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Thursday, August 16, 2001
J-Track 3D is still my favorite of all Java apps out there. I only wish I could get a copy of the source code...
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Picture of the week, what is it?
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Deja Chicken? The latest cloning plans turn to the lowly chicken. While visiting Grandma we drove by a number of Chicken and Turkey "farms" in Minnesota. The farms are long buildings with low set windows and thousands of birds inside: climate controlled, automated feeding and watering. If they were all identical clones would they tend to act the same? Synchronized clucking?
An article in a SD paper ran a feature on some South Dakota Mennonites or Hudderites (can't remember which) who raise Turkeys. It's an exacting science and the groups, being a co-op of sorts, share tips on getting the best output for given input. Rather than resort on heavy chemicals and vitamins they instead try to make as "natural" of an environment for the Turkeys as possible: fresh air, clean, cool water, peace and quite (Turkey's hate to be surprised), all after a nice, long, warm childhood in a separate climate control cocoon of sorts. Must be working, they produce some of the largest and healthiest turkeys.
Still, the group is pretty much at the mercy of large corporate meat processing plants. The meat companies also own their own turkey farms so they only buy from third parties when the need is high and price is low.
While we're on the subject of group dynamics, how many of you Turkeys really use ALL of the features in Microsoft Office? I remember setting up the computers for an engineering outfit and everyone got their own copy of office, yet the only real use was to type up some product specs. It's my experience that the more complicated the tools, the more time that's wasted on meaningless experimentation and attempts at standardization.
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