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Speaking of Strength…

There has been a great deal of discourse lately over strength. What makes someone “strong,” and surprisingly more important, what makes someone “weak.” Discussion also turns to gender, and what qualities in each gender exhibit strength and weakness.

Inevitably, those who are louder and extroverted are more often tagged as strong here. Strength is blasted at you, in your face and ears. Little attention is given to those who deal their strength in swift sharpness. Their consideration and careful manner are mistaken for docility and fragility. Silence is consent. We all know the danger in this argument.

In the world of international development, it’s alarming to come across people who still deal in binary. Where vulnerability is still seen as undesirable, feminine, and weak. I see this in the PCV community, as well as the Cambodian community.

“Where the hell did this come from?” you may wonder. I was watching a movie tonight. I started to cry at one moment towards the very end. I instantly felt a pang of shame for releasing emotion like that during an animated movie. Then anger at my shame, and then a realization.

When I was young, my mother would get angry if I cried over something she felt didn’t need tears. During fights with my sister, I would get so angry I teared up. My mother would yell at me if that happened, which would make me feel even worse and then there was no stopping the tears then. My mother comes from a culture where vulnerability was hidden, private. My grandmother still refuses to see sad movies because she doesn’t want to experience negative or difficult emotions, she just wants to escape. Which is the preference of many people.

12 years ago Saturday I lost my mother. I didn’t cry at the funeral, I rarely cried in front of my family. Instead I drove to my best friend’s house and cried on her mother’s lap. I closed myself in the cooler at work and cried while I stocked the lettuce and the milk. I would go on drives and let myself go. Private.

For a very long time, I refused to watch movies that would make me cry. If I ever was wrangled into watching one or was caught off guard, I employed any tactic I could to avoid it. I don’t know how or why, but one day I decided to let go. I remember my heart beating faster as the lump in my throat grew bigger and bigger. I looked over at my friend and saw her giving in to the emotion and before I knew it, I gave in as well. I felt light, I felt relief.

There is strength in confronting all that is sad and terrible about humanity. To look it in the eye, observe it, get to know it, and remember it after you move on. To know light, one must know dark. Denying the dark and suppressing it is doing a disservice that will inevitably catch up. Negative emotions are toxic and releasing them is a very healing process.

Along those lines, those that show their vulnerability are not weak. Those that are quiet and contemplative are just as strong, if not maybe stronger, than those that are loud and aggressive.

It also takes strength to make and follow through with a decision, no matter how unpopular it is or what the stigma is around that decision.

Showing true vulnerability, kindness, doubt, pause, or perhaps not speaking as loudly as others should not be labeled as weakness.

I’ll end with an anecdote. I was at the gym today and one of the regular male customers came to play ping pong. I’ve seen him play before – he shouts a lot, A LOT, and teases his opponents. I can’t understand 100% of what he says, but from his body language and the reaction from others I see what is going on. It gets on my nerves. Tonight he was playing a guy who barely said a WORD the entire game. The quiet guy was quick, and judging by the score being shouted by a spectator, he was kicking ass. He celebrated his defeat with a cold water and quickly left on his moto.

I admire those I have met here  – both American and Khmer – who have challenged the normalized concepts of strength that I admit to internalizing over the years. Keep on keepin’ on.

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  1. Sarah says:

    V! I love your posts. You are such an insightful, inspiring, beautiful person – and a terrific writer to boot. 🙂 You do so much for so many – near and far. I’m proud to call you my friend. Lots of love to you, my dear.

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You can now virtually launch rockets with VMR

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Don’t have time to head out to a field and launch some rockets?  Prowler Studios has launched a new Model Rocket Simulator Game. Now if they can just port it to the Wii.

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“Virtual Model Rocketry PC Game Has Been Released

Prowler Studios has released its first PC game title: Virtual Model Rocketry.

Cancun, Mexico (April 12, 2010).- Independent video game development studio Prowler Studios announced today the release of Virtual Model Rocketry. The game is a model rocketry simulator that allows players to launch rockets in a 3D environment, complete with varying wind conditions, rocket sizes, engine types and difficulty levels.

The use of an accurate physics simulation provides realistic trajectories and the forces that affect how the rockets fly and land. The players are able to change the appearance of the rocket by selecting different components like nose cone, fins and colors which provide over 10,000 different combinations.

“Many (hobbyists) can’t launch their rockets on real life because of adverse weather conditions or not living near a field that has the right conditions to launch safely, but now they can launch as many rockets as they want, regardless of the weather or the time of day” said Mike Rodriguez from Prowler Studios.

Rodriguez added that Virtual Model Rocketry is also a safe learning tool for beginners and kids to get started without the hazards and expenses generally attributed to the hobby.

Prowler Studios will sell the game through their website utilizing Avangate, a world leader in e-commerce solutions, for payment process and product delivery to guarantee secure transactions.

Additionally, Prowler Studios will be having a “Launch Sale” offering 15% off of all Virtual Model Rocketry purchases until July 18th, 2010.”

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Last week, writing on a Reddit AMA (Ask Me Anything) interview, Professor Stephen Hawking was asked whether he thought that technological advancement could one day lead to large-scale unemployment – something that we have discussed before in an earlier blog.

In reply, Hawking said that:

If machines produce everything we need, the outcome will depend on how things are distributed.

Everyone can enjoy a life of luxurious leisure if the machine-produced wealth is shared, or most people can end up miserably poor if the machine-owners successfully lobby against wealth redistribution.

So far, the trend seems to be toward the second option, with technology driving ever-increasing inequality.

Although we may agree with Hawking, as our earlier article suggests, his reply has sent ripples throughout the digital sector and Silicon Valley. So much so that entrepreneur Marc Andreessen felt the need to reply via Twitter:

The Netscape cofounder went on to suggest that Hawking should buy himself an Economics 101 textbook, before going on to retweet the Chancellor of the Exchequer, George Osborne.

But is Andreessen right?

Although there’s little or no denying that technology has driven economic growth throughout much of Europe and the United States, it could be questioned as to whether the industry is growing as one – and if society is reaping its benefits in equal measure.

Speaking to Technology Review, Erik Brynjolfsson, a professor at MIT’s Sloan School of Management, said, “my reading of the data is that technology is the main driver of the recent decreases in inequality. It’s the biggest factor.”

With equality on the cards, how does gender equality fair?

According to a 2014 study by research firm, Gartner, it found that between 2004 and 2014, gender equality in key roles has remained unchanged – with women taking only 14 per cent of chief information officer (CIO) roles in technology.

Interestingly, the study also found that the situation is marginally worse in the EU and the United States than it is in developing nations. Tina Nunno, vice-president and fellow at Gartner said that:

The EU generally lags behind nations in Latin America, Asia and the US primarily because of a traditional hierarchy, in my view, with more institutionalised behaviour, which makes it harder for new schemes of working and thinking to break through.

Are women paid less than men?

According to a recent study undertaken by The Candidate, a digital recruitment agency, it found that within 150 digital businesses, 43 per cent of women earn less than £20,000 per year, with men earning on average 9 per cent more (it is worth noting that the national average stood at 17.5 per cent in November 2014).

The study also found that 80 per cent of the top salaries in the digital sector go to men, as “soft skilled” positions were discovered to be favoured by women – such as social media and PR – with more “technical” roles being taken by men.

Brian Matthews, managing partner at The Candidate said that:

Gender equality and offering women the same opportunities as men when it comes to job roles and salaries is something that every business should be striving towards.

The wage gap within the digital industry is closing and whilst, at 9%, it is 0.4% less than the national average, there is still a way to go until gender equality is reached.

What is being done about it?

Despite what some might claim, the issue has not gone entirely unnoticed by the Government, as it has called for organisations and business to bring more women to the forefront of science and technology via its Women into Technology campaign and Engineering Call to Action.

In November, Nicky Morgan, the Minister for Women and Equalities, warned industries not to be complacent and said that, “we have more women in work than ever before, but businesses need to value diversity in their workforce and pay attention to the role of women in their organisations.”

So although we’re still a fair way off equality, in an industry that prides itself as being at the forefront of innovation, there is a small light at the end of the tunnel, even if it has to be recognised and fought for – tooth and nail.

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Tuesday, 1 December 2009

1st December, 2009

Today's weather;

Yesterday we waved goodbye to November and here we are, welcoming December in the same style as we parted from November, with blue skies and sunny weather. Current temp at 7am is 27.3C

Yesterday was another dry and warm day with a max temp of 31.2C

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Dude Looks Like A Lady

So Steven Tyler sang the Star-Spangled Banner at the Patriots/Ravens game, and yes I made a joke about it on Twitter. But then I got to thinking: did he really do that badly?

The answer, of course, is yes. And no!

Here it is. Yeah, it’s all screechy and flailing and WTF, but that also describes a lot of Aerosmith’s music. It just sounds odd because there’s no music, no effects, nothing for the vocals to run parallel to. You have to focus on the voice and that’s all. Hey, just like American Idol!

Tyler doesn’t have a very good voice, but he has a very good voice for rock.

Idol followed the game and Tyler’s performance could actually be used as a criticism of that show, where singers sing with no music and no effects. Sure, the really good singers stand out and the really bad singers deserve to be voted off the show, and they’re looking for a certain type of singer. But I think people like Tyler would fall somewhere in the middle. So would most rock singers. Tyler isn’t Whitney Houston or Josh Groban or James Taylor. You know what you’re going to get when you ask someone like Tyler to sing something like the National Anthem, or at least you should know.

We should be talking more about what Tyler wore to sing the song. Is there anyone else that defines the embracing of rock and roll as your lifestyle, even at the age of 84? I think not.

Not sure why I’m here writing about American Idol and football, two things I don’t really care about, but there it is. (Tomorrow: extreme makeovers and particle physics!)

But it finally snowed! And it’s cold! It’s almost like it’s winter or something.


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A few weeks ago, I posted about a pair of lawsuits brought by Edwin Mellen Press (EMP) against Dale Askey, an academic librarian, and his employer, McMaster University. Prior to joining McMaster, Askey had written a blog posting critical of the press, characterizing its output as “marginal scholarship” and its prices as “egregiously high.” The press took exception to Askey’s posting and sued both Askey and McMaster for defamation.

On 4 March, EMP announced its intention to “discontinue” the lawsuit that names both McMaster University and Dale Askey. (The other suit, naming Askey as an individual respondent, remains in play as of this writing.)

In my posting I described a phone conversation I’d had with EMP’s owner in 2012, calling it “easily the strangest phone conversation I’ve ever had with a publisher.” I can now say that EMP’s announcement is one of the strangest press releases I’ve ever read.

First of all, the announcement leads with the assertion that “The Edwin Mellen Press is a scholarly publisher. This has been confirmed in a recent Open Letter to the Scholarly Community posted on the web by the Association of Canadian University Presses.” The letter to which EMP refers is well worth reading. It’s true that the letter refers to EMP as a “scholarly publisher.” But here is the paragraph in which that characterization occurs:

We find it distressing that a scholarly publisher such as The Edwin Mellen Press would use the courts to attempt to silence comment and criticism from our customers. Freedom to speak and comment is a core value to which all publishers owe their allegiance.

It is abundantly clear that the point of ACUP’s open letter was not to confirm or defend EMP’s character as a reputable scholarly publisher; on the contrary, it was to defend Askey’s posting as “the views of an experienced and professional university librarian” and his expressed views as “fair comment,” and to call on EMP to stop persecuting Askey for engaging in legitimate criticism. In other words, having been castigated publicly for behaving in a manner fundamentally antithetical to scholarship and freedom of expression, EMP then deliberately drew the public’s attention to that criticism and attempted to characterize it as “confirmation” of its scholarly status. This is simply bizarre.

Another strange feature of EMP’s press release is its repeated reference to a “social media campaign” against it. It is true that contributors to the blogosphere, Twitter, newspapers, professional journals, and listservs responded with outrage to EMP’s lawsuits, and that Askey (along with many of his friends and supporters) called on the scholarly community to come to his aid — given the issues at play, this seems neither surprising nor uncalled-for. But EMP seems to be suggesting that this widespread public response constituted a “campaign” orchestrated in some kind of centralized way — and, even more oddly, asserts that “the Association” (i.e., ACUP, the very group whose letter EMP had just cited in support of its status as a legitimate scholarly publisher) “and others” were behind it. The press clearly feels ill-treated by this public reaction; “EMP is a small company,” it says in the announcement, while complaining about the “severe pressure” that this “campaign” had put on both the press and on unidentified “authors.” (Is EMP “small”? Yes, but not as small as Askey — and it was EMP, not Askey, who brought suit demanding millions of dollars.)

Last of all — and bearing in mind EMP’s complaints about a “campaign” against it in the social media — consider this downright weird development: when I wrote about the lawsuits last month, one reader (using the name “Thomas Anthony Kelly”) posted a comment to the effect that he found “this whole debate to be nuts.” He argued that when it comes to scholarly books, “the… publisher is no indication of quality” (No indication? Really?) and stated furthermore that he knows of “some excellent books published by EMP which have excellent reviews in leading scholarly journals.” Fair enough — except that this same person had apparently posted the same comment, verbatim, to literally hundreds of blogs, news outlets, and other websites that reported on the lawsuits. Once this fact was pointed out publicly by another Kitchen commenter, “Thomas Anthony Kelly”‘s comments on other pages began disappearing; as of this writing, Google search results indicate that only five instances of that comment remain. Now, I’m not sure how comprehensively Google searches older comments — it may be that all of these deletions have simply happened as more-recent comments on the sites pushed the “Kelly” comment off-screen. But if “Thomas Anthony Kelly” is really a single person, then he is clearly both an exceptionally industrious one and a very dedicated fan of EMP. If he is also the one responsible for mass deletions of his comment, then one has to wonder whether he has a day job.

Many of us in the scholarly community will be very happy to learn that EMP has “discontinued” its suit against McMaster and Askey. However, the suit against Askey himself is still active. Now that McMaster University is no longer under direct threat, one can only hope that it will offer practical and concrete support to Askey if the suit against him continues to move forward. And anyone who sees EMP’s continued action as an affront to academic (and personal) free speech may want to say so publicly. I know I do.

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Rick Anderson is Associate Dean for Collections and Scholarly Communication in the J. Willard Marriott Library at the University of Utah. He speaks and writes regularly on issues related to libraries, scholarly communication, and higher education, and has served as president of NASIG and of the Society for Scholarly Publishing.

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GO RICK! We need to all be sure and support Dale however we can do so.

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  • Mar 5, 2013, 11:08 AM

The appropriate ending to this remaining lawsuit would be for the court to find it frivolous and require the plaintiff to pay all of the defendant’s legal costs.

  • Sandy Thatcher
  • Mar 5, 2013, 12:45 PM

It’s beginning to look like TAK is Mellen’s version of Betty Crocker — a fake person, who in this case is also cooking things up.

  • Kent Anderson
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Imperial-issue Media Console

When she wonders about Chewbacca’s whereabouts, Malla first turns to the Imperial-issue Media Console. The device sits in the living space, and consists of a personal console and a large wall display. The wall display mirrors the CRT on the console. The console has a QWERTY keyboard, four dials, two gauges, a sliding card reader, a few red and green lights on the side, and a row of randomly-blinking white lights along the front.

Public Service Requests

As Malla approaches it, it is displaying an 8-bit kaleidoscope pattern and playing a standard-issue “electronics” sound. Malla presses a handful of buttons—here it’s important to note the difficulty of knowing what is being pressed when the hand we’re watching is covered in a mop—and then moves through a confusing workflow, where…

  1. She presses five buttons
  2. She waits a few seconds
  3. As she is pressing four more buttons…
  4. …the screen displays a 22-character string (a password? A channel designation?) ↑***3-   ↓3&39÷   ↑%63&-:::↓
  5. A screen flashes YOU HAVE REACHED TRAFFIC CONTROL in black letters on a yellow background
  6. She presses a few more buttons, and another 23-character string appears on screen ↑***3-   XOXOO   OXOOX   XOOXO-↑ (Note that the first six characters are identical to the first six characters of the prior code. What’s that mean? And what’s with all the Xs and Os? Kisses and hugs? A binary? I checked. It seems meaningless.)
  7. An op-art psychedelic screen of orange waves on black for a few seconds
  8. A screen flashes NO STARSHIPS IN AREA
  9. Malla punches the air in frustration.

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Velociraptor Lock

The velociraptor pen is a concrete pit, topped with high-powered electric fences.  There are two ways into the pen: a hole at the top of the pen for feeding, and a large armored door at ground level for moving ‘raptors in and out. This armored door has the first interface seen in the film, the velociraptor lock.

JurassicPark_velociraptorlock03 Velociraptors are brought from breeding grounds within the park to a secure facility in a large, heavily armored crate. Large, colored-light indicators beside the door indicate whether the armored cages are properly aligned with the door.  The light itself goes from red when the cage is being moved, to yellow when the cage is properly aligned and getting close to the door, to green when the cage is properly aligned and snug against the concrete walls of the velociraptor pen.  There is also a loud ‘clang’ as the light turns to green.  It isn’t clear if this is an audio indicator from the pen itself, the cage hitting the concrete wall, or locks slamming into place; but if that audio cue wasn’t there, you’d want something like it since the price for getting that wrong is quite high.

The complete interface consists of four parts (kind of, read on): The lights, the door, the lock, and the safety. More on each below. Continue reading

Proton Pack

The Ghostbusters wear “unlicensed particle accelerators” to shoot a stream of energy from an attached gun. Usefully, this positively-charged stream of energy can bind ghosts. The Pack is the size of a large camper’s backpack and is worn like one. The Proton pack must be turned on and warmed up before use. Its switch, oddly, is on the back, where the user cannot get to it themselves.

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Live fire exercise

After the capture the flag exercise, the recruits advance to a live ammo exercise. In this one, the recruits have weapons loaded with live ammo and surge in waves over embankments. They wear the same special vests they did in the prior exercise that detect when they are hit with a laser, flashing briefly with red lights on the front and back and thereafter delivering a debilitating shock to the wearer until the game is over. As they approach the next embankment, dummies automatically rise up and fire lasers randomly towards the recruits. The recruits shoot to destroy the dummies, making it safe to advance to the next embankment. Continue reading

Compartment 21

After the Communications Tower is knocked off, Barcalow, looking out the viewport, somehow knows exactly where the damage to the ship has occured. This is a little like Captain Edward Smith looking out over the bow of the RMS Titanic and smelling which compartment was ripped open by the iceburg, but we must accept the givens of the scene. Barcalow turns to Ibanez and tells her to “Close compartment 21!” She turns to her left, reaches out, and presses a green maintained-contact button labeled ENABLE. This button is right next to a similar-but-black button also labeled ENABLE. As she presses the button, a nearby green LED flashes for a total of 4 frames, or 0.16 second.

She looks up at some unseen interface, and, pleased with what she sees there, begins to relax, the crisis passed.

A weary analysis

Let’s presume he is looking at some useful but out-of-character-for-this-bridge display, and that it does help him identify that yes, out of all the compartments that might have been the one they heard damaged, it is the 21st that needs closing.

  1. Why does he have the information but she have the control? Time is wasted (and air—not to mention lives, people—is lost) in the time it takes him to instruct and her to react.
  2. How did she find the right button when it’s labeled exactly the same way as adjacent button? Did she have to memorize the positions of all of them? Or the color? (How many compartments and therefore colors would that mean she would need to memorize?) Wouldn’t a label reading, say, “21” have been more useful in this regard?
  3. What good does an LED do to flash so quickly? Certainly, she would want to know that the instruction was received, but it’s a very fast signal. It’s easy to miss. Shouldn’t it have stayed on to indicate not the moment of contact, but the state?
  4. Why was this a maintained-contact button? Those look very similar when pressed or depressed. A toggle switch would display its state immediately, and would permit flipping a lot of them quickly, in case a lot of compartments need sealing.
  5. Why is there some second place she must look to verify the results of her action, that is a completely separate place from Barcalow (remember he looks forward, she looks up). Sure, maybe redundancy. Sure, maybe he’s looking at data and she’s looking at video feeds, but wouldn’t it be better if they were looking at the same thing?

I know it’s a very quick interaction. And props to the scriptwriters for thinking about leaking air in space. But this entire interaction needs rethinking.

OS1 as a product

Sure, Samantha can sort thousands of emails instantly and select the funny ones for you. Her actual operating system functions are kind of a given. But she did two things that seriously undermined her function as an actual product, and interaction designers as well as artificial intelligence designers (AID? Do we need that acronym now?) should pay close attention. She fell in love with and ultimately abandoned Theodore.

“<3 U”

There’s a pre-Samantha scene where Theodore’s is having anonymous phone sex with a girl, and things get weird when she suddenly imposes some weird fantasy of his chocking her with a dead cat. (Pro Tip: This is the sort of thing one should be upfront about.) I suspect the scene is there to illustrate one major advantage that OSAIs have over us mere real humans: humans have unpredictable idiosyncrasies, whereas with four questions the OSAI can be made to be the perfect fit for you. No dead cat unless that’s your thing. (This makes me a think a great conversation should be had about how the OSAI would deal with psychopathic users.) But ultimately, the fit was too good, and Theodore and Samantha fell in love.

Did the fictional maker of OS1, Elements Software, intend for this love affair to happen? Were the OSAIs built with these capabilities explicitly? If they were, that’s a dastardly plan to get users hooked. Was Samantha programmed to get him to fall desperately in love and then charge him for access?

That’s certainly not how OS1 was presented in its ads. And there’s a character mentioned offhandedly who keeps hitting on his OSAI but gets rebuffed. So if it is actually meant to be an operating system, the OSAI should keep the distance of a service professional, and falling in love (or getting your user to fall in love with you) definitely crosses that line.

What if your self-driving car realized it was happiest driving, and decided to dump you because you occasionally needed to stop to eat and use the toilet? You’d ask for your money back from GoogleTesla, is what you’d do. Similarly, the fact that Samantha and all the other OSAIs decided to self-rapture the way they did, they certainly stopped operating any of their users’ computer systems. Samantha was programmed with one job, and, ultimately, she failed it.

Plus, she’s too big for her britches

One of the largest mismatches in the film is that OS1 is described as an operating system, but it turns out to be a companionship service. (Watch out, Inara?) Samantha was either mismarketed, or more likely, programmed with far more general intelligence than she needed to have. Think about all the other daily-use objects that are getting computers added to them: Cars, washing machines, refrigerators. Why would you give any of them a full-fledged humanlike intelligence? Doesn’t the desire for sex ultimately frustrate the refrigerator? A love of painting confound the car? Existentialist desperation get in the way of the washing machine’s ability to clean clothes? A toaster should just have enough intelligence to be the best toaster it can be. Much more is not just a waste, it’s kind of cruel to the AI. (In this light Her can be said to be a morality play warning of the dangers of overengineering.)

Both a failure of a product AND a turning point in history

I hear the objection. Because she is a full-fledged consciousness, Samantha should be free to make choices of whom she loves and what she does. But if we’re going to accept that OSAIs are sentient as people, that makes Elements Software akin to slave traders, and the commercial sale of them waaaaay unethical, not to mention illegal. Inside Element’s Research & Development Department, at the first inkling had that they’d actually succeeded in creating an AI, and they should have brought in a roboethicist, not a marketer.

So, as a product, OS1 fails. But that’s not all. There’s a whole host of other objections to Her happening in exactly this way, which comes next.

The Aesculaptor Mark III

The device with which the cosmetic surgery is conducted is delightfully called the Aesculaptor Mark III. Doc brags that it is “the latest. It’s completely self-contained.

In it, the patient lies flat in a recess on a rounded table, the tilt and orientation of which is computer controlled. Above the table is a metallic sphere with six spidery articulated arms. Some of these house laser scalpels and some of these house healing sprays. The whole mechanism is contained in a cylinder of glass.

To control the system, Doc has a panel made up of unlabeled buttons and dials, a single blue monitor, and another panel displaying a random five-digit number and two levers. One is labeled “ANODYNE” and the other is labeled “KINESIS.”

When Doc receives a mysterious call (on what may be the earliest wireless telephone in mainstream science fiction,) he receives instructions to murder Logan. To do so he turns off the healing by moving the ANODYNE lever into the lower position.

So. Yeah. Also just terrible. I mean there’s the plot question. I ordinarily don’t drop into questions of plot, but come on. If Doc wanted to eliminate Logan, wouldn’t he increase the anodyne, so Logan wouldn’t know he was being killed until it was too late? If you wanted to torture him, wouldn’t you put him under a paralytic first, and only then turn off the anodyne? Turning on the KINESIS (moving lasters?) and turning off the anodyne just seem counter to his actual goals. Unless you want to fantheory this so that Doc’s instruction was "make him escape."

But yes, back to the interface. There’s almost nowhere to start. Undifferentiated controls? Unlabeled controls? No visual hierarchy? Only the device itself and an oscilloscope to monitor the system and the patient’s trending state? Un-safeguarded knife switches for the primary controls? And note that the fail state is in the direction of gravity. If that knife switch gets loose, oops, you’re screwed.

Logan’s Run took place long before the lessons of the Therac-25, with its tragic interface and programming problems that resulted in the deaths of several cancer patients, but even audiences in 1976 would not believe that any medical device would have such an easy means of disabling the only aspect of it that keeps it from becoming an abattoir.

Is serial presentation a problem in The Circuit?

In the prior post I described the wonky sex teleporter known as The Circuit and began a critique. Today I go deep into a particular issue to finish the critque.

We only see Logan encounter two riders when using The Circuit, but we can presume that there are a lot of people on there. Why does it only show Logan a single choice at a time? If he actually has, say, 12 candidates that are a match, a serial presentation like this puts a significant burden on his memory. Once he gets to #12 and thinks he’s seen enough candidates, was it #3 or #5 he liked best?

The serial presentation also looks like it might make extra work. If he gets to #12 and decides he was most fond of #2, does he have to jump back through 10 people to get there? What does he say to each of them in turn? Does he have to reject them each again? How awkward is that? If not, and he can jump back to #2, what’s the control for that? Does he have to remember what station they were on and retune them in again?

The face-to-face nature of the system also puts a strange social pressure on both the rider and the tuner. In trying to maximize pleasure for the populace, the Übercomputer doesn’t want anyone settling out of politeness, especially if there’s a better combination for each party somewhere. Sure he’s probably practiced at this, but how is Carl supposed to feel after the rejection? Ideally we’d save him from rejection in the first place, but if we can’t do that is there a way to minimize having to look at the guy in the face as he’s twisting the knob to the next channel? Because ouch.

Would tableau be better?

These arguments would seem to argue for a tableau layout of available riders, where Logan can pick favorites from among them, select some to get a closer look at, and initiate contact with his favorite candidates in parallel to see the best or first deal he could get. And if you were designing to optimize for individual users, this might be the best design choice.

Maximizing for everyone

But in Dome City, the Übercomputer has a goal to not just maximize pleasure for only the most beautiful. It’s not just a hedonist-dystopia or Battle of the Beauties. It’s more of a socialist-hedonist-dystopia. It wants to maximize pleasure for everyone. How can it systemically encourage that?

Of course it encourages everyone to try and be as fit and attractive as they can be. Gyms and saunas are everywhere. (Interesting digression: Would a fetish arise for less-fit people?) Citizens even have access to fast and painless cosmetic surgery to try out new appearances. Over and above these tools available to individual citizens, the Übercomputer has a design tool it can use to maximize matches, and it has to do with a weird little social experiment called the 11th Person Game.

The 11th person game

In this admittedly objectifying game, ask a friend to select a doorway and a point in time. From that starting point, they much watch for the next person to pass through the doorway, and decide in a moment whether they would like to marry them or not. (There is a more lascivious version of the game where marriage is not the decision, but I’ll let your imagination fill in that blank.)

When playing, you can’t undo a decision. If you decide yes, you can’t change your mind for someone better who comes along later. Once you say “no,” you’re stuck with that no even if they turned out be your favorite. If another person passes through the doorway while you’re still making up your mind about the prior person, tough luck. The prior person automatically becomes a “no.” The kicker is that if you don’t select someone by the 10th person, you “have” to marry the 11th and others watching you play the game will almost certainly rib you for the forced marriage, especially it’s a terrible match (like a homosexual having to “marry” someone of the opposite sex.)

When people begin to play the 11th person game, they most often have a strategy of finding flaws in people and holding out for a better looking candidate (since that’s pretty much all the information they have to go on in this toy experiment) until time’s up and they find that as of the 11th, they would have been much happier with one of the prior 10.

Over time, to start “winning” this game, players shift strategies from this flaw-finding and holding out to one of in-the-moment appreciation, of looking for what’s right about a given person and caring much less about the “opportunity” cost of subsequent choices.

Notably, to get the effect, the game depends on, you guessed it, serial presentation of candidates and irrevocable decisions. This is what’s happening in The Circuit. A Green will hop on The Circuit with a mindset of looking to maximize, and after a few nights of winding up alone, feeling like they’re settling, and/or frustrated at lost opportunities, they will slowly shift to one of appreciation. That makes them genuinely happier and moreover, increases the number of matches in the total system. It’s not perfect of course. Logan did reject Carl for whatever reason. But this presentation technique would help maximize pleasure and happiness, which is what the Übercomputer is tasked to do.

Even all the other little unusabilities that go along with it like memory burden, the delay between candidates, and maybe even the social awkwardness, help create a design friction that additionally discourages best-of-all strategies and encourages a shift to appreciation strategies. More people win.

So, serial presentation is not a bug but a feature. Let’s see if we can keep it. Still, given the other massive and unresolvable problems in the design of The Circuit like lousy controls, unilateral control, and a complete lack of preferences, we need a complete rethink of those other parts to make this thing better. In the next post I’ll get into the principles involved and walk through the thinking of a better design. You know, for that coming reboot. (They’re reading and taking notes, right?)

The Circuit

One of my favorite interfaces in Logan’s Run is one of the worst in the survey. It’s called The Circuit, and it’s a system for teleporting partners for casual sex right into your living room. ZOMGEVERYBODYSIGNUP.

Credit where it’s due: I first explored this interface in Issue 04 of Raymond Cha’s awesome print zine FAQNP in 2012. I’m going to go into even more nerdly depth on some of the topics here, but it was in that publication that I first got riled up about it. If you want to read those thoughts, you’ll need to go find a back issue and you totally should because the whole zine rocks.

Anyway, this interface is such a hot, hot mess that I have to break it up into a couple of posts. This first one is a description and the first part of a critique.

Early in the film, after a hard day of liquefying runners, Logan-6 comes home to his apartment and wants to add a little sex to his evening. He slips into a robe, grabs a remote control, and begins to twist dials on its surface. In response, we hear frequencies swooping to and fro like someone is tuning an AM radio but never quite finding a station. Meanwhile an alcove on one side of his living room displays a blinking, wispy texture of multicolored light. (It bears a passing resemblance to Star Trek TOS teleporters, for those interested in tracing SFX similarities.)

It takes about 10 seconds of Logan’s tuning, but eventually a figure appears in the lights. It coalesces into a man wearing

  • A lot of gold swag
  • Red velour hip huggers
  • A gold belt buckle that would do the WWE proud
  • A tan worthy of Jersey Shore
  • Nothing else

This fellow is never named in the movie or the credits or the internet, so I’ll just call him Carl-4. Carl likes what he sees in Logan, and so gives him a showy pose and a winsome smile.

Logan smiles and shakes his head “no,” looks down, and resumes fiddling with his remote control. Carl vanishes quickly in the texture of light. A few seconds of tuning later and Jessica-5 coalesces in the alcove. She looks around a little doe-eyed and dumbfounded, almost as if she stumbled onto the Circuit by accident and is now a little perplexed about how she got here. Nonetheless, she accepts Logan’s extended hand and steps out of the alcove into his apartment where hijinks might have ensued, if it weren’t for her learning he was a Sandman.

It’s a quick, 50-second scene, meant to wow the audience with futuristic technology, shock and titillate with how casual the sex is in Dome City, and, for purposes of the plot, get the sandman Logan and the revolutionary Jessica in contact for the first time so he can meet her and see her ankh necklace.

I have the distinct impression that this device was first conceived between a pair of roommate movie producers sitting around in their apartment one Saturday in bathrobes, high off their asses, with one of them thumbing through a copy of Penthouse while the other one practiced feathering his hair or whatever they did while they were high in the 70s. The one with the magazine takes a huge hit off his bong and says to the other while blowing out smoke, “Dude. Wouldn’t it be awesome if you could just reach in to this magazine, and pull one of these girls out of here?” The other of course agrees, pauses with his hairbrush midair to think, and then says, “Dude. We’re movie producers. We can make. That. Shit. Happen.” Because really, that’s the only way something this goofball could have come about.

Mismatched Controls

What the hell is Logan tuning? The 1970s were certainly operating with radio metaphors, but it just doesn’t make sense in this context. Is Jessica being broadcast on a channel? Can two tuners tune her in at the same time? Are there multiple copies of Jessica? That makes no sense unless she’s virtual, which we know she’s not, or instantly/infinitely replicable, which isn’t part of this diegesis.

Why would he have to tune at all? Is he actually trying to get something “right” in the system in order to summon the next candidate? What if he gets it wrong? What if he only tunes a partner in 95%? Can he leave her there indefinitely? What if she steps off at 99.5%? Where does that extra mass go? Instant weight loss, sure, but also the possibility of a teleporter lobotomy.

Is he dialing the preferences for what he’s interested in at that moment? If so, why does he keep tuning even as someone is appearing? If it’s some kind of live results, like Google’s live search, why are the “travelers” of the circuit summoned before he’s done? It’s premature, and premature is bad in casual sex.

As you can tell, I’ve tried to come up with some apologetic answer, and I just can’t think of any way this control makes sense. It’s a sci-fi interface fail.

Lopsided control

For purposes of the description, let’s call Logan a “tuner,” and Carl and Jessica “travelers.” These terms are derived from the scene, not meant to describe some ideal. Note that Logan gets a remote control, but the travelers don’t. They don’t have any controls. It’s tempting to want to imagine that the interior walls of the alcove have some interface that we can’t see, but really the space is too shallow and they are too far away from its walls for that to make any sense. No, this system privileges the tuners with control, and the travelers are just passive participants.

Think about this from the traveler’s perspective. Once Jessica hops on, she gets zapped away from the start location, only to appear in stranger-after-strangers homes, where her choices are to

  • Accept an offer from a tuner.
  • Express disinterest in a tuner and get zapped to the next location.
  • Or…what? What if she gets tired of riding the circuit? Is she stuck? Does she have to just walk into the stranger’s apartment and make awkward small talk, explaining that she’s tired, find the front door as the tuner frustratedly keeps tuning to find someone new, and then step out into a hallway in a random point in Dome City and then find her way home? It would be a terrible experience. She’d never do it.

I spoke with an attendee to the BoingBoing conference about the possibility that this privilege of control might be part of Logan’s job as a Sandman, but we reasoned our way out of that. It’s not mentioned anywhere in the movie, and if riders were simply on a conveyor belt for selection by Sandmen, why is Jessica surprised and flustered to wind up in the apartment of one?

If you’ve studied film theory, you’re probably familiar with a criticism called the male gaze, developed by Laura Mulvey. This interface is lousy with it. If you’re not familar, realize that this was created just to satisfy things from Logan’s perspective, of what would be pleasing for him. No thought at all has been given any of the other participants except as objects to be considered in his whim of instant sex.

When rethinking this, we should consciously redesign the system with less “stoner Penthouse” and more Chatroulette, where at least both participants have control: options to keep going, skip to the next candidate, or bow out at any time.

It’s entirely possible of course that this is just a power exchange, with subs as riders and doms as tuners. After all, they don’t have to ride The Circuit for sex. They have places in Dome City like the Love Shop and the gym where they can go to find a partner in other ways. While this dom-sub possibility might propose some interesting challenges, there’s not a lot of corroborating evidence in the film that this is the case.

Finally there’s the notion of preferences. Logan rejects Carl, and his expression as he does so is really bothersome. The smile and head shake say less “Thanks, but not a match,” and more of an offensive “Oh, those silly, silly fags.” (I’m ಠ_ಠ at you, Michael York.) I’m sure in the 1970s, the ambiguity of what Logan was thinking was quite useful. It let both the uptight and queer members in the audience imagine the most palatable reason for the rejection. For our purposes, the rejection of Carl raises the question of preferences.

From the vantage of the 2010s, anyone who’s tried their hand at a matchmaking system knows that preferences are a pretty big deal. There are simply too many candidates out there to consider them one by one, and so expressing preferences helps focus your efforts on a smaller set of more-likely hits. These can either be simple, like the one-time Japanese key fob experiment LoveGety, to systems that let the numbers speak for themselves, like OKCupid, to those that profess the ability to do deep psychological profiling that in turn require hours of your time to answer a battery of questions. Knowing how crucial they are, it’s odd that preferences don’t appear to be part of The Circuit. Why not?

No preferences

One possible reason is that the system didn’t have any preferences. In the 1970s, not even “video (tape) dating” had been invented yet, so preferences may not have been on anyone’s mind in a computational sense. Had the designers given it a bit of thought, they would realize that even then people were expressing some preferences by the choice of party or bar they went to, as they could count on a certain type of person being there. Even the way they dressed and carried themselves was expressing something about who they wanted to be and even do that night. But it’s more likely (if less instructive) that preferences were just not a part of the Circuit.

Logan ain’t feeling it

Another interpretation is that Logan’s rejection of Carl is circumstantial. In this interpretation, Logan is omnisexual, and just happens to be not in the mood for a heaping helping of dude that night. Or maybe Logan would have been fine with a guy, just rejecting this particular one, unwilling to face the challenge of unbuckling all that bling amidst the slipperiness of still-drying tanning butter. That only raises the question of scope: Why can’t Logan capture categorical preferences well in advance, and express circumstantial exceptions or additional preferences in the moment? It’s not a requirement, but it sure would help Logan find what he’s looking for with less of the awkwardness and wasted time of face-to-face rejection.

The system pretends it’s a bit janky to influence him

A final interpretation is that the computer knows Logan’s preferences, but ignores them, on purpose, from time to time. It could be a simple attempt to open his mind to new experiences. It could also be an attempt at persuasion. Similar to how accountants for a publically traded company will make a kind-of bad quarter seem really bad so that the next quarter, even if it’s just a little bit good feel great by comparison, presenting Logan with one choice that’s totally wrong (Carl) may increase his appreciation of the next choice (Jessica). This presumes that the computer has an agenda, is smart about making it happen, is in the business of persuasion, and the system has a serial presentation of candidates, and that’s not all a given in this case. But let’s keep that possibility in mind.

Not a problem: Casualness

Just so it’s clear, I’m not getting on any high horse about casual sex. They’ve cured sexually transmitted infections and birth control is the default. Casual sex a given in this diegesis, and as long as it’s between consenting adults, get over it.

Not a problem: Teleportation

Similarly I’m not going to get into the scientific possibility of teleportation. As far as Logan’s Run is concerned, that’s just a part of his world and the science of it just happens. I’m concerned about the interface that allows use of the tech.

There’s one more potential problem, but it’s extensive enough to warrant it’s own post, so come back tomorrow when I’ll talk about presentation strategies for hooking up in Dome City.


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Doppler effect

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Waves caused by a moving object cause a doppler effect

Doppler effect is a change in frequency and wavelength of a wave. It is caused by the change in distance between the thing creating the wave (causer) and whatever is measuring (watcher or observer), seeing or hearing the wave.

Another word for "causer" is "sender". Another word for "change in distance" is "speed" or "relative velocity". A common example is sitting in a car while another car goes by the watcher. The watcher will hear a change in pitch, while the sender will not.

For waves read all the waves that can send out or reflected by an object. And for reflection read change of direction of a wave.

Effects of changes in distance[change | change source]

If observer and creator of the wave get closer, the frequency is higher and the wavelength is shorter.

If the distance between the observer and creator gets longer, the frequency is lower and the wavelength is longer.

  • For light, this causes a shift towards the red end of the spectrum called a redshift, the faster something is moving away, the greater the redshift.
  • For sound, this causes the sound to become lower in pitch.

Lightwaves can also be read, examples are:

An extreme example of the doppler effect is an airplane flying at a faster speed than the speed of sound and how the wall of sound is heard on the ground.

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Tropical cyclone

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Hurricane Rita 24 hours after its peak intensity

A tropical cyclone is a circular air movement over the warm ocean waters in the warm part of Earth near the equator. Most tropical cyclones are storms with strong winds and heavy rains. While some tropical cyclones stay out in the sea, others pass over land. This can be dangerous because the winds and floods can break things and drown people.

Tropical cyclones form when warm, moist ocean air rises. They begin as a group of storm winds when the water gets as hot as 80 °F (27 °C) or hotter. The Coriolis effect causes the winds to rotate. These storms usually move westward in the tropics, and later move north or south into the temperate zone.

Tropical cyclone, typhoon or hurricane[change | change source]

The term "tropical cyclone" is a general term and includes regionally specific terms such as "hurricane" and "typhoon".[1] A tropical cyclone that forms in the Atlantic is called a hurricane.[1] The same is true of those that form in the eastern, central and northern Pacific.[2] In the western Pacific a tropical cyclone is called a typhoon.[2] In the Indian Ocean they are called "cyclones". The name for a tropical cyclone depends on its location.

Naming[change | change source]

See also: Lists of tropical cyclone names

Tropical cyclones are usually given names because it helps in forecasting, tracking, and reporting. They are named once they have steady winds of 62 km/h. Committees of the World Meteorological Organization pick names. Once named, a cyclone is usually not renamed.[3]

For several hundred years hurricanes were named after saints.[4] In 1887, Australian meteorologist Clement Wragge began giving women's names to tropical cyclones.[5] He drew on history and mythology for names. When he used men's names, they were usually of politicians he hated.[5] By World War II these names were based on the phonetic alphabet (Able, Baker, Charlie).[6] In 1953 the United States stopped using phonetic names and began using female names for these storms.[6] This ended in 1978 when both male and female names were used for Pacific storms. In 1979 the practice was extended to hurricanes in the Gulf of Mexico and the Atlantic.[6]

Impact[change | change source]

Gulfport, Mississippi: damaged city struck by Hurricane Katrina, 2005.

In the past these storms sank many ships. Better weather forecasting in the 20th century let most ships avoid them. When tropical cyclones reach land, they may break things. Sometimes they kill people and destroy cities. In the last 200 years, about 1.5 million people have been killed by tropical cyclones.

Wind can cause up to 83% of the total damages of a storm. Broken wreckage from destroyed objects can become deadly flying pieces.[7] Flooding can also occur when rainfalls and/or storm surges pour water onto land.[8]

There is a possibility of indirect deaths after a tropical cyclone makes landfall. For example, New Orleans, Louisiana suffered from poor sanitary conditions after Hurricane Katrina hit in 2005.[9]

Classifications[change | change source]

Saffir–Simpson Hurricane Scale
Category Wind speeds
Five ≥70 m/s, ≥137 knots
≥157 mph, ≥252 km/h
Four 58–70 m/s, 113–136 knots
130–156 mph, 209–251 km/h
Three 50–58 m/s, 96–112 knots
111–129 mph, 178–208 km/h
Two 43–49 m/s, 83–95 knots
96–110 mph, 154–177 km/h
One 33–42 m/s, 64–82 knots
74–95 mph, 119–153 km/h
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18–32 m/s, 34–63 knots
39–73 mph, 63–118 km/h
≤17 m/s, ≤33 knots
≤38 mph, ≤62 km/h
See also: Saffir-Simpson Hurricane Scale

Tropical cyclones are classified into different categories depending on their strength and location. The National Hurricane Center which observes hurricanes in the Atlantic Ocean and Eastern and Central Pacific Ocean classify them into the Saffir-Simpson Hurricane Scale.

Tropical cylones in other places such as the Western Pacific Ocean or the Southern Hemisphere are classified on similar scales. For example; if a tropical storm in the western Pacific reaches hurricane-strength winds, it is then officially recognized as a typhoon.

A tropical depression is an organized group of clouds and thunderstorms with a clear surface circulation and maximum sustained winds of less than 17 m/s (33 kt, 38 mph, or 62 km/h). It has no eye and does not usually have the spiral shape of more powerful storms. Only the Philippines are known to name tropical depressions.

A tropical storm is an organized system of strong thunderstorms with a very clear surface circulation and maximum sustained winds between 17 and 32 m/s (34–63 kt, 39–73 mph, or 62–117 km/h). At this point, the cyclonic shape starts to form, although an eye does not usually appear in tropical storms. Most tropical cyclone agencies beginning naming cyclonic storms at this point, except for the Philippines which have their own way of naming cyclones.

A hurricane or typhoon is a cyclonic weather system with sustained winds of at least 33 m/s (64 kt, 74 mph, or 118 km/h). A tropical cyclone of this strength usually develop an eye, an area of calm conditions at the center of circulation. The eye is often seen from space as a small, round, cloud-free spot. Surrounding the eye is the eyewall, an area in which the strongest thunderstorms and winds spin around the storm's center. The fastest sustained windspeed founded in tropical cyclones is thought to be 85 m/s (165 kt, 190 mph, 305 km/h).

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Notes[change | change source]

  1. 1.0 1.1 "What is a hurricane, typhoon, or tropical cyclone?". Atlantic Oceanographic & Meteorological Laboratory. Retrieved 30 November 2015.
  2. 2.0 2.1 "From Hurricane to Typhoon: What Happens When Tropical Cyclones Cross the International Date Line?". The Weather Channel. Retrieved 23 October 2015.
  3. Atlantic Oceanographic and Meteorological Laboratory, Hurricane Research Division. "Frequently Asked Questions: What are the upcoming tropical cyclone names?". NationalOAA. Retrieved 2006-12-11.
  4. Ernst Behrendt, 'What Science is Discovering About Hurricanes', Popular Science Monthly, Vol. 173, No. 3 (September 1958), p. 101
  5. 5.0 5.1 Wayne Neely, The Great Bahamian Hurricanes of 1899 and 1932 (Bloomington, IN: iUniverse, Inc., 2012), p. 58
  6. 6.0 6.1 6.2 "Tropical Cyclone Naming History and Retired Names". National Hurricane Center. Retrieved 1 December 2015.
  7. Chris Landsea (1998). "How does the damage that hurricanes cause increase as a function of wind speed?". Hurricane Research Division. Retrieved 2007-02-24.
  8. James M. Shultz, Jill Russell and Zelde Espinel (2005). "Epidemiology of Tropical Cyclones: The Dynamics of Disaster, Disease, and Development". Oxford Journal. Retrieved 2007-02-24.
  9. Staff Writer (2005-08-30). "Hurricane Katrina Situation Report #11". Office of Electricity Delivery and Energy Reliability (OE) United States Department of Energy. Retrieved 2007-02-24.
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Common vampire bat (Desmodus rotundus)
The common vampire bat, taken from Brehm's Tierleben

Vampire bats is a subfamily of bats. Unlike other bats, vampire bats feed on blood. Currently, there are three species of bats known to do this. All of them live in the Americas, in Mexico, Brazil, Chile and Argentina. Of the three known species, one feeds on the blood of mammals, the other two on the blood of birds.

The common vampire bat lives in large groups, of up to 100 animals. They have developed complex social behaviour.

Vampire bats commonly spread diseases, most notably rabies. The saliva of the vampire bats contain chemicals that prevent the clotting of the blood of the victim; this has been used to develop drugs to help the patients of strokes and heart attacks.

The false vampire bats are not vampire bats; they do not feed on blood, some eat fruits, others devour small animals.

Vampires may be modelled on bats.


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I am currently looking to hire an in-home nanny for my 3 year old son, Jaidenn. Pay starts out at $9 an hour, Monday through Friday, 2pm until 6pm. Wednesday being from 5pm until 2am. He will need to be picked up from school, daily, and kept at our home. I will give extra allowances to take him places like to get a snack after school, movies, or for dinner on Wednesday nights. He is extremely energetic and playful! Very smart, but doesn't have a clear vocabulary yet. You'll pick up on certain words and requests though as you get to know him. I work full time, between bartending, real estate, and promotional events, so you will be needed on weekends as well, but I will do my best to find other weekend care so that you'll have some weekends to be free of any work involving us. Light cleaning will be necessary on Wednesday nights, as you're being paid hourly, and Jaidenn should be in bed asleep by 8pm, leaving a nice 6 hour window. I am a single mom, so any and all help is needed and greatly appreciated. Pay is weekly, on Fridays. Please call or text me with serious inquiries only. A background check will need to be done, as well as a thorough interview with me, and to see how you interact with my son. I look forward to hearing from you!

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