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I am back!

Just got out of BAH mental ward with new cornucopia of antipyschotic drugs tried and pulse therapy approach personally preferred updatred to medical team's preferences of fourier series integration of mood management and molestation ... or perhaps dangerously stupid or self serving command edicts ....? Good question. More later maybe.

Interesting jargon tidbit Confirmed with trusted source (myself and a social worker who provided me with occasional read only access to internet in full compliance with a reasonable risk management plan he debited to IT {Information Technology) and/or & V//!& {have to look up de Morgan's Theorems at wikipedi and/or freepedia, think something wrong with previous logic} and/or IS {information systems} ....ready????OLE!

Seratonin reuptake (modified by many antipyschetic drugs with which my medical staff and I have been using to tailor my treatment while engaged in voluntary military research) is a simple feedback loop of the form:

neuron ----| ^ |seratonin ----------|

This basic loop of the neuron talking to itself looks to me like a basic self seeding process. Apparently in me it can go wrong or wild, resulting in sleepless race conditions where I can get trapped within dillema mazes or analysis paralysis. For me a key to breaking out of the rage loops is to do some dishes for my mom. She has after all done plenty for me over the years while waiting for me to truly awaken and find myself and Jesus.

Sometimes it helps to rekindle personal playfulness rather than abuse by purring or mock snarling at the local cats before screaming and leaping. If you try this be careful you know who is watching. People keep talking about putting me in a state institution without internet access (assumed, I do not know inmates rights to personal access to information and internet) for a few months or even years should I skip off the high wire and survive the net.

Even/enough for now, more later. Later fellow freedom lovers.

WOW (What a woman!, TM pending All rights Reserved CP 0mri 2003i^-1/2)

What a Wikipedia participant, ambassador, or travel agent this new American in law at least and hopefully soon full citizen would make!! Too bad I am currently the underground troll ... although maybe I could get away with sending her an anonymous engraved invitation via registered return signature required from an incorrect address with a comically incorrect name, title, and alleged acronym organization. .... A bit of legal research required before I think about attempting it, obviously. Duh! Doh!

19 May 2005 (updated 19 May 2005 at 01:51 UTC) »
Dreaming of California Kimmie? Nope, neither she nor the other jet mechanic ladies. They long gone, delivered loots and scooted or relaxed to the next sequence of MAs....MIAs?? Phenomenal. Was she Northern, Southern, or American Korean? I will possibly let somebody know should we ever meet at a Squadron Reunion Picnic and jointly agree upon a public/private key structure with proper bit rot bozo gradients and artwork overlays to feed preprocessor for ghoscriptiption or laser ectching proper space jamboree dollars. (Fake of course, you get $3 fake for five authentic dollars.) We give you a kickback each time you report karma and/or luck when it is used for coin tosses. Later.

Dream Job or merely a tired man's mirage skipping a few times of the lakebed?

Cert Stat Update

Finished evaluating dorward. In my current context he is clearly a master worthy of attention and emulation. I started tracing his cert network and thus certified azz as a master.

Got some dremel work in with my Dad. I held the parts while he dremeled. We (along with dremel, hand tools and power grinder) made a pretty effective part repair on his custom water pump for the cooling system he has been teasing me with. To make a long story short it has interesting thermal properties, hopefully I will have established a stress and thermal analysis capability (FEA! Fuck that hand calculcation bullshit ... although I might be able to program my 41cv instead of learning linux ..... no ... stick to the supercomputer plan for a while. Remember July Potter inspired a multiplex, multiplexed research solution to implementing an Edwards Comm Squadron style lazlan for our local first responders, science students, etc. etc. on a minicomputer (DEC or DG) style realtime interupt process combined with a massive background processing workload. Work the grant systems for economic development for seed money for a Coos County system distibuted throughout the local mighty itty bitty cities and local goat ropers, trojans, etc. etc.

Gotta go. The State of Oregon is cleaning my teeth me today. Thanks Oregon! Thanks also to Korea, the new dentist you trained and sent us does outstanding work!!

An Allegedly Positive Trend Developing? From sciencecommons.org

Columbia University open-access policy

University of Kansas open-access policy

New Berkely Science Publishing Policy

Creative Commons Spam Statement

I notice that the creative commons organization seems to be self selected (and thus possibly self serving? exclusively self serving?, criminally self serving? altruistically allegedly serving only others?) individuals. I am glad that in my initial adventure with online publishing I reserved all rights to myself rather than placing my work at the mercy of someone else's controlling authority. I wonder how long it will take before some more democratic organization allegedly working in the public's interest takes an interest in publishing a vetted copyright or license designed to protect my personal sovereign interests accruing from my personal work published in espace? Might be a worthy endeaver for U.S. Congress if they get a break from arguing how to divide the spoils extracted from the long suffering U.S. taxpayers .... maybe I will send an email for my Congressman's autoresponder to acknowledge before throwing away.

You know what else would be cool? If Congress required U.S. entities with legal status granted under federal authority to post pertinent information (such as who wrote and ratified the charter) prominently accessible on their web site. Call it fair disclosure or something along those lines. Could save everybody a lot of time coordinating with various Secretaries of State and other registration bodies and make it a smidgeon less likely that internet neophytes are participating in a new gold rush or wall street bubble scam. For all we know these faceless names on the Board are secretly in cahoots with Al Quada to discredit or slow down the globablly emerging freedom restoration projects. How to pick winners and losers in the face of self serving disinformation campaigns? That is the question modern Jeffersonians must ask themselves as they frugally purchase cheap goods produced by captive and forced populations worldwide.

While waiting for Congress to save us (per capita U.S. taxpayers and consumers are probably amongst the most valuable and sustainable revenue producing properties on the planet and thus worth a little invested effort in attitude maintenance) from competing nefarious forces, perhaps an advogato/wikipedia style site could be tailored to successfully expedite, facilitate and otherwise enhance asynchronous cooperation in developing open science resources applicable or useful to open space interested systems engineers and information technology specialists' colleagues and teams in fruitfully participating in NASA's accelerated CRV program. Draft initial cashflow estimates based upon MichaelCrawfordgoogle ads prototyping and data as well as estimated book sales passed through to Amazon. Keep ads and book reviews to community pages, email or message relays, and off the science and technical data presentations. Expand and revise revenue operations later in cooperation with participating community members. Association with a research publishing site would be ideal for a rural economic development organization looking to facilitate access to high tech market for local and remote independent coalitions of cottage manufacturers pursuing the open source auto, aviation, space tech sectors. Perhaps an avenue to pursue establishment of the oft deferred Distributed Red Devil Booster Supercomputer Booster Network ?? Teams to be established by year, clique, interest, etc. as per participants registration instructions with the BOINC servers.

Drat! All my space related domain names have lapsed. Obstacles! Obstacles!

Actually, Fred at infopedia or infowiki or whatever he settled on might be interested in this opportunity. He is already set up for POV tracking. All he would need to do is add some kind peer review process (which I think the wikimedia software his infrastructure is derived from, has been evolving towards inevitably). One might wonder why not encourage the above organizations to support wikimedia.org's open university initiative .... duh! .. fair play pays off in long run, cheaters do not prosper indefinately .... that is the proposition my side of the info wars in progress intend to prove by sheer force of intellect, arms, creativity, etc. Thus it is obvious that freedom loving academic organizations now belatedly responding to digitial rights manipulation efforts of unscrupulous U.S. business and publishing interests would not intelligently embrace a corrupt organization established in secret by a cabal ruthlessly keeping suckers contributing under false pretenses defended by apparent confusion and chaos previously sowed and engineered into the community of unsuspecting contributors.

Actually maybe that is not obvious. Well say rather that in my view any academic institutions suckered into contributing to such a travesty is much better on their teams (better for me and mine) than my teams if I have any discretion in choosing or forming the teams to which I contribute in the future. Unless of course my current self assigned mission is to sow discord or confusion amongst our enemies.

Aha! Founding and controlling influences on creativecommons.org turn out to be Harvard and Stanford. Two of the leading "prestigious" institutions responsible for foisting the current packs of thieves, incompetents, and corrupt self serving networks of executives upon Wall Street and U.S. Corporations and influenced multinationals. Fortunately they claim to have roots/origin in U.S. Libertarianism. Excellent! No need to watch these groups of wealthy, priveleged, educated, people. Self evidently they can be trusted and will inevitably and altruistically succeed where Jefferson failed to finish his publicly proclaimed work.

Another positive trend?, semi positive? There is a menu utility on my xp accessory window which I just noticed while stumbling around trying to find the dos prompt (forgot momentarily I could simply enter cli or clirun? in the run command from the menu elsewhere) so I could verify the date. Looked it over and tried it out. It has only one voice and probably still needs improvement to allow a visually impaired person to be able to understand source code but could possibly allow a blind person to get into programming. Might need a new symbol library or two before it would help the visually impaired student we had in my OSU 83 Electromagnetism Physics sequence. I wonder if I hacked the dll's or voice phenomes to insert my own parameters if I could effectively copyright the resulting voices for animation clips or if the Microsoft licensing terms somehow makes this illegal? Probably better to explore using the tools that Malx provides reference to in this advogato thread Bazaar-style Movies Revisited. I could probably learn the required language basics and modify one of these if necessary with less effort than finding a couple of binary cracking tools and grepping (must probably find a binary switch first run binary dump through a synchronized ascii converter of some type before piping and directing grep to ignore 1's and zeros .... might be a good excuse to give RK a call, GL said he was pissed at me last time we chatted, (before he moved into the comm crypto money/honey pit) for phenomes? venomes? ???? .. sound syllables that comprise human languages because they are primitives our native hardware can create.

Life Gotta go to the beach with mommie and daddie.

Gotta cancel my self scheduled baptism, been studying the word with a local brand. Did not understand they required a "testimonial" prior to the baptism. They offered a private hearing with the church elders rather than full Congregation. Several problems. 1.) How do I tell which are the responsible elders and which are juvenile or corrupt regarding specific issues. 2.)Their congregation has already had some serious local tragedies from which they are in the process of mutual self healing as best they can. 3.)Is it really appropriate for me to risk dumping some toxic pyschic waste from my military research program in a dose that probably not I but the holy ghost will control considering the nature of public speaking and the control a crowd with authentic believers can exercise over a performer if they choose?

If I read the rules of engagement properly Jesus buzzed John the Baptist at least once the day before he got baptized while John had been rubbing fenders with the "elders" in charge (the corrupt rule worshippers that Jesus was sent to notify the rules had been restored to God's will and free choice for all of us, not just the wealthy and powerful) to soften them up a bit and prepare the general population for arrival of the phophecised Christ. (14*3 generations for the majick number types). Now since they were both instrumental saints while I am just an occasional believer in the course of some personal (sovereign) public and private (secret) military and economic research, I figure some caution is in order. Insufficient testimonial might lead to me dropping dead for lack of authentic participation while too much might result in the holy ghost shorting me out for the protection of the local flock. Better to let some bozo bits decay over the next few months or years and evaluate the results while heading back to a known comfort zone .... might have some things in common with the seventh day adventists or the mormons, had grandparents big into both.

ps:cc:carnivore:USAF Systems Command:Air Force Flight Test Center:ENRD;ngo rural development southern oregon coast, oneword=bible proof:There exists a vs. for which I have not yet read the appropriate context and perequisites which directs a faithful believer to take all that is good as from GOD and incorporate it into the word. Other vs. may be interpreted easily as ignore the bad if possible and increase the good. Personal thought control and management is advised and/or directed for "~as a man thinks he is/becomes~". Another vs. states be quick to listen, slow to speak, slower? to anger. So then when a boy is done listening, a man has started to speak, at what percentage of guestimated life expectancy does one anger and to what purpose shall that anger be put?

Perhaps the Latter Day Saints or the Jews (both of whom have additional books besides the bible) might have some insight regarding how the truths and insights obviously existing within the Torah, Koran, and the Book of Mormon might be merged into the bible .... while devaluing or discounting the obvious errors (obviously multiple context dependency require robust diverse techniqes for appropriate ensemble trending) to assist belief management specialists with helping students avoid the potential carnage available from corruptly or erroniously applied lesson plans and/or curriculums, regimes, households, prisons, boot camps, hell weeks, rituals, majick words, evil forces (closely matched peer teams, outcomes iffy) etc. Alternatively we (my team, obviously not all elements in theater or excercise) could ignore the Moslems to the extent possible and explore intelligent design theory in the context of modern systems and chaos theory and see if the obvious error erasure redundancy coding techniques that shake out of the bible have any application outside neurology and metaphysics ... say regarding probability/information/goods distribution in capillary intensive systems levels. Might prevent a stroke or two if grandams get their imported bon bons or returning choculate covered army ants on time for a change.

Had an interesting discussion on the beach with my Dad today. If anyone is interested he did not know what SR71 pilots called themselves either but he agreed with me that regardless of what the political high command was trying to accomplish by the public relations stunt of attempting to issue them astronaut wings or branding, they probably do not consider themselves fake astronauts and might justifiably take offense with the clueless attempting to call them such for whatever extraneous marketing effort nonessential to the "war effort" that the brass came up. In short, you cannot control the dreck broadcast over the air waves but with sufficient effort (possibly externally motivated) you can possibly control personal assimilation and/or regurgitation.

Incidentally, my email addresses are still highly unreliable. I check my chat page at Wikipedia (yes that monstrousity) occasionally (say 2-4 times a year) or I can be reached in person at U.S. 541-396-5262. That is a land line so you may get an answering machine or no response.

Reaction Notes http://dm93.org/z2001/FractalAccounting provided by http://www.advogato.org/person/connolly/diary.html?start=23 looks interesting .... I will check later, I promised myself some basketball using the community facilities tonight

http://www.advogato.org/person/roozbeh/diary.html?start=36 provides http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Votes_for_deletion/Iranian_physics_news and http://freethoughts.org/archives/000663.php

The above might be interesting reading from the standpoint of how is Wikipedia doing (pulling out from its initial dive into deception and self serving corruption at the top cabal or sinking?) and also what kinds of posts and how will they look if democratic radicals begin making inroads into the Americal Theocratic power structure as American Religious Leaders Attempt to expand their influence abroad.

Maybe I will datamine this elanthis"s journal some day (http://www.advogato.org/person/elanthis/diary.html?start=261) to see if he has further thoughts available on other distribution brands, technologies, techniques, errors, etc. should I ever ... actually before the end of the year as I am supposed to be starting to build my initial link directories for candidate free engineering components as a draw for my oft allededly impending commercial site. I have sitting in my shop now a dremel, a backup power supply, a server, a test machine, mucho useful scrap, some product ideas, prototypes, and production materials. Every thing but some get up and go. Got a dinner date with a local entrepreneur who keeps flattering my ego and some assignments that keep me involved with a local action citizens committe that could evolve into local interaction with first responders, inventers, businessman, and citizens interested in economic development ... so maybe I will find some gumption sometime soon.

kibitzing, I have no idea what discussion is in progress and did not attempt to find the entry from fzort to which this is obviously an intelligent responsive observation on the part of zeenix who articulates the standard pattern of over specialized unsocialized foolish thinkers everywhere throughout the ages from bricklayers to ditch diggers, privates to princes, prophets to feral children, Ayn Rand to Plato: I think about things interesting to me so I am a genius intellectual, they (all the rest of the masses of the body politic or local ecology) think do or say things I find boring therefor they are among the foolish masses

Proposed lingo update:

*fracker --- friendly hacker *cracker --- criminal hacker *hacker --- indeterminate, culture wars in process to acquire power to define a hack *slacker -- see back to the future I cannot remember actual acronym *thacker -- thinking hacker ... i.e. zeenix or plato.

Definitely check this out someday while in the mood for some heavy lifting. i.e. Decide to start getting prepared to participate in some mailing lists while attempting systems integration. Might be useful to data mine <person>jamesh</b>'s journal in case this is not an anomaly and he continually bleeds information useful to general audiences.

For later:http://www.advogato.org/person/ole/diary.html?start=65 allegedly regarding holographic data storage

shlomif offers some thoughts on morality, war, or something. At the moment I am full up on Christian connundrums (cc: noted for futher blither blather) but perhaps it will provide some insight regarding the Israeli and/or Jewish view of how to maintain and grow civilization amidst constant conflict. I have so noted it mentally for future reading: http://www.advogato.org/person/shlomif/diary.html?start=227

dorward Noted for future certification evaluation:http://www.advogato.org/person/dorward/diary.html?start=32

26 Apr 2005 (updated 26 Apr 2005 at 04:14 UTC) »
Recentlog Reaction Notes Fair Warning ... a bit lengthy, rambly, subtle, and yes possibly even opaque. Incredibles and Battlezone Two procurement fiasco elided. Home^6 A space oddity by David Bowie.
26 Apr 2005 (updated 26 Apr 2005 at 04:20 UTC) »
Recent Log Reaction Notes

apenwarr on MontrealOne of these days I shall have to contact think with an opportunity for a road trip, not to our normal destination of the Oregon Coast or Boise, Idaho. No, a real road trip. As a former/current Canadian American he should be uniquely qualifed as a native tour guide to show me Montreal and other parts of Canada in a light that apenwar might find worthy and educational as I pursue enhanced status within hackerdom. If he is not available for a road trip maybe we can work on his homestead. I still owe him about a quarter of the former Irwin Consulting office. Maybe he can teach me something about medical knowledgebases while we work on his place or we can setup the three or four obsolete CAD systems he bought as salvage from me during my bankrupcty liquidiation phase. Might be fun to run some benchmarks before replacing the entire network with a modern Dell or Gateway (or HP? or IBM?) for under $1,000. Could justify it economically if we had by using it as a home controller for the sprinklers, energy applicance monitoring, etc. etc.

Hmmm ... perhaps wingo has discovered a support site that could handle most of my computer neophyte, aquaintenances, friends and relatives with appropriate hand protection when I am not answering my phone or have escaped to the mental lab for a treasure hunt. Could be really useful when it becomes time to start recruiting supercomputer components. 8)

lloywood I guess I should start pulling my weight as a advocate of open/free software. I will post a link to this software, Satellite Visualization at space-frontier.org space arena (formerly return to the moon) bulletin board with a request for comments and evaluation from some of the engineers of the company representatives who hang out there. Incidentally, for anyone interested in hacking for aerospace companies, the recent RFP (request for proposals) from NASA regarding the CEV (crew excursion vehicle, modular shuttle replacement component of NASA's new proposed Systems of Systems approach to space exploration/exploitation) makes it clear that there will soon be opportunities for computer related fields involving CAD, CAE, DBMS, CIM, CAM, FEA, etc. etc. Not to mention the impending free engineering movement attempting to emulate the successful open/free/business paradigms pioneered by computer and mopar (motor parts, hot rods, home built) enthusiasts worldwide.

Cool! <person>jpick</jpick> is considering exercising OceanStore. He discusses reasoning and related interests a bit here Perhaps by the time I am ready with a few strategic intelligent questions and a couple more processing nodes he will have answers or sufficient experience to further refine the head scratching. I certified him journeyer so I can find his advogato diary when I need inspiration. Hmm ... I will have to go over the xen site he provides thoroughly when I have time. Maybe xen eliminates the need for excessive or unavailable extra processing nodes in early testing phases.

Inkscape URLs courtesy bwh http://www.advogato.org/person/bwh/diary.html?start=13 http://games.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/04/24/1316212&tid=209

Reading list that looks interesting courtesy lucasr http://www.advogato.org/person/lucasr/diary.html?start=13

Source for a scheduler courtesty of vab http://www.advogato.org/person/vab/diary.html?start=96 http://freshmeat.net/projects/cpcd/

Interesting erratic behavior in email delivery and sending combined with bizarre xp behavior leads me to believe that I am once again supporting excessive spyware and perhaps some competing versions of carnivores. Nice kitties. 8)

15 Apr 2005 (updated 16 Apr 2005 at 10:26 UTC) »
Reaction to Uraeus Discussion on Visions

Uraeus on Nasa's Vision My response: As a future space settler of America, it looks accurate, concise, and adequate to me. If you are also a space wannabe then it may need revision to be adequate to attract effort from neophytes.

<">The Riddler Car Game</b>

Riddler: *Do you know why NASA's _P_rivate _C_ontractors are careful about what they say in public?

Parents (transparent/free/open space tech recruiting target): No

Answer: was/is: Unless they are careful to be _P_olitically _C_orrect their desktop _PC_s (supercomputer access:SA:Systems Analysis) will not work politically correctly as per NASA prime contractor's (plutocratic customer) requirements. ->(PC^3) category riddle.

Riddler: *If you were a superhero named Chameleon, what would you be good at?

Shotgun Mom: <">Changing yourself.</b> Mikie: Configuration manufacturing/managment Dad: No. (Mikie's editor's mental note and acknowledge ->he busy driving)

Draft riddle:

Laugh In - Hotel California for Hyenas

Where hyena gets stuck when in despising laugh mode and cannot get out.

Hotel California - A hyena stuck in laugh mode & can not get out.

Interesting to note: The rules of engagement (bible) verses somewhere which I cannot at this time remember says something paraphrased as: Do not despise others for God uses the holy ghost and works miracles through the hands of believers and nonbelievers righteous and unrighteous alike as per his whims/plans. He is our loving creator. Honor and Glorify him and his works (among which we {each and every one of us and the flora and fauna locally} are included). Cynical despisers reap only as they have sown. Scorn and death returned manyfold.

If we come up with a better vision for NASA, perhaps we should cc the RAND Corporation as well as the U.S. Armed Forces and Homeland Security. The entire U.S.G. depends upon space technology and the body politic would like better government at higher quality and lower taxes. Especially lower taxes collected by force rather than user fees or volunary contributions.

lederhosen ... hehe. I have some tight green polyester sweat pants ... maybe I should follow Uraeus lead and be big green man or jolly green giant?? 8)

I am going to be preparing data flow diagrams and other project management graphics and databases for the Coquille Riverfront Green Belt project (being built primarily by volunteers with some assistance from grants as we can get them and pay contractors for dangerous heavy work). If anybody has favorate graphics presentation packages and project management database management tools like Harvard Total Project Manager or Microsoft Projects please send testimonial spam to me michael_irwin/delete/@/delete this/verizon.net. Addresses for applicable project mailing lists also welcome. Please, only close to releasable projects. I do not mind an occasional bug and accept the risk of losing my machine and having to rebuild from scratch but I do have some important things to use this software to get done and I do own a legal copy of Microsoft Project and used to be adequate in its use.

Gotta go. Dad is talking about mowing the grass and he has already walked a couple of miles today. Besides mom agreed to scout the courthouse regarding a Coos County Park Ranger II job opening for me. If I got to learn practical ecology to bid on a NASA ECLSS system I may as well get paid for it so I can buy some new computer equipment for my impending supercomputer node. Later lovers.

Decertification

Everyone who has been around knows that I have been playing troll and attempting to break the trust metric. No luck so far, I am stuck at journeyer. It has been a while but I know I found tk worthy of certification and that he provided a lot of useful information to me. Anything I was depending on links for in my diary notes is now apparently gone as it appears tk has performed a diary wipe, or else some system bug has deleted all his entries. I certified him as an observer to assure myself that he was not still in my cert tree (I vary it a lot at whim as I try out various attacks and attack modes). I hope the information loss is not too critical, I find I am less trusting of google and other search engines other control than I used to be.

Have a nice life tk

I will include you in my prayers tonight, asking that God to help you achieve your heart's desires as quickly as possible after you embrace our lord Jesus Christ's teachings and begin giving and loving others more than you demand in return from them. My personal experience is that things can move fast after you are truly saved and begin to act as a Christian rather than merely mouth the rhetoric from childhood without any study, contemplation, prayer, and diligent efforts to practice the commandments and new testament.

On Wikis in Education Courtesy of deekayen

Life

Met some interesting people. One works extensively with radio equipment supporting Coos Counties volunteer search and rescue and other emergency response groups, the other verizon. Both seem interested in LAN and MUD games and distributed supercomputing .... I wonder if some local yokels have discovered my advogato diary? ;) Little flash of paranois there I suppose. I am now taking geodon in a pulse to reestablish regular sleeping hours as a manic bipolar state has been identified and agreed to be active by myself and my parents. Found three apparent high end strategy games which might be construed as prototyping some initial models applicable to distributed cottage manufacturing related to various space applicable technologies.

Finally! Some hacker progress. Made some progress towards distributed supercomputing ... my red hat linux box now talks to verizon dsl properly via downloaded upgraded version of pppoe. Next I will install the Boinc client and begin background processing for various science projects. Also have to update my apache web server and get a domain name active so play with the central server (mysql based) .... or perhaps stick with an intraweb for a while? Decisions, decisions.

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