It really has become de rigueur lately to blatantly violate the law because laws can be changed retroactively, hasn't it ( Read more... )

That was an interesting dream. It was a murder-mystery involving crazy great-uncles, dark gods, evil spirits, mysterious diseases, hidden treasures, and a colony of beavers.

How the colony of beavers got into the picture is somewhat beyond me, but it was pretty gripping.

Turns out that since HDCP requires a chip on the board, and because Vista will require HDCP in order to output anything in high-definition goodness, no video card out today will be about to output in high-definition, period.Yeah, this gives me great confidence in our modern technology ( Read more... )

Thank you tal_greywolf for noticing, although I would have picked it up when I checked the weather for here (start of the rain season for Santa Barbara is today):

I took a nap. In that nap I dreamt there was another tropical storm that had just developed.

I, for one, welcome our new Tropical Storm Zeta overlord.

I dreamed that a couple of time-travelers in the past were desperately trying to alter the future or collect things that they knew would be important in the future in order to get rich. But regardless of what they did, it didn't change the future at all ( Read more... )

I've had a couple of dreams lately in which I'm traveling in a very large shiny airport/space station (I think more space station this time) and the place is just so shiny and there are so many people and so many things... that I forget to bring my luggage along, and have to keep searching for it. Mostly just end up not finding it ( Read more... )

That was kind of an interesting dream. My mind decided to take the concepts of Firefly - the idea that humans expand into space, but then they act in space just like it was the Wild West - and then add in the idea that alien symbiotes were nearly ubiquitous, and gave people superhuman powers (think Hero or other fancy kung-fu movies), as well as ( Read more... )

Some big idea seems to be mixed up in all this. It's not about glorifying drugs or drug culture, the show's red herring. Mr. Schimmel writes about the appeal of Ecstasy to clubgoers and ravers in the 90's. It provided, he says, "intense feelings of connectedness with one's companions and with humanity in general." He continues, "This experience is ( Read more... )

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Last night I had a dream that kitalamina and I were seeking some sort of Zen training in a big Zen festival, which, at least for the first part of it, was actually done in the nude, and all of us were sort of agog that we were getting undressed for all of this, but we did. And there was a part where people needed to be led "up the hill" for some reason, so I ( Read more... )