perfidy

I've always thought that good intentions were, in general, given too much credit. But this goes a little further, and rings true to me. Especially this:

"When I examine my conscience, I perceive that the worst intentions were typically those times where I was trying hardest to signal to myself and to others that my intentions were good, pure, blameless. That was when I was most deeply in thrall to pride."

Good intentions? Not so

from Bruce Charlton's Miscellany

A question that has been festering in my brain for some time now, even though I am not rich:

"But where can the rich go? Their choices include nations that have swarms of malaria-infested mosquitoes, bad TV, deadly climates, decapitation issues, French people, bland food and other signs of inhospitableness. When you consider these factors plus wars, pollution, terrorism, floods, droughts, earthquakes and tornadoes, I think you'll agree that most of the surveyed land on Earth is unfit for fancy people."

I may not be rich, but the nation of my birth is becoming increasingly annoying.

Scott Adams on Taxes, the Wealthy and a Return to the Ocean - WSJ.com

from online.wsj.com

"Picture Alexander Hamilton. In 1805, as he lay dying at the hands of Vice President Aaron Burr, could Hamilton have credibly groaned to his seconds, echoing Romulus, “Go, and tell the Romans Americans that by heaven’s will my Rome America shall be capital of the world. Let them learn to be soldiers. Let them know, and teach their children, that no power on earth can stand against Roman American arms."

Twice in two days, through no real effort or bent of mind, I ended up discussing the possibility of Caesarism in America. This lays in the background. And, my absolute favorite bible verse.

The Chains of the Improbable vs. The Chains of the Impossible | The Committee of Public Safety

from committeeofpublicsafety.wordpress.com

 

Seeing if the "note in reader" function will post the same way from the browser bookmarklet as it does from within google reader.

This, by the way, is the page where all the "wik" comes from.

Monty Python and the Holy Grail (1974) - Crazy credits

from www.imdb.com

This is a good observation:

"Great presidents (Roosevelt and Reagan) transform their times; good presidents (Eisenhower and Kennedy) understand them almost without trying; bad presidents (Buchanan and Carter) are overwhelmed by them. Obama is the first who has tried to defy them."

I think I might have to read the article.

The worst president

from View from the Right

I think I'd prefer a 1-day starship. Then I'd have it by next Tuesday.

STARSHIP DREAMS: A look at DARPA’s 100-year starship….

from Instapundit

Found a thing called ifttt - If this, then that. It glues interweb thingies together.

So far, I set up a task to mirror all my Google+ posts to my Facebook wall. I set up a task to automatically add any item I star in Google Reader to Instapaper. I set up a task to text my phone when the forecast calls for rain. Those were all found task recipes that were on the site.

The previous post is my first attempt at creating brand new tasks. If I share something with a note in Reader, then it should appear here on Perfidy. However, if it just posts anything I share at all, then I'll have to start over.

Interesting tool, check it out.

[wik]: Okay, it just posts anything I share.  Not so good.

[alsø wik] Tried another way.  Better in that it only picks up things I share with a note, but I can't use the note for the blog post title like I can if I'm pulling from reader.  Hmmn.

[alsø alsø wik] Tried to do it via email, which does allow me to control the title, and which ones would go here to Perfidy; but it trashes all links because it's taking the plain text of the message body.  Which doesn't work.

[Wi nøt trei a høliday in Sweden this yër?]: Well, I can get a standard title, like, "From the feed" or something, and have the comment appear in the body of the post.  Which works well enough.  Still have the problem of it posting everything I share, which is more than I want to go here.

[see the løveli lakes...] Very frustrating.  You can trigger off starred, liked and shared items.  But only shared items have access to the comment.  Ick.  And using a standard feed as a trigger buries the comment in with all the other text, and you can't control the post title at all.

[the wøndërful telephøne system...] So, if I change my sharing behavior - that will affect two people, and not greatly.  I can cope with that.  But I still have the mildly annoying issue of using the comment field either as post title, or as post content, but not both.  Using the shared item's title as the post title is awkward, because I can't control the length or formatting - for example, Instapundit always has titles in all caps.  (Shouting at the world since 2001!)

But using a standard title, like "From the feed" gives the reader no clue as to the content, and funny (or at least mildly amusing) titles are kind of a thing for blogs and Perfidy.  But if I use it for that, I'm left with just a link in the body of the post.  I can't actually comment on the thing I'm linking to.

I think I'm leaning toward using the comment for actually commenting.

[And mäni interesting furry animals]: The thing that will annoy me is the repetitive, "From the feed" titles.

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from Borepatch.

[wik] Both images dead to link rot. Sigh.