Paint the Tiger, Carve the Swan

It started on Friday night with Touch training. I coached rather than training, as I was carrying a bit of a hamstring injury, and I wanted to give it a bit more rest. Still, it meant I didn’t get home until around 8. I’m just glad I chose not to ride my bike!

Saturday was the annual Colley Reserve 5-a-side Touch Carnival. Normally Touch is played with 6 on the field, but for a more exciting game, and because the fields are a bit smaller, this carnival plays with 5. It’s mixed, so 3 boys and 2 girls are the order of the day. I played in the UniSA team, knowing only two of the players beforehand. The guys, and most of the girls were pretty nice people, and we wound up making the final in the Pool B division. Which we lost, to a team that pretty much plays together all of the time.
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‘I will pledge to never purchase a CD contaning any form of Digital Rights Management (DRM),’ - PledgeBank

Deadline to sign up by: 6th February 2006
3,745 people have signed up (3245 over target)

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I’m continuing to archive and present the pick (IMHO) of the week’s PostSecret entries.

Actually, a very similar thing happened in my family. Apparently my Dad kicked a cat, and my sister and I didn’t find out until her 21st birthday that it hadn’t been bitten by a snake.
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As an adjunct to another project I am working on (basically an extended version of the experimental writeup I did about iTunes Ratings), I had cause to wonder as to the distribution of ratings in my iTunes library, and in other peoples.

I may be unusual in that when I import an album, I grab the whole lot. Even if I really only like one track. I just feel some day I may want to listen to the whole lot!
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I’m partway through the 24/9/2005 edition of ABC Radio National’s Podcast of their program All In The Mind. The program description is:

SUMMARY: Cotard’s syndrome is the belief that you have died, and for sufferers it is a terrifying state. Delusions can take many forms, from widespread paranoia to a specific and singular delusion - you might think an impostor has replaced your spouse. These misbeliefs are commonly associated with schizophrenia, but they can also occur in people with brain injuries, Huntington’s and Parkinson’s disease and dementia. The Macquarie Centre for Cognitive Science is seeking to explain delusions by developing a model of how we all come to accept or reject beliefs. We see how this research is progressing.

I don’t know that much about Schizophrenia, but early in the program they are talking about how people with this condition cannot (bear to?) look at faces of people who are angry or fearful.

A little later on, the following phrase is used:

[Delusion is] a strongly held belief for which there isn’t any evidence.

I’m not going to make a further statement as to the similarity between this and religion. I’ll let you decide. Flames cheerfully accepted.

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For some reason, there is a small bug in the Quicktags.js script I contributed to Blogsome. That is, when putting in an abbr, or an acronym, only some Browsers will automatically add what the abbreviated term stands for (or what it might stand for). I coded in a series of common values, so that, for instance, if you have AAC selected, and press abbr, then it will put Advanced Audio Coding into the title field.

It works with Firefox. It also works in Safari, but only if the User Agent is changed - older versions of Safari didn’t support Quicktags at all, so the authors of WordPress coded in a check, and the Quicktags don’t appear in Safari. I must fix the check in the Blogsome code, and submit it to Roger.

It doesn’t work, however, with either Opera or Internet Explorer. Something to fix, later.

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The Science Creative Quarterly » A GAME THEORETIC APPROACH TO THE TOILET SEAT PROBLEM

The toilet seat problem has been the subject of much controversey. In this paper we consider a simplified model of the toilet seat problem. We shall show that for this model there is an inherent conflict of interest which can be resolved by a equity solution.

We’ve found the ideal solution is that the Toilet Seat Lid is to be left down at all times: then everyone using the toilet incurs the same cost each time they “perform an operation”, be it a #1 operation or a #2 operation.

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