January 2011
Lighting for the elderly - Wikipedia, the free... →
I want to see the most beautiful nursing homes.
“In life, marry vampires and shadow people.”
December 2010
Alter Ego →
What if you could live your life over again?
Alter Ego is an online life simulation browser game. (It’s hard to explain.)
“The existing transhumanist movement is lame. It’s nano everything. It’s just...”
– Lepht Anonym, on the real path to Deus Ex.
Transcending the Human, DIY Style | Threat Level | Wired.com
The 100 Greatest Moments in Time Travel - UGO.com →
“In an accountability-deprived culture where frivolous lawsuits are more...”
– Torley
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“I want an album loaded end-to-end with all those scary impact sounds from horror...”
– Torley
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The relationship between visual and audio phenomena fascinates me intensely. While due to inherent sensory properties, no 100%-correlative matches can be made, there are definitely relatable equivalents and approachable similarities.
For example, as the focus of a cinematic scene grows blurrier — into a type of bokeh soup — what are bokehsonics, then? I liken it to the threshing curve of a...
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the meat story
Ravenelle Zugzwang: okay
Ravenelle Zugzwang: I had this job where everyone came and ate my meat..I know it sounds funny
Ravenelle Zugzwang: but I felt like a pack of dogs were ripping at me
Ravenelle Zugzwang: the better I did, the more I got to do
Ravenelle Zugzwang: the faster I would go, the faster it came at me
Ravenelle Zugzwang: and more dogs
Ravenelle Zugzwang: It was great to win
Ravenelle Zugzwang: and everyone so excited and my ego..
Ravenelle Zugzwang: ooo it was too big
Ravenelle Zugzwang: because only "I" could do these things, the right way
Ravenelle Zugzwang: so I took on more
Ravenelle Zugzwang: and more
Ravenelle Zugzwang: and more of me left
Ravenelle Zugzwang: as the dogs ate my meat
Ravenelle Zugzwang: then when you have no meat
Ravenelle Zugzwang: the dogs don't bring some to you
Ravenelle Zugzwang: no one brings you meat
Ravenelle Zugzwang: for your bones picked bare
Ravenelle Zugzwang: you have to guard your meat
Ravenelle Zugzwang: and you don't share it with just anyone, anytime
Ravenelle Zugzwang: it has to be worthy of you
Ravenelle Zugzwang: and your special meat
Ravenelle Zugzwang: so I took some much needed time off…
Ravenelle Zugzwang: and I got fatter
Ravenelle Zugzwang: got some meat
Ravenelle Zugzwang: some perspective
Ravenelle Zugzwang: and while I did many great things
Ravenelle Zugzwang: some things suffered I was getting to spread thin
Ravenelle Zugzwang: one was my child
Ravenelle Zugzwang: she admired my work ethic???
Ravenelle Zugzwang: well that is good yes
Ravenelle Zugzwang: but there is more to life than how much you work
Ravenelle Zugzwang: how hard you work
Ravenelle Zugzwang: it's about that balance I mentioned earlier
Ravenelle Zugzwang: so now I have my meat, in a special freezer
Ravenelle Zugzwang: and I share it more carefully
Ravenelle Zugzwang: it's not selfish
Ravenelle Zugzwang: and there will be more of you to share in the long run
Ravenelle Zugzwang: I made a scale the other night
Ravenelle Zugzwang: it's balanced
Ravenelle Zugzwang: :)
Ravenelle Zugzwang: and it's protected
“Yes, Everything you said about me is true.
If you don’t like my style, I...”
– Russell Preston Brown of Adobe, aka the guy who made Photoshop famous :)
I’m convinced he wouldn’t have succeeded without such focused enthusiasm.
Russell Brown PS tutorials | creativebits™
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List of shibboleths - Wikipedia, the free... →
Tell them apart.
“Several Flickr internal attempts to build and ship native mobile experiences...”
– That explains a lot. I was wondering earlier — preemptive mobile Flickr + Picnik would’ve been kewl but now the latter are owned by Google.
Flickr Should Have Built Instagram. But They Didn’t. Here’s Why.
“What do you call a secret society of trash collectors? New World Hoarder.”
– Torley
“Subproject 54, MKULTRA, which involved examination of techniques to cause brain...”
– 1977 Senate Hearing on MKULTRA: CIA Director Stansfield Turner’s Testimony (pp. 33-50)
“It does not matter what people say because if you are about doing your work, you...”
– More people need BFFs like Oprah and Gayle. They’re so inspiring!
Networks help celebrities deal with fame and pain - page 2 | Ebony
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Quasi-Socratic interloc 00
Green: We arrive here, another year, and where is your tree?
Pink: I made it myself from the ashes of the living.
Green: Very well. What I'm saying is untethered, so we're liberated from any festive holidays — to which I owe a great pleasure when I return.
Pink: I'll save eggnog.
Green: Thank you. Have I ever told you the plight of real trees on this day?
Pink: Yes, to be adored and worshipped, then cast aside when all gifts have been unwrapped. Then probably made into firewood — ha!
Green: True that, but at least it's concerned consumption of resources. The whole cycle. That's serious Mother Nature stuff, bro.
Pink: Why are there so many lowminds?
Green: I used to obsess with that until overthinking did me in and I moved to control my life further, seeing as how lack of that element renders one susceptible to learned helplessness.
Pink: Are you worried about criticism?
Green: Yea, it is my way, as a human. And yours too. All of our plight.
Pink: But —
Green: Criticism always follows worthwhile action. The opposite is seldom true.
Pink: How did you know?
Green: By the stars of the fourty-four, it spake.
Pink: And you proclaim yourself nihilist?
Green: Pragmatic, joyful, enthusiastic nihilist. And imagine the fools who mock us for being too enthusiastic. There's no such thing. Just as attaining infinite energy is impossible.
Pink: Do you concern yourself with everyday mundane things?
Green: Nothing that sustains a liberated lifestyle is mundane. If everyone balanced their checkbook like they consume entertainment without followup, we'd be a prosperous people. Such is the failing, yea, and a split between highminds and lowminds becomes increasingly inevitable.
Pink: There are those who'd call you a heretic, a racist verging towards genocide — a grand-treasoner.
Green: Ultrafuck that supershit, it's useless slop even toilet paper would be hesitant to wipe its own arse on.
Pink: For why?
Green: For how can it be unfair when everyone can control themselves, yet instead, we have blame balloons spouting across Sprigsworth square and the slipicers are so litigious every season — not just when water freezes?
Pink: Aye, I not only see your points, I embrace them with every sense.
Green: Thus we must form an elite. And immediately, we can't be snobs because a snob doesn't help you ascend. We will provide resources.
Pink: Bawdy tales?
Green: Those, yea.
Pink: Denying who you are makes you someone you don't want to be.
Green: Clibbish, tru.
Pink: And I often wondered, and came to realize it wasn't vegging out on VHS that was the crime, it was failing to act furthermore, if a character had spoken to my soul and prompted life-changing action.
Green: And keeping in mind we speak in norm, as quantlang can't be typed.
Pink: Nay! And I often wondered, then came to realize that simply being there was enough to make a difference. Consistently. Then, as the bards sing, FOLLOWUP FOLLOWUP FOLLOWUP.
Green: My ears! They ache, but 'tis a delightful pain that many carolers aught to here.
Pink: Did I just hear a mispronounce?
Green: You are a catchy one. It's the dilemma, y'know: either do boring things and "play it safe" and never stand out, never get the rewards that come with all the implied risks, or stick your neck out — surely lowminds will strive to chop, but they'll surely fail. Because they're too lazy to wield or even buy the axe, ho!
Pink: This world we're creating, it defies words.
Green: Yeah, it raped "perfect".
Pink: Trivialize that, should you not.
Green: Do you not know of my own moonlighting as an enchanter of said bawdy tales?
Pink: Ho ho ho! It's good to have something we do every year because we care. Not because it was hoisted upon us like a sky cake, but because we must START as we go ON.
Green: Rich in referential you are, my sister.
Pink: No, it is you who are the sister, I am the brother. Look uplines. Undermining gender color stereotypes is one of my civilian designations.
Green: And what of the Trails?
Pink: Fetching aurelics, even at this time of year, to anoint our tree.
Green: I sense much joy and understanding.
Pink: If we're all cogs in a machine, perhaps we must further the truth and understanding — by creating a new machine that has no cogs.
Green: Nanotech?
Pink: Ha-ha! Further still. We'll must speak in quant about it.
Green: How cyberpunk of you. A summations of all till now. Until another, as their perspective measures, the dawn of a 2011.
Pink: I'm a boddhist (some of the time), this doesn't totally apply to my calendar.
Green: As sibs, we stride onwards then.
Pink: Their glazens, dull stupid stares, tinny lips of no compare. Forge us then a secret war of personality, unbucking the "dumbdumb incharges" that have theory as disconnected from practice as a sawboulderer denying an outbound mechanicalism.
Green: Irregardless of time.
Pink: And grammer.
Green: And we change personalities like hair color.
Pink: Past/present/future are antiquated concepts.
Green: It was not long ago since we be chyldes, denizens of the world, now creators of a new one.
Pink: The signs are in plainsight for all to see. As the great Ivralicious hath proclaim'd: always look for others who are exceptional enough to observe what is in plainsight and declare this to be true. The Visible Sideways. The Opulent Suns. Always mining the gemful and encouraging growth.
Green: Like your tree.
Pink: You could say, then do that.
Green: Prizes for the curious highminds!
Pink: And coals for the pissant lowminds.
Green: A ladder climbed itself today.
Pink: Ahhh! The fecund ignorance of those who taunt not a chap named Blowen.
Green: O sweet prescient, quadruple lifestyle.
Pink: This time loop will begin again.
Green: Impregnating your cerebral cortex with whbscbuey images, yo. And each time we will mothercrack the pattern.
Pink: Trex is the ruler.
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Side effects of aurelics BLOCK 8it=L3
Mild sociopathy.
Particular fruit cravings.
Tendency to read nihilist philosophy.
Queue-cutting aptitude.
Urge to converse with forbearer species.
Ability to move head very fast while everything else stays still.
Belief that special sand allows one to travel across spacetime.
OOBE bounce.
Obsession with crafting a unique, iconic helmet.
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On Manyapart:
Skidgey Abbye was most concerned with impressing himself. At least that’s what it appeared like to an uninformed outsider, for Monstieur Abbye not only possessed the fortitude of 10,000 peoples, he contained that many personalities within him. (At least.)
Many lowminds suffer from Jones’ Syndrome, which manifests with the undue urge to show off to others at the cost of...
Fiona Ma's anti-rave bill criticized as too broad →
2010 is 1994 all over again.
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Comic Sans Criminal - There's help available for... →
This is only missing a projector whirring noise and film flickering. I’d imagine that somewhere out there in the South Pacific is a cargo cult dedicated to Comic Sans.
“Wheel, reinvent thyself.”
– Torley
Second Life Blogs: I'm hiking across the SL grid!... →
Go Bunky go!