Bar Bar Bar

Mon, 26 May 2008 20:13:06 GMT

Sun, 25 Mar 2007 05:06:54 GMT

I just saw 300 and

was Xerxes a Goa'uld?

Sun, 31 Dec 2006 03:20:56 GMT

In 2007, dasheiff resolves to...

Give up dgr8bobs.
Lose ten salmonpis by March.
Ask my boss for a kendo.
Go to dnd every Sunday.
Pay for my sovays on time.
Get back in contact with some old skotodes.

Fri, 15 Sep 2006 04:51:49 GMT

So I don't get sound in flash in firefox these days and though I should fix it. So I updated to the news version of firefox and flash and now it doesn't work at all. Yey.

Sat, 05 Aug 2006 09:09:47 GMT

Happy Birthday Ro, may you always have a button nose.

Sat, 17 Jun 2006 16:36:37 GMT

Cute thing on DRM.
http://www.eff.org/corrupt/

Fri, 02 Jun 2006 20:11:28 GMT

Took my Gre today.

Time Took: 2 hr 40 min
Verbal: 600
Quantitative: 770

Yey very happy.

Fri, 09 Dec 2005 20:41:59 GMT

So alec's xp broke so on his other hd i installed linux but his video is closed source.
tried to get my palm pilot working under linux but it was easier to just do it under windows, though my windows partion is broken on my machine so i had to use my fathers.
When I updated X it broke everything and spent hours trying to fix it, ended up just booting into an older kernel and things are working again.
Saw Narnia last night which I wasn't really interested in seeing but a girl who likes me did, and we eventally kissed for the first time and saw the movie and then talked for an hour afterwards about phil and stuff. I must admit the talking of high level stuff is what I've believed to be missing from many of my past relationships.
Also got a call on monday for a job that neither my mother nor myself applied for. They probally got my name off of monster.com, it's doing data entry for the tax season the job starts jan 2. was gona go get finger printed and back ground checked on wed but it was icy so they reschduled me for monday. (well it is IRS tax stuff)
Anyway both finals are on tuesday which I really don't like, no less their
one right after another (hour lunch). None the less I think I know a lto of the material and studing should be easy. I'm looking forward to getting them done.

Math Problem

Sun, 04 Dec 2005 23:31:38 GMT

#522860 +(101)- [X] by prepared

Theorem: All numbers are equal.
Proof: Choose arbitrary a and b, and let t = a + b. Then
1. a + b = t
2. (a + b)(a - b) = t(a - b)
3. a^2 - b^2 = ta - tb
4. a^2 - ta = b^2 - tb
5. a^2 - ta + (t^2)/4 = b^2 - tb + (t^2)/4
6. (a - t/2)^2 = (b - t/2)^2
7. a - t/2 = b - t/2
8. a = b
So all numbers are the same, and math is pointless.

Alright so I can't figure this out, I mean I can see the divide by 0 but I can't figure out how it works. Also the square root things are weird. and I can't see how line lines 5 gets to line 6. Naomi? Joel?

Sat, 03 Dec 2005 01:09:24 GMT

http://games.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=169991&cid=14167349

Man I wish I could write like this.

Thu, 01 Dec 2005 23:14:36 GMT

How can we prevent rape?
http://www.livejournal.com/users/barefootedchild/30527.html?mode=reply
I don't know but I'm not the only one with an idea.

Thu, 17 Nov 2005 00:49:03 GMT

So I was just watching Charmed today and saw this (and the previous episode).

Leo=good guy
Zankou=demon who would be a bad guy normally
Avatars=magical people who want to bring peace on earth.

While the Charmed Ones enjoy their new conflict-free world, Leo learns that in order for the Avatars to protect their Utopian world, they also control everyone's destiny by deciding who lives and dies. Wanting to stop the Avatars, Leo joins forces with Zankou to undo the change. Unable to convince Piper, Phoebe and Paige that the Avatars kill innocent people, Leo gives his life, causing the sisters' to join forces with Zankou to reverse time and return the world to the way it was. Finally, Paige receives a special surprise and Leo's fate relies on the Elders.
(http://rmcat13.tripod.com/id19.html)

Okay so basicly this is the somewhat standard distopia that must be undone. This was also done in Angel Season 4, though this was more beign.
A better example would probally be Star Trek's Next Gen's episode Justice (Summery here: http://stng.36el.com/st-tng/episodes/109.html)

This distopia changed the hearts and minds of everyone to basicly be good and to avoid conflict. The issue is that the Avatars remove (read: kill, though in a peaceful way) people who are disruptive. The avators even go so far as to say that less people will die this way. Let's assume this is true.

Our heros make them turn it back on the basis that people are no longer in control of their destinies and people no longer feel how they should. I.e. grief, sadness, depression etc. In fact once everything is turned back to normal again the heros admit that they have never been so happy to hear people argue (even to the point of violence) once again.

I feel that there are two issues here: 1. Element of control of the Utopia. 2. Who deicideds which world should exist.

I would like to deal with point 2 first. Our heros seem to be allowed to make the determaination by themselves. Now one might agure that they are in the right, but this goes back to the question of self deception. Some of you may have read Fried's work on this. Is it correct to decieve yourself if it will make you happy? Most people I have talked to will say no, though some do say yes. We can expand this to say what would you give up to have pease on earth. I think this might be compatable with the Christian view of the world to come. Non-good people stay dead, everyone else comes back to life, and worships and bows down to god and his choices and morals. This brings the idea back to the real world connection, which makes the choice to reject these utopias decidedly anti-christian. The suggestion is that a good world is something we have to strive for and we can't hope for a magical solution.

This we can now tie back into point 1. Is control by the few the only way to creature a utopia/distopia? Even Plato has what is good to be deicded upon by the eleet. What is the alternative? Is it a democracy? Where the majority get to decided what is right and wrong (in theory) and therefore instead of terriny of the few we have terriny of the many. Since there is so much decention on what is right/wrong good/bad we wind up with a compromse system which we have in the U.S. now. Remember a compromise is where neither side get's what they want. This can easily lead to war, in which the victor (the stronger) wins and then can rule over the losers (or themselves as the case may be). So what is the different between the Avitars coming to power and a british controlled america? What if britians control was acceptable to the majority of the people? Would that then be okay? What's that you say? The majority of americans didn't care the the british ruled them only a handful of rag-tag richmen? Oh yeah that's right i forgot, only small few rebelled, won, and created their own system of government.

I think this points very strongly to justice being the will of the strong.

Comments? Suggestions?

Mon, 07 Nov 2005 23:33:53 GMT

http://analyticphilosopher.org/dasheiff/
Old Brandeis Pics

Should intest Naomi Steve Sonya Joel Irina Ro Simon Messel Neil El even a chess board.

Mon, 31 Oct 2005 08:30:36 GMT

http://ed.sjtu.edu.cn/rank/2005/ARWU2005_Top100.htm

Wow Brandeis didn't make it to the top 100. To be fair our big slot competator Tufts is at 100.

Sun, 30 Oct 2005 21:53:55 GMT

I liked this test, and the results make a lot of sense.

the Wit (61% dark, 26% spontaneous, 26% vulgar)

your humor style: CLEAN | COMPLEX | DARK

The 3-Variable Funny Test!
http://www.okcupid.com/tests/take?testid=17565214125862764376

temp agency

Fri, 21 Oct 2005 04:58:50 GMT

I went to a temp aggency this week and took a few tests of my skills.

Keypad: 9750 ks/h
Adjusted Typing Speed: 10170 ks/h
DOS 6: 58%
Linux Administration: 59%
Excel: 80%
Word: 90%
Unix Administration: 68%
Unix User: 72%

Conclusions:
I'm about as compentent a user of unix as an admin. I know Word better than Excel. And I type faster using the whole keyboard as oppsed to just the num pad. And of course I'm better at UNIX which I haven't used since I was 16, than Linux, which I've been using for the past 5 Years.

Anyway I had a really good interview on wed and homefully I'll get the job. It's a place that works for state farm. I'll be calling up people in california who have state farm and making sure their information is correct or perhaps asking to do a servey as to how they like their insurance. So it's not as good as the law office where everyone I call wanted to talk to me all afternoon and would promise me their first born if I asked for it. But atleast it isn't calling up people who don't want to pay their bills. It's kind of a nice medium.

Poll

Fri, 06 May 2005 03:53:23 GMT

So I'm going to ask out a girl who gave me her number.
We have a final on Wed and I see two good options.

Ask her to study on mon or tue.
Ask her to dinner after the final on wed.

Thoughts?