Sex, Drugs and Public Hangings
A series by Spiralbound.net on social deviance and punishment in the United States and Europe
Introduction to the study:
Since exploring the reasons for social deviance is, in many ways central to the discipline of sociology, it stands to reason that there already exists a relatively large amount of work surrounding the various [...]
Since I work in a office building that has no windows, gets no fresh air, and has no natural light, I’ve often thought about how nice it would be if we could simply pipe some sunlight in over fiber optics. We would all get a lot more vitamin D, probably be a lot nicer to [...]
Sex, Drugs and Public Hangings
A series by Spiralbound.net on social deviance and punishment in the United States and Europe
Abstract:
Whether walking down the sidewalk of a busy American city, or sitting in a cafe, all one has to do is listen for a short while to learn how many people in the United States feel about [...]
People like to say that if you remain motivated and work hard all your effort will pay off in the end, and you will be rewarded with great success. That may well be true, but if you are an artist, or your name is Toichi Itoh, that success may come a little later than you [...]
If you are using Veritas NetBackup on Solaris 9 with LTO Ultrium-2 tape drives, you will be constantly annoyed by slow tape write performance unless you use blocks of at least 256KB.
To resolve this, the first thing you’ll want to do is increase both the number of buffers and the buffer size on the media [...]
last week I listened to “Open Source” on NPR for the first time and I must say, I tuned in with a great deal of anticipation and excitement! “Open Source” is a radio show that uses blogs and internet sources as fodder, bringing the fast-paced independent reporting of the blogosphere to more traditional media outlets. [...]
Over the past two weeks, I’ve been at the Violin Craftsmanship Institute in Durham, NH taking the violin building class with Karl Roy. This marks my third year in this class, and I’m now about two thirds of the way through building my first violin. The program is offered for five weeks each summer, but [...]
While my job mostly has me working with Solaris and Mac OSX systems, I’m occasionally forced to go slumming and deal with Windows. What can I say, we can’t always like every aspect of our jobs. Anyhow, yesterday I had to move our Symantec Ghost control console from one box to another. Sadly, it’s not [...]
Earlier this Spring, we decided that since we have a pond, and a big yard, we would head on down to the hardware store and get three Mallard ducklings. We thought it would be nice to have some quacking around and the thought of them eating slugs and pests out of our garden would be [...]
