• Eastern europe
  
• India
  
• Morocco
  
• Galápagos Islands
  
• Tibet
  

current mood: contemplative

• data forensics
  
• hyperthreading
  
• improved visual and auditory data fingerprinting: are there efficient ways to do this without complete decompression of the data object in question? Current techniques are clearly ineffective. I am of the mind that, given any song, for example, one should be able to take differentials between pieces. . .relevant inversion points in the music, select say, the highest high, the lowest low, and, perhaps, using a couple of additional heuristics to ensure that 2 songs using the same background like under pressure vs that other shit song that is not under pressure but uses the same background do not fingerprint in the same way. I am reasonably certain that this is possible.
  
• ben harper
  

current mood: awake

i daquiri

so many different things going on around me. . .inme,inmyhead. I feel like I'm on a roller-coaster and a tilt-a-whirl at the same time in some sort of closed space with bumper cars flying every which way and a man trying to shoot around the paper-trapped star with a machine gun to win his girlfriend a large stuffed bear made of things that are very bad for the environment and probably carcinogenic at least in california. . all of this in a 2'x3'x6' box. The g-force is too harsh, the movement too nauseating -- and it feels like I'm about to puke out what will soon be my recently imploded head; there is something about shaking and stirring oneself at the exact same time -- something bordering upon transcendence.[pauses, recognizes own self-aggrandization, chuckles, continues]A bizarre amalgam of self-love and self-loathing with happiness, sadness, jealousy, confusion, certainty, longing, disgust, hopefulness, despair, disappointment, satisfaction. . .and that's all concerning the matter of lunch. All added together there's a negation -- the mix self-neutralizes and in flailing about as I flagrantly mix and match bad metaphors and tenses -- the mix, the question mark sits patiently in space peering from vantage of curious serenity. ear-splitting silence -- the.all.the.whole::clarity.transparency.from.opacity:: -- an ethereal cosmos of the other continues spinning and shaking about and the slurry perches, reclining quietly. . . watching as though perhaps it saw itself.    ?

meg and I made up the following at the gcb, monday night:

She began:
Hetero lifemate

I added
Why do you fondle me so?
I thought we were friends.

current mood: chipper