Quantas

So, that`s why you should always try to travel with Quantas.

Anyway, that nosy Rycker is at it again. Just as well.

Lazybones is in effect now. Today has been about nothing, which, considering that i am currently living with thi Seinfeld-fans of the family, seems fitting! But hey, i can live with that. The good news is that i`ve got at least two months of work lined up next year, and in the best kindergarden i`ve visited thus far as well! Super duper. So, i am in the enviable, but troublesome, position, of actually starting to make money whilst the economic outlook for ever more people seem bleak. Kind of an "ooops" that, especially since i have a hard time not indulgently enjoying actually making money.
Oh well, at least now my use of money revolves around upkeep and infrastructure-investments and not self-destructive indulgence. So there is hope. Establishing positive feedback loops with my money is an interesting sport. I have so many interesting and important things i need to acquire and support as to make it difficult to manage.
But that`s fun. It`s on hold until i get my next paycheck, but after that it`s post-christmas bonanza time! YAY!

And then i`ll probably spend it on silly stuff. Like Dresden Codak t-shirts. But seriously, i`ve been drooling over those for a while. The Cyborg Pride pattern is tres chic!
Besides, the machine messiah and me go way back. FCCCP!

So. A day without any form of ability-advancement whatsoever. Shame on me! I did bake some fine christmas cookies though. And made something more -suspicious- involving wheat puffs and marshmallows. Complemented by reading about CIAs desperate Iranian recruitment tactics , the inanity of the german pirate party, and oppression in Kazakhstan. Also known as the We Agree solution.

So that sums it up. I`ll have to be back at work on the sixth of january, so until then i intend to do exactly what i want for a while. (As soon as this christmas business is taken care of.) Which won`t be long.

DEAR GOD 2012 IS GONNA BE AWESOME! It is, in a horribly optimistic dystopian kind of way. I don`t know about you lot, but i`ve never seen reality like this before and it`s excruciatingly exciting. And i`m used to my brain being that, so it`s all right.
So, anyway, according to IBMs 5 in 5 spam will be personalized to a degree that makes it useful (personalization, ooooh i love that topic, and pseudo-personlization.) Sometimes the trick is knowing which commonalities we stubbornly believe are unique to us, but yeah, if anybody could explain the (pseudo)-individualization of narrational patterns to me then i`d, as always be much obliged! Laughing it off by climing to be a weird offshoot of everybody`s favourite California syncronists just won`t suffice any more.
(SERIOSLY, research it yourself, you oaf! Re-read Strogatz` "Sync" and pour through the footnotes and references!)

But the other one. Yeah. Mind control of computing devices. Honeypot of the century. Well, i did go for that option in the original Deus Ex, so i guess i had it coming. So, we`re all running arund pretending that such tech would be controllable. But then again, consumers aren`t meant to control such tech, only consume it. So fun it`ll be. (Until we discover how insecure it`ll be.) Bruce Sterlings speech to the Dutch AR-crowd comes to mind. So does the past six years of mental experiences. Oh well, at least i`m somewhat prepared for the negative outliers there.
And now all i have to do is keep my recmbent-tricycle Akira-like project a secret for the next five years and things`ll really start to flare up. Everybody expects bike-gangs in Tokyo, nobody expects norwegian recumbent tricycle gangs, that`s just a fact. (And people wonder how i manage to be so excited and intrigued by the world!)

So, anyway, let`s get out there and get smarter than we were yesterday.
Tomorrow i`m gonna be dumber than i`ll be the day after tomorrow.