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Fixing stuff, myself included…
The Machine
When you haven’t worked with a program for a while you forget just what does what. So I’m busy creating (trying to remember how to create) a function for the random selection of “loves me” or “loves me not” flash file for the machine. You can either accept the answer given as definitive, or press your luck until you get the answer you’re looking for. Once I get all the kinks ironed out, I’ll post the Love Tester permanently on the right side of the blog page.
So what; who cares?
Only little kids probably, but little kids are sometimes smarter than you think. Stastically speaking the odds are “most likely” NOT in your favor. However, if you don’t like the odds get away from the craps table.
“The best way to predict the future is to invent it.”
–Alan Kay
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All Day
Here I am in relation to what’s going on all f—ing day: LoveTesting Machine the file by the way – I’m pushing the limits (i.e. if you’re here tonignt you can ripoff this flash file with no screaming crap (me yelling at you)! If you’re not here now, it will be gone tomorrow, because then it will be a protected file. (Jan. 6, 2002=too late) So here it is all finished!, or maybe half baked!
I never think of the future. It comes soon enough.
–Albert Einstein
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Dreamer
On New Year’s Eve I had a nightmare; one of those where you keep trying to wake-up, only to find yourself still dreaming, but you don’t quite know it’s a dream as you struggle with the fear, and instinctively push towards the surface. In lucid dreaming terminology this would be classified as a pre-lucid dream, because you are lucid in the sense that you are “trying to wake-up.”
What is a lucid dream?
A lucid dream is a dream in which you know you are dreaming. Eighty percent of the population has experienced at least one lucid dream in their lifetime, and between 10% and 20% of the population are frequent lucid dreamers (2 or more a month). It’s that instant of recognition that qualifies it as lucid. The realization may be brief, or it may last for an extended period of time and include control of the dream.
Can the frequency of lucid dreaming be increased?
Yes, there are techniques which can increase the frequency. Just paying more attention to your dreams in general is a prerequisite to lucidity. Paying attention means keeping a dream journal, keeping it by the bed, and writing down the details of your dreams upon awakening, even in the middle of the night.
What else can I do?
Develop what’s called critical facility. In the jargon of lucid dreaming, critical facility is a questioning attitude towards events/situations/reality. One particular technique for increasing critical facility is to ask yourself the question through out the day: am I dreaming? Look around and see if things are odd or out of place. The more often you do this in waking life the more likely you are to ask yourself the question while you are dreaming and then the answer will be yes!
How can I remember to question myself?
Buy yourself a new bracelet or take one out of the drawer that you never wear. Wear this bracelet all the time, and when you notice the bracelet ask yourself if you are dreaming.
Why would I want to go to all this trouble?
Trust me, once you’ve experienced a lucid dream you’ll know. The moment when you realize that you are dreaming is so exquisite; perhaps it should be described as a mental orgasm. You have to guard against becoming so excited that you wake-up. As you become more accustomed to dreaming lucidly, you will find that the benefits far outweigh the trouble. Nightly adventures await you; so go for it.
“Minds are like parachutes; they work best when open.”
–Lord Thomas Dewar
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Calendar Days
Just ripped off the first page of the Gary Larson Far Side Calendar; you’ve got to love that guy. Some of the best things in life are very, very funny. Perhaps we should protest in Washington; we just don’t have enough funny guys on the Supreme Court. 
Clarence Thomas is burnt out and should stop clowning around; after all it takes more than one clown to stop a date with a pie. Somehow I doubt that the new series (First Monday) based on the Supreme Court is going to be a sit. com., but then again you never know. Maybe the first episode will be paid for by Coca Cola, and will feature a guest appearance by Anita Hill. She turns out to be a beautiful drag queen spurned by the homophobic Thomas, but only after the hidden facts are revealed in chambers. The cliff hanger, end of the season episode would find the now diagnosed with cancer Thomas, cruising the local drag queen haunts in search of a joint to ease the nausea associated with his chemo treatments. In the final minutes of the show we find him under the influence of the drug (“without medical benefits” –Clarence Thomas); we’re left to wonder over the summer if he will consummate his reunion with the beautiful Anita who provided the evil weed.
Do you think everything is funny?
Mostly yes. It’s a point of view kind of thing. It’s when the laughter goes against your “cherished” point of view that we tend to chafe at the bit. Be it a bit part, a bitter pill or a bit more than you can handle when the laughter stops the bitterness sets in. If you find yourself with a bitter taste in your mouth, it might be good time to take your foot out.
“Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh.”
–George Bernard Shaw
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Da Shoes
Yes I wore da shoes, and no I didn’t end up in the Jersey Meadowlands. The party was small (twenty people tops). My lover arrived around 11:30 as anticipated; I supose/suspect the earlier part of the evening was spent with folks I’ve been deemed to have nothing in common with.
Why do you think that?
No explanation of the early part of the evening was forthcoming, and thus elicited my parameter “I respect your privacy mode.” So barring devine revalation, I have to draw my own conclusions. Left to my own devices I’m likely to assume that (True != True and False != False) and come up with some vaiation of the two.
if (explanation = 0) then
u = privacy mode;
i != questions;
else if (explanation > 0) then
u = connected;
i = connected;
else if (none of the above = True) then
u ++ i < connected;
What do you really think?
Sometimes I think just being alive counts for enough; but I don’t always think this way. Sometimes I think my account has been shorted, and I end up feeling cheated by my own inadequacies. Hmmmm, perhaps I should say shortcomings.
“Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted.”
–Albert Einstein
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