Turn off that TV and do your homework!

Or, in this case, the radio. It is 9:55 AM and there is nothing on now I want to watch; maybe there is an episode of King of the Hill at noon or something like that.

Today I have written http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bank_of_Jordan and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arab_Potash, derived from reading the articles "Amman Stock Exchange" and its principal index, the "ASE Unweighted Index". I am sitting here listening of course to sports talk that is trending with the Virginia Tech events and the concomitant NBC media exposure. It gives me to reflect on the positive nature of being involved in building the economy and the knowlege base of the Mideast by creating the articles. Ignorance is very bad, and integration is very good. Today is also notable for the advent of (based on the Yanks broadcast from Providence's The Score sports radio, on the Pawsox' nights off): "An A-Bomb! From A-Rod! .... I'm an A-Hole!" That announcer is a little dumb for going on and on like that. If A hits "112 Home Runs" this year, as he is "currently mathematically projected to do", just how much will he, the announcer, contribute to Japan's already acerbic, overpowering economic attitude? What does he care?, which I think is the point of the criticism of his tagline here.



It is very interesting how Arab Potash is woven into the narrative of the article "Dead Sea". Articles with anything to do with Israel and Palestine and the conflict are treated very very carefully by the people who take care of the articles. Everytime I use the word "Palestine" in an article, as in "Cairo Amman Bank operates 4 branches in Palestine", a few minutes passes before "Palestine" is edited to "Palestine National Authority". It is complicated at this point how the nomenclature is structured. I would never dream of getting up into the discussion, as I do at other topics, it is so damn serious at this point in world history.

11:27 AM

Arab Potash has a good set of subsidiaries. Writing about the subsidiaries and making coffee and fixing my Kor cinema blog entry brings me to the completion of: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arab_Pharmaceutical_Manufacturing. What a nice company.

You might think that writing encyclopedia articles is easy work. It is not, and it is possible to get fatigued from maintaining the quality level. In my long experience (8800+ edits) it just doesn't pay to squeeze new articles out, no matter how likely a subject may be. There is a certain magic that one associates with going to the library or reading books, as a child or young person (or adult), and it is so worth it to pay attention to find details that really make an article a good experience, over and above the rather stringent finished-article standards that exist at the Wiki. I mean, it is true that anyone can write any article - that's how I got started - but one wants to have some institutional staying power, so that one's interests are realized. In this case, those interests include providing a wide range of material on subjects that are not covered yet, Mideast, African, Indian, Russian companies. Companies of all sorts, actually.

Well, I haven't turned the tv on yet, but I am learning a lot about JD Drew. Someone who I immediately noticed, during the Bosox' series w/Seattle, is Johjima the catcher. I have invested a lot of time in reading Asian reading material, and it has given me a certain ability, a sense, to know what is going on here, and I think he might turn out to be a bargain. At the end of Week 3 (out of 27) he is an batting average leader as a catcher, we'll have to see.

12:05
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jordan_New_Cable: Jordan New Cable is a very nice company indeed, one would need to go to the company's site itself to really see it. Alas, I grow fatigued, and must rest. It is really the best thing to learn about technology and write as one goes. I am reminded of SNL's Chris Farley short movie, in which he and another SNL person install a big piece of equipment, talking about the technical details all the way. That's the stuff.


Saturday 10:01 PM

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bond_Exchange_of_South_Africa are two missing pieces in the Wikipedia Finance and Wikipedia Africa divisions that were simple to accomplish. There is a lot of information at "JSE" that someone else wrote that covers the nuts and bolts of it, I suppose.


1:09 AM Saturday-Sunday
Sort of watching/not watching Saturday Night Live, I was able to complete http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Rum_Aladdin&redirect=no w/o much trouble. Rum Aladdin is a metal shop and appliance assembly company. Another great Amman company. Amy Poehler and Seth Meyers were kind of funny on SNL, as usual; I watched Bjork's song, I used to be hypnotized by her work and now it just seems to be part of the Minnesota Twins/Minnesota Vikings sports organization, hq'd at KFAN in Minneapolis. That is a pretty good station, kind of modern and entertaining like WEEI in New England, better than network television at any rate. Do you want to hear Christopher Cross and the Doobie Brothers improvisatorially sung in the Bob Dylan voice in order to show Bob's extensive influence in 70s pop songwriting, influence that is masked by the normal sounding voices of the stars of that era? One is constantly reminded (by the on-air personalities) of the huge problem Minnesota has w/Wisconsin, and with the Green Bay Packers in particular. KFAN has the most serious coverage of college hockey, WEEI has a lot on its plate in the winter, with the Patriots, but still, one is amazed at how eastern schools (like BC and Maine) finish up in the Frozen Four every year, KFAN seems to offer so much support to North Dakota and the Great Lakes area schools. Go Pats, go Vikes.



Internet Radio is a boon, one can learn a lot about the Midwest, Singapore, Jamaica, et cetera.

In re: "Family Law", a subject which in and of itself deserves some prime time, the Bjork/Scarlet Johanssen SNL did not seem to be spinning the Baldwin events; it seemed to be building on the events. Before people accuse me of heresy and cleverness, I would advise them to take a film class in which one watches 5 1930s Hollywood movies per week; I wouldn't say it is boring, but I would say that one is given ample time to figure out just what these people are doing and where their money is going. In this case, I would say that there is a family law crisis going on in this country, and a controversial telephone call is serving to simply stir the pot.

Bjork performed w/ the Kongotronics band, I got the cd from eMusic a while ago, it is pretty good. They appear on her new album. Icelandic Party People Attitude (IPPA) is something one wants to get a lot of when one is young, I think. By the time one is 44, one has an ample sufficiency.


7:45 AM Sunday
As I searched for a spot to build a list for the Muscat Securities Market's MSM-30 stock index, I found an unposted article I had completed; I finished posting the article and made a few adjustments: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ljubljana_Stock_Exchange is a good simple article that needs expansion in its History and Operations sections, and a Stock Index section and/or a link to a separate article describing its stock index or indices. It is not exactly what Wi would call a "stub", as it could probably only be successfully expanded by someone who actually knew about the subject; but it will definitely bear some expansion in the future.

8:49 AM

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muscat_Securities_Market now has a list for its stock index.

It's such a beautiful Sunday morning; watching This Week, the David Letterman Top Ten seemed so condemnatory, I didn't feel like being in that kind of mood so I just ignored it and moved on to Tim Russert on NBC. Once, on The Daily Show, in all faux seriousness, Jon Stewart once referred to Mr Russert as "Hot Buttered Russert" complete with a cool graphic. I prefer that species of comedy to the Top Ten method of humor, life isn't very difficult for the subject of the joke if the joke doesn't completely make sense. This Week's team then closed w/a hymn, Amazing Grace, very appropriate. What I really think is that this is no time for the Democrats to continue their storied self destruction; the presidency of Barack Obama is on the line now. Of course the Repas will use this crucial historical development to induce the Demos to rein in their abusive attitude. There is time enough for whaling on squares if and when Obama is re-elected in November 2012. Sorry to be so mildly critical, Mr Letterman, but "antithetical" is right there in my dictionary, between "antithesis" and "antitoxin". As in: "His criticism had an antithetical effect." If Mr Letterman had chosen to create a Top Ten list entitled: Top Ten Mildly Anaesthetic Misaphorisms and Mispronunciations by President George W Bush, "The Great Miscommunicator", which hignlighed the president's natural talent of popularity in soft-peddling impossible issues like "nucular war", then Bush would owe Letterman for helping to maximimize our national presidential profit margin while creating an easy look for his exit from office. Maybe it's too complicated.

Take the instance of the Grateful Dead song "Women are Smarter than Men". This song, which allows men to watch sports, go hunting and act as men, due to its mildly anaesthetizing effects on females, should illustrate the "Power of Mild, Sincere, Positive Antitheticality" (PMSPA). Isn't Mr Letterman familiar with the work of the Grateful Dead? Have we already lost the lessons learned in the 1960s? I would expect better from someone who is paid to sit around all day and think of what to say on TV.

Feh. This is one boring topic, I don't want to get involved, I seem to be trending away from "Global Paycheck Enablization" (GPE) to "American Insomniac Pop Culture" (AIPC). And "Acronyms R Us" (ARU).