25lines, redux

i don’t know. but there’s a gentle compulsion to do so. the new Underworld album is out. Barking. At least it’s out in Japan (cough cough). There’s a bonus track for Japan. Nevermind the vexation such a practice causes me – like an affront to their deepest fans outside of their favored places – but [...]

“Those roles which, being neither those of hero nor Heroine, Confidante nor Villain, but which were none the less essential to bring about the Recognition or the denouement were called the Fifth Business in drama and Opera companies organized according to the old style; the player who acted these parts was often referred to as [...]

…fool me twice… and i will punch you in the face. i digress. as a child, growing up i wrestled with the idea of forgiveness. i saw plainly in my home the notion of both loving forgiveness and permanently etched memories of ill-will. on one hand, it’s clear that a transgression had been committed, and [...]

So I’ve noticed a good amount of brain-cruft that accumulates on a daily basis. Stat counter. My App Store sales figures Google Reader. the Underworld forums Especially Google Reader – I want to trim that a bunch (which is culminating in a web service I hope to release within 3 months). But all in all, [...]

simul-post: not your usual kind of network structure I’ll do this for the next few and then stop.

some people have asked what it’s for. basically, i want to start writing more publicly, especially now that i’ve enlisted to become a freelance hacker. i’ll continue to post here things that i keep private, etc. but more refined posts will be uploaded there…

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Haven’t made full use of it yet, but going to write up the road trip at rytrip.posterous.com

it’s common, it would seem, to reconfigure friendships to those that are geographically near. i have typically found this difficult. partly because of the level of friendship that i tend to engage in, and partly because ramping up new friends to that level takes a good amount of time. so my friendships are typically geographically [...]

(The former is the acronym for TED Talk Tuesday.) (The latter is a jp emote for tears.) Today’s my last TTT at the company. In many ways I think it’s the greatest example of why I really love the culture at my current, but soon-to-be-former employer. Lunchtime conversations range from music production, pop psychology, new [...]

i will be invisible. and i will be ethereal. and i will be unattainable. and then i will turn my voice inward for the first time in a long time. and i will explode.

he didn’t teach you how to win he taught you how not to lose that’s nothing to be proud of you’re playing not to lose you’ve got to risk everything you’ve got to go to the edge of defeat that’s where you want to be, boy on the edge of defeat.

NDTV: How do you do it? The Dalai Lama: There is no other choice. If you rely drugs or alcohol, it’s going to be self-destruction. So we have a wonderful human mind which has the ability to think with reason or fact. So use that maximum way and then become realistic. Once in the 8th [...]

I’m working on a life map. I was inspired by a dear friend from Seattle. Been meaning to make one for a long time, but finally getting around to it, in honor of my upcoming birthday. and in an odd way, it feels like it’s finally helping me make sense of my current state, integrating [...]

i must not fear fear is the mind-killer fear is the little death that brings total obliteration i will face my fear i will permit it to pass over me and through me and when it has gone past I will turn the inner eye to see its path where the fear has gone there [...]

a robber a professor a fire man a hacker an air force pilot a business man the saint a mathematician a lover a poet a secret agent the fifth business an admiral the captain of a star ship a researcher the count of monte cristo Cayce Pollard the emperor of the world happy (in roughly [...]

Excerpted DNA sequences from 23andme.com, with sequential base pairs represented as Crayola colors from the standard 8-pack, adding white as a ninth color. ASCII RGB values taken from Wikipedia. Vim macros to translate ACGTxACGT pairs to form a P3 PPM image, 700×700 px, compressed into final PNG via ImageMagick. Copyright © 2010 hypeless.net/25lines

The following taken from a dictation session in the car. I spoke correctly and expressively. The following is from the dragon dictation transcript – I have the book but maybe I should record blood test for myself was myself to think about ideas for getting the same things over on I can’t assume that I [...]

Neal Stephenson indicates to me that I should reconsider my exposure to the world. Chitchat happens about meaningless drivel. Perhaps I could create an outward broadcast that I could use to answer inquiries. How much of being sociable is having meaningless conversation? Perhaps then I should only surround myself with people who want to converse [...]

I can learn things faster than most people. I have a wider breadth of knowledge than most people. I understand things better than most people. I have greater plasticity of mind than most people. I can grasp and control double-think, something most people cannot do. I can stay up later than most people, and for [...]