Sunday, July 19, 2009 - Posts

Sunday, July 19, 2009

a day in a life 2009.07.19

via @fractalnavel: in the last 24 hours:
  • 2009.07.19 13:51: so only the u.s. has to suffer from that "syfy" mangling, eh ? didn't realize they had re-branded the website too
  • 2009.07.19 13:53: you can always tell how serious an economic downturn is by how stupid businesses get as they fire off workers and the management ratio rises
  • 2009.07.19 13:59: checking wayback machine - apparently that short story archive was to have been taken down two years ago. it stayed up anyway - until now
  • 2009.07.19 14:05: here they are: http://u.nu/2zxk. my old page scraper still works on that. should just capture a static copy; there will be no more changes.
  • 2009.07.19 14:07: really appalling treatment of a good collection of literature. thank fsm for the internet archive - which has been falling behind badly :-(
  • 2009.07.19 14:22: @klaatu
    @fractalnavel
    checking wayback machine - apparently that short story archive was to have been taken down two years ago. it stayed up anyway - until now
    I thought that we had already archived off scifi's Seeing Ear Theater eons ago. Does wayback or internet archive cache shows?
    the section i'm referring to is all textual material; i don't know about any a-v stuff. but yes, the IA does cache files - sometimes
  • 2009.07.19 14:23: @klaatu
    The easiest thing to be in the world is U. The most difficult thing 2b is what other people want U2 be. Don’t surrender leo buscaglia
    people only really want "ability" when their ass is on the line - me ;-)
  • 2009.07.19 14:26: IA's web section used to lag live sites by six months. that's up to 17 & rising now. i don't see anything newer than feb. 2008 anymore
  • 2009.07.19 14:27: @klaatu
    Ability will never catch up with the demand for it -- Confucius
    corollary: people are very bad at knowing when their asses are on the line.
  • 2009.07.19 14:29: @klaatu
    Goldman Sachs Raking in Massive Profits http://ur1.ca/7jkc
    wait - aren't we (the u.s.) stockholders ?
  • 2009.07.19 23:46: pathetic: feeling argumentative, with nothing to argue about. a moment made for self-destruct buttons.
  • 2009.07.19 23:47: well, ok, there's always something. but it's all deadhorsebeating.
  • 2009.07.19 23:48: can't decide which are more dangerous to the planet: manipulative bitches, or hysterical twits.
  • 2009.07.19 23:49: ht is back there playing soccer with her mouth. shut up & kick, dammit.
  • 2009.07.19 23:50: ...and so i sit here and ponder my own hysterical twitness...
  • 2009.07.19 23:51: projection is a fine defense mechanism, wot ?
  • 2009.07.19 23:59: self-awareness is death to the isolated critic.
  • 2009.07.19 23:59: ahh, there - self-destruct accomplished.
  • 2009.07.20 00:05: it seems vocabulary hit its zenith in the 19th century (earlier?); certainly the last few decades have seen its decline. mass media?
  • 2009.07.20 00:07: oh sure, lots of new words since then, but the vernacular has paradoxically shrunk. at least now we have twitter google bing yahoo! fah.
  • 2009.07.20 00:09: case in point: positively nuanced terms - everyone is an "athlete" or "hero". WRONG. but is the shortcoming here cultural or linguistic ?
  • 2009.07.20 00:10: ahh, i feel much better now; found something new to argue about. take that, ht ! ;-)
  • 2009.07.20 00:14: "Abort destruct sequence, code 12 3continuity"
  • 2009.07.20 00:35: in a kind of ecto-alzheimer's, i feel the world dropping away from me, due not to my own affliction, but that of the "collective"'s
  • 2009.07.20 00:38: so sure, at times, "schizophrenia" may simply be a consciousness stubbornly/courageously tracking it's own reality, damn the consensus
  • 2009.07.20 00:38: it's - its- gives me fits - give me a break ;-)
  • 2009.07.20 00:46: st multi-authorized self-detruct (or anything else) - wouldn't you want to go up the hierarchy, not down ? poor lt., has the final say.
  • 2009.07.20 01:36: so what would the planet look like if a crystalsphereslike quarantine (http://u.nu/5v2m) was applied to all emerging cultures ?
  • 2009.07.20 01:36: but "culture" is not atomic - how to decide what combinations to "protect" when ?
  • 2009.07.20 01:37: the one glaring oversight in "crystal spheres": emerged species would be placing sentinel devices outside all spheres.
  • 2009.07.20 01:39: and what if spheres had some sort of loiter-time / distance criteria ? warfare of the spheres ?
  • 2009.07.20 01:40: yeah, yeah - overthinking, what else is new :-p
  • 2009.07.20 01:44: i ask because it seems many cultures are trying to retroactively apply such measures
  • 2009.07.20 01:45: the root of all evil is the illusion of free will.
  • 2009.07.20 01:47: yeah, that's an imploding self-contradictory morass.
  • 2009.07.20 01:48: peeve: online dictionaries that don't put the definition in the meta-description (so they appear in search without needing a click-thru)
  • 2009.07.20 01:57: governmental non-interference directive: we're here if you need us, no strings attached. not quite. more like "... if you clear this hurdle"
  • 2009.07.20 01:58: [half tuna salad sub: strangely non-satisfying. blah.]
  • 2009.07.20 02:00: what's the point of *topian literature if you can't learn from it ? and where are the meta-government classes when you need them ?
  • 2009.07.20 02:06: "exo 815: applied meta-governmental studies. cr. 3, max 16. prereq: instr. approval. coreq: exo 816 (lab). creation, support, destruction."
  • 2009.07.20 02:09: advanced degree in meta-government allows cognate of beginning godhead, inter-disciplinary: phys, anthro, & fine arts.
  • 2009.07.20 02:10: i think fsm was a drop-out.
  • 2009.07.20 02:13: yeah, haven't heard much from "singularity u." lately. didn't shakespeare have a line for them ? well, "pretentious ass" will do in a pinch.
  • 2009.07.20 02:14: yes, i was forced to use "ass" & "pinch" in the same post.
  • 2009.07.20 02:26: i now return you to your own spacetime continuum.
  • 2009.07.20 02:27: @klaatu
    RT @steveburnett: "The [human] brain consumes about 20 watts of power each day." Kosko, Noise, p.99 http://bit.ly/Sq2pU
    and so go the dim-bulbs among us ;-)
  • 2009.07.20 02:33: @klaatu
    @fractalnavel
    so what would the planet look like if a crystalsphereslike quarantine (http://u.nu/5v2m) was applied to all emerging cultures ?
    Funny, I just listened to an mp3 of Brin reading that very story 2 hours ago.
    i read it a few weeks back, then listened to it in that "best of" collection. not brin reading though; that would be good.
  • 2009.07.20 02:36: @klaatu
    RT @steveburnett: "The [human] brain consumes about 20 watts of power each day." Kosko, Noise, p.99 http://bit.ly/Sq2pU
    from a units perspective, that doesn't make sense. joules per day, maybe, or plain watts as a rate, but not "watts per day"
  • 2009.07.20 02:40: @klaatu
    RT @steveburnett: "The [human] brain consumes about 20 watts of power each day." Kosko, Noise, p.99 http://bit.ly/Sq2pU
    20 watt-hours, maybe ?
  • 2009.07.20 02:41: @klaatu
    RT @steveburnett: "The [human] brain consumes about 20 watts of power each day." Kosko, Noise, p.99 http://bit.ly/Sq2pU
    20 watt-hours per day == constantly burning < 1 watt bulb. dim indeed.
  • 2009.07.20 02:44: @klaatu
    RT @steveburnett: "The [human] brain consumes about 20 watts of power each day." Kosko, Noise, p.99 http://bit.ly/Sq2pU
    bummer: http://u.nu/283m . but i'm sure hard thinking burns more fat than that.
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