Aug 1999

Aug 6
The Day a Star Exploded on the Earth

The universe may not be random, but we'll never know. Our sense need noise. That's how they work—discerning between noise that is interesting and important and that which is not. The human mind can probably only handle a certain range of signal to noise, too low, and it can't discern anything, too high, and you get overwhelmed (or distortion, like pumping the input too high on an amp.)

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Aug 7
From the Notebook of the Renaissance Man Wannabe

Pseudo-philosophico-scientifico mumbo jumbo from an obviously bored, boring person.

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Aug 10
As unto the Father

The days have just been zipping by, and before I forget, I thought I'd share why I made that random comment about the nature of Fate (also equivalent to the human brain's necessity to find meta-patterns)—obviously said phenomenon is highly variable among the poulation, but that's beside the point.

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Aug 17
Mutation and Evolution of Bitstreams

The process by which random noise gets incorporated into a message

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Aug 18
User as Definer

…I don't see anything wrong with the "user as definer" paradigm. It even seems very egalitarian to me. Despite negative connotations of the broader usage of "user". "Using" is probably one of the basic defining concepts of intelligence—notice how tool usage is not simply limited to the human species, but it definitely gave us a competitive advantage, and it is probably a hallmark of most successful (in a biological sense) species (that is, complex species.)

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Aug 21
The Economy as a Living Organism

All living organisms are dependent on steady states:

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Aug 22
Dreams

Dream #1

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Aug 23
My Training As a Wizard — Episode IV

Why do I kid myself? I feel like my Fate is pretty much sealed, yet I'd rather not accept it.

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Aug 28
Complex Processes

All complex processes (life, economies, the Internet) occur upon a matrix of complexly organized homologous units that, observed in short time scales, appear to defy the laws of thermodynamics.

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Aug 28
Art Ideas

An electromicrograph-like etching of a 2D flower and the sky stained red.

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Aug 28
I Know My Desire

I know my desire
and yet I do not know
how I can make it Be

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Aug 28
Hope - First Draft

Hope
is sweet  honey
but is also      like
                bee stings in my mouth

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Aug 28
Hope - Final

Hope
is sweet honey
but is also bee stings in my mouth

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Aug 28
Dawn

Dawn

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