December 2010
1 post
♫ Listening to unicornology:
Really digging the...
consumerism
plato: So have any of your disciples maintained the lifestyle?
keldwud: lol
keldwud: just my parents
keldwud: but we're only on month 2
keldwud: I kind of work like a trainer
plato: Oh?
keldwud: like a physical trainer
keldwud: you have to come to me
keldwud: I only come to you once per month
keldwud: because the plan doesn't work and *will* not work if I do the work for them
plato: Yeh
keldwud: if they don't have the discipline or interest to keep in contact with me
keldwud: they don't have the discipline to follow this plan
keldwud: and my plan is very counter culture
keldwud: and very anti-consumerism
keldwud: so the philosophy of it is tough for most people to swallow
keldwud: because it is constantly being attacked by outside influences that I cannot control
keldwud: get what I'm saying?
keldwud: it's more than just about the food, it's about changing the way you react to advertising
keldwud: it requires reprogramming
keldwud: and I can't waste time with people who aren't in a position where they can allow their consumer instincts to be reprogrammed
keldwud: so, my success rate is pretty low ;)
keldwud: to answer your question
plato: Hrm. I've never been a fan of consumerism. My biggest beef has to be when I'm referred to as a "consumer" of a company. I have no problem being their "customer"...but that word condumer bothers me.
keldwud: well, whether we like it or not, we are consumers
keldwud: do you salivate when you see the golden arches?
keldwud: or when you hear certain jingles?
keldwud: like, I don't believe in consumerism and I never eat at mcdonalds
keldwud: but I still salivate at the sight of it.
keldwud: it takes some serious deprogramming to stop being a consumer
keldwud: right now, just staying constantly aware of my body's reactions to certain stimulus just keeps me from *reacting* like a consumer
keldwud: but it doesn't keep me from being a consumer deep down. To do that, I would have to not have any physical reactions to the various stimuli present in our cities and homes
keldwud: once I can consume entertainment without feeling urges to react, I will no longer be a consumer
October 2009
4 posts
Intrusion Countermeasures Electronics
This is what I imagined when Case was breaking the Ice in Neuromancer. http://bit.ly/3misiQ Something dark was forming at the core of the Chinese program. The density of information overwhelmed the fabric of the matrix, triggering hypnagogic images. Faint kaleidoscop- ic angles centered in to a silver-black focal point. Case watched childhood symbols of evil and bad luck tumble out along...
“Perhaps most impressive, if a bird in the formation falls ill or is shot, two...”
– Ainsley Drew via kottke.org
“Does anyone care what Americans think? They’re the worst-educated people in the...”
– Gore Vidal
August 2009
3 posts
“My philosophy of government: Government can’t be all things for all...”
– Senator Jon Greiner
“Visitors are requested not to break down doors in search of liquor, even when...”
– F. Scott Fitzgerald
July 2009
7 posts
“It is the U.S. Constitution, and not some competitive agglomeration of...”
– Christopher Hitchens
“A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a...”
– Robert Heinlein
“…what we’d just experienced was simply a company responding to the...”
– Michael Ruhlman - http://tr.im/saXV
“If I’d asked my customers what they wanted, they’d have said a...”
– Henry Ford and Graham Sergeant
“Why in this society are the intelligent vilified? Why is education so...”
– Jared Diamond
May 2009
3 posts
“What an easy question: In the morning before heading out the door for work make...”
– Posted by: The other Eric at Nov 18, 2007 9:50:27 PM
goog
In November, Sergey Brin participated in an online chat at the Washington Post’s site, and was asked how Google intended to make money through focusing on search:
Leslie Walker: How does Google plan to make money? Unlike the other big search engines-most of which added a bevy of services and have become mini-AOLs rather than search services-your Web site has little more than a search box.
So...
“And the important thing that I can tell you is that there is a test to determine...”
– Milton Glaser
April 2009
1 post
“When I think I know something, I stop paying attention. It happens far too often...”
– Todd Kashdan
March 2009
5 posts
“Sitting alone in a room for hours while essentially talking in your head about...”
– AL Kennedy
recommended Shrimp, Raspberries, Goat Cheese on... →
“I will soon learn that Icelandic males, like moose, rams, and other horned...”
– MICHAEL LEWIS
“The worry is that if the government cannot or will not extricate itself from...”
– Tyler Cowen?
February 2009
15 posts
“when others see you don’t gossip to monitor talk about you and to defend...”
– http://www.overcomingbias.com/2009/02/gossip-is-for-status.html
ant sex
OMG
“Some ant species do not have queen ants in the strict sense. Instead, worker ants (which are all female) that have mated with a male ant become the dominant reproductive individuals. These are the gamergates, or “married workers,” and their sex life can be brutal. In one species the gamergates venture outside of the nest to attract a male, engage him in copulation, then...
Vogon Poetry
See, see the your mom sky
Marvel at its big paisley depths.
Tell me, eric do you
Wonder why the lap dog ignores you?
Why its foobly stare
makes you feel excited.
I can tell you, it is
Worried by your worflockenspack facial growth
That looks like
A red leaf lettuce.
What’s more, it knows
Your fag potting shed
Smells of pus ball.
Everything under the big your mom sky
Asks...
winsome
loose sum
homo-genic white pasty self
pastry flaky wrought which witch with sly umbrella unspeakenings
theremin induced lobotomies sound surround flown over happening skies
just taste the words, intoning while moaning ashore from furlough
with nickles, atoning rice-a-roning tricycle wall paste green louds the work hard dull boy
“What went wrong, is that your friends don’t know how to play poker. A good...”
– Gene Siskel
old school
The other day I started digging back into my roots. Music composed on the Amiga and in fasttracker, screamtracker and impulse tracker. I treated myself to a viewing of Second Reality by Future Crew and now I am resolved to purchasing Mind Candy vol 2 and spending the rest of the month consuming old demos and mods.
recommended Escape From City 17 - Part One on... →
multimedia
How I would love to be like the cool kids and document my life through a series of images and videos. How I would love to enrich my brand through the use of media. Alas; I am lazy, poor and ill-equipped for such endeavors.
January 2009
7 posts
“”- our desire not to do “the same thing” over and over and...”
– Eliezer Yudkowsky
“Those who take delight in their own might are merely pretenders to power. The...”
– Shinji and Warhammer40k
“Blaming the customer is the second-to-last refuge of any crappy industry,...”
– Matt Welch
“He who will not reason is a bigot; he who cannot is a fool; and he who dares not...”
– Sir William Drummond
entitled to coffee
keldwud [7: 01 AM]:
haha
these guys in plano and their coffee maker
there are five other tickets related to this coffee maker
because of a firecode violation. they have a toaster plugged in draining the outlet and tripping the breaker and they won't get rid of the toaster
they just keep calling techs out.
what a waste of money.
I think they should go without. But that's not my decision. if they went without they would learn to prioritize better.
Dad. [7: 04 AM]:
Hey, that "waste of money" is keeping this company going!
keldwud [7: 05 AM]:
I upset her because I told her "my honest assessment of this situation?"
move the toaster
"well, they are going to rewire the room"
I said "That's ridiculous!"
if it were my home, I would not rewire my house. I would just move the damn toaster.
she said "That's not the issue"
some people are quite entitled
Dad. [7: 17 AM]:
Back in the bad ol' days of being married, our microwave kept blowing the circuit, was a real pain. Then I noticed during one blowout, that the stuff on the OTHER side of the sink stayed on. I had not realized it was a separate circuit! So I moved the microwave and never blew the fuse again.
The End.
keldwud [7: 18 AM]:
exactly
people are fucking crazy
rewire a damn room just to keep the toaster in the same spot
Dad. [7: 19 AM]:
The toast tastes better when it's made in that spot.
Dad. [7: 26 AM]:
Call me Dad.
Dad. [7: 26 AM]:
Since I'm doing your mother, anyway.
“The most dangerous thing in the world is finding someone you agree with. If a...”
– SmallFurryCreature
December 2008
2 posts
“Placing the needs of a Non-Organic entity above the needs of *any* Organic...”
– keldwud
“…it’s become apparent to me that social software is a medium turns all...”
– Neil Postman
November 2008
2 posts
strangeness
Not fifteen minutes ago, an anonymous female called my employer trying to find out information about me. She would not give any identifying information about herself but she demanded access to me. Something to do with me having access to her “pound”?
I have no clue what is going through this girl’s head but she sure is playing a stupid game. My phone number is available to her as well as my blog...