{"id":1744,"date":"2008-03-24T06:58:46","date_gmt":"2008-03-24T11:58:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.net\/?p=1744"},"modified":"2008-03-24T06:58:46","modified_gmt":"2008-03-24T11:58:46","slug":"on-the-quiet-of-the-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/?p=1744","title":{"rendered":"On The Quiet of the World"},"content":{"rendered":"

Did anything happen over the weekend?<\/p>\n

It doesn’t seem like it. I haven’t seen anything interesting in the news. Except, of course, that Duke lost in the second round of the NCAA tournament. Which, really, in the long run, is insignificant.<\/p>\n

I was disappointed. No Cubs on WGN over the weekend. White Sox, yes. But no Cubs. What’s up with that?<\/i><\/p>\n

I guess it’s because it was Easter that the world paused.<\/p>\n

I did discover Space Democrats<\/a>. It’s like DailyKos<\/a>, but for space policy. There are space policy wonks? I had no idea. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n

I also messed around with some audio editing software, to take backwards lyrics in Beatles songs and flip them around.<\/p>\n

I also recorded my own voice and flipped that around. Then I put a wah-wah effect on it. Reversed voice, with a wah-wah effect. All because I could. The end result is something that sounds quite alien. And now I can sort<\/i> of say my name in reverse, so that if it’s recorded and flipped it actually makes sense. The leading vowel is a bit of a bugger; I don’t think the human voice can make<\/i> that sound reversed. <\/p>\n

I watched Torchwood<\/i>‘s “Adrift,” but I’ve not watched “Fragments” yet. I thought “Adrift” was involving and moving. It has some “idiot plot” tendencies, but they’re not actually flaws<\/i>, per se; Gwen was so<\/i> focused on the “prize” that she couldn’t see the bigger picture, couldn’t contemplate the issues she was raising. One note about the ending struck me as wrong, but beyond that I found it solid.<\/p>\n

I did some writing as well.<\/p>\n

And that was my weekend.<\/p>\n

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Some Monday morning memes!<\/p>\n

First, tarot cards.<\/p>\n

I’ve actually done this very meme<\/a>, sixteen months ago. Different result then, too. I don’t know that I’ve really changed; Internet memes don’t often ask enough questions to have any sort of statistical validity.<\/p>\n

<\/p>\n

You are The Devil<\/b><\/font><\/h2>\n

Materiality. Material Force. Material temptation; sometimes obsession <\/font><\/p>\n

The Devil is often a great card for business success; hard work and ambition.<\/font><\/P><\/p>\n

Perhaps the most misunderstood of all the major arcana, the Devil is not really "Satan" at all, but Pan the half-goat nature god and\/or Dionysius. These are gods of pleasure and abandon, of wild behavior and unbridled desires. This is a card about ambitions; it is also synonymous with temptation and addiction. On the flip side, however, the card can be a warning to someone who is too restrained, someone who never allows themselves to get passionate or messy or wild – or ambitious. This, too, is a form of enslavement. As a person, the Devil can stand for a man of money or erotic power, aggressive, controlling, or just persuasive. This is not to say a bad man, but certainly a powerful man who is hard to resist. The important thing is to remember that any chain is freely worn. In most cases, you are enslaved only because you allow it.<\/font><\/p>\n

What Tarot Card are You?<\/b>
Take the Test to Find Out.<\/a><\/font><\/p>\n

And this one was kind of odd. I had to write about Skelanimals<\/i> at work, only I had no idea what they were. One of the links I found on Google was to a quiz!<\/p>\n

\"Click<\/a><\/p>\n

I am Foxy the fox! People describe me as charming, sassy, and slightly mischievous. I like playing tricks on people, but only in good fun! One thing I don’t like is fur! Why would anyone? It’s dead!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Did anything happen over the weekend? It doesn’t seem like it. I haven’t seen anything interesting in the news. Except, of course, that Duke lost in the second round of the NCAA tournament. Which, really, in the long run, is insignificant. I was disappointed. No Cubs on WGN over the weekend. White Sox, yes. ButContinue reading “On The Quiet of the World”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[65],"tags":[4081,4093,425,9,4102],"class_list":["post-1744","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","tag-baseball","tag-life","tag-space-exploration","tag-torchwood","tag-writing","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1744","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1744"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1744\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1744"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1744"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1744"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}