At least today I was gifted social scientist at work.
I was introduced to a new structural analysis concept for me. Network analysis is a form of analysis that can be done with SAS or Stella and microsimulations.
I bought the Ikea Jerker computer desk on sale this holiday. I am just posting this from my eMac set up on the new desk. It still smells new. I had wanted this particular model of Ikea desk for awhile and it is a good solid desk and has a kind of tech feel to it.
I do some volunteering that involves emergency response. I can't write too much about this for public consumption. I am thinking with the present security state I could possibly do some funded research on emergency management or response systems. I could build on studies I have done in risk and designing out risk in the the physical envrionment of cities and push my probability studies around these readings and perhaps make some kind of systems model which would suggest management of risk at the same time bring in larger and broader Marxist critques of the whole security state view. I could also use my recent legal studies to keep grounded and to stay relevent and realistic when doing this project. My math background would need to be tested and I would have to involve some computing in some way perhaps.
I am studying C West. Churchman's writings as I enter graduate school. I am now a student of systems theory.
And why is it that hackers are armed in movies? I just watched some of the third Matrix: the Revolution film. May be I am being culturally critical. I don't see why hackers need to be armed unless they are US hackers or hackers for films where sex and guns sell the movie. It seems most films I end up watching are full of guns and death.
At the moment my mood is totally wrapped up in a hockey game where Ottawa lost and is out for the season. I am my TV. It is a very hyped mood after watching a game and I have just been in two fast talking conversations at the corner store and on the walk home. I thought earlier that hockey does not use women as sex objects like the cheerleaders in football. You might call hockey cleaner because of that although it is certainly a violent sport.
I had been reading that women, that is white middle class North American women, use the Internet more for staying in touch with friends and family, more than middle class white men. I seem to have used the Internet to reach out to family in either the supposed homeland or elsewhere. I got an email from someone in Sweden today who may have an ancestor from our family who left Estonia in 1800. I am thinking may be we could have a reunion on the Internet some day or that the Internet will make this possible.