A while back I asked people on ExI-chat and SL4 to do the Tickle classic IQ test for a bit of a fun since there were alot of discussions about IQ, personalities and child prodigies going on. There are also a large number of seemingly very intelligent people active and lurking on the lists, so […]

Hank Williams… you’re fucked up on drinks, pills
and a broken heart. You’ll die young and wild,
but influence more people than you could ever
imagine. If it wasn’t for you, rock n roll
would be nothing more than benign and insipid.
Which fucked-up genius composer are you?
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This Is My Life, Rated

Life:

5.6

Mind:

6.2

Body:

7.6

Spirit:

6.4

Friends/Family:

4.1

Love:

5.4

Finance:

8.4

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Depeche Mode - Playing the Angel
Depeche Mode are back, and I’m impressed.
Most bands that stay active for 25 years or so start to get old and stale. They seem to run out of ideas. That’s why I wasn’t expecting alot here, even though I enjoyed the last album, Exciter, but I should have epxecting good […]

I’m a very driven person at times. At other times I fall into moody episodes where I just can’t deal with anything, generally this is called depression. I’ve slowly been able to manage it, the best part being that, even though hopelessness/pointlessness surrounds me, I now know as a truth that it will eventually come […]

The Age of Spiritual Machines - Ray Kurweil
Not long ago The Singularity is Near was released, which is Ray’s latest offering. I was interested in reading some of his writing before I decided whether to buy it, and found that the Lincoln University library had The Age of Spiritual Machines (AoSM).
Kurzweil is probably the most […]

Email tics I’d love you to lose
And for Jon ’cause I feel bad for bailing on our band plans (due to not enough free time): Productivity for the practising musician
People sometimes comment that I’m young for a PhD candidate, well 8 year old physics genius enters University
Anonymous donor donates $1 million dollars to the Methuselah […]

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From: yourself@the.future.org
Date: 200 years AP (after present)
Subject: Letter from Utopia

For those who have known me for more than a year - you’ll know that I always enter this silly thing called NaNoWriMo. The aim of which is, quite simply, to write a 50,000 word novel in a month. I’ve entered year after year, I’ve even bought a tshirt and stickers, but I never complete […]

Last week I went on a bit of a movie binge. I hadn’t been to the movies in some time, and I have some free tickets that are going to expire soon since whenever I go to the movies it is always to one that has “no complimentaries” stamped next to it.
So first up was…
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