgate Park (in front of the Aloha Beach Resort Hotel). For info call 245-4142.ONGOING EVENTS:Monday:Mon 9-11AM - Help remove invasive species and care for fascinating plants at the National Tropical Botanical Garden. Call Lea 332-7324 ext 228 or email volunteer@ntbg.org.Mon 5-7PM - African Drumming class with Ernest at Lydgate Park, Kamalani Pavilion.Tuesday:Tue 8:30-11:30AM - Limahuli Garden and Preserve in Ha’ena invites the community to volunteer Tuesday mornings. Call Terri 821-0212, Mary 346-1105, Kim 346-5967 for directions & info.Thu 7-8:30PM - African Dance class taught by Isaac and Oshenda with live drumming at All Saints Church Gym in Kapa’a.Friday:Fri 6PM - Free parenting classes at Kapa’a Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints. For reservations or info call 742-2623.Sun 6-10PM - Adult Night Open Freeplay Basketball at the Kilauea Gym.daily:National Tropical Botanical Garden announces free self-guided tours of the McBryde Garden daily for Hawaii state residents (photo I.D. For info call 245-1755.Sat May 26 10AM - National Tropical Botanical Garden presents a tour of the site of the future Botanical Research Center, and a visit to the Allerton Home and Gardens on Lawa’i Beach. For reservations and info, call Kaua’i Historical Society 245-3373Sat May 26 10AM-3PM - Exploring the Art and Activism of a Life Based on Freedom, a retreat with Alan Clements, human rights activist, author and former Buddhist monk. Through Fri 6/8.Sat-Sun June 2-3 9AM-4PM - Huli-Huli & Plate Lunch fundraiser by the REINSTATED HAWAIIAN GOVERNMENT in Hanapepe, at the corner of Kaumuali’i Highway and the road going to Salt Pond.Sun June 3 4PM - Monthly Moku Puni O Kauai meeting of the REINSTATED HAWAIIAN GOVERNMENT at Salt Pond Beach Park. For info, disability accommodation and to register, contact Charles Lyden, tel 441-1591 or fax 735-8274, or email crl47@hotmail.com.Sat June 9 7:30 AM - West Kaua’i Medical Center/KVMH 3rd Annual Charitable Golf Tournament, Po’ipu Bay Golf Course. For info call 338-9452, 482-0808 or email skline@hhsc.orgSat June 9 8AM-12 noon - America’s Boating Course will be presented by Kauai’s Coast Guard Auxiliary at the Kauai Veteran’s Building (Kapule Highway). For info contact SOS Kaua’i President Paul Clark 651-3452 or email paul@saveourseas.org.Wed June 13 6:30-7:30 PM - The Truth about Hawaiian Sharks, a lecture by Terry Lilley, marine biologist with Save Our Seas, at Princeville Public Library. For info call 245-4142.Sat July 7 9-11AM - How to Chant Your Genealogy, at Hilton Kaua’i Beach Resort. For info or to register, call Nathan Kalama 822-2166.Sat July 14 8AM-12 noon - America’s Boating Course will be presented by Kauai’s Coast Guard Auxiliary at the Kauai Veteran’s Building (Kapule Highway). For info and to register, contact Jim Jung 822-0448.Sat Aug 11 8AM-12 noon - America’s Boating Course will be presented by Kauai’s Coast Guard Auxiliary at the Kauai Veteran’s Building (Kapule Highway). For info call Fran 635-0165 or Kendall 742-8066.FARMERS MARKET SCHEDULE:Mon 12 noon Koloa Ball ParkMon 3PM Lihu’e - Kukui Grove Shopping Center (Sears parking lot)Tue 2PM Hanalei - Waipa Farms (north of town)Tue 3PM Kalaheo Neighborhood CenterTue 3PM Wailua Homesteads ParkWed 3PM Kapa’a New Town ParkThu 3:30PM Hanapepe ParkThu 4:30PM Kilauea Neighborhood CenterFri 3PM Lihu’e - Vidinha Stadium (off Rice Street)Sat 9AM Kekaha Neighborhood CenterSat 9:30AM Hanalei Community CenterSat 11:30AM Kilauea - Keneke Street (near Post Office) If you have a NON-PROFIT event you’d like to post on the KKCR community calendar, it is best to E-MAIL the info to “events@kkcr.org”
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20 years ago the Twins were also 17-17 and coming off of a loss. There are a few decent ones today.Best Favorite: Cleveland -130Best Dog: Kansas City 163Good Dog: Baltimore 145Twins: Take the Twins -200.
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