oh professor

the professor sitting at his desk making _tea_

sheriff with a shotgun

Tappan's Junction

douglas adams videos

alan kay videos

alan watts lectures to put you to sleep

life,so true

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update

The Buddhist Geeks title music is really cool, especially with the Bass boost on..
Dunno about the content. There's one called 'Jedi Mind Training of Concentration' so am investigating.

Today I complete four days of walking four kilometres each day.
Running doesn't work for me because it's too-much-effort-per-step whereas walking is just right.
It meshes easily into my office routine ( no nightouts though ).
Plus I can do it anytime,and also do it wearing my 300 rupee green-cloth-shoes-with-1-inch-soles that I bought in 2006(2007?) and that I like a lot because they were the mascot of my personal freedom movement then..

favorite author

Neal Stephenson has replaced William Gibson as my favorite author for the time being.
This corresponds the move of the life-mood-indicator from the 'poignant' to 'maybe-hackable' posish.
I have followed all the links on Wikipedia and have read through most of his Wired.com interviews, went back to the one about domination systems in reason.com.... currenty reading his short story 'Spew', and I definitely need to get my hands on the 'Hackers' short-story collection.
Spew is just fantastic, and the crunchy-chocolatey goodness just goes up each para after para.
Hope the ending's managed okay.

the magic's gone... and yet !

I re-read my favorite books again , but somehow, the magic's gone.
What was once a gateway to hours of fun , is just a string of words.

The same happens with some of my cherished video games.
I can rip through the motions , kill all the villains and end missions within five to ten
minutes  and come out feeling robbed.

While I have fond
memories of the worlds created in both my books and games, when I go
back, the first thing that hits me is that the experience is scripted and bounded.

The last time a friend of mine was playing Mafia, and was struggling to steer
the taxi AND outrun Morello's hoods at the same time, and I was trying to advise him
on what to do ...  I got a glimpse of myself when the game was completely unfamiliar
yet attractive.

this is me

this is me going through life.
NOT !!

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looks like

death won't be coming soon enough....

on the topic of video games

Mafia 2 is on its way ! hurray !

alan watts ,division of labour

Alan Watts talks about division of labour and three types of cultures and shamans (religion of the Hunter culture) in Out of your mind /Disc 10 /The World as self [Part 2]