Time Travel

Fiction doesn' get it. There is no Now. I'm going to capitalize the word for this entry.

There is a Now in your head. That is, you think you do. There is a perception of a Now. You think you know what Now is. You think you know what is going on. We as a race of beings are about half a second behind Now. We take a bit to react to things that happen. We remember things that happened in the past. When you are concentrating on something, you are remembering about half a second in the past.

That said, our existence is a point along a line of information. The point moves, we think of this as time. Does the point move though? Do we remember a lifetime through a moving filter or are we simply sitting, experiencing an entire life all at once and this seems like a motion through a time line?

That is a bit philosophical for me. Let's assume we are moving through a line. Each moment we call Now as we pass through or past it. Let's also assume that the entire universe experiences the Now phenomena. Are all the Now experiences the same? Is there one massive Now in the universe and each of us experience the passing of that Now at different rates?

Analogy? Analogy? ... Ah

The universe is a bucket. The bottom of the bucket has many holes of different sizes. The bottom of the bucket is the universal Now and the holes of varying sizes allow more time to flow though at different rates. No time travel allowed.

Or

Are there many different Now floating through the universe. This is the only way any one could time travel. If any part of the universe can exist at a different Now, then there must be some floating around.

Analogy? Analogy? ... Ah

Every point in the universe is a glowing light traveling through existence interacting and reacting as needed. The universe is simply a place to have an existence. The universe does not control time.

What do I think?

I really think the first way is the way it is. There is one universal Now and everything in the universe can simply get more done in that Now, or less depending on how big their hole in the bottom of the bucket happens to be. No time travel.

Notes:

Philip Defranco has a YouTube channel where he does these snippets he calls news. It is "Shit that affected me today." The guy is nuts. I mean he is bat shit crazy It makes for good videos.

Every clump of grass had a patch of fog above it this morning. I should have stopped and smelled the roses. maybe shot a video. I definitely should have crossed the street and at least taken a picture of the levy across the street. I should have gone to the field where I've shot a video before next to the mall and taken a picture or even just a quick video clip. Too many promises to keep.

Walked around at lunch. The weather is fantastic. It is too humid for December. Guess that is a consequence of the fog this morning.

Friends on YouTube only buy you a specific level of commenting privilege and make it a bit easier to track someone down. I don't think friends count for popularity on YouTube at all. I've ignored a hundred or more requests for friend status on my channel. It is just clutter and I'm afraid half of them are spammers. Any one know a good reason to use the friendship feature of YouTube?

I'm trying to track down a legitimate program to pull the contact info off Facebook. I found a couple things that claim to work, but I'm afraid to use them on my profile. I've honestly thought about creating a dummy account to try the program out on before I try it on my real account.

Is the statistic that says one in four sexually active adults in the U. S. have herpes accurate?

My kind of minivan

This just looks like something out of a science fiction novel to me. I so want one.

Notes:

As I've written this blog for so long, I've learned to control myself. I've learned to be a better person, just a bit. Other than that, it has been a wash.

24 cans in a case. 24 hours in a day. Coincidence? I think not.

I hate tracking down equipment at work that I loaned out. I need access to it as well. I spend a good portion of my day tracking down lost shit.

I'm really pissed about the WikiLeaks bullshit. I'm also tired of hearing about it.

Lunch Conversation

• Video editing - me.
• Video games - them.
• Holidays.
• Game night.
• Ruby and other assorted programming bollix.
• Gossip about people at work.

Video response

I got some positive feedback on my latest video. It is my first attempt of entertainment on YouTube, or anything in video format. I have to admit, that I squealed like a schoolgirl when someone said "Your best video yet." That was awesome. It is good to get any kind of feedback. I'm not really in it for the most hits. There is not much purpose to putting up crap that will never be watched. Let's be honest.

This feedback does not mean I have a ton of hits. So far, only a couple people have viewed the video that I can tell. The numbers on YouTube counts are a bit strange. The video is only on one server to start with. Once you get 301 hits or so, the files are propagated to other systems. That is what I believe happens any way. This is why you will have a video with 301 hits and 4000 thumbs up. Considering only about 1 in 20 people are aware of the rating system, the real hit numbers are a bit higher than advertised.

Whatever. EEEeeeee!!!! Someone liked my stuff.

What is in the queue next? I have no idea. That is, I have no ideas for another good video. I have some things coming down the pike. They are back to the family happening kind of stuff. Nothing interesting unfortunately. I may be a one race pony.

Notes:

One of the banks is advertising the fact that you can get to a human any time on their customer support line by hitting zero. Why am I surprised someone would use this as a plus? How many times have I been trapped in phone support limbo? There have been reports that companies really are designing their support lines to discourage people from getting help.

it turns out jet-lag is devastating to memory. Performance is bad even after a month at normal schedule. Dr Karl.

Jumpcut commute

This is just me playing around with some jumpcuts. It is my first real attempt at doing something creative on YouTube.

Field	Data
Title	Teleporting to work
Description	Nearly ended up in the ethereal plane of lost socks this morning on the way to work. Tesla was right.
Tags	Jumpcut teleport teleportation commute Canon 940 Houston Texas
Link	Link

Bad breakup

"Global diplomatic meltdown." Describing the Wikileaks dump by the New York Times I believe. The New York Times was just tickled pink to run a bunch of documents obtained illegally that damage America. The New York Times refused to run illegal obtained documents that damaged the climate change agenda. Hypocritical bastards. Who is your puppeteer?

I chuckle when I read that statement. I shouldn't. It is a mess. This has already blown up in our faces. The whole world now knows the U. S. can't keep secrets. I know what will happen. People who need to send secret stuff back to home base will cut out the official channels. This means the checks and balances mechanism that is listening to the stream is not being utilized. How many times have some third party to a communique gleamed an important bit of information or made a very important connection between two seemingly innocuous bits of information?

The fallout of this will last a generation. The Iranians and others say they didn't want to give the UN information because they can't keep secrets. I have to say that was a smart move on their part. Apparently we cannot. The information pisses off the Chinese as well. There is something about the Chinese slapping Google recently. We need Chinese help to deal with North Korea. This will cascade for the rest of my life.

All because a guy was going through a bad breakup. I almost want to hear from the boyfriend. Was this kid a winy little bitch? Was he a boring bureaucrat? Did he think of himself as a spy? Does the ex boyfriend have any incite? Get his boss on the set and rake them over the coals.

The question on the lips of my circle is "Why are the Wikileaks people still above ground?" Some say it is too late. Some say it is a waist of time. Some say it is a conspiracy to start a war. Some say it is to force the rest of the Middle East to confront Iran. Will the Wikileak people ever brought to justice?

Is this treason? I would say yes. Aren't we at war? Is treason at wartime punishable by death? I hear the treason statutes are vague. He is, I hear, charged with espionage. Personally, I hope it is treason and I hope this asshole is put in front of a wall and shot on global TV.

This situation makes me ill. Here are a few things I've heard are in the reports from multiple sources.

Some things I learned from the leak.

• Most of the Middle East wants the U. S. to do something about Iran's nuclear ambitions.
• The German leader's jaybird ass can't backup her alligator mouth.
• Mrs Clinton asked diplomats to spy on UN officials and retrieve credit card numbers amongst other data.
• China really was at the bottom of an attack on Google several months ago.

A tale of too many Santas

I want a pony.

Notes:

This just in, WWII reminiscent rationing coming to a western civilization country near you. This all in the name of global climate change. That is all.

It cracks me up how much effort it takes to isolate a bad switch and replace it. You would think it would be easy. Well, re;lacing is easy. Plug it in and swap all the cables. Figuring out where the breaking is happening is the issue. Ping, ping-flood. more pinging. Move to another switch. Figure out where every one is plugged in. More ping-flooding. ...

Space 1999 on BlueRay

I think the statement "Space 1999 on BlueRay" has a touch of irony. Here is why.

BlueRay did not exist in 1999. It is a more advanced medium that was available at the namesake date of the show. In the same sentence, we were nowhere near as advanced in 1999 as portrayed in the show.

Where the hell are flying cars!!!!!?

Technically, they never ended the first Korean War. There has been some kind of ceasefire for the last couple decades.

There are nukes on both sides. The U. S. has went an aircraft carrier with nukes aboard to the region. The Japanese are flipping out. The Chinese are generally pissed off at every one involved. This part of the world is about to hit the fan.

Obama needs a war. Once a ware is going on, all the taxes and lost pensions will be put aside for watching our troops die every night on the evening news in a war in a place that no one gives a shit about. "Oh, by the way, your taxes are doubled and the government just stole 95% of your retirement and handed it all over to a bunch of banks that technically, don't even exists in any country anywhere. Good night."

Stories are out that talk about how sympathetic South Korean's are to North Koreans. Some believe the situation in North Korea is not the fault of the populous. I disagree. It has been a generation. The people in the palaces are not the one firing the mortars.

So, what do I think will happen next? More bullshit followed by even more bullshit, followed by a war. Sometimes I wonder if the U. S. is provoking South Korea. I can't prove anything. It just smells like Obama's war to me. I really hope I'm wrong.

YouTube

I've fallen in to a group of Australian vloggers. They are foul mouth, but a lot of fun. They would call me a "fucking prude git" or something like that. I don't know what a git is, but I'm sure I deserve it.

The only video I put up this long weekend was a bit of Thanksgiving merriment. I had to cut it up quite a bit. I'm noticing more and more that people are doing less and less editing of their videos. They chop them up to be sure, but there takes between cuts are getting longer. I suppose most people calling themselves vloggers are getting better at their efforts.

I did update the laptop. I got a video to play on it, but have not tried editing or rendering yet. I just ran out of strength for it. I don't want to get too burned out on the video front. Not sure the old girl has it in her to render a video. Even if everything works as it is supposed to, it might have a melt down.

I had entertained the thought of videoing myself while walking in this morning. Just me complaining about the universe at large. The road noise is too high. It would not work on a good day. I would not have had the strength this morning.

There are a couple of vlogs that are more or less exclusively shot in people's cars as they commute or run errands. Most vloggers seem to do this. It gives you a great opportunity to shoot yourself and anyone who sees you talking in your car alone might think you are on hands free. Maybe. This doesn't work when walking. I'm not saying this is a bad thing. I'm waiting for the first lawsuit that blames someone is distracted by vlogging. Just saying

Sick

I'm sick today. My left side is very tender. I did not get a single wink of sleep last night. I feel feverish and weak. I walked in this morning to the bus stop. It was not fun. I sweat more than I should have. I stumbled a lot. My sinuses are freaking out with the abrupt changes in weather. I keep loosing my balance. I did something that I don't normally do. I sat down on the concrete side walk at the bus stop. I normally avoid this because of ants and dirt on the ground. Today, it was not an option.

The shower took effort this morning. When I put on a shirt this morning, I lost my balance. Once I sat down on the bed to put on my boots, I didn't want to get back up. Nat found the thermometer for me. 97.7. What the heck is that about?

Enough wining.

One handed speed pool

Now do it left handed you [cencored].

Dell, No linux

Dell keeps telling people they sell computers with linux installed by default. When I try to follow through on this drunken boast, I get the following page.

Assholes. Dell is really starting to piss me off.

Un-PC

I subscribe to this guy. He teaches English to kids in Taiwan I think it is. He recently had a cancer scare that is still kind of going on. This may have something to do with a Chevalier attitude of late. He never shows his face in his videos. He is big on riding his scooter and motorcycle around talking about things that make him happy and angry.

Go whatch the video.

The un-pc things

• Talking about being a woman
• Women not knowing about vehicles is sexist.
• The giving head thing is even more sexist.
• The mocking voice praising the big strong mechanic is ... let me think ... oh, yes, sexist
• Other people's kids
• Showing the kids in your class in a video where you were just mocking women and talking about blow jobs is bad.
• Mocking the disabled is bad.
• Telling the kids to sit down or you will break their legs is effective, but bad.

Did I miss anything?

Bad idea

Damn fords.

Ya, honey, we all saw it coming.

Yup. This is my Saturday evening.

VW Pickup

Hey Dad, didn't you have one of these? I vaguely remember messing with one when I was a kid.