Saturday, June 13, 2009

burning photographs

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staples holding

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pinpoint future

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many adults

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friendly robots

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complex units

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jamming compression

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the moon

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in ninth

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science can

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we embrace

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dependent phenomena

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implantable chips

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this notion

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Wednesday, June 10, 2009

collaborative posture

The most fun i had before I could drive was building tree forts. Dad was a remodeler and there were accesible woodlots in the neighborhood. We would row a raft we built to a bamboo grove on some guys land who was infirmed or something (he had a large piece of property) and we would saw down bamboo poles that were probably 5 inches in diameter and the transport them by raft to a site on the water which we had already scouted. One time it involved a large live oak that was overhanging an inlet. We nailed the bamboo to teh tree in such a way that we could slide down it from the tree to the raft. Other forts had nice rope swings and one had a dugout and a scaffolding in the tree. All of it had the air of preparation. We would build traps, plan for every contigency of attack. Escape was something we looked forward to because we had such well established routes.
Here is my main point SPOILER ALERT which is a funny thing to say before the actual ending:
Once we didn't see anything else that we needed to do to the forts, once they were complete, we just moved on to another one. The fun was building them, not hanging out there.
I still feel that way. I just want to build partial ideas with people and then drop them whenever we become disinterested in it. I think that has a negative context, but it shouldn't. There's such a goodness to quiting.
In the context of accomplishing a specific goal, it sucks if you don't achieve it, but when you are just doing something for a while, it should be fun regardless of whether or not you finish it. I'm done.

world cafe

So I'm agoraphobic or something which I am mostly cool with. But I still want to be social.
I enjoy imagining informational technologies as really fun ways to interact;
Postcards
collaborative prose
net-meeting software
videochat
Halo 3
And in all of these situations I want to maintain my physical space and only participate when I feel no pressure to do so, only flow to do.
Yes, the reality of these desires is that it mostly involves thinking, and that if I was to actually get a group to adopt one technology, then I would most likely leave it for another.
BUt it's still really enjoyable to think about.
Maybe I just like pretending to hang out with friends by considering what technologies are best for it.
I could post this on Facebook, but it seems somehow inappropriate. I don't want to seem like I want an answer, I just really enjoy writing about the problem.
Check this out:
Though I don't want an answer, I do want to build it with others.
New post on collaboration.

Tuesday, June 9, 2009

Naturally occuring

we should start a club.
It'll be fun, and meetings will be convenient.
Our lives will still be filled to the brim with fascinating things that we do and lazy time. But we will be in a club.
There will be dues of a sort: fun. Yes fun, the club is much like a sci-fi/fantasy monster that feeds off our human emotions. This organism happens to eat fun. It's a symbiotic relationship and also a positive feedback loop. The relationship between the club and us conditions itself to increase fun through various permutations. We have more fun, the club gets bigger. But not bigger in roster, bigger in ideas.
Yes, big ideas. Certain members of the club (not me) enjoy making tools and instruments with which we can all make interesting music and of course, have more fun. It's a blast.
Eventually we will become inspired by ATP and mitochondria (the powerhouse of the cell) and we will build a videogame that manages to help us read and write creatively. It's awesome. We can't stop playing it together, until we get tired of playing it. Then we go onto the roof where we have a parkour obstacle course which is desgined in such a way that we cannot damage our physical bodies.

Last night I had a dream in which I met some chick at a party that was wearing a T-shirt that reminded me of the sunset during "the alien-baby is alive" segment.

power source

I feel like driving down Independence towards Anika's house and stopping @ that bar that the guy named Frenchy who worked for my dad and was super nice to me and only thought he would live to be like 30, but probabably didn't live much longer cause he has severe emphasema or something supposedly went to. The Bell bar or something. Never been there, but it seems like today would be a nice one to go there. Maybe they have wireless there though my fantasy lies in the late 80's.
So I'll whip out this here new laptop whch was a $400 joint purchase between Chrissy and I and birthday money and start searchengining for ATP.
ATP like the mitochondria stuff.
The mitochondria in the power house of the cell. So, at some point I'll see an intuitive manner by which might paste a nice text-book graphic of a mitochondria onto my brain and then feed the motherfucker some ATP which I'll find by tightly wadding scraps of paper from the sugar packes at my table. Or maybe I can cut the sugar with some broccoli or something. But you know how these places are, even the raw broccoli on the veggie tray is eviscerated of all umami.



Monday, June 8, 2009

powerful medium

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never leave

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nail holes

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premise establishes

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roof onto

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personal code

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insect speed

I just wanted to title a post "insect speed" because it is such an information rich phrase. Insects have to experience time so differently. At first I thought "I wonder what is involved bio-chemistrically. Maybe we could shoot some of that juice into our brain and experience time go by very slowly" But then I decided that we probably don't have the right receptors. Then I was like "Won't it be interesting when neurologists start putting new receptors in our brains."
Then we can check out some insect speed.

fits properly

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stamp alpha

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they differ

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structure contains

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data sensor

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