The TurboNerd

The Daily Tweet-log

theturbonerd@gmail.com — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 05:03:25 GMT

My daily Twitter summary:

09:15 @reudaly I will. #
09:23 is still pondering if I should try my hand at NaNoWriMo. Maybe if I keep thinking about it, I can figure it out by Nov 30th. #
13:37 Science marches on. Implantable silicon-silk circuits are on the way, including implantable LED tatoos: tinyurl.com/y9yqcxj #
13:54 Yes I did. RT @scalzi I voted! Have you? #

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theturbonerd@gmail.com — Sat, 31 Oct 2009 04:03:06 GMT

My daily Twitter summary:

14:42 Won 1st place in work costume costume. Lorretta got 3rd. Poor Lorretta, she made BOTH in just a week. #
14:42 bah "costume costume" should be "costume contest". Stupid fingers. #

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theturbonerd@gmail.com — Sun, 25 Oct 2009 04:05:09 GMT

My daily Twitter summary:

11:28 is getting tired of getting $1000+ "estimates" for work needed every time I get an oil change. #

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theturbonerd@gmail.com — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 04:03:13 GMT

My daily Twitter summary:

19:04 Still at work. Its raining outside loud enough to be heard in the center of my office building. Gotta love Wednesdays. #

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theturbonerd@gmail.com — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 04:06:15 GMT

My daily Twitter summary:

15:12 Daughter's sonogram reveals: boy. Still on target for March 17 landing. Crazy daughter & son-in-law naming him: Hayden Franklin Tesla Eber #
15:13 Correction: That's Haden Tesla Franklin Eber. We now resume your program in progress #

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theturbonerd@gmail.com — Sun, 18 Oct 2009 04:00:41 GMT

My daily Twitter summary:

10:09 Woo hoo! We FINALLY sold the old queen-sized bed. I get half my garage back! #
13:39 Wandering Halloween stores. Nothing good yet. #
14:22 Mission accomplished. Cool Halloween stuff found. Ray Guns and Bubble Fogger! #
19:40 @taerin We found the bubble Fogger at Halloween Spirits. Cant remember where we got the ray guns. #

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theturbonerd@gmail.com — Sat, 17 Oct 2009 04:00:31 GMT

My daily Twitter summary:

15:57 Tweeting from my new HTC Hero (Android) phone. It rocks. #

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theturbonerd@gmail.com — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 04:03:17 GMT

My daily Twitter summary:

14:32 @jomadge Did they make you sit on the Group W bench? #

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theturbonerd@gmail.com — Fri, 09 Oct 2009 04:04:27 GMT

My daily Twitter summary:

08:33 We will. RT @ShannonSwenson Please pray for my mom w/ H1N1. She's alone, out of town and very sick #

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theturbonerd@gmail.com — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 04:04:08 GMT

My daily Twitter summary:

21:36 What a great work day. Worked 12 hours and accomplished nada. Off to bed now to get up early to try again. Bleh. #

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theturbonerd@gmail.com — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 04:04:07 GMT

My daily Twitter summary:

12:21 I kind of like it: RT @FenCon, The new #DoctorWho logo bit.ly/GtL7G #
17:55 Thought America's financial woes have turned a corner? Think again: tinyurl.com/yd8gnqp #

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theturbonerd@gmail.com — Wed, 30 Sep 2009 04:04:44 GMT

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09:08 One week anniversary of no caffeine, whoo hoo...yawn. #

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theturbonerd@gmail.com — Tue, 29 Sep 2009 04:04:41 GMT

My daily Twitter summary:

11:44 Loudtweet test. Please ignore. #
11:58 Setup and tested Loudtwitter with LiveJournal. Guess that means I need to tweet more. #

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define the title you want

theturbonerd@gmail.com — Mon, 28 Sep 2009 16:56:05 GMT

This is the TEST shipment you asked for

11:44 Loudtweet test. Please ignore. #

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What do you do with a Numbered, Limited Edition Star Trek Spork?

theturbonerd@gmail.com — Wed, 29 Apr 2009 02:54:03 GMT

What do you do with a Numbered, Limited Edition Titanium Star Trek Spork?

Why, you save the Earth, of course:

***Update: Thanks JoMadge for pointing out that I missed the "titanium" part. Fixed above.

I Can Haz Veep Sarah Palin?

theturbonerd@gmail.com — Sun, 31 Aug 2008 03:56:48 GMT

Ok folks in spite of my distaste for all things LOLCATZ, I finally broke down and not only signed up on ICanHasCheezburgr.com, but I also created not one, not two, but three pictures. I guess McCain's Veep choice, Sarah Palin, inspired me. Hey she is just a few months younger then me. Plus she looks like an old college girlfriend of mine.

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Meme - How weird am I

theturbonerd@gmail.com — Sat, 23 Aug 2008 22:26:58 GMT

So, theturbonerd, your LiveJournal reveals...

You are... 0% unique and 14% herdlike (partly because you, like everyone else, enjoy singing). When it comes to friends you are normal. In terms of the way you relate to people, you are keen to please. Your writing style (based on a recent public entry) is intellectual.

Your overall weirdness is: 17

(The average level of weirdness is: 27.
You are weirder than 34% of other LJers.)

Find out what your weirdness level is!

Meme: How long would you survive in space?

theturbonerd@gmail.com — Wed, 18 Jun 2008 14:01:57 GMT

Not bad:

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World of World of Warcraft

theturbonerd@gmail.com — Tue, 10 Jun 2008 00:53:14 GMT

Another hit for Blizzard?

Video: Memes & "Temes"

theturbonerd@gmail.com — Tue, 03 Jun 2008 15:44:12 GMT

This is a very interesting video from the last TED conference on the nature of Memes (copyable information) and "Temes" (copyable technology):

http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/269

If you haven't watched any of the TED (Technology Entertainment Design) Conference videos before you are missing out. They bring in some of the smartest and most interesting people on the planet in to talk about what excites them. Highly recommended.

Meme of the moment

theturbonerd@gmail.com — Sat, 17 May 2008 08:35:08 GMT

This makes perfect sense:

Superhero Team Quiz

LiveJournal Username

Your Primary Super Power

Cape?

Identitiy

Origin

Location of Head Quarters

Primary Costume/Uniform Colors

Why are you a Superhero?

Your Superheroic Codename

The veteran grim member of the team

rachelcaine

The sexist and crass but annoyingly effective one

tamisansnews

The bright-eyed novice or sidekick

sandy_tyras

The teammate that will eventually go evil or insan

taerin

The inept yet determined/reoccurring supervillain

sandy_tyras

The sinister Arch-Villain and team's greatest foe

markbhall

The perky civilian that keeps getting kidnapped

balthrop

How often does your team actually 'save the day'?

100%

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Spoiler-free SPEED RACER review

theturbonerd@gmail.com — Sat, 10 May 2008 02:26:45 GMT

I went to see SPEED RACER today in spite of the 35% rating at Rotten Tomatoes.

My review:

You should go see SPEED RACER. The critics panning it are idiots who have apparently had their "child-like wonder" glands surgically removed.

I think I know why some people think it is merely a bit of flashy fluff sans story. This is an old school Good Guys versus Bad Guys movie updated with bleeding edge special effects. This is the movie you would have dreamed up when you were 9 years old after spending a Saturday morning munching on Sugar Pops while watching Speed Racer and Johnny Quest.

The reason the critics don't get it is that the world of Speed Racer is a child's world: eye popping colors, insane visual effects, and cars, cars, cars. The effects editing is brilliant and is absolutely integral to telling the story throughout(Must. Resist. Giving. Spoilers.)

More importantly this is the story about...(wait for it)...Family Values. It is the story of what it means to be a family and what it means to follow your dream for the right reasons.

I know I'm going to get barbecued for this, but SPEED RACER has a far more complex plot and more pathos than IRON MAN. Don't get me wrong, IRON MAN rocked HARD. IRON MAN had better acting, but SPEED RACER has a better story.

SPEED RACER is the shiny two-fisted fusion powered world of the future that you dreamed of as a kid. Watching it makes you feel like you are a kid again.

If you remember the least bit of what it was like to be a 9 year old sketching out race cars in the margins of your school book during class, then you will like SPEED RACER.

Go Speed Racer Go.

Help with a Plot Bunny

theturbonerd@gmail.com — Wed, 07 May 2008 15:29:01 GMT

I am in the midst of writing a story and I have an unrelated idea that keeps pushing its way into my head and distracting me. So I thought I would throw it out to my friends to see if I can get it put back in a manageable Plot Bunny box. I think the idea is compelling, but I can't figure out how to turn this into a story. That is why it keeps intruding on my brain while I work on another story. So here it is. I would appreciate your thoughts and ideas:

We are often shown in SF that the ultimate intelligent lifeform is composed of pure energy. The hidden premise is that Pure Mind is composed only of energy and thus the ultimate evolution of Mind is a being of pure energy. However, no known forms of energy are self containing. Our only examples of life show that Mind is inextricably bound up with matter. It appears that to have a complex mind you must also have a complex substrate for that mind. That matter substrate, the brain, appears to be more complex and bigger the more intelligent the being. This is not a hard correlation. Several mammals have larger brains that show the same complexity as human brains, but they do not appear to have Human level intelligence. However, the bigger and more complicated rule-of-thumb does appear to be the case most of the time.

We know from advances in computing that smaller and denser circuitry is faster. Exotic fictional future computers like a Matrioshka Brain show this dual energy/matter relationship.

So this implies that if we want to "ascend" to a higher level of consciousness/intelligence then we will need to become physically more dense. This is not an unprecedented observation. The late Robert Forward's Flouwen (surely the coolest aliens in all of SF: surfing mathematicians) would "rock up" by pushing most of the water out of their bodies and hardening themselves into a rock-like lump when they had a particularly difficult mathematical problem to solve.

So what does this imply? If intelligence can make the leap beyond biology then it will quickly seek the densest possible substrate in a Moore's Law-like free-fall towards ever higher levels of intelligence. Ultimate intelligence will be at high density and will conserve its energy as much as possible. It will be very dense and will appear very dark from the outside.

Very dense and very dark. What if the answer to the "where is everyone?" question of the Fermi Paradox and the "why don't we see 90% of the matter in the universe?" question of the missing Dark Matter are the same? What if intelligent life did arise in the Universe before we did and what if that life followed the same path to maximized intelligence that we anticipate for ourselves?

The answer may simply be that the Universe is almost entirely composed of Intelligence. Where are the aliens? They are everywhere. Why haven't we seen them? They are too busy thinking vast thoughts to bother with crude little sacks of chemicals like us. We simply aren't dense enough yet to be notable.

Whatever Dark Matter is, it is ultimately Mind and it fills the Universe.

The Universe Is Alive.

So that's the Plot Bunny. Right now the only idea I have to turn that into a story is to have some University guys talk about it and have them react to the "monster in the closet" idea of the Universe being alive. I'm not happy with that idea.

So my friends, how can I turn this into a story?

New Tom Smith song - "I Had A Shoggoth"

theturbonerd@gmail.com — Fri, 25 Apr 2008 14:25:23 GMT

I usually wander over to the FuMP (Funny Music Project) when filkertom says he has released a new song. What did give us today? Pure gold:

So get ye hence and listen!

We made BoingBoing!

theturbonerd@gmail.com — Thu, 24 Apr 2008 00:24:10 GMT

Cory Doctorow posted the blurb I sent in:

Tim sez, "Last year International Pixel-Stained Technopeasant Day was created by author Jo Walton in response to remarks by Howard V. Hendricks opposing 'the increasing presence in our organization [the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America] of webscabs, who post their creations on the net for free'. Today is the first anniversary of International Pixel-Stained Technopeasant Day and the celebration continues. Authors and artists, including notable singer/songwriter Tom Smith, are again celebrating by releasing some of their works into the wilds. One place you can find them is at a LiveJournal community set up for this new holiday." Link (Thanks, Tim!)

Thanks again to everyone who has contributed!

UPDATE: BAH! This should have gone to the IPSTP community!