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Obama '08 - Vote For Hope from MC Yogi on Vimeo.
What kind of presidential candidate evokes such vibrant artistry? (and from a yogi, no less.)
The kind for which I will vote.
This morning, I dreamed vibrant purple light washing down through my aura.
The memory is simply that: an indigo-violet crystalline veil expanding around me. Now, I'm riding those waves into the midday, as they reverberate through conscious thought, inflecting royal harmony into ideas & actions.
Any satvic inspiration, spark, seed can only become manifest with the rajasic fire of action. So the idea to create becomes the action of creation, and eventually the tamasic form created. (Satva, rajas & tamas are the gunas.)
The fountain of creation ever-flows. Each detachment, emptiness, really avails one to new opportunity. Leaps happen when we trust & let go; the quantum leap a sub-atomic example of our universe's proclivity for such non-deterministic behaviors.
In yoga & meditation, we practice release, opening to that from which we emerge. Chant & prayer are tools to entrain the mind when it's too noisy to just be still. As we build the muscle of mental release, the fabric of ourselves changes; a creature of grace & openness, where prosperity & abundance replace fear & longing.
So, the memory of that purple dream echoes, infusing my consciousness with divine appreciation. I'm lucky a pinch of indigo works so well with orange.
On December 9th, after over twelve-years living in Austin, ten of them working as a pro web developer, I accepted a web dev position in San Francisco with Scout Labs. January 7th I start the job: front-end Ruby on Rails web development.
The company's product, the Scout, already received a revealing write-up by TechCrunch. The possibilities of the Scout are just beginning, and I'm ecstatic to become part of the team building this phenomenally useful tool.
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Googling revealed words originally by Bette Davis, Richard Nixon, & Aldous Huxley.
In what 750-page tome do you get fugal themes of formal systems, Tortoise & Mr. Crab, canons of dialog, artificial intelligence, genetics, hardwired behaviors of a wasp, consciousness, records that break record players, & etchings of strange loops?
Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid
Read the rest of this entryMost of the conscious energy that I have remaining from programming Ruby on Rails & general life-n-love, I've been pouring into my new obsession: a motorcycle (a 2006 Suzuki SV650S, to be exact.)
I guess I didn't really answer the question before:
Orange resonates inside of my brain.
A resident buzz, warm & blissful,
fuzzilicious, a multi-timbrel hue,
just a pinch of ultraviolet makes it sing.
Orange represents a mode of my synapses' frequencies,
vibrations within the cortex, increasing flow of energy.
The color orange has a secret, one day I may divulge,
if only words can paint a hue as vivid for you.
...asked an anonymous observer through my personal window of logged HTTP referrers, here at marsorange.com.
Orange is:
- the second chakra, Swadhisthana, corresponding to the element Water and is traditionally associated with the sexual impulses and sexual energy
- easily mistaken for green by a quarter of human males (a.k.a. color blind)
- a color of vurt feather which Jeff Noon neglects to mention. ha!
- the warmest, most fuzzilicous of all hues
I usually to eat fish less than twice a week (it is the only type of flesh I consume at all) and tend to be picky about the source & species of the fish. Too much bad-business & ecological harm is masked by the consumer-driven/petroleum-sustained market, including: carcinogenic farm-raised salmon, mercury poisoning in big fish & general overfishing.
For lunch today, at one of my favorite local restaurants, I decided to enjoy a special dish: a steak of fresh wild Alaskan coho salmon.
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Mars + Kim commune with the damselflies
at the Frio River camping in Garner.
The Interdictor blogs from a high-rise in New Orleans that is home to a server colocation facility with a still kickin' 700KW diesel generator and buried fiber optic connection to the internet.
Katrina Info Map is a growing (practically out-of-control) Google Map with markers added by anonymous internet users with information about conditions in the damage area.
Current NOAA satellite images of the area are available. Bridge & roadway destruction and flooding of neighborhoods are apparent in many images. (Image orientation makes navigation a bit challenging; this information was quickly deployed to the public.)
Craigslist Katrina Survivor Resources provides People Lost & Found, Temporary Housing & Volunteer listings.
A photo of my sister's first dance with her husband.
Peace + Love + Happiness to Natalie & Ken!
The glow of connection.
Sparks of energy swirling, lighting every corner of my body.
Those moments echo with warmth & purity.
Between learning probably the most advanced web application framework and an upcoming project to develop a custom email server filter module, both in Ruby, a 10-year-old object-based scripting language born in Japan, I am one busy coding monkey.
At this point, I am convinced that Ruby is not a programming language in the traditional sense. Ruby is expressive codespeak. The most challenging aspect of learning it, is unlearning the convoluted tricks that the utilitarian languages of my last 10-years tattooed into my brain.
This shift of thinking is akin to a shift I experienced around 1990 from line-number-based BASIC programming [on my family's TI-994a!], to modular HyperTalk/Pascal/VBScript/PHP.