Yesterday was my father's birthday.   I spent the day with the stomach bug, trying not to vomit.  I slept alot.  this is what I dreamed.

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My favorite depiction of the technological singularity -- the time in human advancement when our machines can think faster and better than we can -- is in the movie Transcendence. If you haven't seen it, stop reading this and go watch it. Johnny Depp plays a scientist who in trying to create a badass AI decides to somehow or other upload his own ( Read more... )

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You are a plucky green journalist in a society edging on technological singularity. You are in deep cover as a sporting judge to write an exposé on the international android showcase, a global event of unprecedented importance, you think, the first cybernetics engineering olympics, and it's not being telecast. The megacorporations involved ( Read more... )

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When the titan of the sky was overthrown, his essence was thrown into the sea, and when dawn touched that essence, where sky and ocean met, Aphrodite emerged from the foam of the union, long before the other gods were ready to receive her. She wandered the world lonely and sad, and all who beheld her loved her, but she did not know how to love back ( Read more... )

The problem with expressing my epiphanies is that they are founded on such fundamental concepts it's hard to phrase them in a way that captures the significance of how I've mapped them.  I am all feeling transcendent and magical and then I get blank faces and "yeah, so?" in response.  Well, the one I had the other night sprang from this quote that ( Read more... )

When I discovered the sanskrit word "mudita", I was astonished to discover that there is no english equivalent.  It means "the pleasure that comes from delighting in other people's well-being", or, more simply "sympathetic joy".  I have felt this so many times in my life, it might very well be my most common emotion (given a magical world where the ( Read more... )

On March 19th, 2015 I was on a holy mission.  The tyrannical city commissioners of Gainesville were preparing to vote into existence an ordinance that would make sleeping in any public place illegal.  A civil war was brewing, spearheaded by the landowners, the rich, against the homeless, the poor.  The landowners lobbied to have this ordinance ( Read more... )

Lately I have been worried about my progress as a person. I've felt stagnant, if not retrogressive. I wasn't sure of the cause of it until I found myself on a quest. The last third of my life has vacillated between hedonism and self-exploration. In seeking increasingly greater pleasures of the mind and body, I unlocked many secrets about myself and ( Read more... )