was trying to play with
http://ericzimmerman.com/files/texts/Manifesto_for_a_Ludic_Century.pdf

Polarity is dangerous people. Allow yourself to be taken out of the swing of things, even if they're headed a direction. Don't root for things. Those things are probably human, or near-humans, and that's gonna be messy business at some point when it tele-connects back at another point. Will it know all the words then? Will it have more rootable ( Read more... )

The way computing creative artists fall into application with work as compared to an artist with a more physical output

For a long time there was this sort of defined canon of American conservatism drawing primarily from agrarianism, Christianity, and an idealized post-war suburban household of a white couple with children, a woman staying at home and a man (probably an ex-soldier) working for a good wage. My argument is that the new right has been moving away from ( Read more... )

I was kind of OK with today being a "spend all the money" day. Some DMV stuff, some credit card pay off, some tea, some batteries (18650 and cellphone), a replacement bluetooth headset (Backbeat 903, lost, good shit ( Read more... )

If you're wondering, I am genuinely not an atheist. Just because we have some high-powered telescopes in orbit around this one sad little planet doesn't mean we know what the fuck is actually going on. - phatpharmerI'm pretty sure things are simple, bland as science has thus found evident, but I keep a pretty active engagement with sci-fi to keep my mind open ( Read more... )

great... not even on vacation yet & already being bossed around by parent about the chores i'm expected to do.

"conclusions that follow tend only to affirm our worst suspicions-that, to borrow Thomas Ligotti’s perfect phrase, the universe is not just meaningless, but malignantly useless.”"

I've been in tech a long time. I appreciate my companies, my coworkers, my management. And yet: never has leadership been truly visionary. Leadership isn't the one's who point the way. It's the one's making clear the cause.

Just got a decent sized pack of electronics/robotics goodies in prep for NodeBots day: motor controllers of various sorts, wireless comms links, dc-dc converters, small/cheap gearmotors/wheels, maybe one or two other things in the pack. 802.15.4 modules were < $1.00, ha, wow, I feel super slow/behind ( Read more... )