| Proximal Subject: Honours Project, Nietzsche - Distal Subject: Catharsis. |
[Oct. 5th, 2009|02:44 am] |
I was having trouble sleeping, so I downloaded a translation of Thus Spake Zarathustra. As often as I have quoted him, and as much as I ascribe to the elements of his philosophy I am actually familiar with, I've never actually read Thus Spake Zarathustra. And now that I am doing so, I am very impressed. Everyone should read this, not least because the prologue almost certainly complements you whether you know it or not.
And honours project. I've been losing a lot of sleep on this one, but I think I'm going to have to find a lecturer who'll supervise Heros of Wantmiir. If you don't know what that is, you probably won't care but feel free to ask at some point. I reckon it's an interesting enough project for the year. If nothing else it should be interesting designing the interface and AI.
"I love those that know not how to live except as down-goers, for they are the over-goers.
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I love him who laboureth and inventeth, that he may build the house for the Superman, and prepare for him earth, animal, and plant: for thus seeketh he his own down-going."
Friedrich Nietzsche, Thus Spake Zarathustra.
Zarathustra loves the masses who seek only to live their own lives, not giving thought or regard to matters of philosophy or great importance. They are the human race, and from them post-humans will follow. They are walking the metaphorical tightrope to the future.
Zarathustra loves the innovators because now that god is dead and mankind has only it's own future to aspire to, those who work to change the world in time to the drumbeat of progress are readying it for the post-human.
I kinda want to be the innovator, but that's not exactly news. The earth, animal and plant bit is something to think on. Even if I can't change the world of computers, maybe I could breed a better breed of chicken or something.
Hmmm. The world could use a nice home utility fowl. Something that lays heavily, and late into the season, but is still friendly enough to keep around the place and truebreeding. Maybe a Rhode Island hybrid? I wonder how commercial breeds get so damn many eggs. I should research that.
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| Locations! |
[Aug. 21st, 2009|01:54 am] |
Updates to locations! The state of Terror is no longer the US in it's entirety. It is now Disneyland, though still in America.
"Here" is a town in France, near Lyon.
I'm in France! |
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| 2 Years? Really? |
[Aug. 21st, 2009|01:18 am] |
Ok, it's been 2 years, and people have actually not stopped mentioning these yet, so I guess I should get back involved. There are some fun communities on LJ which I keep meaning to get involved in anyway, so this should al work together nicely.
I don't really know what I'm here to write, besides writing something so I am officially "back" and I don't stress about the first post back and what to write to break the ice. The logical conclusion then is to use LiveJournal as a chronicle of the various events that have punctuated the past couple of years, a cathartic personal record, a "journal" if you will. I really can't think of anything more surreal than that off the top of my head, so I'm going to do that one.
Neener neener.
Man, 2 years? I don't know where to start. I don't even remember what I ate yesterday. There were some crisps, I think. And a fried egg. No, several fried eggs. 11 of them. I have eaten 11 fried eggs in the past 2 years, and some crisps, and probably a bunch of other stuff. Though I plan to eat many more fried eggs in the next week or so.
2 years ago, I would have been in... second year at uni? No, I was about to start second year. I passed that, then I passed third year (although that one was more eventful, it wasn't especially interesting. I got really stressed out. Then I got really depressed. Then I didn't do anything for a while, then I saved the day, passed my exams and we all ate ice cream)
Gaming-wise, I've diversified stylistically in GMing, moving to a more narrative, less sandbox-ey sort of campaign (which is good) and started playing with the same group of players most of the time (which is probably bad. They're a lot of fun, but there's no exchange of ideas with the rest of the society, so the games are going to get dull. Hasn't happened yet, but it will.). Most of the last year has been a kind of GMing mid life crisis thing for me, so my games sucked for a while while I got the hang of my new style. But now everything is fine!
Hey, lilpipkinbunny and kobolds (anyone got any idea how I get those to link to the relevant people?) seem to have got into photography in a pretty major way. that's news, right? Right?
Ooh, I'm doing the vegetarian thing too. Though I've been doing that for three years. And I'm cheating. I've demoted chicken, turkey and fish to vegetables based on intelligence. Ducks have been demoted to fish since they're mostly submerged a lot of the time, and ostriches are being counted as turkeys since the difference is mainly one of size. And I eat meat at Christmas because when the turkey's stuffed with sausage meat it becomes the worlds biggest, tastiest, most poultry-shaped banger and it's so tasty I'm honestly a little surprised that the turkey doesn't eat itself. And my LRP character isn't vegetarian, because that's stupid and meat is tasty and it isn't the kind of thing he'd do anyway. And I did eat some delicious kangaroo sausages last year because how often does one actually get the opportunity to eat kangaroo? And I'll be eating meat for my holiday next week because I'm on holiday and haven't eaten a frikadellen in about 4 years. I don't even know how to spell it any more.
But other that all that stuff, yeah, vegetarian.
Oh, and the nationals is in Edinburgh again this year. I'm not really involved in that though. I'd kinda like to GM, but I never volunteered since my GMing thing was kinda up in the air at the time.
And finally, I need to figure out an honours project for next academic year. This might be my only chance to be a real academic, and I like academia! I believe it's the field best suited to my talents.
So yeah, that's the past two years, ice broken and maybe I'll do something less dull next time. |
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| Something is happening. |
[Jul. 6th, 2007|04:19 am] |
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| | Game balance! Yay! | ] |
Over at http://herosofwantmiir.proboards82.com/ the next run-through of the wargame, (thus far unnamed so simply referred to as "the wargame") is nearly ready to happen, and I am now looking for people to lead the two sides. Basically, these people need to be willing to sign onto the thing every couple of days at a minimum, and it would be preferable if they actually wanted to do it.
Please speak to me at some point if you are interested, or want to suggest someone else who might appreciate the offer. I don't believe everyone will read this, so nominations are fine. It is best to be aware if considering it that this is not a typical strategy game. In this, you will have a physical presence on the battlefield. You see only what it sees, and no more. If you want to know what's happening at all ties, you'd best have damn good communications.
Thanks for reading this. More information is available from me, contactable in any of various ways. If you don't know how to contact me, the game probably wasn't open to you anyway. It's only open to members of HWUSA societies, matriculated HW students and staff members of either organization this time round. |
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| D&D |
[Jun. 2nd, 2007|04:41 pm] |
For those interested, I am starting a Yahoo group for my D&D game.
This is not, I repeat NOT an attempt to roleplay online. This is not an effort to have a "Downtime" area during holidays or anything like that. This group mainly exists for talking about the game, and for hosting documents on the rules changes that have been made.
It will be here:
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/stevesdnd
This will be updated sporadically, and I will do my best to post here when it is.
If you play in the game, please do join. It'd be nice to have some way to communicate with everyone.
I think you need a Yahoo email, but you don't actually have to use it for the groups. |
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| Interesting meme... |
[Feb. 5th, 2007|02:28 am] |
In 2007,  SolubleCarpet resolves to... Volunteer to spend time with jaxeths. Apply for a new highstorm. Overcome my secret fear of yodathedarks. Backup my eurmalian regularly. Put fifty lilpipkinbunnys a month into my savings account.
I just thought you all deserved that.
This silly meme brought to you by "I don't have any interests yet". It's not so much that I am always bored or unimpressed, I just can't think of anything. I'll have to steal some from friends ones. This'll give me a good excuse to go and actually add my friends to this...
But anyway, I find several of the concepts set out in this meme tempting and intriguing. I certainly wouldn't say no to more lilpipkinbunny's, and it does seem we could all use a new highstorm, or at least to get our existing one back
(come baaack! We looove you!)
Some of the others don't make a lick of sense though. Back up eurmalian? As if one wasn't enough. Just think what would've happened if we'd backed him up while Liam was still around? He nearly hemorrhaged with just one of him.
Nonetheless, not feeling all that silly tonight, more ill. I assure any casual readers that I am not usually ill, I just seem more inclined to post when I am, it would seem. |
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| Dustbins |
[Nov. 2nd, 2006|01:58 am] |
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| | State of Terror | ] |
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| | Want to throttle Oasis | ] |
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| | Champagne Supernova, repeatedly, for hours. | ] |
Warning! In event of having either an IQ or a finite attention span, you may wish not to read this useless claptrap.
Today, and by today I mean several days ago, I noticed a new bin at the back of the students union. It is a big plastic one, not dissimilar to the type introduced at school when I was still there. They're sturdy things made from bits of moulded plastic. 5 bits, I think. Or 4. No, 5. I don't know.
Anyway, there's one at the back of the students union, and when I saw it I thought "Ah, good. I hated using the old one."
However, I then wondered whether this is a change for the better. The old bin was big, but seldom emptied, so it was almost always full. to put anything in, you had to push it into the mass of rubbish, meaning your hand went into the bin, which as I already mentioned was already full.
So a change is a good thing. But this bin is smaller, and that is not good. It's one saving grace is that it has a flap. This is good.
Or is it? With a flap, we now have to stick our hand into an -unknown- full bin to deposit our rubbish. I don't want to do that! I haven't dared to use the bin yet for fear of the horrors I might find when my hand hits startling squelchy bit and I recoil in horror, my litter still undeposited.
The horror....
New topic: I have just been distracted from hitting the "Send" button by a promotional idea which I hope and pray is not serious. "Watt Gamers Condoms". If I ever see one, I will remove it from it's "electrically re-tested hermetic foil seal" and wrap it around Jacks neck, where I will tie it in a knot and observe Jack's subsequent magical mystery tour through the Dulux Colour Chart.
Yoda also gets some blame here. I am unsure exactly who is more to blame, and the garrotting will likely be applied to whichever one I think is responsible at the time.
New Topic again: I just had to edit this to announce that according to Google Maps (link above) the State of Terror is all of America. It just shows a big picture of America. That's a little bit beautiful. |
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| Ostriches, Boeing 767's and human-spider thingies. |
[Nov. 19th, 2005|01:48 am] |
I have not posted in a while, and I apologize for this, but now I must as I have three things I must say, one of which is a Meme to share.
Yes, really, a Meme from me! Try it, you'll hate it with a passion that burns like the very fires of hell.
| "ACHTUNG! | | Solublecarpet may actually be a spider-human hybrid |
From Go-Quiz.com
And that is why I am not suitable for human company.
The second thing I must say is that I have the best link in my favourites now. I could spent hours at it, if I had hours right now. I
am now going to try to link to it here. Lets try just typing the URL and hoping.
http://www.livejournal.com/random.bml
That didn't work, not even a little. Er.. probably. Lets try a little HTML. Wait a moment, I don't know HTML! Ah, well, nothing ventured, nothing gained!
http://www.livejournal.com/random.bml
errr...there's no way that worked, I don't know how to make a link in HTML. You can't guess code. From what I hear, half the time you can't get it to work even when you do know the language.
Okay, i don't have a freaking clue if any of this crap is working, just put it in your favourites list, then click on it. You'll die laughing, and if you don't, click it again.
The third thing I needed to say was to discuss Birdstrike. As I am sure anyone reading this monstrosity is aware, birdstrike is the phenomenon whereby a bird or flock of birds is sucked into a jet engine, effectively killing both the bird and engine in a particularly wet explosion. However, with the boeing superjumbo jets and other similar designs appearing, birds are hideously insufficient, even in large numbers.
So we, as superior beings with greater intellects must consider the strategic problems facing the avian kin. It is our responsibility, nay, even our duty to help these dumb creatures overcome the oppressive airliners! My thoughts on this one were to use not weight of numbers, but the weight of an individual bird. A turkey headed headlong into an engine would annihilate most any engine in the world today, but man will simply invent a sturdier engine, and a bigger plane. Even now, the F-22 or B-2 would easily withstand such an impact by means of their extensive and bulky heat baffling apperatus covering the engine intakes. Thus, the awesome power of Ostrichstrike was conceived. I'd like to see a plane survive a heavily armoured ostrich to the engines at only marginally subsonic speeds, launched from a large railgun (Hmmm, must remember to make armour out of metal and not plastic) aimed by.... well, I haven't finished the stratagem. Perhaps someone could suggest an identity for our most honoured anti-air-armoured-ostrich-rail-gun operators. I was thinking the Ground Force Ninjas.
If they ever invent a plane that can take it, I'll just have to start converting ostriches to a plasma state beforehand. Make it easier to
propel them using electromagnetic forces.
In conclusion, can anyone tell me the HTML protocol for a link? |
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| Tax Sandwiches! |
[Apr. 9th, 2005|07:56 am] |
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| |  S T R E P S I L S | ] |
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| | Old Red Eyes Is Back + Song For Whoever | ] |
I don't know what to write. I am deadly afraid that anything I write will disappoint, as reception of this lj seems to have been very warm thus far. If anyone makes a joke about warm cottage cheese, I will do something to them. I haven't decided what yet. It will probably involve crisply chilled mayonnaise and a large magnet. In any case, this got me to thinking about magnets. Or cheese. Or possibly something else, I can't remember.
What I really wanted to talk about is fear, though. When you are deadly afraid of something, what does this actually mean? Does it mean you are so afraid you could have a spontaneous fear explosion, or "Spleasion", sending globules of lumpy terror porridge in all directions and causing a major shipping hazard? Or does it mean your fear causes risk to other peoples health, through some kind of gaseous terror secretion leading to overdoses of fear ending in Spleasions? Or is it merely the object of your fear that causes the possibility of discontinuation of breathing, in you and possibly those around you, due to a propensity to rub linseed oil into your toes?
Well done to those who understood the last sentence
Taxes are interesting too. But only with added ingredients. If you send your taxes away with added milk, it is interesting. Tabasco is good. Liver as well. Or live wasps. Or Sweetcorn. Or write them in jam. Or bake them in a pie.
Bored now.
Point of interest. LJ Spellchecker offers 29 alternatives for "Spleasion", and doesn't recognize LJ, or spellchecker. I hope it will include Spleasion soon. It didn't accept Doesn't, and offered the radically different Doesn't as an alternative.
Other point of interest. Banks are supposed to accept checks written on non-standard media, this wide category includes; handkerchiefs, napkins, toilet paper, rizlas, inside books, planks of wood, surfboards, shredded wheat or a live cow. Guess which one of these I know to have happened?
First correct answer wins something involving crisply chilled mayonnaise and a large magnet!
Damn this headcold and non-decongestant decongestants. |
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| Not posted in a while. Time for drivel. |
[Mar. 24th, 2005|11:25 pm] |
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| |  <1 hour pause> You're a loony. | ] |
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| | Idlewild | ] |
I am back! And I am bad (within certain justifiable protocols and parameters)! So possibly not bad, but I am quite certain that I am back!
The exams are over. This is good.
I may have passed some. This is also good.
I can now play Dawn of War with lilpipkinbunny until my hair bleeds. Huzzah!
These are all very good things.
An important piece of news for any interested in the psychiatric profession. I have invented a new school of psychiatric thought. You can cram Freudian and Jungian psychoanalysis up your superego, my theory is "plain spoken psychiatry" where rather than listen to people for an hour asking mildly annoying questions and then tell them they are a delusional, paranoid, schizophrenic, sociopath then get murdered for calling them something that may be quite rude (they're not sure) you just stare at them for an hour, watch them go gradually insane, then say "You're a loony!" and charge them heavily.
Foolproof!
except I am sure someone will invent a better fool. |
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| I feel dirty |
[Feb. 15th, 2005|10:46 pm] |
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| |  But I looked so hard! | ] |
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| | Working on that! | ] |
My friends all told me to get a livejournal.
They said the ranting would make them laugh, particularly if recorded in some form of media which can be perused at ones own pace.
This confused me, as I would have thought the laughter would be more intense if the rants were delivered in a rapid stream of funny, barely pausing to draw air into my own lungs, let alone allow for the continued ability of my target to breath in and out.
Perhaps, my fans prefer comedy that they survive?
I resisted fiercely, but following judicious application of cottage cheese (in my mind) I have done this thing.
I have sold my soul, and I am sure that wherever it is, it cries even as I write.
But that is not here. And the rest of me is happy as I currently have a gallon of my favourite caffeinated beverage, a damn fast internet connection, and my crying soul is no-where to be found.
Come tomorrow, I may qualify as one of the living dead.
Joy!
(I searched the drop down menu for crying in my absent soul, but otherwise bouncy and filled with good cheese, but found nothing. This is why the mood does not match the post) |
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