Posts from — June 2004

Military Describes Interrogation Process to Reporters. Reporters were given a grand welcome at Guantanamo this week. Here's how the military described the interrogation process: it's just a mental chess game with no torture or confrontational attitudes–they try to earn the prisoners' trust. One interrogator even brings… [TalkLeft: The Politics of Crime]

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sweet, not that they'll get him, but that he is clearly implicated.

i've had two hits from it from Mentor's blog. as some people know, i'm less a proponent of normal actor-network theory, than radical de-objectified actor-network theory, where the nodes are just new networks in which the differences between nodes and networks is the categories of analysis of the flows. nodes are just networks operating in different ontological categories, and thus so are actors comprised of networks, and in fact, actors and nodes sort of disappear for the version that i perpetrate on the world:) it is informed by a guattarian ontology.

basic morning workout for today was:

2 superset deltoids, each includes, 1 reverse grip curl x10, 1 military press x 10, 1 upright row x 10.

1 set bent over rows
1 set deadlift

mornings are a light workout, 10-20 minutes + cardio

evenings last longer

today, i cleaned up house quite a bit in order to find the space to put in my weight bench and to give me more room to work out. now the bench is setup, and i'm ready to go with that.

Cost of Terry Nichols' Trial. The citizens of Oklahoma shelled out more than $5.2 million to try and kill Terry Nichols: The final costs of Terry Nichols' state case will exceed $5.2 million. More than $3.75 million has already been paid on his defense since… [TalkLeft: The Politics of Crime]

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i'm not sure representing it in monetary terms does this justice. we are talking more about a human life and several human lives, reducing it to monetary comparisons seems banal.

Lawyers vs. Computer Scientists. James Grimmelmann has an interesting pointer to an article purporting to describe the difference between how computer scientists and lawyers think. The core of the article is that legal data has “color”, or provenance. It’s a fun essay, but as someone who often straddles this divide, I think it’s missing something important. But darned if I can put my finger on what it is. Maybe that law is often about shades of gray, when computer logic is binary?… [Discourse.net]

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i think the main difference is the will of computer science to rebuild the whole from scratch rebuilding ad infinitum. 'color' i would argue is the same for both.

maybe this is what the president needs, then once he can remember basic facts, we can move on to ethics boot camp.

my starting point:
226lb

basic shape:
42 inch butt
11 3/4 left forearm
12 right forearem
15 inch left bicep
15 1/2 right bicep
16.5 inch neck
50 1/2 shoulders
47 stomach
26 left thigh
26 right thigh
16 left calf
16.5 right calf

it will be a long road, but i can do lose this.

my goal is to lose the guts, to lose 25-35lb by december, and finally to be in shape, which i'm defining as 70 pushups, 70 situps, and running 2 miles.

Monty Python's Fellowship of the Ring. Monty Python’s Fellowship of the Ring. Frodo: Don’t disturb this foul pool! Boromir: Sorry, I thought I saw something moving out there… Pippin: I’ve got… [Outside the Beltway]

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hehehe funny.

How Liberty was lost on the internet [CitizenLab]

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this is an interesting experiment…. but it doesn't address user agreements… you sign your liberty away alot of the time…