The Ramblings of a Travaling Prophet

So ive been thinking about technology and what kind of interface i would like to have for taking my digital person places.
What I am seeking, what I purpose is that digital tool creators, i.e. iPhone, UMPC, DMP and the like stop thinking of their product as and ends but rather as an interface to a larger idea, as ways of interacting with a persons' digital "senses" and as levels & methods of dealing with that idea. Smart-phones become remotes and i/o, laptops become workhorses & storehouses, UMPCs become windows and notepads, DMP become theaters and doors. 

ok i know ive said this a few times before to alot of different foke but i think this deserves another public noting.

Just because you know how someone will react to something, DOES NOT make you responcible for their actions!

the only person that is responcible for a persons actions is the person taking them and as long as you are not doing harm with your actions, do what is best for you.

There's a streetlight outside the Panasonic Center in Tokyo that is function, beautiful, and entirely off the grid. The body of the lamp is composed of a vertical axis wind turbine and the top of the light is capped with solar panels.

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So I have recently noted something that I believe sets me apart from my cultural contemporaries. The majority of my cultural contemporaries believe that relational titles(ie. Boyfriend, Friend, Lover, SO, etc) define the relationship they are describing as where i assign the label based on the relationships, and the over arching effects of this simple difference in world view are shocking to me. My cultural contemporaries that think in this fashion, Labelist, often make choices, in my experience, not based on the person they are in a relationship but because of the title they have given the relationship. This seems to me to be completely contradictory with the definition of relationship, and likely the major source of confusion and frustration in the Labelist relationships I've seen and have been party to. People struggle to act like a boy/girlfriend, not cheating, being physically intimate, buying gifts, and the like because the person they are acting this way toward is their boy/girlfriend, rather then acting this way and calling the person their girl/boyfriend because of their actions. It would seem easier to me, to act toward a person in the fashion that is best for the people involved and then to look at those actions and choose a label afterward but you cant forget to change the label when the actions change as well.

According to this article Facebook is going to start sucking a lot less, but I personally am not reassured. As good as this seems to me to be, there are a whole shit load more good ideas that could be implemented. if not by Facebook then by some up and coming social site (or open standard alternative). Let us then take a look at a few I've seen around, I will try and credit the ideas originator if I can but if i miss someone and your them or would like to be referenced differently please just let me know.

Cine(Digg.com) offered the most practical idea I've heard yet, even if it is ineffective. "...maybe the best thing is to remove the invite feature entirely. I'll tell my friend IRL or on IM about the decent apps. I don't need Facebook to make it easy for me.". If only that would work, but she did offer us a practical & effective solution also. "...make it impossible for applications to tell how many friends you have invited. That way, it will be impossible for the apps to reward you for sending spam to 239580392 of your friends, and then everyone will stop inviting people unless they genuinely think that a friend should check out a decent app."

yawaramin(Digg.com) offers a great idea that i very much hope Facebook excepts, "...make it really easy to block any application, as soon as you get a request from it, right there on the request page. I just need three options to answer a request--Accept, Ignore or Block.". This seems to me to be common sense but we all know what is said about common sense.

80hd(Digg.com) thinks options are where our salvation lies.. "Where's the "ignore all application requests" option?" Useful, forces the "tell your friends personally" idea.

And the last idea I've seen, so far, is the idea of holding people responsible for the apps they send, so get out their and start hitting your friends for stupid shit!



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Odd but seemingly useful

Im wondering something, so lets for a moment assume that profile page and ablity to list social connections (ie friends, co-workers, aqquantaces, etc) are included and of equal quality. what then should a social network provide to its users?

now lets assume that you can find people on ANY social network and add them to your lists. does this change the job/services that a social network should have?

The tale of an Asian man quest for length, leads us all to learn that length is a waste of cash!?

Ok I honestly think this is the last straw, someone explain to me why so much effort and cash is wasted on this stupid shit? The mass media has a new story to tell us about our cocks and our partner's cocks every month, why do we keep listening? Wouldn't a more enlightening view be to teach our youths to both appreciate sex and its many uses, long side that teach it as an art form? Killing two birds with one stone, much less random sex & much better sex. And before anyone decides to jump down my throat, there is existing and historical precedent for my view so take it up with the writer of the kama sutra. Or the teachers of tantric, or any of the Chinese sex theories for that matter. If you need someone to blame your unhappy state of small penis on, blame your puritan ancestors.

I, for one, will be happy with my unmeasured self-trained penis & the satisfied looks of those I share with.

FUCK PENIS SIZE!

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I have always found it amusing that people thought waiting until the end of a year was a good time to change your life. strangely it is now, the end of a year or more accurately the start of a new year, that life is giving me the tools and motivation to change my life and never a moment to soon. plans i have learned are not the enemy but inflexibility in the guise of planning, so i vow to do everything in my power never to neglect another tool.

along the same note, there are a group of us in the area, if you know where that is great otherwise i am very sorry, that are starting a reading club, nothing exactly formal but a group that has agreed to read, gather and talk about what we have read. the idea seems to be that we will be hopping coffee houses and starting reading around 2am GMT and talking an hour later. if your interested and have a method by which to get a hold of me then do so and ill tell you where we are meeting what days. we will prolly end up cutting the number of days we meet once we figure out what works best for more people

Dragon is dead. His name was David Danforth. In Death he has a name.

What is left in his stead is memories of a long time ago and ideas that remain sound but misunderstood, misbalanced or misapplied. Only in time cant these things be forged into a soul and on this gravestone is begged of those held dear in these memories the time and support needed to forge a better soul and not to seek among the dead.

so my finger really fucking hurts... and typing without a finger is a huge pain in the ass. ok so let me start over, i went out with laura and her nuke family to seabreeze yesterday and got a little burn, played nice with the nice "normal" people, got a little sun burnt on the shoulders and tops of my feet(?) then we went home. so we are making dinner and i burned my finger mad bad. so now im tryin to type with a fucked up finger.

idk what i did but i pissed off the duchess this morning and im really not sure how, her child seems to be driving her a little crazy.

went to field on sunday, with amara and susie, there were a bunch of out of towners and some ocasionally locals (like yours truely) and ruggie showed, fielded, quested... he seems to be enjoying

i finished my spear a few days ago... and should be moving out of the embassy this week...

( stupidest word EVAR! )

my my my... what an inaccurate mess! welcome to the word that can mean anything... OMGS THERE IT IS AGAIN!!! we cant get away from it... nothing, everything, anything, thingy, thingamajig.... GRRRRR can we say something more spasific? for crying out loud people... its called a door handle... not a knobby thing!! or your emo is bothering you not NOTHING. i really dont know anymore direct way to say it... STOP WITH THE THING THING!!!

when it comes to emotions people tend to feel more strongly about everything when the thing they are feeling is about someone they already feel strongly about, so when the feel the same type of emotion about someone else it is obviously not going to feel as strong to them. this is NOT a crime or an insult to the person they dont feel as strongly toward and shouldnt be taken as such by anyone involved. and im totally unable to understand why a person would be insulted when another person trys to express their emotions about a third person.

im sorry for any confusion i have caused people in the past but there is another way i clasify people in my head that i hadnt noticed until recenly and had not true groked myself ontil today. with in my 5 groups there is another set of subclasifications that i myself do not yet completely know how to react to, those people that im physically attracted to and those i am not. while i know these groups exsist, and i know that i treat them differantly, i dont completely know how i treat them differantly or what is best. im very sorry for any pain or suffering i have caused anyone with my blindness and hope to explore this new truth in time  

so i was conversing with a friend today and the terms "whore" & "slut" came up, both of these words tend to rub me the wrong way and until today didnt really know why. so let me see if i cant explain myself, we will start with the dictionary defintions of a few words.

as for prostitution... thats another conversation... so people think about if a person is something before you say it

implying something is the most moronic way to get something done... i honestly dont understand why it is so much more socially acceptable to give a veiled idea that you want something rather then just asking. this stupid little social dance we play is such a waste of my time and everyone else's. if you want something or you want something done just come out and ask people.

im much to annoyed right now to give this subject the proper rant its due but this is honestly the most direct way of doing this

i will NOT, i repeat WILL NOT, acknowledge implications anymore. from anyone. if you have a problem, need something or want something done that you believe i can help with... JUST FUCKING ASK!! if you try and imply that i should be doing something... even if in my oblivious nature i notice i WILL IGNORE IT!

now that the bases are loaded we can begin. some people seem to be confused about how i make my decisions as they sometime seem to be completely random, i assure you they are not. this is the process i (hopefully) go through and would actually suggest to other people if they were having trouble making up their minds about what to do.

before we begin I'm going to include a disclaimer. this may sound very egotistical and self-centered if you haven't finished my reading list and i may have left out critical conclusions that lead me to my decisions here, if that is the case please either finish reading the list or let me know you believe i missed a conclusion and i will do my best to fix it with an edit.

please mind that this process is based off the belief that other people exist and my devision of 5 kinds people in the world.

one conclusion i know is not included is this: people are more important then experience, and experience is more important then place.  please don't let formula or process become stronger then the dynamic Beauty.

first thing that must be considered when deciding something is that you cant PROVE that anyone else exists, but i believe on faith that other people exist, even still without proof of others existence the choice that is best for me(you) rates slightly higher.  please note that me(you) includes any waterkin involved (which can made this the hardest part of the whole process)

then by weighing the number of people you want to spend your time with involved in each option, along with the experiences and places involved in each. the decision that includes the most number of people you want to spend your time with is probably the correct one at this stage. now we weigh the effect of each decision on those people we want to spend our time with and any effects those decisions will have on that persons placement of us in the kinds of people in the world for them. this a more complicated subject to elaborate on because it is almost purely subjective in nature. the hope is that by the time you've decided that you want to spend your time with someone you know that person well enough to know how they will react, where you stand in their five and what the conditions for your being there are. (and if your very lucky the conditions for changing it)

if that does not provide you a strong winning candidate move on to comparing possible experiences that may come for the decision. this is often the least accurate messures, but if your reasonable one of the most useful.  if once again we don't have a single strong candidate then move on the place(s) that each of the options will happen at and choice the one that is the least likely to be uncomfortable.

so i was gonna post something on decision making but noted that it required some base assumptions that i haven't shared yet, namely the few things I'm 100% sure of, those things that I KNOW i can prove.

first: There is Absolute truth. - the proof is actually a little counter-intuitive. if you make the statement "there is no absolute truth" you've just stated one thereby falsifying your own statement.

second: I can prove at least two things. - the proof is simple... i just proved one and if i can prove that i can prove one thing I've just proved two.

third: I think therefore i am. - for proof please see descartes

baby stole the last of my weekend energy stores... its not fair

i had saved just a little energy for the rest of the weekend and the baby kept eating it... i felt robbed...

but she is gone and now i gotta worry about the rest of my life... off i go