Life Outside PLT1

Wow, the front page has really changed over the past 7 months.

And by that, I mean it blows ass.

Stay tuned for action.

Stuff…

Here’s a conversation between Simon and Dan. He is one of the very few people who can actually get the last word in a conversation with simon. Good Job Man!!!

I don’t know who you think you are, but i’m taking off my pants says:
And I expect to be repaid, or else i’ll set you on fire next time I see you.

`silvermace says:
oh, we’re done with the urination?

`silvermace says:
i thought the punishment was urination

`silvermace says:
im not so eagar about this whole thing now that its death by 3rd degree burns…

I don’t know who you think you are, but i’m taking off my pants says:
I’m serious. You on fire. And i’ll remember to douse the crotch especially

`silvermace says:
my cock is fireproof

I don’t know who you think you are, but i’m taking off my pants says:
we’ll see.

`silvermace says:
no it really is

`silvermace says:
I tend to gyrate pretty fast during sex

`silvermace says:
so to stop my partners vagina from catching fire

`silvermace says:
my cock has evolved to become extremely lubricated and fire retardant

I don’t know who you think you are, but i’m taking off my pants says:
You have sex with helicopters.

`silvermace says:
and women.

`silvermace says:
at the same time.

From Dunedin

I’m not dead, I have food and I have internet.View from the side verranda.

My room as it currently stands (and, more notably evidence of my cooking skills).

I.T. helpdesk of the Middle Ages

“Introducing the book” [youtube.com].

You KNOW this is true.

And lets be truthful about who is going to re-install it.

Mmmrrrggglll!

This guy has the coolest name seen in an NPC ever. Period.

Mantastic once more.

This time as a cyborg baron saturday.

And not in drag.

YOUR NAME IS TOBY AND YOUR FACE IS COVERED WITH HORSE SEMEN

YOUR NAME IS TOBY AND YOUR FACE IS COVERED WITH HORSE SEMEN

Now, there is little use in arguing this statement; accept it as truth and when you’re ready, i’ll explain it to you.

There are lessons to be learnt from the above statement; if you look carefully and read between the lines you should be able to discern the true meaning of the words presented to you.

Firstly; “YOUR” this refers to you. As in yourself. You can safely consider the rest of the statement to describe qualities which belong to you.

“NAME” refers to the phrase used to refer to you and probably the identification code for your stock-keeping unit at the local Jerk Store.

“IS” refers to the state of being. Also the shortest verb.

“TOBY” refers to you. Your name is Toby. (SEE ALSO: KUNTA KINTE)

“AND” refers to additional information concurrent with the subject of the current item.

“YOUR” refers to the word “YOUR”; it’s meaning hasn’t changed a single bit since you last read it.

“FACE” refers to the front side of your skull, more specifically; the thing attached to it. This is the place where the horse semen went.

“IS” refers to the word “IS”; once again it’s meaning is the same as it was the last time you read it.

“COVERED” refers to the state of your face. It is enveloped. The degree to which it has been enveloped is not yet known.

“WITH” refers to the substance which is currently enveloping your face.

“HORSE” refers to Oprah Winfrey

“SEMEN” refers to a cloudy mixture of excretions which erupt from a penis attached to one or more working testicles.

Potentially the best

game review [youtube.com] ever.

Anecdotal musings on the apparently tangential nature of the associative model human cognition.

IRC, as all social interaction, leads to some interesting moments. It just did. But this isnt going to be posted to the IRC page… there is far too much outside of the conversation that must be addressed. The causal line is the following:

[23:57] Michael: anyone seen ‘Babel’ or ‘Blood diamond’?

What followed in my head was “I merely await certain technologies” in a husky voice. Why? Like this:

• Blood diamond is a movie about the diamonds used to fund war efforts, set in africa.
• The diamond trade in africa has a long and bloodied history, going back to the mid 19th century.
• The most famous Diamond Magnate was the founder of the Rhodes Scolarship, Cecil Rhodes.
• Rhodes founded a diamond mining company, the De Beers Mining Comany, named after the section of the de Beer bothers, whos farm was the site fo the infamous kimberly mine.
• Many conspiracy theorists have imagined that the de Beers were silent partners in the matter, and illuminati themselves.
• In the game Deus Ex, you find a man in a cryoatank identified as “Lucius de Beers” who is a play on this theory and remarks “I merely await certain technologies”.

All this I thought was rather amusing. But it did lead me to wonder about imagination, originality and associative models of cognition. Clearly the associative model explains my impulse to burst out “I merely await certain technologies” at the mention of the movie Blood Diamond (well, that and the silliness that I enjoy visiting upon people so very much). But considering a knowledge base with strong associative links, and let the associative links exist for every new memeplex to an existing memeplex, then our associative knowledge base, considered as a graph, must be fully connected (this proof left as an exercise to the reader). Most research shows that people do not retain non-associative information well, if at all. Now we have a situation in which we have a structure that is comprised entirely of associated data, and each idea must be connected (in the graph theoretic sense) to an existing idea. Therefore, every idea is related to every other idea.

~Interlude~

Stop looking at the cute little kokiri-kitten now… *SLAP*… good.

We come to the core of this witching-hour musing. Every idea is connected to every other idea by a train of associations. What happens when people think that they are being original is that they are in fact following a weak association, or noticing an association where no-one else has. This is my defense against people who claim to be “random”, well, that and asking them if they are a kolmogorov-uncompressable string (the latter option is generally misunderstood).

And no, this doesnt include the creation of new ideas, though I conjecture (and at this point conjecture only) that they are generally empirically discovered.

Finally though, there are a few fun things. Yelling “giant robot space ninja pirate monkeys” during a conversation about the latest sporting event seems to stop it dead without fail. And finally finally, I stick to my reasoning about cognition, even though I cannot explain the insane mumbo-jumbo my subconcious vomits up when I am asleep: a few nights ago I was being pursued by Joseph Stalin resurrected as a winged robot. Cant explain that one, or machine elves from eschaton either; you might have fun trying though.