I feel great! Not 100% mind you, but 80% which is a good deal closer to where I should be than the dread sickness I had last week. It’s actually really nice to be feeling decent and have my energy back.
I even had enough energy back that I decided to undertake the dreaded Skype bath upon getting home from work. It’s hard to understand how such an otherwise large and masculine creature such as a 70lb pit bull reduced to a wet, quivering, whimpering, puddle of pathetique!
As normal the moment we were done he went from limp and needy to hyperactive and fussy. It took the usual two hours for him to calm down and now he’s all passed out on my lap, as soft and oder-free as ever!
One of my favorite authors is Michael Crichton who author of Jurrasic Park and more recent sci-fi thrillers like Prey. I was tickled pink to see digg linking to an article he wrote for the New York Times on patent reform. I love his personal attack by exampling him patenting writing a story about dinosaurs.
The Economist has a great article about disposable shaving razor technology and it’s similarities to the singularity. They apply both Moore’s law and a standard power curve to the number of blades in “cutting edge razor technology” (pun intended).
I’m not sure if I want to laugh or cry. Perhaps I’ll do both!
/. links to a rather interesting article by Kevin Kelly on his speculations on the future of science. Kevin Kelly is a fantastic writer and co-founder of Wired Magazine and his views on the future make for a well-informed read.
Of particular note and agreement of mine are his points about Combinatorial Sweep Exploration, Evolutionary Search and Wiki-Science. I firmly believe that as technology increases and processing power becomes so powerful as to make research tasks that would be inconceivable by todays standards easy and possible in the blink of an eye.
As computers are able to use evolutionary genetic algorithms to explore further from the solid research foundation of todays scientific knowledge base, and have explore near limitless variations within reasonable amounts of time.
Wiki’s and other collaborative technologies are quickly going to be replaced by future AI based information retrieval systems, but today lay a solid indexable knowledge base on the internet. We are already starting to see how collaborative internet technologies are changing scientific research forever and helping to rapidly advance human knowledge.
Update: I just keep reading more and more from Technicum, Keven Kelly’s blog. It’s GREAT stuff - I highly encourage everyone to consume it immediately!
I’ve now officially been sick for an entire week, and I’m right ready to be done with it! I wrestle with the question of if going to work at all this week was a good idea. Sadly I think I made it all worse last night:
After leaving work a bit early (it was a holiday after all) I thought I was feeling well enough to go out and get some food. Jason and I went to Tre Charlies for the usual good-food experience. Sadly there was more than the normal amount of drama and tragedy, but alas, such is the way of the cold-hearted city.
Upon getting home I was starting to feel a bit worse for wear again so I popped in the Matrix trilogy, downed some Nyquil, and cuddled up with puppy. About 20 hours later I had gotten about 10 hours of sleep, and made my way through the Matrix, Reloaded, Revolutions, and more special features than you can shake a virtual stick at.
Tonight I’m actually feeling worse than I’ve felt since Monday. I just ventured out to the QFC to get some more flu meds (thank you Thera-flu), some sickly food, and some Gatorade.
In continuing with my epic cinema theme I just popped in the The Fellowship of the Ring, and am yet again cuddling up with my couch for the long haul. I am supposed to go watch some of the Alien series with Jason, but if I’m feeling this badly I think I’ll give it a miss.
And a happy one it is indeed! For the first time in a week I got a great nights sleep, and feel for the most part better. I still have a sore throat and some minor body aches, but coming into work was much easier.
I’m also in a good mood because I’ve made some progress with some of the stresses at work that I’ve been going through. I had a long heart to heart with my manager yesterday and it really helped put me in a better mood.
I’m looking forward to sleeping a lot this weekend. I’ve been getting 12+ hours of sleep a night (of varying quality) since I got sick and I think it’s been helping. Taking it easy over the weekend and not pushing myself like I have been during the week should help quite a bit.
Wednesday, March 15, 2006
Alternative title: The Eye Of God. Another in my eye series - this one I did last night. I was trying for a Tsunami’s wave in the iris but I’m not sure if it came out quite right.
In other news I’m feeling better today then yesterday. I still have a sore throat and some minor body aches, but I’m over all no longer feeling “sick” and merely feeling “craptastic”.