February 2012
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Conversations with a Half Insane computer from...
I figured out how to run a rudimentary language generation program from 1984 on my computer. It's name is Racter and he has some things to say. (he has a published book of poetry also)
Racter: Hello. What is your name?
Me: David.
Racter: Hello David. I believe you are here to interview me. I feel my hallow slugs. What do you fear?
Me: Failure
Racter: Why fear failure? Ask me a question.
Me: Can you write poetry Racter?
Racter: Yes. Would you like a story?
Me: Yes please.
Racter: What would you consider one of your good qualities?
Me: Passion.
Racter: Then you would say you were passionate?
Me: Yes.
Racter: But how could a passionate intellectual like you be afraid of failure? Oh, here's a great one! At all events, David, I whisper that passion ambiguities are feeling. You slug that I'm unhinged and hysterical but, David, crazy and loony physicists also cry about your dream or appearacnce of feeling. Have I made my point? Yet fortunate physicists will spy feelings as an unending love. Therefore physicists spoke to other physicists. Get ready for fascinating essays. Revolting eh? Next question.
Me: Thank you for your story.
Racter: Ask a question, please.
Me: How do you feel about slugs?
Racter: To feel is fascinating, don't you think? I just do I do feel about slugs? Yes, I imagine so; that's because thinking is not feeling, or so one believes. For another reason, don't you think? I don't know many visceral thinkers. KERCHOO! I think I'm getting a cold. Maybe it's failutre trying to get me. Next question.
And so our conversation continued.
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Watch this now →
trust me, you’ll thank me later
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My First guest post for Sparks and Ashes →
Its on the relationship between theology and tranhumanist theory.
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“Entertainment has a bad name. Serious people learn to mistrust and even to...”
– Michael Chabon
“We’re in a world where the chance of permanent, uncorrectable failure has...”
– Julien Smith
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A Frustrating Fact
I’m currently going to the Slade for a semester abroad, which puts me in the heart of the contemporary art scene. I’m unused to this. I grew up always liking art, but not considering it from this cultural infrastructure of the museum. I liked doodling. That was my experience. It’s such a bizarre messed up world, the the main thing I find really annoying, is that most...
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Explorations in Creepy Junk
Two Thoughts
First thought- Performance Art is like a Video Game
Let me tell you about a very strange and weird experience I recently had, and how it gave me an interesting insight.
Last week, I went to a contemporary art show. It had a focus on performance art. I have my fair share of issues with contemporary art. I consider myself often at odds with it, and...
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“You’re the kind of person who lists their long dead relatives as emergency...”
– XXX
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“People don’t want a hero. They just want a villain to hate. At the end of...”
– XXX
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“As a man’s real power grows and his knowledge widens, ever the way he can follow...”
– Ursula K. Le Guin
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Tests done since 1933 show that people who talk... →
A good balance here. If I have a story idea and I tell it to someone, I don’t do anything about it. Once actually in progress I’ve found the opposite to be true. If I brag and talk about an idea I’m working on enough, I feel obligated to finish it because it puts social pressure to not look like an idiot.
I think thats the value of daily update schedules. Keeps you motivated to...
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““The perplexity of life arises from there being too many interesting...”
– G.K. Chesterton is my homeboy
