| Ok wait. |
[May. 8th, 2008|11:34 pm] |
| [ | Hello, My Name is |
| |  Tyrannical | ] |
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Can't live with em. Can't live without em.
...So. How do I do this? |
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| WARNING!!!! |
[May. 7th, 2008|11:42 pm] |
watch out, kyds!!!
my sister might scoop me up for more time than originally intended by me, yet again!!!!
seriously, if you want me in the summertime BOOK IT NOW! y'all know what a vortex junkie i can be. |
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[May. 7th, 2008|11:19 pm] |
wow neat film festival / new media (i.e. you-tube styles, internet phone, etc.) bug sex live cartoons:
green porno |
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| art is a dangerous and powerful tool to wield |
[May. 7th, 2008|10:14 pm] |
| [ | Hello, My Name is |
| | raw | ] |
| [ | Aurally Stimulated By |
| | a tribe called quest - the low end theory | ] |
I just watched the end of a film about Jean-Michel Basquiat. He was a friend of Andy Warhol's right before Andy died. And the film just reminded me of how powerful art is to some people. Some of the neatest and most fragile human beings you'd ever meet. And how art can be at such a high frequency sometimes that it can really hurt the people who make it. Just that processing, I think maybe it's the body pushing itself past the limit where it can digest all this information that's coming in from the cosmos and out from somewhere deep inside themselves that it becomes overwhelming. And some people try and compensate for this by doing drugs. And some people do drugs to compensate for past/current abuses. Maybe art can be a kind of self-abuse for some people? Like continuing a chain that was started early on, when they learned what it is to be loved. |
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| You can gloss over this and I wont mind. |
[May. 7th, 2008|06:14 pm] |
| [ | Hello, My Name is |
| | design time. | ] |
| [ | Aurally Stimulated By |
| | IGeneration - MC Lars | ] |
I don't base my self worth on what other people think about me.
It's just that when it seems as if more people like me than they dislike me...I don't know, something chemical takes place inside my brain?
I'll feel better.
About everything. Apparently. About you. And you. And you. And me.
And you and me.
I appear less transparent. |
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| Looking for office space in Toronto |
[May. 7th, 2008|11:28 am] |
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Hello! I am looking for office space in Toronto. NORMALLY in these situations I look up "office space toronto" but holy crap, apparently "office space" is the same sort of keyword that "Romanian bride" is, in that there are twenty-thousand bottom feeders with generic out-of-a-box websites promising me "office space office lease office renting office rental office opportunities office make money online NOT A SCAM office spaaaaaace".
Thanks, INTERNET.
So does anyone have any hot tips or things along those lines for Toronto office space? I don't need much: room for 3-5 people, internet, and so on. Maybe a phone, I don't know.
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[May. 6th, 2008|11:53 pm] |
Hee hee hee, I have 10 Lemon Skunk seeds germinating... Kind Seed Co is definitely Kind, they guarantee a 90% germination rate, lo and behold all 10 are germinating...
It's not that I'm bored of Northern Lights #5, but well... OK, maybe I am. I'm going to save some pollen in the freezer from the NL#5 males so I don't have to grow this strain out again when I do some hybrid strains.
My other genetics include some bagseed that I found in dimebags of Stevie Wonder - no idea how viable they are, or whether I'd even want them, normally commercial weed doesn't have seeds, the presence of them means pollen was present, and that usually means there were hermaphrodites in the room... which means these seeds have a 50/50 chance of being hermies themselves. But even hermies aren't useless... cross two of them, and you'll get a mix of some with and without hermie genes - breed from the normal ones. Might do that someday, it was a really good batch as I recall...
I also have 12 seeds from an cannabis sativa (strain unknown) that's from a geneticist working on Hornby Island - these seeds are 27th generation of this strain he's been working on, and once grown out, should produce something really mindfucking (I've smoke some of the plant these seeds came from, hooboy, one-hit-wonder weed)
I'm thinking, if I find a good outdoor spot, this year I'll try some crossbreeding, in addition to the "purebred" lines:
Lemon Skunk female X Northern Lights #5 male- hopefully combine the delightfully aromatic and frosty buds of Lemon Skunk with the relatively high CBD/CBN-to-THC ratio (coucklock!) of the NL#5
Hornby female X Lemon Skunk male- hopefully create a 50/50 indica/sativa combining the heady high of the Hornby with the higher-yield and delightful aroma of Lemon Skunk
Hornby female X Norther Lights #5 male- hopefully create another 50/50 indica/sativa with the double-whammy of heady high of the Hornby and the *mellow* body high of the NL#5
Can hardly wait :-) |
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| Crap^(sigma*) |
[May. 6th, 2008|07:30 pm] |
| [ | Hello, My Name is |
| | Tyrannical | ] |
| [ | Aurally Stimulated By |
| | Mosquito Control- Isis | ] |
The first day back at the store was a big crap complex. What the Hell did I think I was doing going back to the hub of all things fake and unsettling? I hate my boss, and the only reason I enjoy my coworkers is that they remind me of not being at the Bux. Pay is shit and unrewarding. And then there’s the dynamic customer base. So why am I here? Health insurance? What the fuck! How fucking ethical is insurance?! Sigh. Anyways, the brewery has more than compensated this week, so I should really quite bitching. Tomorrow we sit down for a recipe pow wow with the brewers. The ultimate goal is to do special one-off batches for the Elysian using our own recipes. I’ve gotten most all the opportunities I’ve dreamed of within the past few days. But dreams don’t pay the bills. If wishes were horses we’d all be eatin steak. I think a great man once said that. |
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| the eff yes brigade |
[May. 6th, 2008|02:00 pm] |
| [ | Current Location |
| | jellytown | ] |
| [ | Hello, My Name is |
| |  excited | ] |
| [ | Aurally Stimulated By |
| | The Vibes - Capleton & Sizzla | ] |
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| ROFLCon |
[May. 6th, 2008|04:26 pm] |
| [ | Aurally Stimulated By |
| | Jurassic Park Soundtrack - Theme | ] |
So - ROFLCon! It was a fun time.
It was different from most comics conventions, probably because it wasn't a comic convention. It was an Internet Convention, and what that meant was a big focus on the panels and only a few tables with people selling stuff - I didn't bring anything to sell anyway! It was also unusual in that all these webcomics people were invited (Joey, Rich, Jeph, Jeff, and more!) but only me and Randall and the Cyanide and Happiness guys were on panels talking. I got the impression they did this with a lot of other niches too, so the overall experience was more of a peer-to-peer convention, where walking around you were bound to run into someone awesome.
It was pretty surreal. Jay Tron Guy Maynard was a big hit, and very easy to photograph. I didn't end up getting a chance to talk to him, but I did listen in on his panel, and I wanted to tell him how I respected how he took all the internet hate he got with his first costume and turned it into something pretty great. I also met MC Frontalot for the first time, and let me tell you, he's really fun to talk to: after listening to his voice for years, just having a conversation with him gave me this feeling of listening to a secret hidden MC Front track, where he's just, you know, shooting the breeze. Nice. I didn't get to talk to Matt but I wanted to tell him I like the way he's living his life.
Interesting panels for me were hearing the different perspectives on community and news between the Reddit team and Drew from Fark and the OC Remix guys. OC Remix is a video-game remix/cover site and it's been one I've been reading for five or so years, so it was a thrill to meet them and thank them for the Jazz Plumber Trio cover.
Here's a picture from the panel Randy and moot and I were on:
from Scott at Laughing Squid, who took some awesome pictures
WHO ARE THESE HANDSOME PARAGONS OF THE MALE FORM?? I was worried about the panel: moot and Randy have huge audiences, so I was touched when the moderator said "Here's Ryan North from Dinosaur Comics" and there was all this applause. I was honestly surprised to be that well-received! We all got tons of applause for just sitting on chairs up there, which was insanely flattering. Thanks, everyone! The talk was streamed but I don't know if it's available online anywhere after the fact. M-Maybe?
Anyway IN CONCLUSION it was fun and surreal and I'm really glad I was invited to go talk and be famoused for a weekend! |
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[May. 6th, 2008|08:37 pm] |
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I’m off on the road again this month.
On 23 May, I’ll be speaking at the Norwegian Film Institute. (Also appearing during this seminar are the major European comics figure Igort and the brilliant Killoffer.)
I will also be appearing at the Oslo Comics Expo (fuck-all details on website at present) on Saturday 24 </sup>May at 17:00, doing an onstage Q&A. No plans for a signing.
In real terms, this means that I arrive in Oslo airport tired and confused at 11 o’clock at night, attempt to get to central Oslo on my own without getting mugged or raped, locate my hotel, confirm that it’s not a crackhouse or a knocking-shop for backpackers, fail to sleep because I’ve timeshifted an hour, pass out around dawn, wake up five minutes later, jabber incoherently for two hours to a room full of filmmakers who don’t actually speak my language anyway, spend the next 24 hours staggering around town using the only two words of Norwegian I can remember ("thankyou" and "beer"), throw up over a small group of people at Comics Expo who were only standing there because they were looking for Killoffer, and then get myself conveyed back to the airport by ambulance on Sunday.
WIN.
See you there? |
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[May. 6th, 2008|03:14 pm] |
come see the senior thesis talks tomorrow! mine is at noon in UC mckenna; the rest are in the same room following that. mark puts it best: "Don't sit in your room playing WoW!"
(seriously, it will make me feel better if people i know are there, especially if you don't ask me hard questions. ;P i'm going to do my best to make it accessible to people without a type theory background, so you should come even if you haven't taken 312.)
also! you should come to william's talk tomorrow, too. it's about classical logic and the curry-howard correspondence (or the correnhowardspondence, as i like to call it); basically the coolest thing ever to anyone who's never seen it before (and is also, even more than my talk, required to be accessible to people who don't know type theory). it's at 3:30 in wean 8220. |
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| Oh my Gee |
[May. 6th, 2008|12:14 am] |
| [ | Hello, My Name is |
| | happy midnight styles!!!!!!! | ] |
Haha!! I passed the audition!!!!
Eff-fuckin Mother-fuckin Yea
well shit around now, fellas
this means i'll be in town for the 2010 olympic games. WOAH.
making art and culture is exactly what want to be doing over such times. speech and expression
the kore of the van is upon us
haha, so much bmx'ing listening to metal hopped up on coffee cross-town at noon today for me |
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[May. 5th, 2008|09:35 pm] |
by the way, if you ever want a backtrace in smlnj, here's the ticket:
CM.make "$smlnj-tdp/back-trace.cm";
SMLofNJ.Internals.TDP.mode := true;
apparently everyone i've talked to has always been as lazy as i am about doing a google search to discover this, so i thought i'd point it out. |
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[May. 4th, 2008|05:44 pm] |
yesterday, i helped to run KGB's 3rd-ever puzzle hunt (jointly written with some manic sages in cambridge).
( recap )
( musings on future hunts ) |
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| The (near) future |
[May. 4th, 2008|01:39 am] |
| [ | Current Location |
| | False Creek | ] |
| [ | Hello, My Name is |
| |  nostalgic | ] |
It's amazing how I spent six months in Glasgow and pretty much don't miss it at all but whenever I talk to someone I knew while I was living in Mallaig I'm filled with great pangs of homesickness. I only lived there for 10 weeks and yet the village became a part of me.
I'm in the process of applying to BCIT for the Medical Laboratory Technology program that starts in January 2009 (the application deadline is the end of May) and there's a summer break from June-August next summer. If I get accepted to BCIT then I am going back to the UK next June. Hopefully Alasdair will be able to come with me, and maybe Brie and/or Celine will be around Europe/London, but even if I go it alone a visit to Scotland in June 2009 will be my reward for a successful first semester back at school. If that isn't a goal, I don't know what is. |
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[May. 3rd, 2008|11:48 pm] |
someone out there is soooooooooooo much kewler than me, oh yea fuck yea look at this SHIT. who the fuck is this person i need to be their friend
you know why? THAT is PLASTIC mother FUCKING BAGS
((SOURCE!!)) |
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[May. 3rd, 2008|10:13 pm] |
| [ | Aurally Stimulated By |
| | some brazillian skin head HISTORY(???) | ] |
sa
oo they
hey ya
my feet smell
the
right
amount
foer me
to listn
to punk
rock music now.
swungin
my back
shpack
in the
washing
mashin
to get
rid
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[May. 2nd, 2008|10:52 pm] |
Ready for more crazy philosophy?
Consciousness is the derivative of the brain.
As I type this, my brain is constantly throwing signals around, constructing sequences of ideas and then translating it all into English. The internal state of my brain is animated. I am changing my mind.
If you were to take a snapshot of my brain, it would not be a snapshot of consciousness, even if you were able to represent whatever mental image I had in my brain when the snapshot was taken. Maybe I was picturing a red balloon. Maybe there were a bunch of items hanging out in my short term memory that also get represented in this snapshot. But no matter how accurate and detailed that snapshot of my brain is, it is still not a snapshot of consciousness, because it is static. The moment my brain stops changing is the moment I lose consciousness.
If you were to freeze me, or put me in so-called "suspended animation", and then reanimate me an hour later, I would lose and regain consciousness. This makes intuitive sense, but I feel that this is a clear, clean example of precisely what consciousness is: an animated brain. Or, more generally: an animated, self-modifying system.
Caveat: The popular definition of "consciousness" excludes sleep and dreams, but mine does not exclude dreams. I feel that dreams are more of an interruption to awareness than to consciousness.
Most computer programs do not change their mind. A human programmer writes a program once, and then the program remains static, aside from shuffling some data around using a predetermined algorithm. This is why conventional computer programs are not conscious.
Current Music: Kevin MacLeod - Skye Cuillin |
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