The Quest of TechNumb People -
Of Technology and Numbers People -
Is to make themselves obsolete.
Wednesday, 26 June 2013
We dreamers
We dreamers
Must do battle with
The forces of darkness
For the soul of mankind.
But, here's the hitch:
We have no power.
Little to no influence.
All we can do is
Speak,
And hope to be heard.
--- 26 June 2013
Must do battle with
The forces of darkness
For the soul of mankind.
But, here's the hitch:
We have no power.
Little to no influence.
All we can do is
Speak,
And hope to be heard.
--- 26 June 2013
Sunday, 23 June 2013
Thursday, 6 June 2013
You, John Smith...!
You, John Smith...!
Yes, you.
We have detected you using
Many other aliases on our system.
Alias such as
John Smith Model Airplane Flier,
Smith, John, Expert Sniper, USMC,
John A Smith MBA,
Smith and Brothers Afterhouse Bored Housewives Plumbing,
And so on...
Each such alias
While maybe expanding your identity,
Creates inefficiency in our system.
From this point on,
Other aliases you have chosen,
You hereby declare null and void,
So that we may strip you to your barest self:
That naked one email address....
With all your different interests
Now lying within our various corrals of you...
So that we may own your every waking moment.
(And they said "don't be evil".)
--- 6 June 2013
Yes, you.
We have detected you using
Many other aliases on our system.
Alias such as
John Smith Model Airplane Flier,
Smith, John, Expert Sniper, USMC,
John A Smith MBA,
Smith and Brothers Afterhouse Bored Housewives Plumbing,
And so on...
Each such alias
While maybe expanding your identity,
Creates inefficiency in our system.
From this point on,
Other aliases you have chosen,
You hereby declare null and void,
So that we may strip you to your barest self:
That naked one email address....
With all your different interests
Now lying within our various corrals of you...
So that we may own your every waking moment.
(And they said "don't be evil".)
--- 6 June 2013
Tonight while ranting and stewing
Tonight while ranting and stewing
About my Latest Ambitions,
I opened and heated a can of stew.
From one of these big name food chains.
I had forgotten that I still had
Half a Subway sandwich,
With fresh vegetables still inside.
I ate the sandwich
Then, I guess to finish a well-sated appetite,
Tasted the stew,
Kind of repulsive,
As I ate into a piece of flesh.
Then I heard something remind me
That this piece of flesh was that of one creature,
And poor stew or no,
Even if lost in the dehumanizing maze of
Identical food consumption unit, tinned,
Even if split up among that matrix,
It had once been a living thing
Sacrificed to feed us.
So I ate it.
And I wrote this.
--- 6 June 2013
About my Latest Ambitions,
I opened and heated a can of stew.
From one of these big name food chains.
I had forgotten that I still had
Half a Subway sandwich,
With fresh vegetables still inside.
I ate the sandwich
Then, I guess to finish a well-sated appetite,
Tasted the stew,
Kind of repulsive,
As I ate into a piece of flesh.
Then I heard something remind me
That this piece of flesh was that of one creature,
And poor stew or no,
Even if lost in the dehumanizing maze of
Identical food consumption unit, tinned,
Even if split up among that matrix,
It had once been a living thing
Sacrificed to feed us.
So I ate it.
And I wrote this.
--- 6 June 2013
Logging on to Dungeons & Dragons Online,
Logging on to Dungeons & Dragons Online,
For the very first time,
This is what I see...
"Maximize your
Strength,
Wisdom,
& More!
"Limited Time Release
Of +4 Stat Tomes
Now 20% Off!
"June 7 - 13"
What?
Is this what has befallen my game?,
Dungeons & Dragons?,
Is this It's fate:
Dime store mall "Virtual Experience"
Except now on the Internet...
Whereas what I remember was
Me and my friends
In high school,
Our imaginations exploding,
Our fellowship growing,
All because of this fun game you played -
That teased your imagination -
In a rec room
Or around a dining room table.
Now it's a shopping mall.
What a shame.
--- 6 June 2013
For the very first time,
This is what I see...
"Maximize your
Strength,
Wisdom,
& More!
"Limited Time Release
Of +4 Stat Tomes
Now 20% Off!
"June 7 - 13"
What?
Is this what has befallen my game?,
Dungeons & Dragons?,
Is this It's fate:
Dime store mall "Virtual Experience"
Except now on the Internet...
Whereas what I remember was
Me and my friends
In high school,
Our imaginations exploding,
Our fellowship growing,
All because of this fun game you played -
That teased your imagination -
In a rec room
Or around a dining room table.
Now it's a shopping mall.
What a shame.
--- 6 June 2013
Tuesday, 4 June 2013
What do you think it's like to be Google?
What do you think it's like to be Google?
To be a company that began from
An interesting search algorithm
To being what it is now:
The Receptacle of the Internet
?
What does it feel like,
To see the Internet eating up memory
In front of you
As fast as you can shovel new memory cells in?
To see the Raging Storm of
Online Media,
Burn up banks upon banks of
Harddrives?
With all the power that those hardrives eat?
You might wonder if it's just like
Blake's Dark Satanic Mills...
--- 4 June 2013
To be a company that began from
An interesting search algorithm
To being what it is now:
The Receptacle of the Internet
?
What does it feel like,
To see the Internet eating up memory
In front of you
As fast as you can shovel new memory cells in?
To see the Raging Storm of
Online Media,
Burn up banks upon banks of
Harddrives?
With all the power that those hardrives eat?
You might wonder if it's just like
Blake's Dark Satanic Mills...
--- 4 June 2013
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