Andy Murray, the
I always think "Brittas Empire" whenever Andy Murray is mentioned.
Andy Murray - 2010 Australian Open
Andy Murray, the
I always think "Brittas Empire" whenever Andy Murray is mentioned.
Can The Entire Internet Emulate The Human Brain?
Short answer: don't be silly. Ok so, could it provide roughly the same computing power of a single human brain then? Not a chance. Jeremy over at 4Volt (I say it so casually as if we've been buddies for years; he doesn't even knew I exist!) has done the math for us and come up with the megabytes.
http://4volt.com:8080/Blog/archive/2010/01/18/total-processing-power-of-the-internet.aspx
For those of you with ADD, the end result is this: Estimating the total number of connected nodes to the internet (based on public statistics), the entire internet (1.7 Billion computers) has as much computing power as 1/200th of a human brain. Put that up your bum and squeeze it! And there you were, thinking you were crap. No way dawg, you've got like 200 interwebz in your head! Just think of how much sauce that is! 200 Boxxys to torment or pleasure you! I tell you sir, the brain is an amazing lump of tissue.
Goblin, Kultivator, Magma
Album: Zombi (Dawn of the Dead soundtrack)
Year: 1978
Have a good listen to this extract from the title track. Let the general musical ideas filter through your ears and into your brain. Ignore the overall acoustics and instead focus on the compositional structure.
Goblin 1 by user9356733
Album: Barndomens Stigar
Year: 1981
Now listen to this extract from Swedish folk-prog group Kultivator. Hear the similar dissonant human droning with the stabbing bass motif over the top. You might even say it's almost the same phrase; just slowed down; with the cadences slightly changed.
Kultivator 2 by user9356733
Album: FLÖË ËSSI (Single)
Year: 1998
This is the most recent extract and probably sounds the spookiest. It captures the same general idea of the first two pieces but brings it further along the path.
Magma 3 by user9356733
Interestingly, Kultivator were directly influenced by Magma's "Zeuhl" music in the 70's. It's unknown what Goblin thought of Magma at the time. It's also unknown whether these pieces all relate to something greater or were they just homages, or perhaps it is simply co-incidental that they all happen to sound a bit alike (at least in my head anyway). The last two extracts were just very small parts of their respective songs, but the transition to both pieces was very abrupt and distinct, which exaggerated their effect.
Peter Jackson & The Weight Transmorphifications
Peter Jackson lost a shit load of weight in the last few years, fair fucks to him, but I still don't like his movies (bar the first two).
Play this, watch and be hypnotised:
"Markos" by Goblin, from their Suspiria album
I generally don't post my gif anims here (they be draining my bandwidthz!) So you can often find an odd auld few frames on my Twitpic, or on my Soup.
Back To The Future
Five years later in 2010, Apple release the iPad internet tablet. It's based on a propriety operating system, where you must download all applications from their iTunes harem. It has no support for Flash whatsoever [although Adobe say a convoluted hobbled version may be on the way]. Coming in at $500 ~ $800, the iPad boasts multitouch, a larger screen... emmm... copy and paste? Oh wait, that's probably a major update for a future version of the iPad.So wow anyway, the iPad is loaded with techno advancementz!
Steve Jobs Admits...
"I am happy that my electronic trinkets and novelties have become so successful, but every night I cry because my computers were never a success." Steve Jobs - Apple CEO - 2010 (Jobs is sending this on a postcard to PostSecret tomorrow.)
Bertie Ahern - Under Wraps
Keep it quiet. (Go slow.)
Circulate. Need to know.
Stamp the date upon your file
masquerade, but well worth while.
Wrapped in the warmth of you
wrapped up in your smile.
Wrapped in the folds of your attention.
Wear an air (keep mum)
of casual indifference.
Careful how you go
about your usual business.
Wrapped in daydreams of you
wrapped up by your eyes.
Wrapped in the folds of your attention.
Under wraps! I've got you under wraps.
[image via Dave McKane words via Ian Anderson]
America's Third Party
2012 (or possibly 2016... or 2020... 2024?) American Presidential winner, David Von Sponheim still manages to refer to me as "Gamma Globulin". That's kinda sweet and rude at the same time.
David Beckham Must Press Charges Against Her
This was a completely unlawful sexual assault and I really do hope he follows through with criminal charges. I would have broken her nose.
Martin Cullen: The "Rape" Complex
Uh oh! TD Martin Cullen dropped the r-bomb! "He didn't, did he!?" Oh yes he did, Sheila. You can't go around telling people you were raped if you weren't. Mr. Cullen would have been perfectly entitled to say that "the media was raping me, bitches!" (to "rape" in that sense is a perfectly fine adverb to describe aggressive unfair coverage of details from ones personal life) but no, he seemingly tried to make out that what happened to him was the same as when a person has unathorised sexy-time with another person. That's a very big "niche niche" in most peoples books. And what exactly does he mean by "it was like being raped as a man"? Jokes aside about any trans-sexuality [s]he might be hiding, is rape different for men or something? Is that some kind of reference to macho bullshit? "Men don't cry.... blood from their anuses when they're raped"...
But wait, perhaps we have it wrong! Perhaps Mr. Cullen mean't "rape" in the botanical sense?
Hmmm... I think he had better get the OJ Simpson legal defense team on his side if that's the case he's going to argue.
Psychologists speculate that Mr. Cullen's "Rape Complex" occurred when the door of a helicopter he was traveling in, for nonsense reasons, flew off hitting Mr. Cullen in the head (this trip was, ironically, payed for by "raping" the TAX payers of Ireland). Afterwards, he claims to have seen a vision of a "Kebab" sitting beside him, whispering sweet nothings into his ear.
This entire post is nothing more a fictitious trace of Martin Cullen's thought processes yesterday. That's the legal stuff out of the way, and notice how I didn't make any mention of Monica Leech.... aww shit!
Beans, Beans, The Musical Fruit...
♫ And it seems to me you lived your life
It's funny the things one comes up with while doing invoices at work...
Joe Duffy On Road Safety
December 24th, the middle of Ireland's "Big Freeze", when most of Ireland suffered the worst driving conditions of the year, Joe Duffy retorted AA Road Watch's warnings which told people to drive carefully on the roads. He can be heard on Morning Ireland telling the AA to "take a chill pill" and "relax in your slacks".
I was going to say I found his response surprising, especially considering his old long-time boss, Gay Byrne, is now the head of Road Safety in Ireland, but nothing much that Duffy does these days surprises me. No doubt if the AA had told listeners to beware of Head shops and magic-mushrooms growing on the side of the road he would have been foaming at the mouth repeating ad-nauseum warnings about "da dangers of them bath salts".
I must go into my local Head Shop on Monday and ask them if they have any "chill pills". I'll say I heard Joe Duffy raving about them on the radio.
Charlie Bird Reporting...
"Charlie Bird here, reporting from a country devastated by natural disaster. Hospitals are under pressure to treat the ill, medics and resources are in short supply. The infrastructure here was poor to begin with, but after the catastrophe roads have been destroyed and are practically impassable, water supplies have been cut off. The government is struggling to cope with recent events, compounding this is the corruption seeping through it over the years. Poverty and debt are crippling those who have managed to escape from physical trauma... but enough about Ireland, I have to fly out to Haiti now, a country suffering the effects of a massive earthquake. Charlie Bird, for RTÉ news, Shannon airport."
Brian Lenihan Is Going To Die
And you're going to die, and I'm going to die... We are all going to die! I find it amusing, the amount of people wishing for the "death of Brian [Lenihan]". They speak as if death isn't guaranteed within this universe. Death is our only constant. Oh I know the old Benjamin Franklin adage includes "taxes" in that mix, but since we are considering the mortality of a governmental minister responsible for the affairs of an economy, I thought it best to avoid the irony.
The genesis of this post happened upon hearing that a Facebook profile was set up (and long since removed), with a motto along the lines of "I hope Brian Lenihan dies!". Of course if it were just that I may have just laughed off the silliness of such a statement, but no, they had an interesting appendage to this little ditty: "and I hope he has a slow painful death!" Well! Them's fighin' words! This too however highlights something which many fail to contemplate, and that is: no matter what your belief system about what comes after death; whether you believe in a supernatural after-life or infinite nothing, it is for certain that what comes before it is forgotten and voided. Any pain or suffering is washed away in the ever increasing river of history, and has removed itself from your context. So you see, death, even a painful death holds no water in what comes after it. If one really wanted to inflict insult on someone in the form of wishful thinking, they would be better off wishing them a long and painful "life" instead.
Whatever one might think of the man, or Fianna Fáil, I firmly believe that Brian Lenihan should be running the country while Fianna Fáil are in power. Brian Cowen has been a disaster, and Lenihan has at least shown some leadership and the ability to speak without slurring his words. The interviews he gave last week showed a man putting on a brave face. It was clearly evident that he was trying too hard to appear upbeat about his illness. There will always begrudgers no matter how he came across. Too pitiful and they would accuse him of looking for sympathy, too positive and he's either really not that ill, or just desperately seeking to stay in power at any cost.
There is something we must acknowledge though. Obviously when people say "I hope they die!" they mean it in the near future. Historically speaking, the death of governmental leader has often heralded a great change in the political and/or economical status of a country. Take for example the death of Nicolae Ceauşescu in Romania, which cascaded through to the fall of the Berlin Wall. Very little however would be gained from the imminent death of Brian Lenihan. NAMA is already through and any new government made from the current political livestock would not be able to drastically change the state Ireland now finds itself in. The only way we could have a political revolution is if Al-Qaeda decided to blow up the Dáil and everyone in it. I do however think that a lot would be gained, for the national morale at least, from the execution of Bertie Ahern. I think hearing that a citizen has taken it unto themselves to slay the "great corrupter" would spur a lot of Irish people onto greater things.
I know you're asking if the title of this post a cheap shot to get readership, and perhaps it was, but just for this post alone, as I think a lot of people need to read more about human mortality. Was the doctored image of Brian Lenihan depicting his cadaver created as a form of insult? Absolutely not! If it has caused upset, good! Life is short, value it! I think about death on a regular basis. Not in a neurotic way or anything, I like to ponder it, the same as a priest may ponder the mysteries of his faith. The truth about death and indeed the meaning of life, will only be revealed at that moment of passing, and in that sense, perhaps it's something to look forward to when the end is approaching without fail.
A fragment of a poem I wrote last year, it seems to finish this well..
Death, the eventual leveler,
Will in turn,
Humble us all.
Those found unequal in life,
Will become universal in death.
A New Venture
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How About You (2007)
Best film I saw over Christmas. Loved it for lots of reasons (yes, including that reason you're thinking of). An Irish film based on a Maeve Binchy story. A good deal of effective punchy swearing in it, which perhaps overstepped the mark at times. Nice little film. Great cast! Including Hayley Atwell, pictured above. Shame you can't buy it on DVD in Europe. BitTorrent to the rescue once more. When will they learn? Oh well.
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I've been hanging onto this sticker since August 2009. I keep meaning to deposit it some place. I never really liked the idea of vandlising public property and yet, I made it with that purpose in mind. The mental conflicts one carries in their back pocket...
Peff Inspired By My Reason Combinator Patch
Kurt Kurasaki (Peff) uploaded this video showing a beat pattern generator similar in concept to mine, shortly after I showed it to him. Awesome for me that such a famous Reason man should be so inspired by something I did, but no mention of me anywhere. But fuck it sure, this is the internet after all, and I for one, am a firm believer in universal knowledge. I also found someone else I know, doing an even more similar version of my combinator patch after I showed it to him. Again, no mention of me but he quickly deleted it once I came on the scene. Peff's patch does incidentally, sound better than my beat pattern generator using a RV7000 unit.
Am I just being anally-retentive? Perhaps, but enough about my sexual practises. I don't brand my stuff here to declare some kind of ownership over it. I want everything to be shared, I don't even want credit for it. I just like everything having an origin or a genesis point. I often go into a lot detail about how I came to an idea, and that's why I like keeping tabs on everything I do. A simple "some inspiration from here" is all it takes to keep things running smoothly.
Tubular Heart {music}
Originally this started out as an experiment in FM synthesis, but after I noticed a familiar chord progression at the start, it became a homage to Mike Oldfield and Tubular Bells. There are many influences in here (the likes of Jean Michele Jarre, Jan Hammer, emm... etc. ).
I fraquently make quick cheesy music to be taken light heartedly, and I'm not saying this is an honest representation of my musical merit or anything, but I did spend some time on it so it's probably one you should listen to if you think you might like my music... or something.
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