And sometimes, you just need to decide.

I made the decision, gave people my cell phone number, and bolted out the door at 2:40. Got there right on time. Hunter was more interested in the gadgetry and switches, but it was a fun visit. Even got some "4d" shots. Pictures soon.

Sometimes, work just sucks.

So here I am, an hour before the only ultrasound appointment I thought I would be able to attend, and I'm waiting for someone, who has no backup, to get out of an unscheduled meeting to move a file and run a script for me. This is an emergency fix for a bug that is currently halting a critical university process. And since the testing will take an hour or more... I'll most likely be unable to be with Zak and Hunter to see our new member of the family. And there's no one to blame really; things are as they are. Two words: This sucks.

Panoptic reversal?

Just an idle thought for all the foucauldian theorists out there. How will publicly available satellite surveillance re-contextualize the panopical model of specular authority? It seems to turn the tables a bit, as I've discovered in a discussion about Google maps and accountability. Rather than offering a central vantage where the viewer may or may not be present, the model changes to a decentralized vantage where myriad viewers with no monolithic agenda are constantly present. In Foucault's model, this would amount to all prison cells in the Panopticon being possible collective and mutual surveillance mechanisms.

The GBAOTT Phenomenon

That's "Gameboy Advance on the Toilet" to those who can't psychically decode my acronym there.

From what I gather, anyone who owns a GBA has been known to forego magazine reading in favor of gaming while sitting on their throne. No shame in that.

Well, why should those who haven't been potty trained yet be an exception?