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The Case For Being Off Your Face

Le cas d’être de votre visage

In case you haven’t noticed, the vast proportion of human evolution is for the most part, mediocre (dull) and complacent (lazy). There is a numbness that is a by-product of fear and consumption, mitigated only by coin and the fake whims it advertises its faulty and destructive end. Christmas approaches and announces (enounces) as early as possible its fake tribute to fake gratitude.

Dans le cas où vous auriez pas remarqué, la proportion de vastes de l’évolution humaine est pour la plupart, médiocres (terne) et complaisant (paresseux). Il ya un engourdissement qui est un sous-produit de la peur et la consommation, atténuée seulement par pièces de monnaie et les caprices de faux il annonce sa fin défectueux et destructrice. Noël approche et annonce (enounces) le plus tôt possible son tribut à la gratitude de faux faux.

Why else would we so infatuated with the failings of our heroes? Surely, it serves to abate our lack of concern and justify our own (lack of) morality. By ridding ourselves of heroes, we conveniently excuse ourselves from any form of heroism.

Sinon, pourquoi serions-nous si entiché de les défaillances de nos héros? Sûrement, elle sert à réduire notre manque de préoccupation et de justifier nos propres (absence de) la moralité. En nous débarrassant des héros, nous nous excusons commodément de toute forme d’héroïsme.

Instead, we pay homage to a thing called the economy (dollar) as it tho t’was a thing correctly indicating our esteem for those we (assert we) love. For heaven help us (tho it won’t), should the economy not be allowed (aloud) to thrive to the power of infinity.

Au lieu de cela, nous rendons hommage à un truc qui s’appelle l’économie (le dollar), car il Tho C’ÉTAIT une chose correctement indiquant notre estime pour ceux que nous (nous affirmons) l’amour. Pour le ciel nous aider (quoique ce ne sera pas), l’économie devrait pas être autorisé (à haute voix) de prospérer à la puissance de l’infini.

To be removed from this obsessive insanity is almost impossible. You have to be off your face (and open to a purer world view); to entertain hope of even a modicum of enlightement. Children starve, adults too. It is such a waste. But a cure has always been declared economically unviable. Perhaps we are destined for extinction, since our gains never seem to fill the aching gap that eats away at us. Cancer? Perhaps that is a fitting random response. No one can say, and as a result, no one does.

Pour être retiré de cette folie obsessionnelle est presque impossible. Vous devez être de votre visage (et ouvert à une vision plus pure du monde); pour divertir espoir de même un minimum de Enlightement. Les enfants meurent de faim, les adultes aussi. C’est un tel gaspillage. Mais un remède a toujours été déclaré non viable économiquement. Peut-être que nous sommes destinés à l’extinction, puisque nos gains ne semblent jamais à combler le vide douloureux qui ronge nous. Cancer? Peut-être est une réponse appropriée au hasard. Personne ne peut dire, et en conséquence, personne ne le fait.

Nonetheless, it helps if you sing, and it helps if you are off your face.

Néanmoins, cela aide si vous chantez, et ça aide si vous êtes hors de votre visage.

Pourquoi vous devriez ne jamais jeter le bébé avec l’eau du bain, ni comme vous faites maintenant, tuer le bébé et le culte de l’eau du bain.

I Used To Be A Christian And I’m Glad I Was.

J’étais un chrétien et je suis content.

I used to be a Christian and I’m glad I was. Christianity yielded more benefits than less. For example, if I hadn’t been a Christian I would not have encountered so many wonderful people. Especially wonderful were the one’s that had no idea they were wonderful. Sure there was hypocrisy, as there still is now, but less so. But I had always looked for an excuse to choose forgiveness over judgement, and mercy over vengeance (and similar…). And then I encountered Larry Norman, and everything went up a gear.

J’avais l’habitude d’être un chrétien et je suis content. Le christianisme a donné plus d’avantages que de moins. Par exemple, si je n’avais pas été un chrétien, je n’aurais pas rencontré tant de gens merveilleux. Surtout merveilleux ont été les années qui n’avaient aucune idée qu’ils étaient merveilleux. Bien sûr, il a été l’hypocrisie, car il est encore présent, mais moins. Mais j’avais toujours cherché une excuse pour choisir pardon sur le jugement et la miséricorde sur la vengeance (et similaires …). Et puis j’ai rencontré Larry Norman, et tout est allé à la vitesse supérieure.

Now I like my music. In fact I am very much defined by it. So when I heard Larry Norman for the first time, all sorts of bells went off. In spite of my many-splendored and mentally-irregular musical tastes, Larry was like glue to them, reinforcing them. The first live concert I ever attended was a Larry Norman ‘unplugged’ one. That was probably 1979 and it took 20+ years for me to attend my next concert. That was Don McLean and I was so surprised when he sang ‘Crossroads’ as that song had me at 15. A Rickie Lee Jones concert would have been first but, sadly, that concert was cancelled. I still have the ticket somewhere amongst the rubble.

Maintenant, j’aime ma musique. En fait, je suis très défini par elle. Alors quand j’ai entendu Larry Norman pour la première fois, toutes sortes de cloches partit. En dépit de ma colline de l’adieu et mentalement-irréguliers goûts musicaux, Larry était comme de la colle à eux, en les renforçant. Le premier concert live que j’ai jamais assisté a un Normand de Larry débranché ‘un. Cela a probablement été 1979 et il a fallu 20 ans et + pour moi d’assister à mon prochain concert. Ce fut Don McLean et j’ai été tellement surpris quand il a chanté «Crossroads» comme cette chanson m’a eu à 15 ans. Un concert de Rickie Lee Jones aurait été le premier, mais, malheureusement, ce concert a été annulé. J’ai encore le ticket quelque part parmi les décombres.

So Larry reinforced Christianity by reinforcing and re-adjusting my world view. (At this point it is safe to say that Christianity is only readjusted by the dollar – becoming more and more judgement- and vengeance- oriented, rendering unto the Caesars of fear (spawning hatred) and consumption (spawned of the dollar) – such a waste. [ed: better as a footnote? {mind your business!}] (Bracket checker?)

Alors Larry renforcé le christianisme en renforçant et en ré-ajuster ma vision du monde. (A ce stade, il est sûr de dire que le christianisme est seulement réajustée par le dollar – devient jugement et de plus en plus de vengeance orientée vers le rendu des Césars de la peur (la haine de ponte) et de la consommation (engendré du dollar) – un tel des déchets [ndlr:. meilleure en bas de page {l'esprit de votre entreprise!}] (Bracket Checker)?

My world view, my serious world view (you gotta laugh!) it was just that ‘do unto others’ thing, a lot of cheek turning, forgiving and remembering, the stuff that all the other ‘wise’ religions say – the heroic quest – the many-splendored smell of the thing. And here was this Larry Norman guy singing it. Well bless my cotton socks, wrap me up in towels and feed me to the mendicants!, knock me down with a feather and call me Bruce!

Ma vision du monde, ma vision du monde sérieux (! Tu dois rire) c’est juste que «faire à autrui ‘chose, beaucoup de tourner la joue, de pardonner et de se souvenir, les trucs que tous les autres« sages »que les religions disent – la quête héroïque – l’odeur colline de l’adieu de la chose. Et voici ce qu’il Larry Norman gars chantant. Eh bien bénir mes chaussettes en coton, moi de conclure en serviettes et me nourrir aux mendiants!, M’abattre avec une plume et appelez-moi Bruce!

I quit Christianity in 1980 and it took 20+ years to get over it, but I’m over it; over it and glad of it.

J’ai quitté le christianisme en 1980 et il a fallu 20 ans et + pour s’en sortir, mais je suis sur elle; sur elle et heureux.

Now Larry has his detractors, and I wish them healing, for mercy still is better than justice, forgiveness than vengeance et al, so busy measuring darkness, missing the light. There is a bit of me in all of them, so by my will, they are forgiven.

Maintenant, Larry a ses détracteurs, et je leur souhaite la guérison, la miséricorde est toujours mieux que la justice, le pardon à la vengeance et al, tellement occupé à l’obscurité de mesure, la lumière manque. Il ya un peu de moi dans chacun d’eux, donc par ma volonté, ils sont pardonnés.

[I recently discovered I am of French ancestry (circa 14 something) so am including paragraph by paragraph French translation a la google translator, unabridged - make of it what you will - adjust your algorithms accordingly - free faulty - as opposed to fault-free - French tuition]

[J'ai récemment découvert que je suis d'ascendance française (vers 14 quelque chose) je le suis aussi par la traduction, y compris le paragraphe du paragraphe française d'un traducteur de La google, intégrale - en faire ce que vous voulez - ajuster vos algorithmes en conséquence - sans défaut - par opposition à sans faute - les frais de scolarité français]

If this meandering drivel has adjusted your emotion state in any positive way, please check out kiva.org for added warmth. Ditto if the result was negative. :)

Si ce radotage méandres a ajusté votre état émotion en aucune manière positive, s’il vous plaît consulter kiva.org pour plus de chaleur. Idem si le résultat était négatif. :)

Peace out law abiding citizen cain abel bayonet.

Citoyen respectueux de la Paix à baïonnette respectueux Cain Abel.

(which just goes to show how easy it is for things to get lost in translation – lol – hehe)

(qui va juste pour montrer combien il est facile pour des choses à se perdre dans la traduction – lol – hehe)

think ln think

=Introduction=

==Origin==

Pascal’s triangle was invented by [[Blaise Pascal]] during his autistic period. Intending to prove that the shortest distance between two points was a metric foot, he stumbled upon the following pattern achieved by adding the sum of the other to the one before and just a jump to the left.

                 1
               1   1
             1   2   1
           1   3   3   1
         1   4   6   4   1
       1   5  10  10   5   1
              :    :
 

Blaise got the idea for this triangular configuration while watching light bulbs flash on the family Christmas tree. (When one of the bulbs accidentally landed on his head he came closer to discovering gravity than a cure for cancer, but managed to avoid both with unequal dexterity.)

=Applications=

The uses of this triangle are one of none and many. While most uses have been documented, others have been in held in trust by deceased members of the [[Da Vinci Code of Ethics]]. Hence the obtuse smile on the [[Moaning Lisa]]’s poker face.

==Navigation==

Provides a tracking overlay for relocating ships and socks loitering in the [[Bermuda Triangle]].

==Mathematics==

It can be used to determine the coefficients of algebraic equations having many solutions for

where and is all pastry and no meat.

It has also been used to prove that “89 is really 99″ but this is more of a theological statement and thus not subject to mathematical [[rigor mortis]].

==Music==

Can be played in any orchestra having as many violins as violinists, as long as the music isn’t too square. This is especially true when [[Mars trine Venus]]. The use of Pascal’s triangle in orchestral pieces has fallen from favour since very few musicians have ever mastered it.

==Military==

Was used in the [[Golf War]] to triangulate the location of missing [[birdie|birdies]] and [[bogey|bogeys]].

An effective method of killing the enemy is to lure them into Pascal’s Triangle with the promise of lots of virgins and then drop lots of virgins on top of them from a great height.

==Ecology==

By joining four triangles to form a pyramid it is possibly to locate water in any river as long it’s not the Nile.

==Software Engineering==

When applied to software that has run adrift of its specification, Pascal’s triangle (also known as the holy trinity of the [[Model-View-Controller|MVC]], as it is referred to by the [[Gang of Three]]) allows you (or your kin) to reverse engineer all your classes back to a single series of poetic [[goto]] statements.

[potential satire alert level pi]

For starters you need to identify who needs to know how to write a self-help book.

These people should naturally have some form of self-help to offer.

It follows also that they have managed to help themselves in some manner.

It edges closer to inferring, on their part

some breakthrough some make do
some access (via regress?)
some magic some potion
some retrieved emotion
via a road less trod
and (in some manner) odd
of dreams and lost things
and the rebuilding it brings
might take intoxication
to rewake imagination
and let inner cremations
become new creations
some new things to cherish
some old things to perish
or join and entangle
strottle and dangle
diverting a whim
with vigour and vim
some colour, some style
some summer some smile
of hips that could swivel
and all manner of drivel
could well be the manner
that a well thrown spanner
or some other such tool
might rally the fool
to whisper to those
that the fool hath chose
and smuggle a hint
within a breath mint
that within death and despair
there is laughter and care
and you really shouldn’t mind it
you just have to find it

And it this breakthrough, that they would put to print.

Well the simplest thing would be to direct them to the ‘How To Write A Self-Help Book’ section.

But of course, to make a book of it, that is another thing entirely.

For example, you could write about reading and books, explore the N-squared ways of reading a book, what in essense is a book?, how to evaluate and taxonomize, and at the same time rejuvenate and personalize the book’s context, using what you could call the ‘Wise Crack of Dawn’ book reading experience, and offer tips on how to read between the lines that are between the gaps between the other lines. Include some stuff that integrates mind mapping with tarot cards, and/or differentiates personality types wrt i-ching. Perhaps some mention of middle-perfumery could be noted along the way, ect ect ect,…

Then there are these other titles we are currently working on:

How To Read A Self-Help Book
How To Read A ‘How To Read A Self-Help Book’ Self-Help Book
How To Write Read A ‘How To Read A Self-Help Book’ Self-Help Book
How To Write A Self-Help Book
How To Write A ‘How To Write A Self-Help’ Self-Help Book (this work)
How To Read A ‘How To Write A Self-Help’ Self-Help Book
How To Overcome Your Addiction To Self-Help Books
How To Write A ‘How To Overcome Your Addiction To Self-Help Books’ Self-Help Book
How To Create A Taxonomy Of Self-Help Books
How To Spot The Deliberate Errors In A Self-Help Book For Dummies
ect ect ect

[other titles to follow]

[potential satire alert level pi - x; 0<x<pi/2]

Suppose a single drop of rain falls from a cloud base of height of H km. Suppose that at an above-ground height of h metres, it has diameter d mm. Suppose it falls alongside a tall glass skyscraper. Suppose the rain-drop-to-skyscraper distance remains a constant k metres. Suppose the sun is upon the rain drop unobstructed, at angle a to the ground.

Consider the reflective properties of the the drop, the glass, and the human eye. Consider the eneregies acting upon the rain drop. Consider other relevant factors and/or a few irrelevant ones.

Q1. How does the shape and width of the rain drop change over time?

Q2. From what locations and angles would the rain drop (or any reflection of it) be visible to the human eye?

Q3. What determines the temperature of a particular point within the rain drop? What is the formula?

Q4. Does the raindrop reach the ground?

Q5. At what height does it cease to be a rain drop?

Q6. What is altered by the raindrop’s mathematical/existential journey?

[no question is mandatory - no answer is wrong]

SAMPLE ANSWERS

SAMPLE A.

1. It stays mostly round, and gets smaller.
2. Locations of open eyes looking within the optical range of the observer’s eye, symetrical to the angle of the sun to the ground, and the glass building wrt to 2k
3. The sun. f(k,H,h,…) = g(f(k),f(H),f(h), f(…)) = 42
4. Yes
5. 0 + d/2 – x; 0<x<d/2
6. Dirt.

SAMPLE B.

1. It vibrates and gets smaller.
2. Near windows.
3. The average temperature of neighbouring points. sum(temp(points))/sum(points);inclusive
4. No.
5. 6ft 8 inches.
6. An umbrella.

SAMPLE C.

1. It gets smaller over time t.
2. Anywhere where view of the rain drop is unobstructed.
3. Atomic theory. f(fhHkd) = shit happens!
4. No, the ground reaches it.
5. 0.
6. The ground and a little weed.

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Get, set up a mantelpiece, and place upon that mantel-thingy only those entities you have created. Drawings, origami, assignments, animations, ect ect ect

Let the mantel-thingy separate you from the things you buy and the things you create. (Too much stuff, and too many distractions can hinder, encase, repress the inner you.) In other words, produce that which can be considered evidence of an inner you.

To start to create, simply grab random bits of unrelated things and ideas in your head and play with them, twist and transform them, constantly adding and removing constraints to them as you go. At some point you will have forgotten that you were trying to start to create. At any point you can examine what your mind has derived and pursue it further, or have another go, or do whatever else takes your interest.

So put only your stuff on your mantel piece, and add new stuff often. And cause no grief.

PS. The Internet can make a good mantelwall.
PSS. We are at our most improvised and adaptable when we are under constraints.
PSSS. Show off your mantel-thingys.

Describe the ball. Describe the car. Nothing else.

Suppose you were a Handelbar (notice deliberate mispelling)? Like a handlebar on a bike, or a swing, or a plane, or a trapeze, or a crutch, or a mouse, or a …, or a gavel, or a bow, or a saucepan, or a safe, or a blood pressure device, or a hand, …, or a guitar, or a rung on a ladder, or a suitcase, …? What sort of Handelbar would you be?

What sort of story could you tell? What sort of song could you sing? What sort of creature could you become? What sort of you could you acknowledge?

Well, you could explore your Myer-Briggs score, or a Tarot Reading, or take a Color-Test, or by any other means you devise? I hope you enjoy the connections you make, for a Handelbar is a very much a connecting thing.

Happy Trails =]

PS. And do give your devices and gadgets a rest! There are other senses in need of attention, if any drift you get. =]

PSS. the tarot url is http://www.facade.com/tarot/ if the tarot link dont work, i’ve lost interest =]

PSSS. I’m halfway through re-reading Tom Robbins book Jitterbug Perfume. Well that explains everything!!!

ADDENDA:
connections are made to be broken
connections are broken to be made and re-made

PS. I’m watching five cats, high on catnip, exploring this conundrum, while playing handelbar. =]

I like Gary Glitter because his voice was to me one of the most mesmering sounds to hit my ears at that point in my life. He caused me to look away from Elvis Presley! The voice, plus that that thumping Glitter sound and all the chanting. I was hooked.

In his voice there seemed to be this Elvis Presley vs James Brown battle going on. I have listened to a lot of male vocalists as one does when one is looking for his sound. His is right up there for me.

He did some really great covers and these re-interpretations are well worth a listen – ‘To Know You Is To Love You’ and Richie Valen’s ‘Donna’ to name but two.

To a male vocalist, he’s a worthy trainer. Listen: Gary Glitter – Donna

PS. To (would-be) musicians. Unless you listen beyond your cultural clique, to at least as far back as two generations, you wont have much to offer. Sorry. It’ll just be more of the same.

PS. To Gary Glitter haters: Stop projecting, go sponsor a child, and get a life. Troll!