Things and stuff
An update soon, I promise, maybe, but first, who’d be interested in this?
Pressure
Slam, Josh Wink, James Holden, Magda and Keith Tenniswood (aka Radioactive Man)
Friday, 29 December 2006, The Arches, Glasgow
Fuck it if there’ll be no crashspace, there’s no way in hell I’m missing this.
Oi,
For those left without Lost for the next god knows how many weeks, although it was getting rather shite anyway, bastards, do you know of the Lost Experience? You might have seen some of the weird flash based sites around, but do you know of Rachel Blake [1] and have you seen the video about the true meaning of the numbers? Don’t look if you don’t want to spoil it, like it has done for me, bastards.
Oh, and
(00:28:24) * @Russss is reading through the 2000 or so e-mails that have been sent to “no-reply@last.fm” over the last few months.,..
(00:28:32) <-Yllona> doh!
(00:28:34) <@mustaqila> Oh jesus
(00:28:48) <@Russss> I forgot we were recording them
(00:28:57) <@Russss> and found out there were 105,000 messages in the inbox
(00:29:08) <@Russss> of course, most of them were bounces.
(00:29:09) <-Yllona> sadly idjits have not been bred out of the gene pool
(00:29:28) <@Russss> but 2000 were left after weeding the bounces out with my magic bounce-processing script
(00:29:41) <@Russss> most of the 2000 are still autoresponders and so on
(00:29:52) <@Russss> but people still reply.
(00:30:05) * Yllona is referring to the people who would reply to a “no-reply”
(00:30:45) <-Yllona> is there an explicit “do not reply to this e-mail” statement in the e-mail
(00:31:13) <@Russss> yes
(00:31:22) <@Russss> I’ve seen some replies with just “ok”
(00:31:43) <-Yllona> well there’s nothing more you can do then. idjits will be idjits
(00:32:29) <@Russss> the vast majority are actually labels…
(00:32:43) <-Yllona> heh. no comment
(00:33:04) <@Russss> although I suspect that’s because the “welcome to last.fm” new-labels message is sent from no-reply@last.fm
(00:33:08) <-Yllona> they’re using MS outlook, there’s no telling what they say on the screen
(00:33:30) <-Yllona> *saw on the screen
(00:34:28) <-Yllona> that welcome message should sent from “labels at last.fm” or some some sub-addy
(00:35:02) <@Russss> yeah, it should
(00:35:11) <@Russss> “Thank you for your email to Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger.”
(00:35:20) <@Russss> Someone signed up with arnie’s e-mail address
(00:35:26) <@Russss> at least they had some imagination
(00:35:55) <-Yllona> you gotta love LA, we’re not as stupid as people would assume(00:50:27) <@Russss> haha
(00:50:43) <@Russss> we sent someone an password reset e-mail: “Someone requested a password reset for your account on Last.fm”
(00:50:54) <@Russss> and they replied with “Password is“
Anyway.
Right, time to see if I can get a second monitor working with this gfx card. Mainly feeling apathetic right now, but yeah.
You definitely have a Boston accent, even if you think you don’t. Of course, that doesn’t mean you are from the Boston area, you may also be from New Hampshire or Maine. This being a Boston accent. Heck, while my accent-dar sucks fish sticks, I’m well sure I don’t sound like that.. no?
What American accent do you have?
Your Result: Boston: 94%
The Midland: 75%
The West: 73%
North Central: 53%
The Northeast: 52%
Philadelphia: 47%
The Inland North: 26%
The South: 23%
What American accent do you have?
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Random info fae Wikipedia follows;
“The Presence is a fictional comic book character portrayed as the supreme being in the DC Comics Universe, believed to be the God of Judeo-Christian (and other) beliefs … The name was coined to avoid referring to this character as God, despite its obviously being intended to be that being. It would not be until the Comics Code Authority began to lose its influence that DC Comics would allow it to be referred to as God…”
From Comic book code of 1954;
(6) In every instance good shall triumph over evil and the criminal punished for his misdeeds.
(8) No unique or unusual methods of concealing weapons shall be shown.
(2) All scenes of horror, excessive bloodshed, gory or gruesome crimes, depravity, lust, sadism, masochism shall not be permitted.
(5) Scenes dealing with, or instruments associated with walking dead, torture, vampires and vampirism, ghouls, cannibalism, and werewolfism are prohibited.
(3) Although slang and colloquialisms are acceptable, excessive use should be discouraged and, wherever possible, good grammar shall be employed.
(4) Females shall be drawn realistically without exaggeration of any physical qualities.
(7) Sex perversion or any inference to same is strictly forbidden.
P.S. For any electro-acoustic fans; the original recording of Alvin Lucier’s ‘I Am Sitting in a Room‘ plus an 11 part interview/documentary, available here.
P.P.S. Random video alert; join Steve Sutton as himself, Commander Ethan Keen [1], Lieutenant Billy West [2], Doctor Lovoski, Corporal Clark, Captain Pfeiffer, Admiral Nelson and many, many more in the no-budget sci-fi production ‘The Portal’, featuring multi-dimensional action, epic space battles *cough* and the odd bit of cannibalism, filmed using a webcam and greenscreenblanket. Ep 1, ep 2, ep 3, ep 4, ep 5, ep 6, ep 7, ep 8, ep 9 and ep 10. Quite a feat considering the limitations he has to work with, as seen in the making of. Anyway, bed time.
Turns out I was most disapointed by the previously mentioned Horizon documentary on transhumanism and the singularity. Yeah, they covered the basic history and outline of brain-computer interfaces, quantum computing and neural networks, but there was no real linkage between or attempt to illustrate the possabilities of these technologies in regards to transhumanism or the singularity. Half-way through it then jumps to a very dualistic discussion about how future society might react to the creation and possible dangers of super-intelligent AIs, but neglects to mention notions such as seed AI vs. friendly AI. Further more, the programme also failed to explore post-singularity possabilities such as the ones that have been portrayed in fiction. If you want some related reading material, check out Cory Doctorow’s Down And Out In The Magic Kingdom or Roger Williams’ The Metamorphosis of Prime Intellect, both available in full online, and if you love reading the latter as much as I did, check out this podcast which features an interview with the author that discusses the nature of the singularity. Aaaaaanyway…
(Although the show mentions that Ray Kurzweil is a sucessful business man, it fails to go note the long list of inventions and accolades he has to his name and that Hugo de Garis’s AI company went bust. Not that these facts really matter, but it’s always interesting to know.. and ‘cosmists’, ‘terrans’ and ‘artilects’? pleeeaaase.. *coughGOKURZWEIL!cough*. Actaully, I’m never a fanboy, I just enthuse a lot.)
Also, I’ve now worked my way through the first three eps of Heroes, and apart from the number of albeit expected as-it-just-so-happens coincidences, I am rather enjoying the twists and unknown factors in the plot, so far at least. Lost on the other hand is slowly trundling away with no major plot developments in the last few eps. Oh how I wish to be able to forget everything but the first season and sit down to S02E01 again… man, that was good shit.
P.S. Don’t suppose anyone has some form of copy of either La Nuit Americaine or Six Characters in Search of an Author (I’m thinking of the BBC adaptation) I could borrow? Hmm.. *checks on the off chance..* OH WOW, mininova has torrents for all of Dennis Potter’s Karaoke and Cold Lazarus TV plays! That’s my interwebvisual viewing sorted for the next week or so. *ponders then checks again* Ooh, Funny Games is also up. WARNING: Do not read the plot if you haven’t viewed this already, but needless to say, it’s a Austrian produced thriller with a great twist. Go watch it before the American remake comes out next year. I liked it anyway. Ooh, and Le Diner De Cons! Alright, I’ll shut up for now..
Firefox ate my post. Needless to say, am still ill, and am now 23. W00t.
Back from Whitby. It had it’s good bits and bad bits, although, as in 2002 (IIRC?), it was cut short due to stuffness. Was nice to see peeps I hadn’t seen in months/years, although due to crap planning (on several levels, of my own fault though) I didn’t get to chat with folks as much as I’d have liked to. More on it all later, maybe. Popped into Edinburgh for a couple of days on the way back to see
P.S. For anyone who missed the transhumanism/singularity “Human v2″ Horizon ep that aired last week, like me, joy of joys, it’s available via BitTorrent.