Your Fault (Jan 17, 2008)
Bumper sticker - "Look what you made me do!"
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Destiny (Dec 7, 2005)
A man does all he can; until his destiny is revealed.

Surprisingly this is spoken by Tom "Lightweight" Cruise in The Last Samurai, although I suppose you cannot blame Tom for his scriptwriter's oversight.
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The THING Cycle (Feb 24, 2005)
Act I - The heroine falls in love with the handsome young Thingite warrior against the wishes of her jealous guardian.

Twelve valkyrie in heavy armour, including fake Viking helmets with phoney horns, arrive followed by a giant golden .

*bombastic music in the mode of Wagners "the Ring!*

The heroine is told that her love for the handsome young Thingite warrior has been cursed by the Gods by the twelve valkyrie and a giant golden (yay!) in three flats and a bed-sitting room. If she pursues him, she shall be tormented with a debilitating disease (regardless of the fact that she lives in a shanty town).

The valkyrie decide to help the heroine in her quest and at the same time, once and for all, make the Gods realize they are not to intervene in THINGLY matters.

The heroine and the valkyrie climbs up to the back of the golden and fly out.

Handsome young Thingite warrior enters and is confronted by jealous guardian...a mighty vocal battle ensues with much waving of . The handsome young Thingite warrior riumphs but the jealous guardian cowers off stage to plot a dastardly revenge...muhahaha ::quietly with much rubbing of hands::

The golden , with her load of ladies, flies high up in the air and beautiful scenery is shown (mountains, green valleys, waterfalls). The valkyrie sing a mighty warrior song about blood, revenge and secret dungeons. The heroine sharpens her .

The Gods recognising the betrayal of the valkyrie, the beautiful golden (yay!) and heroine, and having always been envious of the power of THING, conspire with the jealous guardian to undo the lovers and their trusty (and extremely lethal) .

Xanthippi jumps on stage and does a dance that somehow fits with the story even though she missed all rehearsals.

The golden takes the valkyrie and the heroine to the secret sacred shrine of Thing. The shrine is located in a secluded fortress in the Far Away Icy Mountains. The fortress is guarded by the Mighty Golden Fire Dragons of the Icy Mountains, virtually immortal beings who long ago swore to protect Thing and the shrine of Thing.

The heroine bursts out in a lengthy aria of sorrow, secret love, hatred of her guardian and the glory of Thing.

The handsome young Thingite warrior has fallen in with his war buddies and spent the night in a tavern. They have consumed literjohns of mead and eaten a number of spit-roasted beasts with their , and had their sport with the tavern's buxom waitpersons. Due to the handsome young Thingite warrior's carousing, he has left himself open to spiritual attack by the Gods...

The heroine and the valkyrie enters the fortress through a very secret door in the basement. They are greeted by a monk who leads them through a maze of hallways. After hours of endless walking in dark hallways covered with cobwebs, rat dirt and empty pizza boxes the fellowship enters a great hall.

They are welcomed by four old monks in purple dresses. The monks lead all ladies to the holy altar of Thing.

The heroine is given the most sacred of and a blessing is held.

An ancient ceremony of worshipping starts.

The handsome young Thingite warrior is sent insane by the Gods' assault on his very soul. Taking a enabled crossbow to the clocktower, he slaughters the townsfolk including the jealous guardian before falling on his own . (the ketchup bill is mind-boggling)

A high priestess of the sacred shrine of Thing watches the scenes previously scripted in her magic washbasin. She immediately sends away a speedy young dragon that arrives just in time to catch the warrior in his claws, before the warrior hits the ground.

The heroine watching the washbasin, although warned that she should not, see her lover apparently die and throws her self on the THING eternal flame. The handsome young Thingite warrior, brought by the (yay!) to the shrine seeing his love's plunge and incineration, follows her.


The End

.......of Act I



Act II

The shanty town in sunset.

Winds from the oceans blows into the town and causes windows to squeak and houses to rattle. Far away sounds of howling crocodiles. (endemic to this area, very predatory).

A pirate ship sails silently up the river. The full moon shines. The lions sings in the night.

In a small tavern a confused villain loses his last gemstones in a pokergame.

The pirate ship anchors, and a scouting patrol lead by the fearless pirate Peet the Constrictor arrives into the town. They sing an evil song (dark low bass voices and celli) whilst lurking around.

Suddenly they are spotted by an old lady who YELLS and sing a long hilarious aria of fear. Peet the constrictor, strangles her (hence his name ) and starts singing an aria himself.

Suddenly the confused villain steps out to High Street of Shanty Town. The music stops! The villain and Peet the Constictor spot each other and both raise their rusty swords.

An almost endless duosinging starts. Treason, lost loves, stolen gems, aching feet, pink cushions and a bun baking grandmother.

It shows that Peet the Constrictor and the confused villain are the Thingite warriors long lost older brothers.

The rest of the pirates turn mad when the realizs they´ve had a brother of a Thingite warroir amongst them.

A big fight starts. Long singing, horrifying music, and an almost dark stage. Finally. The brother are the only ones left. The feed the howling crocodiles with the remnant of the pirates.

The ascends to a cart, pulled by a donkey and leaves for the quest of finding their lost brother.

End of act II

Act III

Valkyries, (yay!), and Gods lob arias at each other for about an hour concerning the relative merits or otherwise of THING.

End of Act III

Act IV

The low lands approaching the Icy Mountains. Scouting dragons flies to and fro´ watching and gazing. No enemies around.

A squeaking cart with a donkey in, pulled by a pirate and a villain moves slowly up a stony mountain path. The men sing a song about bravery whilst the donkey shrieks. (or whatever donkeys do)

The donkey (in a stage whispered aria to the audience) reveals that it is actually the lost brother, the handsome young Thingite warrior, trapped in the body of a donkey until he is freed by his love, the heroine. His shrieks of despair are recognition that he believes his love is now one of the valkyrie and the beautiful golden (yay!) and no longer interested in earthly pursuits.

The braying donkey spots an approaching dragon and makes even more noise. The reunited older brothers stop pulling the cart just in time to see the donkey being snatched by a dragon.

“Ye! We´re approaching the shrine of Thing”, says the confused villain. A long aria about the holiness of the shrine is followed by another aria by Peet the Constrictor. This one is a very sad one about their mother who died due to overeating during a Christmas lunch.

The dragon brings the thingite hero trapped in the body of a donkey to the high priestess. The high priestess puts the warrior donkey in a sacred sleep and he is carried down to the high altar by the purple clad monks.

The reunited brothers, singing the song of the Seven Dwarfs (from the Disney movie snow white) leaves the cart and continue to walk up the stony mountain path.

Suddenly they see the golden dragon carrying twelve singing valkyrias and one heroine.

The brothers faint. The valkyrias and the heroines sing a song about revenge and head for the Gods Petty Farm.

On the other side of the universe, the heroine is hangin' with the valkyrie and the beautiful golden (yay!) but finds she can't concentrate on hunting the sacred of the star meadows as the valkyrie and the beautiful golden (yay!) sing of their pleasure in slaughter the intelligent star . She finds she is constantly drawn to Earth and the THING shrine with its eternal flame and occasional troll (is that like an occasional table?).

In flashback mode

The ladies, strengthened by popcorn from the audience arrives to the Gods Petty Farm, and conquers the Farm easily by singing latest hits from the Top 40 list. All the Gods evaporates when the golden dragon throw flames at them.

The ladies climbs up to the dragons back and returns to the shrine.

Ending #1

Right....

The heroine is re-united with her donkey...the duet is boo-ed from the stage as someone neglected to change the donkey back into the handsome young Thingite warrior...

The valkyries and the beautiful golden (yay!) seeing the love of the heroine and the handsome young Thingite warrior, realise the error of their ways and swear never to hunt the intelligent star again and to spend their eternity rewarding loyal Thingites.

The brothers overcome by the magnificence of the THING shrine, vow to serve THING till their life's end. They fill the wagon with pilfered THING trappings and die trying to move the wagon without a donkey.

The lovers with the handsome young Thingite warrior returned to his former glory, come on stage where the and apples from the audience if stored well should see them out to the next concert.


The End?

Ending #2

The sacred shrine of Thing.

The brothers have arrived. The valkyrie have arrived. The monks have arrived. The dragons have arrived. The high priestess has arrived. The heroine has arrived. The warrior turned into donkey has arrived.

The shrine is overpopulated, and a riot is near. Long choir singing, with arias, duos, trios, quartettes etc. go on and on.....

Finally the high priestess puts the warrior turned into donkey to the altar and calls for the heroine. She has to the donkey with her sacred to break the curse.

The heroine burst out in aria about pros, cons and applesauce. Finally she decides to her loved one and so does. The donkey shakes, rattles and rolls whilst the orchestra plays awful boring music, supposed to be romantic.

Suddenly the Thingite warrior rises from the altar, kisses the heroine and due to the kiss no one is able to sing.

The golden dragon sings a concluding aria and the curtain falls at last.

The lights are turned on, and the audience is awaked and heads for the bar.

END of The Heroine and the Thingite Warrior

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Priory of Sion's big secrret (Jan 10, 2005)
If the Priory of Sion intend to install a Mengovian (descendent of Jesus) king into Europe or the World, their big secret better be something more than “We’ve been around 9 centuries and oh, by the way, we can prove our pretender is of the bloodline of Jesus (OK, maybe 13 centuries)”; because for non-Judean-derived religions, objective participants (i.e. sceptics etc) and the fundamentalist blocs it will not be enough!!!
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quote (Nov 25, 2004)
It is always easier to ask forgiveness than it is to get permission.

US Navy Rear Admiral Grace Brewster Hopper (1906-12-09 to 1992-01-01)
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Mike Jittlov (Nov 17, 2004)
Just been visiting the home page of Mike Jittlov aka The Wizard of Speed and Time.

Wonderful time lapse animator, he put the body of his best short films into a movie, The Wizard of Speed and Time. This film is mesmerising, not just the intricate animation but also the layers and layers and layers of subtextural, almost subliminal, jokes and ideas.

This film smashes the myth that a film can only have one joke on the screen at a time. It is like a favourite book; I always come away from another viewing with something new.

From his homepage, some of the linked fanpages had emails from Jittlov and the subtextural layers were present there as well. I felt that Jittlov's mind is constantly working at multiple layers and wonder how the man operates if this is so.

Jittlov work is innovative in so many ways and the man justifiably complains that a number of his concepts have been plagerised by "Hollywood".

Always seems a shame that Jittlov only left one contribution to popular culture; one presentation to the general public.
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waxing philosophical (Oct 8, 2004)
The world as we know it. We could go into all the shit about how we perceive the world that it could all be an illusion but that is too simplistic. The universe is too coherent, too sophisticated to be conjured and fed to our minds. There is no logic for creating such a system. It does not survive Occam's razor.

We may misapprehend the universe; the filter of our senses, the bias of our personalities and the mechanism of recording the information in our memory may include distortion and introduce delay in the real-time perception but the input still has integrity.

The soul grows with the rest of the entity. As experiences are captured and feed the intellect, the feedback loop of the entity reacting, and therefore influencing, its environment is created. All entities form the complete system even a rock must "be" a rock with no other purpose than to fill a space, comprise the earth, or for some other entity to stub its toe. We are all unique because we experience the universe from at least a body width's distance from anyone else.

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more mutterings (Oct 8, 2004)

Pontius decision - letting someone make the decision for you

The truth emerges more readily from error than confusion

Men cheat...but women lie!

You can lead a whore to culture but you cannot make het think.

Teutonic plates - the crockery that earth-shattering german gods eat from???

Being dead isn't everything in life.

You can't have everthing where would you put it all.

Shelfware - documents so large and unwieldy they are never used

Holiday activities
Parachuting - how many parrots would you like to shoot?
Clubbing - how many sealion cubs would like like to club?

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mutterings (Oct 7, 2004)
How much gyroscopic effect is there in a cup of well-stirred coffee?

In queueing theory the longer the pause before re-entering the queue the less likely the collision.

a x b = the sum from c = 0 to a - 1 of b sub c

= the sum from c = 0 to b - 1 of a sub c

Obviously the head is all over the place today!!??
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Society Proposal (Sep 17, 2004)
Proposing a new society

P.A.P.S.
Pun Appreciation and Preservation Society
Grandfathers need not apply

First event of the society will be a stall to sell bottles of perserved pun.

The Pun is mightier than the Sarcasm. All Hail the Pun.

Inaugral Pun

Did he mark it badly? No, it was only 'Arf a Dent.



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The Force (Sep 16, 2004)
Why is the force like duct/gaffer tape?

Because its has a light side, a dark side, and it holds the universe together.
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Unavoidable conclusion (Sep 16, 2004)
I'm a looney.
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Cosmic housekeeping (Sep 13, 2004)
If we keep insisting there is a divine, philosophic or cosmic purpose to the universe, we will keep deferring responsibility for cleaning up our corner of it.

You bring the mop; I have a broom.
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Arrogance (Sep 8, 2004)
It is not that we are not trying to appropriately manage the world's environments, it is that often we arrogantly ASSUME we have the right to do so.
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Cattle call (Aug 23, 2004)
"I'll give you my stock response..."



"Moo!"
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A.I. and Personality (Aug 19, 2004)
I wonder if AI researchers ever have to manage emotional problems when dealing with their experiments.
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Utopia? (Aug 18, 2004)
I think Utopia is a civilisation where humanity’s natural drives create an environment that meets humanity’s natural needs.

Civilisation being an organistion predominantly exhibiting civility.
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Random thoughts (Aug 16, 2004)
1. Disputes are never black and white.
2. Evil does not exist; even human action is causal.
3. Learn from your errors but don’t dwell on them.
4. There is no perfection; only compromise.
5. Life is no illusion; if nothing else it survives Occam’s razor.
6. There is no prime cause; but the primary path to utopia is sharing.
7. Some obscurity is deliberate but most is accidental and too complex to unravel.
8. Magicians are not the only professionals that rely on misdirection.
9. When a talking-head is tub-thumping, try to work out what is being obscured or overshadowed.
10. Uniforms are de-personalising; this may be on purpose.
11. Between Chaos and Linearity, Complexity is the happy medium.
12. Nothing is perfectly random because nothing is perfectly free. Refer 4
13. Sects are weak religions; Religions are powerful sects.
14. When faced with an extreme, look for a corresponding, balancing extreme.
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Entropy, information and distribution (Aug 12, 2004)
Interesting that as the distribution of particles in a system becomes more uniform its entropy is increasing as is the information; information in terms of detail required to record the absolute state of the system with every particle's location, orientation, velocity and acceleration.

Just as at maximum entropy the there is a high probability find an even distribution of particles through the system there is also a high probability to find a even distribution of particles' energy levels at any location in the system.

So as the system's predictibility decreases, its entropy and information increases.

Entropy may make energy diffuse through the universe but at least its creating information and is not information power.
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A median between chaos and linear (Aug 12, 2004)
Chaos at one end of a scale of dynamic systems and linear at the other. the extent of the system's dynamic type follows a distribution curve with the adaptive complex systems in the median.

Perhaps if we map the mode space of the meta-system that determines what type of dynamic (linear to chaotic) a naturally occuring system will exhibit, the attractor basins will be widely spread but the distribution should be for the compromise to be the more often occuring instance.

If all systems (meta-systems included) tend towards a median, an attractor and underdamped systems are not the norm; it is this meta-attractor between rigid linearity and unpredictable chaos that channels systems toward a minimum set of functionality or organisation with flexibility to adapt to its environment.

So our ability to evolve cohesively to stress in the environment (human evolution being such a dynamic system ) is a result of not going to extremes.


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Genesis ponderings (Aug 8, 2004)
DNA starting as a simple virus-like molecule steadily more sophisticated than crystals in aligning structure from the amorphous materials around it. Proto-DNA was at a microscopic/molecular rather than the macroscopic scale of crystals.

Crystals required a concentration; proto-DNA, as they grew in sophisication, would have needed a greater diversity of material in their vicinity.

Hence DNA created mode spaces gradually more distinct from crystals and created a niche for itself.


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No purely random process (Aug 3, 2004)
There can be no truly random processes in the universe as every process is constrained.

Unless a process has infinite degrees of freedom it is constrained to something less than complete randomness. The probable location of a particle is constrained to a certain region of space due to the fact it cannot travel faster than the speed of light. Even if particles can transfer via wormholes etc, these events require special conditions or constraints, they are not universal, which then constrains the particle’s location.

Information is a function of randomness; if a process is cyclic or repetitive, then less information is required to identify that process, alternatively the more random a process, the greater the amount of information required. You cannot drop any information for fear of losing the uniqueness of that information to identify that process.

So does the amount of information produced by a process have a relationship to the amount of entropy it contains? If so this may point to why and how life got started.

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