I did get that Blackberry Storm, by the way. It makes me less anxious because now I don’t have to rush to go check my email only to find out that it was all crap anyway. Emails just happen all the time and I don’t need to find a landline to get my internet ‘fix’. I feel like I have very fat fingers though and texting whilst driving is right out; never again!
The pictures on that thing are really high-res, but it is so slow and cumbersome to take one (see The Singularity Will Not Occur in read more) that I probably won’t take nearly as many as I used to, and I’m not sure it is very good at action shots like the old one. The shutter speed seems slow and any kind of movement seems to really bugger up the picture.
So, let’s say good bye to my old Verizon phone that was good whilst it lasted. She’s scarred and worn, but she held true and I must have dropped that mother like a hundred times. Anyone want to buy a 256MB flash card no bigger than a damn cornflake?
Here’s the last of her pictures before I send her off to sea in a bonfire casket:
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The Singularity Will Not Occur
This is a great interview (right side). Forget what I said about us reaching the technological singularity and becoming artificial intelligence robots. It turns out that when rabbits were introduced to Australia they had a similar bell curve for their population as our technological progress seems to have, but despite that one could extrapolate out a rabbit apocalypse from a rabbit population graph, Australia did not reach a rabbit singularity where it was piled high to the brim with hossenfeffer. Instead, the rabbits fought for resources and starved and were eaten and eventually the population settled down.
He is saying that our technology, instead of making us faster and better and more productive, is actually encumbering us and slowing us down (thank you microsoft word where I have to undo the bullet point every time I want to use an asterick, facebook, text messaging distractions, etc.) This ties in perfectly with the Nomads Economist article I posted previously as well as the What is the Monkeysphere? article from cracked. We are reaching biological limitations that are holding us back. Of course, one could then extrapolate that we will then enhance ourselves with technology to overcome these limitations and then we will splice our cybernetically enhanced genetic material with that of rabbits, and then the rabbit apocalypse could actually happen. Perhaps in 2012. We shall see.
Ego – The False Center
Wise words from Osho.
we shape who we are from others, and this ‘who’ is false. it is not really you.
you are who you are either through emulation of ideas and behaviors from people you admire or through rejection of them from people you don’t (that republican businessman is a real asshole; I don’t want to be like him. that arrogant football player is a jerk to people; I choose to be the opposite.)
the true center of you beneath your accrued collection of ideas and behaviors is neither made up of nor tarnished or modified by ideas and behaviors; those things are just the movement of thought. your center is the constant around which these things orbit. it is a location. it is the space in which stuff happens.
embrace your dark side as well as the light, do not have the illusion that you are all light
trying to be all-happy, all-good, all the time is fruitless and self-defeating. it will lead to madness and an inability to relate to your fellow humans. it is perfectly ok to be human. it is perfectly ok to fail, to slip, to make a mistake, to experience emotion. as long as your awareness is always present and you are facing the direction you think is true.
the real can be known only through the false
if you reject the false you are putting blinders on. there may be a bit of truth hidden there and what a marvelous place to hide it, too. maybe the republicans have a right idea for once. maybe there’s a scientific discovery you thought wasn’t possible. in order to understand the texture of the world you should accept everything without resistance. this doesn’t mean you need to instill it with belief, or act upon it, or waste time where you have no interest. just accept and move on. frankly, most of the decisions i make in a day have absolutely NOTHING to do with what i believe to be true or what i have faith in or what i care about politically. not one jot.
The Deoxyribonucleic Hyperdimension
So I checked out the website that the last link was from and man, I don’t think I understand it. But I’d like to. If anyone can explain what the hell is going on there I’d be grateful. Maybe I’ve reached the limits of understanding for my age group.
The Fantastic Floating Islands of Titicaca
How neat is that. I hate giving you guys StumbleUpon links because you probably StumbleUpon too and then you’ve already seen that link and I look like a jerk! “What a jerk,” you say, “You think I don’t know how to StumbleUpon my own self?” “Sorry,” I say, “but it may happen again.”
Oh wait, maybe that last one was a digg.com link, not a StumbleUpon. This one is the stumble one. I just can’t understand why they went through the effort of making Glenn Close an old, male pirate in Hook? I mean, look at this scene (1:02) – was it really worth the effort?
remember when you’d turn your tv on, and all you had to do was wait for the light to warm? and now you have to wait for the boot sequence to complete then the light turns on but you still have to wait for it to warm! and cell phones too! my old computer used to boot windows 3.1 in about 45 seconds. it had 2 megs of ram and 8megs of hard disc space. My last PC had 2,048 megabytes and 51,200 megabytes of hard drive… and it STILL takes 45 seconds to load!!! they’re doing it to cars too… some cars when you push the start button (thank you nintendo) it’ll cycle through a sequence where special visuals appear on your DVD/SAT NAV sys., and your speedo and tach needles gracefully glide to redline then back to 0 then your car starts. My iMac boots up quickly… thank god or it’d be outside sleeping with the raccoons.
don’t throw that phone away. my orchestra recycles them as a fundraiser!
miss you.