Apathy

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I'll be the | | tallest skinny dork with no hair in the place, ok? | | | |__________________________________________________________| | | self | | referential | More on yesterday's random reality link... probably | noise | for folks who want to delve deeper and don't mind | | reading some theoretical physics. That's me. This | | is some incredible thinking. Thanks to JY for | | digging these URLs up. | | | | Flinders University | | Flinders Physics | | Process Physics - links to papers in PDF files | | Reginald Cahill info | | Abstract of The Limits of Logic and the Modelling of | | Reality - the new paper in progress | | | | | yes like a | | fractal | JY also sent Dynamical Symmetries: Autopoietic | baby | Architecture which is really hard to read in the | | column format, but covers good ground on how random | | flux at maximum complexity can organize itself. If | | that's what it is doing... | | | |__________________________________________________________| | | late night | | | Now a few fun weekend things. | | | | | katie | | | Furious George and the Cross-Country Crime Spree | | I rate this hilariously twisted. | | | | | shaun | | | Earth Station 1: The internet's media museum | | Don't miss: Radio Propaganda section, with World War | | II broadcasts. | | | | It links back to WFMU's Happy Listener's Guide to | | Mind Control which contains the punk rock Quincy | | episode clips and those fascinating old "Duck and | | Cover" radio bits. | | | | "Attaboy, Tony; that flash means: act fast!" [wav] | | | |__________________________________________________________| | | why the | | ~~strike~~ | Candice has a very engaging personal site, moving | through | forward to a log-centric outlook. I'm just really | | that shade of green today. Everybody needs to be | | reminded to strike text more! | this could | | be handy | Cannot believe I had not seen freeshell - it allows | although | most major UNIX utilities, 10 mb of space, web | not fast | hosting, and so on... for free! You cannot see me, | | but I am rubbing my hands together in evil glee. | | | |__________________________________________________________| | | glug | | | Yahoo mail has been bouncing again. Reach me here | | if something dire pops up. Next update will be | | later on Sunday due to rock and roll. Expect crappy | | semi-interactive ASCII and lots of useless rambling. | | | |__________________________________________________________| __________________________________________________________ | | 03/03/2000 | Tapped from a mountain spring, canned carelessness | |__________________________________________________________| | | why did the | | universe | So the punch line is, it turns out the universe | cross the | itself is the only truly random number generator. | road? | | | Ho ho! | | | | "It is the logic of the limitations of logic that is | | ultimately responsible for generating this new | | physics, which appears to be predicting something | | very much like our reality," says Reginald Cahill at | | the end of the article. | | | | So glad I've been reading all this Hofstadter. I | | feel like I'm within inches of almost understanding | | what they're theorizing. | | | | | mu | | | Fake Zen - Koan 42: Fake Zen is real Zen. | | | |__________________________________________________________| | | ripped | | straight | Icontext - a collaborative pixel coloring book and | from the | ASCII draw-o-matic! Be sure to check the sitemap | pages of | and then jump right in. | xblog | | | Spiffy, but much more fun when multiple folks are | | doodling. Hope to see you there! | | | |__________________________________________________________| | | the mass | | mind acts | The Metababy experiment continues. Fortunately, | en masse | "they" (being the automatons who edit the site) took | | my bait and didn't delete the page out of hand. The | | mis-spellings were wholly intentional because the | | story was referencing something else. That's been | | completely lost in the noise now, but plenty of | | other interesting spawns have appeared. | | | |__________________________________________________________| | | long long | | long too | Ooine - a log. | long | I'll leave the scifi, legos, and giant robot links | | to the masters. | now for | | something | Points subtracted for the hating Tom Green rant, | about the | though. Being a huge fan of stupid humor, I really | state of | appreciate the niche Tom Green fills. Yes, he's | comedy | highly annoying; but if you pay attention below all | | the obvious kid-like joking you'll notice all the | | nice little self-referential digs and play. | | | | To understand he's a good guy sometimes and not a | | total moron, please read his note dispelling the | | Hitler joke rumor. | good | | marketing | The site (maintained by cohost Glenn) is chock full | job | of good info. Ever so slightly offensive. Like Ask | gentlemen | the Genius! The discussion lately seems to rotate | | around whether Lake Lagoda in Russia is indeed the | | largest lake in the world at 6800 square miles. | quote | | | "A genius isn't someone who just knows all the | | answers... he's someone who has new answers." | | | | One thing's certain at least: if you see Tom's act, | | you laugh until you fall over or you grimace and | | hate him. I'm of the opinion that nobody else in | | mainstream comedy right now can make improv on the | | street work as well as Tom Green. | | | |__________________________________________________________| __________________________________________________________ | | 03/02/2000 | Sewn it twice with the thyme in here | |__________________________________________________________| | | the snake | | oil wears | Everybody's pal Petey points out Skeptilog - a pita | away | about stuff that matters to otters. Check it out. | | | | I'm convinced enough to join the SkeptiChat list. | | Pretty sure it would only take a few moments to be | | forever lost in Ric's home page. | | | |__________________________________________________________| | | blast em | | cowboy | Jesus would use Javascript. Certainly don't try to | | forget the flash! | | | |__________________________________________________________| | | query | | noodles | In line with the Latin and Greek tutorials linked | | below, and another in the long line of "for my | | reference only" technical links: Learn SQL | | | | I'm currently slogging through this tome - you know | | it's going to be nasty when the book has its own | | domain. Hardcover technical books are good, though. | | The only thing better than the camel book would be a | | hard-bound camel. | | | | Errata in the camel, extremely picky issues. | | | | Errata: Inside SQL server, rather large mistakes. | | (She calls it an error log - sheesh!) | | | |__________________________________________________________| | | sho miela | | sho meji | I worked long hours today. Thus, my thinkin' | bela o nome | circuits are weakened. Here is some prose I posted | dela | on metababy. It's already been heavily altered, and | | well. Due to the transient nature of Metababy, you | | may not find any text, or you may see text which is | | wholly not written by me. Enjoy! [I am daring you | | to click the Edit button.] | unvamp | | | Original version here temporarily for comparison's | | sake. See, it used to make a smidgen of sense. | | | |__________________________________________________________| | | mp3 | | | That last day of 3 is fixed, with Labradford. | | | |__________________________________________________________| __________________________________________________________ | | 03/01/2000 | The wind, it burns! It burns, for love. | |__________________________________________________________| | | offensive | | medicine | A little stupid humor from Something Awful always | | brightens my day. They've got a daily semi-weblog | | of awful links that is well worth your while. | | | | This is what made me laugh today, though: | | | | ICQ Spam: Nate, My New Friend in Cyberspace! | hahaha haha | | ha ha ha | "Oh, school? I was too proactive and full of | haa | positive energy to be limited to college! I left | | Wisconsin State A&M sophomore year, as I felt it had | | nothing to offer me, and the head dean agreed! Also, | | I was caught stealing cans of tuna from the | | cafeteria! But it was mostly the 'nothing to offer | | me' thing!" | | | | Cranky Steve still rules the map review circuit with | | an iron fist of hilarity. Those reviews are | | probably good to read even if you don't play games, | | for the purely disgusting descriptions. | | | |__________________________________________________________| | | grace the | | video is | The Gloria Record audio and video downloads. | here | Probably only for fans of the band and/or Mineral, | | as the quality is rather horrible. It's RealVideo, | | that might explain some of it. New songs, though. | | Thanks Shaun! | | | |__________________________________________________________| | | mask you | | later | A little ceramic basket of ceramic flowers appeared | | upon my monitor at work. I rather like it. | | Forward, inconsistency! | | | |__________________________________________________________| __________________________________________________________ | | 02/29/2000 | Draw your head as a bell | |__________________________________________________________| | | down the | | old | The Atheism Web has the original Huxley definition | language | of agnostic that I needed today. I did not realize | river | it came directly from the opposite of "gnostic". Is | without an | "gnosis" (knowledge) a Greek or Latin root? I don't | article | know what I'm talking about when it comes to real | | etymology, but I would guess Greek. | | | | Learn Greek online with sound files. Groovy | | Mediterranean intro music too. I have only done 2 | | of the hundred-some lessons, but this comes highly | | recommended. | | | | Greek texts required for practice? The Perseus | | Project would probably be the definitive source. | | | | | empty | | thought | There needs to be a site for learning Latin. | bubble | | | Oh wait. | aka will | | check this | Latin for Mountain Men looks positively fantastic. | out later | | |__________________________________________________________| | | hands are | | shaking | Sky Frequency | | | | Ftrain will not stop amazing me. The Scott Rahin | | alter ego (if it is half that simple) is intense and | | half-pushes, half-pulls me over the edge of real. | | | |__________________________________________________________| | | | | | Doug Martsch's guitar is walking all over my back. | | It's comfy. You? | | | | "Everything that I've done before affects all the | | decisions I make." | | | | (Somewhat boring interview, it's been linked before, | | but pure, unvarnished rock rolls off the man in his | | simple answers.) | | | |__________________________________________________________| | | sick seen | | first at | Stop, drop, and think of a nice tasty burger. | yupislyr | | |__________________________________________________________| | | angry at | | the | As much as being difficult is fun, I hope I never | luminati | feel the urge to try black on dark gray. | | It's impossible to read without a flashlight. | | | |__________________________________________________________| | | HOORAY | | | So I actually did manage to beg Batman (aka MF-X, | | aka Clinto) into letting me hop in the 'mobile to | | Chicago this Saturday for the Plan show. Who's | | driving up? What sort of silliness will ensue? | | Nobody knows! | | | | Where's your homepage again, Everquest freak? | | | |__________________________________________________________| __________________________________________________________ | | 02/28/2000 | Foreverly breaking signalation | |__________________________________________________________| | | not exactly | | a coloring | Incredible Songs:Ohia song: Coxcomb Red | book | | expert | I have no idea what color that might be. | | | | | | | | Altavista only returns one hit on the phrase, and | | it's on the Songs:Ohia page. | | | | | unofficial | | pigment | It's not in the NBS/ISCC system. | | | | | failed at | | crayola | Certainly don't remember it from the ol' box of | | crayons either. | | | | | quiz | | options | Apparently, it is a particular type of flower, a | | mineral formation, or an impossible to find David | | Grubbs import. | | | | | resolved | | | Aha! Here is a good picture of the flower, and I | | have even picked these in the past. Now I sure feel | | silly, and everything makes sense again. | | | |__________________________________________________________| | | derived | | from | Don Caballero fanpage | stirling | Rock! Couldn't find one for the longest time. | | | |__________________________________________________________| | | last week | | in apathy | Diverse subjects from the wonders of corn, to | | babbling about music's effect on the mind, much | | yammering about release dates, around to making fun | | of UFO reports. Plus more, in last week's Apathy - | | a real weekend update next week if I finish reading | | Metamagical Themas by then. | | | |__________________________________________________________| __________________________________________________________ | | eh? | This is the log of a faceless entity. Me. I wander | | around the web, and point out what are most likely | | completely useless things for you to visit. It's | | where I have been, what I learned there, and what I | | plan to figure out in the future. All in the palm | | of your hand. | | | the daily | Technically speaking, this is a "weblog". There are | surfing | many weblogs. You can probably find one that suits | tools | your tastes pretty closely in the morass below, but | | if not, use the pitas system to track yourself. | | | contact | Dan Fitch dgfitch@yahoo.com / ICQ 363803 | |__________________________________________________________| /////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// old archives: dots are interstitial weekly posts useless sky: staring at old links . legos and robots: designing electrical companions and other nonsense . grid puzzles: waste time with boxes and their brethren . chip music: listen to the sound of the FUUUUUTURE . lewis carroll: charles dodgson wrote some happy tales . opinionation: how do you do, capitalism? how do you? ........ defunct rock: amf, grammatrain, jawbox, poor old lu, roadside .. ascii games: to quote salon, @ <- you are here . voicemail: automated telephone systems . bach and tone: the endlessly rising canon of links . eigenspace: eigen wha? ... /////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// possible subjects: feel free to suggest or help out falling pod: zoooooming through the earth's crust . occam's razor: computational reflection . bad art: clean up old gallery . demoart: art disks, ansi conversion, zoomscope . 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Arbitrary | | numerical scales are not real helpful, eh? | | | 9.3 | A Minor Forest - Cocktail Party.mp3 [6.3mb] | 2.7 | A Minor Forest - Discoier.mp3 [7.0mb] | 6.1 | Neutrino - Sure Are Shiny.mp3 [3.4mb] | 8.2 | Neutrino - Bring On The Super Desserts.mp3 [4.6mb] | 1.8 | 33.3 - Miles.mp3 [5.9mb] | 2.4 | 33.3 - Rancho Diablo.mp3 [7.8mb] | 5.2 | Silkworm - Empty Elevator Shaft.mp3 [3.5mb] | 5.6 | Silkworm - Waiting on a Train.mp3 [3.5mb] | | | 8.3 | Arcwelder - Captain Allen.mp3 [3.2mb] | 6.3 | Arcwelder - Finish My Song.mp3 [4.5mb] | 8.9 | MxPx - Sometimes You Have To Ask Yrself.mp3 [2.4mb] | 8.6 | MxPx - Let It Happen.mp3 [3.2mb] | 0.6 | Low - Lullaby.mp3 [7.8mb] | 1.3 | Low - Over the Ocean.mp3 [3.2mb] | 2.9 | Ativin - Riding and Roaming.mp3 [4.1mb] | 3.2 | Ativin - Cy.mp3 [5.6mb] | | | 5.8 | Hugh - Ruby Cruiser.mp3 [2.8mb] | 7.1 | Hugh - Little A.mp3 [3.6mb] | 3.2 | Codeine - Cave-in.mp3 [3.3mb] | 4.8 | Codeine - Cigarette Machine.mp3 [4.4mb] | 6.3 | Jawbox - Consolation Prize.mp3 [3.5mb] | 8.8 | Jawbox - Tools and Chrome.mp3 [2.5mb] | 4.2 | Starflyer 59 - Wasting Your Whole Life.mp3 [4.9mb] | 3.5 | Starflyer 59 - All The Time.mp3 [2.8mb] | | | ?.? | Shellac - Didn't We Deserve a Look...mp3 [11.2mb] | 9.2 | Shellac - A Minute.mp3 [3.3mb] | 9.9 | Frodus - Deviant Recovery Network.mp3 [1.5mb] | 9.6 | Frodus - Invisible Time Lines.mp3 [2.8mb] | 7.2 | Trans Am - Extreme Measures.mp3 [4.1mb] | 4.7 | Trans Am - Home Security.mp3 [4.7mb] | 2.8 | Sebadoh - Total Peace.mp3 [2.7mb] | 3.9 | Sebadoh - Not a Friend.mp3 [2.7mb] | | | 4.6 | Grammatrain - Need.mp3 [5.9mb] | 9.8 | Grammatrain - Jerky Love Song.mp3 [0.6mb] | 7.2 | Roadside Monument - OJ House Auction.mp3 [6.5mb] | 9.3 | Roadside - Trophies for Optometry.mp3 [5.3mb] | 3.8 | Buddyrevelles - I'll Sell You a Picture.mp3 [4.8mb] | 3.3 | Buddyrevelles - Port Riga.mp3 [4.4mb] | 0.8 | Labradford - Everlast.mp3 [4.1mb] | 1.1 | Labradford - S.mp3 [5.6mb] | | | |__________________________________________________________| ///////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////