#549: Programming Is Pretty Funny
Saturday • May 15th 2021 • 7:18:59 pm • 5KB
And it isn't about inside jokes, I think it is just that Programmers Are happy people. At least when they are not being overprotective, of the wrong languages they became good at. Or supremely questionable program ideas, that go out of control when they...
#548: What The Heck Are Computer Programs Anyway?
Friday • May 14th 2021 • 6:14:14 pm • 3KB
Let me just say, becoming a programmer is very easy, you just need to stick your foot in the door. When I was little I was very fortunate to be introduced to the supremely user friendly Commodore 64, you flip the switch and you get a prompt. And you can...
#547: Not Of This Universe
Thursday • May 13th 2021 • 9:26:51 pm • 4KB
Some are very excited about the idea that at the quantum level, things can travel back in time and are never quite guaranteed. Others, love the fact that adaptive systems which accumulate-state between generations, given enough time... can easily create...
#546: On Understanding The World
Wednesday • May 12th 2021 • 10:05:36 pm • 4KB
To understand the world, you must stop assuming that everything is how it should be. You have to get used to the idea that the world needs your help, almost nothing works. You will be able to see examples of that everywhere, once you take time to listen to...
#545: The Little Tiny Book Entitled The Manual Of Life
Tuesday • May 11th 2021 • 9:10:16 pm • 2KB
There is a handful of imaginary documents that every young person of the future should have, The Earth Passport, Universal Income Card (as a symbol). A copy of The Universal Declaration Of Human Rights, with an invitation asking them to make it better if...
#544: Only Knowledge and Resulting Wisdom Can Lead To World Peace
Monday • May 10th 2021 • 9:04:58 pm • 2KB
To make our way towards World Peace, we will need to accept that frequently both enemies are wrong. Moreover, once the conflict begins, they enter a state that is void. A path of no return, a world of war. But we are not helpless against it, there is...
#543: The Bicyclist
Sunday • May 9th 2021 • 10:47:45 pm • 2KB
The Nomad Rainspotting, Bikepacking Scotland (2019) ROLL WITH IT The Impossible Route Comes with Baggage Movie Ride of My Life 540 MILES || A Colorado Trail Bikepacking Documentary Ultracycling challenge across The Pyrenees by Transibérica Wild Horses, The...
#542: The Symphony Beneath The Stars
Sunday • May 9th 2021 • 10:21:16 pm • 2KB
You belong among Artists, Adventurers, Thinkers, Creators, Writers, and Story Tellers. Every step you take brings your mind closer, to Wisdom, Enlightenment, and Greatness. You are not a worker, you are not an employee, you are not poor, you are not ugly,...
#541: Leaning Anything And Everything: No Unanswerable Questions
Saturday • May 8th 2021 • 6:45:00 pm • 4KB
Every new thing you learn, contributes something to how you think. Thinking is not just about understanding, but also about idea synthesis and new inventions. It is tough to define how this works, as it related to what a person already knows and how they...
#540: Of The Salamander And The Duck: The Elves In Ourselves
Friday • May 7th 2021 • 11:13:10 pm • 3KB
Disclaimer, this work of unchecked fancy is loosely inspired by Daniel Dennett's ideas on consciousness. "But as Descartes observed, even an infinitely powerful evil demon couldn't trick him into thinking he himself existed if he didn't exist: cogito ergo...
#539: Endurance Workouts: Clarification, Dehydration, And Gyration
Thursday • May 6th 2021 • 9:19:40 pm • 4KB
"He was given a corn seed and told to plant it. Just as the stalk was beginning to grow, the young warrior would jump over the small stalk many, many times. Each day the stalk would grow; each day the child would jump. Soon the stalk was higher than the...
#538: The Queen's Tongue: Learning English
Wednesday • May 5th 2021 • 10:53:57 pm • 6KB
My uncle left for Africa and later America, and left behind an interestingly scratchy and neatly smelling 3D postcard. It turned out that the city pictured there, was New York. Being a fan of the new things, I begun getting used to the idea that I would...
#537: Pay Attention To The Broken Things
Tuesday • May 4th 2021 • 10:07:41 pm • 4KB
When you are sitting at your desk, in school, and the teacher is regurgitating textbooks to get you to pass tests. And you have no idea what the heck he is taking about, and you are not inclined to understand that everyone else is lost too, and that the...
#536: The Noble Quest Against Falsehoods
Monday • May 3rd 2021 • 8:07:51 pm • 4KB
Falsehoods, are mind killers. Falsehoods limit us, they divide us, they poison Humanity. People who believe in falsehoods, are prevented from growing up. As scary as that is, we also have everything it takes to remove them from our minds. In deed, there...
#535: The Tracker Musician
Sunday • May 2nd 2021 • 9:20:59 pm • 2KB
MECHANICAL TECHNO DEMONSTRATION Evolution of Electronic Music (1929 - 2019) Amiga - Exploring Music Mod Trackers Live @ Bit-scape, Las Vegas, 2020 Aphex Twin - Live @ Osmoze, Paris 1993 Deadmau5 - Creamfields UK 2019 AUTOMATICA - Robots Vs. Music - Nigel...
#534: Little Drummer Boy
Sunday • May 2nd 2021 • 7:36:45 pm • 5KB1
I know not how many times I revisited this project, how many times I rewrote this code over the years. I know deep down in my bones that my code is revolutionary, it is not inspired by Sam Aaron though he is living that dream. It is far more primal and...
#533: The Ancient Bear On Mount Ślęża
Saturday • May 1st 2021 • 8:52:13 pm • 2KB
A lonely ancient stone bear, lives atop the tall and mysterious Mount Ślęża. For three thousand years and probably longer, it has been seen as a very special place as the mountain is surrounded by flat lands. Thousands of years ago, it was a place where...
#532: Temples Of Solitude: The Rain Makers (Deszczowce)
Friday • April 30th 2021 • 9:07:26 pm • 5KB
There was a couple of old trees, far up on a hill. When I was little I use to wonder about them, once I grew up a little I used to wander towards them. It was a perfectly calm place, be it winter or summer. There were no troubles there, so I had a lot of...
#531: To Heal The World
Thursday • April 29th 2021 • 9:18:19 pm • 2KB
You are far too magnificent, to dabble in the easy things. The days of our lives are too precious, and each one is a rare as they come. School, College, Diploma, Job and Career, are too easy for you. It is the silk road, for all those waiting to make...
#530: Introduction To Dance
Wednesday • April 28th 2021 • 10:48:01 pm • 3KB
Robert Ardrey once said, that we will be known among the stars by our poems. He meant poems in the broad sense of the word, surely. Even more powerful than a poem, is a dance. Dance was invented to keep warriors, fit, it was invented for battle. But since...
#529: Withstand And Unite In Knowledge And Wisdom
Tuesday • April 27th 2021 • 6:49:13 pm • 4KB
Conscious life is a magnificent accident on such an impossibly large scale, that it becomes the single most important miracle in the universe. You, I, all the other Earthlings, and all the other conscious life out there: we are the meaning of this universe...
#528: Skunk Works: How To Become An Inventor
Monday • April 26th 2021 • 5:47:52 pm • 7KB
"Lady doth protest too much, for rather, is easier to be an inventor, than not to be one." - William F. Shakespeare. The world is your oyster, the components with which you invent things are all around you. You do not want to invent complicated things,...
#527: The Stealth Camper
Sunday • April 25th 2021 • 8:29:57 pm • 3KB
Scared of SOLO Wild Camping? Tips for conquering the fear of Wild Camping ALONE in the UK Solo Hiking & Wild Camping in Storm Alex | Ridgeway Link - The Chilterns Exmoor Wild Camp | Facing My Fears How To Overcome Fear Of Wild Camping Alone | Solo Female...
#526: Back To The Future: Reinventing A Smart Smartphone
Sunday • April 25th 2021 • 3:43:26 pm • 10KB
Today's smart phones, contain disconnected walled gardens and distant islands of functionality. The design principle revolves around that old apocryphal story, where Willie Sutton upon being asked why he robbed banks, responded: "because that's where the...