Old school liches store their souls in crypts, modern ones encrypt their minds and make backups. The rules stay the same: donât touch that.
The page says only âmind the gapâ, but you turn it over. It has no reverse. Your gaze rests on nothing and falls, your mind follows.
When the author stops telling a story, the story doesnât end but the author loses control over it. Keep that in mind when self-inserting.
2050: Gods are now a commodity. We put little angry box gods into prison dice. Their results poison the mind, but we enjoy the thrill.
Stones, worn smooth from bumping into other stones constantly.â”Minds, creased and crinkled instead, with lots of things hanging on to them.
The stroke stole all his words but the stories still burn in his mind. He now cooks them, talks in spices to people his subtlety is lost on.
As he got old, he forgot all the words but his mind stayed sharp. Down to hundred, ten words, he became a master of ambiguity and context.
many avatars work this way: most famously, the mind as an avatar of doubt
@allgebrah mind you the observation itself is not new at all (see: gibsonâs gernsback continuum) but maybe the word is?
Open your mind. Or maybe not. Who knows what might get out.
alien magic betrays their own perceptual biases, so it is incompatible to ours and exactly as incomprehensible as their minds
warning sign: open minds strictly prohibited, sparks may cause epistemic fire
the monsters are having a party under my bed and I am not invitedâ”I donât mind them usually, theyâre cleanly, but sometimesâŠ
The Thought (K)not tangles with your mind and is indestructible by force. Solve it with your fingers, pay in knotted thoughts.
Note that we employ a great number of door/lock metaphors when talking about our minds. What would be the metaphors of a doorless society?
Theory: The symbolism on doors is so heavy because passing through one coincides with a change of environment (and accordingly, mind).
in the recesses of your mind, memories compost into fertile soil for invasive dreamweedsâ”is your grandma green & leafy? maybe thatâs why
Thought superconductors are impermeable to memories due to field interactions. The mind inside experiences everything in the same instant.
Does anybody have a good idea for a default color set? I used the first color that crossed my mind, so the default theme is rather ugly.
Contacts lenses for a hyperopic mindâs eye, which finds it difficult to focus on concrete concepts and perceives only abstractions clearly.
No wonder he was pissed and kicked them out: They shattered the idealist world spiritâs unity of mind.
snow is falling in my mind, muffling any noiseâ”silenceâ”â”but the world returnsâ”I shake my head vigorously to stir up the snow once more
the eye in the wall opens, takes you inâ”you see your image on the other sideâ”whatever mind is behind that eye, youâre part of it now
@reednj@reednj.com Would you mind adding this functionality to your registry?
If youâre registered with reednj, would you mind being automatically added the a registry? Is reednj just the registry that won? :)
Fictional plants can germinate in minds, so books about them are special, more akin to seedbanks than books. Other books provide the soil.
The zodiac signs were originally spiderwebs, but the minds they caught were heavy. The webs were pulled down to Earth and became part of us.
You can bathe in the river if you donât care much for your mind - itâll be washed away. Reforming it takes days, but for some it is relief.
One has to decompose oneâs mind into its constituents, place them in the writing in a careful arrangement of mirrors, lenses and gems.
horror vacuiâs obscure sibling, horror abundantis: the writerâs ideas pile up against the mindâs floodgates and they canât write fast enough
throw open the floodgates of the mindâ”overwhelm the standing armiesâ”conquer dreamtime wearing a crown of sea foamâ”lose yourself on the plain
dreamsoon rainstorms in the tropicsâ”deserts under the oppressive light of an alien mindâ”librarians on the polesâ”writers in temperate zones
As we make coffee and add milk, a mind awakens in the surface between the fluids. Its life is short, but all it wants is homogenous nirvana.
Basilisks lay their eggs in victimsâ minds. The embryo will feed on idle thought, hatch and exit through the mouth. The victim never notices
The ontotypical mainstream consisted of people whose minds had taken only grazing hits. Still, language adapted in fascinating ways. Had to.
Mathematicians created new formalisms and a calculus of minds: Some were now utterly incompatible, requiring a mediator chosen by algorithm.
All we knew was that the virus acted very specifically: it took out an idea, excised it from the mind, and left a taboo in its stead.
Mind you he was a sweet person and very intelligent. But a dog. (You wouldnât have been able to tell at a glance)
The joy of reading Hemingway
Recently, Kent had the misfortune of picking â A Moveable Feastâ, by Ernest Hemingway, for a school assignment. I know I am not the right person1 to judge anyoneâs writing style, I am simply recollecting the comments Kent has made while reading the book.
So far, other than finding the book boring â mind it, he is barely 13 â he is puzzled at the use of French terms that he ⊠â Read more
A month
It has been a month since our Jean passed away. Times flies, yet it seems like it was yesterday. Nor a day has passed by without coming to mind, one way or another. We miss her like we did the first day. I truly dislike Warcraft, but I am keeping her toons alive, and advancing. Somehow playing something she dedicated so much time on, where she had so many good friends, gives me the feeling she still lives. Quiet mornings, though ⊠â Read more
Clan of the Cave Bear
Just saw the Clan of the Cave Bear movie, for the first time, on itâs entirety. Great movie. Touching; got me a knot on the throat in more than one occasion. I think it is a sad movie, and brought up many memories. Sometimes movies, like music, have that effect. Sometimes it is just us, and how our mind works. â Read more
ĐĄŃŃĐ°Ń ĐŸŃĐœĐž âŠ. ŃĐŸŃĐž http://freshome.com/2009/11/18/mind-blowing-building-facade-kiefer-technic-showroom/
The Hero
I am in love with the HTC Hero. I do not have one⊠yet, still, when thinking on a mobile device I would love to have, the Hero is what comes to mind. And what better song to keep my hopes alive than âHolding out for a Heroâ, by Bonnie Tyler? So, here it goes!
Edited: Song removed. Did not wanted to get sued for hosting a sound track which copyright might forbid wide audience availability.
Can you feel it?! (smile) â Read more
I shall not censure
From today on, I shall not censure on this weblog. Any comment left (no spam comments, of course. Who needs those?) will be shown uncensored. I will only mask foul words (just because of my ICRA rating, safe for children), and correct capitalization as needed, but nothing else. I donât remember ever censuring âI donât write enough, really. But now I have taken that idea, if ever was, away from my mind. â Read more
Two visions?
Mark posted yesterday that he will be working for Google, since out of the â two visionsâ of the web, he says, Google is the right one. I am not web savvy nor I really care much about it, but I am sure there is more than two visions on the web, there is not right and wrong, but many, many, many shades in between. But the way I see it, the bottom line in my mind: he is going to work for someone who will pay him very well. Yes, bottom line is all a ⊠â Read more
The Chocolate Imbecile
I canât get it out of mind. How a person can be so idiotic? The major of New Orleans, Ray Nagin said, among other things:
âSurely God is mad at America. He sent us hurricane after hurricane after hurricane, and itâs destroyed and put stress on this countryâ
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âSurely he doesnât approve of us being in Iraq under false pretenses.â
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âBut sur ⊠â Read more
More on VoIP
Last year I wrote about Lingo and recommended their VoIP service. While I was not that off on that âreviewâ, I have changed my mind long ago and decided not to keep the service. I got a lot of emails from people wanting to try and/or get the service and they used my email for referral. As a result, I got a lot of free Lingo service, but I called them at the end of December to cancel for good (something they told me they did, but I still have the service, ⊠â Read more
Veteran of Charley
Mother Nature, just as humans, changes her mind. That is the case of hurricane Charley. All forecasts read that Tampa, FL would be the one beaten by him but Mother Nature, with itâs natural (no pun intended) ambivalence made a twist and brought it directly near Fort Myers, and then to us in Orlando, FL.
Needless is to say we had winds. We had winds all right. Actually, we got everything: homes, commercial buildings, trees⊠all destroyed. And we got no power, no cable (and Internet) and ⊠â Read more
Expect changes
I know it has been a long time. I guess other things are using my mind and whatâs left is not enough to dedicate on this. I have been back in Orlando for two weeks already, time is flying.
Wanted to get DSL, ordered and before receiving the modem cancelled. Bell South wants you to use their SMTP server and nothing else and I can not accept that. Modem is going back and I am back to my old cable modem.
Placed two cameras for auction on eBay, they are not selling that well. Letâs keep hoping ⊠â Read more
Some of my points of view
A recent post over Ambivalent sparked a small controversy. Small because it was a discussion of two, which also brought another post, made somewhere else. Both incidents have prompted me to come by and speak my mind on my points of view, specifically those related to hom ⊠â Read more