He just summarized my feeling about TED making science and thought into accessibly vapid entertainment as cult of personality, where you are just supposed to be amazed and not ask questions. I met (more…)
Iceland… 4K, genetic experiments, utilitarian sculptures, and original hipsters…
They were the original hipsters. They love their sweaters, beards, lumberjack look, indie pop, and apparently The Big Lebowski. They also are markedly homogeneous, with a wildly close knit population (more…)
Here’s an Amazon review of paper clips, and what I think about it.
http://www.amazon.com/review/R2F8CW47RH29RB/ref=cm_cr_rdp_perm?ie=UTF8&ASIN=B00006IBK8 Funny review of a paper clip. Trying real hard & doing it quite well. There are people that take reviewing (more…)
You are using your phone because life has no meaning…..
I have a 2nd non smartphone flip phone that I take in place of the smartphone when I run errands, go to the gym, hang out with friends, etc. Unless it’s work, and I need a calendar, etc…. (more…)
The cynic in me…. everyone’s the smart guy when the economy is good?
Africa is screwed.. if not crazy beliefs (Atheist is mentally ill: http://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-28010234) , corruption, or just semi regional to northern Africa / Middle East escalation into all (more…)
Digital Inheritance, & Sentiment Analysis to build biographer’s depictions of a dead soul.
http://www.npr.org/blogs/alltechconsidered/2014/04/09/300614977/the-new-age-leaving-behind-everything-or-nothing-at-all This talks about your “digital inheritance”, how people used to burn letters to (more…)
An Ode to Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy of my Youth; A Love note to Douglas Adams
Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy; A Love note to Douglas Adams (dates not precise) About 1984, my father bought an IBM XT with a 10MB hard drive and 3.5 floppy, with a Hayes 1200 baud modem. Â It was (more…)
Some more thoughts on belief, and being exhausted by it. Too exhausted. But this Poem MESSED me up as a kid.
Okay this was a ramble. Coffee laden. Everything is a waste of time by nature. I find the way I spend my time to be something to be profoundly vigilant about. It might be hypocritical, then, to get (more…)
I never had belief. Now, I shed the need to talk about my lack of belief. It’s called leveling up. Atheism will not fill religion’s void.
Important read about our “Angry Atheists” – http://www.huffingtonpost.com/max-tegmark/angry-atheists_b_2716134.html Upshot: “We need to make sure we don’t try to stop religion’s intolerance and fundamentalism (more…)
Disparate thoughts – tech & losing our humanity, pressures of “stuff”, meaning/purpose & Moby Dick, Jefferson’s re-constitution, & Michio’s migration to a parallel universe
1) Studying attention & memory as it is effected by the technology & pace of modern culture. Being off-grid & in nature repairs our tech-hysteria & dependence: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/08/16/technology/16brain.html?_r=0 2) (more…)