I regained consciousness briefly in bed today. A voice in my head told me to approach the animal. I approached blackness until I saw feline white fur. Then the voice asked me what animal I saw. I told the voice… Read more…
Archive for Abdullah Hamad
An Insult to Goats Everywhere
So many businesses just put names and pie-in-the-sky wishes on a piece of paper with mission statements, essentially advertising services without anything to back their promises, waiting for some schmuck to fund them. Upstart-start-ups, with rose-tinted glasses… So many others just… Read more…
I Do Declare! Constantly…
Has anyone else ever read The Declaration of Independence? It’s mostly just a screed against King George, like the revolutionaries were going to take this list of transgressions to their daddies and have them do something about it. I think… Read more…
Keep it in Your LANs
While Wide Area Networks are convenient for research in statistics, most businesses shouldn’t store or transfer user data online. Local Area Networks make more sense for the vast majority, as it helps groups with need for privacy avoid security holes…. Read more…
Judge, Jury, and Executioner
Updated Prescriptive Definition: Arrest: (vb.) To put another at ease. To stop another’s laborious behavior. To let another rest. Updated Descriptive Definition: Arrest: (vb.) To torture, countermand, and kill posthaste, unjustly.
Verdict: Crazy
Is there a mental instability where people are famous, only to themselves? Can you say there’s talent there, and go along with it? Or would you instinctively discount something, just because you assume everyone is wrong? Is automatically discounting things… Read more…
Reduce, Reuse, Recycle Increase, One-off, Sequester
Traditionally, we define green power as power that comes from renewable, environmentally-friendly sources, like wind power, geothermal power, and solar power. Sadly, some companies have redefined green power as power that results in money surpluses, and broadened the scope of… Read more…
Y Hello Thar
Fractions are our friends. Decimals are our lovers.
Simplifying Human Morality
There’s a direct line of competition between dogs that want to piss on something they’ve never eaten before, pigs that want to eat something they’ve never seen before, and parrots that want to see something they’ve never heard before. Aside… Read more…
Me First and the Gimme Gimmes
Economic spending is oftentimes more effective if purchasers spend money on what smart people are spending money on. This leads to short-term gains in consumer’s living situations, as good, well-researched, luxury products reach the market. Taken to its extreme, though,… Read more…
The Limit of Security as x Approaches Infinity
Just the knowledge that something CAN be used incorrectly, for dangerous purposes, is often the same as the knowledge that something WILL be used incorrectly, or for dangerous purposes, when dealing with large groups of people. A large enough sample… Read more…
You’re Killing Me, Smalls
Weight, commonly defined as mass times gravity, is actually measured by a body’s ability to apply leverage to a spring or lever, be it physical or “digital”. Therefore, high weight is a strength advantage, but due to the difficulty in… Read more…
The Myth of Innateness
Some people believe in inherited instinct. In other words, if a parent knows something, then their child will, too. This flies in the face of reason and is a slight against the true operation of the human psyche. A person… Read more…
Sauce, Please
I just wanted to let all the readers out there know that all of the images on this site are either produced by me, or downloaded from the World Wide Web using a search engine that only presents material from… Read more…
“Anyone who has been to an English public school will always feel comparatively at home in prison.” -Evelyn Waugh
People who commit crimes should get sent to educational theme parks for learning the proper way to be an adult instead of enduring expensive trials and prison sentences. I would much rather have prison guards be ride operators and retain… Read more…
Feee-dooom!!!
What would you do if the bank started offering you your own deposits back to you as loans, without adding the amount of the deposit to your net worth? Isn’t this essentially what the loan and fee structure of modern… Read more…
Colorless Green Ideas Sleep Furiously
The old method used by the government of blacking out names in documents has ended. Now they use context sensitive grammar to play semantic Scattergories with people’s communications, putting lives, fortunes, and well-being at risk. We are all innocent fawns… Read more…
Mirror, Mirror on the Wall…
I think iTunes, Netflix, Steam, Spotify, YouTube, Amazon Video, Soundcloud, Facebook, and all other online media services should make their playcounts and download numbers public, with user IDs, even those of authority figures, so that artists and media creators can… Read more…
Bringing it All Together
New game idea: “Neverborn: Brush with Death”. Game is realistic as opposed to cartoony. The setting is dystopian, high-tech transhuman, body-mod Cyberpunk, mashed up with hipster beards and brown-suits gothic Steampunk. Character skills include Computer Science and Hacking, Technology Modding and… Read more…
Dual Classing Scientist
Mathematicians cum Computer Engineers use the word “Ring” to describe a Set of Arrays, as opposed to a Set of Elements. These Sets of Arrays can be [permuted] via reorganization of the Elements in the Arrays, or of the Arrays… Read more…
Don’t Phase Me, Bro
If you browse a mobile website on a big monitor, sometimes the mild force feedback that’s supposed to be going into a mobile user’s hands goes into the computer user’s face in a highly magnified fashion, because the computer display… Read more…
Joysticks and Jute Sacks!
Geography is an undervalued science. What if the geographical advancement of a culture, through it’s efficiency-restricted logistics, could be used to forecast the future placement of cities, allowing a city to be attacked based on a knowledge of the places… Read more…
Gibs and Greif!
What if recent intimations in society regarding the holographic nature of the universe, and the idea that life is a virtualization are merely outgrowths of the 3D video game industry’s success in mastering the nature of reality into mechanical simile?… Read more…
Current Events: Modern Computing Travails
Ahhh, the Windows 8 experiment is over almost before it started. The world of computing is very different today than what it was only less than a decade ago. It seems everything can be turned off remotely at the flip… Read more…
Current Events: Time Dilation
Boo to mail.google.com. Boo to mail.microsoft.com. Boo to Microsoft Exchange. mail.google.com has a vicious lag in loading my inbox. mail.microsoft.com is sending me spam messages from my own email address. Both are umbrellas-sites, bordering on the criminal in utility. Does the… Read more…
Current Events: Blue Sky
What are all you’s guys using for internet transfer? IPX, ISDN, TCP/IP, FiOS, Dish, SMS, 3G, 4G, et cetera? I’m wondering if I can get better network content by switching transfer protocols. A lot of my content appears to be… Read more…
Current Events: Media Dearth (NSFW)
If you’re unsatisfied with your video download options, try downloading additional media players and codecs, like DivX, VideoLan’s VLC player, the K-Lite package (R.I.P Kazaa), and Matroska. It might open up new media for your perusal. If a movie seems… Read more…
Current Events: Hospital Corruption
Some hospitals lie about patients’ weight with broken equipment, or give them weight-gain substances mixed in with their medications, so they can overprescribe doses based on wight charts when passing out psychoactivating medications. In places where good drugs are distributed,… Read more…
Not You Too, Hawking!
We don’t often get new insights into astrophysics, but I have one about Stephen Hawking that may tickle your fancy. In Hawking’s book, A Brief History of Time, a theory is expounded upon in which time slows down as you… Read more…
Will Post for Food
In a perfect world, users would pay service providers for downloads and charge service providers for uploads, based on a ranking and voting system that quantified the user-defined value for both. If the thing being downloaded is ads, users should… Read more…
My Life Was Saved by Rock and Roll
CD purchases are traditionally far less seedy in content than internet-purchased music. Cassette tapes are even better. I would imagine LPs would be an improvement over that. Who listens to free radio anymore, anyway?
Not Too Friendly, but Technically Correct Speech
I don’t favor public speakers that use excessive amounts of ingressive speech patterns in their dialogues. Ingressive speech is all about the production of sound while sucking the vocal medium (usually air) INTO the lungs. It’s a good tactic for… Read more…
I Miss Canned Beans
Pills, pills, the magical fruit, the more you pills, pills PILLS PILLS!
Electro M&M Flux
Thinking of physics while choking down the government dole. Green runs, Yellow chases, Blue hovers. Repulsion, Attraction, and Charge around an Atom.
“It Takes Money to Make Money, Suckaz!”
Banks are currently able to loan out $10 for every $1 they take in from deposits. This devalues the currency by 90% on a yearly basis. This ten dollars is often used to purchase real world goods by banks’ clients,… Read more…
“Since every individual is accountable ultimately to the self, it is the formation of that self demands our utmost care and attention.” -Frank Herbert, Chapterhouse: Dune
The ideal thinking paradigm: 1/5 existentialist (does something exist or not?). 1/5 wisher (can something be made to exist or not?). 1/5 human calculator (how does something relationally exist in respect to other things?). 1/5 probabilitally statistical value judger (is… Read more…
You Want Me to Fall Through the Earth Before Multiplying for Friction?
I had a nightmare just now that I had forgotten to use the mathematical order of operations when performing physics calculations. When I woke up, I thought about it, and realized that, in physics, there is nothing worse than obeying… Read more…
As Is Always the Case for the Relative, Time Remains Invariant
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Every person you have as a significant other should be treated differently than the person you had before. Each person you are no longer seeing should be remembered fully for who they were, at the time you knew them, as… Read more…
Two Girls, One Cup
The images on TV, computer, and radio aren’t verifiable as actual things. They are only a representation of things, which may or may not exist in reality, which may or may not exist, itself, anyway. Interacting with the things on… Read more…
The Prince and The Pauper
Imagine you are supremely wealthy as a result of massive fortunes placed in your name by your family and friends due to your good character and hard work. Imagine you are not aware of this wealth except to say that… Read more…
Cat’s Sass
Ugly cats are often preferred to purebreds as pets by people, because they are easier to identify. Some would go as far as to relegate purebreds to the catfood industry. Speaking of cats, recent observations of a particularly wild specimen… Read more…
“Allow us to take 50 % Off”
I think most restaurants would be happy if you divided the total by 100/15ths, then subtracted from the billed amount when paying as a tip; most multiplication operations terminate before divisions in terms of number of digits in the outcome. More decimals… Read more…
Human Life: Approximate Retail Value Variable
Sadly, I think the penalty for the pet store flower I accused the balding, long-blonde-haired employee (The one that looked like my high school Euphonium rival (but wasn’t!)) of taking out of my bag after breaking my plastic fish… Read more…
Extemporaneousness is Fail
I hate rushing. I hate dragging. I hate people who drag rushingly and rush draggingly even more. Suggested Listening: Ludacris – Back for the First Time – Get Off Me
I Got Drunk, I Saw Weirdness, I Was Overcome
“Vini, Vidi, Vinci” Were wine-filled amphorae the molotov cocktails of the ancient Phoenicians? There might be a problem if they were watered-down, but that usually happened at point-of-sale.
Voiceless Counting
Did you know you can generate more than five things to count with using just the fingers on a single hand? This may come in handy for use in complex languages and counting systems. You’ll find that the bits on computers… Read more…
Persnickety Sitch
A description of a bad life getting better can be refactored rather easily via multiple means into a description of a good life getting worse, in effect, making a bad life even worse. “I won, by doing x, y, and… Read more…
Oneness
If you divide 2 identical things very carefully into two identical parts each, with each part identical to the originals except for their decreased scale, you will see four things before you as a result, but due to conservation of mass, you should maintain awareness of… Read more…
P.E. : Physics Education
Physics classes in high school are taught in such a way as to have a balance between the kinetic and the potential energy of a motive object in a “fixed system” at a given “fixed moment” in time. We then look at… Read more…
Lyricated Chiptunes
*Intro* [I don’t need you. I don’t need you. I don’t need you. I don’t need you. I don’t want to. I don’t want to. I don’t want to. I don’t want to. I don’t like you. I don’t like you. I don’t like you…. Read more…