Be an interplanetary spy ...

They just don't make interactive entertainment like they used to in the 80s ... Think of the children!

Some relatively real issues ...

``Getting outside of the box, is more than just getting out of the box and walking away ...''

Every scientist is a child ...

We brain scientists, we try to figure out how to figure out how the brain works ... and maybe even how to fix it sometimes, and its alot of fun ...

for me ... I'm compelled to do it... my dreamy childish mind was made for it ...

“Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once we grow up.”  -- Pablo Picasso

On that vein, would you mind me asking, I'm very curious, what motivates you to write? I'd appreciate it if you'd try to describe it ... where do the ideas and truths come from I mean ... is it impulsive? ... is there a process? Do you get into a "high" state?  Do solutions come in the shower? Do you wake up with solutions?  Do they come as you fall asleep?  Is a story a problem to solve at all ... with many arduous iterations, or does a prototype just flow out, and then a few corrections here and there ... how many stories do you write and throw away for 1 "good" one? If it takes an hour to read, how long does it take to write ... Do you observe your process, or does it just happen ... appearing and dissappearing, or do you write all the time ...   do you see where I'm going with this?  or am I waaay off the money ... you see I wonder about the mental landscape of your creative process ... is it another climate or not ...

Sorry, maybe you feel like a specimen being studied ... or maybe you've seen it all before ... just wanted to throw that out there ...

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The brain has the consistency of cold porridge

`` We are not interested in the fact that the brain has the consistency of cold porridge.''

    -- Alan Turing

Donald says the darndest things ...

 ``Beware of bugs in the above code; I have only proved it correct, not tried it.''

 -- Donald Knuth

Hurry up and relax!

The problems of our time
in our time
in due time
just in time
its only a matter of time
running out of time
time's money
times square
no time to think
take your time and run
for the time machine
A stitch in time
saves 9.
Time will tell
if we stand the test
of time
... take time for yourself.

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The timeless challenge of humanity

Finding strength and ingenuity to be positive, constructive and engaged in face of life's cruelty and injustice is the timeless challenge of humanity.

This curious phrase, once uttered in a mind's echo in solitude under a full moon, can help us along our way:

The meaning of life is to give life meaning

... and to seek out darjeeling,  bergamot and walnuts, wherever they may be found, and spread their humble wisdoms thus imparted.


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Catch a river

Beautiful, destructuve,
boundaries, transformative.

Rise above the banks,
and flood the earth
with your liquid richness.

The untethered beauty
that becomes a swamp in a cage.

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A commentary on the final remarks of "BBC Horizon - Thinking"

"if the mind was a computer
then the freedom of the will would be an illusion

[i.e. the will of the will is an illusion of the will ... true]

we wouldn't really think for ourselves
[false, not implied, false dichotomy: the illusion of freedom of will is compatible with thinking for oneself, yet another illusion of the will]
but we do
[think for ourselves that is, illusory or not, it is true by definition]
and instead exactly what thinking is
remains to be seen"

Disclaimer

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Should the intellectual objects hereto referred to as such bring forth misgivings, or be deemed otherwise uncromulant, then responsibility should bear forth upon the progenitor's shoulders from whence they originated, and none such other.  As such, DBW, sole proprietor and solicitor, remains therefore singly and uniquely accountable in word and deed, and none other as alternative or substitute.

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1e10 friends for ∞

All right, that's it, fuck it.
Fuck privacy.

Embrace the NWO: 1e10 friends.
Plaster your life all over the internet

for ∞ eternity ∞

No need to worry
It'll be lost in "The Cloud"
of too much information
to humanly process.

Enter the robots,
new class divisions,
and empires of automation,
until the oil runs out.

God bless our Delicious Earth.
We'll suck her dry.




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I want a movie that reads like a book

I want a movie that reads like a book
I want a dream everywhere I look

But you cant have the ocean
                            inside a cup
  And you can't have emotion

Without          no              luck

I walked all the way to Hamburg
                       to find some space
Caught a bus out to Amsterdam
    running from the human race

I told 'em
I want a movie that reads like a book
but they gave me a dream on
                               the end of a hook

Cuz you can't have emotion
                         inside a cup
And you can't have the ocean
                layin on the rocks

I caught a ride to the mooon
       but you don't come back
   and you'll see all too sooon
you ain't never never never never
never never never never comin back

No you ain't never never never never
never never never coming back

So kiss me now
                              under the sun
And show me how
                              you wanna run

I got to get this feeling out of here
                       that its all been done
and we were never free ...............
                                that its all a run
                 towards nothing nothing
   nothing nothing nothing nothing
                             nothing left of me

I want emotion I want mystère
I want your fingers running through my hair
                  
I wanna see a movie that reads like a book
and I want to dream everywhere I look



 
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Idea flow

Idea flow

how to document a river?
capture
sort out
combine
take to fruition
implement

Frustration

ideas come better
if not recording them
free of secretary responsibilities

Alas

ideas are fragile and fleeting
not externalized
or burned into synapses

short term memory
jumping like a humming bird from flower to flower
unravels ideas like a fraying rope

It is better to leave a trail of breadcrumbs
god forbid one should lose their way
and become entranced by a candy house

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On Creativity ...

Its not just ...
Mental babble
Free association
The hoard of monkeys feverishly attempting shakespeare

There must be an element of "get it right the first time"
inspiration
stroke of genius
or luck.

John Cleese on Creativity says it takes time.


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A horse walks into a bar ...

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Only a moment ...

It takes a moment to understand,

fleeting and effortless,

seemingly pointless,

yet blissful.

It takes a moment to understand,

like grasping with your hand

a bare electric wire.

Shockingly plainly obvious

you've found a new point of view.

It takes a moment to understand

the message in the sand.

Then you've lost it again,

maybe never to return,

a test of the free will

to find that course and then ...

it takes a moment to understand, 

there's a universe outside this land,

upon which we proudly stand.

A bridge is waiting for us

if we can only understand ...

It takes a moment to understand,

and a lifetime to live it. 

Your secrets die with you, 

your moments lost.

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This holiday season, idleness is good ...

I would say I'm a philosophical guy: I've heard "the meaning of life is to give life meaning", and I think those are good words to live by.

Though, often I find myself thinking I am living a "get ahead" mentality. On thoughtful conscious contemplation, I'm pretty sure "ahead" isn't a nice place to end up, one of those recurring "us and them" scenarios, but then rarely can we afford a deep look-ahead into the implications of each or our choices in our barrage of daily dilemmas.

Humans are social animals, and much of the unknown factor in our daily lives is of human origin. Can you be trusted, or are you trying to "get ahead" of me? Do I have to "get ahead" just a bit to protect myself from "them", those others who never seem to rest? Our seasonal fellow, Mr. Scrooge, is a pedagogical example of the result of perpetualizing this humbug.

So humans and wolves, unlike most domesticated dogs, try to get ahead. This is probably instinctual. I'm finding taking this to heart, and being a good sport about it, is a step forward, without getting ahead of myself. It's not like there could be a secret code or handshake that one could gesture to cut through the crap and forge a bond of immediate trust: either it would be contained to such a limited circle to be of no use, or it wouldn't be secret for long. Relationships are a perpetual negotiation, aren't they? When I am conscious of this, I feel comforted. There is no shortcut to forging bonds of trust. With presumably so many trustworthy people in the world jockeying, why then should we feel entitled rest at another's expense? Well perhaps we might just let ourselves afford it. As a young boy, two weeks into summer vacation, I always did find myself getting pretty bored of cartoons, froot-loops and Nintendo ... and what satisfaction when a rejuvenated imagination finally set me free to entertain higher pursuits. My grandmother used to say: "Activity makes life sweet, while idleness strengthens the appendages."

And so may the idleness of the holiday season bring with it strength and inspiration for us all to pursue those activities and occupations with true and enduring meaning, meaning of life. And may you stay forever young ... in 2011 and beyond.

Sincerely yours,

darjebergamowalnu

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When we all win

To win a debate, one has to desire to be right.
One has to keep fighting until decisive victory,
or time runs out, and the meeting is adjourned.

However, the desire to be right does not make one right.
One fights to learn to be the winner, or loser.
We are all winners when we know and do as is right.
Alas, we are all losers when following a false Prophet.

The truth is not decided by debate.
The truth is in the pudding.
May the truth be told.

"Know the truth, and the truth will set you free." (John 8:31)
May the truth protect you from what you want.

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There are only 2 hard problems in computer science

"There are only 2 hard problems in computer science: cache invalidation, naming things and off-by-one errors"

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