Logical Expressions Blog

Okay when I wrote this article about the joys of duct tape…

North Idaho Repair Tool

…I was sort of kidding. But it turns out that Forbes has deemed duct tape one of the most important tools of all time. (And not just in North Idaho. )

World’s Greatest Tool: Duct Tape?

The article describes the history of duct tape too, which is kind of interesting. Who knew?!

In the version of my Thwarting Mister Squirrel article that went out in the Sandpoint Insider ezine, I inadvertently said that Westsoy was the only soy yogurt worth eating.

Unfortunately, that was a large brain cramp. I meant Whole Soy. I corrected it in the Web site archive, but apologize to any vegetarian subscribers who wondered what I was talking about ;-)

An article in Fortune suggests that even the guy who invented cubicles, Robert Propst, thinks they were a mistake:

 Cubicles: The great mistake

It’s been more than 10 years since I’ve experienced the horror of a cubicle. And I don’t miss it at all.

I’ve been meaning to post about this for a couple days. As I wrote in this weeks’ Sandpoint Insider, Sylvie White of TerraPen Geographics let us post some of her maps that show where the U.S. Forest Service parcels are that Bush wants to sell off. This page has the maps:

http://www.sandpointinsider.com/LPMArticle.asp?ID=300

If there weren’t enough reasons to dispise our illustrious President, here’s one more. I keep reading more and more references to impeachment. Although I doubt it would really happen, no lying, cheating, thief of a politician deserves it more.

for the information-overload that too much technology has created. Big wigs are even having conferences about it:

Information Overload

“There’s even a name for the attention deficit disorder some fret the tech industry has created. “Continuous partial attention,” as they’re calling it, is an adaptive behavior pattern many consumers have adopted to cope with the need to multitask and boost productivity in the digital age. ”

Here’s a hint people: turn off your stupid cell phone for a change.

For those who are too busy to pay attention to what the kiddies are doing, now the world has a new technological spy tool named Bob just for you:

http://news.zdnet.com/2100-9584_22-6042249.html?part=rss&tag=feed&subj=zdnn 

“Bob consists of a timer and a reporter box. A device’s plug is locked into Bob, which is then plugged into a wall outlet. Parents assign their children a certain amount of time on the device by day or week, and when it’s up, Bob cuts the current. ”

You just gotta know that the comparisons to Microsoft’s ill-fated Bob will be coming down the pike shortly.

Okay, am I the only one who thinks this is disgusting?http://www.wired.com/news/culture/0,70322-0.html?tw=rss.index

Wanting to look like a Romulan or Klingon seems like a sort of pathetic Trekkie dream, if you ask me. Maybe I’m not open minded enough, but even the pictures grossed me out. I can’t imagine doing this to onesself on purpose.