KindaGamey

Q: 214 pictures taken over two days?
A: yup. from 8.7.2010 – 8.8.2010

Q: what did you do?
A: oh you know.  saw pigeons in the rafters at a Bojangles’ Biscuits, crossed the $12 toll bay, played legos with Thor and Ivan, visited this cute little bungalo we fantasized about getting but it didn’t work out, went to a friend’s land and checked out their goats and bees, saw a bee swarm in a tree that was gone when we came back later, hit up a grateful dead cover band outdoor show at a winery with a cardboard cutout of Deanna Troi behind them and had a seafood and corn cob dinner, played with slang flashcards, took a dump in a repainted bathroom that used to be black and is now easter egg colors only marred by a tiny plastic toy gun by the window that I thought was picturesque but you can barely see what it is from my toilet vantagepoint, went to visit this CRAZY machine called the Quantum Pulse machine that uses sacred geometry and 12 electrified gases in tubes to do something weird to the surrounding area including your cells and brain and I think Mia and I switched personalities, I drank beer and Mia rode a riding lawnmower, we went to a wellness center, walked a labyrinth, touched my crystal to the crystal in the center of the labyrinth, got invited to visit the eagle’s nest at the top of the wellness center, went to see a Peace Pole, said goodbye to Scott and Michele and Thor and Ivan and headed homeward, stopped at the restaurant across the bay bridge which has been totally revamped and some woman spilled coffee on her hand and it was all traumatic, saw this amazing little bug in my air conditioning vent in the car – he had a geometric pattern on his back like a rounded hourglass of black and bright orange, saw a train, saw a sunset, done.

Q: that’s a hell of a weekend.
A: yes, it was.

Q: can I see a preview of some of your favorite pics? i’m not sure i want to click ‘read more’ just yet until I’m sure this is going to be worth it.
A: sure, how about these?

Q: tell me about the quantum pulse machine.
A: the wellness center owned it but then sold it to this lady who wanted to treat her cancer (?) with it. she makes it available to friends. if you know someone who knows where it is, they take you to it, you put $20 in the honor system folder,  you turn it on for the two minute timer, sit around it and wait. you think about “your intention” be it healing, some change you want, or whatever. during the two minutes it periodically turns on and you see the gas tubes getting electrified and you feel… odd? it makes a horrible electrical sound which jars you, but then it does something to the air around it and possibly even the air within you. mia and i think we switched personality traits after doing that.  i’m not sure what i felt, but i’d love to do it again. i need to do a proper meditation session with it.

Here’s the URL:
http://www.thequantumpulse.com/how_it_works.htm

I think they cost like $18,000 or something ridiculous? If you buy one and live nearby please let me know. Either that or I’m moving to the shore. I’ve been following Free Energy stuff for a while and that coil reminds me of the Rodin coil that Clanzer (vimeo) just put together. For more about Rodin and Vortexes (website).

Now, do your job. Click read more. Enjoy pictures.
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Just got to eek these intermediary ones out so I can get to my beautiful Eastern Shore pics.
8.1.2010 – 8.7.2010

Not many pics.

Events: Driving back from North Carolina,  Carytown, Sleep Study (for sleep apnea), Norfolk trip for American citizenship test (I’m originally British), Be Here Now (Baba Ram Dass).

So when I was in Norfolk I passed by Brooke street, I parked one next to Parking Meter 108, some dude had a license plate 67 numbers away from mine and I stayed at a crappy scary hotel called the “Ascend Collection”. Whilst sitting at a bar next door and trying to figure out how to represent all iterations of Tic Tac Toe on a 2-dimensional grid, a girl dressed as Rosie the Riveter and one dressed as a bride/princess (same thing?) sat down next to me. I think they were just doing it for the hell of it, but I was given explicit instructions not to put the picture on the web.

The License Plate Coincidence
Luckily, one of the pictures includes my own license plate for reference. Only 67 numbers apart.

The Many Iterations of Tic Tac Toe
So this was my Tic Tac Toe idea: I wanted to represent all Tic Tac Toe iterations in one two dimensional picture. It turns out I’d need a big piece of paper. Might make a nice poster actually. I really need to do it in Flash where one can zoom in for more detail.

Here’s how it works:

1. Due to the inherent laws of the Tic Tac Toe universe, the first quadrant selection is always an X. From there, you can divide the remaining quadrants into tic tac toe grids (3×3 cells) and in each represent all of the next choices you can make, the quadrant that the O player will choose.
2. If you choose a quadrant you can then divide those remaining quadrants and assume that for the rest of THAT fractal descent, the previous choices will be occupying the positions in the quadrant (center, top right, etc.) you already chose. The choice of selecting that quadrant again will no longer be available and the choices get quickly smaller and smaller as you zoom down into all possible choices.
3. Some games will end early but no map will ever get smaller than 9 choices in (a tie game).

So, I never finished. But do you get where I’m going with it? I want to be able to navigate through probabilities in a universe with a specific ruleset.  I want to move backward and forward through time and see all options played out before me in one plane. You could see the strategic future of your choices… even color code each inner quadrant from red to green to indicate how many winning choices are available from that next move.

Well, I thought it was interesting anyway.

Oil in Noodle Bowl

See the light reflections in each ball of oil? It reminds me of my flash evolution experiment.
http://www.kindagamey.com/flash/evolution/

The Labyrinth x 3

1. I walked a Labyrinth in the Eastern Shore. Not something I do every day, mind you. In fact, I’ve never done it.
2. The book I ordered A Beginners Guide to Constructing the Universe which came in the mail after I got back from the Eastern Shore has the same Labryinth on one of the pages.
3. As I’m posting the Baba Ram Dass Be Here Now pictures I notice that the same Labyrinth is in that book too! I was reading this book before I went to the Eastern shore, then lended it to my brother before the trip.

Preview Pics
I always give you some preview pics, but you have to click MORE to get to the gallery list. Unless you linked here directly in which case you don’t have to click nothin.

I call this one, “Modern Youth.” I don’t like to toot my own tooter, but that is a freaking epic picture.

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We went to Winston-Salem to attend a lovely wedding in Old Salem. A boyhood friend of mine got married to a wonderful lady whom I’ve met before. Neil is my oldest friend and the only old friend I’ve kept in contact with over a long term. His parents are brits, my parents are brits. My mom saved his mom emotionally when they moved to America (she’d already been through the culture shock) and they became great friends. Neil and I were of similar age and became friends, our sisters were of similar age and were friends. Our mums would trade kids off when they wanted peace and quiet. Our fathers both came to the U.S. because of the tobacco industry and were friends.  Truly an amazing and wonderful family connection there.

A really nice weekend.

My favorite number: 108 pictures
(a near coincidence. when I pulled out the Winston photos I had 109. Deleted one. Many are repeats of things I just couldn’t nail down a good photo for and I probably would have deleted them otherwise.)

Hotel was lovely and weird, we went to the wedding in old salem, got lost in a graveyard with a black stop sign, went to a brewery with my old friend Chris Spinelli and his wife and had a few pints, found a wonderful pub the next morning before heading for home. Fun!

Date Range: 7/31/2010 – 8/1/2010

Another Intertwined Fish – that’s 3 so far.

1. Afton Mountain Fish Fountain
2. Two of Cups (?) Tarot de Marseille
3. Fish at Finnegan’s Wake Pub

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“I’ll do my best, but I can’t promise anything.”

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7.28.2010 – 7.31.2010
Car wash, Patrick’s Party, Tarot de Marseille

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