Monday, May 25, 2009 - Posts

Monday, May 25, 2009

a day in a life 2009.05.25

via @fractalnavel: in the last 24 hours:
  • 2009.05.25 18:01: *absolutely* inertia-bound today; can't seem to get off my ass and do anything
  • 2009.05.25 18:02: meta-twitter: looking at the trending topics, it seems to me that there is less & less purposefulness here; it's becoming forced & made-up
  • 2009.05.25 18:04: coincides with the growing general public involvement with this tool. yep - they're here becasue all the other media screams "TWITTER!!"...
  • 2009.05.25 18:05: ... but once they arrive, all they bring to the table is the same mindlessness that follows them everywhere ...
  • 2009.05.25 18:06: ... i swear we have been witnessing an ongoing speciation event, a la morlock v. eloi (but which is which?) ...
  • 2009.05.25 18:08: ... something in me wants the process to accelerate & be done with, yet i also realize that counter-speciation forces exist on all sides ...
  • 2009.05.25 18:14: ... if we interfere with our own evolution by attempting to prevent it, or shackling it to only common denominators - we fail. period. ...
  • 2009.05.25 18:15: ... similarly, if we unenlightenedly attempt to force it, we risk fatally short-circuiting the process ...
  • 2009.05.25 18:18: ... "enlightened" - is key. problem: everyone thinks they're "enlightened". in what way and to what extent is consciousness desirable ?
  • 2009.05.25 18:21: emergence: neither the soil nor the plant can be treated separately.
  • 2009.05.25 18:23: and so: i want a twitter filter that excludes the mindless masses. and why limit that to twitter ? ...
  • 2009.05.25 18:23: the worst, however, are those mindless types that think they are otherwise.
  • 2009.05.25 18:24: you know what's worse than someone who believes their own bullshit ? people who only trust those type of people.
  • 2009.05.25 18:25: corresponds pretty directly to relgion, but also to many other social-psychological phenomena
  • 2009.05.25 18:27: people have faith in conviction - and there's the vicious circle spins off course
  • 2009.05.25 18:28: the flip-side is that people distrust doubt - which is an ironic application of skepticism.
  • 2009.05.25 18:31: the mantra shoud be: fear conviction. (skepticism will take care of itself.)
  • 2009.05.25 18:46: ah, finally - rain
  • 2009.05.25 20:27: @SowaJF
    canticle done - interesting interogative insight next master & commander - so far too much description not enough story maybe gita bhagavad
    i'm sorry - what's an 'interogative insight' ? anyway, it was the "scifi story with engineering aspect" that was of note
  • 2009.05.25 20:28: @SowaJF
    bike shopping: craigslist or new? kona, specialized, fisher, giant, trek - hard/full, disk/rim, wheelzzzzzz
    craigslist only if you're very good with scams / spam
  • 2009.05.26 00:37: @klaatu
    RT @tonyrobbins: "Today is the tomorrow that you worried about yesterday, and all is well." anonymous
    today is the tomorrow that i worried about yesterday - and it's the f*ing disaster i thought it would be!
  • 2009.05.26 00:39: huh - you can't pull off a redirect in an page refrenced in an iframe src - who'd've thunk ...
  • 2009.05.26 00:42: nevermind - it was me :-o
  • 2009.05.26 04:06: look up http status 418. go ahead.
(pulled direct from twitter via custom job)
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