Sin's Notebook

My Little Bunker: Sometimes when I get tired of 45 seconds...

Tue, 23 Jun 2009 20:33:41 +0100

My Little Bunker:

Sometimes when I get tired of 45 seconds screen freezes or the glueish existence of lag, I retire to my little bunker, for a bit of IM chatting, writing, building or scripting.

Slovakia News: MPs to Keep Full Range of Immunity From Prosecution for Misdemeanors

Fri, 19 Jun 2009 12:04:25 +0100

Slovakia News: MPs to Keep Full Range of Immunity From Prosecution for Misdemeanors: Glad to see the Old Boys’ Network is still intact! We are all equals, politrucks. :)

Ok, I try to not judge people’s tweets, but when all they seem to do is tweeting that they are...

Fri, 19 Jun 2009 10:20:23 +0100

Ok, I try to not judge people’s tweets, but when all they seem to do is tweeting that they are tweeting on their iPhone and retweeting their plurks that they are plurking, it does get a bit silly.

"If I write a crappy comic book, it doesn’t cost the budget of an emergent Third World nation...."

Thu, 18 Jun 2009 20:50:22 +0100

“If I write a crappy comic book, it doesn’t cost the budget of an emergent Third World nation. When you’ve got these kinds of sums involved in creating another two hours of entertainment for Western teenagers, I feel it crosses the line from being merely distasteful to being wrong”

- Alan Moore

"It is better to shut up and let people think you are an idiot - than to open your mouth and remove..."

Sat, 30 May 2009 16:10:56 +0100

“It is better to shut up and let people think you are an idiot - than to open your mouth and remove all doubts.”

- Proverb, Stockholm

"Only when the traveller settles down, may he find himself in a faraway place."

Thu, 28 May 2009 15:09:36 +0100

“Only when the traveller settles down, may he find himself in a faraway place.”

- Jerka, Stockholm

Found my first white hair strand this morning. As I’m so pale blonde naturally, only way I...

Mon, 25 May 2009 14:01:03 +0100

Found my first white hair strand this morning. As I’m so pale blonde naturally, only way I could actually tell was from its texture. Oh, and for the record, I have no problems if or when I get white hair. Of course, that could be because I have had such pale hair all my life. Plus the simple fact it’s been pretty much cropped off the last decade or so. It’s just that I’ve been a bit lazy about that cropping part lately… Probing around, I found two more strands with the same texture, you know, a bit rougher like.

To my surprise, they were pretty much copper red, though. I wonder if my beard has started crawling up the skull?

"Why is a dog licking its balls and why is your CEO getting a higher salary? Because they can."

Thu, 21 May 2009 10:40:57 +0100

“

Why is a dog licking its balls and why is your CEO getting a higher salary?

Because they can.

”

- Jerka, Stockholm

… and suddenly one of those true friends pull up the blinds and let the sunshine...

Thu, 21 May 2009 07:51:07 +0100

… and suddenly one of those true friends pull up the blinds and let the sunshine in.

Friendship, you can’t beat the feeling.

PocketMod: The Free Recyclable Personal Organizer

Wed, 20 May 2009 11:00:00 +0100

PocketMod: The Free Recyclable Personal Organizer: A charming, ingenious simple organiser. Easy to personalise, no batteries needed! :)
[I made my own version of it, tailored for A4 and personal needs.]

"He’s not really an honest person. His intentions are just easy to see through."

Wed, 20 May 2009 10:59:19 +0100

“He’s not really an honest person. His intentions are just easy to see through.”

- Jerka, Stockholm

Good night: Sometimes when it is night inworld (I seldom switch...

Sun, 26 Apr 2009 14:45:11 +0100

Good night: Sometimes when it is night inworld (I seldom switch these settings) and I am working on a script or writing something, I rezz my yawl and bunk in. I guess you can say it becomes something of a relaxing screen saver, with the group chats functioning as some kind of radio.

Evening on Blake Sea: About to log off for the night, taking a...

Wed, 22 Apr 2009 20:39:12 +0100

Evening on Blake Sea: About to log off for the night, taking a few, meditative minutes inworld, listening to the natter on the Caledon group chat.

From Blake Sea to Nautilus and Back: in ‘Old Betsy’,...

Sun, 19 Apr 2009 13:26:00 +0100

From Blake Sea to Nautilus and Back: in ‘Old Betsy’, my THI P-40 Warhawk. I managed to fly high enough to avoid all the banlines, but hit a brothel parcel only 2 sims from the west coast, where my plane was returned (while I was still flying in it). I had to walk back to a sim east, where I could rerezz my plane from the Found & Lost folder and head back west. Generally, I kept an altitude of 275-350m, though over some mainland areas with several green dots, I went up to 900m as a precaution.

Why Intelligence Design is just plain silly as a concept for Christians

Thu, 09 Apr 2009 18:20:05 +0100

If there is an Intelligent Designer

- It is possible that it is a sentient super-being and not several, perhaps an entire multi-dimensional Master Race.
- It is possible that the sentience of this being is somehow within a paradigm, so that we can recognise it as sentient and not just, say completely crazy, alien or plain horrible.
- It is possible that this being’s form of sentience’s emotional functions somehow correlates closely enough with ours, so there is a possibility of some kind of emotional report between this being and other beings in the universe

- It is thus possible that this being is aware of us, mankind on Terra.
- It is thus possible that this being is aware of us as individuals and able to perceive what we communicate, in some fashion.
- It is also possible that this single being is not just the originator, but has a particular purpose with this design.
- It is possible that this being is somehow able to communicate the purpose of this design to us.
- It is possible that this being decided to communicate this purpose to us after we had been around for about 300 000 years or so, and not from the beginning, say by implanting it into the DNA, which is a supreme example that complex organisms could not have evolved “by random”
- It is possible that this being decided to communicate with only an elect few in the Middle East and then at a meeting between bureaucrats in Nicea in 325 AD and not through other human works of art like the Rg-Veda, the Avesta, the Quran and so on.

And you want this line of reasoning to compete with the tested and accumulated knowledge of science?!

The Triumvirate of Slovakia

Wed, 08 Apr 2009 09:06:20 +0100

From the European Union, Agency of Educational Efforts and Understanding Them Foreigners, I give you…

The Wikipedia entries for the three coalition leaders ruling Slovakia.
The newly re-elected Slovak President Gašparovič promised his close buddy Prime Minister Fico to be loyal. This was actually caught on video which was published. Which was a bit of an embarrasment, since being non-partisan is a constitutional condition for the holder of the presidential office. But no worries, Fico and Slota told their voters to support Gašparovič, which they promptly did.
Fico’s message to the naughty press which dared publishing not just nice news about his team mate declared in his usual, frank and honest manner:

“We will have to deal with the journalists, especially the Slovak press. Because if there is a loser of this election, it is the Slovak press for all those dirt, disgusting things, lies and allegations which they have put on the candidate, on the president”.
But he usually says that whenever they publish something he doesn’t like. So far he’s been calling them liars, prostitutes, agents of foreign interests, etc.. You know, the usual rhetoric they used in the old days.

Anyway, here is the glorious Triumvirate that rules this little country:

Robert Fico, the Social Democrat Prime Minister, who prefers looking to Papa Putin rather than to EU,

Vladimir Mečiar, the former politruk with a murky past, including corruption, possible involvement in a kidnapping which ended with murder,

Jan Slota, the extremist that hates Hungarians, likes expensive cars (though according to his tax forms, he could barely afford a Trabant) and would preferable have all gypsies whipped.

Now I think know why FriendFeed never caught my fancy. It is an aggregator, but unlike, say my RSS...

Tue, 07 Apr 2009 15:06:07 +0100

Now I think know why FriendFeed never caught my fancy. It is an aggregator, but unlike, say my RSS reader, it’s not me deciding the content.
I subscribe to a person, who decides which of her or his feeds to get aggregated. And since it’s so easy to add services, you get a lot of “internal cross-posting” for one single person. You read the same post as a tweet, a Facebook status, a Plurk and so on.
Then follow 25 people on FriendFeed, 50 and the double-posting starts to accumulate.

Oh and that other part I mentioned earlier. People decide what I get fed, I can’t decide myself, it’s kind of a 1 or 0 situation. Link up, get it all, often more than once or don’t link up at all.
I post of like having control over my feeds myself.

I’m probably a bit of a control freak in that way.

A "relaxing" aspect of virtual homelessness

Sun, 05 Apr 2009 11:40:36 +0100

Since some time ago, I no longer rent a parcel inworld.
Of course there are some aspects about no longer having an address in Caledon that you miss. Plus a practical one, if you have a business on SLX, the need to have one prim permanently rezzed inworld. That I can have thanks to a good and generous friend.

I may perhaps not be ‘socially established’ today in Caledon, the way I am, if I wouldn’t have been a resident there for some time. You can’t really know the answer to that, and maybe others have different experiences to contradict mine.
I can still build, of course, having access to some very nice sandboxes. I also still spend most of my time in Caledon, when not flying at Aeronautica, travelling the skies in my airship, descending here and there for a little social natter.

One thing I noticed this weekend though, which inspired this post, is that, having only net access through my very ordinary mobile phone, and being ‘homeless’ I feel no stress of any rental meter ticking away, while I can’t make use of it. I confess there have been times like that. Occasionally, but still.
Though, homeless probably isn’t a good choice of word. I still consider myself to be Caledonian, as well as one of the grid aviators of Aeronautica.

Just a gender role thought

Fri, 20 Feb 2009 10:59:31 +0000

Or role? Perhaps perception is a better word for it?
On most social media sites, Twitter, Facebook or whatnots, there is a field for your bio, usually a pretty small space, which goes with the intention of writing something really, really brief about yourself.

And I have noticed one thing, not just for people over in America, but the same in Europe, also in Scandinavian countries.
How is it that so many women in their bios on these sites, among the top three definitions of who they are or what they do write something with the word “mum” in it. Or, mom, if American, I think.
Get me right, I am not annoyed or against it in any way, none whatsoever. This is only half of the question, since the other half must be asked as well:
Why are virtually (no pun intended) none, not a single man writing in that space “Digital Artist, Superdad and”, “Proud Hockeydad, Marketing Communicator and”, “Angry Dad, Specialist Consultant and”, etc, etc?

The thing is that these bios usually have a very, very limited space, so we really need to use every letter to write what we feel is important to project about us. And I have lost count of the number of bios I glanced at where a woman use her mum role as an important definition of who she is.. and, even if I am getting old, I can’t actually remember one single man using the dad definition as one of his top three?

Back in the 60’s, when I was about to enter school, you could still find reading books with the classical sentences like “Far ror och mor är rar” (Father is rowing and mother is sweet). Father acts, mother nurses, father is out working and twittering, mother is home caring and twittering.
Or wait.. Father is out working, and is seen as a professional, mother is also out working, but is seen as away from home?

Is that was still fundamentally colours our perceptions today as well?

Dawn over the Caledon Firth: Breakfast in RL as well as inworld...

Tue, 17 Feb 2009 08:28:01 +0000

Dawn over the Caledon Firth: Breakfast in RL as well as inworld at 928m. Going through the night’s notes and mail, before moving on.