Moving On

Already halfway done with my intro Coursera class, trying to look into practical applications now.  Seeing if I can write something that will help me every day, or at work, etc.

In the meantime, I've typed out what I think they should do once written, but I have a bit more to work through before I am confident that it will succeed.

Signed up for classes at a local city college so I can begin working towards a piece of paper that acknowledges my course completions, as well as allowing me to have dedicated time to learn instead of be distracted by other things that need doing.

I figure, get a certificate in programming (learning ruby-on-rails, C++, and a course on linux, plus the other requirements) that requires 30 hours, use those credits to get an associate's degree, then use those to move on to finish my Bachelor's degree (which already has all core classes completed and at this point a bunch of useless ones also completed).

While working though this will take many more years than intended, but so long as it is applicable knowledge I have no trouble with that.

Irrationality, and other mind problems

Today will mark 4 measly days since my goal was established and I'm glad to say I have both a much further way to go and am a lot closer than I imagined all in one.  It's like a long road trip, when you can finally see your destination at the horizon, but then as night falls it still seems so far away, but at least its in your sights now.

I would not claim to be a smart man, but I would estimate somewhere around average, if not a little below.  I have taken classes though in debate, reasoned argument, persuasion and philosophy, and have always believed myself to be a fairly rational person.  I was wrong.  These things merely helped to cover up or justify my irrationality, and led to complacency in thought.

Lacking knowledge is one thing, that ignorance can be rectified by seeking out where you are deficient and gaining the knowledge that was missing previously.  I can deal with being ignorant because I am pursuing my goal which will alleviate some ignorance and put me on the path to eliminate as much of it as I am able to.  What I cannot deal with is my brain slacking off as much as it wants to.

I have to constantly catch myself and redirect my attention, force myself to continue reading to try and make sense the words my eyes see, while my mind lingers on other, far less important, topics.  My brain will not simply read past a problem it has with subject-verb-agreement even if the problem is rectified later on in the sentence.

I feel as if my habits have attenuated my brain to expect regular dopamine drips from reading blurbs and looking at funny pictures rather than the ways I used to behave.  I hope, with effort, it can be converted back to the way it used to function, and that this setting is only temporary.

It's only been four days, and I'm even more determined now than before.  I have a long way to go, longer than I thought originally, but the change should be very much worth it.

Goals

I've spent a lot of time under the impression that I do not have anything unique to contribute to humanity/society/art/science/etc, and that has lead me to believe that living a mediocre life, with a solid internet connection, and simply watching the world pass me by was acceptable.  The goal was to live and see the future happen around me, while maximizing fun and happiness.

This is no longer an acceptable goal to me any longer, as I refuse to be merely ambitious without an ambition.

I am no longer content to sit by and watch the world happen around me, I choose to contribute to it.  This blog is not viewed by anyone, but it is enough of a start for me to get this down in writing and have it made -technically - public.

My aim is to be less wrong about the world around me, more rational in every day thinking as well as problem-solving, and I will learn, in detail, how to affect the world around me through computing.

My specific goal is to end up working on artificial intelligence.  To achieve this I am returning to school to learn programming, how computers work in general, logic, and rationality.

Wish me luck.

ME3: Conclusion

Indoctrination theory can be discounted, Bioware has let it be known that they have no intention of changing the ending of the game, but sometime this summer will release free clarification DLC that 'should' clear up the plot holes and major problems, even though they tried to sell it as a favor to the fans who "Need more time to say goodbye to their stories."

Aside from a complete re-write of the ending this is pretty much as much as anyone could have hoped for, so I'm at least happy that they took this issue somewhat seriously, though I wish it wasn't done in such a patronizing way.

Bioware, you didn't need to do this, so I appreciate it. Don't think you're off the hook yet though.

Re: Religion and the Constitution Under Attack in America -- Fox

In an interview on CBS Sunday, Cardinal Dolan called the Obama administration’s mandate on contraceptive coverage a “radical intrusion of a government bureaucracy.”

There are several points to be made about the misinformation in this opening paragraph. First of all, the Obama administration did not produce the mandate, congress did, so it is the previous congress's mandate.

Secondly, there is no radical intrusion by the government in this one issue. How much sense would it make to craft a mandate for health insurance and then have no parameters by which to say what is and what is not health coverage? That'd be like the bailout ~$trillion dollar debacle that the government basically just gifted as there was no oversight.

Ensuring that health care companies are required to provide certain things is just common sense. Birth control is an extremely widely used prescription that helps in many more ways than simply preventing pregnancy and it makes sense to make sure people have access to it as it is a medical prescription that has to go through a doctor.

Why would your health insurance, that you're mandated to have now, not cover your medical prescriptions?

He continued, saying, “Our problem is the government is intruding into the life of faith and in the church that they shouldn’t be doing.”

This does not make sense to me. The government mandating that insurance companies (and the companies that provide these insurance packages to their employees) provide medical coverage regardless of preexisting conditions seems to be a larger affront to this idea than birth control.

Jehova's Witnesses don't believe in getting transfusions, does that mean that they should be able to inflict this belief onto their non-JW staff? No. So why is it different for birth control?

The Ending of Mass Effect 3

Ok, so the ending made no sense... and there are a bunch of theories, but this one makes the most sense to me and actually brings a lot of hope for the future:

The reapers have an ability to indoctrinate, basically slow-rate mind control where you don't realize it but you start to see things their way and work for them even if you think you are fighting them. This was shows numerous times with important characters in the first game, and in the last one it looks like Shepherd and The Illusive Man are being put under the influence of indoctrination.

In the final mission you rush this portal that beams you up to the citadel where you can make your choice (destroy the reapers, merge all synthetics and organic life, or attempt to turn the reapers under your control). On your way to the beam you get blasted by a giant laser and almost die. You spend the next sequences limping around and visually impaired.

These three choices represent what various characters tried to do throughout the game while being indoctrinated. Saren (the bad guy in the first game) wanted to merge the reapers with us to make us all stronger. It turned out he was indoctrinated, meaning this idea might have been put in his head rather than it be his idea to begin with.

The Illusive Man was always out to control the reapers and put them under his thumb to make humanity stronger. The reapers used this to their advantage and indoctrinated him as well, making him think he could accomplish this. We were told numerous time though in previous games that this would be impossible, meaning either T.I.M. had something super-special or he was just indoctrinated to think this way and the reapers were still pulling the strings for him. Then there is Shepherd's only real choice, but it's a bad one. Kill all Synthetic life, including the Geth (who he just helped raise into full-sentience and sapience) EDI (who is now a friend AI) and the Reapers.

If you pick Synthesis (which is supposedly the 'good' ending) you effectively choose to be exactly like Saren from the first game. This means that it cannot really be the good ending as you fought against it previously and must only seem like the good ending when compared to the rest. This is something the reapers are already doing as well, so choosing this basically agrees with your enemies.

If you pick control you are effectively choosing to be exactly like The Illusive Man, who failed and was also indoctrinated. The cannot be a good ending either and is an option they wanted T.I.M. to choose under indoctrination.

If you pick destroy you are actually freeing the galaxy and all future generations of species from the reapers, but it's made to be tragic because you're agreeing with the reaper child who just spoke to you in saying that organics and synthetics cannot co-exist and will always end up with Synthetics rebelling against their creators. This simply goes against everything you fought for in all 3 games because you finally get the Geth and Quarians to share the planet and you develop EDI by sharing her growing experience. By choosing this option the reaper makes you think you are destroying all synthetic life. Their purpose was to basically regulate this conflict eternally by storing advanced organic life in reaper form (Sythesis of organic and synthetic life through reaper control).

If you pick either Synthesis or Control, you die in the cut scene. If you have enough points, and completed most of the game and pick Destroy though, you wake up on Earth, barely conscious laying on concrete. Now, this is impossible, and is either a huge gaff in the story (I'll explain) or is a clear indication of something else (which I'll also explain).

The beam portal took us to the citadel, which was orbiting the Earth in space. There is no way you would survive the crash back to earth in a monolithic space station and just wake up on concrete without any wreckage of the many miles-long spacecraft. Again, this is either a terrible oversight or something deliberate.

I think it is a clear indication of something else, namely that after the laser blast you entered an indoctrination-induced hallucination where the reapers attempted to finally control you and convince you not to destroy them (and perhaps work for them). This means that if you pick the good option (Synthesis) you give in to the reapers and they control you. If you pick Control, they have turned you into another Illusive Man and you are also under their control. If you pick Destroy, you would be the first person to ever overcome indoctrination and reject their control and carry on to continue your mission even though it has other bad results.

Basically, if you pick destroy, you wake back up on earth and the whole choice had been the reaper's attempt to control you. This leaves room for Bioware to release a REAL ending in Downloadable content and a far better epilogue, etc. Either that or when Shepherd gasps for breath after rejecting indoctrination, he dies there on Earth and the Reapers win, perpetuating the cycle again and meaning that it is the true end.

Empirically: Mac VS PC

LOS ANGELES - There have been far too many cases of 'debating on the intarwobz' about this subject, when there needn't be so much nerd rage. It's true, people like different things, and what is valuable to one person is not valuable to other people, etc. How, then, can we actually decide which is better when deciding between a Macintosh computer or any number of Windows/Linux-based PCs?

First off, lets talk about brand loyalty. I'm under the distinct impression that there is far too much stereotyping going on about both groups. I do not think that every PC owner is a giant nerd or gamer, nor do I think that every Mac owner is a trendy, hipster who buys because they don't want viruses. Anecdotal evidence alone has confirmed these absolutes to be untrue, and I never really understood the stark line drawn in the sand between these two camps.

Defining what's important to the user is going to determine what they're really going to want, so lets round up what you're actually getting for your purchase. It's a computer, and it is meant to run the programs you want to run. Now, if you're even marginally affluent with computers, the OS won't be able to hold you back no matter which you choose. Bootcamp is available for Macs so they can run Windows and Linux OS's, and running OSX and beyond on a dual-boot PC really isn't very tough either. So, the conclusion here is that if you decide to take up some extra effort, you can negate this as a factor entirely... which should be interesting since I just stated that this could determine everything.

If you're not into that sort of thing, and you're going to need to rely on tech support more often than not, you need to take a look at the software you want to run, what applications you want to use, and how you're going to live with your decision for a while. When you're stuck to your OS there's definitely some things to think about here, so I won't even begin to speculate what could be most important for you.

Now, once you've made your decision on software and OS compatibility, you'll need to make your choice accordingly. If you want mac-only programs (I think these are few and far between now-a-days) then you're obviously limited to the Macs, and if you want to run PC-only programs then you're obviously limited to the PCs, and in either case you should be regimenting out how much you want to spend on your computer, and pricing only those that at LEAST match the minimum system requirements for what you want to run. Buying better hardware can have a future-proofing affect that will allow you to continue running new programs in the future, and so the more you learn about the components, you can make your investment last longer.

If you're able to go between OS's, or you have no problem doing so if need be, then you have to look at what you're actually buying; Hardware.

Obviously, if you have low system requirements for the programs you want to run, then you can get a seriously cheap computer and not have to worry about it. Netbooks are available for those that don't need much more than web browsing capability, and they can be bought new for under $200.

Hardware comes in a few different classes now-a-days. We have Desktops, notebooks, tablets, netbooks, full-tower desktops, etc. Decide if you need to be mobile, semi-mobile, or stationary when computing. There are benefits to both, and a compromise-ish situation with desktop-replacing laptops. Fairly, you can always get the best equipment at the cheapest prices when you're getting a desktop. With more room comes more air space to cool the non-condensed, non-energy-efficient parts that simply produce far more power than laptops can, due to heat and energy restrictions.

With Laptops, the choice between the two is a bit iffy on hardware.

A standard Macbook is $999

For that you get the following:

• 2.4GHz Intel Core 2 Duo
• 2GB DDR3 memory
• 250GB hard drive¹
• 8x double-layer SuperDrive
• NVIDIA GeForce 320M graphics
• 1280 by 800 (native resolution)
• N-wireless

A A standard Toshiba Laptop for $879

gets you the following:

Core i3 processor

GB DDR3 memory

250GB hard drive

Integrated Intel Graphics

1366x768 native resolution

N wireless

These computers seem to basically be a wash. The i3 is better than the Core 2 Duo, and 3 GB of ram is more than the mac, but the mac's screen is nicer and the dedicated mobile graphics card is better than the integrated one on the toshiba. The price is pretty negligible as well, and the styling is definitely in the mac's favor.

All in all, for these low-end laptops, I'd probably get the mac. They're not that great at anything, but they're not terrible. You can easily find cheaper computers at Tiger Direct or New Egg, with roughly the same components for under $500, and for 1/2 the price of the macbook I'd rather have last year's model that's just as powerful.

Higher class laptops widen the divide a bit.

The Macbook Pro - 15" starts at $1,999.00

For that you get the following:

Core i5 processor

4GB DDR3 ram

500 GB hard drive

GeForce GT 330M with 265mb graphics memory

The ASUS G73 - 17" starts at $1,799.00 (discount to $1,599 linked)

For that you get the following:

Core i7 processor

8GB DDR3 ram

1TB HD (2 x 500GB)

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 460M graphics with 1.5GB DDR5 VRAM

In every single category, the Asus is triumphant. It has a far more powerful processor, twice as much ram, twice as much hard drive space, and one of the absolute best mobile graphics cards in existence... all for less than the Mac. Unless you're set on a mac, this should at least make you think twice.

Desktops are really where the magic comes down to what you need the computer to do.

Mac Pros starts at a rough $2499.00

and for that you get the following:

One 2.8 GHz Xeon processor

3GB DDR3 memory

1TB hard drive

ATI Radeon 5770 grahpics card 1GB DDR5

A stock HP Pavilion 580 for $899

gets you the following:

• Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-950 quad-core [3.06GHz, 1MB L2 + 8MB shared L3 cache]
• 8GB DDR3-1066MHz SDRAM [4 DIMMs]
• FREE UPGRADE! 1.5TB 7200 rpm SATA 3Gb/s hard drive from 750GB
• 1GB DDR3 AMD Radeon HD 6450 [DVI, HDMI. VGA adapter]

HP recommends upgrading it to a $1500 configuration with even more goodies, but really this one is perfect for a comparison. The i7 and the Xeon are roughly the same processor. The 950 is better at some things while the Xeon is more for rendering, etc. 8GB > 3GB of DDR3, there's no excuse for this in the Mac. You can pick up more ram at a store for $50-100 depending on how much you want. Try upgrading it in the mac page though and it'll cost you a ton more. You get an extra 500GB of storage on the HP, and a vastly superior graphics card. The 5770 is still a good card, but it is one of the oldest DDR5 cards still being sold. You can pick one up for around $115 if you look. The 6000 series Radeon though is just better.

The redeeming feature of the Mac Pro is the ability to add more processors though. You can have the equivalent of a 12-core i7 in a machine because you add in more. I don't know of a PC company that is doing that, and I wouldn't expect it to be a reasonably priced thing, so I'll go ahead and say that if you need a computer dedicated to raw, server-esque, processing power for rendering, and you have 4-5 thousand dollars to spend, you might want to look into the 12-core Mac Pro (but be sure to get it more ram). Otherwise, if you're a normal person who just wants a computer to use for everything from browsing, running programs, to the most intense gaming, don't get the Mac Pro.

Mac also has the iMac which you might think would be more comparable to the HP above, and you'd partially be right, except that here's what you'd get for your comparable Mac:

It's $1,999.00 for a decent one,

Core i5

Super High resolution screen (2560-by-1440 resolution)

4GB DDR3 ram

1TB hard drive

Radeon 5750, 1 GB GDDR5

Aside from the extra-nice screen, you can pick this exact set of hardware up in a PC for under $600 easily. That means you could buy 4 PCs of the same caliber as this one iMac. You'll have to pick out the graphics card you want, and you'll be able to pick any monitor you like, which combined will probably add up to another $200, but that's still substantially cheaper than the mac, and you're still getting tons more Ram and you're saving so much money.

Basically, it really does come down to what you're physically buying because the software can all be used on any platform you buy. With this in mind, there are beneficial and detrimental aspects of both, and you need to take into account everything when considering what to put your money into.

Personally, I'm looking to buy a used macbook regular for portability and web-browsing, but my desktop is a construction of my own running Win 7 and Ubuntu 9.04 which I will lay out below:

Core i7 860

8GB of 1600MHz DDR3

1 TB hard drive (looking to supplement with a SSD)

Asus Nvidia 460 GTX 1GB DDR5

23" LED Asus monitor 1080P

7.1 speakers

running both Win7 and Ubuntu

I built this all for under $1000 last year. You could do better, I'm sure. Whether you think that a Mac would serve you better, or a PC, hopefully this has at least shown that it entirely depends on what you're going to be doing.

-B

What is it...?

What is it about wanting to go after someone new once you get dumped?

I don't want anything from them, nor do I expect anything at all. The thought of perusing someone takes my mind off the pain for a few moments. It always returns in waves once I understand that I'm not really going to talk to the girl who's been looking at me. I wonder if it is the idea that maybe something will happen forces my mind to brush past the stabbing pain and rethink my reality for a moment. I never know. I can only question, and not being a psychiatrist makes it difficult to understand one's own mentality.

Also, I might just be insane... that's always a possibility.

Perhaps nothing has happened as I remember and I'm completely fabricating my relationship and my friends. I'm locked in a biological, quantum computer matrix called my mind. I've placed myself here, probably, because it is better suited to my survival, or it was largely liked by my ancestors and chosen to continue through natural selection. I'm now living those lives through my genetic code. What the ancients desired, so I am.

Being the product of such an event begs the question. What was so desirable about being able to think and feel sorrow and emotional pain that allowed natural selection to pick it out of anything else? Is it the ability to also feel the opposite extremes? I'd wonder why we aren't all completely bipolar. As of now I don't feel like I'll ever feel like I had when she loved me. Nor do I ever really want to feel that way again. Even thinking about happier times leaves a bitter and gritty taste in my mouth. Comparing it to now and seeing what could have been aches in my shoulders and hunches my posture. Why?

What benefit could this possibly serve me? Everyone who reads this is going to think I'm Emo or something. No, I don't cut myself, no my life doesn't suck... I just miss my ex girlfriend and am writting about it you twat! How's that for fucking the shit out of the 4th wall?

But, what benefit does it really serve? Can it even be called a benefit? Would I prefer a world with Prozium? Not really, but why not? Would I give anything to get rid of this pain? No. I see it as the remnants of the beautiful feeling of the person I love. Being the remnants, it reminds me of a dead star. Supernovae explosions are just as beautiful as the star was itself... it's just not as bright afterwards. The glow dims down, and eventually fades, but there will always be evidence that such an event took place even when there are billions upon billions of others happening all around it.

Mine is special.

I don't care if you agree.

Love. Period

As myself, I've often questioned what Love is, why it exists... IF it exists, but I already know these things. The act of questioning these things makes me think about them more throughly though. I wish I hadn't though, but here's my sorry excuse for an explanation.

I Love You, and I know you used to love me too.
I can't see you anymore, can't feel or hear you. You've gone, but not from me. This place is hollow and faded, gray-washed and empty.

I'm glad you left, I was holding you back. You needed someone and I couldn't pick up the slack. You're wonderful and beautiful, you'll find someone soon. Someone who can take care of you and support you too.

I've had many nights without sleep, calling your name, I know you haven't gone through the same. I wouldn't wish it upon you, nor would I put you to blame. It's my fault and my shame.

I just want to say, one more time. That I love you to death, and I suck and rhymes.



Rough drafts should never be published, I'll break that rule because I'm lazy.

Anonymous and Scientology

As an atheist on the internet I stumbled across a guy on Youtube known as Tunderf00t. Turns out he's a very big Anon supporter in this war against Scientology.

Here is his fantastic view on what Anonymous truly is and how it can win



And here's his take on how to win the war.

The MacBook Air Sucks

The thinnest notebook ever produced by Apple is a complete and utter waste of the tiny amount of space it takes up. This large calculator shouldn't even be sold in today's computing market due to its sheer lack of hardware power. Even if it were marketed as a cheap-as-hell computer it wouldn't make the cut as nothing else on the market is as weak an excuse of a computer as this piece of paper. Alas, the computer is NOT being sold as a cheap-as-hell laptop, but as a $3500 slab not heavy enough to be a door stop when you have no more use for it (which will be a few weeks after you open the box).

Lets look at the specs:
If you bump up the processor to a 1.8Ghz Duo core (less than anyone should get for even basic computing now-a-days) and get the new-age Solid-State drive the price is right around three grand. For $3k I'd prefer to get an Alienware with 4 fucking graphics cards and a badass 1080p (1920x1200 resolution) screen...

But! The cheapest version (1.6Ghz and an 80Gb disk drive) is only $1800. For 1800 dollars I'd much prefer to get, well, almost ANY OTHER COMPUTER at that price. If you were to spend 1800 bucks on this Frisbee then you'd be paying for tech that is several years old, a 1200x800 resolution screen (aka terrible screen with lots of jaggies) and not enough ports to really do anything with.

I'll probably update this later because it is 5am and I haven't slept yet and need some sleep.

Goodnight

ouch

yep

Quasicorporeal infinity point oh

Fuck You OnStar

http://news.google.com/news/url?sa=t&ct=us/8-0&fp=470d1860ee57ded8&ei=BmYNR5ikGqWuoAKbyJD-AQ&url=http%3A//blogs.pcworld.com/digitalworld/archives/2007/10/onstar_plays_go.html&cid=1121897419

This is the kind of thing that makes me upset with where our minds lead us. (;_;)

The article talks about how the company, OnStar, is teaming up with Chevy to install a new security device that will slow down cars that are being stolen. This is supposed to help police catch the stolen car as it's driving away so that the thief doesn't get to do any "Dukes of Hazard" type car maneuvers.

It's only a matter of time before you're hauling ass down the freeway, with your wife in labor sitting in the back seat as your car pulls over to the side of the road so that a police officer can write you a ticket when he gets around to it.

This is one of many reasons why I will always drive a car with a carburetor.

(And why I'll continue to write run-on sentences until I am satisfied.)

Here we go again.

What is the nature of sin?

It's an outdated concept, certainly, but one rooted in a concept that indeed
endures.

The definition of sin- not by any modern definition, but rather one set by the philosophers- is the disordering of one's priorities. This can happen easily because, as sentient beings, we have some idea what makes us tick. Hence, we can easily have sex without consequence. Drug ourselves into oblivion. Eat until we rupture our stomachs.

I'm not ranting about iniquity. I'm saying that we need to define our own goals and then stick to them. This is where 'brain crack' (Thanks to Ze Frank) comes in. We allow the concepts of our ideals to outweigh our dedication to our ideals themselves.

Why do so few people today 'succeed' in their own eyes? Well, there's two problems. The first is the goals they set themselves. The second is the dedication they give those goals. Someone whose definition of success is to earn one million dollars, but refuses to leave their bed, ever, is not going to be a successful person by their own definition.

Recognize your abilities, recognize your desires, and succeed. It could be as simple as redefining success to your current state of life. No one else can define success for you. So, do what you want.

Don't succumb to brain crack. You'll set yourself an impossible goal, not lift a finger to achieve it, and end up only with regret.

If you're new to the whole 'trying to succeed' thing, or are trying to quit brain crack cold turkey, then set yourself small goals and achieve them. To do otherwise is sinful- and indeed, is the only thing that is sinful. I'm not saying you're going to go to hell. I'm saying you will regret your own decisions and actions.

Look at your priorities. See what's really important to you. If sex, drugs, and rock n' roll is what you've been doing with your life, maybe you should just call that the top priority. There's nothing wrong with that. Just don't fool yourself.

You outrageous bastards.

Ain't anonymity great? Yeah, this thing is not really anonymous enough for me.

'Cause y'all know who I am, but YOU're not reading this. Or commenting.

Bleh. Enough bitching. Content time!

We need to discover a way to interact directly with the network that is humanity.
Not with the people of which it is composed, but with the network itself and its emergent intelligence.

Now, polls and the like are terrible ways of doing this, because they're averages, and we're trying to study fine structures here. Taking an average is like pureeing a brain to see what thoughts are in it.

Now, the new neural interfaces being created these days usually have electrodes directly inserted into the brain, stimulating as few brain cells as possible while still solidly affecting a region of the brain. When I say "as few as possible," though, we're still talking tens of thousands.

What am I jabbering on about? Well, the way I see it, we need to extend a few electrodes to humanity. Have them be different sensory experiences, none of them linked back to us that any one person will know about. Cross-correlate the data and start trying to get repeatable responses. Once we've done this, we've established an uplink to the metaintelligence and we can begin communicating with the most fascinating creature ever studied.

We need a small number of variables, tightly controlled.

Please help me design this.


Please don't slip back into the haze.

I know how it happens. UST sucks and you just want to chill with the few people who don't suck.

But please. PLEASE. Hold onto the drive. Hold on to the energy. Keep tabs on each other. Keep each other psyched. Don't go into survival mode. Don't go into survival mode.

Don't give in to brain crack.

Express yourself.

Don't let them crush the single part of you that matters most...





Your voice.

Ahem.

Where the hell are you guys? Ding ding, this is Rob keeping tabs on you. Consider yourselves tabbed motherfuckers.


If you don't take this shit seriously I'ma start telling stories...
stories like... THIS ONE!

Once upon a time there lived a man who knew how to break the second law of thermodynamics. Unfortunately for him, this would put the oil companies out of business. No one would be poor anymore, but no one would be rich either, and the richest people in the world wouldn't allow this. Hence, they locked the man up, put him in a spaceship powered only by water, and sent him to the Exxon moon base for the Criminally Innovative. In a hollowed-out space near the moon's core, the man lived out the rest of his days, going bitterly mad in the eight-by-eight-by-eight cell to which he was confined. Eventually, he invented a way to time travel using only leftover breadcrusts and shoelaces. Having done so, he traveled back two thousand years and started wowing gullible natives with parlor tricks until he slept with Pontius Pilate's daughter and was subsequently crucified.

The last laugh belongs to the pandas, who never really die but instead are sublimated into the intelligence that is harbored in a hidden orbit above the sun exactly one hundred eighty degrees away from the Earth. The rest of us have no eternal life to look forward to, but rather are all already dead.

THE END.


Now get off your asses or I'll give you a mind virus.

Well, well, well.

I'm back.


I mean that in every sense. I'm back in Houston with my friends for a glimmering moment in time. I'm back to this blog. I'm back to say the things I believe need to be said.

I'm here to change the world.

Given, that's an easy goddamn task, and you're doing it right now as you read this, just by fucking breathing. Everything is connected. Everything changes everything.

The systems we're looking at to reevaluate and restructure are very large metaintelligences and extrahuman constructs. They're the kind of things men believe grant them immortality- things like government, religion, tradition. Unfortunately, in pursuit of such extrahuman concepts, great and terrible things have been created that are very good at doing one thing: existing. Communism (with a capital C) is one such example. The University of Saint Thomas is another. Extrahuman constructs that no longer benefit the majority of the human beings who form its structure.

These systems must be revolutionized. Efficiently. Unfortunately most radical means of accomplishing this do more harm than they save. Hence, social engineering. Hence, the restructuring of the way people deal with each other. My friends, let us attack the way we communicate. Let us change the way we deal with each other and hence the way every human being interacts with every other.

I can write again. Did you notice?

I'm not going to let you relax. We have made our plans. Now all that remains is to accomplish them.

-Rob

Don't. Fuck. With. Me.

Jack Thompson

What an asshole.

That's the first thing that comes to mind when I think of this prick. Ooo! There's another one! How can one man be so focused on making Video Games out to be a killer instead of the actual people going out and shooting people? He's belittling those that lost their lives! To say that it was because of violent video games and not because of a plethora of other things in the kid's life is to say that the reason I got my license plates stolen was because someone read Aladin. B...but...he stole stuff in the book! That means that people that read it automatically want to go and steal s...stuff...right? No idiot. When I play Halo, the LAST think I want to do is get guns and shoot other real people. I'd rather raise my gamer score so I can actually play with my friends later. Oh, by the way, I know that killing people in real life WON'T raise my gamer score.

Supposedly this kid who shot up the Virginia University played WoW. Well...unless he was a Hunter, none of them use guns anyways. Oh, and none of WoW depicts shooting up schools either.

Jack Thompson needs to be prosecuted for slander on an entire industry, and any downfall in sales due to his statements. I'd estimate that at...hmmm.... all of his money forever.

I'm not bashing him for having different views than I do. People don't have to like video games...they just can't use them as a scapegoat and dodge the real fucking problem! Video games didn't tell this kid in Virginia to go shoot as many people as he could! They wern't an extensive training video that told him the best way to go shoot civilians! They were games!

In the columbine shooting Jack Thompson said that the boys who shot their fellow students played DOOM. Not Doom 3 or anything REMOTELY realistic...but a game where as long as you can see a moving guy, aim in his general direction an you'll shoot at 85 degree angles up or down... Not to mention the fact that it looks like someone drew each fram in MSPaint...

Oh yea Jack... They shot up their school because of fucking Doom...

Fucking Idiot...

-Bill