Rants, Raves, and Rhetoric v4

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  • Your Guesses On My Origin Story

    May 19, 2013
    Personal / Relationships

    I have written before on this blog on people trying to figure out my skin color or my accent. These are details which make very little sense. My skin is not dark enough to be black and not pale enough to be white. The weird ways I pronounce words provides few clues to where I…

  • Accounting Predictions

    May 16, 2013
    Metrics / Statistics

    In my Prediction Accountability, I ranted on how no one really knows whether predictions are accurate and ended with it really does not matter because no one is going to really stop using these services because they are usually wrong. Basically, I thought it futile to even try. In retrospect that is probably the perfect…

  • Prediction Accountability

    May 15, 2013
    Metrics / Statistics

    The technology buzzword standard for prediction appears to be Netflix and Amazon. Everyone wants to get to where they make recommendations customers will buy. But are these predictions any good? Out of the slew of emails you get from Amazon, how percentage do you actually buy? How many do you sneer at it and hit…

  • Frying the Brain

    May 14, 2013
    Psychology

    Weird day yesterday. The security guard at work decided I have a girlfriend because I rushed to my car instead of hanging around to chat. Of course, he says not to have children because they ruin everything. Next, a woman I only really know from conversations on Tumblr suggested a couple Helen Fisher books. I…

  • Movie Before Book? Or Book Before Movie?

    May 13, 2013
    Books / Novels / Writing, Movies / Films / TV

    She asked what I was reading. So I told her Dust of Dreams and showed her the book. She said I am smart. This launches into a weird conversation culminating in the question. She asked, “Is it weird I watch the movie before reading the book?” A little over a year ago a friend asked me the…

  • Unfriendly Connect For Feedly

    May 12, 2013
    Blogger, Feedly, feeds, Google, Google Reader, posted 2013, subscriptions

    So Google announced Reader will shut down. So I migrated to Feedly. It is okay, but I will miss Reader just like I still miss Bloglines. (The current Bloglines is actually NetVibes which I hate.) A few weeks ago, I noticed one my categories displays in the left menu there are unread posts, but the…

  • Unfriendly Connect For Feedly

    May 12, 2013
    Blog Software

    So Google announced Reader will shut down. So I migrated to Feedly. It is okay, but I will miss Reader just like I still miss Bloglines. (The current Bloglines is actually NetVibes which I hate.) A few weeks ago, I noticed one my categories displays in the left menu there are unread posts, but the…

  • Fortune cookie

    Fortune cookie

    May 12, 2013
    posted 2013

    Fortune cookieOriginally uploaded by Ezra S F Not just live and let live… but live and HELP live.

  • Alienating Friends Through Correcting Misinformation

    May 8, 2013
    Social

    Snopes is your friend. Even if you cannot remember the site, searching for a sentence of a text probably will pull up a hoax clarification site. Facebook is the new chainletter forwarding medium. The share button allows people to very easily and simply pass along anything. Often this is before they do anything to verify…

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