Timelies all!

It doesn't matter how hot it is, Nova must sprawl in my lap. Cats...

North Korea World Cup News

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Apparently Kim Jong-il, gives advice directly to their coach "using mobile phones that are not visible to the naked eye." The technology is reportedly to have been developed by Kim Jong-il himself. Invisible phones! Take that Apple, Motorola, and Nokia.

Invisible phones! Take that Apple, Motorola, and Nokia.

That was totally on an episode of Numb3rs.

Take that Apple, Motorola, and Nokia.

And Portugal!

Oh wait, not so much.

I think I'll stick with my visible phone, thanks.

Have folks heard that North Korea hired Chinese to play the part of North Korean soccer fans in the stadium, because most North Koreans can't leave the country?

Stay classy, Kim Jong-il!

My congressman (who wants to be my senator) on the campaign trail. What a weasel.

Heck, I lose my phone all the time when it's visible! An invisible phone would have to be glued to my person.

I'm waiting for the invention of earring phones.

The Anosognosic’s Dilemma: Something’s Wrong but You’ll Never Know What It Is (Part 1)

Wheeler had walked into two Pittsburgh banks and attempted to rob them in broad daylight. What made the case peculiar is that he made no visible attempt at disguise. The surveillance tapes were key to his arrest. There he is with a gun, standing in front of a teller demanding money. Yet, when arrested, Wheeler was completely disbelieving. “But I wore the juice,” he said. Apparently, he was under the deeply misguided impression that rubbing one’s face with lemon juice rendered it invisible to video cameras.

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As Dunning read through the article, a thought washed over him, an epiphany. If Wheeler was too stupid to be a bank robber, perhaps he was also too stupid to know that he was too stupid to be a bank robber — that is, his stupidity protected him from an awareness of his own stupidity.

Dunning wondered whether it was possible to measure one’s self-assessed level of competence against something a little more objective — say, actual competence. Within weeks, he and his graduate student, Justin Kruger, had organized a program of research. Their paper, “Unskilled and Unaware of It: How Difficulties of Recognizing One’s Own Incompetence Lead to Inflated Self-assessments,” was published in 1999.

The NYT article is kind of longish... and also part 1 of a 5 part series.

I am writing up the documents about my work procedures and what I propose that I do from home. At current count, I use 13 different applications to do my admin job. 13! and that is not counting word, excel, and lotus notes as apps.

suddenly is struck by a vision of Micheal Vartan ripping open the side seam of his priest cassock to get to the Glock strapped to his thigh.

OMG, that's just...not damned fair, you!

And I gotta go teach critical thinking. PFFT.