Entries this day: Internizzles Root_canal

Internizzles

3:05pm JST Tuesday 19 May 2009 (day 14300)

So, there's these things called The Internets, with which information can be transferred quickly, cheaply, illegally and otherwise. The information is encoded as a series of alternating states of the medium in which it's being encoded, whether electrical, optical, magnetical, or otherwise. Generally the coding is done in a base 2 format like 101001011011001100110100111010110110101000101010101 or something equally repetitive.

When viewed at that level of detail, the content is pretty boring. BUT, when decoded, according to whatever rules the transmitting and receiving parties have agreed in advance, the information may appear more interesting to a casual human observer.

Sometimes the information transmitted may appeal to several human observers, some of whom would be willing to offer a portion of their effort (money, a different topic) in order to observe said information, or even even be inspired to give said effort as a result of reading said information.

But sometimes (most times), the information is simply *free*, with no requirement to offer anything in exchange for the information.

The idea of selling information reminds me of the old-school ways of doing business, where a few people had the ability to collect and distribute information via print media, then radio, then TV. Radio and TV, I imagine, could have been used similarly to the internets, but due to the relative low number of channels available for transmission, El Governmento specified rules on using radio and TV for transmitting information, effectively reducing the number of broadcasters. (Gotta see about getting involved with ham radio at some point.)

Okay, so with information *freely* available on the internet, I think we just need a way to get the right information to the right people. Example: I've got an old broken PC. I need a new ballpoint pen. I'd be willing to trade this PC for a ballpoint pen. But who, near me, has a pen that they'd be willing to trade for a PC? Do we have to use money as a mediator? Moving products all over town and money all over to keep track of who moved the most products and information? I just want a pen.

Have just arrived in Shibs; write more later maybe.

Root canal

6:44pm JST Tuesday 19 May 2009 (day 14300)

The root canal of a tooth, I assume, is that tube through which the nerve travels from the jaw into the tooth. Why do teeth need nerves?

Today, one of my teeth had its corresponding nerve removed from its corresponding root canal.

Nice.

Er, I mean, ouch.