So…fraternities and sororities are pretty much just a combination of gay civil unions and polygamy, whilst defying sexual transgressivity.
Game On!
There’s no other feeling in the world like trading card games. Is The Game, “The made up rule sets and powers of the characters and ideas you play with using the cards when gambling,” or is The Game, “The act… Read more…
The Ultimate Anti-Lying Truthout
Combinations and permutations of these techniques, and mastery of their countermeasures are left to you, dear reader: … Read more…
Betray Not Those Who Kill To Teach, For Their Lesson Are Endless
A synopsis I produced of sensory dissonance I was exposed to at one of my hospice respites follows. Methods of MysLeading SomeOnes, OR: How I Got Lost, Got Cheated, and Got Fooled Pheremone/Musk spraying to misdirect smell and attract predators and… Read more…
sUPRAcURRENCYiNDICATION
[ONE, TWO, SKIP A FEW…THREE, FOUR, SKIP SOME MORE.] [IN SERT CRED IT] *clink, thunk, plink* [PEN NY RE CEIVED.] [PLEASE EN TER A COM MAND.] (1)+1+1+1+1 /Return [= 5] /Print5CentCoin *ching* [PLEASE RE MOVE NIC KEL] [IN SERT CRED IT]… Read more…
Bait and Lure
Can you conceive of any reason why someone would cover an expensive, technologically-advanced, multi-use, tar-paved road with dirt and gravel, then draw a sideways branch out of it that approximates the low-tech surface features? What might you hide at the… Read more…
Planning Ahead Versus Foresight
Did you know you can perform a subtraction function without counting backwards from the higher number to the lower number, thereby “removing” one amount from another? Simply add one unit to the lower number, while keeping track of how many ones you… Read more…
Sexual Categorical Imperative
Imagine for a moment that every man on earth dies at the same moment, and has their genitals harvested for randomized artificial insemination, leaving behind an entire planet of single mothers who would then go on to raise an entire… Read more…
Fizzy Rail
Localized, buzzing teleelectric wire with radiating cylindrical emissions following a repeating pattern with discrete substructure. Wire. Ow. Ow. Ow. Must report to operating authority. Repairative agent will record radial waves and look for waveform encoding, then repair the emitters that… Read more…
Marvelling Martian
It would be super funny to fly a spacecraft close to the sun with a giant magnifying glass and several strategically mobile, unattached, mirror coated, point-directional assistive focusing dishes around it, and then point it at other planets to see… Read more…
Melon Cholic
I just tried one of the bright red berries right by my staircase for the first time. The berries are arranged in the same positions and share the same locations on the stems as small green bulbs and white flowers…. Read more…
Mine Deiery Queen
Oh, whence the spicy-peppered cremes and cheeses? Blue Belle…A sad, “Sad loneley southern woman’s name” name for a sad product. Give the children pickles and peppers and cooking herbs in their sno-cones so that they might learn another way. Whither… Read more…
The Bitter Butter Battle
First I would kick sand at your legs to get you to go away. When you came back to bother me, I would throw mud at your chest. If you persisted, I would fling my feces at you. If that didn’t deter you,… Read more…
King of the Hill
There are three models of universal doctrine on the formation of physical structures: one which is accretionary, one which is dissipatory, and one which is chaotic. In other words, things can naturally attract to one another and stick together in order… Read more…
Pre-Emptive Strikeout
It’s a sad state of affairs when I can not take each new experience I have and use it to reflect directly upon the previous moment of my life in a way that is cumulatively constructive. All I can do… Read more…
Ex-squeeze Me?
Did you know Windows 8 speaker filters have an option for removing vocals from all music tracks? It works incredibly well. Just right-click the speaker icon in the lower-right hand corner of the screen, click Playback Devices, select your speakers,… Read more…
E Still Equals mc^2?
Einstein’s postulate that nothing is faster than the observed speed of light is wrong. Ultimately, what he proved was that we could not visually and objectively perceive anything which travels faster than light, which is a limitation of our ability… Read more…
In the Throes of Ennui
With the reliability of perceptions in doubt, seeing as any impressions within a person’s being can be fabricated by an external party, I resultantly find that the core of my intellectual framework is void of the ability to undergo environmental conditioning any… Read more…
Bang! Pow! Right in the Kisser!
I just watched a documentary (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=26FRAk8I2hs)about a new particle that was discovered by the Large Hadron Collider. If it, in fact, turns out to be something other than the Higgs boson (which is theorized to provide the proton with its quality… Read more…
Easter Sunday Religious Thoughts
Sometimes I feel like I’m following in the footsteps of the movie characters, musicians, storybook heroes, or socialites in my media sphere, without even wanting or trying to. After watching a compilation video of people eating cactuses, I had the… Read more…
Turn for the Unexpected
“It gets better with age.” “Really?” “Yeah, little buddy, time heals all wounds!” “Reaalllyy!?!?” “You’ve just got to remember that there’s someone out there looking out for you to make sure you don’t get hurt.” “Oh. What if I don’t… Read more…
Amending the Founder’s Words
During the early years of the United States, American Founding Father Benjamin Franklin said, “Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety.” He was the kind of man smart enough… Read more…
Future Marketing Dream Theater
I had a dream recently where I was a skinny body double that couldn’t interact with my fat, original self, lest I be found out and break the rules of the universe, so I dropped a little piece of green plastic… Read more…
I Found A Shady Place to Sit
When talking about how we are doing, more commonly than not, a busily worn out person will report that they are “depressed”. This perpetuates a linguistic indistinction between depression (a lack of overt external pressure, leading to despondence) and oppression… Read more…
Cloudy with a Chance of Apocalypse
The apocalyptic scenario whereby ALL Cloud Storage files go offline, leaving the majority of the world without data, is called 青色空 (Aoi Sora: Ah-Oh-Ee Soh-Rah) in Japanese, or Blue Sky, in English. Imagine a world without internet, without servers, without… Read more…
Less Pi For Everyone!
What fractional value of Pi that is not Pi or zero produces the smallest number, in terms of digits used to represent it, when Pi is divided by it? You could try solving the limit of some value x between zero… Read more…
What the Hell Just Happened?
In direct contrast to the Anthropic Principle, whereby every perceivable phenomenon is caused for mankind, in a mankind-centered universe, designed specifically so that mankind might conceive of it, I propose the Xenopic Principle: Most phenomenon in the universe are caused by collections… Read more…
Medical-Psychiatric Myth, Bagged and Tagged (Medley)
Turn off Audio Description (AD) on your TV if you get the impression that it is talking to you or following your thoughts or actions. It’s a free and sometimes automatic service for visually impaired viewers that follows their moves… Read more…
Mathematical Collision Detection
Calculating collisions in a software graphing engine: 1. Each object in your simulation is represented by a matrix overlayed on a three dimensional grid, defining the space it occupies with points. For this example, let us posit that there are two objects… Read more…
All Bad Things Must Come to an End
Worst mashup in history: 1. Kafka-esque trial, full of self doubt, loss, alienation, and imaged misjudgement by others. No matter the content of the person’s soul, they are judged guilty, even by themself. 2. Kant-ian, binarily-exclusionist-collectivist morality. In other words, take Kant’s theory that… Read more…
You Can Do It! Put Some Back Into It!
Wouldn’t it be cool if candidates raised campaign funds by investing in research and education and luxuries and entertainment and industry and farming and growth and technology instead of begging for handouts and panhandling by proxy, sort of like what… Read more…
“Hey, Isn’t that ‘The Animal Collective’?”
I have a business idea for an alternative to Shazaam, the music recognition software application. Any time you hear a song you don’t recognize, you record it with your phone and it gets uploaded and resent to the music department… Read more…
More TECHNO_Musings
The Apple iPad would be perfect if it used haptic feedback like the Motorola Droid 2 line of cellphones. Find whoever holds that feedback patent and invest heavily, because they stand to make a killing from licensing it. Then, again,… Read more…
Thinking About Machine Efficiency
I wish that by left clicking on the time display in the lower right hand corner of my screen in order to bring up the calendar, I could then right click on days on the calendar and add scheduled items for… Read more…
Ancient Empire
I’ve heard threats that the furry holocaust is coming. Aztec quetzal headed creatures. Indonesian tusked boar headed creatures. Indian elephant headed creatures. Egyptian jackal headed creatures. Greek bull headed creatures. Gothic bat headed creatures. European goat headed creatures. For a… Read more…
Updated Terminologies for Physical Interactions of Light
Retraction: Angling a light through, or onto and then off of, a lens, such that the light changes direction based upon the curvature of glass, without loss of coherence or intensity. Refraction: Angling a light through, or onto and then off of,… Read more…
This Is An Actual Place Where Real People Actually Live
Tummy tummy biggies, with not a lot to eat. They’ll swallow in the world, and darn it out to meat. Even when it’s ick, they can’t control their tastes, tummy tummy biggies, they live in outer space. Silly, hidey, straws,… Read more…
Protrusion Goes Where?
It is possible for two creatures that look nothing alike to have the ability to breed (sexual dimorphism). It is possible for two creatures that look exactly the same to have no ability to breed with one another (co-developmental physiological… Read more…
How Weird Is That?
If your roto rooter can’t extend from it’s tips, retract it’s stems, split and develop out new branches from any position, twist and coil and wave and change direction of its parts, study the entire network with every available tool… Read more…
Crusty Old Lies
Facial Recognition software is a total crash market because of phenotypal selective breeding, surgery, material coating, and interracial recognitional incomprehension. Fingerprinting is a total crash market because of skin engraving. DNA testing is a total crash market because of pre… Read more…
The Longest Con
✝is not the sign of Christianity. It is the sign of Televangelism. It is the telephone pole. Defined as such, it is death, decay, disease, disaster, detestation, and deconstruction, and that is all that supercysts on the outer surface of the pole’s all-powerful being,… Read more…
The Stuff of Legends
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It would be cool to design a color capture device on TVs and computers to collect visual display components, separate the good from the bad, and construct things with them. It would be cool to create an interactive chemical-animation flatscreen science… Read more…
Ulterior Motivations
Different tiers of atmospheric components settle at different elevations. The empire is filthy as fuck (plagues, industry, waste, capitalism, race slavery, technology). That is to say, if the colony I was in was indeed run by English, British-speaking, and British-cultured… Read more…
Student Nano-Engineering Project: Born from Ride
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Requesting 100 Gazillion (Un-metered Un-divided Krillograms) worth of no-cost, stably-reproducing, fickle-eating, shit-tethered, flying shrimp to take all the nasty dirt that is everywhere to somewhere else. They are to confine the filth within long sheaths that exit from their rectums… Read more…
Break Me off a Piece of That
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Before petabytes, there were terabytes. Before terabytes, there were gigabytes. Before gigabytes, there were megabytes. Before megabytes, there were kilobytes. Before kilobytes, we probably should have measured in hectobytes and decabytes. Before that, there were just bytes. Within bytes, we… Read more…
Little Bo Peep? Oh, Where are your Sheep?
Sheepherd = Chevalies = Chav = Chef = Suff = Suffer = Sephaerdic = Shuffle = Shouf = Chafe = Chief = Souf = Saffrun = Saif = Shiv = Shoufa = Shuffit = Saf-fir = Shift = Feif =… Read more…
Open to Interpretation
The statement, “I can’t love you any less”, can be used to represent either complete lack of love, or love that grows without end.
Of Ants and Men
Do you kill just the ant that bites you, or do you kick over the whole hill? Maybe you carefully brush it off your skin and part ways, or maybe you stick around to see how it works. Kids tend to make a go… Read more…
Flight and Fancy
A navigation experiment: In your chosen vehicle, follow the moon at night every day for an entire year. See where you end up. I can almost guarantee you that you won’t have been the first to try. Would you end… Read more…
Potato Interrogative
If you want to make a potato go mental, ask it about it’s family history. Self-examination can bring down the strongest person, and I’m sure it feels uncomfortable to consciously bridge the gap between the present and your own birth,… Read more…