ralph koster on fun,magic and deep structure

or did i say hofsdadter ?
the-core-of-fun/

for me this logical follows kathy sierra's podcast on 'how to kick ass'

which in turn refers to, among other things,
- the Woooo !!! feeling
- tim gallwey's the inner game of tennis
- joseph campbell, hero's journey
- cszikszentmihalyi's Flow
other things she said :
mirror neurons, exercise & sleep, visualization,
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Btw, there's something called 'Game grammars'.
oooh !!

parent adult child

these terms are in my mind today. Was thinking of behaviour and patterns . then it boiled down to people do things differently in different interactions oh wait, that's a _transaction_ okay that means we're back to transactional analysis. apparently this was started by eric berne ( wrote 'games people play' ) and thomas harris apparently watered it down and brought it to 'pop' level.
Adult(tm) behaviour requires ego-lessness. unless you make it a permanent feature of your personality(in which case you won't have regulars) your regulars will not like it and ask you to 'relax' and 'chill out'.

my friend who became a

Me and my friend
used to laugh
at Dilbert jokes
then one day
he became
a manager

Toffler's Third Wave to Creativity

Alvin Toffler said long long ago that the Second Wave is gone and the Third wave is here.
In the chapter titled 'Breaking the code',he describes the rules what define and are enforced by the Industrial wave.
A lot of people are slowly waking up to the fact the schooling system throughout the world is geared for producing hierarchical droids trained to not use their full brains.
See this TED talk by Sir Ken Robinson (writer) . While the content is good, the delivery is typically charming,exhilarating British wit.
Slava has taken up cudgels on this behalf in this post here
Kathy Sierra's "how to kick ass" is more of an instruction guide on the matter.

Remember , first thing, the act of doing something is much more important than whether it will be judged right or wrong.

William Gibson said that the future is already here but it's not distributed evenly.

mug,gun and lamp

Boat, formerly used on Styx, now on e-bay

Bureaucracy-man, our new super-hero

seneca is coffee for the mind/soul/happiness-agent

read 'Stoicism 101' on Timothy Ferriss' blog

Raywarriors

hold your sword tightly

dancers

i didn't catch what blondie said

yet one more

one more

hilarious video

had to laugh out loud.
Kill Bill in a minute

cool runnings

Cool Runnings is a good movie to watch. John Candy does a good job as usual. The movie is directed very well, with each scene smoothly clicking into place in the overall scheme of things. All characters' roles are well done, meaning any scene featuring anyone in the movie, be it the people watching t.v in the bar or the spectators at the race or the kid writing scores or the people in offices laughing their heads off, the extras don't have cliche roles put in to paint the lead character, they have parts that paint the story and this is what makes the difference. Of course, a good bit of glossing over the harshness and callousness of real life happens, which helps in a movie any day (if we wanted real-life, we'd go out to the market, eh).
I wonder why my movie rental store or the movie theatres so pathetically fail at the job of entertainment when Star Movies and HBO together make up for that failure ten times over.
The movie ends with the 'I can see clearly now the rain is gone' playing over credits and it is a good thing.

sleep quality :thunkbabble

I feel that sleep quality is linked to the feeling of accomplishment coming from the day's activities .
If you've worked on ten things, you'll feel less accomplishment points than if you've worked on three.
but, if you've worked HARD on ten things ,one at a time, then you'll get better sleep than if you've worked on three things by doing half an hour each and then switching.

update

i set mid-day alarms. so i must be an old man.