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Check this from: ‘I Sent a Random Text Message and He Replied!’

Jennifer: How did your relationship start ?

Tina: It was like any other day. I was chatting to my best friend in the kitchen. We were bored so we decided to send a text message to a random number and see what happened. Don’t ask me why – it was a real spur-of-the moment thing. I typed in ‘Feel like talking?’ and waited to see if anyone would reply.

To my amazement, someone did – a guy. He just typed ‘Yes’. From then on, we had a great hour or two, messaging back and forth. When he asked me to phone him, I didn’t hesitate. We both had the same sense of humor and, although it was odd at first, we talked just as easily as when we’d been texting.

I bring this up because I just received a random text message on my phone that said this:

“Can’t wait to see you this EVEning* [address]. I’m wearing blue velvet with a bow. Call if you need help.”

While I am not in the need of a romantic partner, perhaps this stray message was sent out on the airwaves for a ‘greater purpose’. I am now soliciting for an appropriate response.

.– …. .- – / -.. — / -.– — ..- / – …. .. -. -.- / .- -… — ..- – / -… . .. -. –. / — -. / – …. . / .–. .-.. .- -. . – / . .- .-. – ….

On our train ride down to the Bay Area from Seattle, Amber and I downloaded the entire first season of Wall Street Warriors – a reality show about people involved with the Stock Market. Even after watching six episodes I feel like the mechanics behind what these people do completely eludes me. But the way the people talk about ‘the market’ is fascinating – one part religious devotion / one part extreme gambling habit. One of my new goals for the year is to study how the stock market works and try to divine some meaning out of it. I am currently investigating some online stock market social networks and will report back with more information as it arrives.

The show seems to indicate that they are a lot of new and novel approaches to guessing trends. Some of these are as simple as using astrology to guide your stock market predictions. The show talked about one guy who was actually doing quite well by using the migratory patterns of elephants to guide his own forecasts of how the market would rise and fall. I can’t find any information about this particular instance, but I am going to spend a little time looking into other methods like this.

Recently I had a dream in which I was recruited for a high-security job that involved flying into outer-space on a regular basis to conduct emergency repairs to different types of inter-stellar craft.

There were two superior engineers above me – both female – one of which I somewhat know in real-life (RL) as @nikolhasler. (I’ve never met her in person or actually even shared any bytes of text with her, but I do ‘follow’ her on twitter and some of her other various forms of internet celebrity.)

Anyway, while in space, the work we did as a team seemed to flow naturally, but once we made it down to earth the other crew mates seemed somewhat distant to interaction with me. At one point I confronted the non-Nikol colleague and she told me that she had never really wanted me to be a part of the team and had recommended the hiring committee not select me. She said that my ‘resume’ had seemed ‘weak’ to her, and that she could still feel that weakness in my work. I knew subconsciously what she meant by ‘weakness’ – that I had been too honest about my shortcomings on my application.

I think this carries over into my day to day life – I tend to avoid at all costs being overly confident, sometimes *giving away* any holes in my experience. I think I tend to have a problem with being honest to a fault.

Later I found out that the actual space missions were complete virtual constructs – much like the Star Trek Halodeck – and in fact, I had never really been flying into the stars in the first place.

Kumbh Mela (Devanagari: कुम्भ मेला) is a mass Hindu pilgrimage. It occurs four times every twelve years and rotates among four locations: Allahabad (Prayag), Haridwar, Ujjain and Nashik. Every twelve-year cycle includes one Maha Kumbh Mela (Great Kumbh Mela) at Prayag, which is attended around 60 million people, making it the largest gathering anywhere in the world.

Somehow I’ver never heard about this – but DAMN I want to go and represent the “NEW NATIVE AMERICAN” (whatever-the-hell-it-is-that-we’re-creating-here).

Tim has presented a call to determine the best programming language for leading groups of people in CODE chants. I think this an interesting idea, especially if the same code can be compiled or ‘interpreted on the fly’ in the real world with real applications.

I don’t know perl, but my friend Joseph has written an amazing poem using that programming language which I am told will actually run! lainey

Go and read it there, it’s short and sweet.

I would recommend trying the chants in ruby – there is a lot of fairly human readable helpers and natural aspects of the language that would make writing religious chants for it pretty easy. Here’s a simple one I did just messing around – (there are parts of it that don’t work the way I want, I’m still messing with them).

class Remember

  def the_sounds_of_this_moment
    { :you_have_forgotten => "#{Time.now}"}
  end #ing

  # so in
  @thismoment = "there is no sound"

  def all_sound
    #but
    begin # in this
      case @thismoment
        when "there is sound" then "the sound breaks" and break;
        when "there is no sound"    then "just hope for the"
      end # can we
      raise "the dead?"
    rescue
      p "our souls, there is no rescue, there is only that moment that past, that moment of'"
    end
  end
end

In IRB you can do this:

irb(main):048:0> now = Remember.new
=> #

irb(main):049:0> now.the_sounds_of_this_moment
=> {:you_have_forgotten=>”Sun Dec 21 12:50:34 -0800 2008″}

irb(main):050:0> now.all_sound
“our souls, there is no rescue, there is only that moment that past, that moment of’”
=> nil

I also have an idea to write some prayers into some source code – I’m trying to think of the best way to do this though since it’s not really clear to me how an application would continuously ‘pray’ ? Could that perhaps mean the prayer would be kicked off in a separate thread to just loop over a block of text (a String) and read each character byte by byte ?

My interest in this is that the function being called would serve no clear technical purpose whatsoever – in fact it would just be ‘wasting resources’. But built into the right application you could say that the prayers being evoked are epically more powerful than any individual human may be able to do on their own. You may never need to pray yourself again – instead you could farm all of that work off to a cluster of computers who could work tirelessly to petition the Gods for all of your spiritual needs.

Tim Boucher and I have been talking a lot about alternative methods of communication – whether that be through ham and or amateur radio signals, animal sounds & bird calls, eletronic ’speakjet’ ghost voice-boxes, ‘the chatter’, or Sun Ra styled improvized jazz ‘joyful noise’.

In a comment to one of his posts he linked a brief story:

When I was 3 or 4 I dreamed about a monster that lived in the TV and attacked the outside world with death rays. It took my family hostage and killed our dogs. Its shape appeared in the static and it had a shrill, hissing voice. This is perhaps the earliest dream I can remember.

For some reason static has a definite spooky quality to it and yet I remember my old roommate sadly reminiscing about how you can’t really get static on your television anymore. TV’s now a-days usually fall back on a blue screen that is silent, abandoning that harsh hiss & ’snow’.

So check this out – I just bought this iPhone program called Ghost Static which allows me tap into those old memories.

The application capitalizes on those inherent creepy feelings of the random chaotic static and generates a square field of black and white fluttering just like the good old days of waking up in the middle of night on the couch with your hand in a bag of Doritos and drool coming out your mouth. Other cool features include a hiss that can be seeded with randomness with either microphone data, motion detection, or an algorithm. There is also a random alphabet generator which spits of combinations of letters using the same randomness inputs. For a while when I first turned it on I saw the words flashing “FEAR. NEAR. HERE.” and got pretty freaked out but I am pretty sure that’s actually programmatically set to show up and not actually a main component of the application. The only word I’ve recognized so far is ‘eggs’ but I haven’t really done a thorough investigation using it yet. I’m pretty excited about the emerging hardware/software solutions for mystical and paranormal research and exploration and hope that more things like this start popping out on the horizon.

Oh yeah – speaking of weird sounds from the television – remember this post in which I heard strange garbled ‘voices’ coming out of my television set when it was set to the aux channel? Someone in the comments let me know it was just a ham radio operator (or was it?) but it’s creepy sounding none the less: creepy sound

Also, while we’re at it – maybe you can answer @vajrathunderdog something he asked me on twitter:

“do you think you could summon angels with ham frequencies? where do they lay on the bands?”

Thanks to all the people that have taken the silly Spirit Animal quiz and contacted me about it. I find it interesting to see what folks have been paired with and their initial response; it seems like a lot of people are confused with their association – not quite identifying right off or wanting a different animal instead. Is there anyone who ‘didn’t’ feel that way? A strange one was my sister getting the crow – which according to the website – indicates powers in “foreseeing death, communicating with the dead, resurrection.” Strange because my sister actually works in the funeral business.

Anyway, I’m definitely curious about tackling this subject further – especially because there’s a lot of awkwardness about ’spirit animals’ for me and I want to learn to ‘get over it’. I am expecting a book in the mail by Michael Harner on using drums and a meditation process for seeking out these animal guides and my roommate Joseph thinks we should setup a party where everyone comes dressed as their favorite furried friend. Maybe I can convince folks to have a drum circle and do a group animal call!

I thought I would drop this in real quick just to capture it because it seems like a really strong coincidental link and appears to be related to the topic. Joseph told me that he ended up as linked to the ’spider’ then sent me a link on humanimals – a notorious fellow being the ‘Cat Man’.

A humanimal is apparently

a hybrid of human and animal features, biological characteristics and/or behaviours.

Be careful looking it up on the internet though, you’re going to find a lot of cartoon depictions of multi-breasted feline women.

I don’t quite know the significance of this yet – although off the top of my head this video resonates with me because it indicates a powerful transformation into one’s ‘true self’ – so much so that it might become uncomfortable and difficult to understand for other people around you. For some reason that point is being driven into my head because just a couple hours after receiving that video I came across this film icon while browsing for documentaries to watch on Netflix:

I hate online quizzes but this one is downright spiritual man, take it for yourself and report your findings back to me: http://www.jerismithready.com/quiz/