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Robin Williams is a Buddha
I love Robin Williams. Robin Williams is a hero of mine. But that’s not really a deep enough concept to express his role in my life. I have absolutely shaped my approach to life around what I perceived...
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Very Short Stories
I did as I was told. At the escape the pistons fire incorrectly. She frowns at the sound of hushed murmurs. Bound and silenced, his captors forget. In an instant, bang, existence. Swallow-filled woods...
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Should Artists Get Paid?
Who’s Free and Who Isn’t (this is about artists) aka who should we pay aka The Free and Anti Free An N+1 article grapples with the basic question, “should an artist get paid?”...
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a,boys,story,listed
a boy, alone, shadows, crafted by leaves, filtered sunlight, these empty days, with no obligations, wandering wonders, of the world, this moment, heart pounding, he runs, chasing the hunted, hunted by...
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art and patterns
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ art lives in the mind. but there is no mind. art lives in perception. but there is no perception. art lives as patterns. there are patterns. but there is no...
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Simple Explanations Don’t Really Exist
“If you can’t explain it simply, you don’t understand it well enough.” - Albert Einstein Perhaps Albert Einstein said this. It seems like a worthy ideal. Except it really doesn’t work out. At all....
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What’s in a Name? All of existence.
Name. Label. Category. Property. Feature. Function. These are the objects of existence. These are not fundamentally ontological. These are secondary-effect objects. Objects of an awareness that...
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The Ridiculous Fear of Artificial Intelligence
Recently there’s been hubbub around Artificial Intelligence (AI) and our impending doom if we don’t do something about it. While it’s fun to scare each other in that horror/sci-fi movie kind of way,...
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Identification and Exploitation of Patterns – What We Do
The Point Everything is a pattern and connected to other patterns. The variety of struggles, wars, businesses, animal evolution, ecology, cosmological change – all are encompassed by the passive and...
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Our Illiterate Present
The human race began a path towards illiteracy when moving pictures and sound began to dominate our mode of communication. Grammar checking word processors and the Internet catalyzed an acceleration of...
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Snapchat, Moving, and Identity
This week my 11 year old daughter asked if she could download and join snapchat. I immediately nixed that idea. I haven’t nixed her getting involved in much else technically where the EULA allows it....
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I’m Home, Mom.
“Donna Smith Sucks!” some angered person shouted at me from behind a door. I had put a political flyer on a door and knocked hoping to ask someone to consider voting for an upstart democratic candidate...
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These Are Strange Times
I often think, “these are strange times.” As if I know what other times were like and as if they would be any less strange than now. The thought is completely baseless. Nonetheless, most days I...
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A Few Definitions
Culture A collection of misrepresentations and generalizations about groups of people connected by the contingencies of localized time and space. Knowledge Repeatedly applied models of the world that...
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The Symbolic Theft
Shove all of the patterns and symbols into my head, whatever this head is, so that they might mix and match and sort and simmer. Take these chapters – with their paragraphs and their sentences and...
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Programming Sucks
We have a problem. As it stands now the present and near future of economic, social and cultural development primarily derives from computers and programming. The algorithms already dominate our...
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The Impossible Sacrifice – A Mother’s Day Note
In 2002 my wife and I decided having children might not be the worst possible decision we could make in life (turns out we got two amazing, intelligent, engaged daughters). I pushed pretty hard for...
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The Edge of Existence and Predictions Lost Cause
The edges of existence. Everything is an edge – an edge of an edge – an edge of an edge of an edge. Existence is an infinite regress of edges encoding, decoding and recoding other infinite regressing...
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Tomorrowland: The Unreal Dream of the Dreamers
Like most things Disney, Tomorrowland is a delicious snack of seeming subsistence. This movie is chock full of “I wanna believe” and “I must be a terrible person if I don’t believe” sentiments and...
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The Tree (a very short story)
She stood at the tree waiting. Rain had softened the ground overnight so her feet sank a little as time passed mud creeping up. Long ago the childish message carved in the tree disappeared as new...
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