http://www.rmfo-blogs.com/daniel A personal narrative. Fri, 25 Jul 2008 04:17:54 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en I've never had a muse. I've always wondered what it might be like to have one. There's so much to the creative process I don't understand. Why two people's art can look and sound so different, yet be distinctly theirs. Why when you seek to imitate it you feel like ... http://www.rmfo-blogs.com/daniel/2008/07/25/songs/ My wife just got back from a Premiere Fitness evaluation. This is something they make you do ostensibly for insurance reasons, which is a load of crock, because you're allowed to use the gym even without the fitness test/evaluation. This is probably because they have a huge backlog of fitness ... http://www.rmfo-blogs.com/daniel/2008/07/22/premiere-fitness/ Bear with me here, this is going to depend on widespread infrastructure and future technology. Wind power isn't a viable always-on solution because wind isn't always on. Step outside your house right now: It might be windy, or it might not be windy. Even places like parts of Texas which have ... http://www.rmfo-blogs.com/daniel/2008/07/22/i-have-solved-the-wind-power-problem/ Watching the rapid decline of XKCD. http://www.rmfo-blogs.com/daniel/2008/07/21/my-hobby/ Laura told me that all my songs sounded the same, so I wrote something a little musically and thematically different just to prove that I could. But don't worry, it's not as grisly as it sounds. It's what we call a, you know, metaphor. General, I will feed you to the ... http://www.rmfo-blogs.com/daniel/2008/07/21/the-dogs/ I wake up in the morning and I am running and I won't stop until I fall asleep again. I slough the covers and run to the washroom and take a shower and brush my teeth and throw my hair into something like a style and before I know it ... http://www.rmfo-blogs.com/daniel/2008/07/19/runner/ Central Park hostel. Did you know know in the basement there's an old piano? You can figure out love in its notes, while you're making it up as you go. Cuban cigars out on the roof. American whisky, eighty proof. But you're in your own world running loose, and you're making it up as you go. Everyone seem ... http://www.rmfo-blogs.com/daniel/2008/07/18/despair-is-the-mother-of-invention/ Twisted into shape you are a mute whirlwind of form drinking from the sun, still equinox you are no longer longer, all things being equal. Eyes inward you are unable to inspect your irresistible fractal curls, the mesmeric mercuric minutae that draw me, eyes inward. That you are that you are is testimony and testament, the unfurling world in jasper ... http://www.rmfo-blogs.com/daniel/2008/07/17/hope-3/ It was a dream, a time and half a time: that original sin in the tension between the poles. My internal electronics sparking across the gap, ephemeral imagined notes and the cascading columns of maths conspiring to havoc. But it was just a dream, a time and half a time, that original sin, that clumsy stumbling away from ... http://www.rmfo-blogs.com/daniel/2008/07/16/time/ Is there a time when you wake up like a person breaking through the surface of an ocean and drawing a deep breath? Air is life and your throat is a umbilical cord connecting you to it. But other things are life as well. They require you have such a percent ... http://www.rmfo-blogs.com/daniel/2008/07/09/a-poem/ When cops are arrested, the police can do two things: open up for an investigation and try to be as transparent as possible, or circle the wagons and try to keep their own from the fire. The first option is the best, of course, and the police force has gone ... http://www.rmfo-blogs.com/daniel/2008/07/04/double-standard/ From my experience, running under Kubuntu 8.04 LTS (not the KDE 4 Remix), the KDE Kiosk Tool is ridiculously buggy to the point of being unusable. http://www.rmfo-blogs.com/daniel/2008/06/27/kde-kiosk-tool/ I don't think it'll ever be published, in print or on the web, but I had to say something. I've also contacted my MP and the Right Honourable American Biotch, Jim Prentice. This is what I have to say: No, these proposed changes won't change a thing. They'll merely make things ... http://www.rmfo-blogs.com/daniel/2008/06/13/i-wrote-to-the-toronto-star-today/ I don't want to predict the future. It turns out I'm pretty bad at predicting the future and chances are so are you. But I do want to delve into a possible future, one that could develop if certain things go a certain way and certain other things do not ... http://www.rmfo-blogs.com/daniel/2008/06/09/netbooks-sublaptops-laptots-whatever/ Experience would dictate, having seen 99 white swans, that all swans are white. Experience is of course a ridiculous guide for making future predictions: One event can change your experience in a way that the preceding events could not possibly have foretold. The 100th swan, the black swan, gives lie ... http://www.rmfo-blogs.com/daniel/2008/06/06/ubuntu-is-our-very-own-black-swan/ I would rip my (younger) self out of the Bill Gothard seminars and have an insightful discussion with myself about formulaic, legalistic Christianity built around flawed Platonic ideals. I would try to get it through my thick head that if Jesus has wanted us to follow the Seven Steps to ... http://www.rmfo-blogs.com/daniel/2008/06/05/if-i-could-go-back-in-time/ I'm a Christian in Canada. I'd probably be considered an evangelical Christian by anyone bothering with the taxonomy. For the most part, this means I should be voting FCP or Conservative. The FCP is just dangerous. Mixing politics and religion is a recipe for the corruption of both. But the Conservatives ... http://www.rmfo-blogs.com/daniel/2008/06/02/im-supposed-to-be-a-conservative/ Bryce makes a good point in his latest post about Inkscape (and FOSS in general, as he points out). It is better to spend time hacking on something yourself than to offer someone $100 to do it for you. I think this is right and true for many reasons, one ... http://www.rmfo-blogs.com/daniel/2008/06/02/i-would-pay-my-bounty-in-time-but-i-dont-have-the-skill/ All the great themes have been revised and re-revised a thousand times. There is nothing left to be invented. No devices lie uncovered waiting to be picked up. The revolution has happened and happened and happened again. There is nothing but a single desk lamp. Perfectly formed, lighting its patch of ... http://www.rmfo-blogs.com/daniel/2008/05/28/untitled/ True story. I have written the greatest post-rock ever! Except it's just me and my electric guitar and my foot pedal and my microphone and Ardour and Hydrogen and Jack on Ubuntu. But it works! http://www.rmfo-blogs.com/daniel/2008/05/28/hey-look-im-pelican-explosions-in-the-sky-and-sickoaks/