Business card world

I've been trying to avoid the business card world, but today I realized that I can't escape it :)

Went to this hip nightclub and started chatting with a guy who was looking for a Graphic artist (that's me) and he asked me for a business card as he seemed interested in my service. OK I don't have any business cards! I do work professionally but I never really designed any for myself. OK so I ended up telling him I didn't have any cards on me, and he wrote is number on a note instead. (Hey, where were his business card by the way?)

Now, I do think business cards are good, they tell others your role in society. But I do hate playing roles and being a stereotype, which is one reason why I don't have any card. I did however figure out that it is possible to have a card with just my name and no specific title. But maybe that's confusing.

What does your card say?

Dance

v. danced, danc·ing, danc·es
v. intr.

1. Moving without no specific destiny
2. Moving with equally balanced forces

Synonyms: meditate (mentally), sports (in general) etc.

There is one state one can reach only by a certain monotonous rhythm. Either you meditate, play golf, run, do ji-jutsu or dance. What do these things have in common? Well I'd say you are moving without no predefined destiny (the next movement is a constant change) When you reach this stage, I believe your forces reach a state where they are as balanced they can get. This is an interesting state, I recommend it with all my heart. Now don't forget to separate reaching it from being in it. Reaching this state requires practice, and being in it requires guts.

Sorry for the lack of updates. I've been thinking too much and acting to little. To compensate this, I spontaneously ran for almost 2 hours nonstop the other night. I met 2 rabbits, a couple of cars and 2 people. My mind luckily got clear again.

Understand the meaning of life in 5 steps

(1) Life's an art! Find an art, any art.

(2) Understand that art.

(3) Understand that all arts are arts.

(4) Understand art

(5) Understand life

If you accept your obstacles...

You may have limits, but within your limits there are no limits.
The sacrifice is accepting your obstacles.

The opposite to mathematics

You may change your environment.

Will the environment change itself to you, or will you change yourself to it?

Todays statement is: If you don't separate yourself from the environment (assuming you are separated from it), the environment will be whatever you want it to be. But if you become one with it, how could you make it whatever what you want it to be? Since you would be one with it, you would not have anything else to compare it to, leaving no options to consider.

Comparisons = Numbers, statistics, math, logic.

What's the opposite to math

(5th of October, 2005) Answer:

The unknown. Also known as God, the forces of Earth, Randomness or The things most people can't see.

How to reach it? Walk the path between logic and intuition, leaving nothing out or nothing in. You might get a glimpse.

Information overload

I went over to some friends of mine down the block for dinner today. I had a typical good monday I'd say. Did some fencing with Giraffe (nickname) and had a beer and a good meal. Later on we were watching television, which I particularly enjoy since I don't have one myself.

At the end of the night Giraffe and his girl fell a sleep watching the TV. This got me thinking a lot. Giraffe mentioned earlier how many images we go through everyday day, i.e images from TV, computers, outside commercials, signs, products etc and how hard we have sorting them out.

I typically stay up until I'm overloaded with information, i.e I starting to feel that I had enough and can't grab anymore. Since I don't have any TV, I sit in front of my computers instead.

I wonder how this affects us, consciously and unconsciously.

the divinty in 150$

I lost about 150$ today while I was running. They somehow managed to escape my pocket, I don't know how. OK so what do you do? Nothing really stopped me from looking for them, so I did that.

Now my philosophy is whatever happens - happens. Ok most people probably agree on that. That's simple, isn't it? I have to admit that even if I have a philosophy of life, I don't live by it all the time. Actually not very often because I can only connect my philosophy to certain situations. Now I'm glad that I actually managed to connect it to this case. As a footnote, the progressive development of connecting my philosophy to more and more situations is really fundamental for my life.

When I was looking for the money I actually managed to use my somewhat ideal rhythm/pattern/structure i.e ideal way to deal with the situation. Now it can be a little hard to translate my this rhythm, but I simply I kept calm but with a little stress in I way I found about enough for the situation.

I didn't put all my focus on the money, since I felt that my mind would be too isolated. Ok so what happened instead? Well, I got enriched by a lot of thoughts.
I later sat down with my friend Indigo (nickname) and his father chatting some various topic. Somehow we reflected the scenario and came up with that you can look at the whole situation as I indeliberately "gave away" the money. I think that's a rare perspective and accepting it enriched me so much.

Now I have a idea of a law here. If you loose/give away something, as in my case, you are open to get/receive things to compensate the loss. Now, from my philosophy giving and taking is two reflections of one thing. So I think this situation actually can result that you get open to both give more and receive more.

Alright so I think I gave more to myself in way, because when I ran home I was both happy and my mind enriched me with so many things I longed after. A lot of philosophical questions became clear for me, and as I wrote previously I was able to see my philosophy in a lot of new situations. This is really priceless for me.

I didn't find my 150$, but I found so much else, something divine.

Cubefarm

I want at least ten of these! :)

From the ground to the sky and back

Keep thinking how I'm looking for just the same thing, all the time, but through various views.

If you fly high, you'll see the things in a larger context, but you'll miss the details.
If you fly low, you'll see the things in a detailed context, but you miss the overview.

Yes, I prefer being somewhere in the middle, but that's so boring and predictable right now. But being on the right/left end is so restricted, because then I'll sort everything else out.

OK, that's two dilemmas, I'm not going to make that three. But that's kind of naive said, because every sentence can be looked as a dilemma. If you look at things from the far right or the far left, you'll see a straight dilemma in everything.
Are you following? Neither am I.
I'll put an example, and maybe we both understand. I.e If you tell yourself that the republican's politics are absolutely wrong, then you will meet a dilemma every time someone or something states (proves) the opposite. However I'd like to state that in real-life situations, one often just neglects that someone or something stating the opposite, leaving the dilemma to be neglected too.

Now this is a development of my previous thread about the "rhythm"
You see in every case/moment/situation you have a stance or maybe better, a position. I.e you either you fly high, or you fly low, at some degree more/less than the other. My theory is that your "rhythm" predefines your stances in the situations you are about to get in.

Seen from the spiral/loop, your "rhythm" which predefines these stances has it's "rhythm" (and so on)
I like the word rhythm, but some synonyms are order, way, structure...

A History of the GUI

Arstechnica has an article about the history of the Graphical User Interface. Personally I always used operating systems with GUI's, starting with Mac OS 7 and Windows 3.11. I admit I use the terminal sometimes, but I would have a hard time with just a command line. I wonder how the command line-generation possibly looks at the GUI.

Here are some additional links of mine concerning the topic:
Graphical User Interface Gallery
GUIdebook

Sleeping in Airports

http://www.sleepinginairports.net - THE hobby

Bloging keeps changing your life

I sat down at a coffee place today with a friend and reflected possible ways how bloging can affects blogers. Now, If you blog you might connect to this and If you don't, it still might be a pretty interesting topic.

Ever since I started bloging, I kept thinking of what possible event could/should/will I write about today. I even had the thought that I really should do "something" so that I would have "something" to write about.

Now, I can easily confess that having a weblog makes me more active, and often when I philosophise I remind myself that this could be something to write in my blog. That is a new direction in life.

Now one must be some sort of a exhibitionist to even consider having a weblog. Don't you agree? One of my statements for today is that a blog is a possibly good win-win situation for both the person writing it and the reader. The bloger can have his or her thoughts indexed, and the reader can take part of them receiving response from the person bloging and likewise giving response to him or her.

Todays political statement: If you want an active life, Blog, Blog your active life!

Blog of the day

I am a Japanese School Teacher
I hope you enjoy it as much as i do.

The rhythm

I believe everyone is carrying a certain rhythm. Now rhythm is just one word for it, but since it's my word for today, I choose to use it.

Your rhythm can be just anything, like a pattern of which you perform your thinking.
Since we're humans, I believe that we always wish we had a better rhythm, just as we tend to want just a little bit more in a lot of situations. Now I don't see this absolute negative, it's one of the things that I believe keeps us forward. I look at it as being both positive and negative.

Today I improved my rhythm a lot. I gave up a lot of rational thinking ( I actually consider myself relatively "irrational") creating an even further limit of what's possible. Now I'd like to state that we are improving/worsening our rhythm every day.

Why did I write both improving and worsening? Well that's primary because I try not to look at things black and white and second of all because you can chose which one that feels accurate for you right now. Finally, also because I look at those two words just a two different views of one thing. I assume the final statement can be a little tricky to grasp, but I will keep on developing it in my blog.

Ultimately (in this thread) I'd like to state that we do naturally separate our selves from others, making our rhythms separate. Even though our rhythms are separate, I believe they make up something unified.

Now, can you connect in any way?

Night running

Sometimes I need to change environment completely. A lot of times that is 1.30 am on a Tuesday night, when I find my self puzzled what do. So I picked up my sneakers, a sweater and loaded my mp3-player with some tracks and went out running. I must admit, I rarely go out running and I'm not in very good shape being a smoker and all.

I found my self running out in the wild night with nothing but me and a lot of attractive lights and a couple of circling taxi-cars. I just love nights, the roar of the city is completely gone and there is so much physical and mental space.
I was running to the monotonous techno playing in my ears while my mind carried no verbal thoughts and my sight did not focus on any particular detail.

I just love that state.