Stay Alive Or Die Trying

We need to validate your existing perceptions...

My tears taste like sadness mixed with love.

Remain in charge...

Back In the Day (Pointless Nostalgia Alert)

10 years is a long time in terms of the internet...

But it's fuck all in the scheme of things...




Wednesday, May 18, 2005

The Meaning Of Life...

Why are we here? Where else would we be?
Why do we come up with questions that have no agreed upon explanation? Because we're curious, bored or Trying to avoid thoughts about something worse like, responsibilities we don't want. Our impending deaths or just the general destruction our species is inflicting upon the planet. 

(Woh thats a bit heavy ain't it? Better go watch TV so we don't have to think about that!)

Or are we more worried that our questions have no answers or that we will never learn the answer in our lifetime (what's next?).

What is gonna happen to us when our heart no longer pumps, our brain no longer thinks and we generally start to lose our accumulated molecules? Well no one really knows, so all we can do is argue over who has the best theory. Every pursuit of knowledge (or just answers) be it religion, science or any other attempt to explain what we are and why we're doing it. But what most of these approaches forget is that, no one knows! There is no monopoly on the truth. We can't predict the future. We don't even all agree on what has happened in the past. So what we should be doing is listening, thinking and quietly try to figure out whats going on as we wander through this giant maze, searching for the cheese. 

So this blog if I keep adding to it will explore aspects of whatever I am currently interested in, while putting it in the context of my thoughts about life, love and the universe.
So its just a big load of bollocks!! Refreshing though isn't it???

Tough Love {Cruel to be Kind?}

When you love somebody and bite your tongue all you get is a mouthful of blood

"When U Love Somebody" - By Fruit Bat

Discuss:

Going Up For Fake

Too many people these days think that how they look is who they are, it's more a representative snapshot of current innovations, which are continually changing and evolving... unless you are comfortable enough to not give a shit, either cos your way too cool or way too uncool. No but seriously it's just clothes and shit FFS.

But glad you're making an effort.

Unintended Subtext and Over use of Irony

Internet: (that includes you twitter)
Can you...?
Stop getting so angry about everything and abusing people you don't know.

Especially if the reason for your rant is to protest bullying, which you're now doing.

Call off the lynch mob and just stop telling people to fuck off and die!!
Even though I have trouble not doing the exact same!
and some of these vermin need to go down a peg or two.

But it's funnier if you don't tell them to die or threaten rape/death.
So I guess that a bit of a line there not to cross, if you couldn't make it out. Fo yo self.

We (pretty much) all have opinions, some of them strong, and I'm not trying to stop people expressing these, but there's still a limit to how awful you can be.
So stop going straight for the nastiest nastiness,
If yoou can...
Plzz!

Buffer Capacity and Contingency Plans

Are Important.

Meaningless buzzwords like:
The Ninja-Guru-Rockstar going forward.

The Alpha and Omega:
One and the same. Everything.

Built-up hierarchies:
 of entrenched discrimination:
   and incumbency...
School-to Prison/Prism Pipeline

Write a short story about a fictional future where climate change talks have turned nasty. And some countries effected by global warming/extreme weather have gone to war to attack polluters. A shadow cold war is developing into a full on grudge match. Along the old battle lines. Strange alliances form to defeat shared enemies. East vs West. Old vs New...
(dystopias rule!)

Trying to think outside the square...

Like, uh, this is your lucky day, see
I will uh like, you know, fill you in how come
Suppose you like didn't, uuuh
Run up to a couple of sweet guy like us."
"Heavens no!"
"Oh yeah well we wouldn't want that to happen."
"So I tell you what we're gonna do."
"Oh let's just dispense with formalities
And uh, get down to like business.



Verbal Animé - The Herbaliser

Box n Whisker Graphs

Aesop Rock -  Nine To Fivers Anthem


Zoom in to the fuming of an aggravated breed
Via the study of post-adolescent agitated seeds
Half the patients wasted self prior to Commencement
So I focus on the urban Oxygen samples, the half that made it breathe
They sold Pompeii impression, waste infections
And twelve steps to lesson
Cretins swiftly tippy toe on hard to swallow, barter concepts
The give-it get-it, never let it self passport our stubbornness
Martyrs talks money causes in a harvesting Spartacus
And so on I've thrown long Hail Mary bombs
Toward cookie-cutter Mother Natures bedazzled synthetic fabrics
Life treats the peasants like
They tried to fuck his woman while he slept inside
Well they're merely chasing perfectionist emblems
When the clock strikes nine
I'll be waking with the best of routine caffeine team players
For the cycle of it
Under a dusted angel heart string Big Brother is watching
My odometer like buzzard to fallen elk, talking stealth
We got babies, rubber stamps, and briefcase parts
We on some door-to-door now
Order ten dollars or more, we'll shove it down your throat for free
I'll sacrifice my inborn tendencies
For copper pennies for one commanding "Gimme that"
So we can retain baby fat
Make the biter snake bedlam
Holocaust freak, heckle shiesty brain headroom shaped planet
Make a move, pause, make a move break cannon
Bent barrel one eight zero, you'll turn, squeeze, ending
It's on like it's never been
It's bleeding well
It's bigger than a breadbox
It corrodes my leaky finance
I'll take my seat atop the Brooklyn Bridge
With a Coke and a bag of chips
To watch a thousand lemmings plummet just because
The first one slipped
Sometimes I laugh at victory, kissing these little question marks
I tend to underestimate my average
Just another bastard savage
Someday you'll all eat out of my cold hand
Cuz every dog has its day
At which point, I'll pull it away

[Hook]
Now we the American working population
Hate the fact that eight hours a day
Is wasted on chasing the dream of someone that isn't us
And we may not hate our jobs
But we hate jobs in general
That don't have to do with fighting our own causes
We the American working population
Hate the nine-to-five day-in day-out
When we'd rather be supporting ourselves
By being paid to perfect the pastimes
That we have harbored based solely on the fact
That it makes us smile if it sounds dope

[Verse 2]
It's the year of the silkworm
Everything I built burned yesterday
Let's display the purpose that these stilts serve
Elevate the spreading of the silk germ
Trying to weave a web but all that I believe in is dead
Nah brother, it's the year of the jackal
Saddle up on high horse
My torch forced Polaris embarrassed
Shackle up the hassle by the dooming legend marriage
I bought some new sneakers
I just hope my legacy matches
It's the year of the landshark
Dry as sand, parched, damn get these men some water
They're out there being slaughtered
In meaningless wars so you don't have to bother
And can sit and soak the idiotbox trying to fuck their daughters
Man it's the year of the Orphan
Seated adjacent to the firefly circling the torches on your porches
Trying to guard the fortress of a king they've never seen or met
But all are trained to murder at the first sign of a threat
Maybe it's the year of the waterbug
Cockroach utter thug specimen
Fury spawned from dreaming of your next of kin
I'm still dealing with this mess I'm in
I've been the object of your ridicule
You've been a bitch lieutenant
God, it's the year of the underpaid employee
Spittin' forty plus a week
And tryin' to rape Earth on my off time
You bored dizzy, I can't keep myself busy enough
So you can run run run
And I'mma let you think you won
EVERYBODY!

[Hook]
We the American working population
Hate the fact that eight hours a day
Is wasted on chasing the dream of someone that isn't us
And we may not hate our jobs
But we hate jobs in general
That don't have to do with fighting our own causes
We the American working population
Hate the nine to five day-in day-out
But we'd rather be supporting ourselves
By being paid to perfect the pastimes
That we have harbored based solely on the fact
That it makes us smile if it sounds dope

[Outro]
Fumble outta bed and stumble to the kitchen
Pour myself a cup of ambition and
Yawn and stretch and my life is a mess and
If I never make it home today, God bless
Fumble outta bed and stumble to the kitchen
Pour myself a cup of ambition and
Yawn and stretch and my life is a mess and
If I never make it home today, God bless






Could just delete the word "American" from the above though...


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3tZtish6RPU

Better Titles For This Blog

Didn't Ask For Your Opinion

Focused on the Trivial

It All Depends On Everything

Times I Didn't Do Stuff

My Bloggy Shit in Time

Damaged by Existence

Altered by Measurement

Emboldened by Knowledge

Hardened by Experience

Toughened by Stuff

The Best Bits Don't Exist

Why Did I Bother

Words in Certain Orders

Lies, Truth and the Rest

I Hate Authority But I work for Them

Things by Me

Side Twaddle

Regrets say more about our present than our past...


10 years eh... (almost)

Too True To Be Good

Too this to be that

Too lurid to be punctual

Too loud to be classy

Too cultural to be austere

Too right to be left

Too eclectic to be controversial

Too Scotch to be Irish

Too long to be short

Too whatever to be epic

Too internet to be serious

Too hygienic to be ridiculed

Too bizarre to be interesting

Too sporadic to prolific

Too formulaic to be original

Too general to be specific

Too unknown to be mainstream

Too high to be underground

Fashionably Late

Lab Technician at Airport: This is real shit. This coke is pure shit.

Ray Hughes: It's good shit, right?

Lab Technician at Airport: I mean bad shit.

Ray Hughes: Bad shit like, "this shit is bad?"

Lab Technician at Airport: It's shit shit. This shit isn't worth shit. There's barely enough coke in here to attract the dogs. Anybody caught on the street with this would get killed.

Running Scared (1986) Quotes - http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0091875/quotes?item=qt0401732

New Tab

this is it*





*til later







(I love you)







probs

Breaking Barriers Over Minorities Heads

...while fleecing their wallets with lotteries and liquor yo!


It's hard to build an empire, when your just fighting to keep what you have...


NOne of it makes sense...
except the parts that aren't meant to

Remember The Intrinsic

...write down the rest.

pre-learned condition(ed)

Basic Courtesy

...goes a long way.

All Beauty Must Die

Disillusionment:

when the majority of people in your nation vote for people you can clearly see are crooks

when you have to just stop caring otherwise you'll go down with everyone

Pre-existing Conditions

It's either witch-hunts or victim-blaming, there is no middle ground...

cos the people that are listening aren't talking and the people talking aren't listening...

or we're all just a bunch of fucktards...

take your pick...

and a shovel

Save. Delete. Next.

We are nothing more than what we choose to reveal...

Time for some photos I guess? Why not...

Right they're out there now, deal with it!

Plausible Deniability

Sorry to both readers of this blog... I've not been on here lately unfortunately...

Got a bit sucked into twitter somehow instead (@yossarian25) and tried to get involved in the discussions (see occasionally funny hurled abuse and outrage) about #nzpol and other such topical thing-a-me-bobs and such...

I wanted to gain a following on the twitface.  But it seems that to gain traction and get noticed you not only need to be quick and sharp of wit, but also fairly prolific and focused on what twitter is doing... It's weird how you can basically tune into it and see all these flurries of debate and conflict that sometimes echo or spill over into mainstream discourse, but you have to watch very hard to keep up and as soon as you leave the conversation or stop paying attention: it's like you've been removed from the matrix and you just can't see all those voices and opinions flying around...

 I have to admit I like twitter at times, especially say around the time of big events, breaking news, elections, etc... but it demands too much attention to watch it all the time. Maybe if my job was writing this blog and not just a hobby I use to occasionally vent or reminisce, I would be able to weave it into my everyday routine a bit more, but work has been crazy busy just of late (so it goes) and I have been going back to the gym again, whilst trying to beat my girlfriend (that sounds wrong, until you read the rest of the sentence) in the now antique real-time strategy command and conquer: Generals: Zero Hour (circa. 2003) (but she's getting too good!) and get through season two of house of cards and all the other TV I try to fit in (daily show, regular show, the job lot, news, et al) as well as like you know see my friends, so get off my fucking back already for fucks sake! JOKING! Joking, that was just being silly... but yeah so you now know my life story (or you can piece it together from the other 630 odd posts I have put up previously over the last 10 years)...

 ohhh and I got some wireless bluetooth headphones and a bluetooth MP3 player, but I end up just using pandora on my phone most of the time. Oh and I won on bonus bonds too, that must be on the kiwiana bucket list for sure... Ohhh and trying to invent a few hashtags an get them to catch on and for some reason watching random old shit on youtube ffs...

That last sentence would have fitted in much better with the rest of the twit-palava above, such is life. So yeah I don't exactly manage my time well, I have fun though, and don't hurt anyone.

Random fact: bought a hacky sack the other day.

Bread for the Birds

Ok just a few links to things...
if you're not looking for that right now,
maybe try another post?
but anyway here are some things to click on:


http://instagram.com/satiregram

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

http://www.thisiscolossal.com/2013/09/mr-thoms-street-art/

http://www.thoms.it/index.php

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qcWRPIRxn2E

http://neetflux.tumblr.com/

Exception Reports

when I was a kid
lies were fibs
lunch was pies
farts were fluffs
chips were fries
sounds were tapes
good tv was on late
my heroes weren't fake

Siege Mentality

Temperament:________________________

Personality:________________________

Intellect:________________________

All of that.

Suboptimal Lifestyle Practices

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Look & feel

Drag & drop

Cut & paste

Stand & deliver

Shop & go

Fish & chips

Cash & carry

Set & forget

Love & leave

Hot & heavy

Name & shame

Off & on

Rise & shine

Wash & wear

Heat & eat

Break & enter

Lift & shift

Tax & spend

Search & destroy

Down & out

Blame & denial

War & peace

Bump & Grind
Crackle & Pop
Serve & Protect
Wither & Die

Rape & pillage

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By All Means Necessary

Group Soup Troop

Lymph Node Squad

Wed Croats Society

Low Dependency Unit

Project Support Posse

Forgotten Peoples Party

Sequential Patrol Group

Strategic Justice League

Inherently Unequal System

Unlimited Control Committee

Historical Justification Patrol

Corrupt Forication Organisation

Gullible Population Association 

Unauthorised Maneuver Brigade

Meteorological Catastrophe Club

Legitimate Businessmen's Institute



Who killed 2pac and biggie? Same people that took out Fred Hampton?

You're Favourite Colour Red...

Ok I don't usually like apologies, giving or receiving, but I am quite sorry.
Sorry that the images I'm about to post may have already been posted
by myself on an earlier date... possibly, maybe, probably...
I just hadn't seen them in a while and am a bit too lazy to go back
to make sure that they haven't already been, but who gives a flying fortress?

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We'll call it greatest hits or some other excuse to recycle old shizz:

Tell me, who is to blame?

Pretty much all of us.

I get a bit angry about nothing sometimes, well not nothing
but just nothing I can control, like all the injustice in the world
(apologies for sounding extra emo on the line above)

I still can't decide whether there are elite conspiracies to fleece the poor
or if it's just an unfortunate bag-o-shight but no one really planned it.

I'd like to blame god or the people in charge of state and government
but I don't actually think anyone really wanted it to get as bad as it is...

I turn lots of things into games...

I enjoy life a lot more than I make it sound, cos without getting overly narcissistic I do think I am a good person, and I usually don't let myself get bored...

people probably think or assume I am a boring person, but if you can't entertain yourself aren't you the boring one?

Street Art Is Free Art (and so is stuff posted on the interwebs)

2 old things and 1 new thing:

gif muncher

time portals 

quasi-logos

#whatever

Virtual Clickbait

Gurrrl! Don't treat me like furniture
cos yo curvature
makes me perv at ya!!



They expect you to reject me
until my project to infect you
with logic targeted respect like
through logical progression hype
naturally selected resurrected disaffected
regretting the collection of defects elected

direct your wrecked neck to inspect
the deck to connect perfect content
dissected selectively expressly
to find exceptions connections
connections cause and effect
neglected affections sense
correct descent cents
dissent




I don't expect you to accept me
except if you respect me
my concept isn't tempting
define me to extract me
the perfect precept to reflect
connect and reject our defects
all-g spec what da heck

"I like baking, happiness and giving..." (Mostly On Tuesdays)

just typing random words

to make you think randon thoughts


extrajudicial execution

utopian socialism


The present has beginning/history/context/precautions/memory/


I don't overstand...

Our convenience is worth the suffering of others??


Easy to learn, Impossible to master

Do oppressed sub-groups always have to fight it out amongst themselves to confirm which sect is more genuine(ly f*&ked), like rats in a barrel or is it crabs?

Isn't it weird that the first name of the new Prez of Ukraine is Petro? When they have so many issues with Russia and the petrochemicals gas petrogas petroleum oil gazprom pipelines extortion, I mean negotiation.

Seems that the followers of Sonny and Cher have split into opposing groups over a thousand years ago, which are causing many violent clashes currently in the Middle-East.

Better to have it and not need it, rather than to need it and not have it.

F%#Kface Von Clownstick builds ostentatious buildings with his name on the side.




 

Sweatpants 3005 etc.

Gidday! It's me again back with some peripheral nonsense or a list of stuff and things, ya know?

The Premise:

Don't watch television!


But if you do, watch these:

• Housos
• Brickleberry
• Hello Ladies
• House of Cards
• This Week Tonight
• Game of Thrones
• The Daily Show
• Parks & Rec
• Blackadder
• Rake

Or maybe I have lately and that's the point I'm trying to make?

Why don't my post titles ever have much relevance to the actual post?

Don't bother trying to come up with possible answers in the below comments...

Unnecessary Provocation(s)

Hi, how are you?


I'm fine, well I'm not really but overall I pretty much am... anyway I have been listening to lots of music as usual, but unlike recent usuals I have been getting back into hip hop and related type stuff, not sure where it all started from again, but was looking up lyrics on rapgenius and one song or album would sorta lead on to another... and I've also chucked in a few old ones that I just redownloaded cos I didn't seem to have them on my lap top and the old CDs that Tim mass-pirated are almost 15 years old, so not up much if I could even find their scratched-up spooled asses...


Recent listenings or downloads (I mean purchases...):


Albums:

Kendrick Lamar - Good Kid M.A.A.D City
Nas - Illmatic + Life Is Good + Hip Hop Is Dead
Tyler, The Creator - Wolf
Eminem - The Marshall Mathers LP
Blackalicious - Nia + Blazing Arrow
RJD2 - Deadringer + Since We Last Spoke
De La Soul - 3 Feet High and Rising + AOI 1 + 2



Singles:

Got a Girl - Did We Live Too Fast
J5 - The Way We Do It
Nas - Ether + Last Real Nigga Alive
Big Sean (feat. et al) - Control*
A$AP Rocky (feat. et al) - F**kin' Problems*





*not my usual jam as quite commercial/mainstream... which I'll get sick of quick, but for a wee thrill...








Oh I finished all of the books by the way, he needs to get writing on the last 2 asap!

• Who is Jon Snow's Mum?
• What happened at Summerhall?

How to Start an Argument...

My opinions on drugs and abortions are kind of the same...

they may not be for everybody, of course no body should be forced into them through peer pressure or otherwise, but if someone really, really wants them or believes they need them, why should they be stopped from having it because of the opinions of others, who have nothing to do with them

I may get firebombed in my pyjamas for saying this, but pro-lifer's only seem to give a shit about a foetus till it's born and then they don't seem to give a fuck about poverty or alive kids suffering.

It is a complex issue, but how far can you take it?
alive at fertilization...?
every sperm is sacred? Jizzy...
words are wind
but basically it's her decision, not mine or yours
but hey I'm sure some old book purportedly from a few thousand years ago, would be far more relevant to base your modern day opinions on...

Drone Strikes

Back on that cut and paste fiasco drama maintenance scam again errybody...

If you wanted originality, hit up one of these other fine posts kicking around yonder

There are many and more, telling you little and less...

--Try to spot the commodore 64/128 reference)

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"Is it a crime to live inside every emotion"

"Asleep at the wheel of fortune"

 -Phoenix Foundation - Flock of Hearts

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"War has made states and states have made peace, but not all states have made peace equally well. Democracies are messy, but rarely devour their children; dictators get things done, but they shoot, gas and starve a lot of people along the way. When the good guys win, things get safer more quickly than when the bad guys win, but the bad guys don't stay in charge very long unless they move their societies in the same direction."

-Taken from an interview with Ian Morris (Author of 'War: What is it good for?') in the NZ Listener dated April/May 2014-

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Gangsta quote of the week:

“Things may come to those who wait, but only the things left by those who hustle.”

― Abraham Lincoln (or not as the case may be)

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The 'Ravings' of Gary Busey:

OMG he is so crazy that he makes perfect sense!!

You know what 'FEAR' stands for? It stands for 'False Evidence Appearing Real.' It's the darkroom where Satan develops his negatives.

You know what 'FAILING' stands for? It stands for 'Finding An Important Lesson, Inviting Needed Growth.'

You know what 'SOBER' stands for? It stands for 'Son Of a B****, Everything's Real!'

You know what 'DOUBT' stands for? It stands for 'Debate On Understanding Bewildersome Thoughts.'

You know what 'ROMANCE' stands for? It stands for 'Relying On Magnificent And Necessary Compatible Energy.'

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commercial imperative

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waiting for nothing

mining the drama

filling the void

rating

Mansion Listening Parties

Been listening to quite a bit of random (stand-up) comedy lately
came across some new people I hadn't heard of as well as
some that I had heard of before for their stand-up or acting roles
some that I didn't realise were as funny as they really are
so here is a list of people I have recently found funny
and recommend seeking out their funniness:

David Cross

Donald Glover

Louis CK

George Carlin

Hannibal Buress

Mitch Hedberg

John Mulaney

Aziz Ansari

Bill Burr

Patton Oswalt

Greg Giraldo

Matt Braunger

Bill Hicks

Mike Birbiglia

Lewis Black

Jo Koy

Demetri Martin

Baron Vaughn

Wyatt Cenac

Kumail Nanjiani

Paintings I Done Did

Straight Illin' Yo

"Are you gonna finish that hover sandwich?"




Deltron 3030 - Event II




"Get a job! Robot."

Codes Tables

Not Only... But Also

Pete and Dud

Corpsing

Stefon

Interest Creep

It Was Predicted On a Seinfeld Episode

What's the easiest language to rap in? As in has the most rhyming words?


New subject:
Member the good old days when Kosovo tried to break away from Serbia and the Russians were all like "Small wee places shouldn't be doing that kind of breakaway shit!"

Completely different:
Then in Georgia, South Ossetia and Abkhazia were all like we'll join you, and the Russians were all like breakaway from that shit!"

Crimea river, Putin/Putout...

But I couldn't just clitocise Russia without doing the same to other big powers.
They are all self-interested to the point of aggrression>!<>!gggrrrrIUG I!!111!

The only event that could capture the attn of the whole planet (humans and sentient beings capable of abstract thought) would be the apocalypse. Or pain to ourselves.


<<<<
"The great nations have always acted like gangsters, and the small nations like prostitutes..."
~Stanley Kubrick ~
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Cut and Paste Brigade Rides Again!

[thought this was interesting enough to pillage and display here, as I think sometimes about what will be when I am gone. And I sometimes think of this blog as a bit of a record of what I thought and that it'll live on beyond me, as a portfolio of me online and stuff :] Digital immortality in an online age Wednesday, 5 March 2014, 12:27 pm Press Release: Massey University

March 4, 2014

Digital immortality in an online age

What happens to your online photos, videos and texts when you die? And will a digital archive of your life help or hinder historians and your descendants as they delve into life in the 21st century?

Digital immortality describes the online digital archive of writing, photos, videos and blogs that outlive the content’s creator/user.

It’s a topic that has fascinated Associate Professor Pete Seel, who is visiting Massey University’s Albany campus from his base at Colorado State University. He is currently in New Zealand researching a book on the topic, to be published in 2015.

Hosted by the School of English and Media studies, Dr Seel will be presenting a lecture on digital immortality to students and the public in the Sir Neil Waters Lecture Theatres at the Albany campus on March 11 at 1pm.

The relatively new development of digital technology and the proliferation of social media sites like Facebook, Twitter and Instagram means people are accumulating online archives which could become permanent historical records of their lives, says Dr Seel. If the user’s descendants agree to keep that content online after their death it could serve as an ongoing memorial and resource for historians, genealogists and the descendants themselves.

“Humans have sought immortality since the dawn of homo sapien consciousness, and it has been a driving force for civilization,” he says. “Today we can achieve a form of cultural immortality, dependent on power supply and digital storage, that is an aggregation of a lifetime of posted online text, photos, and now video. Could the day come when we will be able to upload our consciousness? If so, what are the implications for society if this occurs?”

Although embarrassing photos posted online may appear to live on forever, social media archives can be manipulated by users – something Dr Seel will also address in the lecture.

“If we teach our students that ‘the Internet never forgets’ as they post personal images and text online, should we also ethically teach them how to make the Internet ‘forget’?” he says.

Dr Seel was a photojournalist, and television producer-director for ten years in the US and now researches telecommunications, new media technologies, digital television, and documentary history and production in the Department of Journalism and Technical Communication at Colorado State University.

His book, Digital Universe, was published by Wiley-Blackwell in 2012.

The lecture starts at 1pm in the Sir Neil Waters Lecture Theatre 100.

For more information on upcoming lectures and events, go to the website:http://www.massey.ac.nz/massey/student-life/about-our-campuses/albany-campus/campus-events/campus-events_home.cfm

Taken from:

http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/ED1403/S00023/digital-immortality-in-an-online-age.htm

Unrelated Bottom of Post Query: Should I do a post about Derek and Clive?