If your infrastructure was built with 1s latency, it’s just impossible to continue, because if the people arbitraging against you have less latency than you do, you lose. A lot of the legacy infrastructures weren’t built for sub-millisecond latency.
Month: July 2007
Glore Psychiatric Museum
The smell of ancient insanity would still hang in the corridors
this is an awesome place. what would i ever do without roadsideamerica.com?
Precious Moments Chapel
this has got to be the tackiest place i have ever been to. figurines of the garden gnome variety meet religion. and here i was thinking religion tried to be dignified.
Apple Evolution

i have worked with or owned a fair amount of them
Phone Company Advice
For example, “unlimited” usually doesn’t mean unlimited, it just means undocumented. For Sprint, you will need to verify things such as “how many service calls per month can I make without having my service terminated?” For these ambiguous service commitments, you will need patience and diligence.
my advice would be to try the post-phone lifestyle
Ape altruism
altruism goes back as far as 6M years
the foundations for non-zero sum games were laid early, apparently
Memory Dampening
scientists were successfully able to “dampen” memories of rapes and accidents. Apparently, the subjects were less stressed out, and didn’t exhibit raised heart rates, when thinking of the trauma.
pretty crude still
Sicko action
the theater was in chaos. The entire Sicko audience had somehow formed an impromptu town hall meeting in front of the ladies room. I’ve never seen anything like it. But here these people were, complete strangers from every walk of life talking excitedly about the movie. It was as if they simply couldn’t go home without doing something drastic about what they’d just seen. “If we just see this and do nothing about it, then what’s the point? Something has to change.” There was silence, then the redneck’s wife started calling for email addresses. Suddenly everyone was scribbling down everyone else’s email, promising to get together and do something… though no one seemed to know quite what.
wonder if anything comes of this
Shack Up Inn
a hipster b&b in mississippi