Sunday, June 16, 2013

Crime, Punishment and Belief

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It just occurred to me, the whole concept of the death penalty works if the condemned - and the accused, the potential perpetrators - beli...
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Friday, June 14, 2013

Drugs are a necessity...

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...as a socio-evolutionary regulator.  Think about it.  In any given situation, if one person gains a slight advantage over others,...
Thursday, June 06, 2013

Do you really want to live forever?

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Thought Experiment.  Medical science finally gets telomere-repairing gene therapy right, and we all can now live till age 500+, in perfe...
Wednesday, April 24, 2013

The Message is the Medical Medium

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Was reading an interesting article about exocommunications. Started a train of thought - we assume that aliens will want to communicate u...

Parenting

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...is terrifying . Fucking piss-yourself, go-into-shock terrifying.  It's more frightening than anything you've ever done, eve...
Friday, April 19, 2013

Not If. When.

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I read The Lord Of The Flies  on a long-distance bus more than a decade ago. I finished it in a few hours, and spent the rest (mostly) sta...
Tuesday, January 22, 2013

A single page

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As part of a  C E N S O R E D  process, I was quickly scribbling down a brief history of where I've worked - names, places, designati...
Friday, January 04, 2013

Drawing to a close

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Think of any RTS game with a resource-management focus you've played - Sins of a Solar Empire , the Command and Conquer series, even ...
Monday, July 23, 2012

The Mechanics Of Interstellar Colonization

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Came across a fascinating article on io9.com - We've been able to successfully simulate a living organism virtually using it's ge...
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Tuesday, May 15, 2012

Making Decisions

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Ever since childhood, I've always had a difficult time deciding - for every pro, I'd counter with a con, for every positive there ...
Monday, May 07, 2012

Under Surveillance

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Just occurred to me, RPGs can make a fascinating psychoanalytical tool. It's a controlled environment, and every decision point has a ...
Thursday, May 03, 2012

Dark matter is a shitload of Matrioshka Brains

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The worst thing about the internet is how it shows you that Brilliant Idea you had this morning was had by somebody else, usually a year a...
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Wednesday, April 04, 2012

heaven would be...

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...the ability to go back to that one place, that one time, and do it all over again. correct the mistakes, relive the glory. it'll be ...
Tuesday, February 21, 2012

Ben Parker's Law of Corporate Management

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"With great power comes great responsibility" defines Ben Parker's last lesson to Spiderman, establishing the moral code an...
Wednesday, October 12, 2011

a moment of perfect clarity

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I was driving - struggling - with the return traffic, an infinite vista of reddened brakelights stretching away on the highway, some RJ yam...
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Monday, September 12, 2011

Too Late

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i see it through your eyes tonight and i understand the pain why you said what you did that night and why it all fell apart when you di...
Wednesday, May 04, 2011

A Convenient Kill

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Since there's a snowstorm of debate, questions and conspiracy theories circulating already, let me add my 2 bits.  Disclaimer - This is ...
Thursday, March 24, 2011

blocked

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some things can't translate into words. I've been trying for the last hour, three drafts written and deleted. doesn't feel righ...
Thursday, February 10, 2011

Truth... is a rock.

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Sometimes, I get the feeling that I'm very close to understanding something. Something all around us, everywhere, yet maddeningly out of...
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Sunday, November 21, 2010

Slipping

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Too many unfinished things piling up... don't have the energy to deal with them. On the other side, small inessentials come one after an...