When Sports Work
The Heroes have been dropping hard lately. A Rod, Phelps. And let’s face it The Cardinals Super Bowl was supposed to be Leinert’s. But he is too busy clubbin’ and so Warner got be Cinderella. And who can forget the biggest mug shot ever taken as Charles Barkley smiled for his DUI.
This is a story that is what it is all about. Enjoy:
The Peace on Guru Eban Pegan’s Piece
February 17, 2009 by timokeefe
Filed under Off Beat Opinion
A very well regarded Internet marketing guru Eban Pegan is promoting a book on Peace. I posted a comment on his post which so far has been ignored and not posted on his commentary section . I guess my dissenting commentary was simply ignored and not thrown into the discussion with all the others who were enamored by the idea of peace in just 5 years.
My commentary was as follows. (By the way it is always a good idea when you are a blogger and you should be , to copy any comments that you might post just for this reason. You spent the time to comment, thus it should be posted. It also gives you a reason to expand on your thought process on your own blog.) The commentary:
I do appreciate this cause and the intent I really do. However, I think it often is just us imposing our values on others in another way.
Forgive my skepticism on any of these causes but when most of us cannot even get along with our spouses (50+% divorce rate) seriously are we qualified to impose our path to peace on someone else, in some other part of the world?
In fact, a large trend in the U.S. are couples, coupling or moving in with one another rather than marrying, having given up on the hope of a long term relationship/commitment all together.
When there is a good chunk of our citizens in the U.S. smoking crack, and addicted to meth as their path to peace, how good are we at this peace thing?
Lets look in the mirror before we impose kumbaya on someone else. As the Good book says it starts with us. Which starts within, which flows to our family and larger communities. Let’s work on smiling and engaging one another at home and in elevators. Then maybe we will indeed be an example.
It reminds me of some of my B School Profs who sounded great, but haven’t worked in the private sector for years, if ever. I cannot help but think that other Countries laugh at such things and say, “Healer heal thy self. ” I do not need to read a book or listen to 45 minutes on how to love. I just need to do it. And it is in that choice is where most of us fall off the wagon. Read more
Meet George Jetson, He Lives a Block From Google
February 3, 2009 by timokeefe
Filed under Cool Stuff
Did you grow up on Twilight Zone, the Jetsons, and Star Trek? Then you were fed a daily dose of either machines that were slaves to humans needs, or monsters that enslaved us like perhaps in The Mztrix.
Well these possibilities are being applauded or feared by many in the science community. Because it turns out that a new University has popped up right down the street from the Googleplex in Mountain View, California. The school called Singularity University will offer courses on biotechnology, nano-technology and artificial intelligence.
This is a joint collaberation between NASA (yah the Space agency) and Google.
The so-called “singularity” is a theorized period of rapid technological progress in the near future. Mr Kurzweil, an American inventor, popularized the term in his 2005 book “The Singularity is Near”.
Proponents say that during the singularity, machines will be able to improve themselves using artificial intelligence and that smarter-than-human computers will solve problems including energy scarcity, climate change and hunger.
From Wikipedia:
The technological singularity is a theoretical future point of unprecedented technological progress, caused in part by the ability of machines to improve themselves using artificial intelligence.[1]Statistician I. J. Good first wrote of an “intelligence explosion”, suggesting that if machines could even slightly surpass human intellect, they could improve their own designs in ways unforeseen by their designers, and thus recursively augment themselves into far greater intelligences. The first such improvements might be small, but as the machine became more intelligent it would become better at becoming more intelligent, which could lead to an exponential and quite sudden growth in intelligence.
