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    Thursday, May 8th, 2008
    11:08 pm
    Remember what I said about E2?
    A while ago, I pointed out that E2 really did seem to improve the thinking and articulation skills of people who spent some time there.
    At the very least, you couldn't pass off big gaps in reasoning with a straight face.
    Like, seriously, would anyone get away with saying any of this?:

    http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080509/ap_on_he_me/teens_drugs;_ylt=AocfAa6qsQzGtmyLdnw_KtWs0NUE

    I mean, shit, anyone Level 2 and over wouldn't even need a word of explanation as to why they were getting down voted.
    Wednesday, May 7th, 2008
    1:59 am
    And I guess I just have to accept this:
    When I wake up in the morning, I have to spend quite a few minutes, or hours, wondering how much time I have to waste in "this one".
    1:34 am
    The entire point of Free Geek
    The entire point of Free Geek for me, in brief, is it represents a brief vision of a unified culture.
    What I have noticed happening too often, is that people with even the most creative ideas, even the most beautiful artistic spiritual perspectives on life, live divorced from them. They go and grind away, and then all of the things that really matter in life to them are added as an after thought, functioning as nothing more than parsley.

    But Free Geek, really to the amount that it is possible, combines the physical with the social with the intellectual with the spiritual seamlessly. "There is no separation between the mind and the environment"
    Friday, May 2nd, 2008
    12:40 am
    As my soul gets sucked into a depression I can't explain...
    The world of abstract imagery gains in some small measure:

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    Thursday, May 1st, 2008
    3:49 am
    What I am doing up in the 3 AM hour:
    Cut for some high-pixel images:

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    Who can guess what I was listening to on repeat when I made these?
    12:30 am
    Book quiz!
    I don't like memes, but I do like bragging about what books I have written read. Taken from [info]crewgirl

    Books I have written read are bolded, books I have started and didn't finish are underlined.
    Also, I have added in the approximate ages I read them.

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    Tuesday, April 29th, 2008
    2:39 pm
    No Omega
    So, the other day, kind of as a joke, I wrote about having my own Human Instrumentality Project (only with blackjack and hookers).
    In life, I think that for most people, along with doing well, there has to be something to look forward to. And often, that thing has to be somehow transcendent. The feeling of literally (or figuratively) climbing a mountain. And right now, although everything else in my life is going well, I don't really know what on the horizon equals that moment of exhiliaration.
    This is part of the reason why I stopped taking DXM, because it was just too much of a cheap trick on myself to have that type of amazing feeling for four dollars, when I could get high and feel that anything I pick up is the secret to the universe. Maybe it is dopamine depletion, or maybe it is a realization that I am missing something.
    Anyway, last night I was reading wikipedia, actually reading about various NBA players, when I saw a link in the Bill Walton article to "Omega Point", a concept that is used by Deadheads to refer to the feeling of merging with the music, but originally comes from Teilhard de Chardin, French philosopher, to describe the point of total awareness that humanity is eventually heading towards. The concept of course, is kind of what the Human Instrumentality Project is aiming towards. And of course, also what some people would call the singularity.
    Not totally by coincidence, Rakim has a song called "No Omega", which begins with the lines:

    I'm the Alpha, with no Omega
    Beginning without the end

    which is actually in many ways just a normal Battle Song (with references to He-Man and everything!) but being that this is The R, it also has some spiritual meaning. Perhaps Rakim is meaning to tell us that spiritually, it is more important, more realistic, and more meaningful, to be originating things, constantly, than to look forward to a moment where everything will be understood.
    So, maybe I should think about that, "No Omega".
    Monday, April 28th, 2008
    3:09 pm
    My plans:
    I am going to start my own Human Instrumentality Project, with hookers and blackjack!
    Sunday, April 27th, 2008
    12:31 pm
    Deltron 3030:
    How does it stand up in 2008?
    12:49 am
    I actually have a formula for these
    Wednesday, April 23rd, 2008
    2:29 pm
    Proverbs:
    You know the proverb that "as soon as one door closes, another opens"
    I have a similar idea:
    "As soon as your ass gets too big for one pair of pants, there is another it will fit"
    1:58 pm
    How many shots can get fired at a targer and just barely miss? Do you really want to live like this?
    Some of the readers here might be familiar with the concept of "Hurry up and kill me so I can go to Taco Bell", a phrase used years ago by a punk rock kid playing Risk to signal that he was tired of the unending game, and just wanted to get to the inevitable conclusion so he could go indulge in some good, punk rock Taco Bell.

    So I often use the phrase when I want a situation that is going to end in eventual disaster to just hurry on to its completion.
    I've often taken it for granted that pain and suffering are some of the best ways for people to learn. Even I learn that way! But it seems that after six or seven years of unending war, people don't seem to be learning. Of course, maybe that is just because the "blood and death" aren't enough (4000 dead soldiers in five years? That wasn't even a busy week in World War I or the Civil War!) , and after all, we still "got gas, and we got water".

    But I also suspect that perhaps rather than just avoiding bad things, people might want to change because they have something attractive to them, rather than just changing to avoid getting punished over and over. So, perhaps, when someone articulates an attractive way for society to be built around something other than violence and domination, it will happen in...two weeks.
    Tuesday, April 22nd, 2008
    1:36 pm
    Wo tingshou
    Wo tingshou Dumbledore kan Muggle de bao, danshi [info]esmesquall xie Muggle de bao. Danshi ta mei you Yuxianwen de banfa!
    Monday, April 21st, 2008
    11:35 pm
    Street hassle---
    Street hassle---does that show humanity?
    6:07 pm
    Election Prediction:
    My latest election prediction
    (the last one wasn't too successful)
    Hillary Clinton will win the Pennsylvania primary, but not by enough to give her reason to stay in the campaign, but not by enough to make it clear that it is time to leave.

    The only reason she will leave now is over money, since as I understand it, she is quite a bit behind in fundraising, and it would seem silly to go further in debt to contest a number of primaries that really can't change the fate of her campaign, even if she does manage to do better than predicted.

    On the other hand, since she has been talking about staying in, she might not be able to back out just because she hasn't won by as much margin as she would have liked.
    12:38 am
    A slightly less serious revelation about our culture:
    Did you know?
    Moogles are just ewoks.
    With wings!
    12:35 am
    Things hidden about the 60s:
    The Beach Boys probably changed and grew more than even The Beatles did.
    Friday, April 18th, 2008
    1:20 am
    Its late
    But doesn't a totally empty e-Mail inbox feel nice?
    Monday, April 14th, 2008
    3:46 pm
    One last macro for the day
    Unless I decide to make more:

    Tall, but not wide, so lets not even cut it

    1:20 pm
    And just because I have to show that despite the migraine, I am not bitter all the time:
    Here is a picture of a turtle with an identity crisis!
    Its kinda big, so it is cut.

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