What have mathematics, geography or science to do with homosexuality?
on 01/24/2011 at 11:14 AM
Sorry. I doubled the time it took me to read the Steyn piece and called that half an hour. I tend to forget that I read 4 to 10 times faster than most people. Beats me why, I just do. Always have. Used to get me in trouble in grade school. Since I love to read, and routinely eat a couple books per week, my reading stays in good shape. Wish the rest of me was as athletic.
Actually I was talking about this very thing with my wife yesterday. I had an idea that if the Kindle gizmo can take “apps” then a metronome bit of software could easily be written for it. A “Follow the bouncing ball” kind of thing that would highlight each word an amount of time based on the size of the world multiplied by some scalar time interval. “The” and “cat” flip by very fast, but “supercalifragilisticexpialidocious” would be highlighted for some time ... the first time the word appeared in the text. Less time if it appears again within 2, 000 words. The scalar interval would be adjustable based on a comprehension test. That way the Kindle could be used as a reading trainer as well as just a digital book. While this sounds like a memory intensive algorithm, it would be done ahead of time, and the timing marks would be hidden at the metadata level for either each word or for each book.
A text-to-speech app would use them as well, for people who want the written info given to them at NYC conversational speed, instead of at bedtime story speed.
A third app, running in the background, would count how many pages that Kindle has shown at the current scalar, and after perhaps 100 or so pages it would give you a pop-up “Are you ready to go faster? Want to test your comprehension?” message.
Perhaps I should read more arcane poetry. The really weird stuff forces you to stop reading and think often about what you just saw. Well, it does if you’re trying to understand it. If you just want the rhyme or the tone then read it as fast as you want.
I’m seeing a disconnect here. So the UK gov is bending over backwards (yeah, I know...) to accommodate gay folk. Aren’t they also bending over backwards to accommodate Muslim folk? And don’t the Muslim folk normally kill the gay folk? What happens when these two groups come head to head (yeah, I know...)?
Seems to me that they’re going to have to make a choice. And probably sooner, rather than later.
MichigammeDavePosted by MichigammeDave
01/25/2011 at 08:43 AM
Actually, MichigammeDave...they’re bending over FORWARDS to accommodate both groups.
Yeah, I know.
Posted by MichigammeDave
01/26/2011 at 12:27 PM
