Category: Recent thoughts

… removing your braces.

Made this video composite for a school event. Never ended up using it for the show, but as it very accurately represents the war zone, that is, learning to program with C++, I had to share it. See the program run below. The code follows…

00001B83 0000204F 00003B3E 00004C29 0001FBE7 000138AE 00008000 00007F18 0000EAA5 0000C395

i edited two entries in the registry today..thru cmd line. Today is a good day.

Unexplained… Looking southwest, through the remnants of light pollution attenuation coming from the Phoenix Valley Metro area, the bright light in the distance, at first glance appears to be a highway lamp post… yet, it’s location on the horizon makes no sense. If this were public agency illumination, it’s location made no sense. Too tall […]

in the late 1940s, george orwell imagined a dystopian future where a global surveillance system was used to monitor and control all citizens. independent thinking was censored and holding unorthodox or controversial thoughts opposing or questioning those in power was considered a criminal act: a THOUGHTCRIME. the classified information leaked by former CIA employee, edward […]

wis·dom /ˈwizdəm/ · the soundness of an action or decision with regard to the application of experience, knowledge, and good judgment. Blender is a free and open-source 3D computer graphics software toolset used for creating animated films, visual effects, art, 3D printed models, motion graphics, interactive 3D applications, virtual reality and computer games. Blender’s features […]

cOLLODION: the process of preservation

i pulled off the highway somewhere in indiana. twas an hour before darkness and i needed a place to rest for the night. i had driven around the country roads for about twenty minutes through half-harvested fields of parched corn, farm house properties submersed in miles of open skies and patches of hardwood clusters. i […]

(Louisville), Athenaeum Literary Association, 1955. Young people of America, awake from your slumber of indolence and hearken the call of the future! Do you realize you are rapidly becoming a doomed generation? Do you realize that the fate of the world and of generations to come rests on your shoulders?  Do you realize that at […]

that you are a slave, Neo.

I just finished reading a book about how Darpa spent millions of dollars developing and implementing means to counter the growing threat of IEDs in Iraq… the current use of those efforts has been to monitor, identify and track possibly tens of thousands of american citizens at protests throughout the united states.

“To a watching world, the absence of a fair, affordable US healthcare system, the cut-throat contest between American states for scarce medical supplies, the disproportionate death toll among ethnic minorities, chaotic social distancing rules, and a lack of centralized coordination are reminiscent of a poor, developing country, not the most powerful, influential nation on earth.” Excerpt […]

The officers handled this very professionally. This self-righteous deserves her punishment served.

100’s of billions of polys rendered in real-time on a Playstation 5 with Unreal 5. This is what dreams are made of!

You’ve seen Boston Dynamic’s ‘Spot’. But have you seen this? Unitree Robotics has a few options available also. Check out a few of their products here…

“It’s wild how so many Americans view the outsourcing of domestic manufacturing to China over the past 25 years as some devious Chinese plan for domination rather than a strategy by which the American ruling class exploded it’s profit margin by exploiting global inequality.” …lifted from Reddit

At the end of the month of January 2020 I left my job as an aerial bucket operator with a small residential tree service, to pick up my brother ‘travis’. He was to be released from a mental facility in Tennessee. Explaining my reasons for this temporary departure from employment was discussed in length with […]

[original edit] The short version…Assemble a replica 2001 Lamborghini Diablo 6.0 on a custom-modified Humvee chassis to be used as a marketing tool to create a network, gather funds for and to assemble a team to develop a next-gen driver/shooter video game [based on said vehicle and others like it, driving through rabid terrain, killing […]

CITIZENFOUR is a major work on multiple levels, and a deeply unsettling experience. When filmmaker Laura Poitras and journalist Glenn Greenwald flew to Hong Kong to meet Edward Snowden for the first time, Poitras brought her camera with her. The result is a 100% real-life espionage story unfolding minute by minute before our eyes.

this morning on my reddit feed, I stumbled across a mashup of metallica vs stevie wonder. Check out their website…

“There is a cult of ignorance in the United States, and there has always been. The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that ‘my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge.” – Isaac Asimov

“I have a foreboding of an America in my children’s or grandchildren’s time — when the United States is a service and information economy; when nearly all the manufacturing industries have slipped away to other countries; when awesome technological powers are in the hands of a very few, and no one representing the public interest […]

Machine Learning: Living in the Age of AI | A WIRED Film If you have any interest in technology or even the future of society as we know it, this documentary is a great place to start…