Real Time Traveler Party

If you're coming to visit the Man in the High Castle, please RSVP here ahead of time. Saturday May the Fourth Be With You Party! 2014! May 4th, 2014. 7pm. Location: URL: IRC CHAT ROOM located at freenode.net. Join room #party. by entering "#party" for the channel to join at login. or type "/join #party" when signed on to IRC at freenode.net.

I owe credit for this idea to Dr. Stephen Hawking. But I wanted to see if it would be possible electronically through the Internet alone. I also read of an initiative to search for signs of time travelers through content that is available on the Internet before the date of the events transpired. This would be one such possible event. Around the same times I have had several other peculiar coincidences occur to me. It just seems natural that if there is a energy out there that we could tap into it. This might be one such means to close the loop.

It is believed that the party will be held here before the date posted.

If you feel this to be true, please email me at the links to the right of the page before the date of this posting or feel free to comment about this in another of my blog posts (before May 4, 2014). Think of that as your RSVP.

For Boston, For Boston

This horrible day – by the late Andreas Raab.

This post by Squeak guru Andreas Raab had a profound impact on my thinking post-9/11. It also led towards the theme I used for this blog. The name of this blog is "Because we believe another world is possible".

I have always felt through verisimilitude, we get better, and the good triumphs evil. My hope is that at the heart of political and technological decisions the betterment of society ultimately prevails. In this great modern world at the heart of the megalopolis of the Boston Massachusetts area, these words must be repeated especially amidst such tragedy:

The second issue, which is actually far more important, is that we are in fact working here for a better future - a future in which such horrible incidents don't happen - a future in which our children will live and learn in peace. Computers - and the Internet - can help to understand other cultures better, can help to understand problems of regions far away better, can help to raise our attention to both, tragedies and threats from parts of this world seemingly far away.

Andreas Raab Wed Sep 12 06:09:23 UTC 2001

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Sonnet 51

Thus can my love excuse the slow offence
Of my dull bearer when from thee I speed:
From where thou art why should I haste me thence?
Till I return, of posting is no need.
O! what excuse will my poor beast then find,
When swift extremity can seem but slow?
Then should I spur, though mounted on the wind,
In winged speed no motion shall I know,
Then can no horse with my desire keep pace.
Therefore desire, (of perfect'st love being made)
Shall neigh, no dull flesh, in his fiery race;
But love, for love, thus shall excuse my jade-
   Since from thee going, he went wilful-slow,
   Towards thee I'll run, and give him leave to go.

Shakespeare

One thing you know about persistence runners; long distance runners. They are tenacious. They overcome sickness, injury, social barriers, and virtually any obstacle you can face in our civilization. On the other end of the tunnel they come out into the light and provide inspiration and set the example that mind truly can conquer matter. A great message to take from running is that success is shared by all the people, even those on the couch watching on television. It's the most raw, basic form of exercise of the will and we all participate in it. It's just a visceral feeling we all can relate to: working hard, crossing the finish, and then doing it all over again next year.

Still Running Against the Wind:

Woofertime

A debate raged in my household the other night. It was over the automatic IP blocking of all twitter-related gadgets, feeders, APPs, and aggregators at our workplace. What do you think? Does Twitter hold a business purpose to you? Send me a comment or email on your thoughts.




What's farcical to me is that Twitter itself is not blocked... but any tools I can find that enhance Twitter and make it "usable", from my standpoint, are blocked. So I have this decrepit image of some idiots at my corporate headquarters manually pouring over Twitter.com each day, burning through our overhead dollars.

WebSense Enterprise filters and restricts access to Internet sites in accordance with SAIC Communications Policy SG-10, Section 5.

URL: "http://woofertime.com/"

Your IP: 10.40.90.21

REASON: Your request was denied because of its content categorization: "Social Networking;Society and Lifestyles"

If you believe that you have received this message in error while accessing a business-related website, please request access via the Websense URL Unblock request form.

However, I can understand why Woofertime is blocked. ;) haha.
I'm not sure why they want to block so much. Maybe they are afraid we are participating in secret wikileaks subversions through our gadgets and portals. The question for corporations is whether any benefit of things like twitter is worth the perceived security risk. Now I understand why innovation in the past has been done primarily through very young people under the age of 25 at most. As people get older they keep confidence in a small circle of incestuous contacts. Only at early age are people really free to experiment and discover novel ideas. I feel myself drifting far away from these youthful exploits. It's not just geographical borders that limit us. Even after these centuries old borders are down ("The World is Flat"), we face great ethical questions on the limits of technology. What potential benefit is lost through the tightening of security, if any?


Thomas L. Friedman might be right, The World is Flat, and the masters at control are trying their damnedest to build those walls back up.

snake robot!

Admireal Ackbar assaults Whale Trainer

civilization declined?

I must be getting old and turning into a pessimistic codger. Everything post-modern is becoming increasingly dreary to me. Perhaps these eyes are just finally losing the rosy tint and gaining access to the truth? Or perhaps I have weakened, allowing my resolve to crumble into forlorn despair. I see ever-encroaching signs of a decaying Western canon no matter where I look.

Let's see,

1. Worthless currency: Check
   
   
   
   
2. Private banks are Failed, Nationalized Check
   
   
   
3. Downturn more than a local trend? Computer science, the gem of modern technical advancement, is falling by the wayside in American high school, college, and industry. Check
   
   
   
4. Microsoft's Creative Destruction "Microsoft, America’s most famous and prosperous technology company, has become a clumsy, uncompetitive innovator."
   
   iPad, an ongoing joke, as the Dynabook dream continues to elude and disappoint engineers and users alike:
   
   Check
   
   
   
   
5. Arts? THE BEST MOVIE EVER TRANSFORMERS!!!
   
   Check
   
   
   
6. Literature? Check
   
   
   
   
7. US Space Program Cancellations Age of Exploration… on hold… Check
   
   
   
8. Mindless, futile waring against other cultures? Check
   
   
   
   

9. "People cannot stand too much reality." – Carl Jung

   
   Too much Reality
   
   
   We use terms like "dystopian" as if it were counterbalance to some far-fetched Utopia, brought to you through glass screen.
   The Machine is Bleeding to Death
   
   
10. Paging through google searches of "abandoned city Detroit", I saw what I expected to see:
    
    
    Then finally I came across this:
    
    

Bergensbanen

Download Bergensbanen in HD

living in the age of insanity

RIAA Wins $1.92M from unemployed mother of 4

June 19, 2009
RIAA Wins $1.92 Million Verdict In Music File-Sharing Case
The Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) could be $1.92 million richer after a federal jury Thursday ruled a Minnesota mother of four who downloaded 24 songs violated music copyrights.

The massive verdict in the nation's only filing-sharing case to go to trial, found Jammie Thomas-Rasset, 32, "committed willful violation" of the copyrights. The verdict was to the tune of $80,000 for each of the 24 songs Thomas-Rasset downloaded from the Kazaa file-sharing network. Among the downloaded songs were tunes by popular acts like Gloria Estefan, Sheryl Crow and Green Day.

$80,000 a song? Two years worth of salary for one stupid song copied over the Internet?

Under the Copyright Act, juries can award up to $150,000 per illegally downloaded track, though roughly $3,500 was the average payment in the majority of RIAA cases that were settled out of court.

let's see… I know a person with around 4,000 music files downloaded in the years 1995 to 2009. The person then owes the RIAA approximately:

$150,000 x 4000 = $600,000,000




Makes me want to drink a damn Pepsi and say, "forget about it!"

been doin dis shit since moby dick was a goldfish

It's been exactly 10 years since my first personal computer was bought for use at college. That Dell was great but it weighed 750lbs with the monitor and the 3 harddrives, the 2 optical drives, and all the PCI expansion cards I threw in to that thing. The mini weighs less than a cantaloupe!

Mac mini dimensions

* Height: 2 inches (5.08 cm)
* Width: 6.5 inches (16.51 cm)
* Depth: 6.5 inches (16.51 cm)
* Weight: 2.9 pounds (1.31 kg)1


Hardware has come a long way and Mac has been doing the right thing with software for decades. It feels like the world has truly changed. As much as I like Linux, there is no comparison to the OS X. Windows has done a grand trick to the world. I have never liked Windows and for many good reasons, but in the last 10 years I've used it perhaps 45% and 55% Linux. It has been interesting only for study but I can't fathom how much productivity has been thrown out the "window" using those ridiculous computers.

Microsoft has perhaps been a necessary evil in the markets. But I would never in a million years wish for anyone to be forced to use their products. Linux of course has revolutionized all of computing and OS X would not exist without it's effects. I finally really feel the wonder of having the best of both worlds with device support and usability designed into the core of the system. The Mac is truly the "user's" computer. But it is also a programmer's computer. Linux is strictly a programmer's platform. And Windows is just absolute garbage. It's neither a cheap alternative nor a compact and transparent vehicle for industry. It's merely an impediment that cripples your interaction between computing devices and your work.

There is no reason to ever use it unless forced by content providers. Not only that, it enforces sinister licensing schemes that are being perpetuated through sub-industries. I have received several new Windows computers over the last year for work and my experience has been far worse than 10 years ago. The user experience has degraded so far below that of the One Laptop Per Child, that it should be a punishable crime. Barack Obama should consider fining them for economic downturn. Maybe all those traders would have made better decisions if they were using Mac's instead of Windows garbage software? They probably did all of it in a fucking Excel Spreadsheet!

But this is the real world. And the real world does always contain necessary evils. So I will just happily plod along with my Windows/Linux work and Mac play.

Nosebag takes twat nav

Nosebag takes twat nav

A car was left teetering on a cliff edge after the driver followed sat nav directions down a Pennine footpath.

Robert Jones continued to follow the instructions when they told him the narrow, steep path he was driving on in Todmorden, West Yorkshire, was a road.

Mr Jones, from Doncaster, South Yorkshire, only stopped when his BMW hit a fence above Gauxholme railway bridge on Sunday morning.

Police have charged Mr Jones with driving without due care and attention.

The 43-year-old, who works as a driver, said he relied on his sat nav for his job.

He described Sunday's incident, during a visit to friends in Todmorden, as "a nightmare".

A West Yorkshire Police spokesman said: "Officers received a call at 11.18am on Sunday March 22 reporting that a BMW was hanging off the edge of a cliff off Bacup Road.

"The driver was a 43-year-old man from Doncaster. He has been summonsed to court for driving without due care and attention."

Mother of All Funk Chords

from Slashdot. Wow. Amazing

an cool spoke hub animation

Storsjoe or Great Lake monster

Swedish Nessie captured

The fact is that The Great Lake Monster show itself at the most inhabited places of the lake. An explanation for this could be that few people detain themselves on these deeper, bigger areas of the lake.The Monster has showed it self during the warmest months of the year. However, there are observations at fall and all the way until December.

get the facts

second class Manhattan white women

Videos such as Iraq and Iran

Telectroscope

http://www.tiscali.co.uk/telectroscope/cn/story/index.php


OOOOH! Galileo let me go!

further down the spiral

XP on XO so bad you have to laugh

XO2 the ebook – the philosophy gets dumbed down. Learning goes back to being a passive, rote activity rather than a computational-representational theory of cognition.

animated graffiti mindfrak

http://thepovertyjetset.com/2008/05/14/illegal-public-art-at-its-finest/

http://thepovertyjetset.com/2008/05/14/illegal-public-art-at-its-finest/

honk!

Kansas... the center of the universe

Youtube video of one creator of Google Earth explaining why it starts on Kansas


Egads!


Lawrence, KS

more hippie skronk below…

Kansas — The Pinnacle

in space no one can pull pencil lead out of your eye

According to an urban legend, NASA spent millions of dollars designing pens to fly in space, while the Soviet Union simply equipped their cosmonauts with pencils. Like so many urban legends, though, this one is false. NASA did not spend any money at all developing the pens.

Astroprof's Space Pens article.