Cameron Boehmer cameron

I can't claim to be a particularly energy-conscious human being. I drive my car infrequently and I try to buy local comestibles, but for purely selfish reasons. I sometimes leave the lights on, and yesterday I noticed that I turn on the faucet to rinse my toothbrush well before I've finished brushing. My point is that I don't think about saving energy a lot, but listen to this...

We humans do a lot of things in the world. Most of the things we do, we do in order to be happy (in a broad sense). Now, it's obvious that all of the things we do have an energy cost: they take time, and we have to eat; they often happen someplace else, so we have to get there; they frequently involve other people, so we have to coordinate and plan; sometimes there are materials involved that require energy to create and acquire. All of that time and movement and activity requires food and gas and electricity. Finally, we get there, do the thing, achieve some happiness (maybe), and start the whole cycle over again. It's continuous,

Here's some rough neuroscience: the brain is composed of three regions, each corresponding to a stage of our species' evolution. Let's just say we have three brains: a reptilian brain, a mammalian brain, and a human brain. The reptilian brain generates basic instinctual impulses, the mammalian brain adds emotion and memory into the mix [1] , and the human brain gives us all that make us unique amongst mammals, of which the most commonly discussed feature is our capacity for abstraction and symbolic information processing.

While the entire brain is involved in the experience of fear, it's the limbic system, or the mammalian brain, that triggers a range of physiological and neurological changes when your being perceives a threat. These changes include activation of your sympathetic nervous system, which is hardware dedicated to saving your ass. It slows digestion to save energy and redirects blood to major muscle groups; it draws blood away from the surface of your skin to avoid blood loss in case of injury;

	#!/usr/bin/env python

	'''
	Call the function who_wins and pass an array, e.g.:
	who_wins([[1,0,1],
	[1,2,2],
	[1,2,2]])
	and it will return 1 or 2, corresponding to a tic-tac-toe
	win by either player 1 or player 2 (or, in fact, a triplet
	of any repeating character).

	#! /usr/bin/env python

	import time

	LOG = '/tmp/dev_log'

	def log_development():
	entries = []
	while True:
	input = raw_input()

	if [ $# -lt 2 ]; then
	echo "Usage: $0 <key-file> <host> [<user>]"
	return
	fi

	key="$1"
	host="$2"
	user="$USER"
	if [ $# -eq 3 ]; then
	user=$3

	# auto stop in pdb on noneexceptions
	def info(exc_type, value, tb):
	# dont do anything for keyboard interrupts or exit signals
	if exc_type in (KeyboardInterrupt, SystemExit):
	return
	if hasattr(sys, 'ps1') or not sys.stderr.isatty():
	# we are in interactive mode or we don't have a tty-like
	# device, so we call the default hook
	sys.__excepthook__(exc_type, value, tb)
	else:

	var floatingButtonDirective = function() {
	return {
	restrict: 'AE',
	scope: {
	text: '@'
	},
	template: '<div class="floating-button">Text: {{ text }}</div>'
	};
	};

	# the DOCKER_WRAPPER bit silences the warning that results from running the latest git version
	vagrant ssh -c "echo 'DOCKER_WRAPPER'; sudo docker $@" 2>/dev/null \| sed '1,/DOCKER_WRAPPER/d'

	#! /bin/bash

	# HEADS UP! Make sure to use '*' or a valid hostname for the FDQN prompt

	echo 01 > ca.srl
	openssl genrsa -des3 -out ca-key.pem
	openssl req -new -x509 -days 365 -key ca-key.pem -out ca.pem

	openssl genrsa -des3 -out server-key.pem
	openssl req -new -key server-key.pem -out server.csr