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Name: Eris
Country: United States
Birthday: 5/23/1982
Gender: Female
Interests: discordianism (no...really?), artistry...anything out of the ordinary...occult interests, quantum mysticism...science/magick for fun and profit. sex. drugs. rock, roll, classical, techno..a good read, interesting conversation, a fine day out in the world
Expertise: psychology, religious studies, bit of the hard sciences. multiple orgasms. my own nervous system.
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AIM:  AlephSix
Member Since:
7/22/2004
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wow. what a day. by all conventional accounts, just another in a series of many.
but (and the following may only make geek sense), wow. I rediscovered iterative functions today.
Which ties in to earlier currents of a chaotic and Erisian bent.
Which makes things beautiful. Also, I have rediscovered caffeine. This is helping immensely.
A pretty picture, for illumination of the previous points:
If you'd like the full version of the above, it's here.
Another not-terribly-exciting day of desk work + Eris + caffeine has
lead to many things, one of which is getting Excel to do iterative x-y
plots of chaotically oscillating functions.
[/geek]
Pretty, no?
I wanna use that in a photoshop. I love how one function defines both
straight lines and the curve of a parabola. This is why I miss math
classes, when you get right down to it. The beauty involved.
To
wit, I am so gonna use the above in a photoshop at some point. You're
all welcome to as well, of course. Were I more talented, or braver, or
both, I might suggest that the leftmost quadrant (the one that looks
like the Borg went Scottish for some reason) might make a fine angel
wing, or texture therein. Ah, I'll play with it. Try and get a higher
res version as well. If anyone really wants to use it (or anything else
math-related and pretty) for such a purpose, lemme know.
(for the math nerds, I used the logistic map, with r=4. for everyone else, look at the pretty graph in that article. mathematics is beauty beyond words...at least to me).
Speaking of prettiness and chaos (part the first): fractals! Go here and look at the mechanical gallery. I KNOW there's some photoshoppery to be had with those.
Sneak peek:
Speaking
of prettiness and chaos (part the second): big ideas are afoot. A spark
found its way in my brain today. Looking to nurture this seed
(and mix metaphors, but nevermind that), so I'll not say any more about
it for the time. Just use the time-tested Warren Ellis method. Soak up
as much information as possible, let it ferment in the unconscious,
then wait for something interesting to pop out of there. Dreams have seemed a bit more information-rich lately...
The future won't have a logo. | | |
| - Pro RadiiYour [break] concept is obsolete.
Ethnic antonyms will be the priests; ur-ban may or may not be ur-bane.
...the (h)our come round(round) at l(e)ast....
Quiet. You find it written in everyone's dreams. Internex. Nailogue.
all trademarks are the poverty of their respective owners.
feed me with your fuckstick,
I want to control the means of production.
gurgled workers machinery evens the status,
industrial master's flesh jutting prospectus
thrust those jaws, a "Fuck!" becomes
half crying, the post-industrial welcome.
here teetered, our young increases knowing
population exposed, expelled. Residue flowing.
wiggle room? threatening. to hell with your "feeling"
go down, then up, and find eternal spring.
you knew I couldn't stay away forever, right? I am needed. Again. Did ya miss me?
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| integration complete.
dichotomy dissolving - personalities merging.
we... are pleased to announce the alchemical marriage of Lucien Ambrose
and Eris Discordia.
as a separate personality, eris was lovely fun, incredibly enlightening
(at least for me), full of more than her share of good humor, and
simply lovely to behold. now, it would appear, this small bit of Work
is nearing completion (at least this stage of it, anyway), so let the
walls of self/other between us dissolve.
as is the custom, I have taken a holy name to
celebrate the new union, and can now be summoned as St. Yossarian the Nth, an it please you. An it not please you, kindly climb up a tree and go tell it to a squirrel.
thanks.
-lucien/eris
13 oct 2005
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| breaking news in the Eris saga upcoming....details to follow...
in the meantime, amuse yourself with this:
http://blog.wfmu.org/freeform/2005/02/dj_foods_raidin.html
(find yrself the mp3 link on there - make sure it's the deluxe version:
should start with the fox fanfare - or Google for DJ Food - Raiding the
20th Century....a must-listen, trust me ^_^ )
...(h)our come round(round) at l(e)ast....
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| in three parts...
Validation: A Stoned Sermon
Cultures that validate their elders possess wise old people; cultures that
invalidate them have senile old ones.
Cultures that validate sexuality enjoy clean, healthy and beautiful erotic
play; societies that invalidate it have dirty, exploitive commercial smut.
Societies that validate women possess strong, serene and intelligent
females; societies that invalidate them suffer dumb broads and bitches.
Societies that validate children possess cheerful, wise and responsible
youth; societies that invalidate them end up with delinquents and brats.
A culture that validates its ethnic minorities boasts of rich pockets of
exotic cultural variety; a society that invalidates them is divided between drab
suburbs on one hand and filthy ghettos on the other.
Validation is not automatic agreement with someone you think is wrong. All
forms of flattery are deceptive and, hence, invalidating.
Validation is treating someone with a respect that assumes that if they are
given enough information, they'll use it with their minds. Conversely, if
someone is acting weird or pissed off or self-destructive, validating attitudes
assume there is a reason. Usually such people are oppressed. A validating
approach assumes that if everyone will just get off their backs not many will
have to help them.
A derivative of Natural Law in our legal system is the assumption of
innocence until guilt is proven. When, as individuals, we keep that much in mind
while at the same time searching for the reasons for offensive behavior, then
our attitude toward others is validation. The opposite view assumes that
everyone is a social invalid until they prove they aren't. That is why so-called
law and order attitudes are frequently coupled with racism and sexism.
Assumptions about others are important because our expectations often mold their
response.
Your mission, if you choose to accept it...
Unleash the Fiend! Spew late-night revelations! Drink Jolt and coffee! Terrorize
mall-goers! Shave your pubic hair! Invoke your Dark Side! Vandalize everything!
Stand in the middle of traffic and dance! Return favors twofold and return malice
fivefold! Infest computers with viruses! Play Monopoly and cheat your ass off!
Make prank phone calls! Leave your fly open or your skirt hiked! Show wonders to
the dead! Start a radio station! Crack incest jokes at
family reunions! Warp out on video games! Shove weird pictures through
late-night book and video drops! Insert tiny propaganda bombs into
publications and newsstands everywhere! Defy TV! Denounce everybody! See
through everything! Place disturbing classified ads in newspapers! Promote
heavy drug use! Bleed on everything! Send your teacher's or boss's name in
to matchmaker publications! Let it all slide off your back! Pick up stray
telepathic thoughts! Piss in small, enclosed public places! Sling dead
things into mailboxes! Steal neighbors' pets and covertly deposit them in
huge grocery stores -- in the freezers! Toss money at people! Alert people
to their inherent beauty or ugliness! Put leaks in cups! Interrupt
transmissions! Disappear for a few weeks! Paint targets on cars! Copyright everything you see,
say, or do! Rant! Stare hatefully at completely normal and boring people! Compete
with your teacher in class! Stomp in quiet hallways! Pretend that you're
invisible! Doodle anti-Christian imagery! Streak! Revere the unpopular! Place
weird ads in sex magazines! Cough up blood when you laugh! Penalize people with
imaginary point systems! Absorb CPU radiation! Believe in demons! Put Gutenberg
to shame! Leave fingernail and hair clippings everywhere you go! Tip the service
generously but fuck with the management! Suddenly realize you're halfway down the
page! Feed dogs gobs of peanut butter! Send letters to Hustler about bestiality!
Play devil's advocate! Defy classification! Get yourself on TV! Shoot rubber
bands! Storm into bars and demand tap water! Untangle phone cords! Wear prison
clothes to school or work! Make a game out of your own pain and discomfort! Talk in your sleep!
Express interest in everybody! Drink blood, spray piss! Write commentary in the
margins of unpurchased magazines and books! Switch labels on boxes and computer
discs! Call a phone sex line from your boss's phone and leave it off the hook!
Start a church! Build a steeple! Lock the doors and shit on the people! Fake
illiteracy! Cross-dress! Hang out in locker rooms and lingerie bars! LIE!!!
Initiate breast feedings! Stuff your bra or your pants! Write several conflicting
autobiographies! Wear elevator shoes and religious beauty marks! Play with
mercury! Explore India Ink! KY Jelly is your friend! Write a contract denying ALL
responsibility and have everybody you meet sign it! Tell sick jokes! Be
politically incorrect! Pit conservatives and liberals against each other! Talk
about ki**ing the President! Start an obsessive and obscure collection! Grow
natural dreadlocks! Pick your nose on public
transportation! Get your hands bloody! Place various objects on train tracks!
Invent more origami! Try not to notice that everyone resents you! Make love to
anything! Make war on everything! Try to put every external organ in your mouth!
Be sleazy! Make up parables! Memorize mass murder facts! Develop a cramped and
psychotic handwriting style! Explode fruit and vegetables! Stand on bridges and
throw heavy things off! Make unintelligible phone calls to talk shows! Take
surveys! Release the Kraken! Become a hermaphrodite! Cultivate acne! Look normal
-- BE insane! Infiltrate cliques and then destroy them! Record all conversation,
save all letters, take pictures of everyone! Peep & exhibit! Leave religious
propaganda in porno shops! Take a deep breath! And...
JUMP!
and, part the third:
*borrowed, obviously, from everyone. you know who you are.
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