In more news "leaked" for your contemplative pleasure, the world governments admitted they have been tracking all their citizens for years now, using both external GPS tracking devices (including GPS units for cars, running, biking, mobile phones, etc.) and organic GPS units using plasma antennas implanted in citizens while they were sleeping.
Antigovernment activists tore down all the mobile phone towers today and tomorrow they plan to launch private rockets to take down all satellites orbiting Earth.
The crew of the ISS was put on 24-hour alert.
Thank goodness, the robots on Mars, satellites circling other planets and platforms exploring the solar system (but actually parked in space for this very scenario) are unreachable by average citizens, organized or not.
Scientists are trying to determine if the hidden government that runs our species (a subordinate subcommittee secretly commissioned but not authorised by the Committee of 7.5) can still operate a group of seven billion people without knowing their precise whereabouts.
Meanwhile, sales of anti-GPS signal suits have put the Kinect, Black Ops and other personal consumables into the low sales category by comparison.
Our network of amateur journalists on the scene will bring more exciting news to you as it happens.
Now you know why there is a group opposed to circumcision at birth - they know it is a cover to implant tracking devices that also detect when males are attempting to illegally reproduce (apparently, a variation in the GPS signal can show whether condoms are being used or a vasectomy was performed in the past; sorry, eunuchs, you're being tracked, too).
Our governments will not rest until all members of our species are under safe control for their secure future.
We'll let you know when more documents reveal where your taxes are being spent to aid in your pursuit of happiness!
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Wednesday, December 15, 2010
Sunday, December 12, 2010
Friday, December 10, 2010
Transcript newly released...
"GW, I, as much as anyone associated with your father's administration, would like to say affirmatively, without hesitation, that we know what we don't know and there positively are chances that there are aren't any WOMD in Iraq."
"So, DR, you're saying there are no WOMD in Iraq?"
"DC, is that what I told GW?"
"Well...inasmuch as I never said I intentionally shot my colleague while hunting..."
"DC, are you saying that DR is saying that we are too weak to take Iraq unilaterally?"
"GW, what are you trying to say?"
"I don't know, DC. Seems to me you're the one with the daughter who's..."
"GW, I thought we agreed you wouldn't ask and I wouldn't tell. Isn't that right, DR?"
"Maybe GW's right, DC. Seems like it all started with the whole 'points of light' thing that GW's father started. Makes us look too touchy-feely to the Saudis."
"Haha, DR. That's a good one, knowing what we do about the Saudi royalty. 'Don't ask, don't tell.' Seems like if you pay off enough people, they do what they want."
"Speaking of which, GW, did we ever get paid back for that pilot training we funded?"
"DC, I told you, like Daddy said, 'read my lips,' we were never directly associated with the attacks on the WTC and the Pentagon."
"But the good guys we intentionally planted on the flight that crashed in Pennsylvania..."
"Never happened, DC. Isn't that right, DR?"
"There is no record and there never will be, of any facts to the contrary."
"Meaning what, exactly, DR?"
"GW, is it what I just said."
"DC, what did he just say?"
"What you said, GW."
"Which is?"
"Exactly."
"I see. And none of this is being recorded?"
"Precisely, GW."
"DR, does that mean it is or it isn't being recorded?"
"That's correct, GW. It is isn't being recorded."
"Very well. Let's talk more about my presidential library. I'd like 36 holes of legendary golf to encircle the building complex."
"Do you mean 36 legendary holes of golf, GW?"
"DR, why don't you go plot some output with CP or something? DC and I can handle this one ourselves."
"Yes, sir. I believe we can nab one of the Saddam Hussein lookalikes and let Saddam enjoy the rest of his retirement in..."
"DR, that's highly classified. Even GW doesn't know what you're talking about."
"Lips sealed. See you boys later."
"So, DR, you're saying there are no WOMD in Iraq?"
"DC, is that what I told GW?"
"Well...inasmuch as I never said I intentionally shot my colleague while hunting..."
"DC, are you saying that DR is saying that we are too weak to take Iraq unilaterally?"
"GW, what are you trying to say?"
"I don't know, DC. Seems to me you're the one with the daughter who's..."
"GW, I thought we agreed you wouldn't ask and I wouldn't tell. Isn't that right, DR?"
"Maybe GW's right, DC. Seems like it all started with the whole 'points of light' thing that GW's father started. Makes us look too touchy-feely to the Saudis."
"Haha, DR. That's a good one, knowing what we do about the Saudi royalty. 'Don't ask, don't tell.' Seems like if you pay off enough people, they do what they want."
"Speaking of which, GW, did we ever get paid back for that pilot training we funded?"
"DC, I told you, like Daddy said, 'read my lips,' we were never directly associated with the attacks on the WTC and the Pentagon."
"But the good guys we intentionally planted on the flight that crashed in Pennsylvania..."
"Never happened, DC. Isn't that right, DR?"
"There is no record and there never will be, of any facts to the contrary."
"Meaning what, exactly, DR?"
"GW, is it what I just said."
"DC, what did he just say?"
"What you said, GW."
"Which is?"
"Exactly."
"I see. And none of this is being recorded?"
"Precisely, GW."
"DR, does that mean it is or it isn't being recorded?"
"That's correct, GW. It is isn't being recorded."
"Very well. Let's talk more about my presidential library. I'd like 36 holes of legendary golf to encircle the building complex."
"Do you mean 36 legendary holes of golf, GW?"
"DR, why don't you go plot some output with CP or something? DC and I can handle this one ourselves."
"Yes, sir. I believe we can nab one of the Saddam Hussein lookalikes and let Saddam enjoy the rest of his retirement in..."
"DR, that's highly classified. Even GW doesn't know what you're talking about."
"Lips sealed. See you boys later."
Wednesday, December 8, 2010
Learning to Let Go
While China continues to show it can't play fairly ("we'll take all your money while we influence your domestic buying habits but we won't let you get involved in our 'internal' affairs"), republican lawmakers are laughing all the way to 2012, realizing that democratic holdouts will allow the republicanites to pass delayed legislation after the changeover in 2011 and then claim the taxcut extension bill they voted for is the sole reason the economy improved before the 2012 presidential elections, proving "tax and spend" democratic archetypes are dinosaurs.
I heard someone say, "Nixon resigned over less damaging data than the stuff Assange's group recently released. Does that mean Nixon can recover his reputation by comparison?"
We live in interesting times, no matter how repetitive.
Cohorts are pushing me to show them what the next great thing is.
I will but it's not an instantaneous burst of product sales.
Apparently, one effort in converting social media into a cradle-to-grave education system supplanting rote learning methods in traditional classrooms is sneaking up on us - those who prove its capabilities will profit first but those who marketise it best will profit the most by creating a personality mesh sensing algorithm that detects the deficiencies in one's talent/skill mix and redirects one's social media connections to reinforce stronger lifelong healthy habits.
I heard someone say, "Nixon resigned over less damaging data than the stuff Assange's group recently released. Does that mean Nixon can recover his reputation by comparison?"
We live in interesting times, no matter how repetitive.
Cohorts are pushing me to show them what the next great thing is.
I will but it's not an instantaneous burst of product sales.
Apparently, one effort in converting social media into a cradle-to-grave education system supplanting rote learning methods in traditional classrooms is sneaking up on us - those who prove its capabilities will profit first but those who marketise it best will profit the most by creating a personality mesh sensing algorithm that detects the deficiencies in one's talent/skill mix and redirects one's social media connections to reinforce stronger lifelong healthy habits.
Tuesday, December 7, 2010
Magnetised Aligned Crystal Readings
Somewhere amongst Boy Scout manuals, nature identification books and computer programming guides is "Old Wives' Tales: Life-Stories of African Women" that I picked up out of pile of discounted paperbacks in a university bookstore around 1980.
Although I no longer compete with colleagues to design and purchase the latest gizmos that define the best of modern conveniences, I stay in touch in order to observe the developments within modern society.
I dabble in my tiny lab in the study.
I go out into crowds, watching and listening to the rhythmic flow of conversations, free/constrained facial expressions and socially-trained body gestures.
Then I read books on as many different topics as I wish.
The Book of the Future back in my clutches, I consult with my programmers, the Committee of 7.5, a witch doctor, the crystal ball, old movies, the weather (local, solar, and galactic), the two in the know, our cats, the birds in the yard, general news headlines, the condition of my skin, the taste of tapwater, and, of course, colleagues, associates, friends and family.
All so that I can best decipher and translate what the current moment means to those looking back at us from infinite points in the future and past.
Anthropologically, this blog records the slow degradation of the concept of the individual person as a special phenomenon outside the interaction of states of energy.
Using something like 128 symbols (or fewer) to convey messages steeped in humour, satirically wrapped in a false sense of sarcastic cynicism.
Do you believe in crystal healing? Would you believe that strips of dark-coloured tape contain magnetised particles that turn into images and sounds of people and places that no longer exist, as if conjured by magic?
Imagine a Coriolis effect of military attacks flowing backward, the U.S./Japan attacking North Korea/China, Pakistan attacking India, Russia attacking the E.U., Iran attacking Israel, South Africa attacking the midcontinent, and Venezuela attacking Brasil.
All in the name of military corporations showing nonmilitary companies who really controls Earth?
As if conjured by magic.
Some on the committee want to pursue that course, reducing the global population considerably, and redraw the world map of political boundaries to their longterm advantage.
For the publicly-sworn cause of advancing the species, freeing up valuable rare resources for populating the galaxy with current versions of ourselves and portable ecosystems.
Other committee members want to sell a gaqzillion gadgets, depleting raw sources of rare minerals that'll have to be recycled out of refuse in the future, to increase their wealth so they can become well-loved philanthropists in their old age.
Can you see a future where both are accommodated?
Give every member of the general populace [the illusion of] happiness in the moment and hope for the future AND remembrance of the golden days of the past.
Then they'll give you whatever you want - they'll even pay you for the privilege.
After all, deep down we know we're on this big ball together - we participate in the moment and prepare for the future as one, the past belonging to everyone (no matter how atrocious or triumphant).
Although I no longer compete with colleagues to design and purchase the latest gizmos that define the best of modern conveniences, I stay in touch in order to observe the developments within modern society.
I dabble in my tiny lab in the study.
I go out into crowds, watching and listening to the rhythmic flow of conversations, free/constrained facial expressions and socially-trained body gestures.
Then I read books on as many different topics as I wish.
The Book of the Future back in my clutches, I consult with my programmers, the Committee of 7.5, a witch doctor, the crystal ball, old movies, the weather (local, solar, and galactic), the two in the know, our cats, the birds in the yard, general news headlines, the condition of my skin, the taste of tapwater, and, of course, colleagues, associates, friends and family.
All so that I can best decipher and translate what the current moment means to those looking back at us from infinite points in the future and past.
Anthropologically, this blog records the slow degradation of the concept of the individual person as a special phenomenon outside the interaction of states of energy.
Using something like 128 symbols (or fewer) to convey messages steeped in humour, satirically wrapped in a false sense of sarcastic cynicism.
Do you believe in crystal healing? Would you believe that strips of dark-coloured tape contain magnetised particles that turn into images and sounds of people and places that no longer exist, as if conjured by magic?
Imagine a Coriolis effect of military attacks flowing backward, the U.S./Japan attacking North Korea/China, Pakistan attacking India, Russia attacking the E.U., Iran attacking Israel, South Africa attacking the midcontinent, and Venezuela attacking Brasil.
All in the name of military corporations showing nonmilitary companies who really controls Earth?
As if conjured by magic.
Some on the committee want to pursue that course, reducing the global population considerably, and redraw the world map of political boundaries to their longterm advantage.
For the publicly-sworn cause of advancing the species, freeing up valuable rare resources for populating the galaxy with current versions of ourselves and portable ecosystems.
Other committee members want to sell a gaqzillion gadgets, depleting raw sources of rare minerals that'll have to be recycled out of refuse in the future, to increase their wealth so they can become well-loved philanthropists in their old age.
Can you see a future where both are accommodated?
Give every member of the general populace [the illusion of] happiness in the moment and hope for the future AND remembrance of the golden days of the past.
Then they'll give you whatever you want - they'll even pay you for the privilege.
After all, deep down we know we're on this big ball together - we participate in the moment and prepare for the future as one, the past belonging to everyone (no matter how atrocious or triumphant).
Monday, December 6, 2010
Putting "hacker" networks to better use
International intrigue - what more can we ask for?
Well, we could put aside spying and stealing electronic data or accusing the opposition (American indication of Chinese-based hacking and vice versa); instead, encourage global cooperation using computer networks (hacker or otherwise) in solving big science questions.
Meanwhile, while we while away our wily, woolly tax cut agreements in the U.S., will there be a U.S. to tax or not to tax in twenty years?
The future engages us as we read, write, think and speak. I'll tell you more about it soon...
Well, we could put aside spying and stealing electronic data or accusing the opposition (American indication of Chinese-based hacking and vice versa); instead, encourage global cooperation using computer networks (hacker or otherwise) in solving big science questions.
Meanwhile, while we while away our wily, woolly tax cut agreements in the U.S., will there be a U.S. to tax or not to tax in twenty years?
The future engages us as we read, write, think and speak. I'll tell you more about it soon...
Government Outlaws Citizen Journalism
In expected news today, the consortium of global governments (CGG) declared that all citizens who want to hide behind the banner of protecting the citizenry through the freedom of information must register their intent to act as journalists.
The declaration, part of the secret law passed overnight, nicknamed "Assange is no Toto," officially named Bill # 45WU89c, protects the rights of large news organisations from being one-upped by teenagers running newsbots in their neighbourhood clubhouses located in parents' unleased attic flats.
All unregistered journalists are subject to search and seizure (but not allowing the sympathy-inducing pharmacologically-triggered seizure in public trick during arrest) at any time and place.
Bloggers and tweeters were arrested by the millions this morning as a clear indication that the CGG is serious this time.
Those arrested included unemployed actors, factory workers, middle management, CEOs, and government leaders.
The government leaders who were arrested have cried foul, claiming that their blogging/tweeting subordinates acted on their own accord without first consulting the leaders about both the false and true "leaks" that were sent out from time to time to discredit political rivals and foreign governments.
The arrested middle managers and CEOs released statements detailing the email/text "paper trail" showing that they were simply following orders and should not be punished for doing what they thought was their duty to their stockholders, including subtle damaging comments about their competitors in online forums.
At a noon press conference, the CGG spokesperson said that those arrested will be given the opportunity to seek retraining in place of imprisonment. After questioning, the spokesperson clarified that the retraining will not include deleterious torture methods but may include watching films starring Kathy Griffin and Richard Chamberlain, bringing into question the exact definition of "torture."
The declaration, part of the secret law passed overnight, nicknamed "Assange is no Toto," officially named Bill # 45WU89c, protects the rights of large news organisations from being one-upped by teenagers running newsbots in their neighbourhood clubhouses located in parents' unleased attic flats.
All unregistered journalists are subject to search and seizure (but not allowing the sympathy-inducing pharmacologically-triggered seizure in public trick during arrest) at any time and place.
Bloggers and tweeters were arrested by the millions this morning as a clear indication that the CGG is serious this time.
Those arrested included unemployed actors, factory workers, middle management, CEOs, and government leaders.
The government leaders who were arrested have cried foul, claiming that their blogging/tweeting subordinates acted on their own accord without first consulting the leaders about both the false and true "leaks" that were sent out from time to time to discredit political rivals and foreign governments.
The arrested middle managers and CEOs released statements detailing the email/text "paper trail" showing that they were simply following orders and should not be punished for doing what they thought was their duty to their stockholders, including subtle damaging comments about their competitors in online forums.
At a noon press conference, the CGG spokesperson said that those arrested will be given the opportunity to seek retraining in place of imprisonment. After questioning, the spokesperson clarified that the retraining will not include deleterious torture methods but may include watching films starring Kathy Griffin and Richard Chamberlain, bringing into question the exact definition of "torture."
Sunday, November 21, 2010
Say Goodbye To Communities When You Shop Online!
Being an Amazon customer and seller (via my books for sale on the site), I have to ask myself if I'm doing the right thing by avoiding tax payments to municipalities:
Meanwhile, tax cuts occupy my thoughts.
I give thanks to Brandon Jones, an orphan from Tuskegee and a happy server at Beauregard's and his coworker who used to listen to his mother's tape of Black Sabbath music; Troy at the Rave; others who sold gift certificates to my wife at Chick Fil-A, Panera Bread and Starbucks; my nephew, Jonathan, and his new bride to-be.
Amazon openly skirts the tax laws
Meanwhile, tax cuts occupy my thoughts.
I give thanks to Brandon Jones, an orphan from Tuskegee and a happy server at Beauregard's and his coworker who used to listen to his mother's tape of Black Sabbath music; Troy at the Rave; others who sold gift certificates to my wife at Chick Fil-A, Panera Bread and Starbucks; my nephew, Jonathan, and his new bride to-be.
Friday, November 19, 2010
Does a Fork Have Three Tines or Four?
In this parallel universe, I bounce the ideas you give me against the protagonists wandering around waiting for instructions on what they're supposed to do next with their lives.
A single word changes the course of these fictional characters' purposeful campaigns.
Should I let them continue on toward more concentration of riches, exclusive information ownership and bigger, stronger, more luxurious gates/walls preventing access to the masses?
I am an individual who works in this imaginary world but does not live here.
As the information gatekeeper, I have access to both of my imaginary friends' worlds.
I will not live to see how their scenarios here completely play out in comparison to the real world.
"Is this a morality play?" I ask myself when a word spoken in imaginary and real terms has the same (or equal) effect.
I try to convince myself that I don't know what I or my colleagues in the real world are talking about.
Empires come and go. No one lives forever here or there. Languages spoken and not written are forgotten.
In this imaginary world, friends tell me that they feel betrayed by their popularly-chosen leader. Since they don't have a "vote of no confidence" or a call for new elections to force a change of leadership, they're banking on other methods to voice their lack of confidence and desire for a new leader.
They believe local leaders who are emboldened by this current superregional leader are using redistricting and school closing methods to cause a "flight" of specific populations from neighbourhoods so the local leaders can get their own friends into the neighbourhoods (and more cheaply, too).
I'm glad all of this is imaginary because, if I had the slightest inkling that it was true, well...
I asked my associates Sal and Vince, who provide bodyguard personal security services for the Committee of 7.5, if they had heard any of these rumours, they being in on the know and the know-how that ain't nobody's business no-how.
They said, yeah, they'd heard it, too. They was watching the real estate prices like all good investors - houses, flats, estates, commercial properties catering to the military, that sort of thing - seeing as how it never hurts to turn a tidy profit when no one ain't looking.
They asked me why I was interested, me being all about the species and the big picture and all that.
I told them it was simply a matter of a subplot in a story I was writing. They nodded. Enough said. They knew all about digging up plots and turning them into subplots.
You've seen how they operate - a burning cigarette accidentally dropped on the carpet and a high-rise burns (boins) down, a brake line breaks and a car careens out of control down a hillside, a Hollywood type don't pay her dues and she gets what's coming to her, some "kids" tear into a laboratory for kicks, leaving graffiti around and a virus spreads unchecked.
Life is full of mishaps that resemble art.
Their priest tells them to turn the other cheek but he don't say nothing about what they're supposed to do when they're looking the other way with their cheek turned.
That's why I don't judge my friends, colleagues and associates. Business is business. Money makes the world of money go up and down. Favours make sure we all got something to hide and the means to pay for keeping them hidden.
If you want another Houdini, Chamberlain or Hitler, I can't stop you. History if full of history about people who can't learn from history.
Besides, this is just fiction. It's not like my friends are trying to tell me the truth.
I mean, if you picked up a metal object on the road and the object had one end split in two, would you call it a tuning fork or an eating fork missing a couple of tines? Some of my old mountain friends would call it a miniature divining rod. I would just call it a fork in the road.
The decision's up to you. You can START negotiations now or put them off until the future. If you put them off, can you prove you did so because you were investigating a trail of information that someone was trying to hide from you before ratification was completed? Would the people believe your story about the reasons for saying no on the crucial day when you needed them to say yes for you one more time?
A single word changes the course of these fictional characters' purposeful campaigns.
Should I let them continue on toward more concentration of riches, exclusive information ownership and bigger, stronger, more luxurious gates/walls preventing access to the masses?
I am an individual who works in this imaginary world but does not live here.
As the information gatekeeper, I have access to both of my imaginary friends' worlds.
I will not live to see how their scenarios here completely play out in comparison to the real world.
"Is this a morality play?" I ask myself when a word spoken in imaginary and real terms has the same (or equal) effect.
I try to convince myself that I don't know what I or my colleagues in the real world are talking about.
Empires come and go. No one lives forever here or there. Languages spoken and not written are forgotten.
In this imaginary world, friends tell me that they feel betrayed by their popularly-chosen leader. Since they don't have a "vote of no confidence" or a call for new elections to force a change of leadership, they're banking on other methods to voice their lack of confidence and desire for a new leader.
They believe local leaders who are emboldened by this current superregional leader are using redistricting and school closing methods to cause a "flight" of specific populations from neighbourhoods so the local leaders can get their own friends into the neighbourhoods (and more cheaply, too).
I'm glad all of this is imaginary because, if I had the slightest inkling that it was true, well...
I asked my associates Sal and Vince, who provide bodyguard personal security services for the Committee of 7.5, if they had heard any of these rumours, they being in on the know and the know-how that ain't nobody's business no-how.
They said, yeah, they'd heard it, too. They was watching the real estate prices like all good investors - houses, flats, estates, commercial properties catering to the military, that sort of thing - seeing as how it never hurts to turn a tidy profit when no one ain't looking.
They asked me why I was interested, me being all about the species and the big picture and all that.
I told them it was simply a matter of a subplot in a story I was writing. They nodded. Enough said. They knew all about digging up plots and turning them into subplots.
You've seen how they operate - a burning cigarette accidentally dropped on the carpet and a high-rise burns (boins) down, a brake line breaks and a car careens out of control down a hillside, a Hollywood type don't pay her dues and she gets what's coming to her, some "kids" tear into a laboratory for kicks, leaving graffiti around and a virus spreads unchecked.
Life is full of mishaps that resemble art.
Their priest tells them to turn the other cheek but he don't say nothing about what they're supposed to do when they're looking the other way with their cheek turned.
That's why I don't judge my friends, colleagues and associates. Business is business. Money makes the world of money go up and down. Favours make sure we all got something to hide and the means to pay for keeping them hidden.
If you want another Houdini, Chamberlain or Hitler, I can't stop you. History if full of history about people who can't learn from history.
Besides, this is just fiction. It's not like my friends are trying to tell me the truth.
I mean, if you picked up a metal object on the road and the object had one end split in two, would you call it a tuning fork or an eating fork missing a couple of tines? Some of my old mountain friends would call it a miniature divining rod. I would just call it a fork in the road.
The decision's up to you. You can START negotiations now or put them off until the future. If you put them off, can you prove you did so because you were investigating a trail of information that someone was trying to hide from you before ratification was completed? Would the people believe your story about the reasons for saying no on the crucial day when you needed them to say yes for you one more time?
Thursday, November 18, 2010
Capital!
After reading "Angela's Ashes," and in light of the similarity of names, Merkel announced today the annexation of Ireland and the movement of the headquarters of the Fourth Reich from Berlin to Limerick.
Greek politicians, disappointed that they were not chosen for the new capital, staged a protest, insisting that all future Olympics will be held in their country in order to make up for the debacle of the last one they hosted. Of course, they will not pay contractors for any work in future Olympics, either. After all, debt is a source of national pride - it's all Greek to them.
The U.S. is said to be in negotiations with Germany to split Ireland into eastern and western "Management Zones" so companies in both countries can hide their profits from taxation while still claiming to have headquarters in their home country.
Russia and China deny involvement in causing the economic collapse of Ireland despite strong evidence linking them to taking out risky loans to finance overpriced holiday getaways for their favourite pols.
Greek politicians, disappointed that they were not chosen for the new capital, staged a protest, insisting that all future Olympics will be held in their country in order to make up for the debacle of the last one they hosted. Of course, they will not pay contractors for any work in future Olympics, either. After all, debt is a source of national pride - it's all Greek to them.
The U.S. is said to be in negotiations with Germany to split Ireland into eastern and western "Management Zones" so companies in both countries can hide their profits from taxation while still claiming to have headquarters in their home country.
Russia and China deny involvement in causing the economic collapse of Ireland despite strong evidence linking them to taking out risky loans to finance overpriced holiday getaways for their favourite pols.
Tuesday, November 16, 2010
Dichroic Dichotomies Bombastically Fantastic
Found for sale at roadside stand - fried bedbugs and ground flax seeds - mmmmm..... Never miss a business opportunity when there's free protein for the baking.
So which state functions do you care about - subsidies for business entities or subsidies for subcities?
I want a couple of days to step back and ponder the impermeable impervious impenetrable perforations. How, for example, does one step in and out of spacetime if spacetime does not exist? How does one appear to those who only know spacetime as the working model for daily living/survival?
I'll leave you with these thoughts by Ashleigh Brilliant:
2. How close did the Germans come to invading England in World War I?
3. Is it possible that the Dalai Lama and Mother Teresa once had an affair?
4. Trade-name for a new brassiere: the CANDELA BRA.
5. Idea: write my own Constitution, beginning “I the person.”
6. Lists for the listless.
7. Are shoulders the only thing we can shrug?
8. Needed: a car that runs on URINE.
9. The Day I Didn’t Die.
10. The two great World Wars had many similarities and some striking differences. Where can I find a good comparative summary of these?
11. Do people with foot fetishes tend to become podiatrists?
12. Am I right in saying that, unlike the body, the mind discharges no waste products?
13. Good title: NOT NOTHING.
14. Good conversation starter: Complete this sentence: “My mother used to . . . .”
15. Did horse-and-buggy drivers ever use rear-view mirrors?
16. Question: Why “knuckle dusters”? What does the “duster” part mean?
17. We can say “there is only now” because past and future are in a certain sense unreal -- but we can’t say “there is only here” because we know other places exist.
18. Reality For Beginners.
19. Are there people who can put on their trousers both legs at once?
20. Do all Americans say “A to Zee” and all Brits say “A to Zed”? (This could be the basis of a detective story which hinges upon whether the perpetrator is American or British.)
21. Dear Obnoxious Cell Phone User,
I realize you are minding your own business (and that you wish I would mind mine) – but must you do so at the top of your voice?
22. And I heard God say, “THIS LIFE IS ON ME.”
23. I cut my finger on the First-Aid box.
24. I’ve heard of games involving a “greased pig.” How about an ordinary game of catch in which the players’ hands are greased. The game could be called BUTTERFINGERS.
25. When did a reigning British monarch first visit a British colony (not counting Ireland)?
26. How many home accidents occur when people are putting on or taking off their pants?
27. Question: Where did Hitler get the Negro extras who were sometimes needed in German films during the Nazi era? What became of them?
28. How many American black soldiers were taken prisoner by the Germans during World War II, and how were they treated?
29. Idea: an illustrated Who’s Who of our local homeless population.
30. Which animals need least sleep, and are there any which never sleep at all?
31. I find 3 different meanings of Amadeus: “Love of God,” “Loves God,” and “God’s Love.”
32. Why was there no Roman anti-cruelty organization picketing the Colosseum? Has society as a whole actually become more “humane”? Is this “progress”?
33. Isn’t the song “Thank Heaven For Little Girls” dangerously close to sexual deviance?
34. Is a point well taken the same as a point well made?
So which state functions do you care about - subsidies for business entities or subsidies for subcities?
I want a couple of days to step back and ponder the impermeable impervious impenetrable perforations. How, for example, does one step in and out of spacetime if spacetime does not exist? How does one appear to those who only know spacetime as the working model for daily living/survival?
I'll leave you with these thoughts by Ashleigh Brilliant:
ASHLEIGH BRILLIANT, QUESTIONS AND IDEAS, AUG 2009- NOV 2010. Part I.
1. Do red and green mean stop and go everywhere in the world?2. How close did the Germans come to invading England in World War I?
3. Is it possible that the Dalai Lama and Mother Teresa once had an affair?
4. Trade-name for a new brassiere: the CANDELA BRA.
5. Idea: write my own Constitution, beginning “I the person.”
6. Lists for the listless.
7. Are shoulders the only thing we can shrug?
8. Needed: a car that runs on URINE.
9. The Day I Didn’t Die.
10. The two great World Wars had many similarities and some striking differences. Where can I find a good comparative summary of these?
11. Do people with foot fetishes tend to become podiatrists?
12. Am I right in saying that, unlike the body, the mind discharges no waste products?
13. Good title: NOT NOTHING.
14. Good conversation starter: Complete this sentence: “My mother used to . . . .”
15. Did horse-and-buggy drivers ever use rear-view mirrors?
16. Question: Why “knuckle dusters”? What does the “duster” part mean?
17. We can say “there is only now” because past and future are in a certain sense unreal -- but we can’t say “there is only here” because we know other places exist.
18. Reality For Beginners.
19. Are there people who can put on their trousers both legs at once?
20. Do all Americans say “A to Zee” and all Brits say “A to Zed”? (This could be the basis of a detective story which hinges upon whether the perpetrator is American or British.)
21. Dear Obnoxious Cell Phone User,
I realize you are minding your own business (and that you wish I would mind mine) – but must you do so at the top of your voice?
22. And I heard God say, “THIS LIFE IS ON ME.”
23. I cut my finger on the First-Aid box.
24. I’ve heard of games involving a “greased pig.” How about an ordinary game of catch in which the players’ hands are greased. The game could be called BUTTERFINGERS.
25. When did a reigning British monarch first visit a British colony (not counting Ireland)?
26. How many home accidents occur when people are putting on or taking off their pants?
27. Question: Where did Hitler get the Negro extras who were sometimes needed in German films during the Nazi era? What became of them?
28. How many American black soldiers were taken prisoner by the Germans during World War II, and how were they treated?
29. Idea: an illustrated Who’s Who of our local homeless population.
30. Which animals need least sleep, and are there any which never sleep at all?
31. I find 3 different meanings of Amadeus: “Love of God,” “Loves God,” and “God’s Love.”
32. Why was there no Roman anti-cruelty organization picketing the Colosseum? Has society as a whole actually become more “humane”? Is this “progress”?
33. Isn’t the song “Thank Heaven For Little Girls” dangerously close to sexual deviance?
34. Is a point well taken the same as a point well made?
Monday, November 15, 2010
Three Words
Vick is baaaa-a-a-a-a-a-a-ck!!!! A Hokie through and through.
Now, if only Virginia will get its extension agents system working for all counties.
Now, if only Virginia will get its extension agents system working for all counties.
Thursday, November 4, 2010
Name...That...Tune!
I'll throw out some statements. You supply the next statement in the series and what the statements mean when taken as a whole:
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[HINT: Using your imagination and constant bombardment on your senses by spy novels and conspiracy films, is it possible to see the statements above as a ruse by government and private security firms (e.g., d/b/a Xe, Blackwater, Halliburton, et al) to secure more contracts due to perceived threats from nonexistent foes? Or are all empires subject to guerilla attack by tiny opposition groups and this is just par for the course - occasional gnats and mosquitoes giving an annoying sting to the powers that be, so there's no need to raise the castle walls any higher over a few brainwashed peasants seeking attention? Citizens die every day in automobile smashups so what's a few more lost in random bombings? You make the call.]
- We found a suspicious package but it's not a bomb because it doesn't have explosives.
- We found a package that contains explosives.
- We found a package that contains explosives and an unsophisticated detonation device made of wires and a circuit board.
- We found an explosive package with a mobile phone sim card.
- We found a sophisticated explosive package but there's no way it could have gone off because mobile phone service does not work in the skies (except when it does work).
- We found a volatile bomb that we safeguarded from exposure to the public.
- We found a bomb that was about to go off in 17 minutes.
- We defused a bomb that was just seconds away from destroying the airport and possibly half the country. Thank goodness, Bond James-Bond - currently looking for a job and subcontracting for us - was available to cut the wire at the LAST SECOND!
- Okay, you supply the rest of the next statement: "We found and secured the country from total annihilation due to an abominable, diabolical threat we..."
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[HINT: Using your imagination and constant bombardment on your senses by spy novels and conspiracy films, is it possible to see the statements above as a ruse by government and private security firms (e.g., d/b/a Xe, Blackwater, Halliburton, et al) to secure more contracts due to perceived threats from nonexistent foes? Or are all empires subject to guerilla attack by tiny opposition groups and this is just par for the course - occasional gnats and mosquitoes giving an annoying sting to the powers that be, so there's no need to raise the castle walls any higher over a few brainwashed peasants seeking attention? Citizens die every day in automobile smashups so what's a few more lost in random bombings? You make the call.]
Thursday, October 28, 2010
Police and Investigators Baffled
Famed botnet not stealing your secrets or credit card numbers!
Authorities planned to tie the recent bust of an international botnet ring to a global organised crime unit, claiming the ring leaders were stealing government secrets, private IDs, and bank/credit card account information.
However, upon further research of the data secretly stolen from the botnets, analysts have revealed that the botnets are in fact inserting people's lives into the lives of others - falsifying backgrounds in private company personnel files, putting people's faces in other people's holiday photos, creating completely cross-referenced wikipedia entries with corresponding websites and news wire stories...essentially rewriting the Internet, codenamed Operation "John Malkovich in 'Being Tom Hanks'".
Breaking down the details of the illegal operation was going to be the success story of the government announced just prior to upcoming elections that pundits have predicted will sweep out the old and bring in the new.
Government consultants and PAC contributors secretly hoped the operation breakup would put a halt to the country's conservative reaction to bank lenders' predatory lending practices in response to newly rich stockholders looking for a sure bet that caused the collapse of the global economy and an increase in volatile investment trends like making cow patties more precious than gold.
A cow farting next to a lantern in a barn full of kerosene and dry hay couldn't have caused a more bitter tasting sweet mint in the mouth of a gifted sawhorse.
Now that the truth has been discovered, analysts are pouring over the wikileaks website to determine how much the wikileaks creators have themselves been duped by a group of teenagers determined to turn the e-world into a parody of itself by putting into the hands of "insiders" documents that were forged at the beginning.
NEWS FLASH! Whole floors of rooms of people being hypnotised to believe the documentation, including photographs and videos, that shows them performing acts in which they never participated! Debutantes caught shopping at discount stores! Queen Elizabeth funneling beer at a punk biker bar!
In archaeology news, scientists have released a report claiming that sacrificial wells in Central America contain the remains of alien creatures. Speculation and rumours say that the aliens may have been trying to hide from tribes wanting to turn the aliens into gods while they were merely picnicking on Earth before continuing their weekend tour of this spiral arm of the galaxy, their prescient spaceships taking off on autopilot and leaving the aliens behind.
Authorities planned to tie the recent bust of an international botnet ring to a global organised crime unit, claiming the ring leaders were stealing government secrets, private IDs, and bank/credit card account information.
However, upon further research of the data secretly stolen from the botnets, analysts have revealed that the botnets are in fact inserting people's lives into the lives of others - falsifying backgrounds in private company personnel files, putting people's faces in other people's holiday photos, creating completely cross-referenced wikipedia entries with corresponding websites and news wire stories...essentially rewriting the Internet, codenamed Operation "John Malkovich in 'Being Tom Hanks'".
Breaking down the details of the illegal operation was going to be the success story of the government announced just prior to upcoming elections that pundits have predicted will sweep out the old and bring in the new.
Government consultants and PAC contributors secretly hoped the operation breakup would put a halt to the country's conservative reaction to bank lenders' predatory lending practices in response to newly rich stockholders looking for a sure bet that caused the collapse of the global economy and an increase in volatile investment trends like making cow patties more precious than gold.
A cow farting next to a lantern in a barn full of kerosene and dry hay couldn't have caused a more bitter tasting sweet mint in the mouth of a gifted sawhorse.
Now that the truth has been discovered, analysts are pouring over the wikileaks website to determine how much the wikileaks creators have themselves been duped by a group of teenagers determined to turn the e-world into a parody of itself by putting into the hands of "insiders" documents that were forged at the beginning.
NEWS FLASH! Whole floors of rooms of people being hypnotised to believe the documentation, including photographs and videos, that shows them performing acts in which they never participated! Debutantes caught shopping at discount stores! Queen Elizabeth funneling beer at a punk biker bar!
In archaeology news, scientists have released a report claiming that sacrificial wells in Central America contain the remains of alien creatures. Speculation and rumours say that the aliens may have been trying to hide from tribes wanting to turn the aliens into gods while they were merely picnicking on Earth before continuing their weekend tour of this spiral arm of the galaxy, their prescient spaceships taking off on autopilot and leaving the aliens behind.
Tuesday, October 5, 2010
Rick's Risks in Ricks
An ordinary man, watching, waiting.
While rocketeers line up recruits to design, build and launch moon rovers, manifesting the dreams of Verne and others who've marveled at our night sky companion that bashfully hides its face in phases, I stand here wondering.
Birds bathe.
I am an old man who wanders woods thinking.
There's something else out there, something I can only hint about, vaguely reference, use humour to blow smoke around and in front of.
I am an apparition, cells, atoms and states of energy tangled in gravity.
While colleagues and associates see the ordinary me, I work the background scene where the extraordinary happens regularly.
I am a quiet fool, easily recompensed, apt to gape, stepping through back doors to see what's really going on in the cube farms, a reflection of management's management.
I am not what I appear to be. Managing expectations. Making people feel like persons. Empowering.
I am unimportant, embarrassed to talk about my humble accomplishments, having not yet settled a colony of living things off this world.
There's more here than meets the illusion we call the thought process. Time to activate another team and show you what I mean.
So many govermental agencies issuing grants, so few people to make the grants come alive and exponentially grow to the benefit of all the people some of the time (and some of the sum thyme of the time).
Would you see the dual use that supersecret government cybersecurity development gives civilians openly populating another planet?
You will.
While rocketeers line up recruits to design, build and launch moon rovers, manifesting the dreams of Verne and others who've marveled at our night sky companion that bashfully hides its face in phases, I stand here wondering.
Birds bathe.
I am an old man who wanders woods thinking.
There's something else out there, something I can only hint about, vaguely reference, use humour to blow smoke around and in front of.
I am an apparition, cells, atoms and states of energy tangled in gravity.
While colleagues and associates see the ordinary me, I work the background scene where the extraordinary happens regularly.
I am a quiet fool, easily recompensed, apt to gape, stepping through back doors to see what's really going on in the cube farms, a reflection of management's management.
I am not what I appear to be. Managing expectations. Making people feel like persons. Empowering.
I am unimportant, embarrassed to talk about my humble accomplishments, having not yet settled a colony of living things off this world.
There's more here than meets the illusion we call the thought process. Time to activate another team and show you what I mean.
So many govermental agencies issuing grants, so few people to make the grants come alive and exponentially grow to the benefit of all the people some of the time (and some of the sum thyme of the time).
Would you see the dual use that supersecret government cybersecurity development gives civilians openly populating another planet?
You will.
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