Friday, May 8, 2009
Thursday, May 7, 2009
Blip.fm
So starting back around February, my internet presence skyrocketed. This was partly due to the fact that I started talking to a very internet savvy, enthusiastic friend who introduced me to all these wonderful widgets and sites. To list off a few, I'm now on dailybooth.com, stickam.com, twitter (see feed at right), I actually use my YouTube account now; all in addition to the existing blog, facebook, emails, yahoo and plurk accounts that I had. I also picked up on some of the wonders that FireFox has to offer (seriously if you use FireFox, check out these last two links).
My favorite so far though is blip.fm. It's a site similar to twitter and plurk, only instead of simply sending an update, you search through their internet archives and select a song that will play. It can sync to your twitter account as well (I haven't yet been able to find a plurk link, darn) so your blips will be shared with more than just your listeners.
I like this. I like it a lot, because it's multimedia. As the site describes itself, you're essentially being an internet DJ for your friends. And while I'm sure there are better sites out there, with more reliable links, slightly larger databases and/or song titles actually spelled right more often, I'm more than happy to blip my way through life for now.
If you ever want to hear how I'm feeling, check out by profile, I'm DelightedDeliquescence.
Wednesday, May 6, 2009
Sakura
I took this picture yesterday.
Sakura, are my red robin of spring. I cannot rightly say like I feel summer approaching if I don't see the pink gracing the trees.
But why this picture?
What I liked about this image over all the other pictures of cherry trees I could have taken or found online, is what the wind has done. The delicate petals have been scattered among the roots, left to rot into the grass. But in the meantime, they blanket the area beneath the tree, making a soft, downy looking area that tapers away to the green grass beyond.
There's an event horizon of flower petals centered around the singularity of the tree. Do you see it? And at the center resides the sweet smell of spring.
Sakura, are my red robin of spring. I cannot rightly say like I feel summer approaching if I don't see the pink gracing the trees.
But why this picture?
What I liked about this image over all the other pictures of cherry trees I could have taken or found online, is what the wind has done. The delicate petals have been scattered among the roots, left to rot into the grass. But in the meantime, they blanket the area beneath the tree, making a soft, downy looking area that tapers away to the green grass beyond.
There's an event horizon of flower petals centered around the singularity of the tree. Do you see it? And at the center resides the sweet smell of spring.
Tuesday, May 5, 2009
I feel poetic today.
Escape me
Have you ever just looked up through the leaves as you passed beneath a tree?
Gradient greens abound in overlapping sheets.
Trapped in air-conditioned confines
Learning language/linguistics
So many videos I get antsy
Twitch and twitter and tweet
Internet distractions abound
IM interactions, blogging blessings
Browser A.D.D as I surf this superinfo highway
I watch out for web sharks lookin' to take a bite out of my
Seal shaped wireless card
Chomp chomp at my bandwidth #pataphor
We're a bunch of Granolas up here
People Lurk
Peace with myself
Love those around you
Unity can lead to compassion
Respect my property
or Karma will get you
Where these words are taking me.
I don't know.
Have you ever just looked up through the leaves as you passed beneath a tree?
Gradient greens abound in overlapping sheets.
Trapped in air-conditioned confines
Learning language/linguistics
So many videos I get antsy
Twitch and twitter and tweet
Internet distractions abound
IM interactions, blogging blessings
Browser A.D.D as I surf this superinfo highway
I watch out for web sharks lookin' to take a bite out of my
Seal shaped wireless card
Chomp chomp at my bandwidth #pataphor
We're a bunch of Granolas up here
People Lurk
Peace with myself
Love those around you
Unity can lead to compassion
Respect my property
or Karma will get you
Where these words are taking me.
I don't know.
Monday, May 4, 2009
Sea Urchins
I don't really remember where this blog was supposed to go. I didn't get farther than the title during my first try, but now that I'm here, I think I'll keep it.
Politics. Culture. Dogs.
We define ourselves, and yet we are also defined by the people around us. We are judged by and compared to those we choose to surround ourselves with.
And we are brought to a dividing line. Undefined. Where do we cross this amorphous representation of society? Perhaps, grey goo (I do not mean Grace) is a better way to describe it.
Ribofunk brings an interesting angle to the discussion, because it introduces a world where nanotechnology has enabled us to change and create our bodies to whatever we want. Imagine stores where you can custom order a fin or a tail or a carapace.
Thus then, our identities, our sense of self and how we portray that to the world is greatly enhanced. The kind of information you put on your Facebook/MySpace/etc. profiles can be shown literally on your profile, much like we often use fashion to represent our beliefs.
And further then, I think Ribofunk pushes us to look at this. Look at this definition of self and of identity and then look at what it means to be human.
How human is human? One part in ten? More than half? The splices, DeFilippo introduces, what rights do they have? At what point do we draw the line? More amorphous ambiguity: That gray area between the extremes.
And if they are not human, what are they? As neither one nor the other, they in effect are something else, something new. As far as I've seen, they defy expectations by exactly living up to them. They are designed, the ultimate accessory, not so much tailored and groomed as they are created for the express purpose of whatever they were designed to do.
So to take this back to the culture/politics debate, aren't we debating this right now in our society? What is humanity? What is a family? What rights do we accord certain peoples who are different than we are?
And the cultural aspect, what we each individually believe has increasingly become a political issue as we are forcing our elected leaders to agree or disagree and essentially choose a side in so many social issues. We now base many of our political decisions on what we believe socially.
As these worlds collide, we approach another kind of singularity. Not the one of technological expansion, but the one of convergence. Our lives are becoming more and more interrelated too each other and to ourselves.
Politics. Culture. Dogs.
We define ourselves, and yet we are also defined by the people around us. We are judged by and compared to those we choose to surround ourselves with.
And we are brought to a dividing line. Undefined. Where do we cross this amorphous representation of society? Perhaps, grey goo (I do not mean Grace) is a better way to describe it.
Ribofunk brings an interesting angle to the discussion, because it introduces a world where nanotechnology has enabled us to change and create our bodies to whatever we want. Imagine stores where you can custom order a fin or a tail or a carapace.
Thus then, our identities, our sense of self and how we portray that to the world is greatly enhanced. The kind of information you put on your Facebook/MySpace/etc. profiles can be shown literally on your profile, much like we often use fashion to represent our beliefs.
And further then, I think Ribofunk pushes us to look at this. Look at this definition of self and of identity and then look at what it means to be human.
How human is human? One part in ten? More than half? The splices, DeFilippo introduces, what rights do they have? At what point do we draw the line? More amorphous ambiguity: That gray area between the extremes.
And if they are not human, what are they? As neither one nor the other, they in effect are something else, something new. As far as I've seen, they defy expectations by exactly living up to them. They are designed, the ultimate accessory, not so much tailored and groomed as they are created for the express purpose of whatever they were designed to do.
So to take this back to the culture/politics debate, aren't we debating this right now in our society? What is humanity? What is a family? What rights do we accord certain peoples who are different than we are?
And the cultural aspect, what we each individually believe has increasingly become a political issue as we are forcing our elected leaders to agree or disagree and essentially choose a side in so many social issues. We now base many of our political decisions on what we believe socially.
As these worlds collide, we approach another kind of singularity. Not the one of technological expansion, but the one of convergence. Our lives are becoming more and more interrelated too each other and to ourselves.
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