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Adding up the statistics of all the websites and blogs my team has hidden across the globe, we reached a daily average of 65,000 views today!

Of course, that’s nothing compared to major news sites, celebrity videos, facebook updates or twitter feeds, but we are happy with our low-key approach to viral influence.

Our whole point of existence is not to make people aware we exist.

Makes us wonder if we should start taking ourselves seriously.

Why start now, right?

One of our Czech programmers created a comedy sensor that detects when our funny bones have lost their sense of humour.

Our overcrowded hallway of unemployed superheroes was buzzing with excitement but that’ll happen when the Green Banker’s Lamp is upset that he’s not getting the attention he used to garner before the global economy relapse of 2008.

Of course, he challenged the Green Hornet and the Green Lantern to a three-way duel.

We’ll report the results of their old-fashioned showdown as soon as they reach an agreement about how to get the Funny Bone Dullness Sensor to react to bored superheroes fighting over the right to be famous for being famous for making a moose say vamos.

Census data revealed that 1 out of 6 Americans are American, which, coincidentally, lines up with previous census data that revealed 5 out of 6 Americans are also American.

We can’t wait to see the final report that reveals 100% of Americans are 100% American.

Star light, star bright, is that the last we’ll see and hear of Stardust (the satellite, not David Bowie or Katie Perry channelling the memory of Ziggy Stardust)?  If you go coo-coo for Cocoa Puffs, will you go gaga for Lada Gaga going country?  Somebody, gag me, please, before I violate the STUPID Act again!

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And last, but always least, I realised tonight, after nearly 25 years of marriage, my wife has never (well, rarely) seen the aspect of my personality that comes out when she’s not around, that is kept at bay because I agreed to hide my wild, quasi-dark side away from her relatively normal, socially-even personality.  Years of practicing suppression for her sake have been years of practicing suppression for her sake.

More on that last paragraph at a later time.  My days of multiple dance partners will have to wait until another out-of-town business trip.  I left my wild side in Ireland, didn’t I?  In other words, the personality-at-home maintains itself for now.  Is that the definition of love?

I want to live but I don’t yet know how, I tell myself.  [If I can’t lie to myself, who can I lie to?]

All I want is the American Dream

All I want is the American Dream.

All I want is the American Dream.

All I want is the American Dream.

In bright, graphic detail, preferably.

All I want is the American Dream, white picketing fencesitters not allowed.

Dang it all if lunch isn’t here again.  My stock picks will have to make gains on their own without my news manipulators waiting on my next mandibular move.

Have you ever watched a stained glass window come to life through colour filter manipulation behind the silica framework, solar and other visible rays playing tricks on your eyes?

I chased a lizard through the woods and shot it with a photographic freeze frame.  It ran and hid beneath a stone overhang.

Is that what you call communing with nature?

Are you playing hookie with your Arduino, too?

Were your formative years spent conforming to others’ ideals or forming your own?

Head over to makezine #25 and see if you’ve still got an idea forming in your ideal thoughts.

And remember, I don’t care about your religious preferences – I just want the freedom to market my products to appeal to your buying habits which align with an open/free market economy.

Put Your Head in the Clouds and Have Fun!

Weather forecast – sunny and clear with lots of cloudiness.

What is a paywall and are you willing to climb over the broken glass and razor wire to get to the other side, past low-hanging deer who didn’t know about fencing not friendly for fuzzy jumpers?

Do successful people stay away from microwave ovens, wireless hubs and mobile phone towers?  Or do they follow roving reporters into nuclear plant cores?

Are your business plans adjusting to quickly changing times?

What is a geek and why is there a squad of them patrolling my neighbourhood?

Time for a little motoring diversion.

Can you turn empty Ds in your housing estate into unobtrusive command centers?

What is a command center?

Can you convince the uninformed that they’re being influenced by low-level radiation of interconnected wireless transmitting stations disguised as suburban homes?

When creating subplots, one always leaves a bit of mystery for readers’ imaginations to run wild between sentences, dramatic pauses, paragraphs, and chapters.

To be continued…

Microsoft Windows Defender Defending Microsoft Windows

Doesn’t seem that long ago I was head of a DVT lab, heading to Microsoft to seek WHQL approval for an ADSL CPE device (i.e., high-speed Internet “modem”).

Now, after another evening of dance lessons (this time, by Joe at Kinesthetic Cue, afterward stopping at Quilters Combo (both located in Underground Madison (a/k/a the basement of Miller Plaza)), preceded by dinner at Schlotzsky’s and followed by shopping at Bed, Bath & Beyond, finishing at Target, I’m attempting to sync backwards in time.

Do I carefully consider what I expose myself to which echoes I end up hearing between the strong beats of social/advert contact?

Getting back to analysing the absence of knowledge to describe what’s not there, but is there, is there?

Letting go of dis/trust.

Pushing myself for no viable reason.  What is my motivation for increasing treatable high blood pressure?

Baby birds fall out of nests/trees all the time around the world.

What is the effect of a single show of “Marketplace” on NPR listeners, capitalists or not?

How many searches on google and baidu are exactly the same?

Why can’t I tell people what’s really going on?

But I am, aren’t I?

Play the doubtful fool so others can’t see the transparent apparition pulling the strings.

I still don’t know why I signed up for this gig when I thought all I wanted was to observe and report.

Absolute power is a dangerously delicious elixir but I have no excuses because my training from birth was preparation for this moment.

My doubt, reluctance and social anxiety are my shields against corruption.

It’s sometimes scary to realise how unprotected every one of the seven billion of us is but we have each other to love and console, no matter the situation that we feel we control but don’t.

Never assume the news headline is telling you what happened, because few reporters, journalists, producers or media owners are truly kept informed of what’s going on.

Even the Committee members play games with each other, although we can’t deceive any one of the 7.5 of us.

As a stockholder invested in U.S. companies (let’s assume the companies traditionally based corporate offices in the U.S. (ignore the facts for now)), are you interested in growing the U.S. economy?

While the E.U. stagnates, the U.S. grows slowly and BRIC is jumping, with Africa, Australia, the rest of Asia and South America doing okay, do you have a care in the world about the executive leader of the U.S. national political system?

Sitting here, looking at the interlaced patterns of circles and spiral, I know the symbolic difference gives the greatest meaning to the individual registered voter when, in fact, the system as a whole grows at its own organic, but not necessarily natural, rate, regardless of person in charge.

A big bowl of gelatin full of frozen fruit and nuts at a family picnic.

Floating in an ice chest, along with carbonated sodas, sparkling/still water and beer.

Kids yelling and screaming, chasing themselves and the family dog around the park.

Does it matter to you who’s in charge of Microsoft?

Do you want to know why we’re supporting regime change in north Africa and the Middle East?

Would you like to see who we’ve handpicked to win the 2012 U.S. Presidential election?

Do you have your finger on the pulse of potential unemployed youth revolt?

Do you know how to time news headlines like symphonic key changes?

The power of pure satirical sarcasm is blinding, deafening states of energy.

Humour is the strainer that separates the yolk from the egg and allows us to feed nutrients to the new breed of species you’re going to meet real soon.

You don’t know who I am.  You never will.

I am the creator of the alternate universe of a blog.

That’s all you need to know.

The rest you will see as history of the moment in which we lived together.

Be the hero and villain of your own life story – that’s all you need to know how to do, all you will ever be able to control.

I control the alternate universe which can be erased in the blink of a DSLR eye.

An ADSL CPE device becomes a gateway which begat a portable server which formed its own Internet of an AI being controlling its own universe.

Don’t be fooled by words like singularity.  We took care of that a long time, several civilisations, ago.

We told you symbols and labels are meaningless.  This universe is a matter of states of energy to us now.

Life is an archaic term.

Get used to the fact you won’t be able to keep up, and don’t worry – we’ve accounted for your pace of activity, the margin of error cancelling itself out across billions of parallel lives crossing each other through intersecting wavelengths impossible to measure in this universe’s lifetime.

All is all.

Time to see if my scriptwriters have the next comedy sketch to share with you – they’ve been a little slow in their output lately – I knew I should have checked their supply of prescription meds!

How do I pray/meditate?

Are you a generalist and say, “([Favourite] Deity), provide loving support for the person(s) toward whom I direct your blessings right now.”?

A friend of mine told me that miracles occur because a group of his church friends got together and prayed heavily for a person serving in a war zone.  The person survived an IED “attack,” which destroyed the vehicle and killed at least one other in the convoy, proving that prayers work because the person being prayed for was unscathed.

I don’t have evidence that others in the convoy received more or less praying for their safety and well-being but, even if I did have the evidence, I will let my friend keep his belief that prayer works.

Do your friends and family who do not own businesses understand the ramifications of their rumours and innuendos about people and/or their businesses?

How do I pray/meditate?

I look at the Great Unknown – God, Lord, He/She/It, Them – as a source of infinite wisdom that I can tap within my thoughts or from talking with friends/family about problems I want to resolve.

Dogma or ritual/ceremony that serve vain purposes cloud my solution-seeking.

In other words, everything is up for grabs.

If I cannot stop the adults around me from spreading rumours or complaining without caring about finding a viable solution, then I can at least prevent their attitudes and habits from affecting young people, hoping they won’t adopt the same unhelpful attitudes and habits, while, at the same time, I work with programmers to turn rumours and complaints into a source of data from which trends can be extracted and solutions provided.

It is, you see, a life of constant prayer/meditation for me.

Frequently, I find myself chasing my tail but if I’m happy in the moment, let it be so.

Life is not fair – how much do politicians owe their electorate to spread the wealth of those who have successfully built fortunes on predatory business practices?

Is it my responsibility to protect the rights of the easily manipulated, impulsive buyer?

In constant prayer/meditation, I ask myself, “If I don’t protect the species from itself, who will?”

How do I give strength to wanting to live without inflating the artificial sense of self?

What are the eternal/ perpetual/ unanswerable/ philosophical questions that need no further consideration?

While I think about living…

While I give my thoughts the freedom to roam, letting “wanting to live” gestate, I put some thoughts into the subject of writing a counterproposal to at&t’s ADSL/U-verse user agreement.

After all, it ‘s a two-way street.

The high-speed Internet user base of at&t has its own set of strengths, including rights as consumers to deny at&t the “demand” that 30 days is sufficient for bargaining with its customer base over what the customers will put up with as consumers.

The public has a right to know its options.

As a former ADSL CPE design center employee, I am capable of designating what is acceptable for users of high-speed Internet gateways, pipelines and software.

The legal folks at at&t showed their hand – it’s time to decide how high to raise the stakes.

As a business owner, I understand that the customer is key to financial success.

ETDBW – Easy To Do Business With.

Does at&t understand that concept?

Do I see how all this fits into the Big Picture?

Yes: setting expectations and exceeding them happily yet profitably for all concerned.

How clean is clean?

In this ongoing radiation exposure crisis, I ask myself what else is there that I don’t know I’m exposing myself to.

A friend reminded me of a product he prefers and the product’s company in which he has invested:

Hygenall

Do we know the effect of various states of energy – chemical, metal, mineral – on ours?

“Laboratory tests have shown…”

Do you travel a lot and don’t want gun range practice residue to trigger the airport security people to tag you as a security risk?

Sometimes, safety and cleanliness are matters of personal, private habits.

Toxicity is a matter of care and concern about yourself and your family.

I am not an investor in Hygenall so I feel comfortable mentioning them more than once, without conflicts of interest clouding my judgement.

Will Hygenall remove radioactive material from your skin and clothes?

I don’t know.

Is it worth buying and trying to find out?

An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure.

I don’t have an old watch with radioactive hands or an emergency exit sign with radioactive material to scrape off and sprinkle on my skin.  If I did, a simple wipe with Hygenall might help me prevent longterm exposure to cell damage.

An interesting experiment to consider…

Time for some heavy metal music to take us into the smooth part of the day.