apart from these advantages for their communication, are legible concepts (often narratives) maybe also better tools for thought?
translated: moon-stink-and-flies. freed-thoughts-in-the-night. prospector-tooth.
Your mind has guests. No parasites, no, but satellites that run epicycles around your thoughts. Subtle, weird, emergent epipsyches.
Under the right conditions, your skull bud will burst open and unfurl a delicate brainflower, thoughts playing over it in shimmering hues
thoughts never end, they’re only lost↵your every thought becomes a universe, inhabitants wondering why God left them↵don’t have thoughts
@freemor@freemor.homelinux.net Interesting post about sharing. What’re thoughts about closed sharing community where you have to contribute to get something?
He catalogues his thoughts and a periodic system emerges. It is of great help hunting down undiscovered ideas, but he dreads its completion.
“You’re looking for life in space, but doing it wrong! You should be looking for signs of death, not life!” We thought his claims wild.
run two instances, let one watch and project its relief of not being the victim into the other’s thoughts
instrument a mind with debugging hooks to catch all “at least they didn’t come up with […]” thoughts
[Pulsar: I did WHAT? I was beaming my most private thoughts into the void all along? And the void fucking peeped?]
Her hair is a tangle of copper curls that broadcasts her thoughts.↵When she’s excited, your wifi and cellphone stop working.
Split the morpheme to uncover forbidden meaning. Forge alien thoughts into a linguistic strangelet bomb and with it raze the noosphere.
Ride the train of thought to its final destination, and then further. Hide from the conductor if need be.
his thoughts turn to sand and fall out of his ears in two rivulets
Make a bonfire of your thoughts, burn those you did not use in the winter. From the ash-laden rain will grow new ones.
@david@post.aldebaran.uberspace.de And i thought that was just a thing on the german wikipedia.
With the right finger movements, you can braid your thoughts or truss up secrets so tightly that nobody can extract them from you.
If you unknot these thoughts, the tangles will find their way into the twine again. Cheating is impossible. But that makes the knot useful.
The Thought (K)not tangles with your mind and is indestructible by force. Solve it with your fingers, pay in knotted thoughts.
the minotaur lurks in a conceptual labyrinth, every wrong turn of thought guarded by a basilisk
this thought brought to you by the question: what does the axis orthogonal to organic/crystalline look like? [A: both are structure]
Thought superconductors are impermeable to memories due to field interactions. The mind inside experiences everything in the same instant.
A vocoder but for thoughts: it removes their humanity and lets you modulate them onto the emotions of a machine.
Storms are sentient: Every eddy from the atomic level to the hurricane’s eye is a thought. They view us solid masses as psychically inert.
It does not have an exoskeletal skull around its brain, instead an endoskeletal support structure. One thought moves a hundred tiny bones.
your thought crystallizes and becomes regular, symmetric and repetitive↵you desperately look for a heat shock to break the lattice again
A new one has rolled in. Sleek, modern, no conductor or passengers. Can I hijack that? Whose thoughts are these and where will they take me?
I didn’t even lose my train of thought. I missed it entirely. The platform was empty when I arrived. Currently wandering along the tracks.
You watch your thoughts like water flowing over stones under sunlight, fascinated. But increasingly, the water takes on a dirty reddish tint
they rush in panicked stampede, crushing their own underfoot, thought blood seeping into the soil↵those that make it have gashes and bruises
It was his synesthesia that made him taste faces he saw, he thought. Until the day he tried to swallow one and its owner dropped, soulless.
A second sun is shining on the imaginary-numbered frequencies, into our thoughts, casts them in a light the trained eye can tell the time by
His brain a tangle of tiny organ pipes, his walk powering the bellows, his heart pumping oil, his thoughts aethereal music.
Basilisks lay their eggs in victims’ minds. The embryo will feed on idle thought, hatch and exit through the mouth. The victim never notices
Those affected became unable to think certain thoughts: if they so much as resembled the killed idea, they fizzled.
those whose thought resembles a bonfire↵those who think like a river↵those who contemplate the fire’s reflection↵those who douse the fire
The Martian
We just came from seeing the movie “ The Martian.” Minus the obvious, very predictable, Hollywood scenes, the movie was quite alright. It made me wish I could live to see the first few missions to the Red Planet. Being the selfless guy that I am, thought, I would be willing to settle if my child gets to see them instead.
While on the topic of movies, and theaters, it is amazing how expensive it is to see a movie these days. For three tickets we paid $36 … ⌘ Read more
Of no use
A farmer got so old that he couldn’t work the fields anymore. So he would spend the day just sitting on the porch. His son, still working the farm, would look up from time to time and see his father sitting there.
“ _He’s of no use any more,_” the son thought to himself, “ _he doesn’t do anything!_”
One day the son got so frustrated by this, that he built a wood coffin, dragged it over to the porch, and told his father to get in. Without saying anything, the father climbed inside. … ⌘ Read more
I loathe emoji
I despise Emoji and emoticons, specially graphical emoji, or people who continuously abuse them, and interject them in every single sentence they type, sometimes even more than once. I thought that I hated “LOL,” which I do, but I would rather see LOL — when justified, not the moronic “LOL” without reason you see often — than see the utter idiotic smiles, winks, etc., continuously, all the time. “ _I am an elitist asshole, but here, have an Emoji! That way you will perceive me differently. … ⌘ Read more
Comment on Popular Icon Theme ‘Moka’ Gets an Official GTK Theme Companion by MC Robust
I thought it was just me… everyone saying GTK2 “looks old.” I used to love finding new and interesting themes…
The new themes look nice. I suppose my desktop is arguably more “sophisticated” looking? More modern looking? I don’t know.
But GTK3 has never felt as “fun” to me. ⌘ Read more
What I thought when my plane crashed
From CNN Opinion, this\
article, written by Ric Elias I liked. I liked it
so much, I decided to keep it here, for when it is not longer available
at CNN. As I did with a previous\
article I kept from the WSJ, if CNN
does not likes what I have done, let me know and I will remove it, or
adapt it to a compromise. Please do not sue … ⌘ Read more
Many changes coming soon
Just very recently I wrote about me moving to Jekyll from WordPress:
After much thought, and tinkering, I decided to ditch my six year old
or so WordPress and start blogging like a hacker
with the awesome Jekyll.
I also wrote —fairly recently— about [living on a Linod … ⌘ Read more
Forget Hyde, moved to Jekyll!
After much thought, and tinkering, I decided to ditch my six year old or so WordPress and start blogging like a hacker with the awesome Jekyll.
I am still getting a few things in place, like making sure all entries are properly converted to markdown, but overall I … ⌘ Read more
The Unthinkable
Yesterday I did the unthinkable. Something I have never done — nor will I do again — before. I went very early (03:15) to stand at the Millenia all, to be one of the first (or so I thought) to buy the iPhone 4.
I don’t want to write long about something I am more than half way ashamed of. Suffice it to say that I got an iPhone 4 after standing in line for … ⌘ Read more
Thoughts on Flash
Steve Jobs shared with us this month his thoughts on Flash:
“Flash was created during the PC era —for PCs and mice. Flash is a successful business for Adobe, and we can understand why they want to push it beyond PCs. But the mobile era is about low power devices, touch interfaces and open web standards —all areas where Flash falls short.
The avalanche of media outlets offering their content for Apple’s mobile devices demonstrates that Flash is no longer necessary to watch vi … ⌘ Read more
The wheels of justice
I thought twice before coming here and write two or three sentences. But sometimes two or three sentences is all you have. I had to do it: Apple Inc., you rock!
If you want to be a “journalist”, act as one. As Powazek wrote in a tweet, “Real journalists don’t buy stolen property.” ⌘ Read more
Special, just like you
At first I thought I was special, when I received my first offering of marriage, or the bank transfer to help the widow of some foreign fallen dignitary. Then they kept going, and I knew I was “special”, just like everyone else.
Read one of today’s emails and smile:
I am 26 years old, just started work with Central bank of Nigeria, as a scientist and why i was diong system maintance . I came across your file which was marked X and your released disk painted RED, I took t … ⌘ Read more
Email liturgy
I miss the days when emails were written with thought, and care. They were clear, and to the point. There was no HTML in them; replies were perfectly quoted, references were neatly annotated. Emoticons were kept to a minimum, if any.
No one does that anymore… well, not many of us do. I haven’t give up, I insist. For me, sending and replying emails is a liturgy. ⌘ Read more
A day of sadness
Today we realized that we have lost our camcorder, and with it, all the memories we had since KM was born: from birth until his last birthday, at least. And the pain we feel can’t be explained. How could we be so stupid?!
Although we have thoughts, accusing ourselves for lots of things… what sense does it make at this point? Everything is gone, and discussing the why’s, what if’s and so on will not bring the tapes back. Things will be done differently on regards of the archiving of fami … ⌘ Read more