The world is like a ride at an amusement park. And when you choose to go on it, you think that it’s real, because that’s how powerful our minds are. And the ride goes up and down and round and round. It has thrills and chills, and it’s very brightly coloured, and it’s very loud and it’s fun for a while. Some people have been on the ride for a long time, and they begin to question: is this real, or is this just a ride? And other people have remembered, and they come back to us. They say “Hey! Don’t worry, don’t be afraid, ever, because, this is just a ride.”
And we… kill those people. Ha ha ha. “Shut him up! We have a lot invested in this ride. Shut him up! Look at my furrows of worry. Look at my big bank account and family. This just has to be real.” It’s just a ride. But we always kill those good guys who try and tell us that, you ever notice that? And let the demons run amok. But it doesn’t matter because it’s just a ride. And we can change it anytime we want.
It’s only a choice. No effort, no work, no job, no savings and money. A choice, right now, between fear and love. The eyes of fear want you to put bigger locks on your doors, buy guns, close yourselves off. The eyes of love, instead, see all of us as one. Here’s what you can do to change the world, right now, to a better ride. Take all that money that we spend on weapons and defence each year and instead spend it feeding, clothing and educating the poor of the world, which it would many times over, not one human being excluded, and we could explore space, together, both inner and outer, for ever, in peace.
- Bill Hicks.
Standing in line for the ride…
May 20th, 0000The Last Eight Thousand Years
November 8th, 0000Some people don’t seem to get why I’m so touchy about this Proposition 8 thing.
Allow me to explain.
I had an argument with someone the other day who seems to believe that people had the right to vote according to their religious convictions, and therefore to live in a state where the law reflects those beliefs. If there are more of them than there are of you, he reasoned, that’s okay.
He also seemed to believe that his people (mentioning no names) had a monopoly on human misery. I would like to point out that I have no problem with any particular group of people, race, colour or creed- excepting that I cannot abide hypocrisy, greed or intolerance.
This is the problem.
I am a lesbian. Most of you already know this. I am just wired to fall in love with women; indeed, right now, I am deeply in love with a woman and I hope that this never, ever ends. What you might not realize is that gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender people (let’s just say GLBT) have been historically abused in the most systematic and brutal way possible. Jews had it hard during World War II? So did we. They had their star of David, we had our pink triangle. But take a step back a few years and you’ll find Jews, Christians, Muslims- and even the modern democratic State- killing GLBT people. They’ve had it in for us since time immemorial. Heck, you don’t even have to go back as far as the War to find governments and other misled people killing and mutilating GLBT people- the British establishment managed to kill Alan Turing as late as the late 1950s, and most US States didn’t remove punishment laws for sexual orientation until even more recently.
Whose hands were we suffering at? The religionists, of course. ”Family values”, et al., have been the rallying cry for these people since the end of the War. They’ve been killing us for thousands of years, and we have never managed to stop them because there are more of them than there are of us. It’s as if the Second World War ended, and instead of locking up the Nazis, the Powers that Be let them continue to exist, just as long as they didn’t kill any more Jews.
Do you see now why I’m so hurt and angry when we make a step forward, towards being recognized as the equally valid and real human beings that we are, and then they push us back in this way?
Civil Rights
November 5th, 0000I don’t understand what’s wrong with some of you people out there. Congratulations, you got yourselves a shiny new president. He’s very nice. I bet you’re all patting yourselves on the back for “looking beyond the limitations of race” and “ensuring equality” and all that stuff. While you were doing this, a disgusting number of you (as of almost 3am, it’s about 51.8% of the California turnout) voted to define a whole 10% of your population as subhuman and strip them of dozens of their civil rights.
Wake the fuck up, people. This is wrong. What you are doing is wrong. Sure, you have the right to vote however you please. What you don’t have the right to do is to remove people’s rights based on your personal feelings on whatever matter. People’s rights should be defined by whether the exercise of those rights will infringe the rights of others. That’s what the United States Constitution is about, and if you don’t get that, well, then you shouldn’t be voting at all, because you’re missing the point entirely.
What the hell is wrong with you? ”Preserving tradition” is okay, but as Time Lincoln told me earlier when he visited, if tradition were a good basis for a system of government, you’d be subjects of King Whoever right now. Why are you people trying so hard to hurt each other? Why does it even matter to you what other people do with their lives? Can’t you see that you’re destroying families here?
I’d compare you to someone, but autogodwination doesn’t become me. Morons.
If I should gaze
July 18th, 0000
If eyes could see by infra-red
The sky would shine with dusty fronds
The remnants of tremendous stars
So beautiful to poets sent
But my heart would still and I would frown
For with such eyes I could not bear
To look upon a heavenly body so warm as you.
To Determine Simultaneously the Position and Momentum of a Coy Mistress
July 2nd, 0000this is dedicated to you-know-who
Is that adoration sparkling in your eyes
Or is it just photons
Not knowing where to put their faces
Embarrassed to enjoy
Shedding light upon your situation?
Are you smirking because it’s funny?
Or does your face betray a true emotion?
Not a net devotion
But maybe a gross infatuation
A subliminal limerance
And a preponderance to use too many long words
And question a good thing
In a love poem.
The Big Secret
March 14th, 0000When people hear what I do for a living, they always say the same thing. “Oh really? I’m terrible with computers.”
Here’s the secret: we’re all terrible with computers. Most people don’t realize it, but bumbling around trying to work out how to make it do something is what we, the engineers who design and build the machines in the first place, spend most of our time doing.
So there’s the secret. 95% of the time, we don’t have a clue what’s going on with the bloody things either.
Visible from my apartment
March 6th, 0000San Francisco’s wifi situation is hopeless. There just aren’t enough channels. This is why metro wifi will always fail.
Access Points
SSID BSSID Channel RSSI Type Beacon Capability DTIM Encryption Rates
“Dev” “00:18:4D:08:41:26″ 1 -89 AP 100 1041 1 WPA 12(g)
“2WIRE713″ “00:14:95:19:25:39″ 6 -89 AP 100 1073 1 WEP 12(g)
“skynet” “00:30:AB:11:A1:49″ 6 -84 AP 100 1 0 Unknown 4(b)
“bykin!” “00:0F:B5:E0:DE:A0″ 6 -74 AP 100 1073 0 WEP 12(g)
“2WIRE020″ “00:19:E4:B7:12:61″ 1 -90 AP 100 1073 80 WEP 12(g)
“Free the Net” “00:18:0A:00:F0:2C” 1 -90 AP 500 1313 1 WPA 12(g)
“Topcat” “00:16:B6:F5:A1:35″ 1 -91 AP 100 1041 133 WEP 12(g)
“GO-11B” “00:03:2F:29:F2:54″ 3 -89 AP 100 49 95 WPA 12(g)
“sflan57″ “00:02:6F:34:54:7D” 1 -89 AP 100 1 1 Open 4(b)
“Free the Net” “00:18:0A:00:F1:74″ 1 -91 AP 500 1313 1 WPA 12(g)
“2WIRE101″ “00:1A:C4:4A:74:89″ 1 -90 AP 100 1073 0 WEP 12(g)
“Happy” “00:11:24:91:A1:2B” 1 -91 AP 100 1041 1 WEP 12(g)
“boxelder” “00:1B:63:22:58:19″ 1 -91 AP 100 1041 0 WEP 12(g)
“Free the Net” “00:18:0A:01:98:53″ 1 -90 AP 500 1313 32 WPA 12(g)
“” “00:60:B3:2E:2C:F5″ 3 -87 AP 100 17 0 WEP 4(b)
“Free Public WiFi” “02:19:D2:00:00:2F” 1 -87 Adhoc 0 0 0 Open 0
“linksys123″ “66:A3:F0:56:92:40″ 1 -85 Adhoc 0 0 0 Open 0
“Free Public WiFi” “12:0C:09:1C:55:94″ 1 -90 Adhoc 0 0 0 Open 0
“linksys123P ” “0E:18:E6:EB:1E:5E” 1 -88 Adhoc 0 0 0 Open 0
“Free Public WiFi” “02:16:6F:06:3C:51″ 1 -90 Adhoc 0 0 0 Open 0
“linksys123P ” “DE:77:7C:86:27:F6″ 1 -84 Adhoc 0 0 0 Open 0
“Free Public WiFi” “02:16:6F:00:5F:30″ 1 -90 Adhoc 0 0 0 Open 0
“linksys123″ “86:0E:2B:D2:D6:00″ 1 -87 Adhoc 0 0 0 Open 0
“linksys123P ” “FA:29:3E:EC:77:5C” 1 -85 Adhoc 0 0 0 Open 0
“Free Public WiFi” “02:1B:77:02:1B:DB” 1 -89 Adhoc 0 0 0 Open 0
“linksys123 /sbin/wland 425 r ” ” 1 -88 Adhoc 0 0 0 Open 0
“linksys123 ” “B2:CE:64:CF:A7:69″ 1 -86 Adhoc 0 0 0 Open 0
“Free Public WiFi ” “02:19:D2:00:00:39″ 1 -82 Adhoc 0 0 0 Open 0
“Free Public WiFi” “CE:0A:45:79:45:0B” 1 -88 Adhoc 0 0 0 Open 0
“Free Public WiFi” “02:13:02:00:00:83″ 1 -89 Adhoc 0 0 0 Open 0
“Free Public WiFi” “02:1B:77:08:53:FD” 1 -91 Adhoc 0 0 0 Open 0
Clients
MAC RSSI
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Teachings
February 21st, 0000Surely the one true teaching we can derive from the Second World War is that one should never fuck with physicists.
Seriously.
Last Gas Before the Singularity
January 11th, 0000(this is dedicated to Laurie Anderson)
I’ve seen enough of
Propane and Nomex
Glycerine and sound effects
Accomplished with insects
Sequins and excess
They leave me cold
There’s no meaning anyway
I express my individuality
By looking just the same
I’m walking on your pop screen this time
It’s hotter than a cookie sheet at gas mark nine
It’s the only flat surface I could find
At the time
It didn’t rhyme
It didn’t seem to matter
The cumulative dose is no risk to your health
The damage it does is minor
At these levels
What did you expect?
Everybody’s annoying, making too much noise
Polar ice and polarised mirrorshades
Mirrors, Hades
Boys and girls, gentlemen and ladies
How much is this going to cost me?
Disposal is guaranteed
The deposit is the fee
The data is the message
You might feel emotional
This is my devotional
Am I irrational? I can’t tell
Is it real? We all steal
Real artists thieve
Some other loser’s songs
I’ve lost track of how I feel
I’ve dropped a connection
What’s the deal?
Entering the glide slope
Everyone’s got the next step
Everyone seems to be on the beam
Everyone seems to know what it means
Everyone knows they’ll pair off one day
Everyone knows they’ll find their one and only
We’re all loving some stranger’s song
It’s the only place we all belong
If you don’t know the words then just play along
Play along, kid along, fake it, shake it, make it
Break it
Did you break it?
It was like that when I arrived
The only thing better than being real
Is being real popular
Spare a thought for the bottom of the barrel
Spare a thought for the recessive allele
Spare a thought for the protein loaded
Spare a thought for the unexploded
Spare a thought for the outmoded
Spare any cutter for an old-ex-
Spare any time for a philo-
tele-
techno-
prefix-vangelist
Vandal at the edge of forever
Just jacking off til the Singularity comes
Waiting to blossom
Fire and sequins
Firing sequence
Lost eloquence
Last orders
Last rites
NUL byte
Ctrl-Z
EOF.
Don’t forget to turn off your set.
Track of the Day (with linky-fu)
December 29th, 0000Siesta – Real Time – Real Time Mellifluous beats react with a flowing, trickling bassline to get into your underwear. Not a dance experience, but a more relaxed thing, insisting on dancing on that hypothalamic thing that keeps you all down to earth. Highly recommended for those of you who want New Year’s Eve to be deep, crisp and even. The rest of the album’s great too. Lovely.
Question
December 26th, 0000How would it be to look at the sky and just see light dots on black?
How would it be to stand on a mountain and see only a horizon?
How would it be to look at the moon and just see a beige circle?
Track of the Day (special linky-fu edition)
November 3rd, 0000Tsar Bomba – Function Creep – Conelrad. Yes, you read it right, this album is available gratis from that there link. This is soundscape ambient, intense and broad, reaching from the lowest lows to the highest highs. You don’t need me to tell you what this is like- go and listen. Rockin’.
Track of the Day
November 2nd, 0000Lucky Man – Urban Hymns – The Verve. Okay, so the Verve were awful, and Urban Hymns had aspirations way beyond its rather staid rock means, but this song is well constructed, solid Nineties stuff. I like it, anyway, and this is my pick, so yah boo sucks to anyone who disagrees. An ancestor to the derivative, overly-self-consciously lo-fi sound of horrible, terrible, no-good-at-all bands like Franz Ferdinand and the execrable Hives? That you’ll have to decide for yourself.
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November 1st, 0000Hit Me With Your Rhythm Stick – Ian Dury and the Blockheads. Solid rock complements silly lyrics in a wide range of languages for a track no collection should be without. And after all, isn’t music the one thing that separates us and the cetaceans from animals? There are some people who think birds sing, but really it’s just a lot of whistling. This is a love song for music. Hit me!
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October 30th, 0000Weak – Paranoid & Sunburnt – Skunk Anansie. Is it punk? No. The close-harmony singing from amazing front-being Skin isn’t punk, it’s classic hair-metal (though, of course, Skin doesn’t have any hair, and may in fact be from another planet). The lyrics aren’t at all shabby, either, and there’s an edge to the whole thing that just stops it being pure rawk and turns it into something… else. You’ll try to sing along, but you’ll never reach the dizzying heights of the lead vocal. A good helping of thrashy guitar and a socially aware lyric make it a weirdly alien production; not really fitting any genre. You’ll rock out anyway.
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October 29th, 0000Woops, I was busy on Sunday so I didn’t write a pick.
In penance, please allow me to reward your auditory senses with this Monday morning pick:
Dry The Rain – The 3 EPs – The Beta Band. Masterful multi-part work and scratchmonkey rhythms groove into an almost acid bassline, all acousticky and that. Mellow, soulful and every inch a classic. If you don’t own a copy of The 3 EPs, what is wrong with you? Go out and buy it immediately or sooner. Beautiful.
Babies – Countdown – Pulp. Okay, I admit, I’m not sure which album this track’s on, but it’s a classic. Cocker’s angsty Shatneresque vocals and twisted lyrics combine effortlessly with precise execution and an oddly ‘big band’ feeling to condense the schadenfreude of the collapsing 1990s into a song that simultaneously manages to be sick and uplifting. Did Jarvis really do this stuff? Is it just a song? Whatever, it’s a great track. Listen and enjoy.
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October 28th, 0000Voyager – SWP. I’m fairly sure this song is in French. The vocoded vocal yarbles into the piano lead nicely, but be careful not to fall asleep for five hours like I did today. Mellow and absolutely precise, this song is planned to perfection.
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October 26th, 0000Pearly* (Running from Demons) – How Am I Driving – Radiohead. Just for a moment, there, after OK Computer’s unbelievable awesomeness, but before the even more mindblowing transformation that was to come, it looked like, just maybe, Radiohead had shot their wad and there wasn’t any more to come.
Oh, how wrong can you be? How Am I Driving and Com Lag, two EPs of many, proved that even Radiohead’s B sides could do no wrong. Indeed, could they even be said to have B sides? Alright, alright. This isn’t a Pyramid Song or even a Myxomatosis but it’s easily better than anything on Pablo Honey. And I loved that album. Find yourself a quiet asylum and stick How Am I Driving on. I promise you’ll love it. Jonny’s crooning, wailing guitar is underpinned by a static, solid, dependable beat, and of course Thom’s amazing falsetto works. She runs from the third world again. Love it.
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October 24th, 0000More Life in a Tramp’s Vest – Word Gets Around – Stereophonics. Back to my roots. Kelly may be- and, indeed, is- a complete tool, but his voice is amazing and the rest of the band is sharp too. Lyrics a step above the Oasis-esque cat-sat-on-the-mattery that one might expect from a band from Ponty. This is a dose of good, solid rock, two minutes twenty of it that will leave you wishing there was more where that came from. Rockin’!
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October 23rd, 0000I never could get the hang of Tuesdays. Have something mellow.
Seal – We Are The Night – Chemical Brothers. What language is that? The silky, muttering, intoxicated vocal mixes with a minimal beat and an insistent bassline to make the album- and the gig- for me. No trace of harshness, even when the beat jumps back in, and some soaring waveforms push to the second verse. What’s it all about? Better ask the Chemical Brothers. I have no idea, and lyrics don’t seem to be forthcoming. Just sit back and cuckoo along.