neoliminal

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(Thanks Alice)

1.Take a picture of yourself right now.
2.Don’t change your clothes, don’t fix your hair…just take a picture.
3.Post that picture with NO editing.
4.Post these instructions with your picture.

It.s not the end but it feels like it is
I.m waking up like I.m back from the dead
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Looks like we are making graphene. Won't be long now. To say graphene will change everything would require deleting previous uses of the term. Graphene will go beyond changing everything, it will be everything. Not in an Ice 9 way, either.

I wonder what colour it is. Grey, I guess, like lead in pencils.

So here's to graphene. Now where's my investment banker. I need to write a check.

build your own television receiver
staying home can't be that bad for me
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Oh sure, you're reading this and I typed it, but I think I typed it a long long time ago. Imagine a program that would allow you to simulate people's lives based on whatever information you could give it. The more information, the better the simulation. You could even try "what if" scenarios.

If my son, for example, wanted to understand why I killed myself on his 5th birthday (don't worry Jackson/Cole, I'm not planning to do anything of the sort), he could gather all the information about me and replay that time in my life, or my whole life, and try to understand what happened. I assume anyone that young would carry some burden of thinking they were to blame. Having access to this kind of simulation would provide, perhaps, a therapeutic effect.

How could you know you were in such a simulation rather than living the first run?

Well there's "odds". The odds are that such a simulation would get run several times, so if you're thinking this thought and it's been thought 10 times, once originally and 9 times in a simulation, then you have a 10% chance of being the first.

The simulation might not be "complete". That would mean that some past events might have to be missing or sketchy. I'm not the only one who has a hard time remember things from their past, but perhaps in the original run people can remember things from their past with more clarity or even photographically.

"Input data" would restrict possible memories or thoughts. I've got a pretty extensive Live Journal account. At one point I had a pretty full medical history here. Have I blogged or otherwise written all the events from my past that I can remember? Will I at some point write a biography giving more in depth data for a simulation? Of course every time I entered something that was used by the simulator it would have to happen at that time/place to be accurate. Some rendering of my thoughts at that time, leading up to an impetus to enter them into my journal.

All this leads me to feeling like this is just a simulation.

Or maybe I'm just having a bad day.

I spent the day with my friend Patrick. He was tricked into being Battalion Commander at work. Then he showed me Star Wars again, but this time he explained that I had somehow totally missed that Luke was a double agent for the empire who recants later in the movie. The pivotal scene is the confrontation between Yoda and Luke where Luke puts a blade to his throat and threatens to kill him. Yoda bemoans the fact that he doesn't have his lightsabre and this is a hint that he's more than a little puppet.

Man I have odd dreams. (who doesn't?)

Just the obvious contridiction.

http://travel.state.gov/passport/ppt_card/ppt_card_3926.html

From the current FAQ:

"Won't this chip violate Americans. privacy?

There is no personal information written on the electronic chip itself. The only information contained on the chip is a unique number which points to a stored record contained in secure government databases."

Future FAQ:

"Why did the U.S. PASSPORT CARD replace State Driver's Licenses for identification?

Driver's Licenses represent the right to drive a motor vehicle and are normally issued by a State's Department of Motor Vehicles. Neither the card nor the DMV were intended to give a person a document for identification. Congress made it unlawful to use a Driver's Licenses as federal identification in 2011 because of it's inability to be a secure and robust system for identification. Currently the only two forms of identification the Federal Government acknowledges are a Passport or Passport Card."

I like the b-sides more than the single
I love people's flaws more than their virtues
I look for the cracks in cups and in tea pots
and I linger in the oddest of venues

Some people like to read the end of stories before finishing the stories. Something about knowing the ending of the story helps them from being nervous for the protagonist.

I have a secret.

I know the end of the story. You do too, but for most people the ending of their our own story is uncomfortable.

We die. I die, you die... everyone dies. The end.

I'm sorry if I've ruined the ending for you. You must have seen the ending coming. The foreshadowing was there all along.

There are only so many pages in your book. You could skip ahead and find the ending. You die, but I suggest you go back to your bookmark and enjoy the page you're on. Knowing the ending doesn't make the story less interesting, every story ends.

I know another secret.

A book unread is quite boring. It's just a piece of wood. An uncarved block.

It's you that makes the story interesting. The reader makes a story interesting. You read the words made of ink on paper (or pixels on display) and you create for yourself the images of the story. You fill in the blanks that are always left between the sentences. Every story is different for every reader because no two people read it the same way.

So your story, the one you are living now, is different than it is for anyone else. No one will ever read your story the way you read it and that's wonderful. On every page, you can make it more exciting, interesting, or intriguing. It's up to you. A possibility, not a responsibility. I'm not preaching here.

I wouldn't be surprised if your current page is blank and you're writing your story yourself. Some of you live life this way but there's nothing wrong with thinking the story is already written. It's still a good story.