Blog moved!

Posted on February 5, 2010
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This blog is dead, but I’ve moved it to a new home anyway: verb.mind-fucking.com

It’s not more active there than here, but if and when I post again it will be over there, where there is spam protection and other pretty shiny things.

VERB out.

Everything will not be alright.

Posted on December 8, 2008
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Murphy’s Law holds always: “if anything can go wrong, it will”. Internalizing this principle is the key to happiness and success; telling yourself everything will be alright is a mind-numbing escape from reality. If you expect the worst, you can prepare for it. Even if Murphy’s Law is a mere matter of chance, of cognitive bias, “Law of Fives”, it is dangerous to underestimate the probability that things will go wrong. If you focus on the probability that things may turn out okay, you will be left vulnerable to disaster. Read more

Some of Them Knew They were Robots

Posted on July 1, 2008
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Being only half aware of a problem is often as good as being entirely unaware of it. However, sometimes being half aware of a problem is half as good as being completely aware of it. Read more

Knowing we are Free

Posted on June 29, 2008
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I used to tell people we live in an Anarchist Utopia. It was a kind of IRL troll in the days I used to hang out with activist-types. It was a lot of fun, because it is a claim very difficult to argue against: we are all free to do as we will. Read more

Watershed catharsis

Posted on April 30, 2008
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Opeth’s upcoming album recently leaked, and I couldn’t help but download it and hear for myself. It’s sad, in a way, when you finally hear the latest album by a band you like. Read more

Into the Night

Posted on April 28, 2008
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I stepped out into the night. There was music in my ears. I needed fresh air, needed to get my legs moving, needed to clear my head. I had no plan, no route in mind. Read more

The squirrels bow to no man

Posted on April 28, 2008
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It’s a sunny day. I step out onto the balcony. I lean on the metal rail, careful not to smother some of the herbs in the plastic planter, as the gentle notes of Gotan Project leak out of my room and into my ears. Looking out onto the roofs and yards below, I feel kind of like the wealthy dictator of some banana republic. “Friends, trashcans, squirrels, lend me your ears!” If I owned a cigar I would be tempted to smoke it. But I don’t smoke, and I’m not wealthy. My kingdom is not mine, not as far as anyone else is concerned.
I could be a great dictator, if they only let me try. But the damned squirrels bow to no man.

If you’re part of the solution, you are the problem.

Posted on April 28, 2008
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Everybody thinks solutions are the end of problems. The truth is the opposite: solutions are where the problems begin. Read more

People do not want to be alone

Posted on April 28, 2008
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People do not want to be alone.

It’s the driving force behind a great deal of human activity. People will do nigh on anything to avoid being alone. People will look to almost anything they can become part of, simply not to be alone. People hunger for the feeling of belonging. Read more