September 2008
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100 Words on Moral
As per VelvetVerbosity’s challenge:
In a concrete expanse under I-95, a man trashes around wildly and hurls debris at my tripod. His cathartic howling rips through the roar of traffic. This display is inspired by his lover’s confession of infidelity. I’m here to photograph his pain so he can show her later. When my film runs out, he’s weeping; broken. I suggest in earnest that he leave her....
August 2008
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100 Words on Evolution
Human minds are originally unwritten and each develops uniquely. Thus each human life (like the universe itself) contains unlimited potential for developmental variation. The mind is a microcosm, its thoughts the DNA. Minds which hold some appeal to the common denominator are consumed by the masses and prosper, while those which stray too far from the norm are be considered mutations. The Artist,...
July 2008
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100 Words on City
Stepping out of a shaded side street, she merges with the radiant din. The surrounding human buzz presses her from all sides, numbing her unbearable self awareness, and silencing the broken record thought: “What have I done…”
A few moments later she merges completely, becoming invisible - even to herself. All that remains are the walls of neon signs, booming empty rainbow...
June 2008
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Facebook's Japanese Obstacle
This post is a response to JapanProbe’s article about Facebook’s recent Japanese GUI translation and privacy issues which will hinder it’s penetration rate in Japan.
A Japanese friend of mine, whose English level is higher than most, but not conversationally fluent, has been on Facebook for a while, doing her best in the native English GUI. When the Japanese translation came in,...
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Culture Value Differences and Energy Consumption
Today, JapanProbe posted an article criticizing the Washington Post for a recent article describing Japanese energy efficiency. Overall the Post painted a flattering picture of how Japan saves energy in the home, but it made an exception when it came to electronic toilet seats, presumably because there are very few of such seats in the U.S. This caused JapanProbe to call foul due to cultural bias....
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100 Words on Protection
When perceiving a threat, the frightened and lazy-minded man knee-jerks into a fear-based mode of thinking, and moves to lessen the likeliness or degree to which he can be affected. He has taken the easy way out, and in doing so he has forsaken the Good Fight of finding a resolution to the threat’s underlying cause. In effect, he has invited the threat to persist. Screw condoms. Screw airbags....
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“Routine is the enemy of intelligence.”
– Steve Pavlina
Checklist
1. Stop hiding who you really are. 2. Start being intensely selfish. 3. Stop following the rules. 4. Start scaring yourself. 5. Stop taking it all so damn seriously. 6. Start getting rid of the crap. 7. Stop being busy. 8. Start something. 9. Don’t worry what others will think about you.
April 2007
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“It’s ineffective to attempt to force an external change without making the...”
– Steve Pavlina
March 2007
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Office Ergonomics →
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“The real key to motivation is to set goals that scare you.”
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“When my mind thinks a goal is wrong on some level, I usually feel blocked. This...”
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“Lies you tell others are shadowed by lies you tell yourself.”
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“Maybe the air is intelligent elsewhere in the universe.”
– Dad
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From Filtered Water to Smart Air
overstated: bought me a big ol' bag of chocolate-covered peanuts and gonna eat 'um all up, but something about doing it while drinking apple juice just doesn't feel right. usually i do it with coke but I've been trying to avoid coke lately.
Speroni M: apple juice is such a wussy drink. it makes ya sound all kiddish and wiw
overstated: it's like what toddlers drink through those special glasses with the lids and the funnel thingies - the transition from bottles to 'grown up' cups - big yellow plastic toddler lidded cups fulla apple JEE-OOSE
Speroni M: be a man and get some ornj jewce, or be an ol' man and get some grapefruit juice.
overstated: or just be an amurkane and get a coke
Speroni M: or a buhd layht..OR you could be a hippy and drink water
overstated: I could be a yuppy hippy and drink bottled water...OR an economically minded yuppy hippy (yippy?) and buy my own water purification system for house water..attach shit to my faucets
Speroni M: we have something like that here only it's not on the sink
overstated: yeah so did i when i lived with Cassandra. she even had one on the shower spout to filter the shower water.
Speroni M: it's like a little container w/a filter and you pour the tap water into it and over-time it filters it up. but since I drink like 1/100th of a glass of water a year, I don't really have much use for it.
overstated: yeah she had one of those too, so we had double filtered uber water: filtered out of the tap, and filtered in the big jug thing
Speroni M: er, that much filtering, you'll end up distilling it into its essence. You'll drink straight hydrogen and oxygen gas. somehow filtering it will split the atoms, and I guess you'd have some minor pollution getting into the water when you transferred it from sink to filter jug. Little air particles and such. Plus it'd pick up some of the molecules from the plastic it touched.
overstated: thinking about that..i sort of think the way they teach chemistry in school is really dumb. the way its taught you end up with the notion that things are actually separate. a tree is a tree and it's made up of 'tree atoms'. sure we know 'tree atoms' are mostly Carbon, but we still have the notion that "tree" is totally and unarguable separate from "shoe".
Speroni M: well, a tree is made of a substance which is made of molecules which are made of atoms, all fused together to make the "tree"..I dunno what "wood" is. the molecular structure is probably different in types of wood, but I dunno. seems like it would be. differences don't just exist simply cos Jaysuz said "Oak trees is diffurnt from cedarz!"
overstated: prolly, but still there is really no difference between tree and shoe..they are connected constantly. like through air..air is a substance..we 'swim' through air constantly, but we never think about it that way cos it's just 'always there'..but air is made of molecules just like trees and shoes are, and there is a certain amount of connectedness between tree molecules and air molecules..and likewise between shoe molecules and air molecules
Speroni M: and things we find on other planets are made of the same molecules as the stuff we have on earth (allegedly). so that means all things originated from one source, I guess.
overstated: my dad doesn't think so
Speroni M: even tho they've allegedly found evidence to support that claim?
overstated: the one and only time he has ever spoken something philosophical/theoretical/interesting to me in my whole life, he said he thought it was stupid that people assume that if there is life on other planets, that it must be made of the same stuff we are made of..he said that we have gas, liquid, solids...but maybe somewhere else there's something different.
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“If you don’t feel like you are writing somewhat over your head, then you are not...”
– John Irving
“We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence then, is not an act, but a habit.”
– Aristotle
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“Last year a UK government study predicted that in the next 50 years robots could...”
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“Oslo topped the list of the most expensive cities worldwide, followed by Paris,...”
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“Saying “No” takes practice and self-respect.”
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“Don’t put up with something that doesn’t work right. If your alarm...”
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