i just recently came across a news item that reported that David Foster Wallace had committed suicide...
And i thought... Who is that... That name sounds familiar...
And i made the association of that name to the popular series of Books of Lists... ( ? )
But the obituaries didn't mention these books at all...
And i hadn't read any of his books, although, now, i think i might try his First Infinity Book...
But the curious bit was that the actual authors of The Book of Lists was:
David Wallechinsky & Amy Wallace
Ha!
That's pretty funny huh!
P.S.
The obituaries didn't mention why he hanged himself...???
Thursday, September 25, 2008
Thursday, September 18, 2008
If Western Civilizaiton were a Person... And other Political Thoughts
Granted: This analogy may have it's flaws;
But if our culture, or civilization were a physical, biological being,
What part of it would be The Government?
Brain
Heart
Stomach
Liver
Kidneys
Muscles
Blood
Veins
Hands
Feet
Eyes
Nose
Tongue
Ears
...???
i think that the government should most properly be thought of as The Spleen.
The Spleen is the one organ that helps the other gastrointestinal organs to do their jobs,
While at the same time, If it were removed, The organism would survive, but do so less efficiently.
The Government of any Civilization should not define that civilization in any way,
But instead; Be it's spleen, and just help it to get things done...
- - -
Gay Marriage
The Government should get out of the marriage business.
Marriages should be defined and authorized by religions, and once one is established, the government, if it chooses to do so, may be allowed to establish tax brackets around it.
Other institutions, such as hospitals & insurance companies may be allowed to make up whatever rules they want, and let the free market decide if those policies are fair & equatable.
- - -
Abortions
Everyone should be working to make Abortions as rare as possible—
Women should have the right to choose to have an abortion, and choose not to need or have one.
- - -
Policing the World
Local Nations should police their own regions & determine if their social policies adhere to whatever they define as human rights.
It should also be possible and easy for anyone to move from one country that they would choose not to live in, to any other country that they would prefer to live in.
If one country finds that they are being depleted of their population, while a neighboring nation is absorbing their citizens, then the boarders will be moved to accommodate the reduction of one population and the expansion of the other.
- - -
Weapons of Mass Destruction
Every country should have at least 12 nuclear bombs.
Those with too many, will redistribute those that they have to lesser endowed nations.
- - -
But if our culture, or civilization were a physical, biological being,
What part of it would be The Government?
Brain
Heart
Stomach
Liver
Kidneys
Muscles
Blood
Veins
Hands
Feet
Eyes
Nose
Tongue
Ears
...???
i think that the government should most properly be thought of as The Spleen.
The Spleen is the one organ that helps the other gastrointestinal organs to do their jobs,
While at the same time, If it were removed, The organism would survive, but do so less efficiently.
The Government of any Civilization should not define that civilization in any way,
But instead; Be it's spleen, and just help it to get things done...
- - -
Gay Marriage
The Government should get out of the marriage business.
Marriages should be defined and authorized by religions, and once one is established, the government, if it chooses to do so, may be allowed to establish tax brackets around it.
Other institutions, such as hospitals & insurance companies may be allowed to make up whatever rules they want, and let the free market decide if those policies are fair & equatable.
- - -
Abortions
Everyone should be working to make Abortions as rare as possible—
Women should have the right to choose to have an abortion, and choose not to need or have one.
- - -
Policing the World
Local Nations should police their own regions & determine if their social policies adhere to whatever they define as human rights.
It should also be possible and easy for anyone to move from one country that they would choose not to live in, to any other country that they would prefer to live in.
If one country finds that they are being depleted of their population, while a neighboring nation is absorbing their citizens, then the boarders will be moved to accommodate the reduction of one population and the expansion of the other.
- - -
Weapons of Mass Destruction
Every country should have at least 12 nuclear bombs.
Those with too many, will redistribute those that they have to lesser endowed nations.
- - -
Feeling Very Odd Lately...
So i tried walking over to a park near where i live the other day,
It's about a mile away, and it nearly killed me!
My left foot, which is my ‘Good’ Foot went completely numb and felt like it was swelling up,
But when i got to the park and sat down, then examined it, it looked OK...???
- - -
Do you have memories that seem completely real, but you aren't quite able to place them anywhere...? They seem to have all the usual attributes of a memory, but you don't know when they happened, or where...???
i've had memories like this from time to time throughout my whole life, but now, they are starting to become more frequent.
Typically; The memory will seem very tangible, and then they will disappear in a day or two, only to be recalled if i made a note or reminder of that peculiar memory in my day journal.
- - -
Also: If we were turned into robots and had a tiny fusion generator built into us, so that we wouldn't have to eat, and the internal primal drive to procreate were erased from our programming...
What would we do?
We'd no longer be driven insensibly to have sex, and wouldn't want to eat, & have no need or necessity to work to provide shelter or food for ourselves or children...
What would we do to fill our afternoons?
It seems to me that if we were robots, we'd be substantially more free than we are now, but what we do with that freedom?
- - -
i've also been thinking, or wondering, what is the best idea that humanimals have ever come up with?
Such an idea would necessarily have to be functional.
But it should also be inobvious.
Or extremely crazy and functional.
Or just crazy and sensible, but not very functional, or functional within the parameters of a story...???
i can't seem to think of a really good candidate?
It's about a mile away, and it nearly killed me!
My left foot, which is my ‘Good’ Foot went completely numb and felt like it was swelling up,
But when i got to the park and sat down, then examined it, it looked OK...???
- - -
Do you have memories that seem completely real, but you aren't quite able to place them anywhere...? They seem to have all the usual attributes of a memory, but you don't know when they happened, or where...???
i've had memories like this from time to time throughout my whole life, but now, they are starting to become more frequent.
Typically; The memory will seem very tangible, and then they will disappear in a day or two, only to be recalled if i made a note or reminder of that peculiar memory in my day journal.
- - -
Also: If we were turned into robots and had a tiny fusion generator built into us, so that we wouldn't have to eat, and the internal primal drive to procreate were erased from our programming...
What would we do?
We'd no longer be driven insensibly to have sex, and wouldn't want to eat, & have no need or necessity to work to provide shelter or food for ourselves or children...
What would we do to fill our afternoons?
It seems to me that if we were robots, we'd be substantially more free than we are now, but what we do with that freedom?
- - -
i've also been thinking, or wondering, what is the best idea that humanimals have ever come up with?
Such an idea would necessarily have to be functional.
But it should also be inobvious.
Or extremely crazy and functional.
Or just crazy and sensible, but not very functional, or functional within the parameters of a story...???
i can't seem to think of a really good candidate?
Thursday, August 14, 2008
Georgia Bigfoot
Regarding The Recent Disclosure of The Georgia Bigfoot...
Although true bigfoot hunters know that Bigfoot
Is indigenous throughout the US and The World for that matter...
This is not only a Hoax;
But a cheap, transparently crude & Idiotic Hoax.
The Consortium of Translucent Paramecium's
Believe that the reason that Bigfoot will never be captured,
Dead or Alive, is that although they are Very Real—
They are Quixotic.
That is; Very Real like Faeries & Santa Claus.
They can be experienced, You can interact with them,
But they don't play by the rules that we are bound by.
Humanimals are Incarnate to keep us flying off into the void,
And Not being to find our way back.
Quixotic Beings are—
Not necessarily smarter or better looking than we are;
But they just serve a different rule master.
These rules protect Leprechauns & their pots of gold—
Amoung other things.
Although true bigfoot hunters know that Bigfoot
Is indigenous throughout the US and The World for that matter...
This is not only a Hoax;
But a cheap, transparently crude & Idiotic Hoax.
The Consortium of Translucent Paramecium's
Believe that the reason that Bigfoot will never be captured,
Dead or Alive, is that although they are Very Real—
They are Quixotic.
That is; Very Real like Faeries & Santa Claus.
They can be experienced, You can interact with them,
But they don't play by the rules that we are bound by.
Humanimals are Incarnate to keep us flying off into the void,
And Not being to find our way back.
Quixotic Beings are—
Not necessarily smarter or better looking than we are;
But they just serve a different rule master.
These rules protect Leprechauns & their pots of gold—
Amoung other things.
Wednesday, August 13, 2008
Concerning Lip Syncing in China...
i am not at all upset with The Lip Syncing Fiasco in China...!!!
It was a Production Number.
It was a Team Effort.
Would you have rather had a child that was half as cute that sang off key...?
If they did find ONE child that was Both Nearly as Cute,
with Nearly as Good a Singing Voice,
They would have had to give the Kibosh to both Lin Miaoke & Yang Peiyi.
Crushing both of their dreams of participating in their Olympics...!!!
.
It was a Production Number.
It was a Team Effort.
Would you have rather had a child that was half as cute that sang off key...?
If they did find ONE child that was Both Nearly as Cute,
with Nearly as Good a Singing Voice,
They would have had to give the Kibosh to both Lin Miaoke & Yang Peiyi.
Crushing both of their dreams of participating in their Olympics...!!!
.
Tuesday, August 05, 2008
Alledged Smallest Snake...
Recent News Story Claims
To have Found The Smallest Snake
i'm sure thought that i once saw a smaller snake while in Hawai`i ( Oahu ) around 1986.
i found it in a fountain in the middle of Honolulu. When i first saw it, i was drawn by its vigorous wiggling in the water, and then when i picked it up and examined it more carefully, i noticed that it was flicking a very tiny tongue in & out...
Proving that it was a snake, and not a worm.
It was slightly thicker than a hair, about an inch or so in length and a plain brown.
It looked very much like this one, Pictured, but much smaller.
Friday, August 01, 2008
When Dreams Come True...
i have a noisy neighbor. ( Ted Means Upstairs! )
as a side note to this;
i came out of my room the other day,
and when i passed my next door neighbor's room on this floor,
i noticed that they ( manny & his girlfriend ) had their stereo up like full blast...!
So i went back to my room,
closed the door and stood there for a moment...
i could Not hear a peep from their room...!!!
So anyways...
The noise that comes from Ted's room is exactly that weird kind of noise that bothers me the most.
Which is not just noise.
i don't really mind noise, as noise.
When i was a street person on The Big Island, in Hilo,
i slept next to this aquaduct that had like a million frogs in it,
And that noise didn't bother me at all.
i slept like the kind of baby that sleeps very peacefully,
Without fussing all night.
The kind of noise that really bothers me;
Is noise that i can barely hear.
Especially when it's voices, like from a TV.
So that my brain will try to figure out what they're saying,
But i can't quite make it out.
Another kind of noise,
Which is basically the same kind of 'almost' noise,
Is when a stereo is blasting through a wall or floor/ceiling and only some of the frequencies are coming through!
Or when they are playing a stereo so loud that the speakers stop generating the music from the radio or record player,
But just vibrate.
And this is what many people think IS Rock & Roll.
Not the Music, Just the vibrations.
So there are those two kinds of noise that really annoy me—
And also;
Just Really Loud Music or Aimless Guitar Strumming.
Or Sports...
So that's Five kind of sounds...
And Ted uses them all against me,
All Day & All Night long.
Most Every Day,
Especially on The Weekends.
And i hate to complain...
Because the noise coming through,
In most cases,
Is just on the edge of being too loud.
It's VERY Annoying,
But it's not REALLY too loud.
i would come off as crazy person complaining about it...
And also;
i'm thinking,
Is this just one of the things that reasonable people have to put up with,
Living in technological community...
Plus:
Most people have to suffer through a huge amount of nonsense every day,
And here i am living in Paradise.
Maybe this is a very inconsequential burden that i am fated to carry ( ??? )
i am really of two minds concerning this.
Another Argument i have for situations like this—
Is when you Allow someone to misbehave,
You are giving them permission to continue misbehaving.
So that when they are condemned to hell for all eternity,
Are you partly or entirely responsible...!!!
??? !
Do i ever make too much noise for my neighbors.
i don't think so.
i don't even have stereo, and i hate watching TV.
And i listen to everything throught headphones.
i like the superiour sound quality from headphones,
And it's much easier to hear movie conversational speech with headphones.
So for seveal months ( 3 years ) i've been looking for some really nice headphones that will block out external sounds,
So i can just listen to what i want to,
Without the layering of sounds that come from the outer world...!
Also;
i wear earplugs almost all the time,
And i've really gotten used to living in complete silence.
Although;
This imposed state of sensory deprivation has increased the amount of schizophrenic voices that i hear.
So today:
Friday August 1st 2008
With my last rather expensive purchase from Sears of some Big Earmuff Headphones that didn't block out external sounds very well ( actually; not at all )—
i was thinking that because my earplugs are actually pretty good at this,
Wouldn't be be nice if there was a set of headphones that were essentially earplugs,
With headphones on one end,
And would feed the sound through a pipette to my head...!
So after thinking about this at the end of July for awhile,
i went out August 1st to return some books
& Run over to Staples to get some ink cartridges,
Paper suitable for making my own tarot cards & Postcards,
A corner trimer
And found, By chance, Some headphones of exactly the kind i was looking for the last 3 years, For about $12...!
They are called SkullCandy™ by Ink'D.
When the sound it off,
they work exactly like perfectly effective earplugs!
So when i got home,
i tried them out while Ted was blasting his TV and i could not hear it at all...!!!
- - - -
Another Wondrous thing i found recently was Google Earth.
It is a little different than Google Maps,
Which allow you to view the entire Earth Surface with images from Space Satellites...
Google Earth is Essentially the Same Thing...
Except that the interface comes from an application that you load into your comptuer,
And somehow stores vast swatches of Earth Topography at a time,
So that you can fly over it!
So instead of just looking at a Snap Shot of the Earth,
As in Google Maps,
Google Earth has an Airplane Simulator with it,
That allows you to go to anywhere on The Earth and just fly over it!
The Interface to control The Airplane isn't quite as easy to use as the one that came with my old F/A 18 Hornet Game Demo
( i never did buy the whole game, the demo alone satisfied me completely...!!! )
But i think that i'll get the hang of it eventually.
Also; With The F/A 18 Demo,
The ground that i flew over was just simple polygons,
But with Google Earth... IT'S THE REAL EARTH...!
How detailed is it?
i was thinking that with the 'Good' Pictures, it's about 2 feet.
That is;
i can see the front and back windshields of automobiles in parking lots.
In many cases;
In the Cities; Google Sketchup provides models of Buildings.
So that many cities look 'Kind of' like real cities.
Only some of the buildings are provided,
As these buildings are provided by ordinary people that make them
With the Free Application Sketchup that Google provides them with.
This Sketchup is An Amazingly Easy tool to use for making 3D objects.
It takes a little practice to learn how to use, But it's VERY powerful.
The models are not exactly Ray-Tracing Quality,
But they have real shadows, and lots of details.
- - - -
Another Amazing Application that i got with my MacBook,
That i've really wanted to get for the longest time,
Is Garage Band.
The Primary Function of it is to allow Garage Bands to Mix their own Sound Recordings.
This mixing means that you can record each instrumental track, digitally, & then edit it, note for note, and then mix all the instruments together, with vocals and other sound tracks into a final product!!!
But also:
You can use Garage Band to Write your own music,
And get the computer to play it for you,
With a wide range of electronic instruments,
Sound effects,
Sound tracks & Tracks that you record yourself or find on the internet...!!!
It allows you to add many instrumental tracks that you've written,
So that you can build up an entire symphony piece...!!!
- - - -
Curiously; While i've been Dreaming of having access to many of these programs for a very long time, now that i have them,
they intimidate me...!!!
i have tried them out, but i haven't really thrown myself on them yet.
Some other Fabulous programs that i like are:
Chipmunk Basic
An easy to use Programming Language, but i'm having some trouble figuring out how to use some of the most elemental features...
The Documentation that comes with it, is very poor!
Pages '08 & Graphic Converter
These are image processing programs that should be allowing me to make some really nice collages and process my watercolors...
If only i would get going with them...!
Grapher
Is kind of a simple Math Thingy that allows you to plot 2 & 3D graphs.
These can be very pretty, But i haven't yet sat down to read all the instructions to learn how to use it...!
iTunes
i've been snubbing my nose at iPods for the last few years,
But iTunes has shown me how useful digital music can be...!
Instead of lugging around a huge case of CD's, Tape Cartridges or LP Records;
You can put every song that you've ever listened to in your entire life, into a tiny device, smaller than a match box.
It is convenient.
Flickr & Blogger
Self Publishing made easy.
Pages & TextEdit for Text Processing
TextEdit, While smaller, with fewer special functions, is easier to use for just typing.
i really have all the tools available now to write all my books.
All i have to do, is get started.
as a side note to this;
i came out of my room the other day,
and when i passed my next door neighbor's room on this floor,
i noticed that they ( manny & his girlfriend ) had their stereo up like full blast...!
So i went back to my room,
closed the door and stood there for a moment...
i could Not hear a peep from their room...!!!
So anyways...
The noise that comes from Ted's room is exactly that weird kind of noise that bothers me the most.
Which is not just noise.
i don't really mind noise, as noise.
When i was a street person on The Big Island, in Hilo,
i slept next to this aquaduct that had like a million frogs in it,
And that noise didn't bother me at all.
i slept like the kind of baby that sleeps very peacefully,
Without fussing all night.
The kind of noise that really bothers me;
Is noise that i can barely hear.
Especially when it's voices, like from a TV.
So that my brain will try to figure out what they're saying,
But i can't quite make it out.
Another kind of noise,
Which is basically the same kind of 'almost' noise,
Is when a stereo is blasting through a wall or floor/ceiling and only some of the frequencies are coming through!
Or when they are playing a stereo so loud that the speakers stop generating the music from the radio or record player,
But just vibrate.
And this is what many people think IS Rock & Roll.
Not the Music, Just the vibrations.
So there are those two kinds of noise that really annoy me—
And also;
Just Really Loud Music or Aimless Guitar Strumming.
Or Sports...
So that's Five kind of sounds...
And Ted uses them all against me,
All Day & All Night long.
Most Every Day,
Especially on The Weekends.
And i hate to complain...
Because the noise coming through,
In most cases,
Is just on the edge of being too loud.
It's VERY Annoying,
But it's not REALLY too loud.
i would come off as crazy person complaining about it...
And also;
i'm thinking,
Is this just one of the things that reasonable people have to put up with,
Living in technological community...
Plus:
Most people have to suffer through a huge amount of nonsense every day,
And here i am living in Paradise.
Maybe this is a very inconsequential burden that i am fated to carry ( ??? )
i am really of two minds concerning this.
Another Argument i have for situations like this—
Is when you Allow someone to misbehave,
You are giving them permission to continue misbehaving.
So that when they are condemned to hell for all eternity,
Are you partly or entirely responsible...!!!
??? !
Do i ever make too much noise for my neighbors.
i don't think so.
i don't even have stereo, and i hate watching TV.
And i listen to everything throught headphones.
i like the superiour sound quality from headphones,
And it's much easier to hear movie conversational speech with headphones.
So for seveal months ( 3 years ) i've been looking for some really nice headphones that will block out external sounds,
So i can just listen to what i want to,
Without the layering of sounds that come from the outer world...!
Also;
i wear earplugs almost all the time,
And i've really gotten used to living in complete silence.
Although;
This imposed state of sensory deprivation has increased the amount of schizophrenic voices that i hear.
So today:
Friday August 1st 2008
With my last rather expensive purchase from Sears of some Big Earmuff Headphones that didn't block out external sounds very well ( actually; not at all )—
i was thinking that because my earplugs are actually pretty good at this,
Wouldn't be be nice if there was a set of headphones that were essentially earplugs,
With headphones on one end,
And would feed the sound through a pipette to my head...!
So after thinking about this at the end of July for awhile,
i went out August 1st to return some books
& Run over to Staples to get some ink cartridges,
Paper suitable for making my own tarot cards & Postcards,
A corner trimer
And found, By chance, Some headphones of exactly the kind i was looking for the last 3 years, For about $12...!
They are called SkullCandy™ by Ink'D.
When the sound it off,
they work exactly like perfectly effective earplugs!
So when i got home,
i tried them out while Ted was blasting his TV and i could not hear it at all...!!!
- - - -
Another Wondrous thing i found recently was Google Earth.
It is a little different than Google Maps,
Which allow you to view the entire Earth Surface with images from Space Satellites...
Google Earth is Essentially the Same Thing...
Except that the interface comes from an application that you load into your comptuer,
And somehow stores vast swatches of Earth Topography at a time,
So that you can fly over it!
So instead of just looking at a Snap Shot of the Earth,
As in Google Maps,
Google Earth has an Airplane Simulator with it,
That allows you to go to anywhere on The Earth and just fly over it!
The Interface to control The Airplane isn't quite as easy to use as the one that came with my old F/A 18 Hornet Game Demo
( i never did buy the whole game, the demo alone satisfied me completely...!!! )
But i think that i'll get the hang of it eventually.
Also; With The F/A 18 Demo,
The ground that i flew over was just simple polygons,
But with Google Earth... IT'S THE REAL EARTH...!
How detailed is it?
i was thinking that with the 'Good' Pictures, it's about 2 feet.
That is;
i can see the front and back windshields of automobiles in parking lots.
In many cases;
In the Cities; Google Sketchup provides models of Buildings.
So that many cities look 'Kind of' like real cities.
Only some of the buildings are provided,
As these buildings are provided by ordinary people that make them
With the Free Application Sketchup that Google provides them with.
This Sketchup is An Amazingly Easy tool to use for making 3D objects.
It takes a little practice to learn how to use, But it's VERY powerful.
The models are not exactly Ray-Tracing Quality,
But they have real shadows, and lots of details.
- - - -
Another Amazing Application that i got with my MacBook,
That i've really wanted to get for the longest time,
Is Garage Band.
The Primary Function of it is to allow Garage Bands to Mix their own Sound Recordings.
This mixing means that you can record each instrumental track, digitally, & then edit it, note for note, and then mix all the instruments together, with vocals and other sound tracks into a final product!!!
But also:
You can use Garage Band to Write your own music,
And get the computer to play it for you,
With a wide range of electronic instruments,
Sound effects,
Sound tracks & Tracks that you record yourself or find on the internet...!!!
It allows you to add many instrumental tracks that you've written,
So that you can build up an entire symphony piece...!!!
- - - -
Curiously; While i've been Dreaming of having access to many of these programs for a very long time, now that i have them,
they intimidate me...!!!
i have tried them out, but i haven't really thrown myself on them yet.
Some other Fabulous programs that i like are:
Chipmunk Basic
An easy to use Programming Language, but i'm having some trouble figuring out how to use some of the most elemental features...
The Documentation that comes with it, is very poor!
Pages '08 & Graphic Converter
These are image processing programs that should be allowing me to make some really nice collages and process my watercolors...
If only i would get going with them...!
Grapher
Is kind of a simple Math Thingy that allows you to plot 2 & 3D graphs.
These can be very pretty, But i haven't yet sat down to read all the instructions to learn how to use it...!
iTunes
i've been snubbing my nose at iPods for the last few years,
But iTunes has shown me how useful digital music can be...!
Instead of lugging around a huge case of CD's, Tape Cartridges or LP Records;
You can put every song that you've ever listened to in your entire life, into a tiny device, smaller than a match box.
It is convenient.
Flickr & Blogger
Self Publishing made easy.
Pages & TextEdit for Text Processing
TextEdit, While smaller, with fewer special functions, is easier to use for just typing.
i really have all the tools available now to write all my books.
All i have to do, is get started.
Thursday, July 31, 2008
i knew this 5 years ago...!!!
Well; It took long enough for the rest of the world to catch up to my brain power...!
Cell Phone Companies Are Evil.
Cell Phone Companies Are Evil.
Tuesday, July 08, 2008
Recent Mischief
Lately;
i've been leaving comments and even testimonials on Flickr,
Of the sort that starts off reassuring the recipient that i really like their work... But.
So i was doing this yesterday, and this guy that was administering this group...
It turns out - Reluctantly - for his sister that skedaddled off from Flickr to sell her handmade cards, got one of my missives.
Before she left, she indolently started a group that she called Handmade Cards.
But she didn't really 'Set it up' at all...
It didn't even have a Group Icon...!!!
So that's what i was principally whining about.
The Missing Icon.
So this guy; The Reluctant Administrator, Made me an Administrator!
And i promptly made just about everyone else in the group an Administrator,
Because that's my philosophy for Flickr Groups.
If you 'Get It'; Then you should be promoted to Administrative Status.
i belonged to another group awhile ago,
That was - Not - a Serious Group, and it made EVERYONE an Administrator,
And one of them deleted everyones pictures.
So it is Dangerous.
So i draw the line on whether or not, they 'Get it'...!
Anyways...
The Group is Handmade Cards.
Drop by and take a gander.
i've been leaving comments and even testimonials on Flickr,
Of the sort that starts off reassuring the recipient that i really like their work... But.
So i was doing this yesterday, and this guy that was administering this group...
It turns out - Reluctantly - for his sister that skedaddled off from Flickr to sell her handmade cards, got one of my missives.
Before she left, she indolently started a group that she called Handmade Cards.
But she didn't really 'Set it up' at all...
It didn't even have a Group Icon...!!!
So that's what i was principally whining about.
The Missing Icon.
So this guy; The Reluctant Administrator, Made me an Administrator!
And i promptly made just about everyone else in the group an Administrator,
Because that's my philosophy for Flickr Groups.
If you 'Get It'; Then you should be promoted to Administrative Status.
i belonged to another group awhile ago,
That was - Not - a Serious Group, and it made EVERYONE an Administrator,
And one of them deleted everyones pictures.
So it is Dangerous.
So i draw the line on whether or not, they 'Get it'...!
Anyways...
The Group is Handmade Cards.
Drop by and take a gander.
Saturday, July 05, 2008
NASA is driving my Crazy...!!!
Another Probe Doesn't Look for Life...!!!
It just seems completely crazy to me that NASA keeps sending probes to Mars that are very specifically designed NOT TO LOOK FOR LIFE...!!!
On those occasions when they are supposed to be looking for Life,
The Experiments are Carefully Contrived to Almost Look for Life...!!!
So that; After the test it done, they can say;
“Well; Maybe, Maybe Not.”
Ugh!
Why not put a Microscopic Lens Attachment onto one of The Cameras,
Scoop up a soil sample,
Add several recipes of various enriched nutrients into several little cups,
Warm them up a bit,
Then put some drops from these cups onto some Slides...
AND LOOK AT THE DANG THINGS...!!!
If something is wiggling around.
Wouldn't that be interesting.
i am really coming to believe, as Richard Hoagland apparently does,
That there is something very fishy going on at NASA.
Why would they want to keep it so ambiguous...
And why does NASA play down all The Amazing Images that the orbital probes send back to us...???
See:
Giant Glass Worms
Trees & Forests
Shattered Structures
Cities Ancient Cities Cities
Really Quirky Bits Strange Cookies
Stripes
The Face
The really quirky thing about The Face on Mars,
Is that the new pictures make it fairly clear that it doesn't really look much like a face...
But— That sure is an awfully artificial looking mesa that it's sitting on...???
What is their real agenda...???
And another thing...
Why is The International Space Station being kept such a secret...
OK... It's not really a Secret-Secret,
But it sure as heck doesn't get much press.
And have you ever seen any pictures from INSIDE it...???
Man oh MAN, What a Shat Hole...!!!
( more on You Tube )
Space Station: IMAX
There is crap piled up all over,
And all the equipment is just tied to the walls with bungy cords.
It is sure a long way from the space stations in 2001: A Space Odyssey.
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It just seems completely crazy to me that NASA keeps sending probes to Mars that are very specifically designed NOT TO LOOK FOR LIFE...!!!
On those occasions when they are supposed to be looking for Life,
The Experiments are Carefully Contrived to Almost Look for Life...!!!
So that; After the test it done, they can say;
“Well; Maybe, Maybe Not.”
Ugh!
Why not put a Microscopic Lens Attachment onto one of The Cameras,
Scoop up a soil sample,
Add several recipes of various enriched nutrients into several little cups,
Warm them up a bit,
Then put some drops from these cups onto some Slides...
AND LOOK AT THE DANG THINGS...!!!
If something is wiggling around.
Wouldn't that be interesting.
i am really coming to believe, as Richard Hoagland apparently does,
That there is something very fishy going on at NASA.
Why would they want to keep it so ambiguous...
And why does NASA play down all The Amazing Images that the orbital probes send back to us...???
See:
Giant Glass Worms
Trees & Forests
Shattered Structures
Cities Ancient Cities Cities
Really Quirky Bits Strange Cookies
Stripes
The Face
The really quirky thing about The Face on Mars,
Is that the new pictures make it fairly clear that it doesn't really look much like a face...
But— That sure is an awfully artificial looking mesa that it's sitting on...???
What is their real agenda...???
And another thing...
Why is The International Space Station being kept such a secret...
OK... It's not really a Secret-Secret,
But it sure as heck doesn't get much press.
And have you ever seen any pictures from INSIDE it...???
Man oh MAN, What a Shat Hole...!!!
( more on You Tube )
Space Station: IMAX
There is crap piled up all over,
And all the equipment is just tied to the walls with bungy cords.
It is sure a long way from the space stations in 2001: A Space Odyssey.
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Another News Story that is Driving Me Crazy!
Man gives birth to baby girl
It's not a man...!!!
It's a woman that's ostensibly become a man in appearance only...!!!
i fully expect that a real, biologically male person will give birth sometime in the near future,
if it hasn't happened already,
but this isn't it.
It's actually my understanding that you could take a fertilized human embryo and just implant it anywhere in the body of any man or woman,
It would parasitically implant itself, and begin to grow into a baby.
Typically when this happens in women—
When the fertilized eggs doesn't make into the uterus,
Or actually falls away from the fallopian tubes,
Implanting itself somewhere in her abdominal cavity,
There are complications that prevent the baby from coming to term...
But given that the biology of the process really doesn't need a uterus,
It seems likely that a reasonably comfortably spot could be artificially laid out inside a male somewhere to accommodate a baby for at least the 5 months or so that medical science currently requires for the baby to spend inside a human host.
???
It's not a man...!!!
It's a woman that's ostensibly become a man in appearance only...!!!
i fully expect that a real, biologically male person will give birth sometime in the near future,
if it hasn't happened already,
but this isn't it.
It's actually my understanding that you could take a fertilized human embryo and just implant it anywhere in the body of any man or woman,
It would parasitically implant itself, and begin to grow into a baby.
Typically when this happens in women—
When the fertilized eggs doesn't make into the uterus,
Or actually falls away from the fallopian tubes,
Implanting itself somewhere in her abdominal cavity,
There are complications that prevent the baby from coming to term...
But given that the biology of the process really doesn't need a uterus,
It seems likely that a reasonably comfortably spot could be artificially laid out inside a male somewhere to accommodate a baby for at least the 5 months or so that medical science currently requires for the baby to spend inside a human host.
???
Friday, July 04, 2008
Another 4th of July Rant...!
On the TV just now;
Another Slopeheaded Y-Generation Amateur Model
Claimed that she was proud to be an American
Because she was Free
& As Evidence for this,
She Could Vote!
There are several different direction to go from this;
Principally that it's all a scam,
On every level, from every direction...
But i would like to Propose; Instead:
A Thought/Real/Proposed Experiment.
This might be conducted by a History Professor...
Get your Least Favorite Graduate Students to Examine all The President's Legacies,
And rather fuzzily—
List all their accomplishments, policies, exploits, fiascoes & such...
—So that even The Unbiased Jury that is chosen to examine these lists,
Will not be tipped off by Obvious, or Blatantly Overly Promoted History Fallacies.
Then present this list of lists,
To a foreign historian or political analyst,
Or several of them,
And ask them to determine what the ideological foundation
Or political party of the president was
That represented all these achievements & travesties...?
i predict that their identifications will be no better than chance.
Not only is our political system rigged
So that Any Modestly Financed, Independent Scholars
That might actually make a decent president,
Simply Can Never become President,
But it's also rigged that your votes don't count for squat,
But we don't even have a so-called Two Party System.
We have One Party;
The Mysterious Shadow Government.
A Totalitarian Dictatorship
That has to constantly tell you that you're free.
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Another Slopeheaded Y-Generation Amateur Model
Claimed that she was proud to be an American
Because she was Free
& As Evidence for this,
She Could Vote!
There are several different direction to go from this;
Principally that it's all a scam,
On every level, from every direction...
But i would like to Propose; Instead:
A Thought/Real/Proposed Experiment.
This might be conducted by a History Professor...
Get your Least Favorite Graduate Students to Examine all The President's Legacies,
And rather fuzzily—
List all their accomplishments, policies, exploits, fiascoes & such...
—So that even The Unbiased Jury that is chosen to examine these lists,
Will not be tipped off by Obvious, or Blatantly Overly Promoted History Fallacies.
Then present this list of lists,
To a foreign historian or political analyst,
Or several of them,
And ask them to determine what the ideological foundation
Or political party of the president was
That represented all these achievements & travesties...?
i predict that their identifications will be no better than chance.
Not only is our political system rigged
So that Any Modestly Financed, Independent Scholars
That might actually make a decent president,
Simply Can Never become President,
But it's also rigged that your votes don't count for squat,
But we don't even have a so-called Two Party System.
We have One Party;
The Mysterious Shadow Government.
A Totalitarian Dictatorship
That has to constantly tell you that you're free.
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In The News...
i should note first off—
That i believe that 911 was planned and executed by mischievous hooligans in this country,
For reasons unknown.
There are many fine films available that make this case;
One of the best is: Loose Change
Two others are: 911 Taboo Part One & 911 Taboo Part Two
So anyways...
It's just been driving me crazy,
That on this 4th of July, Ostensibly called; Independence Day...
The News Organizations have been Parading Out Disabled Veterans & WWII Amateur Historians onto our little indoctrination telescreens—
And then are prodded into saying that they are so proud ( add teary eyes ) that we have so many soldiers fighting for America & Our Freedom overseas.
Blllleeeaaaaccccchhh! ( add mess on floor )
The Damp Masses are so stupid.
i really, really, really believe that most people are not genuinely conscious.
They are just wind up toys
That you can fill up with any crap
That you've got an old bathtub full of.
This is why our government is trying to convert the world to democracies,
They are easiest populations to control by means of unregulated media outlets.
Free Speech is actually the greatest enemy to Our Freedom of Thought.
That i believe that 911 was planned and executed by mischievous hooligans in this country,
For reasons unknown.
There are many fine films available that make this case;
One of the best is: Loose Change
Two others are: 911 Taboo Part One & 911 Taboo Part Two
So anyways...
It's just been driving me crazy,
That on this 4th of July, Ostensibly called; Independence Day...
The News Organizations have been Parading Out Disabled Veterans & WWII Amateur Historians onto our little indoctrination telescreens—
And then are prodded into saying that they are so proud ( add teary eyes ) that we have so many soldiers fighting for America & Our Freedom overseas.
Blllleeeaaaaccccchhh! ( add mess on floor )
The Damp Masses are so stupid.
i really, really, really believe that most people are not genuinely conscious.
They are just wind up toys
That you can fill up with any crap
That you've got an old bathtub full of.
This is why our government is trying to convert the world to democracies,
They are easiest populations to control by means of unregulated media outlets.
Free Speech is actually the greatest enemy to Our Freedom of Thought.
Tuesday, July 01, 2008
The Interweb is Freaking Me Out...!
So; You go to www.dogpile.com and type in my old name & town;
Rocky Glenn Spokane
and i come up as The FIRST Entry.
But; i can not find any information on ANYONE ( hardly anyone* )
That i've been searching for from my various yearbooks.
What i find—
Very Curious; Is that i'll type in what i think MUST BE a very common name,
And i would expect there to be THOUSANDS or MILLIONS of hits...
And there are NONE..!!!
i just can not get my Head around the idea that many of my classmates
Are leaving NO TRAIL at all on the Interweb...???
The old axiom;
The Interweb is a million miles wide, and an inch deep.
This is still true.
[ ??? ]
- - -
* i had a dream during my afternoon nap today that featured Bill Simer,
So i thought i would look him up.
Back in High School, he was a no direction, drug snorting wanna be...
And now, he's apparently a local millionaire.
Bill Simer ( Success Story )
The Old Bill Simer ( Circ. 1973 )
He looks very different in this picture,
But all the biographical information in the story above
Seems to match The Old Bill Simer...???
Rocky Glenn Spokane
and i come up as The FIRST Entry.
But; i can not find any information on ANYONE ( hardly anyone* )
That i've been searching for from my various yearbooks.
What i find—
Very Curious; Is that i'll type in what i think MUST BE a very common name,
And i would expect there to be THOUSANDS or MILLIONS of hits...
And there are NONE..!!!
i just can not get my Head around the idea that many of my classmates
Are leaving NO TRAIL at all on the Interweb...???
The old axiom;
The Interweb is a million miles wide, and an inch deep.
This is still true.
[ ??? ]
- - -
* i had a dream during my afternoon nap today that featured Bill Simer,
So i thought i would look him up.
Back in High School, he was a no direction, drug snorting wanna be...
And now, he's apparently a local millionaire.
Bill Simer ( Success Story )
The Old Bill Simer ( Circ. 1973 )
He looks very different in this picture,
But all the biographical information in the story above
Seems to match The Old Bill Simer...???
Monday, June 30, 2008
Mean Brother...???
Right upstairs there's this guy ( or brothers ) named Mean...
And Jim ( below me ) was saying that there's two brothers that live there,
But i ran into one of them ( 2nd time in 3 years, first conversation, if you want to call it that; it consisted of me blathering a bit, and him saying; ‘I'm the only one that lives there.’ )
So he says, after i suggest my hypothesis that of the two brothers, one is nearly deaf, and the other has normal hearing, and he says: “I'm the only one that lives there.”
i can just hardly believe that Jim has been filling me with disinformation,
Even though he is very crazy...???
But the other thing— This Mean guy seems VERY crazy to me.
Way crazier than either me or Jim.
i'll have to talk to Jim about this.
He hangs around the front door just about all the time,
And knows everything about everything.
Historical Reference to Number 10 ( above me )
And Jim ( below me ) was saying that there's two brothers that live there,
But i ran into one of them ( 2nd time in 3 years, first conversation, if you want to call it that; it consisted of me blathering a bit, and him saying; ‘I'm the only one that lives there.’ )
So he says, after i suggest my hypothesis that of the two brothers, one is nearly deaf, and the other has normal hearing, and he says: “I'm the only one that lives there.”
i can just hardly believe that Jim has been filling me with disinformation,
Even though he is very crazy...???
But the other thing— This Mean guy seems VERY crazy to me.
Way crazier than either me or Jim.
i'll have to talk to Jim about this.
He hangs around the front door just about all the time,
And knows everything about everything.
Historical Reference to Number 10 ( above me )
Entropy
One of my grand Pet Peeves ( Bête Noires ) is the idea of Entropy.
i just don't believe that there is such a thing.
One major problem that i have with it is, Is that it's often defined in terms of 'Order',
And when you go to the dictionary and look up what Order really means—
Each Definition requires a Subjective Observer to come in and declare what is Orderly or DisOrderly.
There's no Objective Criteria for Knowing if Something is Orderly or Not.
One Potential Definition for Orderly is whether or not you can -Compress- the Information in a Particular -Thing- into a smaller Set, And retain all the original information.
If you can do this; Then you're exploiting a facet of the original systems order.
The problem with this is that there are many cases in which by all appearances,
Something may seen very, very disorderly, Completely random--
And yet; There may well be a PseudoRandom Number Generator that can reproduce that system,
And as evidence that this is almost certainly possible—
It is quite easy to make any number of PseudoRandom Number Generators that will produce 'Other' seeming Random sets that display all the artifacts and apparent patterns or lack of patterns, as the original set.
But i was just thinking of a Case Explanation this morning...
Take the case of The Egg that is pushed off the table,
And Entropy allegedly causes The Egg to break,
And become a Broken Egg.
These are just labels that we attach to things
So that we can more easily identify things for no good reason.
The Universe;
Looking down upon us, and seeing The Egg or Broken Egg
Just sees different States that The Atoms in The Egg have arranged themselves into.
The Universe doesn't really make a Qualitative Distinction Between
The Egg & The Broken Egg.
They are essentially The Same to The Universe.
They are just Arrangements of Atoms.
Another way to see this is to think of Eskimos.
They are supposed to have 147 words for Yellow Snow...
Depending upon the time of day,
or how yellow it is,
or if it's sweet or too sweet,
or if it's a little bloody
or if semen is mixed in with it...
Each particular case has a distinct word,
And many of them don't even sound at all alike.
So with Our Egg Example.
We have a Word or Technical Description for The Egg,
And another Technical Description for The Broken Egg.
But if you take The Broken Egg,
Scoop it up and set in back on The Table And push it back off,
It will have inflicted into it,
All the Energy and Kinetic Force that The Egg Endured on it's first Trip down...
But We don't really have a Term for Broken Broken Egg,
Even though it will have twice the amount of Disorder ( So Entropy Claims ) as The Simple Broken Egg.
Each time you redrop The Egg,
It's going to CHANGE again,
And while it may never again resemble The Egg,
It will no more resemble The First Tier Broken Egg Either...!
The Distinction that we make between The First Tier Broken Egg
And The 20th Tier Broken Egg
Will; According to the limits of our language,
And The Observational Limits of The Way that Western Civilization has taught us to See Things, Will forever limit our ability to See The Distinctions between The 1st & 20th Tiers of Broken Egginess.
All The While;
The Universe isn't seeing Order or Disorder at all,
It's just seeing Different Atomic Arrangements.
It not making Value Judgments at any Itineration.
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i just don't believe that there is such a thing.
One major problem that i have with it is, Is that it's often defined in terms of 'Order',
And when you go to the dictionary and look up what Order really means—
Each Definition requires a Subjective Observer to come in and declare what is Orderly or DisOrderly.
There's no Objective Criteria for Knowing if Something is Orderly or Not.
One Potential Definition for Orderly is whether or not you can -Compress- the Information in a Particular -Thing- into a smaller Set, And retain all the original information.
If you can do this; Then you're exploiting a facet of the original systems order.
The problem with this is that there are many cases in which by all appearances,
Something may seen very, very disorderly, Completely random--
And yet; There may well be a PseudoRandom Number Generator that can reproduce that system,
And as evidence that this is almost certainly possible—
It is quite easy to make any number of PseudoRandom Number Generators that will produce 'Other' seeming Random sets that display all the artifacts and apparent patterns or lack of patterns, as the original set.
But i was just thinking of a Case Explanation this morning...
Take the case of The Egg that is pushed off the table,
And Entropy allegedly causes The Egg to break,
And become a Broken Egg.
These are just labels that we attach to things
So that we can more easily identify things for no good reason.
The Universe;
Looking down upon us, and seeing The Egg or Broken Egg
Just sees different States that The Atoms in The Egg have arranged themselves into.
The Universe doesn't really make a Qualitative Distinction Between
The Egg & The Broken Egg.
They are essentially The Same to The Universe.
They are just Arrangements of Atoms.
Another way to see this is to think of Eskimos.
They are supposed to have 147 words for Yellow Snow...
Depending upon the time of day,
or how yellow it is,
or if it's sweet or too sweet,
or if it's a little bloody
or if semen is mixed in with it...
Each particular case has a distinct word,
And many of them don't even sound at all alike.
So with Our Egg Example.
We have a Word or Technical Description for The Egg,
And another Technical Description for The Broken Egg.
But if you take The Broken Egg,
Scoop it up and set in back on The Table And push it back off,
It will have inflicted into it,
All the Energy and Kinetic Force that The Egg Endured on it's first Trip down...
But We don't really have a Term for Broken Broken Egg,
Even though it will have twice the amount of Disorder ( So Entropy Claims ) as The Simple Broken Egg.
Each time you redrop The Egg,
It's going to CHANGE again,
And while it may never again resemble The Egg,
It will no more resemble The First Tier Broken Egg Either...!
The Distinction that we make between The First Tier Broken Egg
And The 20th Tier Broken Egg
Will; According to the limits of our language,
And The Observational Limits of The Way that Western Civilization has taught us to See Things, Will forever limit our ability to See The Distinctions between The 1st & 20th Tiers of Broken Egginess.
All The While;
The Universe isn't seeing Order or Disorder at all,
It's just seeing Different Atomic Arrangements.
It not making Value Judgments at any Itineration.
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New Link...!
About a year ago; Blogger made it A LOT easier to edit the side menus,
And so i'll try to add things more often...
Actually; i have a TON of stuff on my computer that i could post here...
But Procrastination always comes first...!!!
For now; Check out Bug Guide...!!!
More later...
And so i'll try to add things more often...
Actually; i have a TON of stuff on my computer that i could post here...
But Procrastination always comes first...!!!
For now; Check out Bug Guide...!!!
More later...
Friday, June 27, 2008
New Cabbage Code...!!!
i actually worked this one up a couple of years ago,
and as testimony to how committed i am to the essential tenants of procrastination--
i am just now getting around to posting this...
Deana E. Crabtree's Cabbage Code
( my retarded niece )
and as testimony to how committed i am to the essential tenants of procrastination--
i am just now getting around to posting this...
Deana E. Crabtree's Cabbage Code
( my retarded niece )
Monday, May 12, 2008
Platypus DNA Proves RID Theory...!!!
RID = A Reasonably Intelligent Designer.
One of my biggest pet peeves towards organized religion is it dogmatic assumption that gawd must be all knowing, powerful & Just.
Hooey.
Anyways...
This new analysis of Platypus DNA, Shows that in contains Mammalian, Reptilian...
AND Bird DNA...!!!
i'm fine with The Platypus having both Mammalian & Reptilian Roots from the Evolutionary Tree, But how could they have Bird DNA...???
Birds are supposed to have evolved from Dinosaurs, 300 million years after Mammals split from Reptiles, and from about time, The line that eventually gave rise to Modern Platypii.
This is The Smoking PopGun which proves that Animals must have been designed by an External Designer that was able to assemble a Platypus from DNA that was laying around the studio.
One of my biggest pet peeves towards organized religion is it dogmatic assumption that gawd must be all knowing, powerful & Just.
Hooey.
Anyways...
This new analysis of Platypus DNA, Shows that in contains Mammalian, Reptilian...
AND Bird DNA...!!!
i'm fine with The Platypus having both Mammalian & Reptilian Roots from the Evolutionary Tree, But how could they have Bird DNA...???
Birds are supposed to have evolved from Dinosaurs, 300 million years after Mammals split from Reptiles, and from about time, The line that eventually gave rise to Modern Platypii.
This is The Smoking PopGun which proves that Animals must have been designed by an External Designer that was able to assemble a Platypus from DNA that was laying around the studio.
Wednesday, April 30, 2008
Nightmares
i didn't use to have nightmares at all, But now i'm starting to have them all the time.
A Variation on Nightmares that i used to have, rarely— Was a Loop Dream in which i would dream a short 15 second segment of something, usually a piece of trying to solve a puzzle, and then i would dream it again, verbatim, again & again.
And if i woke up, i would try to shake it off, But as soon as i fell asleep again, the loop would start again.
This last one was; As much as i can remember of it...
i was hired as a technical writer for a large electronic research company.
When i got to the town where i'd be working, they took me to an apartment that they'd found for me. It was small but i thought it was OK. i put down my stuff, met a lady administrator or secretary that worked for the company and a fat engineer that was nice but flaky.
They'd left out a large cup of coffee for me, but it was cold. The lady suggested that we go over to the cafeteria to get it refilled, so i went with her. For some reason, i left everything behind, including my key and bookbag, which i usually take Everywhere.
When we got to the cafeteria, there was some confusion about whether or not i would have to pay. The lady started giving me this very long lecture on whether i would or not, and it became so frustrating that i turned to a guy sitting at a table to ask him. This might be where i met the fat guy...??? His answer was no more enlightening, so i left to go back to my apartment to get some money.
The Cafeteria was around the corner from where i lived, and the reverse path would take me down a alley, but i walked too far and after a few blocks and seeing some things that i was sure i would have remember seeing, but didn't, i was sure that i'd walked to far.
When i turned around, i discovered that i was on the other side of a fence, and i couldn't go back. The path had turned into a very, very narrow ledge above a very deep gorge.
Fortunately; i could get back to the alley by crawling through a hole, through a railing and back to the other side.
On the way back, i ran into several more obstacles, including at least two places where the alley just seemed to change into something else...
[ i seem to recall ( now ) that i had a dream with a similar theme a week or two ago ]
...despite these minor obstacles, i managed to get back to the alley each time.
Then i ran into the guy that i'd met earlier.
He offered to give me something, but i was unsure of what it was until he pulled it out of his bookbag. It was an yellow shipping envelope with two CD's in it. One was much bigger than the other, and irregularly shaped. And they were very Thick & Orange with a checkered pattern on them. i was impressed with the design, since apparently he'd done them himself.
i wanted him to walk me back to my room, but he stayed with some friends of his that there there, so he didn't.
Then i found what i thought was my room, but the ceiling was impossibly low, so i had to crouch over to crab around. It looked similar to how i remembered seeing my room earlier than afternoon, but now it was filthy and all my stuff was missing, except for one of the three keys that i'd seen earlier.
Then some crazy police officers arrived and discovered that the CD's were cases with pot in them. i volunteered to take a blood test to prove i didn't smoke pot. i also tried to explain that i was looking for my room, and this was similar, but i was sure it wasn't it. But they wouldn't let me go to find it. It was getting dark and i really wanted to leave, but they wouldn't let me go, or arrest me.
There were lots more details that i remember, but are too tedious to include.
It was one of those very vivid dreams. Where do they come from.
- - -
Who has been posting anonymously to this blog?
i love, love, love comments, but Anonymous are kind of scary;
esp. if they seem to be stalking me...!!! ???
Leave your eepdress...!
A Variation on Nightmares that i used to have, rarely— Was a Loop Dream in which i would dream a short 15 second segment of something, usually a piece of trying to solve a puzzle, and then i would dream it again, verbatim, again & again.
And if i woke up, i would try to shake it off, But as soon as i fell asleep again, the loop would start again.
This last one was; As much as i can remember of it...
i was hired as a technical writer for a large electronic research company.
When i got to the town where i'd be working, they took me to an apartment that they'd found for me. It was small but i thought it was OK. i put down my stuff, met a lady administrator or secretary that worked for the company and a fat engineer that was nice but flaky.
They'd left out a large cup of coffee for me, but it was cold. The lady suggested that we go over to the cafeteria to get it refilled, so i went with her. For some reason, i left everything behind, including my key and bookbag, which i usually take Everywhere.
When we got to the cafeteria, there was some confusion about whether or not i would have to pay. The lady started giving me this very long lecture on whether i would or not, and it became so frustrating that i turned to a guy sitting at a table to ask him. This might be where i met the fat guy...??? His answer was no more enlightening, so i left to go back to my apartment to get some money.
The Cafeteria was around the corner from where i lived, and the reverse path would take me down a alley, but i walked too far and after a few blocks and seeing some things that i was sure i would have remember seeing, but didn't, i was sure that i'd walked to far.
When i turned around, i discovered that i was on the other side of a fence, and i couldn't go back. The path had turned into a very, very narrow ledge above a very deep gorge.
Fortunately; i could get back to the alley by crawling through a hole, through a railing and back to the other side.
On the way back, i ran into several more obstacles, including at least two places where the alley just seemed to change into something else...
[ i seem to recall ( now ) that i had a dream with a similar theme a week or two ago ]
...despite these minor obstacles, i managed to get back to the alley each time.
Then i ran into the guy that i'd met earlier.
He offered to give me something, but i was unsure of what it was until he pulled it out of his bookbag. It was an yellow shipping envelope with two CD's in it. One was much bigger than the other, and irregularly shaped. And they were very Thick & Orange with a checkered pattern on them. i was impressed with the design, since apparently he'd done them himself.
i wanted him to walk me back to my room, but he stayed with some friends of his that there there, so he didn't.
Then i found what i thought was my room, but the ceiling was impossibly low, so i had to crouch over to crab around. It looked similar to how i remembered seeing my room earlier than afternoon, but now it was filthy and all my stuff was missing, except for one of the three keys that i'd seen earlier.
Then some crazy police officers arrived and discovered that the CD's were cases with pot in them. i volunteered to take a blood test to prove i didn't smoke pot. i also tried to explain that i was looking for my room, and this was similar, but i was sure it wasn't it. But they wouldn't let me go to find it. It was getting dark and i really wanted to leave, but they wouldn't let me go, or arrest me.
There were lots more details that i remember, but are too tedious to include.
It was one of those very vivid dreams. Where do they come from.
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