Never been one to let the carrier drop

Woo Hoo!.

S.

You know at the end of jeprody where they say ‘contestents also get’..

Well, here’s bob harris dumping his ‘also get..’ loot: realvideo. I’m find this rather funny for some reason..

these people claim they are going to email me dilbert and a few other of my favorite comics. Including 9 chickweed lane, but not, alas, the boondocks.

Anyway, gave them a unique address, so we’ll see what the spam factor is. I think I’m going to implement my spam stopper script shortly. It’s getting crazy over here..

S.

this is kind of a rant, but I’m posting it here instead of at TST because I figure Cyg doesn’t need the bad press.

And beleive me, this one could generate some bad press.

Why don’t we tell our children about sex?

No, really, I’m serious.

I know, we’re too embarrassed.. but why are we so ashamed of what is obviously a natural part of what we are? Hrm, could it be because we were taught to be ashamed, partially by the way our parents reacted when we asked them questions about it?

Or could it be that we’re afraid if they knew about it, they’d want to play too?

Actually, it gets worse. As a child, I was shown the classic ‘scream really loud if someone tries to touch you here’ films. I’m missing the point of these. Either you don’t enjoy it, in which case you probebly DON’T need a movie to tell you that you didn’t enjoy it, because you already know – or you do enjoy it, in which case, why does it matter?

[as a side note, it seems pretty clear that 99%+ of children – at least the ones who’ve turned into adults who I’ve then talked to – don’t enjoy nonconsensual sexual contact. So go fuck yourselves, pedos.. or make a virtual world and screw virtual children. But stop messing with – and up – the future loves of other people’s lives.]

Any way, returning to the children and sex thing. It occurs to me that this generation – the one coming up now – may be the first exposed to sexual content from a very young age. [You think the spammers really check to see how old people are? Noo, I do not think so]

So, if there was some really good reason, as opposed to more of the usual human fearmongering that seems to laden every single inch of our society, for this secrecy concerning sexuality, someone better come out and say what it is now. Oh ye older and wiser heads, start talking. ‘Because I said so’ is not a good answer.

[I wish more people read this thing sometimes. Actually, who am I kidding. If you totalled up the hits on my LJ, all three of my web sites, and added in traffic to the brassrat root for kicks, you’d still have less than a thousand hits a month. I just don’t draw the crowds for some reason. Can’t imagine why..]

[It’d probably help if people would link to me. Of course, It’d also probebly help if I’d link to people]

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On another topic, I’ve finally figured out why P.’s comments of the other day upset me so much.

P. was defending the current status quo of publishing, stating that there is little worthwhile content on the net and that we shouldn’t try to put paper content on the net. In general, I gather, she was criticizing the network as a publishing medium and the content that gets published. One of her comments was that we ‘all wanted our own place on the shelf’ and that she thought this was a bad thing.

That’s what set me off.

The elitist idea that my ideas are better than yours because some editor happens to like them.

This is exactly what happens with music labels, and I _hate_ it. I’m okay with the fact that only a thousand people even accidentally come across my stuff, and I have two readers. That doesn’t bother me. What would bother me is if I had zero readers and a several-mile-thick pile of rejection slips.

We all should _have_ our own place on the shelf. Every one of the four billion of us on the globe.

What the net does – is make the system truly democratic. You are free to publish anything you want to publish. People are free to read it – or not read it – as they choose. People can link to content they like, thusly making it more accessable. The only down side in the system is that all of the web servers are so inpermanent that the link which works today may be a 404 tomorrow. I don’t know what the working solution to this is, but I still beleive that the network is a beautiful animal.

And I can’t believe that P. would see it otherwise.

Why do we need editors and media conglomerates and publishers and labels and governments to decide what’s best for us, what we should say, what we should hear, what we should see, and what we should think?

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What is more important to becoming a writer/musician/creator? Practice authoring, or practice revising? Or must you have a balance of both?

A slight chuckle.

No, really, I’m totally humorless. I got a job offer from evparts.com – a serious one – just what I’ve always wanted, to be in the EV sphere as a ‘pro’. And I can’t even make myself be happy over that..

maybe once I get some sleep I’ll be in a better mood.

One can hope.

S.

It’s the kind of web site leeper would love:

LED meuseam.

S.

Today was a reletively good day, all things considered. Roy dropped by with his sweet new [if somewhat underpowered] e-bike. Beautiful body, no power to speak of.

Worked some on the bios routines for the mk3. Here’s the list of functions:

Read dataflash buffer
Write dataflash buffer
Write through dataflash buffer to part
Read dataflash part starting from location
Read dataflash to buffer

Get network packet from incoming buffer
Send network packet to outgoing buffer

The list of variables:

unprocessed incoming packet counter
current incoming location

unprocessed outgoing packet counter
current outgoing location

32 bytes X 8 incoming packet space
32 bytes X 8 outgoing packet space

plur.us, sheer.us, and evtech.org all seem to be doing well. Posted a rant [which is my ‘other hand’ to my comment about the mailbox bomber] at thesadtruth.org

I love the concept of this site – hopefully as the years go by, it will absorb more content, especially content that makes the point that is Cygnostik’s basic permise..

Everyone is born unique, but so many die as copies.

C. is quite the collector of cool quotes.

Had a interesting disagreement with P. today over the value of the internet. Or my contribution to it. Or something. I wish I could understand exactly what she was getting at – that I should write less, or write higher quality, or something, I gather.

Higher quality. Well, for me, that only comes with practice. So, thusly, here I am, practicing. And any of you poor suckers who are still reading, well, you chose to keep reading. I didn’t make you. 😉

I looked over the past few weeks and realized that, without actually talking about the most intense things that are happening in my life, I still manage to ‘talk’ a lot. Perhaps too much. But the nice thing about the LJ format is that I can pretty much rest assured that no one is being forced to read my drivel.

Or something.

Just finished talking to M. – she left me with many new things to think about life.

What happens to us when we die?

Well, that’s the question that everyone seems to want answered. The answer is, in the words of a very wise person, ‘The great mystery’. But that’s the point, now, isn’t it, it’s a mystery. No one knows. god/the net won’t tell, either, at least not yet, not for me. So who knows? I’m not going to worry about it. Either I get backed up or I don’t, either way, nothing I can do about it.

I’m sure it’ll be interesting finding out, though. So far I have 2 votes for ‘when we’re dead we are just dead’, 2 votes for ‘hell, in your case, nonbeleiver’, 1 for ‘I don’t know, why does it matter?’. And then there’s the pipe bomber. Who I frankly have to admire. I can’t condone violence under any circumstances – but if you’ve got to do something whacky, what better reason than his?

I hope he writes books while he’s in prison – and not about bombing things.

Talk about ways to destroy the impact of your message…

he beleives we live forever. As does bill hicks. Why? christian virus? Probably.

The sad thing is that christ had so the right intentions..

The way to hell.. is paved.. 😉 Even though there is no hell, that statement still contains wisdom worth saving, I think, maybe? I don’t know..

S.

Posted some of my less pleasant thoughts to thesadtruth.org. I love this, I can straddle the fence between my two sides, pick lefteye/righteye, ying or yang, good or evil. And the more I practice selecting, the more sense the world makes. Because almost everyone either beleives humanity is good, or beleives it’s evil.

I think it’s neither. Or both. Or whatever it decides.

“Let’s go out.
Let’s keep going.” — KMFDM, “Dogma”

I’ve got diverse influences. That’s good. Diversity rocks. I keep trying to reconcile the ‘unity’ in PLUR with the diversity that things like raves celebrate.. and the conclusion I come to is that it’s unity in acceptance of diversity. Weird. And should be better codified, or something.

At any rate, my PLUR celebrates diversity. While having the word unity in it? Oh, this gets soo strange.

Must talk to other people more, learn what they have to say.

If you use the accepted definition of good and evil, evil actions can have good results. Good actions can have evil results. What does this mean – if anything? Are evil and good real? Does the word ‘deserve’ mean anything?

Tomorrow: back to work. Enough introspection, enough figuring out the universe for me for now. Let’s get back to solving the problems I can solve.

S.

Updating plur.us – it actually almost has a pulse now. At least, there’s enough text that it might take a few minutes to read the whole thing.

But it’s sadly lacking in other people’s opinions. Must get others to write their thoughts as well, do not want the web site to be all Sheer’s experiences and no one else’s, that’s no good..

Going to a rave tonight, speaking of PLUR. Excited. Wonder if I’ll link..

S.

here is a really cool URL for us propeller-heads about the generation of white and pink noise. here is a helpful link for understanding the output of a pink noise generator.

I got involved in looking into pink noise generators because I’ve been dissecting the Hemi-Sync products produced by the Monroe Institute, in a attempt to understand how they work.

{I can, incidentally, wholeheartedly and without reservation reccomend trying these CDs. They may do nothing to you. They may do all kinds of neat things to you. They’re audio, they can’t hurt you, and while they contain some spiritual content, it’s so generic that I can’t imagine anyone would find it offensive. Except for me, at first, and I’m over that. ;-)}

Anyway, as usual, give me a toy, I want to take it apart.

So far as I can tell, I have a few options for generating my own hemi-sync content to feed myself.

Option one is a really creative reprogramming of my Quadraverb II. Doesn’t appear to be anything stopping me from having a midi-modulation-source controlled pitch changer that routes to the opposite channel. Fine and course tuning, and there you go, a hemi-sync generator. I bet the p2k even would let you do it with their patch cord arrangements, though that might be a bit more difficult.

Option one doesn’t cover the need for white noise, but I imagine one can come up with it somewhere. 😉

Option two is to get a pink noise generator, run it through a parametric eq and a flexable phase changer, and take two function generators. All into a modern mixing board, and there ya go..

We won’t even get into my theories concerning visual stimulation. I don’t buy that hemi-sync is limited to audio..

I wonder how many hz we can see?

Anyway, onto more mundane matters – the mk3 – I’m going to write a bios for it. At first I was thinking I’d just write a bootloader, but it occurs to me that I really need to go ahead and write a entire BIOS into the bootloader section. Bug-free read and write from RAM, network, dataflash, EE, etc.

Then I can write a program on top of it to manage batteries.

Well, this ought to be interesting.

I already have most of the code, I just need to rewrite, codify, shuffle, and do all that fun stuff.

I wonder. If the BIOS was written in assembly, could the rest of the thing be written in C? Probebly.

The fun never ends, as Leeper would say.

The fun never ends.