phyllostachys 44: Minute Tech 29 - Emulate

29 - Emulate your Hero's


Good morning, this is the Minute Tech podcast -

coming to you for Tuesday, November 13th, 2007

We take a few minutes to talk about technology
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This is Alex Landefeld with minute tech 29 - Emulate your Hero's

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Tech items:

Apple is apparently in talks with China Mobile to distribute the Apple iPhone in China. This means three things:

China Mobile may be preparing to offer a hugely useful cellular/entertainment device to its customers;
Apple may be about to enter a market where it's iPhone sales could triple overnight;
China Mobile could see it's Market capitalization eclipsed by that crazy computer designer, Apple Inc.

The New York Times mentioned this morning that our love of chocolate may go back to as old as 1100 BC, when Central Americans in Honduras and other regions may have used the Cacao bean to brew a fermented beer-like beverage. So that's what a nice glass of Stout means by chocolatey taste! :-)

Tech Question:

Emulate your Hero.

Who is your hero? One of the greatest and longest lasting forms of technology has been the idea of hero worship and emulation.

Ever since Ugg heroically threw a sharpened stick down from the tree to skewer the saber-tooth cat, providing Ooogee and Aaaggee a point for emulation in their own fight-off-the-australopithecus-eating-monster role-play, up through Helen launching the thousand ships and Abraham Lincoln fighting to end human slavery in North America, Heros have been an extremely important part of the human psyche.

What can be more important than creating a mental focus for all of your energy? Humans long ago realized that life is far more productive if the mind can be focused away from only procreation and eating, to other areas such as protection of the community, building of shelters, braving the deep lakes and oceans, and developing systems for mapping time and nature.

Veterans Day gives us the opportunity to open our hearts and minds to those great men and women who have literally fought to maintain our present way of life, so that we collectively and individually can move beyond border disputes to the task of maintaining a growing civilization through the next century. When we see what those men and women have done, let us look into their lives - seek the positive - we all have negative aspects - we can learn to emulate the positive and learn from the reality of the negative.

In the show notes, I'll provide links to wikipedia for the following people: Lucy, Helen of Troy, Molly Pitcher and Abraham Lincoln.

Lucy
Helen of Troy
Molly Pitcher
Abraham Lincoln

As a side note, one of the most interesting business newspapers in the US is Investors Business Daily, or IBD. This paper is important to experienced investors, as it provides a well thought-out and orchestrated system for investing in the stock market. But perhaps more importantly, IBD gives us biographies of hero's to emulate. Buy a copy of IBD today.


podcasting/blogging tidbit:

I've mentioned this before, but the Quirks and Quarks science radio show from Canadian Broadcasting Corp is a hugely amazing set of weekly stories about humans, the world they live on and the universe in which they live.

Two recent episodes, which you can subscribe to for your mp3 player:

November 10, 2007 Story summaries, links and sound files. Before the Big Bang, Messing up Migration, Soft Body Fossils, Chemical Class for Fish Schools
November 3, 2007 Story summaries, links and sound files. Nervous Arm, Vibrating Mice, Ventriloquism and the Brain, Fossil body prints, The Primate's Closest Cousin, Auklets and Aphrodisiacs
Go to www.cbc.ca forward slash quirks.

Thats all for today on Minute Tech podcast.
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and my blog is at minutetech.blogspot.com

- Apple and China Mobile?
- Emulate your Heros.
- Quirks and Quarks - from the Macro to the Micro.

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