What a "lazy lima bean" i have been-- again...I have no excuses but I have discovered possibly a reason based on this article on brain fatigue----and the human body--interesting---or at least a scientific excuse for doing nothing sometimes-

http://www.sciam.com/article.cfm?id=tough-choices-how-making

My Segway HT is on the way---fed-ex'd out of the dealer upstate today and arrival in 4 days. I am lucky in that i

apparently purchased just prior to the tidal wave of orders that has hit the company.....from this point in time onward there will be i am led to believe quite a waiting process to obtain one....It is a bit worrying that i am going to have to train myself to ride--due to my distance from the dealer and my inability to get away from multiple projects we have in motion at the art colony right now...

"any brain damage from the segway accident?---eh...none that i can see".

I mentally refer to supportive facts such as---- there's a training dvd, thousands of people have ridden them, the disabled use them--- blahblah--woofwoofwoof-- and if i cannot get a handle on operating this instrument i should not be allowed in public at all since i am now an aged danger to society at large. Receiving the HT is the culumination of a long personal process, of evolving as a responsible human.... changing my demands on the world, how i inter relate with consumerism, how i envision the future...how i see myself in my later years----there are multiple reasoning's and serious multi-levels to everything lying beneath any item...I've designed my riding ensemble' which includes my beret and Chronicles of Riddick sunglasses coupled with my new small computer bag---combine all this to an old fat guy on a segway....this is what happens when one is raised without good social skills

Back in the now somewhat...I admit it has been strange the past 3 weeks--- I'd been wandering disconnected---as if there has been some lost to modern science, evil, Mayan alignment of the planets occurring...but it's been truly weird out there amongst people....This planetary weirdness has even touched my smartphone---it began randomly calling individuals on my contact list without my knowledge--and allowing them to listen in on what i am doing---"how weird is that MAL?" My scientific brain advises that i am somehow activating the phone physically. The weird Mayan side of my brain whispers that behind this is the work of the creature that makes trophy's of men...... I seem to be relating better and am more active involved in what is happening around me--minor achievements are a good sign that perhaps the astrological disruption has passed?

Thru Chaos comes success, i hope...we have begun the rehabbing the kitchen in our cottage. All is in disruption--- the supplies are here with the exception of the new cabinets which are in route...One tends to forget that tearing walls out of an old house means plaster dust in your bed, no matter how well you seal off the work area.... the kitchen project is to be followed by the rebuild of the back porch and then version 3.0 the garage into a studio and then theoretically the property is complete to our requirements. Right now we are deep in Chaos but hopefully this will pass as the new construction takes place...many projects are seemingly on hold awaiting their natural turn to be processed...We have planted trees, and we have completed purchasing, vacuum sealing and storing seeds for next year's growing season. We fill time composting, and designing our future gardening areas since we can do little else right now...my solar panels are still boxed in the garage but as soon as the exterior work on the outbuildings is completed i plan on putting them in place...i'm now allowing myself the luxury of thinking on how life will be once the construction of our personal art colony is complete...i can see it but not yet feel it...i am hoping, visualizing, and dreaming of great things to come.

It has been a long time since i found anything interesting to write about in the watch world---but this digital rascal made me focus like i was a baboon staring at a shiny object-- the SPACE WATCH---i love the design--but have to admit that a request for the current time, by a stranger, if i was wearing this would cause me to scrunch up my eyes and have to perform calculations in my frontal lobe prior to answering "it's uh 11:05----i think?"---still---we sometimes must give up comfort for a mucho coolio design factor...the manufacturer advises the watch will work for 50 years and that the structure of the watch is designed for human wrist--eye natural coordination---i like it simply cause it's strange, big,and has alot of activity going on--
http://gizmodo.com/5027065/ak-geneve-hms-automatic-warp-watch-is-nigh-indestructible-inspired-by-star-trek
My only other watch related concept at the moment is to discover what watch Mulder is wearing in the new X-FILES movie....Time was always a very important element in the X-FILES plot line in one way or another and watches were constantly displayed---a dress Omega was Mulder's watch in the series and first X-FILES movie, perfectly fitting for an FBI agent---i am interested to see if the Omega tradition holds or there is a switch to something new on Mulder's wrist...since i've read that in the new film Mulder has become somewhat of a unabomber recluse in the passing years only to be pulled from a hermit like existence to assist in this plot line......a movie needs a cool watch on the main character.

Join internet chats on subjects of interest to you---make a small useful item for the house out of common materials---read a book on a subject that has never interested you---- for just plain fun learn one new skill a year (it does not have to be usable--one year i taught myself how to juggle) disregard the news completely, do art of any kind or quality. Have a good laugh to rest your brain--- watch Will Farrell in Talladega Nights--the ballad of Ricky Bobby....great laughs and lots of brain rest......

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Ballad_of_Ricky_Bobby

I'm exhausted....and i cannot determine why...i've become much like a battery powered toy that has not been recharged-- i am operating slower & slower and more and more unsure lately...struggling---attempting with great effort, those tasks which were easy are seemingly as of late are now difficult to perform. The only execption seems to be doing art---Is this just me? --- Are you struck occasionally with this difficulty? As an experience it is much like the horse in those older cowboy movies that suddenly collapses beneath the rider in the desert with no warning..a condition to simply live through until it passes i suppose? I've internally ordered myself to refrain from complex endeavors until i have centered myself.....this does explain why this blog is going to be half assed tho..sorry...

this is a video lecture from TED that i had to share---the requirement with this item is that you watch it all the way--- Keith Barry confuses you by appearing to be a standard Vegas lounge act magician...until the end of the lecture---this struck me that there are times when real magic must hide amongst the mundane.

Remember watch it to the end.
http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/keith_barry_does_brain_magic.html

A link to an excellent blogger who collects and posts absolutely horrible photographs from true real estate listings in their local area---these photo's display the danger of a seller with the decorating sense of the unabomber combining with the photographic sensitivity of Pee Wee Herman the real estate agent. Excellent.

http://lovelylisting.blogspot.com/

The movie---the Abyss---staring Ed Harris..a deserves a definite place on the unappreciated top five. My favorite scene is when the crew is towing the underwater oil drilling platform to the crash site of a nuclear sub while the crew sings a county & western truck driving song along with the stereo...this movie never made it to the list of sci-fi greats but it is a perfect movie to sit on the couch and watch all afternoon during a day of bad weather....

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Abyss
Nothing else for now from the clinic for the insanely tired...try not to get in this state...

I sat smoking---considering---pontificating---caffeinating----pondering--my generation, the boomers, into the late last night. I began to consider the positive and the negative of what we have created, destroyed or sidestepped...as a hivemind. Of what i was proud and of what i am ashamed....both lists were absurdly long---i was disturbed to find that many items on the list were of both categories----we both produced John Lennon and we killed him? The lists were simply too long to bring into any type of proper channel for effective consideration as a whole. This project became sort of the chain link death match hillbilly wrestling event for my brain....back and forth and back and forth---i ran mentally-----therefore i picked two items positive and negative that i think (this is of course totally personal and not subject to any type of science whatsoever) are the single most important success and failure of my generation. Although viewed as a simple requirement this created a complete brainpan reboot...i had to remove items that i felt may have naturally occurred with or without-- the unskilled labor in the dark--production of we boomers---and narrow down the possibilities to those two that would have the greatest impact on both the world platform and our specific national society. so here we stand........

As always the human animal requires that we observe failure first...Winston Churchill said that "the American people can be counted on to do right, once every other alternative has been attempted..." So failure first....There was a brief moment during my generation's youth movement...when the possibility of actually reshaping American society and the effects of capitalism on it were possible. My generation in it's youth wanted to eliminate the accepted, work at any and all personal costs philosophy----demanded viable, creative work----demanded peace---demanded a government responsible to provide real, true social services instead of weapons development....we took a stab at communal living within a rather large back to the land movement....made the first stab at solar power, responsible architecture, permaculture, human crafting, free knowledge, and governing by consensus. Most of all let us not forget that marijuana was really, really OK within our boomer philosophy.....The most frightening thing, in my opinion, to the government as a whole, both parties, the status quo, in regards to the changes demanded by the baby boomers in the 60's and 70's was this wish to reshape society and government ---killing off the "man in the gray flannel suit' concept of life. This simply could not be allowed to happen--in the eyes of those who controlled our society....We were required as human tools----not human beings----so they bought us off with the gordon gecko, greed is good, the late 70's and early 80's generational bribe was offered to us...and the greatest failure of my generation is that we agreed...to accept this bribe..... we were easily purchased into wasting our lives and destroying our society by assisting through any means necessary, and actively pursuing, cannibalistic capitalism at any and all costs. We went from moon baby to soccer mom....artist to advertising---from dormitory dealers to voters demanding urine testing for 7-11 clerks----like an immoral customs inspector we continued to allow bad fruit into our home markets and we accepted this bribe with a smile on our face...we built McMansions instead of viable housing, SUV's instead of trains, walmarts instead of community markets...we failed miserably at building a mature, humanistic society to pass along to those who follow. This is especially painful due to the fact that we had the chance both as youths and then again when we came to power as adults....twice the failure, twice the shame. Please consider the multiple, multiple spin-off failures from our singular failure on this issue---Just consider that we, my generation, once we attained maturity, chose George Bush II as our leader and shudder at the thought----these spin offs are literally frightening when one begins to list the results---we could have done great things within our society, we could had done great things for our people and--we failed. I apologize.
The concept of the greatest success in regards to the future, the world and the best result of the actions of the 76 million members of my generation was very,very tough to settle on.....(please check the disclaimers) A huge number of possibles were on my mental checklist--but i made myself push only one button....and that is simply: the acceptance of the personal computer.

Pause for a moment and consider that the boomers embraced the personal computer....oh computing would have survived within the government and science...great huge machines crunching numbers for purposes known only to the Dr.Strangelove's of the world....but our success as a generation was accepting the possibility of the personal computer and the enormous change cycles which spun out of this acceptance....from changing access to information, to gaming,to the cellphone, to laptops to smartphones, to smart mobs, to the future of implanted human computing capability....The embrace of computing by baby boomers with their purchasing power, insured success, growth and experimentation of personal computing power throughout the world. Without the boomer embrace of personal computing global warming would still be hidden from us...other cultures would not have been able to leapfrog old tech to new tech--simply think of the expanse of knowledge you personally own thanks to individual computing and then pause, for this expansion of personal knowledge could easily not have happened... many of the great minds who created personal computing were of my fathers generation, yet it was the baby boom geeks,nerds,hackers, the gates's--the job's, phone phreaks, outcasts, stewart brand hanger-oners----who turned personal computing into a world wide institution against all actual odds and then were followed by the power of 76 million people wanting simply connection and expansion of knowledge---the great masses of boomers could have said 'so what' about personal computing---but did not. The mass culture of the previous generation did not grab onto computing thinking it fit only for science and geniuses.....my generation said that we wanted personal computing for the freedom, for the communication, for the fun, for the power, for the sheer uselessness of it, and truthfully to lose ourselves in the embrace of the net after a hard day of selling out based on our failure discussed above....my belief is that if my generation did one thing that changed the world totally and forever---it was the embrace of personal computing power and the refusal of the refusal of the unknown.

If i asked this question to all 76 million baby boomers--- name the greatest success and greatest failure of our generation----- i would get 76 million differing answers....all probably based on personality....for we are a personality based generation. I'll say i tried to keep my personality out of my answers but without a doubt i failed....you must know however it is not too late to correct any failure we might list out---it's never too late to make things right---it's never to late to say we were wrong---it's never too late until we are gone------

Be smart,work at happiness, try to take the intelligent path, learn something new every month, do art, write, vote democratic, question everything...plant vegetables...

It's interesting, to say the least, living in my town,---- Roswell, New Mexico---it's a great, small town, with excellent people and services, i love living here----however the best-- best part to me anyway, is being deep within the swirl of the alien vehicle crash conspiracy of the late 1940's. The amazing part is that my town has been integral to the plot line in my favorite all time show, the X-Files...In fact the final X-Files TV episode had Scully and Mulder hiding out in a motel in my Roswell, attempting to determine what they would do with their lives a perfect ending at the weirdness source------the latest news from Roswell is--that just within the past few days a strangely inscribed rock was discovered by a hunter outside of town--- people are linking it to the whole alien crash circumstance---i just am just beside myself in enjoyment of the weirdness of where i reside--it's perfect for me/us...aliens, the X-files, what more could i possibly desire----- i love my town.

http://www.roswell-record.com/print.asp?SectionID=49&SubSectionID=112&ArticleID=29836

well, i just built a charging stand for my new smartphone out of LEGO's. I love doing that kind of stuff with lego's when i accomplish something useful with them i just run around full of pride---crazy eh? ---- i'm also updating an older dell laptop, studying square foot gardening, ordering and receiving a ton of organic vegetable seeds, having a co-commuter riding into work with me, finishing the painting & detailing of the utility room, learning to relax more at work, making original art bookmarks, (yeah strange but actually art in use i suppose) learning how to maneuver around FLICKR, as well as studying and experimenting with my new smartphone and the new bluetooth keyboard i obtained for it...i never actually believed i would become so enamored, so quickly with my smartphone i am beside myself with geek joy over this item and although as with any new tech i am working at getting a handle on where exactly it fits in my life---i am really working with it on a daily basis so much that i cannot imagine being without it's mobile capability.

Items requiring more effort on my part include---rebuilding an old dell desktop computer to more modern specs---not getting wrapped so tight about house remodeling projects---redoing our garage into a studio for my wife---watching anime dvd's that have backed up (which requires sloth time)planting flowers, working more with my LEGO's, finding a third good place,like a coffee shop to hang out in, spending more time with friends instead of projects (that's weird for me eh?) and so on and so on----all in all i feel as if i am making progress at merging towards being a semi-balanced human being....

The best thing to happen was the change in the social contract which allows men to carry a bag--call it what you will--- messenger bag, urban bag, day pack---it's still carrying a bag and i don't care...i like to carry my stuff around with me....i just feel better with my laptop, glasses, books, spare cigarettes, moleskins, pens, all my necessary and vital life stuff. Because i like carrying my stuff i have a pretty good collection of bags and i just received a new bag that was on sale at ebags.com. This Clive bag is alittle smaller than what i normally carry--- now i am taking gliding on the segway human transporter into consideration with my personal baggage and my smartphone can operate as my laptop if necessary--- this particular bag is pretty cool for all my purposes........

http://www.ebags.com/clive/merger_ii/product_detail/index.cfm?modelid=95689

Being always on the lookout for weird new shoes I came across these Chinese--(actually worn by Chinese people that is, as compared to export product) sneakers...I have not really investigated these much as of yet or where to find them--- but i am already enamored by the design....they are very, very utilitarian and interesting as a new variety of weird shoe for me to wear..and upset the people around me...I'll find out more about these and then.

http://www.ospop.com/

Shades of Serenity---here's a link to an article on Chinenglish---i love it that this fact follows science fiction. One of the major and i thought most intelligent factors involved in the Serenity tv shows and movie was combining chinese and english as the lingua of the future.....I really enjoyed the blending of languages in the dialog of Serenity---especially cursing in Chinese, since it is a much,much better language to curse your enemy, or circumstances with than English could ever attempt to be------ this entire concept appears to be closer to us than we realize. The concept of blended languages in the future was first developed in Blade Runner--where the language of the street was a mix of Hispanic, oriental and English--that you had to be fluent at to understand at all.

http://www.wired.com/culture/culturereviews/magazine/16-07/st_essay
I found a blog NEHRU PLACE which discusses and displays in excellent photography the computer market of New Delhi---if you are interested in the world at large, computers, street technology, or any combination thereof you need to take a moment and go here...there are also excellent comments by interested readers of this blog describing their experiences and suggestions on Asian electronics/technology marketplaces. You need to go here....

http://ourdelhistruggle.wordpress.com/2008/07/09/nehru-place/

work on being content and happy it does take work you know.....think for yourself on every issue--and on everything you are involved in--- Do not believe big oil on any issue...vote democratic....garden, write, feed the birds, compute, wander the net, read, drink good strong coffee and smoke cigarettes while debating your best friends.....