A Night At The Space

Works in progress. Vishal is taking a break from the laser harp and taking on a side project which should be done sooner than the harp. I am continuing work on the hank drum, and plan to create a double sided drum before painting it.

Here's a short video on the progress.

Watch on youtube for best quality.

Man is objective driven.

The first objective, as most biological life, is survival. Second is replication.

These two factors create most of our behaviors and actions.

So where do we stand today?

I will attempt to answer this by asking a few questions.


1. What is better than not surviving.

• The answer is, survival. 

- Without survival our biological self ceases to exist. The only remains of the "self" is the energy that is released from our decomposing bodies. Death is not good for any individual form of biological life, besides the life that feeds on the dead.

2. What is better than survival?

• The answer is, surviving comfortably.

- If we must survive, we would obviously like to survive in happiness. Being well fed with plenty of mates to choose from, we live fine lives comfortably surviving. There is less stress in surviving comfortably than surviving with difficulty in constant competition.

3. What is better than surviving comfortably?

• The answer is, surviving in abundance.

- While surviving comfortably is a nice lifestyle for a biological life form, living in abundance is an even greater one. With more food than one can eat, more mates than one can choose, and more activity to keep oneself stimulated is living in abundance. With primal instincts stuck in the the old system, this era of evolution is filled with excess eating, excess stimulation, excess reproduction, with virtually no danger of death from competition causing excess sedation.

4. What is better than surviving abundantly?

• The answer is, surviving in abundance while maintaining moderation.

 - This new step in evolution has been attained by some today, yet battling the whole time to fight the primal instincts that the majority succumb to. This is the next step in evolution and will only come from discipline and self determination. The few who practice these qualities today are successful because they truly deserve it. They are fighting a battle with odds against them. Though it must be done for the sake of humanity. These rebels against the nature of our universe will be the ones to take us to the next level. Strive to be one of these rebels. Fight back against what will only bring you pain. You will persevere. It is survival of the fittest. Fittest no longer means strength, but intelligence. And only those who fight the these instincts which now work against us for survival, will take our species to a new level of evolution. With their intelligence as well as strict determination, we will be a stronger, more industrious people than ever before.

Of Stars And Men

It is amazing how little we know compared with what we conceive as ultimately within our reach. And how small, probably, is that reachable portion compared with what is beyond.

Superstitions and loyalty to dogmas have kept us bogged down not far above the most primitive views of the universe. Fancy how far we might now have gone if we had not been shackled by mythology and by certain social conventions and national policies.

What intellectual progress we might have made by this time if we had, for example, emphasized psyche rather than property. Eventually we may not be as poorly equipped as now to answer three basic questions:
          What is the universe?
          How does it work?
          Why is the universe?
                                                  -Harlow Shapley

File Sharing: A New Renaissance?

A thought occurred. Advanced software applications today are costly, rare, and only can be obtained by a select few who have the resources to obtain them. Even once they are obtained, it takes a certain amount of training to use them properly. You must be literate of the software you have in your possession. But with the advent of the internet, these advanced software programs are being cracked and shared around the world. And once obtained, users who are literate are posting tutorials on how to wield the power of the program. Or you can purchase training programs for nearly nothing.


This is not unlike books before the printing press. Priests held the power of literacy which meant they could decipher the Bible any which way they pleased. For political agendas, power, or to suppress the commoners. My point is, now with file sharing and the internet, we common folk are becoming literate. Our eyes and minds are opening up to see the real truth, the real light. Just as if we were stuck in Plato's cave and were released to see sunlight for the first time.





What made books so powerful was the knowledge they contained. Knowledge which gave the individual the power to make their own decisions or become independent of uneducated thought. The printing press took much power away from these tyrants. The cost of books soon reached levels where peasants could purchase and read them if desired. This in turn created a widespread literacy rate among the human species which created innovation and was the beginning of the age of enlightenment. We have taken tremendous strides since those times. And I believe filesharing has taken the power away from the tyrants of today. The common folk now have access to the most powerful software programs in the world at the click of a button. Call it illegal, call it immoral, call it whatever you desire. I call it progress. I call it brilliant. This is a new age.

K, back to reading my book.

lightbox or colorbox html

GOD I LOVE GOOGLE

This amazes me... they give a free web application development platform and ask for what? There must be something in it for google... nobody just gives stuff away.

But maybe...just maybe they actually care somewhat. But I doubt it.... at least one of their founders has taken away the pain of raping our Earth and will move into outer space to rape and pillage resources out there.

Thanks Udacity!

Hey thanks udacity for teaching me how to use Google App Engine and Python. Its an amazing course so far and much will be owed to you in the future when I'm stinking filthy rich.