steve dekorte

2008 05 11

I didn't anticipate a downturn of epic proportions such that home values are 40 percent less than they were..

I guess he didn't consider the epic upturn of home prices having rising to 100 percent above their inflation adjusted norms to be a clue that a correction was in order.

2008 05 11 Talk: Helen Fisher on Love and Lust
She describes love as having three components: romantic infatuation, lust, and attachment. She mentions that the first two are products of dopamine mediated drives but oddly doesn't mention that attachment is an addiction mediated by the opiate system.
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2008 05 09 Continuity

There is in certain ancient things a trace
Of some dim essence - more than form or weight;
A tenuous aether, indeterminate,
Yet linked with all the laws of time and space.
A faint, veiled sign of continuities
That outward eyes can never quite descry;
Of locked dimensions harbouring years gone by,
And out of reach except for hidden keys.

It moves me most when slanting sunbeams glow
On old farm buildings set against a hill,
And paint with life the shapes which linger still
From centuries less a dream than this we know.
In that strange light I feel I am not far
From the fixt mass whose sides the ages are.
- H.P. Lovecraft

2008 05 07 Superdelegate Votes for Sale
Representative democracy in action.
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2008 05 07 Feynman Lectures
Videos

2008 05 06 HTC Touch Diamond

Though this isn't an ideal example, it makes me wonder if the tech industry is rediscovering minimalist design.

2008 05 05 Dead Man Soundtrack by Neil Young
Video and a nice cover

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