I finally watched the movie and it reminds me of the advantages of remaining a hermit. I don't think that I will ever get involved in a business venture with anyone else, and all of my best ideas will remain secrets until I am ready to unleash them upon the world.

I had wanted to write about this earlier, but I kept forgetting. I played a game online a few months ago that involved trying to guess how other people think. Each player gets a bunch of nouns. One adjective is revealed for all players to see. Players select a single word from the ones that they have which best fits the adjective that is presented. Submissions are anonymous. One player votes on which word best exemplifies the adjective that is presented. Who gets to vote changes in each round and the voter does not get to submit a word for that round.

I tried to play this in a purely literal way. For example, I figured that "floor" had a better chance of exemplifying "dirty" than "Michael Jackson". However, the other players would vote for "Michael Jackson" instead. It was like this for every round and I ended up with the lowest score. I tried adjusting after I realized what they were doing, but I still couldn't adjust. It was too difficult to think like a "normal" person.

Concupiscible is dictionary.com's word of the day, which they define as "worthy of being desired". This one is very easy for me to remember. The first part is similar to "concubine" and concubines are worthy of being desired. That's sufficient to recall the meaning if I see the word in the future, but something extra is needed if I want to recall the word when I want to write or say it. For that, I need to encode the rest of the word.

I pronounce concupiscible in my mind as "concu"+"pissable". The visualization for this involves concubines and urination. For someone with a urine fetish, that is a situation worthy of being desired.

On June 8, 2011, there is a possibility that you may lose access to significant parts of the internet for 24 hours. That will be World IPv6 Day, which will involve a widescale experiment to temporarily change how the internet operates. If things go well, you won't notice anything, but there is a reasonable probability that something will go wrong, because this is something that has never been attempted before on such a large scale.

You can determine if your computer/router/internet service will operate with IPv6 here: http://test-ipv6.com/
This is my result:


Internet addicts should make preparations for this event.

I am inside an episode of Different Strokes. It begins with Arnold playing hide and seek with Willis. Arnold hides by riding underneath the elevator. He somehow manages to get out without incident when the elevator reaches the lower level.

We are on a cruise ship. At the lower level, we see the captain sitting at the controls. Mr. Drummond has taken Arnold here to give him a tour of the ship. Instead of disturbing the captain, they hang out in another room that has a computer and a lot of toxic chemicals. Mr. Drummond inspects various containers and explains to Arnold why he should not touch them.

When Arnold goes to the bathroom, Mr. Drummond speaks with the captain about the possibility of going to Coney Island. Although that is one of the planned destinations for the ship, Mr. Drummond had been planning to get off the ship before arriving there. The captain informs Mr. Drummond that the ship will arrive in 40 minutes. This leads to a change in plans that is kept as a surprise for Arnold.

Up until this point, I am just a spectator, although I am on the ship. The captain notices me and offers me a job teaching a balance class on the ship. I accept the job and start teaching, but the muscles in my lower back are very tight and I feel dizzy. I somehow force myself through the classes without anyone noticing my difficulties.

When we get off at Coney Island, I encounter my Canadian relatives. They had come to New York for vacation without informing me. We take some photos together, but I cannot accompany them for the rest of their New York vacation, because I now work on the ship.

The alarm awakens me.

My family is travelling around in a van full of fish. We have a family business selling sashimi grade fish to random people in the street. We encounter a van with a family that sells silverware. They agree to buy our fish, but they want to pay in silverware instead of cash. I question the authenticity of their silverware. It could just have a thin silver coating and have steel inside. It wouldn't be a fair exchange if it were not real silver.

My sister suggests that we combine our businesses instead of making an exchange. The silverware business somehow transforms into a tupperware business. My sister's suggestion is that we pack fish in tupperware and sell the combined product at a higher price. We pack fish for the rest of the dream until we run out of fish.

Family activity dreams are extremely rare for me. Also, this takes place inside of a vehicle. Because I have had motion sickness most of my life, such dreams are also extremely rare, and they always have involved motion sickness except for this one.

I have been slow in making updates to the diamond website that I completed back in August. It's a combination of being busy with other things, hating the manager, and disinterest in the project. A few weeks ago, I discussed with the manager the possibility of letting another programmer take over to do the trivial stuff like changing the logo, colors, etc. I told the manager that I didn't care if someone else took over, but I made it clear that two people cannot work on the site at the same time. The problem with simultaneous updates is that we don't have a system in place to coordinate who would work on which file. That could lead to overwriting someone else's work. Also, I did not want to accept the responsibility for problems that develop due to someone else's mistakes.

A few days ago, I noticed that the banner for the site had been changed. This was done without informing me that someone else had been asked to make updates to the site. Although the change appears on the surface to be minor, it could have presented a serious problem if I had been working on the site at the same time. The manager had asked me to make an update that I had not made yet. If I had started on it, I would need to start all over again or do a thorough code audit to verify that my changes do not conflict with any other changes that were made. Working like this is impractical.