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So since im new here... i was just wondering where everyone is from. I'm from the suburbs just outside of Boston, where are you all from? xox Anna Cuddlecore
Anna Haha, I meant person 1 to be the reader. 1st person, 2nd person, 3rd person. Hm. What would 4rth person be like? Perhaps that would be Bowie. You know, as you mention him...I was listening to the word of Bowie when I read your post. It was a cd jeffron had made for me. In addition to that, I'm reading "Hyperspace" right now...I bought it a few hours ago. It's pretty good. Higher-Space is one of my favorite subjects. I like to keep it real up in the field, yo.
jimmy Jimmy, I know about persons 2 and 3, but who's person 1? (Bowie?) Heh. I'm back from double in-law jeopardy. It was a pretty good weekend, considering. But now it is time to pat my cat and drink beer in my own living room. Yeah.
coop person 3: by the way... person 2: the price of opium went down? person 3: if you're interested, I was supposed to have done this awhile ago. I asked the members of xenius to send me several questions that they would ask for an interview, and I would randomly select the person to be interviewed with the questions using a random number generator. You came up. So may I send you the questions tonight, #8? person 2: sure. send it person 3: Good. I will. person 2: okay. person 2: funny, eh. #8. that's me. person 2: all my names have 8 letters person 3: wow. Randomness is very bizarre stuff, you know. person 2: does this questionaire have a deadline? person 3: No. person 3: That would be silly. person 2: um. i think you should give me a deadline. person 3: LOL person 3: You know, the generator that pulled you number uses "atmospheric noise" instead of a list of digits. person 2: lol jeez person 3: I know. You then, had an influence on the outcome. person 3: If the butterfly effect thing is true. person 3: (Which it is.) person 2: i didnt expect THAT person 2: so. i picked myself. person 3: Egoist. person 2: i'm short. it comes with being so close to the ground. _______________________ Ashok! You were missed. _______________________ Oh, and I am in no way offiliated with the non worksafe site, www.urinalpoop.org.
jimmy A random generator based on atmospheric noise picks Svedig. Why am I not surprised? Random forces of nature, it seems, know each other. The last few weeks have been spent chasing a stray, a feather light touch. A face glimpsed on a crowed moving elevator, a random pattern on the retina cast by floaters in the eye. Whatever it was one thing was clear, there would be no peace till the end. Not that there was peace then when it all started. Anyway it was about a month ago that I started to feel an emptiness even more than usual. There was a certain vague hole that seemed to defy logic and exist where no hole should be. Logic, I have re-discovered, is a somewhat limited tool. It may serve us when thinking about the ticks of a clock but for the beating of a heart give me intuition any day. ‘Other tools for other days’, if only we could learn this. But I digress. This emptiness seemed to flow from an absence. A flutter that at some time had given meaning was missing. A single heart beat where perhaps two had beaten. Not always in concert but still two. Two hearts in one breast? No, that does not capture it. It is too coarse not to mention highly improbable if not impossible. A quiver rather than a flutter? Yes that is closer. Rushing signals, both chemical and electrical, rather than surging blood? Yes that is closer. The emptiness drove me again and again to the altar where the sacrifice of choice is living lungs. The altar had already delivered and few things are sadder than a cold altar. One such is a bird, wishing to soar, waiting for a hurricane to hurl it into the sky when it has perfectly good wings and legs and a stretch of land for the takeoff. But I digress. Ironically it was the emptiness that led to the first sign. As it (the emptiness) began to really hurt my senses stretched to their limits through desperation. And it was one night as I sat there looking at a blank TV screen that the first tendrils touched the outer most fringes of said strained senses. Which sense it was that first registered this lightest of brushes it would be hard to say. If pressed I would say empathy. But only pressed in the right place you understand. To be continued... (by me or anyone else who wants to contribute)
Ashok Anna Cuddlecore ( me) will always sign posts anna cuddlecore just tp make things less confusing. At least there arn't threee of us. among my closest friends we are, Anna Hannah and Marianna. names that rhyme with banana are great! the website will be up uber soon. here's what i have thus far: http://www.xenius.org/cuddlecore xoox Anna cuddlecore
Anna cool jeffron and anna. fold updated. meanwhile, back at the ranch, anna and anna are confusing the hell out of me.
jimmy Anna's link
jeffron x I seem to have made a small step in getting a page up here. It's definitely a fixer-uper, but it's there. After Dec 7th, I shall have lots of free time for re-learning html and making it a more interesting page (let's hope.) Thanks for the tips, Jimmy. -ms graham
Anna security changes to hive For the express intent of sharing our private files,
If you would like me to create a private ftp account for you, please email me with the details or for more info. jimmy@xenius.org
jimmy Once you have a file in your directory (for this example the file is called "file" and the file extension is .ext), it will appear to the public as http://www.xenius.org/cuddlecore/file.ext No matter what the file is, anything in your directory will be viewable/downloadable so long as the file name is placed after the www.xenius.org/cuddlecore/ address string. If you name a file "index.htm" or "index.html", it will appear to the public at http://www.xenius.org/cuddlecore without the necessity of including the file name in the path, because this is how our server is set up to behave. In general, you want to name the first page you want people to see "index.htm" or "index.html", thus giving it a nice look and greater ease of use.
jimmy okay, so once ive gotten all of my files onto the ftp page for a directory, how do i get it to turn up at the webpage url? I hope to get the website all up and going by the time my thanksgiving vacation is over. thanks, oxo Anna Cuddlecore
Anna That link was awesome, Coop. I read it all. ____________________________________ I should have mentioned my brother has climbed aboard the xenius boat. His name is Steven. He's not likely to be reading this, but we're in the process of building his portion of xenius and chances are it'll be up around Thanksgiving since I'll be seeing him then. He's in Speck's neck of the woods and one of the coolest guys I know. A little strange though. You know. Testing a theory here: I got this from sodaplay.com. They use the same color scheme we do. Oh. Maybe vice versa. Haha, I got it to work! They're interactive. Go ahead. Play with 'em. Also, still working on this. I have this hilarious image of a surprised looking James Lipton (of Bravo). Also...the most amazing thing! There is a program in the Hive which allows you to walk through online 3d worlds and chat with people. It is free, and the company that developed it went under, but the developers kept some worlds online. There is a readme file in there too. I walked around a world of my friend's design. I kept seeing him in all the rooms, but it creeped me out because he was this floating gerber baby head which was upside down. After about 10 minutes of exploration I'd had enough. He kept referring to himself in the third person. I would message him, say "I'm in room 3", and he'd say "uh huh", and I'd turn around and there was this damned upside down floating gerber baby head just sort of floating around and looking at me. Then he would say, "Oh yeah, Bobby is in there". But HE was Bobby. Maybe I creep out easily. I dunno. The graphics are excellent, and you can design your own stuff. It's sort of like those online 3d game engines people obsess on, but you can make your own stuff too. Some company made a DUNE world. Yummy. Oh! He just opened his island, waves and all. Anyhow, it's in the hive. All programs there are checked for viruses, but you know, wear protection.
jimmy I've been hunting for this link all afternoon: it's a commentary on class issues, etc. in Harry Potter. Definitely entertaining. The professor who taught my "Death of Edwardian England" class freshman year would love it. I thought it had more about the house-elves, though.
coop William Burroughs' "Dead City Radio" will be up this afternoon. I saw the Harry Potter movie...It was a lot of fun. There was a character in it named "Dobby" whom I could not bare to watch. He felt the need to abuse himself whenever he'd done something wrong. "Bad Dobby!" He was entertaining, but when it came to watching him beat himself in the head with a lamp I had to look away. Interesting because I have seen the most violent of all movies and after having worked in a major mortuary in a major city, well...you know. Yet a fictional computer generated character bludgeoning himself nearly made me ill. I finally found Harry Potter book in German. "Harry Potter und der Stein der Weissen". It's a difficult read for me, but hopefully entertaining enough for me to finish it. If all goes well, I plan to read the next one in Spanish. I've never taken a Spanish class, but there are so many cognates between our two languages that it's actually easier for me to read Spanish than it is for me to read German, even after all the classes. I suppose it helps to be 20 minutes from Mexico though, but try it sometime! I can almost guarantee you'll be able to get by. I found Dobby's name a little distracting, since "Dobby" is a derivative of "dobro", Russian for "good", and the word "dobby" was used in A Clockwork Orange as Nadsat for "good". I kept looking for more signs of Russian foolage and found none. Probably a coincidence. Maybe not. I have a habit of being distracted by the more obvious anagrams and wordplay in movies, such as the 10 minutes I missed during Evolution while I quietly counted through the alphabet to see if Duchovny's name in the film, "Ira", was a stepogram for "Fox", as in Fox Muldor, his X-Files character. It was. Anyhow, there are all sorts of things online translated into the language spoken by the teddy boy communist youth of A Clockwork Orange (the Russian version of a British movement among teenage boys which in Russia were known as "stilyagi", or "style-boys"). One such Nadsat translation is the the Nadsat Bible. I have actually found the entire King James version of the bible in Nadsat, but not today apparently, not today. [I have found that if you repeat yourself strategically, you sound much smarter. Much smarter.]
jimmy I was just walking back from lunch and saw the vehicle I am pretty sure is driven by Satan, Beezlebub, what-have-you, parked outside my office building: a stretch Ford Expedition. Just like this one, except minus the falling stars effect. Yeesh! Now, the general feeling of foreboding this day has produced in me can be backed up by evidence that the Spirit of Darkness is somewhere in my building. heh.
coop Oh yeah...I went to a random number generator online which uses atmospheric noise to produce random numbers. Then I gave everyone at xenius a number and had the generator produce an integer...this was how I selected the "In the Slacker's Studio" interviewee this morning. She asked me if there was a deadline. I said “no, that would be silly.” Her response was funny. “I think you should give me a deadline.” I think a few of you know her from the “Regs”. MBR…her xenius name is “svedig”. I’m sending her the questions tonight, so if you have anything to add to them, feel free to send me some! jimmy@xenius.org
jimmy member page...still under construction, but at least that other monstrosity is gone. Also...the hive is growing. There are files there for your perusal, and they're always available if you need them, and your files are of course always welcome. If anyone is interested in this, you might find it in there sometime this week as an mp3, with an introduction read by one Howard Zinn and the book read by this guy, for whom I have a great respect, until he gets arrested for jerking off over a trashcan in an alleyway behind a disco in downtown Los Angeles while under the influence of crack-cocaine, you know, as all young stars are wont to do. Then who knows, an imp of perversion, perhaps I'll respect him even more for learning human.
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