after going almost a month without my laptop… my only mode of getting any freelance work done… and after getting about a month behind on my current major project… things can finally once again get back to normal. laptop finally came back from some major repair… almost half of the computer was replaced, which is supposed to still be covered under warranty (’cause i didn’t authorize most of them!). now the project deadline for the flash application project has been pushed back to october 1st, so i’ll get less and less sleep up to that point… i still have a full time job at the arch firm in midtown ya know!
not much else has been going on… been reading more recently trying to finally finish this book i’ve been reading for a while… “Godel, Escher Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid” into which i have begun to dive into investigations into mind, consciousness and the self from the most basic level and increasing in complexity to incorporate systematic relationships between levels of consciousness. eventually this will loop back into previous pattern analysis of number theory and mathematica, fugues, and dna. it has been quite fascinating thus far, so am quite determined to complete it now…
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http://www.nytimes.com/2005/09/13/national/nationalspecial/13build.html?hp&ex=1126670400&en=ecda3c4e37416595&ei=5094&partner=homepage
I guess it is important to build homes and help those that have nothing anymore. I wonder though at what respect are these homes being planned. are they actually using urban planners and designers or are they just trying to look special and build a lot of homes that will suck and not do much good. now is the time i think to plan and make sound decisions not rush into more mistakes that our government seems to find themselves involved in… always! who does their math for them anyway. they plan some 300,000 homes to be built in months but they only have 150,000 people +/- some in shelters and hotels. if on avg. there are 3 people to a home that should only result in 100,000 homes if i can still do math. i thought that was simple. why do we think excess is better when all it does is cost more money. plan something… sit down and think for a second then implement, maybe you won’t screw it up again. (if there are 300,000 families build them all new homes). “the thought of the numbers might drop if the demand decreases” doesn’t make sense. put rational numbers to the situation then give a 3% buffer or even 10% and go with that until the numbers make it so that you should create such enormous excess.
disclaimer… this is only from one article but i get tired of hearing how politics think that more is better… more money= better help, more troops= shorter war……
you get the idea and this article i think shows this point, that’s all.
later