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Summer

Summer is here! Well at least here, were I live. Now, am I the only one who thinks this season is the most frustrating one of them all? OK, when to work? when to go on vacation? where to work? where to go on vacation? do that? or do this? When's that? When's this? - OK! Time out! -

This summer i will do exactly what I've done most of my previous summers, i.e just relax and take day by day without planning anything specific.
And then when summer is over, I will regret everything I've could have done but didn't do!

Note

The sky was beautiful today

Books

Received this chain letter from Henrik (cool blog by the way) It took me some time to come up with the answers, but here they are!

1. Total number of books owned?
Not sure, about 200 I guess, maybe more.

2. The last book I bought ?
Lé Peste - Albert Camus

3. The last book I read?
Siddhartha

4. Five books that meant a lot to me.

The alchemist, Coelho Paulo
A great book that I found very suitable to read when dreams are too far away. It's a story about a shepherd who gives up everything to follow his life journey and his dream. I think this book can fit just about anyone.

Zen speaks, Chung Tsai Chih
Actually a comic-book with teachings of Zen. I usually pick it up on certain occasions, and I always understand/learn something new. Hilarious book.

Man and his symbols, Jung Carl Gustav
A book that provided me with a lot of words and perspectives on thoughts I had trouble to map.

Russian Avante-garde books 1917-34, Compton Susan
Picked up this book at an antiques-shop a couple of years ago, without much insight on the subject. Little did I know that it was to play a essential role as a source of inspiration in creating my own art.

Siddhartha, Hesse Herman
A tale of Siddhartha, a young brahmin searching for a place to get his life fulfilled. He meet various different people, including Buddha, to find what he is looking for is something else.

5. Take 3 people and have them fill this out on their LJ:s.
New world boarders, Metafizzics and Philentropy

One was suppose to pick five people, but I only came up with three and I think picking five can be a little hard so I'm changing the chain letter (I hope that's not a sin!) Maybe some reader(s) want to fill in?

Unusual thing

There is it this unusual thing that occurred me three times this week. I've been keeping my down thinking about something (can't recall what) and doubted it since I haven't found a way to prove it. All three times when I looked up, I've found myself looking at some beautiful flower bushes, which I have some yet unmapped liking for. This happened at different places and in different stages, and in the state of being awake.

Symbol for hope?

The art of mapping

The recent week I've been trying to improve my way of mapping my thoughts. I.e connecting yesterday's thought with today's, and mapping them somewhere.

I feel that I've just been collecting 'material' the recent days, because my mind hasn't exercised many thoughts. My theory is that when those times we say "nothing is happening" occurs, we're often in a state where we need collect things to reach some more distant state (which need some work to reach)

I predicted this day to be just another day of collecting material. But it only took me to go down and buy some milk to get my mind filled with thoughts to exercise.
I realized that going down to the shop to buy some milk also had a purpose of taking up many of the thoughts I collected. I had many realizations on my way to store. In theory, I believe every action has a lot of purposes beyond those we directly know. That's basic psychology. However, I think having that cognitively to start with is hard! I think I improved my cognitive sense to that today.

This is a interesting pattern I find myself in a lot:

Collecting thoughts - Being at home, with friends, or in a familiar environment
Taking up thoughts - Moving physically/mentally to somewhere else
Mapping thoughts - Being at home, with friends or in a familiar environment.

It can be reversed in many ways, but 'taking up thoughts' is dependent on switching to another environment than the one one's in when 'collecting thoughts'.
Now this can be developed much further, I considering doing that.

I just love exploring the versatility in situations!

Apple goes Intel

I'm shocked!

Apple Goes intel equals Apple goes Trusted Computing which equals
Apple goes 'Evil inside!' Help!

See the Press release
and this comic and
this article, the writer was wrong about the rumor!

Frustration and some acceptance here!

Art, life and pro-materialism.

Met a friend, Charles, today. I was helping him out with his website, which needed some maintenance. He is a great painter, go check out his paintings!

We ended up chatting a lot, comparing lifestyles and views of life. Now Charles is the type that owns nothing else but what he needs. I.e clothing, paint material, a bike and kitchen utensils. Yes, no specific furniture, no bed, no interior stuff, rarely any books and no, no computer.

I'm fund of this lifestyle. Personally, I don't own much more than my computers, a desk, a thin mattress and a bunch of books. I like this lifestyle. I'd love to have all my books on my laptop instead, sad thing that's not possible yet.

Yes, I do prefer a concrete book, but I think one just has to get used to read books on the computer. I mean, we do read a lot of information from the computer screen, why not books? I like the development of Internet, I assume that we will soon be able to get about any media from the net.

Now don't get me wrong here, I think it's nice to have a bookshelf and records and everything. However, I figured that if I would leave those desires, I would end up with less material stuff, which I much prefer at this stage of my life.

3.46 am.

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