Periodic Dosage Archive 2006-10
Updated: WASP Enlist God to Fight Communism
It is surprising to know, that UK and France have high percentage of Atheism. The top Atheist countries in Europe are: Norway, Sweden, England (not including Ireland), France, Estonia, Czech Republic, Germany. The worst shit godly states are: Porteguese, Poland, Greece, Ireland, Italy, Romania. And of course, outside of Europe, USA is the Jesusland and vast majority middle-east countries are almost pure Allah land.
- Today i watched The Prestige (film) . The characters are a fake. The story a concoction. The film a bore. The style unattractive. The fascinating theme of magic — fucked up. The film is based on the novel The Prestige , which is probably no good.
- Chinese linking rings , i had a set of this when i was a teen in Montreal in ~1989. About 20 cm in diameter.
- Ramanujan , first-order genius, with bizarre and incredible math formulas.
Lyrics appreciation: Beautiful Things, by Andain.
Added a painting of Lady Godiva to the page.
Wikipedia readings:
- Just discovered: List of Saw Traps , O, holy!
- Devices devised by human animals against other animals, including other human animals: Animal trapping
- Joy Buzzer , Chinese finger trap
- Elizabeth Báthory
The Art of Torture: a Photographic TourMost Frequently Used Elisp Functions
- Glenn Gould. Hate his humming. O, but his playing of Bach, art of the fugue, is supreme.
- 0.999...
- The Art of the Fugue
i did bi-phasic sleep for a number of years during early 1990s, and still do now and then. (basically, my sleeping cycle throughout my life is haphazard, that on average i live a 25-hour day and in general sleep when i feel tired, except when i cant (i.e. have a regular job))
my theory was that, given that one sleeps 8 hours in 24 hours, so that for each unit of sleep, one can have 2 units of activity. i.e. sleep for n hour, be awake for 2*n hours. Or, that one can divide the sleeping time for a 24 hour period into several segments.
I did this for 2 segments. i.e. sleep 4 hours twice a day, somewhat in a rigorously for 1 year or 2 in the early 1990s. My goal of these division and experiment was to reduce sleeping time. (at those times, i recall reading that the function of sleep is not known, and some source even suggest it is not needed. (this is incorrect as i know now))
what made a impression to me the most is that, that the body quickly adapts to it (2-cycle sleep), no less natural than regular 1-time 8 hour sleep. And, when it is time to wake up or go to sleep, your body will automatically wake you up or make you tired.
when i did the 2 cycle sleep, i think i was able to do 3 hours sleep twice a day, a total of 6 hours sleep a day. I didn't really tried to push this, nor having tried more than 2 cycles a day. (i was going to college at the time. Dividing it further becomes impractical with work or school life. But besides that, i never really thought that sleep time can be practically divided into so many cycles (with respect to human biology) such that each duration is as short as 1 hour or 20 min as described in the wikipedia article)
i read a lot about sleeping related research (in news, library) and about dreams (in particular lucid dreaming). However, my experiences is that, these readings are not comparable to the size and depth in wikipedia articles we have today. (nor the convenience, of course). If wikipedia existed back then and i've read, i'd be more ready to experiment with sleep and be more methodological.
Word Frequencies in Shakespeare's Titus Andronicus
Wikipedia readings:
On Copyright and its duration. Added to support living artists essay.
Finished reading Aladdin (with annotations). In the coming days, will go over and clean up the annotation.
Wikipedia readings:
- Youtube
- Futon and Tatami
- The Social Organization of Sexuality: Sexual Practices in the United States by by Edward O. Laumann. Buy at amazon See also time magazine article ( Now for the Truth About Americans and Sex (1994-10-17) By Philip Elmer-Dewitt) for a brief summary.
- Jeffrey Lundgren , a Christian leader.
Cleaned up: [http://xahlee.org/PageTwo_dir/Vocabulary_dir/200403_words.html A Word A Day, 2004-03]
Wikipedia readings:
- http://en.wikinews.org/wiki/US_declares_vital_interest_in_space : mother fucker George Bush declares that the space belongs to the US.
- Big American CEO Jeffrey Skilling (of Enron fame) goto → → → → → → Jail.
- Big American CEO Kenneth Lay (of Enron fame) , lucky bastard went dead before going to jail.
- Joseph McCabe priest turned atheist (1867 to 1955)
- Chinese Library Classification
- 8-bit clean
Cleaned up: [http://xahlee.org/PageTwo_dir/Vocabulary_dir/200401_words.html A Word A Day, 2004-01]
Feeling mighty sad at the moment. Because, youtube.com sold for big bucks to google, and am feeling worthless for not having done similar or already rich and successful.
In my life, the concept success is the bane. When i hear or read in news papers someone who is a millionaire, big corporate CEO, awarded for math theories, or otherwise famed for success, i will feel miserable. This is due, to my upbringings of my asshole dad.
XahLee.org Traffic Report 2006
- Recently, reading about Guqin (古琴), and at the bottom there are recordings of the instrument. Fantastic. Though, they are in ogg format and itune doesn't play them. Fuck Apple. Then, after some 30 minutes or so tech geeking, found that you can install a plug-in here: http://www.xiph.org/quicktime/download.html . The Ogg Vorbis format is coming of age.
- Polyphasic sleep
- Directed Energy Weapon
- ELO rating system , Go ranks and ratings
- Pascal (programming language)
- Windstorm
The Stereotypical AmericanAdded a book: Shutting Out the Sun: How Japan Created Its Own Lost Generation. by Michael Zielenziger, to the bottom of: Japan Culture
Cleaned up: [http://xahlee.org/PageTwo_dir/Vocabulary_dir/200402_words.html A Word A Day, 2004-02]
Wikipedia readings:
- Gunboat diplomacy
- Say, what's the difference between Chronograph and Chronometer? are they just marketing words? It turns out, they have somewhat precise meaning and critical history. Chronograph , Chronometer
- Hollow point bullet , the cruelty of human animals. (modifying bullets so that it blossoms out after impact.)
- Rotten Tomatoes
- Qipao (旗袍)
- Dissociative identity disorder
- The Great Red Dragon and the Woman Clothed in the Sun
- .dmg , Disk image
- Since 2003, Christians have killed about 654 thousand Islamics in Iraq. Casualties of the conflict in Iraq since 2003.
- Pangolin
- Anna Leonowens the fucking WASP and their mentalities. But i do enjoy the film musical The King and I (1956 film) but fuck the WASP and their mentalities. See also: King Mongkut, Thailand
- Braille
- ETAOIN SHRDLU
- Lorem ipsum
- placeholder names Metasyntactic variable
- Keyboard technology
- orb-webbing spiders Araneida
- Access Point
- Wardriving
- Asceticism , i'm a secular ascetics. And, my motivation sterm somewhat from a desire for emotionlessness and perfectionism.
Some notes about Content Management Shootout 2006
Annotated: Gulliver's Travels, part 3 chapter 7.
my health: been having chest pain: Chest pains.
Recently, been active with my a word a day
Wikipedia readings:
- Tropic of Cancer. The north most point on earth such that, the sun can shine directly above one's head. This point, forms a line parallel to the equator, and is called the “tropic of cancer”, and is at latitude 23°26'. The symmetrically positioned other line, is the Tropic of Capricorn. Another natural line on earth having to do with earth's tilt is the Arctic Circle, and thus the Antarctic Circle.
- Anna Karenina
- Realist fiction
- Japanese animation: 12 Kingdoms, Last Exile
- Iso-8859-1
- Hugh Hefner (multiple 18-years-old girlfriends even in advanced age. One do wonder how functional he is sexually in his late years)
- Playboy
- Million Voices against Corruption, President Chen Must Go Chen Sui-bein is a Motherfucker.
Crop circles are becoming beautiful! (old news). Crop Circle Gallery.
• Elisp Lesson: wrap-url (computing)
• Added a Body Building section to the body and mind modification essay.
• Annotated one chapter of Arabian Nights
Readings and links:
- Criticizing Cheney to His Face Is Assault? By Matthew Rothschild http://www.progressive.org/mag_mc100406
Added castration to the body modification essay.
Wikipedia readings:
- Anne Rice's best novel, about castratos: Cry to Heaven
- castrated males for singing: Castrato , record of the last castrato: http://www.archive.org/details/AlessandroMoreschi
- Vocal range
- highest pitche in human male Adam Lopez
- record-holding in human voice range and pitch: Georgia Brown Tim Storms
- Soprano
- «Though roughly equivalent to the American comic book, manga holds more importance in Japanese culture than comics do in American culture. In economic terms, weekly sales of comics in Japan exceed the entire annual output of the American comic industry» Manga
- I left Taiwan at age 14 in ~1986, to avoid conscription. Conscription
- 桃太郎 Momotarou
- Woldcom CEO goto jail: Bernard Ebbers
The Tragedy Of Titus Andronicus
Finally, completed the annotation of Shakespeare's Titus Andronicus. I'll probably go thru a second phase of annotation and clean up in the coming months.
Added photos to: flag porn 1 flag porn 2, flag porn 5. (NOTE: PHOTOS SHOW VULVAE)