World in my pocket

tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28509043238737256382012-02-16T12:12:44.207-08:00World in my pocketBlogging my journey to maximize life in the 21st CenturyBrucehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07190398689968177288noreply@blogger.comBlogger71100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2850904323873725638.post-9869385062494863682007-05-21T03:36:00.000-07:002007-05-21T05:01:56.846-07:00Descriptions have lots of uses

It's 4:30 am and I should be asleep, but birds are chirping, cool air is flowing in through the window, and I'm having way too much fun to go. Why am I having so much fun? The (even more) exciting part of this blog will happen when we start to be able to record knowledge on a web-site or some sort of distributed repository, and that moment is getting closer and closer. Remember, the goal is to

Brucehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07190398689968177288noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2850904323873725638.post-53210702741875088792007-05-09T02:00:00.000-07:002007-05-16T02:35:09.105-07:00King of Kings and Form of Forms

I got a shiny new DVD player the other day and as it ingests the disc, it displays "LOAD" with that nasty LED segment font that was really made for displaying only numbers, not letters. Whenever I see that "LOAD" there is a tiny second when my brain malfunctions and I think it is saying "LORD" because the A looks like an R. For fun I fancy that the player doesn't have motors or lasers or any

Brucehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07190398689968177288noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2850904323873725638.post-32069479646311055042007-04-30T20:34:00.000-07:002007-04-30T22:40:43.848-07:00What is the point?

I'm going to get right to the point today. What is the point of life? Also, who cares? It's easy to answer that second question; I care. Here I am trying to make my life better and more efficient, and it's pretty clear from where I sit that if I don't put some thought into what that means I could spend valuable time or money going down the wrong path. I know lots of people who put energy into

Brucehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07190398689968177288noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2850904323873725638.post-16466333896950133042007-04-23T00:33:00.000-07:002007-04-23T02:42:10.709-07:00Discovering a miracle

I have seen at least fifty "slide shows" on the Web giving the Top 100 Inventions or Top Ten New Technologies or The Best Discoveries of the 20th Century. But they always leave out a little idea that was almost stumbled on early last century; an idea which in my "humble" opinion is clearly the most important idea produced in the last 2000 years. It isn't a huge shock that it doesn't make the

Brucehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07190398689968177288noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2850904323873725638.post-86336842316992927102007-04-17T20:32:00.000-07:002007-04-23T02:49:03.234-07:00Form of "Wonder Woman!"

"Wonder Twin Powers - ACTIVATE!"Remember that show? I don't care that it was against the rules, I wanted to take the form of Superman!" In my last post I floated the topic of filling out a "form" to describe a person. It was a hint at the method I am using to digest all the knowledge flowing out of the wellspring of human creativity these days. I mentioned in my first post that specialization may

Brucehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07190398689968177288noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2850904323873725638.post-34940061238677295622007-04-14T15:43:00.000-07:002007-04-15T12:46:50.597-07:00We don't know how to write down a person

Have you ever been outside and seen the tee-shirt that says "It's not who you are, its what you wear?" That shirt always makes me laugh because it's so obviously a joke but I always see people with that stern "the youth of today are lost" look on their face. I just want to feel the wind in my hair and the sun on my skin and enjoy the irony of the joke. The youth aren't lost, they're just youth.

Brucehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07190398689968177288noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2850904323873725638.post-35364596256940230612007-04-07T23:19:00.000-07:002007-04-08T17:37:37.333-07:00The World in my pocket!

I am drowning in stuff. Even after several prunings and garage sales. Looking into my closet I see an extra keyboard and an extra printer (two are already hooked up!) My tool box had five phillips and five regular screwdrivers of all approximately the same size -- until recently.I began planning some changes after a strange trip I made several years ago. The trip began with me working with

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