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Keepers of the WR0N9
WR0N9 is LEGEND
21 November 2009 @ 07:08 am
21 November 2009 @ 06:42 am
"In the right state of mind, even a short trip to the store in the crisp golden dawn can be a joyful journey."
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calm21 November 2009 @ 06:34 am
Michael Varian Daly is enjoying a moment of contentment...and taking extra pleasure in that such a state of affairs is probably pissing off some people. 50 seconds ago
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content21 November 2009 @ 07:43 am
This is piece that I did yesterday for a special project that I wanted to contribute to. You can find the details here.
(Full-sized image can be found here.)
Here's a visual progression on the piece (I've not messed with animated images, so I'm going to recommend loading each of these in separate tabs, and then clicking in order for an "animated" progression):
The first image is at roughly 1.5 hours, strictly in ArtRage 2.5. After that point, I shifted the image over to Photoshop CS4, and started tweaking the layers, which brings us to the middle image, a little over 2 hours into the piece. Finally, in the last image, I've added in the detailing, character shadowing, a very small amount of photo use for texturing, and added the final tweaks.
Total time: 3.5 hours.
I hope this was worthwhile and informative, for those of you that were curious.
(Yes, this trend may indicate that I'm finally getting into the previously promised daily art posting... shhhh... )
(Full-sized image can be found here.)
Here's a visual progression on the piece (I've not messed with animated images, so I'm going to recommend loading each of these in separate tabs, and then clicking in order for an "animated" progression):
The first image is at roughly 1.5 hours, strictly in ArtRage 2.5. After that point, I shifted the image over to Photoshop CS4, and started tweaking the layers, which brings us to the middle image, a little over 2 hours into the piece. Finally, in the last image, I've added in the detailing, character shadowing, a very small amount of photo use for texturing, and added the final tweaks.
Total time: 3.5 hours.
I hope this was worthwhile and informative, for those of you that were curious.
(Yes, this trend may indicate that I'm finally getting into the previously promised daily art posting... shhhh... )
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21 November 2009 @ 05:09 am
21 November 2009 @ 04:39 am
"Sarah Palin is far more dangerous than mere 'evil'. She's a D-list actress with a political power base."
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chipper21 November 2009 @ 06:01 am
21 November 2009 @ 02:40 am
The Battle of Cambrai (20 November - 3 December, 1917) was a British campaign of the First World War. Noted for the first successful use of tanks in a combined arms operation, the British attack demonstrated that the Hindenburg Line could be penetrated, while the German counter attack showed the value of new infantry tactics that would later be part of the Kaiserschlacht. Liddell Hart called the battle "one of the landmarks in the history of warfare, the dawn of a new epoch."
Wrecked British supply tank C 41 "Chameleon" commanded by 2/Lt K Woodafter, the Battle of Cambrai.
Two knocked out British tanks in Bourlon Wood after the battle.
*forgot to post it yesterdayCurrent Mood: nostalgic
nostalgic21 November 2009 @ 04:26 am
Years ago I heard an hypothesis. No idea if it is valid.
On the many many earths in parallel universes, each entity is duplicated. When someone dies (or a bug dies) its "soul" (for want of a better word) migrates to another parallel world where that entity is still alive. When an entire world goes blooey (nuclear armageddon, meteor strike, etc.), there is a mass migration of souls of all creatures.
Ever wake up from a horrifying nightmare in which you had died or the world had ended? The hypothesis predicts such nightmares while the soul from the dead version of self moves into your sleeping consciousness.
Ideally, we each learn from all the souls seeking refuge in us. We are shards of a hologram. As the shards come together, the holograms have more details. We become more of who we used to be. In the process we gain wisdom. We learn to avoid the mistakes which killed the bodies of those souls who have migrated to us.
In theory, as worlds kill themselves off, the surviving worlds are less likely to make that same error, because we are learning from the errors of the ones who failed to survive. The longer our world survives, the greater the probability that our world will continue to survive.
No idea if it is true. I would not get all complacent. I would not *believe* in the hypothesis. But it is something to think about when one wakes up in utter terror from a dream of utter destruction.
"Memory, prophecy and Fantasy — the past, the future and the dreaming moment between — are all one country, living one immortal day. To know that is wisdom. To use it is the Art."
— Clive Barker
Current Music: Chris Carter - Pulsec (Space Station Soma: Tune in, turn on, space out. Ambient and mid-tempo electr
21 November 2009 @ 02:01 am
- 08:35:38: My 2 fave pins went missing from my messenger bag this weekend: queer pride heart & "Artists Make Lousy Slaves". NEED TO REPLACE!
- 12:30:12: Listening to Cherry Lips by Garbage... Makes me want to play Amplitude. Miss my Playstation.
- 15:06:07: is very thankful that Excel 2007 now allows filtering by fill color.
- 16:58:20: It's really that cold in here... http://flic.kr/p/7havgA
- 18:17:18: Poll: You keep making guest appearances in a friends dreams - do you like them to tell you? Prefer they don't? Ambivalent?
- 18:52:24: So, Durex makes pita bread now... http://flic.kr/p/7h7tkp
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21 November 2009 @ 04:47 am
21 November 2009 @ 03:10 am
When I was a little kid, the catholic nuns drilled religion/worship/prayer protocol into my young brain. What they insisted upon was dogmatic, rigid, and simplistic. As I small child, I believed what I was told. But over time, I transcended the limitations and tunnel vision imposed upon me.
A.C.T.S.
Adoration: To the nuns, all prayer and worship followed certain rules. One began with adoration. One MUST worship the great all-powerful Godhead before anything else.
I no longer worship. My heart goes pitter-pat when a woman exposes her wet open sweet smelling yoni to me. Such a sight is breathtaking! I go into a near trance when I see a spectacular sunset or sunrise. But I do not worship yonis, sunsets, puppies, or anything else on the physical plane. Likewise I do not worship any non-corporeal being. I have to wonder at the emotional maturity of a god who needs to be worshiped & adored all the time.
Contrition: Next, one must confess one's sins. I find that odd. Sure, I examine my conscience, and feel bad about my fuckups. I work to learn from past idiocies and mis-steps. But I do not confess my transgressions to any particular deity. The jews and xians believe their god is absolutely perfect. And yet, this perfect deity made humans to be imperfect. Then the deity had the utter audacity to punish humans for the imperfections which he had built into the humans. So, trembling fearful humans beg their deity's forgiveness to they won't get their asses burned in hell forever. Man, that kind of deity is one fucked-up guy! I don't hang with deities like that. Too fucked-up for me!
Thanksgiving: I have learned to be a very thankful guy. I was not always thankful. I took all the good things and good fortune in my life for granted. Now I am thankful. But I am not a monotheist. I do not see that everything arose from a single deity. Or even a select group of deities. My best guess is that we are all in this together. At best, an ecosystem. But one so complex that many aspects seem like randomness or chaos. To me, the lightbulb over my head is as much an aspect of the physical plane manifestation of pantheistic deity as any deified mythological critter. So I thank many of the aspects which make my life interesting and fun. I greet and thank many many parts of deity which impinge directly on my life. I thank the sky for a pleasant night. I thank the stairs and railing leading up to my apartment. I greet the pine tree which stands in a pot near my door. I thank Jackson Square and the lights at night. The list is endless!
Supplication: Then, after buttering up their deity, begging forgiveness for being imperfect, and thanking their deity for all the good stuff in life, then they ask their deity for favors. Many humans skip the adoration, contrition, and thanksgiving. They just ask for shit.
The big three monotheistic patriarchal religions like to inculcate the myth that god is our parent and we are powerless without his favors. That really creeps me out! ( Read more... )
A.C.T.S.
Adoration: To the nuns, all prayer and worship followed certain rules. One began with adoration. One MUST worship the great all-powerful Godhead before anything else.
I no longer worship. My heart goes pitter-pat when a woman exposes her wet open sweet smelling yoni to me. Such a sight is breathtaking! I go into a near trance when I see a spectacular sunset or sunrise. But I do not worship yonis, sunsets, puppies, or anything else on the physical plane. Likewise I do not worship any non-corporeal being. I have to wonder at the emotional maturity of a god who needs to be worshiped & adored all the time.
Contrition: Next, one must confess one's sins. I find that odd. Sure, I examine my conscience, and feel bad about my fuckups. I work to learn from past idiocies and mis-steps. But I do not confess my transgressions to any particular deity. The jews and xians believe their god is absolutely perfect. And yet, this perfect deity made humans to be imperfect. Then the deity had the utter audacity to punish humans for the imperfections which he had built into the humans. So, trembling fearful humans beg their deity's forgiveness to they won't get their asses burned in hell forever. Man, that kind of deity is one fucked-up guy! I don't hang with deities like that. Too fucked-up for me!
Thanksgiving: I have learned to be a very thankful guy. I was not always thankful. I took all the good things and good fortune in my life for granted. Now I am thankful. But I am not a monotheist. I do not see that everything arose from a single deity. Or even a select group of deities. My best guess is that we are all in this together. At best, an ecosystem. But one so complex that many aspects seem like randomness or chaos. To me, the lightbulb over my head is as much an aspect of the physical plane manifestation of pantheistic deity as any deified mythological critter. So I thank many of the aspects which make my life interesting and fun. I greet and thank many many parts of deity which impinge directly on my life. I thank the sky for a pleasant night. I thank the stairs and railing leading up to my apartment. I greet the pine tree which stands in a pot near my door. I thank Jackson Square and the lights at night. The list is endless!
Supplication: Then, after buttering up their deity, begging forgiveness for being imperfect, and thanking their deity for all the good stuff in life, then they ask their deity for favors. Many humans skip the adoration, contrition, and thanksgiving. They just ask for shit.
The big three monotheistic patriarchal religions like to inculcate the myth that god is our parent and we are powerless without his favors. That really creeps me out! ( Read more... )
Current Music: Alpha Wave Movement - Binary Code 51 (Space Station Soma: Tune in, turn on, space out. Ambient and m
21 November 2009 @ 12:59 am
..deposited here..they need to unscreen said..
One of my LJ friends said in direct response to this comment, "even where I am not quite convinced, at this time, to petition to become part of your "cult," it is beyond me what is so threatening to those who even claim you can't succeed."
I have pondered that a number of times, as is seems a very common theme upon those of you who 'oppose' me; "We must rigorously fight his pathetic failings."
As for your statement, "mistaken his fetish-derived sci-fi stories for scripture", let me refer you to what I have had to say upon this very subject, "'Predictive fiction' is a pretty dicey undertaking in the best of circumstances. But ideologically driven wish fulfillment predictive fiction is the special province of the mad and obsessed. I am willing to submit to both of those labels up to a point.
These stories are not about how I really believe things would look in a world created by The Temple, but more of an interpretation of how I hope such might be. Don't think of them as a blueprint, but more of an 'atmosphere'. The actual truth of such a world will most likely be far more bizarre and alien." [from here: http://community.livejournal.com/e_spea
I suspect you have actually never read any of what you are 'critiquing', which is actually my older Space Opera version of the Cyber Witch stories. [see here: http://community.livejournal.com/e_spea
BTW I am posting this 'anonymously' as I'm not interested in a flood of comment notifications from the usual collection of clowns, even though I suspect that would be a smaller number these days as so many of them are either 'hunkered down' or just plain shut down.
Hmmm...maybe you DO need to 'rigorously fight my pathetic failings.' El Oh El
~M~
...darn! I said 'actually' twice in one sentence..bad bad writer..*smacks own wrist*
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calm21 November 2009 @ 12:39 am
"One could already make the case that our collective existence is already absurd on account of our possession of apocalyptic weapons, namely the nuclear bomb. We've already come alarmingly close to apocalypse, including the Cuban Missile Crisis and the infamous Stanislav Petrov incident. Would it be unfair of me to suggest that we should probably have destroyed ourselves by now? I would argue that the most probable of Everett Many World Earths have destroyed themselves through nuclear armageddon, but we happen to observe a version of Earth that has not." George Dvorsky
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contemplative21 November 2009 @ 02:37 am
21 November 2009 @ 12:36 am
Brain waves will replace keyboard and mouse, dial phones and change TV channels
Scientists at Intel's research lab in Pittsburgh are working to find ways to read and harness human brain waves so they can be used to operate computers, television sets and cell phones. The brain waves would be harnessed with Intel-developed sensors implanted in people's brains.
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beep beep21 November 2009 @ 12:11 am
Below from Alan Salmi on FaceBook. Crude wisdom from an old fart recorded by his adult son.
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20 November 2009 @ 11:38 pm
I was talking with ![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif)
kellcrow7 on Thursday night. She has been sick a lot and missing work. She takes vitamins and eats a relatively healthy diet. So I quizzed her.
She acted a little embarrassed, which is not like her at all. She said she has fibromyalgia, which is one of those problems which many doctors believe is an imaginary illness. Psychosomatic. So she does not talk about it much.
I had heard of the problem. From what little I remembered, fibromyalgia seemed more like a condition or a syndrome than a disease. What I mean by that it that fibromyalgia can be caused (and triggered) by many different things, sometimes many different triggers at once. Not a single cause. Many docs do not like problems which they cannot treat with a pill or a scalpel. Docs are pretty ignorant when it comes to nutrition.
List of snippets below are extracted from recent post dealing with fibromyalgia. I sent the list tokellcrow7 for when she re-gains internet access. I thought others might find the snippets useful, I am posting it here.
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kellcrow7 on Thursday night. She has been sick a lot and missing work. She takes vitamins and eats a relatively healthy diet. So I quizzed her.She acted a little embarrassed, which is not like her at all. She said she has fibromyalgia, which is one of those problems which many doctors believe is an imaginary illness. Psychosomatic. So she does not talk about it much.
I had heard of the problem. From what little I remembered, fibromyalgia seemed more like a condition or a syndrome than a disease. What I mean by that it that fibromyalgia can be caused (and triggered) by many different things, sometimes many different triggers at once. Not a single cause. Many docs do not like problems which they cannot treat with a pill or a scalpel. Docs are pretty ignorant when it comes to nutrition.
List of snippets below are extracted from recent post dealing with fibromyalgia. I sent the list to
kellcrow7 for when she re-gains internet access. I thought others might find the snippets useful, I am posting it here.======================================
( Read more... )
Current Music: Grain - Birth Son (Space Station Soma: Tune in, turn on, space out. Ambient and mid-tempo electronic
20 November 2009 @ 11:08 pm
Looks like I could have worked tonight. Most readers stayed home. Only 2 readers in the region I can scan with Muriel spycam. To periods of light rain. Neither reader was working. Then dampness. 60F righjt now. Almost no wind. Very damp. I would have survived. Not sure if I would have made OK money because of almost no competition, or is I would have gotten wet for no good reason.
Tomorrow looks good for work.
Tomorrow looks good for work.
Current Music: General Fuzz - Red Balloon (Space Station Soma: Tune in, turn on, space out. Ambient and mid-tempo e
20 November 2009 @ 07:44 pm
..from here..
Much like Cobra Commander.
"Though I do I feel like I should honestly just ignore him... I think any notion that we who mock him are giving him power in the form of circulating his "meme" is... well, it's like the idea that the internet has ushered in a golden age for Scientology because people did the same thing for it.
So I don't think it helps him to mock him, but at the same time I don't think it accomplishes any good because his ability to do the evil things he dreams of are going to be hampered by his own failings." alexandraerin
..I just read this to Sister Two and we both laughed hysterically..
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chipper20 November 2009 @ 09:35 pm
I have the night off due to rain, so I have time to write more about my tuna salad smoothie experiments tonight.
I have begun drinking 2-1/2 meals of tuna salad smoothie, many days in a row. So rather than having whey twice a day I was getting less whey. So, yesterday, I added a big scoop (1/2 dose) of unflavored whey to my smoothie. No taste. Makes texture smoother. Today I added a full dose. Looks like whey will be an integral part of my smoothies.
Glucometer reading was high today (166). Yesterday it was 140. Same recipe except for the whey, which is less only 1 grams of carbs, spread out over 2-1/2 meals. So I doubt my high glucose is because of the whey in yesterday's smoothies.
Been doing some reading. Celery is high oxalate, so once this bunch is used up, I shall omit celery in the future. I thought about parsley, but read that it is high oxalate, so I skipped the parsley.
I tried broccoli today. I used half a stalk & half the green tops from the stalk. Not yummy. And it is medium oxalate. So I can use some, but not a lot. Tomorrow I shall use 1/4 stalk and 1/4 green tops.
Dark green salad greens (like spinach) are high oxalate. Iceberg lettuce is low.No idea about Romaine lettuce. I just stumbled upon an oxalate site for Iguana foods. Romaine has half the oxalates contained in broccoli. Not low like Kale. I shall continue using Romaine.
Rouses grocery store on the corner near me has much nicer looking produce than A-&-P used to have at that location.
I am now using more mayonnaise, tuna, and eggs in a week than I have eaten in the 2 years since I gave up salads because my bad teeth. Eggs are good for me, despite all the dire warnings about cholesterol. I am not real excited about mayonnaise, but nothing else has the same flavor as Hellman's mayo. It has soy oil. Probably GM soy. I also use Lea-&-Perrins Worcestershire sauce. Not by any means a health food. Got some carbs. But I don't use a lot of the sauce.
My current recipe for tuna salad smoothie is as follows: ( Read more... )
I have begun drinking 2-1/2 meals of tuna salad smoothie, many days in a row. So rather than having whey twice a day I was getting less whey. So, yesterday, I added a big scoop (1/2 dose) of unflavored whey to my smoothie. No taste. Makes texture smoother. Today I added a full dose. Looks like whey will be an integral part of my smoothies.
Glucometer reading was high today (166). Yesterday it was 140. Same recipe except for the whey, which is less only 1 grams of carbs, spread out over 2-1/2 meals. So I doubt my high glucose is because of the whey in yesterday's smoothies.
Been doing some reading. Celery is high oxalate, so once this bunch is used up, I shall omit celery in the future. I thought about parsley, but read that it is high oxalate, so I skipped the parsley.
I tried broccoli today. I used half a stalk & half the green tops from the stalk. Not yummy. And it is medium oxalate. So I can use some, but not a lot. Tomorrow I shall use 1/4 stalk and 1/4 green tops.
Dark green salad greens (like spinach) are high oxalate. Iceberg lettuce is low.
Rouses grocery store on the corner near me has much nicer looking produce than A-&-P used to have at that location.
I am now using more mayonnaise, tuna, and eggs in a week than I have eaten in the 2 years since I gave up salads because my bad teeth. Eggs are good for me, despite all the dire warnings about cholesterol. I am not real excited about mayonnaise, but nothing else has the same flavor as Hellman's mayo. It has soy oil. Probably GM soy. I also use Lea-&-Perrins Worcestershire sauce. Not by any means a health food. Got some carbs. But I don't use a lot of the sauce.
My current recipe for tuna salad smoothie is as follows: ( Read more... )
Current Music: Resonant Drift - Rock, Sand, Soil, Bark (Space Station Soma: Tune in, turn on, space out. Ambient an
20 November 2009 @ 10:01 pm
- 11:16 Yes, I think this explains it:
- 13:08 Funny email exchange between a customer and a Blockbuster Manager over late fees: is.gd/4ZLlv (via @buffalokill)
- 18:22 The movie trailer version of "But I have black friends!" twurl.nl/gt8qpm
20 November 2009 @ 05:33 pm
http://community.livejournal.com/statem
Note to the OP: The Temple has three members now.
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