The story of how I ran for mayor, and made 0 impact. - A Brief History - - theories on why BH failed - * Babe on advertising for welfare Literally, he remembers/claims that there were billboards down South,
advertising Benton Harbor as having the most lucrative social
benefits. It's like.. a trap for the laziest, crookedest people.
* blind leading the blind (dumb parents) It's generations deep; Try to put yourself in the place of someone
whose parents didn't bother with school, because their parents before
them didn't bother with school, because their grandparents didn't
bother with school. Try to believe that you will go to college, and
settle down into the suburbs. Across the river. * has it failed? stuck holding the bag. I mean, what if this situation is not solvable? Or what if this
situation is the solution for everyone else? This is a truly grey
moral area. We talk about people being born with a silver spoon, and it's a real
thing. Consider though, that you work your entire life, accumulate
wealth, and have a family. I would want to give my children an
advantage over their peers. It's not really fair to me, to not permit
me to do that. It's not really fair to my children's peers that I do.
So what's the solution? - the downward spiral of poverty - * schools fail, new leaders are incompetent You have a classroom full of students who do not believe that school
is important. How can you expect teachers to hold these children to
the same standards as suburban children with a quarter or less of the
budget? Rich schools give wealthy children a huge advantage--and I
have profited by this, thankyou--and do genuinely keep the upper class
wealthier. * genuine talent is proven by escape. Brain Drain is the least of it. Anyone who is attractive or
intelligent quickly discovers how easy it is to live elsewhere and
anywhere. Who remains? Not in an insulting way, but think about it.
And in Benton Harbor, where for generations most of the local
population cannot afford to leave, there are a lot of second cousins. Even the idea that you are escaping, fundamentally implies that
returning would be ridiculous. * economy based entirely on handouts Republicans may gloat, but these are the poorest of the poor; they are
the Welfare Aristocracy. Most of the money that comes into Benton
Harbor is through non-profit organizations. That's not an
exaggeration. There are 100+ churches, 100+ non-profits, and a dozen
liquor stores. There isn't a damn grocery store. That's in Benton
Township. * Cornerstone, cheap land, and gentrification Ironically, it's in one of the most beautiful places on the planet
Earth. And not too far from Chicago. So, they are building a very,
very expensive golf course. Revitalization? Gentrification?
- the glimmer of hope - * Cheaper or Better than your competition My theory of making money is this: You can be cheaper, faster, or
better than your competition. That's the crazy market-balance of
capitalism. * The Livery The Livery is better. They make absolutely world class beer from the
finest ingredients they can find. And they are one of the few new
businesses to take root in Benton Harbor. * Massive Cash Influx (golfing by the shores of Lake Michigan) - the true persistence of poverty - * Save Jean Klockers, how I came to learn to love to golf * Crime * Apathy * Mistrust - My Platform * Pick up the trash * Tax vacant properties * Invest in the freaking schools - Death by Papercut * Loss of election (as predicted) * Different is not Ignorant, political theories and overestimations - A compatible system * How we train professional politicians * Backwards compatibility and Open Source * Doublepaw, and the State Theater - Black and White * The Tacked On Chapter (it's not really the problem) * "Easiest" Solution (seperate and apathetic) * Fear v. Annoyance * If you win, we all lose - Epilogue and Conclusions * Come home, Michigan
oh neuralique
Cleaning off the old hard drive - here's a txt/email exchange with my
former employers that I had saved. """
Got a nice cough/cold, going to quarantine at home. Internet is dead,
flex on saturday? -j
""" """
(Re:) and we are supposed to know who you are by your phone number? why is it so hard to put your name? j - as jay-z, jay leno, juli
""" """
(Re:) Japhy, In the future, please email hr@neuraliq.com from your neuraliq email
address so it's obvious who is sending the email.
""" So Nenad. Obviously you do know who it is, otherwise you'd be asking
who it was from. This isn't like a mind game or something, I've been
up all night hacking phlegm and that's how I sign 99% of the emails I
send to people I know. My sincere apologies. Diana. I thought that if I included a note saying that my internet
was dead, that I would not be able to work from home. It also seems
sort of obvious that I can't send email as jbartlett@neuraliq.com
without internet access. Maybe that's not clear. Diana, In the future, please be aware that I do not have a particularly
reliable way of accessing my neuraliq email address, and my sincere
apologies for any confusion I may have caused.
Have we all seen Office Space? Remember the part where he doesn't fill out his TPS reports correctly,
and all of his bosses come ask him to please go ahead and fill them
out properly in the future? It's not as funny when I have five bosses, and they are nagging me for
not properly emailing hr@neuraliq.com. Not even to mention, this is the first office I've worked in where I
call in sick and nobody expresses any sort of concern for my personal
health. Not even even to mention, a few weeks ago you were nagging me to
update the wiki with my phone number. Presumably for this sort of
situation?
former employers that I had saved. """
Got a nice cough/cold, going to quarantine at home. Internet is dead,
flex on saturday? -j
""" """
(Re:) and we are supposed to know who you are by your phone number? why is it so hard to put your name? j - as jay-z, jay leno, juli
""" """
(Re:) Japhy, In the future, please email hr@neuraliq.com from your neuraliq email
address so it's obvious who is sending the email.
""" So Nenad. Obviously you do know who it is, otherwise you'd be asking
who it was from. This isn't like a mind game or something, I've been
up all night hacking phlegm and that's how I sign 99% of the emails I
send to people I know. My sincere apologies. Diana. I thought that if I included a note saying that my internet
was dead, that I would not be able to work from home. It also seems
sort of obvious that I can't send email as jbartlett@neuraliq.com
without internet access. Maybe that's not clear. Diana, In the future, please be aware that I do not have a particularly
reliable way of accessing my neuraliq email address, and my sincere
apologies for any confusion I may have caused.
Have we all seen Office Space? Remember the part where he doesn't fill out his TPS reports correctly,
and all of his bosses come ask him to please go ahead and fill them
out properly in the future? It's not as funny when I have five bosses, and they are nagging me for
not properly emailing hr@neuraliq.com. Not even to mention, this is the first office I've worked in where I
call in sick and nobody expresses any sort of concern for my personal
health. Not even even to mention, a few weeks ago you were nagging me to
update the wiki with my phone number. Presumably for this sort of
situation?
sqlitebot
an httpdaemon, that listens for POSTs on whatever port, performs that
SQL on an in memory sqlite db, and periodically writes that in memory
db to disk. ghetto or genius? that's like tornado and 50 lines of code!
SQL on an in memory sqlite db, and periodically writes that in memory
db to disk. ghetto or genius? that's like tornado and 50 lines of code!
AI Algorithms
http://code.google.com/p/aima-python/ is implementations of AI
algorithms from the book Artificial Intelligence: A Modern Approach.
(http://aima.cs.berkeley.edu/)
algorithms from the book Artificial Intelligence: A Modern Approach.
(http://aima.cs.berkeley.edu/)
intro to websites 101: hello internet
1: email me from this account i have set up for you. ( set up a
posterous and post something)
2: connect to irc and chat with me ( write a post about your chosen irc client) 3: class meets in irc / skype at whatever intervals from this point
forward ( call someone and blog about it ) 4: shell into linux on this box i've set up for you. each person
posts a screen shot of their shell environment 5: vim, hg, permissions; check something into an hg repo i've set up 6: python hello world, if/else/for, post your first program! 7: install a third party library, (tornado), launch a webserver that
displays a hello world HTML on the internet 8. HTML 9. CSS 10. JavaScript 11. Image Editing 12. templating in python
posterous and post something)
2: connect to irc and chat with me ( write a post about your chosen irc client) 3: class meets in irc / skype at whatever intervals from this point
forward ( call someone and blog about it ) 4: shell into linux on this box i've set up for you. each person
posts a screen shot of their shell environment 5: vim, hg, permissions; check something into an hg repo i've set up 6: python hello world, if/else/for, post your first program! 7: install a third party library, (tornado), launch a webserver that
displays a hello world HTML on the internet 8. HTML 9. CSS 10. JavaScript 11. Image Editing 12. templating in python
FML: busted for pot
So I've been on the road for almost 4 hours, driving home from
Madison, WI, in the home stretch to my home in Benton Harbor, MI, at
~3am Not a car on the road but me and the cop who zooms up behind and
flashes his lights. Maybe a mile from my bed. :( He runs my papers and apparently there is a warrant for me. Two years
ago my house burned down; the warrant seems to be for the crime of not
disposing of the remains quickly enough. I'm handcuffed, searched,
and deposited in the backseat of the cruiser. I've come from a college friend's wedding in Madison, and I have about
$80 of pot in a mason jar in a bag in my backseat. :( So, he drives me -- handcuffed -- to an ATM, then to the police
station, where I'm mugshotted and fingerprinted, and post $200 for my
warrant, and another $100 for the marijuana. He drops me off back at my car, and I have a traffic ticket and court
date for the misdemeanor of "VCSA Posession Marijuana - 1st", and a
court date on some weird homebrew form for whatever the warrant turns
out to be. The marijuana court date is scheduled for 12/3. I've got plane
tickets on 12/4. Am I fucked?
Madison, WI, in the home stretch to my home in Benton Harbor, MI, at
~3am Not a car on the road but me and the cop who zooms up behind and
flashes his lights. Maybe a mile from my bed. :( He runs my papers and apparently there is a warrant for me. Two years
ago my house burned down; the warrant seems to be for the crime of not
disposing of the remains quickly enough. I'm handcuffed, searched,
and deposited in the backseat of the cruiser. I've come from a college friend's wedding in Madison, and I have about
$80 of pot in a mason jar in a bag in my backseat. :( So, he drives me -- handcuffed -- to an ATM, then to the police
station, where I'm mugshotted and fingerprinted, and post $200 for my
warrant, and another $100 for the marijuana. He drops me off back at my car, and I have a traffic ticket and court
date for the misdemeanor of "VCSA Posession Marijuana - 1st", and a
court date on some weird homebrew form for whatever the warrant turns
out to be. The marijuana court date is scheduled for 12/3. I've got plane
tickets on 12/4. Am I fucked?
what if
what if we did this facebook app stumbleupon style.. a little black
toolbar along the top of our 'facebook frame', with an iframe showing
the article/URL along the top
+ / - go to the next article down the list, dropdown box chooses the algorithm
toolbar along the top of our 'facebook frame', with an iframe showing
the article/URL along the top
+ / - go to the next article down the list, dropdown box chooses the algorithm
spatial indexing
Great write-up on spatial indexing techniques, quad trees and Hilbert curves: http://blog.notdot.net/2009/11/Damn-Cool-Algorithms-Spatial-indexing-with-Qua...
Find the firewall
PING hans3l (75.101.130.13) 56(84) bytes of data.
is a black hole. But we need to open up port 80 to service the public!
[root@domU-12-31-39-06-2A-06 ~]# iptables -L Chain INPUT (policy ACCEPT) target prot opt source destination Chain FORWARD (policy ACCEPT) target prot opt source destination Chain OUTPUT (policy ACCEPT) target prot opt source destination [root@domU-12-31-39-06-2A-06 ~]#
