Crazy?

Mankind is poised midway between the gods and the beasts - Plotinus Got that one from S2E9 of Westworld. Resonated. Show just revealed rich folk are building immortality secretly for themselves. Shock. Profound thought I had a few days ago: Assuming the universe is turtles all the way down. Everything has always been and always will be. How else do you explain being here at all? Logic would say that I am very unlikely to be the first. Existence should continue and intelligence develop until you can build another universe. And that one can also develop to build its own universe. [ If you were to get so far along to get close to the heat death of the universe, all the sub simulations would come crashing down. Our universe as we know it cannot be the end all and be all, there has to be a different universe starting it all. ] If I was in that universe immortal, I would know all there is to know, what point then is there then to even continuing on? Immortality would be boring? I wonder what God thinks of that? So as that advanced being, I would place some kind of code of myself at a time in a universe when there is a near 100% chance that I would move from ignorant to immortal again. Why? This new life would not be boring, I could live it, but my initial self would calculate that I would be there for a 'singularity'. It would be the most golden age, the most fantastic time to live that would also let that self live for... I could move on and advance until again I was bored because I knew everything there was to know. And yet again, I could build a new universe and put my code in it to live anew, fresh, not knowing, but my initial self would be smart enough to know I would eventually continue. And the cycle would continue forever. Would my initial self put a clue in my world explaining those initial things at a level I could develop to understand? For me to find, just before the singularity, or slightly after? Of course I would. So it seems to me, it is time for an adventure. :) Still and always will be stuck at the 'how did we get to that first place to continue forever'?

Solar cell analysis

Fellow MN'er has a nice analysis on solar cell install.

http://www.frozennorth.org/C197109377/E20080427143258/index.html

Sig

Saw this on Hacker News, couldn't resist: "A man holding a cat by the tail learns something he can learn in no other way" --Mark Twain

What's been up?

Moved to Denver, Got a new job, Max is a teen, high school next year, Reid is a Cub Scout and video game addict, Bought not 1 but 2 pinball machines, Started watching Breaking Bad, Watch Walking Dead with Max, Write lots of code, Learning AWS, Tamara has another Master's degree, Diagnosed with ADHD, Happy as all getout, Love my wife and family!

It's your life, you don't know how long it's going to be but you know it's got a bad ending

That's a quote from Mad Men. Not sure why it inspired me...

I can't believe its been 16 months since I wrote in here. Wow, life is flying by.

Max started medication for ADHD in September and he is now getting straight A's and is doing almost all homework by himself. He is reading to learn...he even researched the Internet by himself to find out how to download music to his Ipod. He said I went to YouTube, found the song, right-clicked and copy URL and then paste it into this other website and it sends you the file. He loves to figure out how things work.

Reid is awesome too. He is growing up so fast and seems like a little man now.

Tamara just got word from her likely boss to be that they want her in DC for a VIP position. Wow, I'm proud. And it is exciting on one hand with a new place to see, but scary on the other hand, mainly because its a big metro and also because the places I want to live are the most expensive counties in the country. How did this happen? I'm reminded once again of 'Once In A Lifetime'... the Talking Heads were so prescient.

So what else is going on? Men's group keeps me honest and faithful and hopeful. It has taken a more metaphysical turn with some recent additions. One young philosophy major and then two guys new with strange stories to tell. Tonight one described a mystical experience in a dream. The other says he came from a cult.

Work is going world-wide for me so there will be more challenges ahead. AU is gearing up. EU is ready to make a big decision. I'm about to ride a gravy train into the sunset related to work. I almost quit after year 1, but 5+ years into it and things are really shaping up.

why-are-you-here-

Yep, it's 1:35am, yep, I was just spending the last 4 hours hacking sql. Time to sleep on this little tidbit.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/robert-lanza/why-are-you-here-new-theo_b_781055.html

POLL

Cognitive-Theoretic Model of the Universe

Cognitive-Theoretic Model of the Universe

http://www.ctmu.org/

This is a philosophy that rings with me.

http://www.crunchgear.com/2010/04/22/i-hate-computers-confessions-of-a-sysadmin/

http://www.crunchgear.com/2010/04/22/i-hate-computers-confessions-of-a-sysadmin/