This is what my iPad widget looks like this morning.
I suppose the Royals are doing something that People doesn’t feel it needs to report on. Which, is strange considering the garbage stories they write about them.
death
Scary Shit
This article should scare the shit out of you.
Programming is a powerful and ubiquitous problem-solving tool. Systems that can assist programmers or even generate programs themselves could make programming more productive and accessible.
Our movie makers have made countless films about the dangers of A.I. and what that type of future would look like.
Battlestar Galactica
The Terminator
Just to name a couple of them.
Funerals
I’ll tell you why I think funerals are archaic and stupid.
It is because they are not about the person who actually died. They are about a bunch of people who knew the dead person and who come together to make themselves feel better about the loss of the person in the box. In a lot of cases, it is almost like a reunion of people who are connected and by the death of someone, have decided to reconnect.
Again, not about the dead person although everything may appear that way. The dead person really doesn’t give a shit about the gathering. In fact, they aren’t even aware that it is happening. What is the point of throwing a party for someone who can’t attend?
That is wrong to me.
RIP – Lou Ottens
Via Engadget…
Ottens started work on the cassette tape in the early 1960s. The way NPR tells the story, he wanted to develop a way for people to listen to music that was affordable and accessible in the way that large reel-to-reel tapes at the time were not. So he first created a wooden prototype that could fit in his pocket to help guide the project. He also worked to convince Philips to license his invention to other manufacturers for free. Philips went on to introduce the first “compact cassette” in 1963, and the rest, as they say, is history. But that wasn’t the end of Ottens’ career. He went on to help Philips and Sony develop the compact disc.
Death
Wow. I did not realize that I already had a category about death.
The reason that we are all afraid of death is because that we’re afraid of the unknown.
I would argue that death isn’t unknown. I’m sure we’ve all experienced it in some form or another over our lives.
Have you ever blacked out?
Have you ever fallen into a nice deep sleep where your head hits the pillow and the next thing you remember is waking up after that? No dream.
That period of time between your head hitting the pillow and waking up is exactly what death is like.
You obviously won’t even know you are dead. You will know when you are going to sleep but will not realize when you have achieved it. The only thing you’ll know is that you woke up. If you never wake up, then that feeling of knowing you are going to fall asleep will literally be the last thing you remember.
We’re probably more afraid of how we’ll die. I believe that is something that is mostly unknown unless you are suffering from a terminal illness or you plan to end your own life.
Ok. Not sure why I wrote about such a morbid topic.
I hope everyone has a super sparkly day. Whatever the hell that means.
Why I Hate Funerals
- They are a complete waste of time.
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They are only about the living and not really the dead person who doesn’t give a shit about what you planned, what you are doing, and how they are dressed because…you know…they are dead.
Death is a very difficult concept for most people to understand because they can only reference their current life. It is hard to imagine our lives when the switch is turned off.
You don’t know that you had a deep sleep until you wake up and can “know” that you did.
Not getting to wake up and to understand is death.
Deep. Huh?
