The long term body clock ticks off some frequency that we can't fathom. Decades go by and it really should be no surprise that we change as much as we ever did. It's not so much that it goes by fast, it's that it goes by without us really knowing. The experience of childhood's end doesn't exist, we instead find ourselves absorbed in new activities ( Read more... )

“The marriage of reason and nightmare which has dominated the 20th century,” the author wrote in a 1974 introduction to the French edition of the novel, “has given birth to an ever more ambiguous world. Across the communications landscape move the specters of sinister technologies and the dreams that money can buy. Thermonuclear weapons systems and ( Read more... )

Thinking about how letters are like the tent-poles of words. Alphabets, numbering systems are defined not jut by the idea of sequence but of the particular identities of the component digits themselves. Continuum is the wave which arises as an emergent property of digital components in a sequence or spatial arrangement. The early letters ABCDE have ( Read more... )

In honor of the grand mutable cross which is peaking tomorrow, I was perusing and meditating on some Beatles remix YouTubes today. (The last time we had Uranus and Saturn opposite each other in Pisces-Virgo was in 1966 - the pivotal moment of the 60s when the zeitgeist morphed into the fully postmodern technicolor mindscape we know today, driven, ( Read more... )

Ewww, why would you keep reading after that? You are so vile and disgusting.


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It's hard to relate to a person who would create legislation to ban parts of other people's lives just because the idea of it makes them uncomfortable.

Stories can be said to be composed of events and events can be made of moments but all of those words are indefinite and almost interchangeable. Sort of reflects the fractal nature of time. Events can be made of stories which in turn can comprise a moment in history. It's all very relative.

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The fact that our eyes are specialized organs which focus visible light into images doesn't mean that the rest of us can't 'see' also. Our skin is sensitive to temperature, to infrared light which we perceive as an entirely different dimension of sensation. When a piece of metal is heated until it glows red, nothing has changed in the metal except ( Read more... )

Go look at the Moon right now yo. North Americans anyways.