For Promotional Use Only

Recommendation of the week club:

Find four* new albums that you haven't heard before, but are pretty sure you will like, because (for example) you have already heard a single off them you really like or had it recommended to you  by a friend or algorithm (e.g Pandora radio). Smash the shit out them (not literally, just play them to yourself all the time, or however much you have time to listen to music, headphones can help with this) cycle through  them, until you can't take them any more and you're almost getting  sick of them (or maybe just before that point). Basically when you are familiar with them and starting to feel like something new(er) Then find four* new albums that you haven't heard... la la la etc.  THEN: repeat the process until you don't want too. Don't worry you won't run out of music. There's plenty of it in the world. There is far too much to get through and never enough time to filter through and find all the greatness. So might as well get into it eh?

NB: The word 'new' in this context doesn't mean brand new 2013 hot-off-the-press-type tunes droppin' on the D-floor shenanigans, just 'new' as in new to you, for example an old Bowie, Hendrix or Lennon album you never heard before, for some strange sad-but-incredibly-true reason, that you can only talk about in private. Whatever I'm not trying to be nosey, it's your life...


*Four is just an approximate really as the actual number is still up for debate.

Hands Up For Non-Fiction!?!?!

How not to tell a story - Part 39: The Autobiography

I grew up in a 3 bedroom house on a suburban cul-de-sac, in a quiet neighbourhood on the outskirts of a small city. With a park across the road that connected to a paddock, that contained collections of gorse, grass, short-cuts to bus stops, poplars, old car wrecks, rubbish, tree stumps, (for a time at least) 2 horses (one brown, one white), wasp nests (the insect not the racial grouping), lots of field mice, other assorted nothingness (I don't think it was ever very productive) and a house that some people said was haunted. Because it looked slightly neglected and run down.  A throwback to the rural past of the area, that is not far from market gardens and lifestyle blocks, with huge driveways and nice houses. The paddoch through disuse had retained some features of a time before the post-war developments that rapidly expanded cities. The house was really just owned by a reclusive old shut-in family, that sent their son to a fancy school in town, but never seemed to do anything with the section of land that at one time must of given income to someone. I used to feed apples from the tree in our back yard to the horses in the paddock, when I was very young. I also like eating raw carrots. The end.

Chicken Wrapped In Bacon

Notes To Self:

• Make mix CDs (or tapes or any other format you prefer) for people that would appreciate them!
• Pay Sky bill
• Download more music
• Synthetic cannabinoids can taste really bad
• Moustache Cash Stash would be a great band name Mordecai!
• Die Antwoord, Dirt Nasty, E-Dubble, Spose, Rudimental?
• Miike Snow, C2C, Little people, Mac Lethal
• Flamming Lips, Opossum, Unknown Mortal Orchestra, Phoenix, Phoenix foundation...
• Update music on phone!!!! now now now!
• Build a small structure out of wood and glue, driftwood? Shells? Other beach material?
• Paint again/more
• Read Stuff you dickhead!! GoT!
• Dogmatic
• Pragmatic
• Pedantic
• Romantic
• Lethargic
• Drastic
• Plastic
• Update bremy
• John: Mako Shark
• Dad: Civilian; Coro (crisis?)
• Can Brazil nuts cause pain to past injuries?
• What to do with excess chrystals or chrystlers
• Birds of Chch site
• WHCD Obama vid, pretty funny stuff!
• Is that my own breath I hear?
• Mad mag(s)
• Mum's new address
• Pivot tables of infinite madness
• Daily Show/Colbert
• Do NRL picks
• Is "elimination communication" just taking the piss?
• Hands up who has used a typewriter? Or even worse tippex?
• Top up phone
• Print off some photos (SD card)
• Actuals for Feb onwards
• Transit
• Transfer
• Transmit
• Transact
• Translate
• Transition
• Transport
• Transform
• Transplant
• Transverse
• Transvestite
• Transparent
• Transmission
• Transnational
• Transmundane
• Trans-Tasman
• Transcriptional
• take over the world
• Draw some stuff

Challenge Inappropriate Behaviour

Really??

I think it would take many lifetimes (or at least more than one) to work this all out.

I mean really, it is a lot to take in, too much really. There are just too many people, opinions, artists, histories, ages, religions, etc. to really ever get to the bottom of things.

Doesn't mean we should stop trying to figure things out, to be observant or to seek knowledge.

But just realise that for almost everything 'truth' we learn, there can be a very convincing counter-argument.

So I think I know things and I will promote the knowledge I have or see to be helpful.

But my views are evolving continually, adapting to new things as I go.

I still like most the stuff I have put on here over the last eight years and although I think my perceptions are very different now, I still like my old posts and at least mostly agree with my observations.

Except for angry rants, but there is a time a place for those, as they can be necessary at times.

But probably better to focus thinking on something other than anger, as that inflicts on your own soul, just as much as the things you are against. better to try and keep it funny and not lose ya cool.

Even when you watch the news.

Happy 8th year anniverisary (month) to this blog from itself!

What Can't Vinegar Do?

9 out of 10 boring old house-husbands find the following links exciting and/or things they already knew, but didn't want to advertise or talk to plainly about, because of certain pre-contemporary societal stigmas attached to the recurrent themes of male nurturing and growth of spirit related to sentences that are far too long and lack correct punctuation; possibly badly translated or written by those with English as a second language; or for undefined satirical purposes that parody things that don't exist, in a subversive way that undermines everything you ever held to be true, undisputed and not open for further discussions:

[{Life Hacks}]

[{150 uses for vinegar}]

Which doesn't really directly relate practically in many ways to....

10 Mind-Bending Discoveries In Physics:

Cut and pasted from: {[this site]}



Time Stops at the Speed of Light

Quantum Entanglement

Light is Affected by Gravity

Dark Matter

Our Universe is Rapidly Expanding

All Matter is Just Energy

Wave-Particle Duality

All Objects Fall at the Same Speed

Quantum Foam

The Double Slit Experiment

Just go with it...

More stuff off Wikipedia (just cos)

Mechanical computer

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Hamman Manus R

A mechanical computer is built from mechanical components such as levers and gears, rather than electronic components. The most common examples are adding machines and mechanical counters, which use the turning of gears to increment output displays. More complex examples can carry out multiplication and division, and even differential analysis.

Mechanical computers reached their zenith during World War II, when they formed the basis of complex bombsights including the Norden, as well as the similar devices for ship computations such as the US Torpedo Data Computer or British Admiralty Fire Control Table. In the post-war era, most complex examples were quickly replaced by electronic versions, an evolution that culminated in the 1970s with the introduction of inexpensive handheld electronic calculators.

Noteworthy are mechanical flight instruments for early spacecraft, which provided their computed output not in the form of digits, but through the displacements of indicator surfaces. From Yuri Gagarin's first manned spaceflight until 2002, every manned Soviet and Russian spacecraft Vostok,Voskhod and Soyuz was equipped with a Globus instrument showing the apparent movement of the Earth under the spacecraft through the displacement of a miniature terrestrial globe, plus latitude and longitude indicators.

[edit]Examples

• The Antikythera mechanism, ca. 150 BC
• Stepped Reckoner, 1672 - Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz's mechanical calculator that could add, subtract, multiply, and divide.
• Difference Engine, 1822 – Charles Babbage's mechanical device to calculate polynomials.
• Analytical Engine, 1837 – A later Charles Babbage device that could be said to encapsulate most of the elements of modern computers.
• Kerrison Predictor ("late 1930s" ?)
• Curta calculator, 1948
• Moniac, 1949 – An analog computer used to model or simulate the UK economy.
• Voskhod Spacecraft "Globus" IMP navigation instrument, early 1960s
• Automaton - Mechanical devices that, in some cases, can store data and perform calculations, and perform other complicated tasks.

Documentary hypothesis

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

"JEPD" redirects here. JEPD may also refer to Jointly Exhaustive, Pairwise Disjoint.

Diagram of the Documentary Hypothesis.

*	includes most of Leviticus
†	includes most of Deuteronomy
‡	"Deuteronomic history": Joshua, Judges, 1 & 2 Samuel, 1 & 2 Kings

The documentary hypothesis, (DH) (sometimes called the Wellhausen hypothesis), proposes that the Pentateuch (the first five books of the Bible) was derived from originally independent, parallel and complete narratives, which were subsequently combined into the current form by a series of redactors (editors). The number of these is usually set at four, but this is not an essential part of the hypothesis.

The hypothesis was developed in the 18th and 19th centuries from the attempt to reconcile inconsistencies in the biblical text. By the end of the 19th century it was generally agreed that there were four main sources, combined into their final form by a series of redactors, R. These four sources came to be known as the Yahwist, or Jahwist, J (J being the German equivalent of the English letter Y); the Elohist, E; theDeuteronomist, D, (the name comes from the Book of Deuteronomy, D's contribution to the Torah); and the Priestly Writer, P.^[1]

Julius Wellhausen's contribution was to order these sources chronologically as JEDP, giving them a coherent setting in the evolving religious history of Israel, which he saw as one of ever-increasing priestly power. Wellhausen's formulation was:

• the Yahwist source ( J ) : written c. 950 BC in the southern Kingdom of Judah.
• the Elohist source ( E ) : written c. 850 BC in the northern Kingdom of Israel.
• the Deuteronomist ( D ) : written c. 600 BC in Jerusalem during a period of religious reform.
• the Priestly source ( P ) : written c. 500 BC by Kohanim (Jewish priests) in exile in Babylon.

While the hypothesis has been increasingly challenged by other models in the last part of the 20th century, its terminology and insights continue to provide the framework for modern theories on the origins of the Torah.^[2]

The Room (2003)

welfare = austerity
poverty = austerity
education = austerity
core public services = austerity
no $ to spend

it's just economics sorry

monarchy = affordable
pomp and ceremony = affordable
expensive send off for Thatcher = affordable
we've some $ after all

leave the free market alone

the poor can eat our good intentions
no class warfare, just watch the ads
challenging authority is just politics
goin with the flo is where it's @ kids!

corporations are people

don't listen to your friends your family
unless they are on board for the big win
we can serve you the news you want
about peoples that speak your language
and ignore the places with daily bombings




LSE vs BBC
BRIC vs PIIG

Killer Apps and Mad Hook-ups Yo

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Imagination :

Imagination, also called the faculty of imagining, is the ability to form new images and sensations that are not perceived through sight, hearing, or other senses. Imagination helps make knowledge applicable in solving problems and is fundamental to integrating experience and the learning process^{[1][2][3][1][4]}A basic training for imagination is listening to storytelling (narrative),^[1][5] in which the exactness of the chosen words is the fundamental factor to "evoke worlds".^[6] It is a whole cycle of image formation or any sensation which may be described as "hidden" as it takes place without anyone else's knowledge. A person may imagine according to his mood, it may be good or bad depending on the situation. Some people imagine in a state of tension or gloominess in order to calm themselves. It is accepted as the innate ability and process of inventing partial or complete personal realms within the mind from elements derived from sense perceptions of the shared world.^{[citation needed]} The term is technically used in psychology for the process of reviving in the mind,percepts of objects formerly given in sense perception. Since this use of the term conflicts with that of ordinary language, some psychologists have preferred to describe this process as "imaging" or "imagery" or to speak of it as "reproductive" as opposed to "productive" or "constructive" imagination. Imagined images are seen with the "mind's eye".

Imagination can also be expressed through stories such as fairy tales or fantasies.

Children often use narratives or pretend play in order to exercise their imagination. When children develop fantasy they play at two levels: first, they use role playing to act out what they have developed with their imagination, and at the second level they play again with their make-believe situation by acting as if what they have developed is an actual reality that already exists in narrative myth.^[7]

Spay Sage

Bio-Clock
freqy weather

Innocent Eighties
Nihilistic Nineties

Thoughts become Things
Choose the good ones!

the thrill of falling
the art of landing

Litany of luncheons
Questionable legality

Dying off slowly
Coming back stronger

Glaring contradictions
Juxtaposed contrasts

Getting lost in thought
Don't leave me hanging

Iron legacy
Velvet rope

Roast pork
Apple sauce


Find something you love
and let it kill you

Animal Kingdom

I can think for myself, just sometimes I chose not to...

Cut and paste brigade:

To start things off, we'll play a song that exemplifies the musical style of Saint Etienne which features electronica influences, a subtle use of vocal harmony, extensive vamping, minor key tonality and a vocal-centric aesthetic

Song lyrics:



Miike Snow – Animal


There was a time when my world
was filled with darkness
And I stopped dreaming now
I'm supposed to fill it up with something

In your eyes I see the eyes of somebody
I knew before, long ago
But I'm still trying to make my mind up
Am I free or am I tied up?

I change shapes just to hide in this place
but I'm still, I'm still an animal
Nobody knows it but me when I slip
yeah I slip I'm still an animal

There is a hole and I tried to fill up with money
But it gets bigger to your hopes is always running
In your eyes I see the eyes of somebody
that could be strong

Tell me if I'm wrong
And now I'm pulling your disguise up 
Are you free or are you tied up?

I change shapes just to hide in this place 
But I'm still I'm still an animal
Nobody knows it but me when I slip, 
Yeah I slip, I'm still an animal

Free West Papua

Verbosity Unplugged...


Divide and conquer; Unite and suppress...


Noblesse oblige is a French phrase literally meaning "nobility obliges", a thing of the past?

energy, kilojoules and calories are the same thing

I live. I have a sense of my own identity. I am somebody.

A Game Changer

Reference within a reference...


Nostalgiarama
Free West Papua
...Should Have Been Number One to Me
All You Can Eat
That's What she Said...
Dirty Old Hip Hop (has nothing to do with this pos...
Community Common Unity
Newspaper Taxis
Summer Organ Harvest Fiasco Scandal Nightmare
Chemical Burn After Reading Comprehension
Take More Holidays!!!
I'll Get Back to the Gym Next Week
Omishambles and me
Counter Factual
Pithy Clichés
Freedom Of Screech
It's All Relative
Breakfast Elephants
The Dark Passenger (laa laa laa laa lala lala)
Psychic Traumas
Limited Lifespan
Semantics Vs. Semiotics
Existential Threat
Spirited Debate Hijacked by Trolls?
Snappy Answers to Questionable Stupidity
DIY Dentistry
Yo Mama!
Some Velvet Morning
Resistance, Rebellion, and Death.
God Damn Pinko Liberal Commie Class War
Twist n Shout
Micro Financing (Punk Is Dead)
Good Show Old Boy
The Death of Television (Auto-tuned Reprise)
Pre-existing Conditions
Jon Stewart For President
Birds Flying High, You Know How I feel...
Hyper Transparency
Quartz, Parchment, Shears
Patterns Within Patterns
Knowing Silence Will Speak For Her
I'm Not The Walrus
Right Of Asylum
Free Pussy Riot
Rube Goldberg Machine
Post-Post-Post-Post-Post-Post-Post
Bo Xilai
Provincial Reconstruction Team
Guns or Butter?
Partially Privatised
The End Of History
Critical Thinking
Book Car Service
Exercise. Relaxation. Sleep.
Cosmic Glue
Inappropriate Timing
Editorial Independence
Holiday Panoramas
The Big Questions
100 Years Today
Tango Bravo Lima
Third-party Loophole
Inherited Privilege
Transit of Venus
Seditious Thoughts
Ultimate Insult
Subtle Melodrama
Constant Stimulation
Steampunk
Alan Partridge Ah-haa
Hook Me Up
Honey and Vinegar Realty
Empathy vs. Sympathy vs. Apathy
Social Critic
Capture the Flag
Attention Economy
Purple Monkey Dishwasher
Professor Professorson
Spiritual Transformation
Ribs and Rumps
Ancient History Channel
The Ravenous Hordes
Friendly Fire
Joint At The Hip
Commercially Sensitive
The House of Next Tuesday
Famous For Being Famous
Boomtime
Time/Identity Crisis
Small Arms fire
Unsent Letters
Ultra Mild
Mo' Money Mo' Problems
Please Save Yourself
Sorry For Your Loss
The Mountain of God
Silent Analysis
Constant Conflict
Orchestra In a Brothel
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Difficult Subject Matter

Nostalgiarama

WARNING:

Some events may appear more significant than they actually are

depending on when they occur in your life...

Get a grip bro

The pendulum always swings

Dropping Truth Bombs

Post-Ironic Improvised Nothingness

Adult themes

Blogging for truth is like
fighting for peace is like
screwing for virginity
Or something

...Should Have Been Number One to Me

[{full article}]

Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.

All You Can Eat

Quick question:


These days...

how do parents teach their children about:

• self-control
• self-restraint 
• self-discipline

when these qualities are constantly under attack from advertising...

"culture", modern life in a industrial capitalist driven society

..it must be extremely difficult, I assume...

"Gimme, gimme, GIMME!!"

That's What she Said...

micro:

• smooth glitch
• cast of thousands
• Crispin Glover on Letterman
• 
  

macro:

• official information act
• commercial sensitivity
• manufacturing consent
• 
  

Recently searched net re: above named actor/artist:

The Big Problem ≠ The Solution. The Solution = Let It Be

The United States has it's own propaganda, but it's very effective because people don't realize that it's propaganda. And it's subtle, but it's actually a much stronger propaganda machine than the Nazis had but it's funded in a different way. With the Nazis it was funded by the government, but in the United States, it's funded by corporations and corporations they only want things to happen that will make people want to buy stuff. So whatever that is, then that is considered okay and good, but that doesn't necessarily mean it really serves people's thinking - it can stupefy and make not very good things happen.

Dirty Old Hip Hop (has nothing to do with this post)

The Only Way Is Physics (TOWIP)

Traditional protests
Modern relics

Live conformists
Dead trouble makers

Anarchy rules
Government assistance

Microsoft works
Military intelligence


we should be defined by our potential
not our limitations and all that shit


I wish I could let go more
just go with the flow
but have the flow planned out perfectly...


I'd like to live more fabulously...
but sometimes I'm just surviving.

Community Common Unity

Unrelated rants:

My generation can't buy a house or get higher education without a big phat loan

we can't raise our children on a single income, thanks fucking baby boomers/financial regulators/etc

what's the point of putting more money into catching criminals and policing, if you can't afford to fight the causes of crime, e.g. poverty, neglect, things being fucked up cos of no money for infrastructural repairs and stuff like that, ohhh I forgot private prisons, cha ching!! Better get some shares in those

sorry let the negativity vent out, tell people not to be so extreme!

Newspaper Taxis

Bit of stuff I just saw online the other day...

Who is Mordechai Vanunu?

What is Pine Gap?

What is the Tor Project?

Experience is what you get, when you don’t get what you want…

Half the battle, is in our minds…

Summer Organ Harvest Fiasco Scandal Nightmare

couldn't have said it better myself (unless I really had time and effort to try...)

bios on Pandora internet radio are pretty well written/copied and pasted.

Sorry that content bears no resemblance to title...

 unless you like it that way, in that case, you're welcome!

Chemical Burn After Reading Comprehension

Public displays of neglect-ion
Deflection attention suspension
retention dissension dissection


The known unknowns:

I can't even think of words to describe what I do know and understand properly, let alone what I don't.
But I'm too busy thinking about it all to comment really.

Here comes the chorus...

Take More Holidays!!!

But I don't have the money to pay for them!

Get back to work then.

But I can't work while I travel.

Time for a new job!

But I can't be bothered looking/finding/interviewing and I actually sorta like the job I have.

Well shut up and  win lotto, dick head!

Thanks! Writing aligned to the opposite side of the page.

You're welcome , guy responding  to his inner monologue.

I'll Get Back to the Gym Next Week

Poor Elvis, Michael Jackson, Judy garland and all the amazing/tragic lives that flew to close to the sun/American dream/unfulfilled journey to self-attainment...

I pity/envy them...

Ohhh well, guess it's better than being burnt as a witch/heretic, assassinated or killed for having unique beliefs...

Unrelated quote I heard today (that might just relate a tiny bit):

"Even shit has integrity..."

Omishambles and me

Squatters rights

Offshore accounts

Tracked changes

Imperial leisure

Holiday home

Family pie

Slut nav

Half-time blackout

Zombie apocalypse

Unguarded nether-regions

Counter Factual

Who would win between Neil deGrasse Tyson and  Brian Cox in a music trivia contest?

Who would win between Richard the Third and Shakespeare in a fight?

Who would win between Homer Simpson and Peter Griffin in a game of checkers?

Who would win between John Lennon and Bob Marley in a drinking contest?

Who would win between Mike Tyson and an angry bunch of trolls in a game of scrabble?

Pithy Clichés

Aspire to inspire before you expire!

Do all those nice things you know you should have!!

Freedom Of Screech

" I ain't here to break ya, just see how far it'll bend" - QOTSA

What is integrity?

What is humanity?

Can anyone be corrupted?

Would anyone abuse power if they had it?

How do you know if you're doing the right things?

Will we ever see the side effects of our actions?

Is life about the journey or the destination?

Answers hopefully to be revealed...




My Inbox/facebook/instagram/the outside world:

Spam
advertising
commercial
whore
sell

It's All Relative

What a cheeky thing to say...

mud hats and seagull shoes (the bleak old shop of stuff)

sweat it out, or zip it sweetie!

Breakfast Elephants

real eyes

realise

real lies

I can't control how you read or view this
your interpretation
it's up to you

if 1984 was real, that book would definitely be banned

If there was a god then why would John Lennon die so early
but Madonna linger on for soooooo long

according to the sharp-wits at the Guardian, Bowie should have gone after Ashes to Ashes
but now who is playing god? Not me. I don't even want to die, if its any consolation

might as well get your news straight off twitter, cut out the middle man
if ya wanna know which celebs are preggo at the mo
as we all apparently do
go on admit it

you can go back to your own thoughts for a bit now
sorry for the inconvenience

The Dark Passenger (laa laa laa laa lala lala)

Unfortunately, society/media is so focuses on current witch-hunts dredging the the past or over-reacting, while a new tragedy/atrocity is slipping through the cracks... reactive not proactive, we never understand culture, until after we have experienced. Is each generation just having a party and leaving their kids to clean up the mess? No one individually will admit it, but it seems that collectively we care more about markets than kids, commerce than poverty, success than protection, sorry to say, as it doesn't sound nice, but I think it would be better to have the conversation than just say nothing, we outsourced the mobile low wage jobs to our proletariat overseas, but keep our underclass in the first world, to bombard with lotto, alcohol... and other pollution that increases GDP...




Pros and Cons of being an over-thinker:

never get bored
good company for oneself

over analyse everything
can't control it





"...what the mind can do with itself when confronted with horrors it cannot dismiss and cannot change."




in a world of....

disagreements, denial, delusion, aggression, power hungry control freaks, chaos, arguments, scientific whaling, wild weather, franken-storms, debt, prostitution, bullying, rape, incest, suicide, murder, mental illness, addiction, death by fire, slavery, torture, terror, trench/tribal warfare, collateral damage, friendly fire, mass executions, female circumcision, abortion, euthanasia, vivisection, dismemberment, addiction, hangovers, infant mortality, global warming, explosions, abduction, sexual assault, king rats, Jimmy Saville, Joseph Frizl, Joseph Stalin, Adolph Hitler, Pol Pot, Leopold II, Idi Amin, other serial killers and power abusers, cancer, Ebola  aids, the next super virus, massacres, holocausts, famines, apocalyptic destruction, rampant consumerism, absolute shit, media saturation, novelty academic intellectualism, underground conspiracies, the disintegration and reintegration of the family, human-made catastrophes, and the potentially regenerative nature of human violence. Isn't a little black humour, deflection and deconstruction appropriate?

don't be so negative, it is such a turn off. Wash your mind out and fill it with nonsense...

Psychic Traumas

First World Problemos

Don't you hate it... when you feel like shit and you don't really even know why....

Why do humans continually need to feel part of something larger than themselves...

 I consider myself intelligent and not particularly mentally deluded (but I guess that's debatable), but even I have difficulty separating reality from illusion sometimes. Feelings, rumours, subjectivity, groups, leisure, social interaction is a very complex game. At times I don't know how well I am doing. I am a bit of a perfectionist. I try to focus it, in a good way to help me find faults, that need to be remedied. But it also causes me to see faults more glaringly that shouldn't really worry me, as much as they do. So double-edged sword I guess. But being a perfectionist like that also means that I want everybody to like me (you wouldn't think so from this blog though, haha) so when I am not sure if I am liked or not, I start thinking stupid shit, which attracts paranoia which then leads to more negativity and such crap. So the purpose of writing this bollocks out, was the hope that by defining and attempting to explain these feelings, it might alleviate my inner tensions that stalk me, waiting for me to trip, so they can swoop in and attack en mass. Group mentality of an individual that will lose it in the end. Do we all die alone? But pathetic questions like that, are what cause us to distract ourselves so much in the first place. Like, ya know, all that weird shit that you're not into but other people are.... So all that stuff doesn't seem that relevant or key to "real-life", where "real-people" hang out in "real-communities". But when it comes down to it, humans used to have to struggle for survival. Now a lucky few (relatively speaking) of us don't  have to fight in a literal jungle or hunt food, survive attacks from other predators, etc... so were coming up with a whole lot of other 'crazy' ways to spend our time, like reading, talking, writing, listening to music, but now I'm just explaining the very basic nature of our so-called leisure. Reminds me. I haven't read a Kurt Vonnegut book for a long time...

Limited Lifespan

Nonsense of the week:

(-Attention Span Deficit Fruitcake-)

undefined
well intentioned

cost benefited
sugar coated
spoon fed
watered down
bubble wrapped
hermetically sealed

eco friendly

fair trade

free range

organic

alone


Abbreviations of the day:

• TTP - Taking the Piss
• ADED - All day everyday

Semantics Vs. Semiotics

white noise
pink noise
brown noise
blue noise
red noise


Proof that blogging can be informative and entertaining or neither...


Whats the difference between publicity and advertising?

Some things I do (or don't do) because I am too lazy
Some things I do (or don't do) because I am too busy
is there a difference? there is in motive, but not outcome....

Existential Threat

This Mortal Coil...


cut and pasted from somewhere else: (but of interest to me)


(QUOTE: e.g. from another source)

 New evidence shows that prior to the widespread use of artificial electric lighting, folks went to sleep about two hours after sundown, slept until around midnight, and then woke up for an hour or two before going back to bed and then waking up in the morning with the sunrise.  They effectively enjoyed a “first sleep” and a “second sleep.”

The weird thing is, since the invention and widespread use of artificial electric lighting, we’ve forgotten all about this divided sleep pattern.  We’ve come to think that sleeping through the whole night is normal and natural.

Psychologists and historians now agree that it isn’t.

“For most of evolution we slept a certain way,” sleep psychologist Gregg Jacobs told the BBC this week. “Waking up during the night is part of normal human physiology.”  Jacobs went on to note that waking periods between sleeps constituted times that folks were forced into restful and relaxing activities. He offers that this pattern of sleep / waking relaxation / sleep probably played a large role in helping people to regulate stress naturally.

In his book At Day’s Close: Night in Times Past, historian Roger Ekirch explains that before the onset of electric street lamps, night was universally regarded as a dangerous time to be out and about.  The darkness made the likelihood of calamity for those who chose to venture from their homes much more likely: getting lost, falling into ditches, accidentally starting fires and other mishaps were all common tragedies.    Therefore, people awake between their first and second sleeps were likely to do quiet, relaxing things: lay in bed, pray, meditate on their dreams, talk or make love with their spouse, or write in a journal.

“Today we spend less time doing those things,” Dr Jacobs remarked. “It’s not a coincidence that, in modern life, the number of people who report anxiety, stress, depression, alcoholism and drug abuse has gone up.”

If you’re experiencing anxiety, stress or depression you might experiment with taking your sleep rhythms back to the two-period pattern.  The busy pace of modern life has made it popular to devote less time to resting and more time to work and socializing, but surviving isn’t thriving, and our quick pace of life could be destroying our wellness.

Try limiting your use of electric light and appliances (including televisions and computers) after sundown.  Experiment with going to bed right after dinner at about 8 pm, and set your alarm for midnight.  At midnight, get up and journal, pray, or meditate by candle light.  After two hours, put yourself back to bed and set your alarm for dawn.  Wake up when the sun rises and go about your day.  You’ll get about 8 total hours of sleep, and your body will sync with the same patterns that kept humans happy and healthy for thousands of years before electricity.

(UNQUOTE: back to me again...)

Ok, so I will stop the copy and pastey paste and write some stupid stuff of my own instead, I guess..

It's so good when you wake up in the middle of the night and realise you can go back to sleep for hours!
Or you just wake up and suddenly remember it's your day off! Yus!

Spirited Debate Hijacked by Trolls?

If you've read this this blog before and/or pay attention then you might have worked out I am not American, but I like to keep up with US political discussions, even though it's degenerating faster and faster into finger-pointing, name-calling and utter futility, or was it always like that?


I probably shouldn't do this, but could not resist the urge... to reproduce (cut/paste) other peoples comments without their permission or knowledge, but hopefully they would forgive me in the circumstances...
arhhhh political comment threads the most unsavoury blood sport


(re: recent Pretraeus 'scandal'...)

harp3339 said...
Send a man to an isolated war zone then send a real good looking woman that is attracted to a uniform to spend time with him and act surprised if he reacts normally. I don't get it, democrats defended congressman wiener, president Clinton, Barney and some even tried to defend candidate John Davis and now they attack the general like a mob stoning a woman for infidelity. He didn't lie or deny but did the honorable thing, admitted his mistake and resigned. I hope boy gets girl and they live happily ever after. I assume his wife is no Hilary and kicked him out, which he does deserve.

November 14, 2012 at 12:31 a.m.

blackwater48 said...
PETRAEUS SHOULDN'T RESIGN

The FBI reported that its investigation into the Patraeus affair found no criminal behavior. If that's true, I don't see why he's out of a job. While military code is strict, to accept the CIA post the former 4-star general had to retire from the Army.

If he's qualified we shouldn't let him walk. What he did was dumb but it's not against the law to exhibit poor judgement. Here's a fact: divorce rates are high for troops deployed overseas including commanding officers.

In the meantime we can all eagerly await the next realty show, 'Real Housewives of Tampa Bay,'

November 14, 2012 at 12:52 a.m.



(re: republican party self-reflection/rethinking post-2012 election thumping...)


miraweb said...
Not while there remains one libertarian, one weather system, or one tax return that can be blamed. Never surrender!

November 13, 2012 at 12:02 a.m.


David_Franks said...
Do Republicans even cast reflections?

November 13, 2012 at 12:07 a.m.



AndrewLohr said...
And have liberals nothing to reflect on? Benghazi? Solyndra? The utter failure of the stimulus bill to keep joblessness below 8%? The utter failure of the Constitution to give Congress power to regulate health care? (If it's that great an idea, amend the Constitution.) The benevolence of murdering unborn babies? The hypocrisy of requiring ID for everything but voting? The arrogant pride of putting bureaucrats between doctor and patient? Repent, you makers of disaster. (Please.)

November 13, 2012 at 12:26 a.m.



Rickaroo said...
Self reflection?? Are you kidding me? That's something that only liberal wusses do! Real Amurikans (and we all know that only conservatives are real Amurikans) don't reflect. They shoot first and ask questions later. Or rather, NEVER ask questions.

And they certainly don't apologize! They just shoot, spit, climb on their hosses and giddyup go. Oh yeah, and they wave the flag, thump the Bible, and create wars for the poor to fight in (keeps them grubby takers off welfare and food stamps at least). But self-reflect? Nah. Why self-reflect when you're already the purfekt

Amurikan, right?

November 13, 2012 at 12:42 a.m.


blackwater48 said...
NO APOLOGIES

More than just the title of Romney's autobiography, it's also at the core of republican political strategy. Never apologize and never admit a mistake; just blame the other guy.Andrew just offered a perfect demonstration of that technique. Andy could have said that the GOP has been damaged so badly they even lost the Cuban-Amerian vote in south Florida. He could have said the republican base is shrinking, the complexion of America is changing, and republicans have to have a serious reassessment or they'll go the way of Whigs and Mugwumps. But he didn't. He just blamed democrats over and over again.

When you use real arithmetic, not the math republicans tell themselves to feel better, the numbers should be frightening. But go ahead, blame Rush, blame the media, blame Romney, blame the campaign strategists, blame down ballot candidates, blame whomever and whatever you want.

"The Fault, Dear Brutus, lies not in our stars, but in ourselves."

November 13, 2012 at 1:12 a.m. permalink suggest removal


harp3339 said...
Join Obama and blame Bush, seems to work pretty good.

November 13, 2012 at 3:36 a.m.


ricardo said...
In 2008, the GOP nominated moderate John McCain and lost and got pummelled by Barack Obama. Four years later in 2012, they nominate another moderate Mitt Romney and get hammered again. In 2016, they need to change course and nominate an extremely radical right wingnut.

November 13, 2012 at 5:39 a.m.


timbo said...
Another stupid cartoon. Obama was elected because of minority racism. If he was white Romney would have beat Obama like a government mule. Democrats always play the race card. Minorities have too many cultural problems too be preaching to republicans. A wise thing to do would be to emulate a successful culture. Instead of making excuses.

The sad thing is that the Rino dominated GOP is falling for this crap. The domination of conservatives in 2010 and the failure of two liberal candidates in 8 years doesn't seem enough to convince this idiots that more conservative is the way to go. You can't out liberal and out-pander the democrats.
This advice you are getting from your enemy the democrats is only meant to manipulate republicans. Do you honestly think they are trying help us beat them?

November 13, 2012 at 7:19 a.m.



dude_abides said...
Yes, timbo, yes! Hard right turn! Yank that freaking wheel! That's not a ditch, it's a new way forward, the GOP-HOV lane!

No, wait, bypass the cities completely!
November 13, 2012 at 7:30 a.m.





timbo said...
dude......now that was good advice......thanks

November 13, 2012 at 7:41 a.m.




daytonsdarwin said...
The shattered reflection was the image of religious whack-jobs like Akin, Bachman, Palin, and Mourdock, and the Republican Inquisition "God and Jesus" uber-fundies who scared the bejesus out of otherwise political conservatives and moderates.

Anxious to defend Israel, ready to bomb Iran, can't wait to invade Syria, throw Palestinians and non-Christians out of Jerusalem, and make Old Testament Christianity the law in America.

Killing for the Glory of Gawd and Jebus.

November 13, 2012 at 8:28 a.m.




miraweb said...
A Farewell to the "Southern Strategy"

Republican operatives have used some form of the race-dividing Southern Strategy since Barry Goldwater’s team invented it in the 1960s. That’s nearly 50 years of race baiting aimed at under-educated, white rednecks.

The Southern Strategy tapped into the ludicrous belief that black people are dumber, lazier and more venal than white men. It helped secure victories for Nixon, Reagan, and George Bush Sr. by fomenting the view that white people needed to band together to keep black people from stealing the national cookie jar.

But it fell entirely flat this time. Apparently, you can call the President a Muslim-Socialist-Kenyan-Anti-colonial-Black-Nationalist-Terrorist-food-stamp-lover who worships at the feet of his Southern Baptist, Anarchist Pastor.

But you can no longer expect to be taken seriously by a large proportion of voters when you do.

Columnist Jimmy Zuma

http://www.tucsonsentinel.com/opinion/report/110812_dyingmemes/something-died-election-day/

November 11, 2012 at 1:18 a.m.

Snappy Answers to Questionable Stupidity

When did common courtesy become so uncommon?

What is the point?

Do we really always need one?

Some of my favourite things are pointless...

it is highly subjective though

like most of my topics

and the rest

Some drugs (p.s alcohol, nicotine, caffeine are drugs as well as things that you buy at a dance party... a pharmacist or are given in hospital to anaesthetise or relieve pain) ...make you wanna talk to everyone you ever loved. Others make you feel like you already are...

DIY Dentistry

Random Playlist/mix tape for the day:
(it's all about the order)

'Breezeblocks' - Alt-J
'Bang Bang Bang' - Mark Ronson & The Business Intl
'Simple Song' - The Shins
'Transdermal Celebration' -Ween
'Trembling Hands' -The Temper Trap
'Five Seconds' - Twin Shadow
'Tesselate' -Alt-J
'The Puritan' - Blur
'212' -Azealia Banks
'Hold the Line' - Major Lazer
'Trick Me' - Kelis
'Ghosts' - he Presets
'Saint Etienne' - Language Lab



p.s don't get too deep into MMO games or you might find you have less time to spend on other matters...
got a new job though and so far it's pretty sweet, could just be the honeymoon phase, but I'm hoping not, I can definitely say it is an improvement on the last one, that was shitty as... but I did it for roughly seven years, so I guess I can't moan too much, but during that time I spent four months in South East Asia, survived several massive earthquakes and a car crash, had two nervous breakdowns and got a whole new perceptive on everything, but those are other stories for other venues of other lifetimes of other dimensions, of not wanting to tell anyone that there is no way they can actually prove this life is real, but don't want people to use that as an excuse to not give a fuck, cos it seems pretty real and the consequences of what we do later on are real as fuck... religion is a good starting point for looking at the world but you have to combine compassion and charity with a broad knowledge of the worlds of science, academia, the arts and not close your mind to new ideas, but really challenge every thought, prophecy, prediction, method, stereotype, excuse, pretext, if it doesn't work after careful thought, reject it and keep moving forward, expose all actions to scrutiny, if a pattern or habit is good, then keep it, if not then you should really not.... but it's a bit of a balancing act really.. so just take on board what I've said, but mix it with other things you know to be true and then look for the next way we can improve things, without hurting what we've got.. remembering our brains are full of chemicals before we even start putting more in there...