Monday, January 31, 2005

people.co.uk - FIT AT AGE 3 TURNS DAN INTO WHIZ

Aha!

This is a marvelous description of an effective method of thought. This man uses pattern analysis and association to compute rapidly. Who'd of thunk it?

I would say that rapid education will work by giving people simple pattern analysis algorithms. If someone is to learn a great deal in limited time, a system of benchmarks and logic must be used. Input must be analyzed and formatted to match a logistical system taught initially. This will allow for the greatest possible amount of effectively categorized data to be stored for use.

Our personas are not unlike software. That is a strength for us, change is a matter of precise calculation and application.

We are capable of anything.

Monday, January 24, 2005

COMEDY CENTRAL TV Shows: The Daily Show with Jon Stewart

Thank god for The Daily Show, all I really had to do tonight was send my rent check anyway.

Thursday, January 13, 2005

Logic Saves

Looked over my blog, changed a few things, restating goals:

* Wake up every day at 6:30 and workout (so far so good).
* Make list of goals and todo's PRIOR to working out.
* Repair religious theocratic influences on society.
* Cross breed Monkey and Hamster, make millions.
* Repair the damage to the rainforest caused by hampkey.
* Spend no less than 10 hours a day either writing goals, or completing work. Personal infrastructure improvements in large amounts of time will potentiate my efficiency exponentially (so long as the improvements continue). Est. 10 days before full day work reduced to 2 hours.

Wednesday, January 12, 2005

Salon.com Books Before you can say

So, I read a review of this book, and sent this to the author of said book by postal mail:

Mr. Gladwell,

I really want to read your book. I will when I have the means. Just from what I can assume safely, your book marks the rapid and complex thought of the lower brain as much faster than traditional linear frontal lobe cognition. For this reason, I am trying to eliminate my inner monologue.

I was elated to read the title of your book. I have spent about 2 and a half years now working on analysis of life and efficient thinking. I discovered that life was relatively predictable in June of 2002. I realized that I could understand anything given enough time, my theological values crumbled.

At that point in time, I started self educating on complex social issues. Social issues are often considered to be far too nebulous to be solved. I disagree, it’s the same as solving any puzzle, you just need to understand what is wrong with the picture and put the pieces in the right spots, which I did.

What I developed was a method of pattern analysis. When you push you get equal response that is opposite. Observing an object changes it. You can predict anything in reality to a degree of accuracy, once you understand why your inaccuracies exist, you get a new degree of accuracy.

Previously, I was a strictly spatial thinker, so my thinking began in terms of numbers and functions. I mapped social situations into graphs of physical space and layers of energy, all of them existed with the same rules, but in different space. Standing 2 feet from someone, but focusing my consciousness on something 10 feet away changes my practical influence on the individual. Likewise, if someone has a problem and I observe it, I create a greater effect of a problem.

As time went on, I developed a more humanistic view of my thoughts. I did it with cold hard logic, but I ended with a soft mysterious view of life. Because of the nature of just the title of your book, I assume that you understand my words intent.

I am accustomed to interacting with individuals how they have to be interacted with, I want more people to interact with in a dynamic, unlabeled way. To do that, I have begun writing papers designed to expose the inner questions, values in such a way to enable real growth in individuals.

I hope that you find this at least mildly interesting. It was refreshing for me to see signs of real analysis of reality. I’m young, only 22, but I dream of the rapid evolution of a world of thought. I hope for an opportunity to collaborate with those with an established and recognized voice.

Thank you sincerely for your time,

Eean
Dictionary.com/sauteing

I wasn't sure, saute is an awkward verb indeed.
Cooking today:

I was just cooking a bit and I've made some observations about my attempt that I feel like documenting.

What I had:

Ground beef
1/2 a green bell pepper
1/2 a red onion
wheat bulgar
misc other crap that a single guy has in his fridge (think penicillin)
oh yeah some domain des cassagnoles, an inexpensive French white that is excellent, although the only one I can get, 2003, is a bit young and takes a while to breathe.

Basically it goes like this,

Check bank account, not good.

Look in freezer, the ever present ground beef patties are there. Should have gone for the chicken breast.

Veggies, bell pepper and onions, excellent sauted with some beef. Or in a burger or whatso, but I wanted some kind of dish.

Chopped up some of the onion, about a fourth, and the half a green bell pepper that I had. Beef + veggies, I used about 16 oz's of beef, which is a bit much unless you have more veggies.

I am loathe to use much oil to saute veggies when I am making something beef based, so I usually cook with the meat and use the meats juices. This is simply my personal preference, usually if you are using relatively fatty ground beef, this helps you make use of the absurd amounts of grease coming off the stuff. I'm 22, I am not worrying yet.

Ok, while sauteing, I am considering my options. Beef like this is traditionally pretty bland, but beef is hard to spice usually. If you stew it FOREVER it will mellow out a bit, but ordinarily your options are mostly garlic, pepper and salt. You can uses sauces to accent it, but with beef as an ingredient your options are limited.

My goal is to make this dish about something other than the beef. The vegetables are woefully inadequate, so I add the other quarter of an onion that I have. I add water once it's cooked a bit to stew it a bit, hopefully blend the flavors, but into what? Rice or wheat bulgar... Never used the wheat bulgar. High in fiber, so that's good right?

So we have wheat bulgar plus the water and let it slow cook for a while. When I come back it's oooooh so bland. Dreadfully bland. It's like what your friends parents shoved down your throat as a kid. Well, I'm not having it. So, I get a vine ripened tomato, chop it up and add it. I'm hoping to smooth out the flavors a little with the sweet of the tomato, it works relatively well.

What made this dish finally really good was that I broke down and used some garlic and onion powder. I try to avoid either of these because people use these ingredients to disguise the fact that they have no idea how to cook foods individually. (not me of course) So, I add these and a bit of the white to it... I know white wine with beef? It blended well, it's a sweeter flavor and it brought out the tomato a bit which was not easy considering the proportion of beef in the dish.

All in all it was decent, I'd put it at about a 7 considering my available ingredients. I COULD have sauted the veggies on their own, which would have added a good flavor. Although I needed a whole bell pepper and a whole onion for 16 oz's of beef. Mushrooms would have MADE this dish, I'm thinking getting closer to a stroganauf. Sour cream, sliced top round, beef, mushrooms, a little red wine, green peppers and onions, add some egg noodles.

If you wanted to make it the same genre but good, with mostly the same ingredients. Saute green peppers, onions, mushrooms and garlic, with these flavors, olive oil would be fine, but any could be used. Cook up some ground beef in a pan so you get the juices. Once the beef is browned, add the sauted veggies, cook these together until the beef is pretty well cooked. If you used really lean beef and it won't cook well, you could use a little oil.

Add water to this and lets just stick with the wheat bulgar, enough to get about half the water to soak up. Chop up a couple of tomatoes and add this, let it all stew. The tomato will not be very noticeable. It will mostly be a somewhat softer mushroom, beef and veggie flavor. You should be able to really taste the vegetables. I would think that wine would really add a lot to this flavor. That would take 16 oz's ground beef, one red onion, one green bell pepper, two tomatoes, about 16 oz's of mushrooms, a few good sized pieces of garlic, probably about 1/2 cup wheat bulgar.

Who knows? At least I'll be able to see what I've tried here.

Monday, January 10, 2005

Salon.com News The new Monkey Trial

Current goals:

* Wake up at 6:30 every day and workout.
* Assess goals regularly to ensure efficiency.
* Disable religion's destructive influences on society.
* Continue to question my motives and values.
* Continue progressing towards a better world.

Goal 3 is the subject of the moment. There is a necessity to provide strong logical arguments that will resist intelligent design's attempt to cloud the issue of evolution. First of all, intelligent design crusaders (as in psychotic war-like regressive types) must erode the *image* of evolution's validity. Since modern science has accepted the logic of evolution as irrefutable, the Christian Crusaders must attempt to make it look as if this is not so.

Premise:

Christian Crusaders values are defined by a process that abhors rigorous auto-analysis and relies on assumption for support. That is to say that it is the methodology of their self defining values that makes necessary their aversion to objective analysis.

Conditions for premise:

Religious status quo, the failure to question values, has emerged from deliberate manipulation of the people. For example: the Roman Catholic church used religion not as a tool of enlightenment, but often times as a vehicle for control. Romans used a social hierarchy to support the ruling class. Kings of
Western Europe used the Divine Right of Kings as theirs. Tools supporting class hierarchy automatically undermine the validity of the opinions of the masses. These tools were so effective that the masses have learned a strong pattern of following paternal rule and edict without question.

So current situations exist because the values of the general population were defined by individuals reliant on obedience.

Solution:

Help all people feel comfortable defining their own existence, provide reasons why this is enough. Religion is a fine thing that should not be attacked directly, but its followers should certainly be confidant to question their values.

Support must be given to all people to help them feel more comfortable with their own decisions, failures and successes. With this will come ease of auto-analysis and a reduction to non-objective societal forces.

Monday, January 03, 2005

Salon.com Technology | Bush stops spam; blue states rejoice

Salon is the shit. That said, Dennis Kucinich is a badass gnome. I'd rate him higher than any of those guys on The Lord of The Rings. I suspect that had Kucinich decided to give up the games and admitted to his Faerie roots, maybe he would have had more luck with his political campaign.

I must digress, that was stupid.

I have been working on a logical analysis of competitive systems and their elements. Basically it is stating that real time comparitive efficiency decreases for systems. This is because as time moves, the progress of efficient systems ABILITY increases as well, traditionally this progress is not available to systems that are established statically in the past.

Blah blah blah, more on that later.