non-link spam

First time I've ever knowingly encountered spam in an apparently
pure form; I'm putting this up here like a first dollar bill behind the
counter.

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-- http://truthinnumbersthemovie.com/foro/viewtopic.php?f=7&t=193&sid=8262bcc042ac518288f0616b2185c970

The "pedantic risk"

"The assumption of 'intellectualism' goes contrary to the facts of
what is primarily experienced. For things are objects to be treated,
used, acted upon and with, enjoyed and endured, even more than things
to be known. They are things HAD before they are things cognized...the
isolation of traits characteristic of objects known, and then defined
as the sole ultimate realities, accounts for the denial to nature of
the characters which make things lovable and contemptible, beautiful
and ugly, adorable and awful. It accounts for the belief that nature
is an indifferent, dead mechanism; it explains why characteristics
that are the valuable and valued traits of objects in actual
experience are thought to create a fundamentally troublesome
philosophical problem." -- John Dewey in "Experience and Nature",
quoted in "Enacting silence: Residual categories as a challenge for
ethics, information systems, and communication" by Susan Leigh Star
and Geoffrey C. Bowker.

learn to draw

you <expletive deleted>

destroy

"By the way, if someone were to get violently bored and decide to make
a CD that isolated the sounds of Glenn Gould's humming along to his
piano playing and just recorded that, I would buy it. The humming
ones, played on headphones, are some of my favorite parts." --
http://www.bookslut.com/blog/archives/2009_12.php#015521

"Everything in nature vibrates at a certain frequency. When an object
is vibrated at its natural resonance, it begins to undergo severe
shock, as it tries to shake itself apart. It would be ludicrous to
imagine that a tiny oscillator could by itself bring down a building,
if not for the principle of resonance. Like a child on a swing, only a
very small force is required to maintain a fairly large reciprocating
motion. A major vibration could be established in a house by
coinciding each stroke of the piston with the return of the individual
vibrations through the building to where the oscillator is. Every time
the piston hits, it magnifies the force a little more. At frequencies
of 1000Hz, the force build-up can be very appreciable! The frequency
of resonance is linked to the time it takes for the vibrations to
spread out through the building, reverberate, and the "echoes" to
return to the oscillator again. By finding the correct frequency, ANY
structure can be destroyed. In fact, the larger it is, the lower the
resonant frequency is, so the easier it is to destroy. Tesla once
joked that he could split the Earth with one of these devices, and
no-one ever knew if he was joking...................."
--http://www.angelfire.com/scifi/EclipseLab/Tesla/Oscillator.html

it adds up

Celebrating over a thousand postings in google groups since 2006:
http://groups.google.com/groups/profile?enc_user=JP69ABcAAAB1eD6iNAFENfVIrzauVqeaHqZiDvCVswhrZ6TQxKj0ww
(thanks to John McLear for generally pointing this out to me, and
demonstrating the use of these google group profiles for social
networking).

Moral of the story... well, I'm not sure; it's a lot mileage on the fingers
for one thing. I guess my question is whether I can or will pick up the
pace in the coming lustrum. My *guess* is yes, but what does/will
that mean?

* Trying to be social
* Trying to organize things
* Trying to get code to compile...
* Enjoying the act of writing and/or listening to myself talk

Of course, this sort of engagement doesn't "count" (who's counting?)
but my guess is that in another way, it counts more than one might think.
Besides, it keeps me from annoying my friends with a continual onslaught of
annoying email (ha ha, yeah right -- really, you guys are too forgiving!).
In this world in which "there's an app for that", I wonder if people will
still remember that "IT'S USENET OUT THERE"

(http://identi.ca/conversation/24182189).

the great thing about disappointment is...

I was thinking that maybe every disappointment or
anxiety has a semi-secret positive value. (E.g.
feeling unwanted? -- maybe what I really want is
an excuse to spend time by myself...)

It's certainly a humorous exercise to look at
each "unhappy" thought and think of what could
be cool about it. Not necessarily an exercise
to be conducted on an empty stomach however.

you'll be lost and never found

when they say "the old writer had reached the end of words, the end of
what could be done with words", (http://www.blank.org/memory/) what
are they really talking about? ...

I remember when I used to think Tom Waits's music just sounded like a
soundtrack for slutty calisthenics. Things have gotten better since
then. Or so I'd like to imagine... Mister Tagomi.

"When it came to close down the novel, the I Ching had no more to say.
So, there's no real ending on it. I like to regard it as an open
ending." --PKD

Irony of ironies... losing phantasms. Without proper guidance or
restraint, practitioners were observed to lose touch with reality.
DSM-IV includes the diagnostic category "qi-gong psychotic reaction"
in its "Glossary of culture-bound syndromes". It is described as: "A
term describing an acute, time-limited episode characterized by
disassociative, paranoid or other psychotic or non-psychotic symptoms
that may occur after participation in the Chinese folk
health-enhancing practice of qigong. Especially vulnerable are
individuals who become overly involved in the practice.

abstract/love

This paper discusses the ego functioning and self psychological
aspects of falling in love and passionate love. These universal and
extraordinary phenomena are conceptualized as representing the
activity of the creative imagination in solving problems related to
coping with intense narcissistic and libidinal pressures. The work of
other authors is reviewed and recast into a metapsychological
framework involving ego and superego contributions to the experience,
and focused on self cohesion. An illustrative clinical psychotherapy
case is presented in an effort to understand what has traditionally
appeared to be a mysterious and disjunctive life experience, and to
explore the creative surge that can be generated by falling in love
both in and out of the transference. --Chessick, R.D. (1992). On
Falling in Love and Creativity. J. Amer. Acad. Psychoanal.,
20:347-373.

Donatien Quincampoix

Best known for his imagistic portrayals of predatory
sexuality in village life, the impact of Donatien
Quincampoix's background as a sausage-maker is
often ignored by contemporary scholars..

step away from the computer

after watching a million instructional videos on youtube this morning,
I still have no idea what to say (maybe it's better just to enjoy the
silence, after all, I don't always need to get the last word in). But
as someone else said in some online forum "life's to short to waste
another second of it". Which might translate to: time for a cup of
green tea and/or lunch, preferably something fried. it's a good thing
I have a pocket watch, or I wouldn't know what time it is.

i exist!

bielefeld conspiracy: bielefeld doesn't exist
general conspiracy: XYZ threatens my existence

why i am so stupid

"'Cause I used to live
In a fuzzy dream
And I wanted to be
Like all the pretty people" -- Madonna

cf.

The happiness of my existence,
its unique character perhaps,
lies in its fatefulness:
expressing it in the form of a riddle,
as my own father I am already dead,
as my own mother I still live and, grow old.
[...]
I am gifted with an utterly uncanny instinct of cleanliness;
so that I can ascertain physiologically
that is to say, smell
the proximity, I may say, the inmost core,
the "entrails" of every human soul.

-- http://users.compaqnet.be/cn127103/Nietzsche_ecce_homo/eh1.html

she's just not that into you... in fact, she doesn't even know your name

Ryan Dodge, 26, admits that when it comes to reading women's signals,
he sometimes strikes out. "I think a girl on the subway is checking me
out," he says, "but then I realize she's watching the guy next to me
while he's stealing my wallet or something." --
http://edition.cnn.com/2008/LIVING/personal/07/10/shes.not.that.into.you/index.html

lol

what i never understood was...

"The goal is always to get people interested in philosophy by speaking
first in terms that people are familiar with."
-- http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-10900068

searching for mark fisher

After American Graffiti, George [Lucas] had wanted to do Apocalypse
Now. George ... had worked on the script ... back in 1969.Then, when
Warner Brothers backed out, the project was abandoned. It was still
too hot a topic, the war was still on... and it just wasn't going to
happen. So George considered his options [and] he decided, 'All right,
if it's politically too hot as a contemporary subject, I'II put the
essence of the story in outer space and make it in a galaxy long ago
and far, far away'. Star Wars is George's transubstantiated version of
Apocalypse Now. The rebel group were the North Vietnamese, and the
Empire was the US -- quoted at
http://www.cinestatic.com/trans-mat/Fisher/sfcapital.htm

This guy Mark Fisher writes sensible stuff about topics I only drool
over. Here's a link to his thesis:
http://www.cinestatic.com/trans-mat/Fisher/FCcontents.htm

sexuality of the bourgeois type

Craigslist london:

I'm reading "A Thousand Plateaus" by Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari.
I'm bored of 'sexuality of the bourgeois type', and especially of having
a million crushes that go nowhere. WTF?

Maybe this lines up with your interests and proclivities. How about a
bi-weekly reading group and maybe more? Only serious philosophers
need apply ;)

rejection is awesome!

The thing is, it's more or less all in your head. As opposed to other
sorts of suffering, right, like the pain you experience when you stub
your toe. Thanks to the imagination, you can feel rejected even when
you're not. It's a pure auto-creation. Of course, you will aim to
prove that you really have been rejected, i.e. that your name has been
dragged through the mud, that you have been treated in the most
debasing manner -- in this way you exhaust your energies and make
yourself entirely pathetic. The sense of rejection is what reveals the
fixity of a person's thought. For someone who manages to grasp it,
it would seem to be an excellent tool for making oneself more adaptable.

never could stand that dog

So I was talking with my aunt and she asked me, what makes you
happy? -- and how can you extend that into relationships?

The first thing that came to mind was "hacking" (or any kind of
detailed, engaged, thoughtful problem-solving behaviour).
Since I already like doing this with other people, one rather obvious
idea would be to do it in groups, i.e. social settings. The point is,
by default most popular social activities are completely disjoint from
hacking behaviour -- theatre and films and watching sports and so
forth -- which isn't meant as a strong value judgement, just a
starting point...

In particular, this doesn't mean that I dislike "culture"; I think
there's something about the flow of life within dramatic situations,
or within casual social groupings, that is, or can be, hackish.
(E.g. Oscar Wilde's plays are typically so *clever*...)

And I think I would be leaving something important off of my
list if I didn't include things like "dreaming" or investigating
intuitive combinations of things. But I'm not so sure I feel
*most* at ease in cultural situations -- especially given that
they all have a life-cycle. ("How much is he going to kill me
for accompanying you to the theatre...?")

My idea was to write a second page of my famous "Wall
Chart" (http://metameso.org/~joe/docs/wall-chart.pdf) including
some more personal reflections. My aunt suggested that
"happiness" could have it's own page, and e.g. Fear, Surprise,
Sadness, etc., wouldn't need such huge developments.
Still, they're there, so maybe start, imagining each will take
1/12th of a page -- and then make an annex for "happiness"
if it really takes off?