the reality tunnel

So I’ve been tracking my application to the Healthy Indiana Plan on this blog and I recently got a comment asking if I had heard anything about the status of my application.   I haven’t yet heard anything back about this plan, either through regular or electronic mail.  I will post more as I find out [...]

A blog parodying the “park slope parent” (public radio listeners, and myself too), Stuff White People Like is really interesting because I think it frames the activities that me and a lot of my friends enjoy, not just as our choices but as part of cultural forces of which race is a component.  As one [...]

From NPR: Creative Play Makes for Kids in Control:
It’s playtime at the Geraldyn O. Foster Early Childhood Center in Bridgeton, N.J., and in one corner of a busy classroom, 4-year-olds Zee Logan and Emmy Hernandez want to play bookstore.
In a normal preschool, playing bookstore would be a pretty casual affair. They would [...]

From a story on All Things Considered:
Since the 2000 elections, the number of young Americans going to the polls has increased steadily. This year is no different: In some states, double and triple the number of voters younger than 30 have turned out for primaries, compared with 2006. But another trend is also emerging: the [...]

Link to wired news article about this image, from Philip Zimbardo’s TED presentation.
From an accompanying article and interview with Zimbardo:
Wired: Your work suggests that we all have the capacity for evil, and that it’s simply environmental influences that tip the balance from good to bad. Doesn’t that absolve people from taking responsibility for their [...]

Port forwarding
from http://www.openssh.com/faq.html#2.11

$ ssh -f -L 1234:server.example.com:6667 server.example.com sleep 10

Backing up files over SSH

$ ssh remote_host “tar -zc -C /path/to/parent/directory -f – some_directory” | cat > some_directory-`datestr`.tar.gz

Backing up a postgres database over SSH

$ ssh remote_host “pg_dump –username=db_user db_name” | gzip > db_name-`datestr`.sql.gz

Women in Science Research Conference
Monday, Mar 3. 9a-2:30p
Solarium, Indiana Memorial Union
Su E Pian (Lady of the Moon): Women and Sexuality from the Kinsey Institute Asian Collections
Thursday, March 6th 7p
Asian Culture Center, 807 E 10th St
4 Months, 3 Weeks, and 2 Days film screening
Sunday, March 9 2p
Monroe County Public Library Auditorium
Yo Soy Boricua, Pa’que Tu Lo [...]

Your Heart Breaks is sometimes solo, sometimes richly accompanied pop songs played by Clyde who hails from Seattle.  I think the songs are really great – catchy but intelligent and personal.  I have not heard Caethua, but I’ve heard good things.  Claire also plays free jazz and hip-hop music, but her performance as Caethua was [...]

I’m not a gamer, but I found this article, linked to from BoingBoing relevent not just to gaming but other types of media:
Similarly, there would be no point today in writing a review of Ultima IV, since it is long out of print. A useful work of criticism, however, is entirely conceivable: discussing, perhaps, its [...]

p.114:
When men were targeted for prevention efforts, in educational or community settings, they were often sseen as potential perpetrators. The message to them: you need to recognize the triggers for your own bad behaviors so you can interrupt the process before you have the urge to strike your girlfriend/wife. Or, you need to [...]