Solve your anxiety with mental gymnastics!

Yes, I’m totally serious.  As long as your anxiety is not due to some chemical imbalance in your brain, and is purely a product of stresses in your life, I have some advice for you.  It’s advice I received and have started implementing.

Personal Growth

I have seen the future! My future, and it’s glorious.  Better than I had ever thought possible, truly.  And I will, as my favorite starship captain always says, “make it so.”

Sale vs License of Digital Information

Amazon’s “Buy” now with 1-click

I’ve been thinking about this issue ever since I first heard about Amazon remotely pulling already paid for copies of 1984 e-books from user’s Kindles.  The issue resurfaced when Amazon remotely deleted another lady’s entire collection of paid for books.

11 years after September 11

I remember all the bloody fucking numerology experts that appeared after that day.  I wonder what they’re writing about now… actually no I don’t, I don’t give a fuck.

Create Significance

I have been realizing lately, that in a world-view without inherent meaning, where the rituals and ceremonies of religion and the imposed goals and stereotypes of value in life are irrelevant, that we must create significance for ourselves, or not.

It’s not always easier to speak in my native language

私は母国語が英語です。ということは英語で話すことは楽です。。。か？

実は、かならずそういうわけではない。

もちろん、日本語より英語のほうがうまく使える。日本語はまだ勉強中なんだけど、会話では二人が必要。私は一人だけ。もう一人の大事な人がいる。それはもちろん相手のことだ。

Free culture, yes or no?

I love free culture.  Free is an ambiguous word in English in a way that it isn’t ambiguous in many other languages.  Our word “free” encompasses the meanings of freedom, rights, and a price tag of $0.00.  Some people in the free culture movement like to distinguish these two meanings, but I see no problem in conflating them.

I’m racist

Hopefully you’ll humor me long enough for me to explain the title, which I think is an important statement.

2125

In the year 2125 I will be 139 years old but I will appear to be in my late sixties or early seventies because of advancements in medicine, especially facing the negative impact of aging.  I will have had several successful tumor removals and been treated for heart-disease.  I will have had several joint replacements and a few outdated prostheses to solve my degenerating vision and hearing, but overall I’ll be looking forward to my 140th birthday.

2100

Continued from my last post, 2075, I thought I might follow through with another installment of my vision of the future.

In the year 2100, I will be 113 years old, though I will look about 60 because of medical solutions to many problems faced with aging discovered decades before.