When you're brain dead...and curious in a passive kind of way at 65miles per hour....keep refreshing the available networks….
AC-Transit, toward Union City:
• Dubya's Web of Deceit
• cu
• PeanutButter
• metropolis
• OnWaterFront
• iceoasis
• bradybunch
• BIGHEAD
• nicetry
• prometheus
• toula
• Dilip
• ITCAGE
• Tvishi
• Buccinet
• Canada
• igmojo
• Roma1
• SMC
• jaimes
• famdobbs
• timothy
• Red Apple
• cardinal01
• Free Public WiFi
• Ceasar
Bart from Hayward to Fremont:
• LocoPoison
• JesusIsLord
• Jwrenn-G
• Lovely Network
• familia hernandez adame
• D Ball
• Hayward Office
• injexp1
• wifi_rail
• milkyway
• Canuto Resident Biatch
• diwakar
• kikoman
• Coco
• hugoboss
• mark
• colibri
• Leviathan
• actiontec
• Rachel
• Alvarez
• 7141 3110
• jenkins
• keepout
• FIREFLY
• lola
• WILLIAM
• ThePad
• UCEMAR
• Jesus.Online
• eightarmyaircorps
• bleumoney
• BALENTINE
• celia
• nani23
• Al-Shaikh
• spike
Wednesday, July 30, 2008
Sunday, July 27, 2008
Thursday, July 24, 2008
Charterisms
snarcastic: snarky + sarcastic
I have absolutely no idea what it means to be "snarcastic".
I asked, "Am I snarcastic?"
Charters and Steve laugh loudly, "Definition of snarcastic--Not Zane"
Urban dictionary says, "Adjective - Any language that contains quips or comments containing sarcastic or satirical witticisms intended as blunt irony. Usually delivered in a manner that is somewhat abrupt and out of context and intended to stun and amuse."
~~~~~~
Story:
Location Blacksburg, Virginia (Virginia Tech Student Health)
Charters and her also short haired friend approach the counter at student health. The conversation went as follows,
Nurse says, "Y'all look so much alike, are y'all twins?"
Charters, "No" with a flat look.
Nurse, "Well are you sisters?"
Charters, "No."
Nurse, "Well...Y'all are at least from the same hometown, aren't ya?"
~~~~~~~
I have absolutely no idea what it means to be "snarcastic".
I asked, "Am I snarcastic?"
Charters and Steve laugh loudly, "Definition of snarcastic--Not Zane"
Urban dictionary says, "Adjective - Any language that contains quips or comments containing sarcastic or satirical witticisms intended as blunt irony. Usually delivered in a manner that is somewhat abrupt and out of context and intended to stun and amuse."
~~~~~~
Story:
Location Blacksburg, Virginia (Virginia Tech Student Health)
Charters and her also short haired friend approach the counter at student health. The conversation went as follows,
Nurse says, "Y'all look so much alike, are y'all twins?"
Charters, "No" with a flat look.
Nurse, "Well are you sisters?"
Charters, "No."
Nurse, "Well...Y'all are at least from the same hometown, aren't ya?"
~~~~~~~
Wednesday, July 23, 2008
Monday, July 21, 2008
get the shovel
"Hell is not punishment it is training."
"...with no future, be true to yourself...."
"...says to light up one corner--not the whole world. Just make it clear where you are."
"When I said it, it was true. Whe you said, it was false."
"Here I sit near the end of this...energized and thinking there is a lot of power in this place. He responded, 'Don't use it.'"
"If you're alert, you can hear the tide turn."
"I don't know anything about consciousness. I just try to teach my students how to hear the birds sing."
"...when they got to the top, they discovered that they had forgotten the shovel, and they began a discussion on who should return to get it. After the discussion ended, they realized he wasn't there. He was already halfway down the mountain trail, on his way to pick up the shovel."
"...with no future, be true to yourself...."
"...says to light up one corner--not the whole world. Just make it clear where you are."
"When I said it, it was true. Whe you said, it was false."
"Here I sit near the end of this...energized and thinking there is a lot of power in this place. He responded, 'Don't use it.'"
"If you're alert, you can hear the tide turn."
"I don't know anything about consciousness. I just try to teach my students how to hear the birds sing."
"...when they got to the top, they discovered that they had forgotten the shovel, and they began a discussion on who should return to get it. After the discussion ended, they realized he wasn't there. He was already halfway down the mountain trail, on his way to pick up the shovel."
Tuesday, July 15, 2008
interest vs. understanding
That is the error. Confusing genuine interest with genuine understanding. It logically follows [for me] that given an interest one is driven to full understanding. Perhaps the standard is an interest that extends only to a concept of a thing, or an interest to a sense of something and that fulfills the need. Very different outcomes...driven to know or driven to "feel" one knows.
That is the error. And the pieces come together. Premised on this...it all means something very much different than it did five minutes ago.
....
I watched Freddie play basketball via the internet. A live broadcast from the tourney. Felt like a huge ray of sunlight.
That is the error. And the pieces come together. Premised on this...it all means something very much different than it did five minutes ago.
....
I watched Freddie play basketball via the internet. A live broadcast from the tourney. Felt like a huge ray of sunlight.
Sunday, July 13, 2008
addition
"Do you wish to subtract what you have been given? Well, you can't. But there is something you can do. You can add."
Subtraction and addition. A whole new light. A newer "new math".
[And I like it]
"The rational man uses humor to ridicule evil and irrationality. Humor is an expression of one's conviction that evil is metaphysically impotent, that "we never had to take any of it seriously".
Subtraction and addition. A whole new light. A newer "new math".
[And I like it]
"The rational man uses humor to ridicule evil and irrationality. Humor is an expression of one's conviction that evil is metaphysically impotent, that "we never had to take any of it seriously".
Saturday, July 12, 2008
Einstein's Dreams
Great book about time...
"Question: Some have stopped reading altogether. They have abandoned the past. They have decided that it matters not if yesterday they were rich or poor, educated or ignorant, proud or humble, in love or empty hearted - no more than it matters how a soft wind gets into their hair. Such people look at you directly in the eye and grip your hand firmly. Such people walk with the limber stride of their youth. Such people have learned how to live in a world without memory.
Answers:
'Einstein's Dreams' by Alan Lightman is technically a novel, but more like a collection of poetry than anything else. In his poetic writing Lightman uses simple and literal details to tell us where we are. In reality we are in Berne, Switzerland in the spring of 1905. Einstein is working as a patent clerk, and in snatched moments of spare time he is working on his theory of relativity. Einstein often daydreams, or dozes during this time.
The real essence of the novel, however, resides in Einstein's dreams - 30 short stories, which take place in various places, times, speeds, etc. In one dream time may bend back upon itself, and in another dream someone is taken from the present into the past and left there. In the one in question there is no past, no memory of yesterday or of history going back centuries.
The dreams all tell of people who eventually adapt to their situation, be it time travel, or change of perception of time, or the concept of age relating to height from sea level.
This quote relates to acceptance of the present. It puts past victories, or riches, or attributes into the same category as a soft wind momentarily ruffling hair ... there, and then not there. It is about people whose acceptance of this moment have a confidence, or an inner strength, gained from not caring about what has gone before."
"Question: Some have stopped reading altogether. They have abandoned the past. They have decided that it matters not if yesterday they were rich or poor, educated or ignorant, proud or humble, in love or empty hearted - no more than it matters how a soft wind gets into their hair. Such people look at you directly in the eye and grip your hand firmly. Such people walk with the limber stride of their youth. Such people have learned how to live in a world without memory.
Answers:
'Einstein's Dreams' by Alan Lightman is technically a novel, but more like a collection of poetry than anything else. In his poetic writing Lightman uses simple and literal details to tell us where we are. In reality we are in Berne, Switzerland in the spring of 1905. Einstein is working as a patent clerk, and in snatched moments of spare time he is working on his theory of relativity. Einstein often daydreams, or dozes during this time.
The real essence of the novel, however, resides in Einstein's dreams - 30 short stories, which take place in various places, times, speeds, etc. In one dream time may bend back upon itself, and in another dream someone is taken from the present into the past and left there. In the one in question there is no past, no memory of yesterday or of history going back centuries.
The dreams all tell of people who eventually adapt to their situation, be it time travel, or change of perception of time, or the concept of age relating to height from sea level.
This quote relates to acceptance of the present. It puts past victories, or riches, or attributes into the same category as a soft wind momentarily ruffling hair ... there, and then not there. It is about people whose acceptance of this moment have a confidence, or an inner strength, gained from not caring about what has gone before."
Thursday, July 10, 2008
"hey..."
"...twilight zone day--deja vu day."
"...where the wildflowers grow."
smiles
perfect
that's the corner of the twilight zone i love
"...where the wildflowers grow."
smiles
perfect
that's the corner of the twilight zone i love
Tuesday, July 08, 2008
convos
"you sound like you're wearing a laura ashely dress--"
laughter
more laughter
...
"everytime my mother saw you in one of those damn dresses she thought i could pull it off too. remember me, all big hair and make-up 80s style, with a f*$%ing laura ashley dress on. rip roaring fights with mums and you freakin standing there like something perfect out of peter rabbit. we shudda nicknamed you beatrice."
and i do remember
and i'm laughing
and i can't stop
laughter
more laughter
...
"everytime my mother saw you in one of those damn dresses she thought i could pull it off too. remember me, all big hair and make-up 80s style, with a f*$%ing laura ashley dress on. rip roaring fights with mums and you freakin standing there like something perfect out of peter rabbit. we shudda nicknamed you beatrice."
and i do remember
and i'm laughing
and i can't stop
Monday, July 07, 2008
Friday, July 04, 2008
Tuesday, July 01, 2008
transparency
"I was walking in the park, along the creek.The light was silver. A goldfinch hovered above my path a few yards ahead. The pages of a broken book drifted along the surface of the water.I was pierced--by what, I cannot say. I would like to say, but I cannot say. And I do not mind that I am lacking in the words. The unsayable is precious to me. I do not wish to be a creature only of language, one of those "articulate" people to whom the world is always transparent, who can always tell you what's really going on. Sometimes I do not know what is really going on, and the clumsiness of my expression must vouch for the exertion of my mind. Anyway, I cannot conceive of the transparency of the world."