Word: staticity
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...morning: I wake up to the quiet hum of static over the airwaves. Through the fire door, my neighbor leaves his radio tuned to the news all day and all night. It echoes through the walls. I get up and put on a shirt with red, white, and blue piping on the sleeves. I have always been fond of this garment, but today I wear the colors as an intentional statement...
...Apparently a small bunch of Palm users have had rather nasty shocks to their system. Static electricity, they say, has somehow made its way from their Palm cradles to their PCs during the HotSync process, which is where the two exchange and back up information. Result: fried motherboard. This appears to have happened enough times for San Francisco attorneys to file a class-action lawsuit last week. The law firm has garnered testimony from at least 40 new complainants since the suit started to be publicized. Palm maintains it is not aware of any such problem...
...thought. But what if I stuck the Palm in its cradle and both Palm and PC got fritzed? I know that static electricity can be a potential death blow for computers; that's why you're supposed to ground yourself by touching the metal casing before installing a new graphics card, sound card or internal drive. I also know it would have to be a huge long-shot for an electric current to somehow pass from your body to the Palm's casing, down the cradle cable and into the computer. It's not like this will affect Palm...
Even good TV animation today is about doing more with less: less movement, less texture, less detail, as in the minimalist Powerpuff Girls, with its static figures "flying" against a pulsing background. If Samurai Jack (Cartoon Network, debuts Aug. 10, 7 p.m. E.T., then Mondays, 8 p.m. E.T.) looks like no other cartoon on TV, that's because it's maximalist with a capital MAX. Richly textured backgrounds, constant visual surprises, a thrilling music score--this 'toon gives you your cable bill's worth...
While at other schools the provost role is fairly well defined and static, this is not the case at Harvard...