One life in recursive eval of transubstantiation_by_successive_approximation(self),
observations and commentary, at work, at home, and everywhere else.
"Building Commercial Scale ISP/ASP Infrastructure for Dummies"
meets "Tales of the City". Whatever. 
Strata Rose Chalup
strata_@_virtual_._net
My goodness, it's SO much faster to blog at night. Of course, I ought to be asleep. But catching up on some email for a few minutes while dealing with insomnia brought me to Unwise Microwave Oven Experiments. Very inspiring. I'll have to try some of these sometime later. Did anyone else ever make FrankenPeeps by cycling the power on a Peep in the nuker? No? Umm, err, maybe I never did either....The lovely disclaimer (perhaps I should say the FIRST lovely disclaimer) on the site says, " Are you a kid? Does your microwave oven belong to your parents? If so, then don't even THINK about trying any of these experiments. I'm serious. If I wreck my microwave oven, I can buy another. Also, I'm a professional electrical engineer. I know enough physics and RF effects to take correct safety precautions when I'm experimenting. But you don't know the precautions, so you should be smart: read and enjoy my writing, but don't duplicate my tests unless you grow up to become an electronics tech, engineer, etc., and buy your OWN microwave oven."
I bet they won't listen. I would have, but then again we didn't have a microwave when I was growing up. :-)
posted by Strata Chalup 1/9/2001 02:08:17 AM
More blogging than you can shake a stick at...
Instead of just bookmarking stuff, I've created a little blog farm to try to share them with folks. We'll see how well it works. :-)
For those who want to snag the uberbookmark list, it's at http://www.virtual.net/strata-bookmarks.html
cheers,
_Strata
posted by Strata Chalup 1/7/2001 08:05:55 PM
Another lovely "dot com eCONomy" analysis from overseas. I am sorry to hear of all the layoffs, but I feel quite vindicated that I was not, in fact, clueless or crazy. Now if only I had abandoned my principles long enough to become severely rich, but alas, I always felt that the whole thing was a big pyramid scheme and couldn't bring myself to sign on with anybody except as a consultant.Guardian Unlimited | Netnews | The big con
"Since it was markets that expressed the will of the people,
virtually any criticism of business could be described as an act of "elitism" arising out of despicable contempt for the common
man.
...
Since what the market does - no matter how whimsical, irrational or harmful - was the Will of the People, any scheme to operate outside its auspices or control its ravages was by definition a dangerous artifice, the hubris of false expertise."
posted by Strata Chalup 1/7/2001 11:02:39 AM
