I haven't been posting much in this journal. I have to admit I feel like livejournal is not a place for anyone's writing to be taken in the least bit seriously, so the little energy I put into internet posting has gone to slightly more serious endeavors ( Read more... )

New blog: posting my idle thoughts on narrative, technology, psychology, philosophy, math, art, etc...

Simulacrumbs

"But all these ideas, all this philosophy of induction, all these problems with knowledge, all these wild opportunities and scary possible losses, everything palls in front of the following metaphysical consideration ( Read more... )

A beautiful rendition of the Koln COncert, one of my favorite pieces of music of all time:

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I also really like this old Xerox commercial I found recently:

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Every day I miss many different possibilities; not the whole stupid "choice" argument nor a question of willpower. No, information passes through the day at an alarming rate but I miss it entirely, act oblivious to it because of the pretenses and narratives that come from the past. We don't remember evidence, we interpret it, and it becomes ( Read more... )

Just a comparison between two things:

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Also, you'll have to wait around 45 seconds into the second video to get the full picture here.

Bonus: playing them simultaneously might work if you time them right

Giving a presentation on a math paper that I'm still not finished with (after spending all day reading it) on Wednesday and winging a blues-dance routine on Tuesday to pass an ExCo. More to come in the latter half of this week.

Here we go again.

So tired right now, and I've gotten a reasonable amount of sleep. Writing up this problem set shouldn't be a big deal except that I'm feeling exhausted and still need to worry about writing 15 more pages of my English senior capstone draft ( Read more... )

I feel utterly exhausted after this past month. It's not from a lack of sleep or never taking any down time, I did both of those to keep my efficiency up; but the sheer stress of the whole situation has taken a real toll on me. As of Friday, when I finally gave the presentation that represented the beginning of the end, I felt overwhelmed ( Read more... )

Everyone's been talking about big big big big big plans. I'm presenting on Inteactive Storytelling today for at least 50 people, but it could be as many as 100. I wish the sun hadn't woken me up so early, I'm tired. Either way, this isn't going to stop me: nothing will at this point ( Read more... )