Sunday, December 21, 2008
Have a great winter solstice!
The ancient pagan traditions all had one thing in common at this time of year: A gathering with friends and family at the time of the solstice to celebrate the ‘death’ and ‘rebirth’ of the day. The winter solstice is the shortest day of the year, and was considered a landmark by the ancients, as a reminder that they had made it halfway through yet another harrowing and potentially-deadly winter.
It was a sign that brighter days were coming in the midst of a bleak, dark season.
So, give thanks and reverence to your ancestors, eat and drink and be merry, get together with friends and family to celebrate and exchange gifts, and remind yourself of how you got to this point.
Don’t buy into that “Christmas” bullshit, this is really what winter solstice is all about.
Christmas is pretty much 99% pagan traditions anyway, hahahaha, so you’re all “satan worshippers” and are “going to hell” regardless.
Happy Yule!
(The image featured is a photograph titled “The Solstice,” by rad-ix)
Thursday, December 11, 2008
Pop music and love songs: All LIES.
For as long as I could remember, I hated basically everything that was being played on the radio, and from an early age too. It never affected me, it just happened to be background noise for wherever I was, usually in my parents’ cars or whatever.
Maybe it was because the music that was being played was a lie. I wasn’t at a party, I wasn’t having a “good time” or getting fucked up, or even “falling in love” — a topic which the majority of people are very ill-informed on.
It wasn’t realistic, and because of this, it had no effect on me. The structures were too simple to even think about, and the lyrics are nearly always some other half-assed metaphoric interpretation for love. (These days though, they cut that crap out and head straight for lust: TOO MUCH BOOTY IN THEM PANTS)
I could lose my heart tonight
If you don’t turn and walk away
‘Cause the way I feel I might
Lose control and let you stay
‘Cause I could take you in my arms
And never let goI could fall in love with you
I could fall in love with you
See? This is what music is? A shallow personal experience, especially just looking at the divorce rate and how promiscuous people are (looks like women take the cake here — I blame the media).
I found you Ms. New Booty
Get it together and bring it back to me
Hit the playa’s club for about a month or two
Put his hand on it then see what it do
I doubt many people can relate to that shit without turning their life into a perfect movie script.
I didn’t give a fuck about music until I came upon Black Sabbath. In MIDI form. In a crappy freeware computer game. I liked the MIDI file, but then I heard the original version of Paranoid one day on the radio out of nowhere, and that one song CHANGED me from the first time I heard it when I was only about 13 years old.
It was honest and realistic. It didn’t hide from reality like everyone else, and it was heavier than the pseudo-gothic shit and bar rock that everyone else was playing on the radio.
These are the lyrics, alone. I personally don’t care much for lyrics, but if it’s any hint to what the song sounds like, it’s close enough.
Finished with my woman ’cause she couldn’t help me with my mind
People think I’m insane because I am frowning all the time
All day long I think of things but nothing seems to satisfy
Think I’ll lose my mind if I don’t find something to pacify
Can you help me, occupy my brain? Oh yeah
I need someone to show me the things in life that I can’t find
I can’t see the things that make true happiness, I must be blind
Make a joke and I will sigh and you will laugh and I will cry
Happiness, I cannot feel, and love to me is so unreal
And so as you hear these words telling you now of my state
I tell you to enjoy life, I wish I could, but it’s too late
Just hearing those for the first time made me think a lot, even at a young age.
Do people listen to this other unrealistic, cowardly and populist “entertaining” music because they want another escape from reality? They hate music like heavy metal and classical for any number of reasons.
It is “heavy” because it attempts to confront us with the “heavy” side of life instead of running away from it, and perhaps by just observing it for a moment, in the form of music, we may learn that reality is actually really fucking beautiful in comparison to this fake post-industrial shit world we live in today.
Why people listen to music that is hesitant to get in touch with reality: they can’t deal with the unnatural stresses of modern life (bills, work, and frivolous dating/socializing) and as such, can’t let anything penetrate that little force field around their mind that keeps reality from creeping in, because it hurts them too much. People who hate this music so much, i.e. HIPSTERS, that they want to co-opt it and turn it into noisy meaningless garbage because it threatens their worldview, wish to corrupt the music and its meaning so that it is meaningless like everything else in their world. Anything better than them, they must destroy and bring it down to their level.
Being cowardly like this only makes the pain much, much worse. And when you start hiding from reality in things as little as music, the behavior only shows itself in other areas. Pretty soon, you’re half-insane and neurotic, and possibly on the verge of suicide.
It saddens me when people can’t have a long talk about the problems that are headed our way, like the impending collapse of the dollar which will probably spark riots and cause widespread starvation, or that most people, even the ones you think you’re closest to, don’t give half of a rat’s ass about you unless it makes themselves feel important in some way.
They’re hiding their heads in the sand, apparently because if you can’t see the problem, it doesn’t exist. But we know this is incorrect; reality will crush you even if you hide from it, and being cowardly doesn’t help.
Embracing and reveling in reality is the only way to enjoy life to the fullest. The path of least resistance is for the meek, sad, and unfulfilled.
Wednesday, December 10, 2008
Why high-profile fashion models resemble adolescent boys.
Why are fashion models so skinny?
This was very interesting. The article points out that most of the people dominating and running the fashion industry are homosexual males, and they tend to select models who have the closest physique to an adolescent male - tall, gangly, skinny, with masculine facial features.
All of which are actually unattractive to heterosexual males and females alike, compared to more femininely-figured models who wouldn’t make the cut in the high-profile fashion industry.
Thursday, December 4, 2008
Yiff in hell, racists!
Look at how racist these furries are against REAL wolves:
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<Glaceonrocks>why do you want me to join do you know who am i
<TheBlackShadowWolf>yes just do it
<TheBlackShadowWolf>I have a secret
<TheBlackShadowWolf>;please
<KoricaFiretail>worldwidewiccan: “Fear is a waste of time.”
** BakedPotatoBastard has been made a member of Puppies by New-Wolfdemon *
<worldwidewiccan>TheBlackShadowWolf: you both can join mine if you want to
<BakedPotatoBastard>thank you
<TheBlackShadowWolf>ok
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<worldwidewiccan>KoricaFiretail: true but…still its the future
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<KoricaFiretail>worldwidewiccan: the future is as bright as the light you place beside it.
<truefreakonaleash>New-Wolfdemon: thank you
<worldwidewiccan>KoricaFiretail: i can see no light
<New-Wolfdemon>truefreakonaleash: np. ^^
<KoricaFiretail>worldwidewiccan: make your own future. the Universe responds to the thoughts.
<Riakui>worldwidewiccan: there is always light
<Glaceonrocks>ok but i did not find it sorry
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<Glaceonrocks>:|
<worldwidewiccan>Riakui: i see no light for a while
<KoricaFiretail>worldwidewiccan: you know that old saying… “every dark cloud has a silver lining?”
<Riakui>worldwidewiccan: it will be there
<worldwidewiccan>KoricaFiretail: no sorry
<d3rcatalyst>can’t have light without darkness
<worldwidewiccan>Riakui: i trust you both
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<Riakui>worldwidewiccan: thank you…
<New-Wolfdemon>DarkPriestess1: Welcome to the chat
<BakedPotatoBastard>d3rcatalyst: basic physics, yo
<DarkPriestess1>thx
<d3rcatalyst>;pretty much, quantum shit.
<New-Wolfdemon>DarkPriestess1: np
<worldwidewiccan>Riakui: my pleasure
<d3rcatalyst>it’s so simple.
<fanghunter>Glaceonrocks: …you know if you check my page you would see im a guy…lol just figured i would make sure you knew
<d3rcatalyst>it fits into the law of thermodynamics.
<Riakui>worldwidewiccan: :hug:
<worldwidewiccan>New-Wolfdemon: can i be a peace wolf??
<d3rcatalyst>you can’t have 100% light because light is an energy wavelength
<worldwidewiccan>Riakui: *hugs*
<d3rcatalyst>and infinite energy doesn’t exist.
* Desert-Chimera is now away: all, I am currently away, reason: Making a comic.
<worldwidewiccan>Riakui: sorry idk the emocon…
<KoricaFiretail>worldwidewiccan: it means that in every situation, theres something good to be seen. ive learned how to see it. people look so hard trying to find it that they look past it. its so much simpler than youd expect.
<New-Wolfdemon>worldwidewiccan: who is your master?
* BladeReaper666just now saw Riakui “HEY!”
<d3rcatalyst>neither does infinite hugs.
* Glaceonrocksgrowls to theblackshadowwolf : “tell me”
<New-Wolfdemon>worldwidewiccan: I can’t promote that high
<Riakui>BladeReaper666: HEY YOU!
<BakedPotatoBastard>so, are we all wolves here?
<Riakui>BakedPotatoBastard: not all, no
<BakedPotatoBastard>i read the faq
<KoricaFiretail>d3rcatalyst: no. but you know what is infinite?
<BakedPotatoBastard>it syas some are humans
<worldwidewiccan>New-Wolfdemon: mrfoxyboy i think
<fanghunter>…im not full wolf…
<d3rcatalyst>I’m a Corgi
<Riakui>bk yep
<BladeReaper666>Riakui: How are ya, sis?!
<BakedPotatoBastard>well, i am a wolf
<Riakui>BakedPotatoBastard: we got dragons wolves, humand demons angels… you name it, we got probably got it!
<Riakui>BladeReaper666: im ok
<New-Wolfdemon>worldwidewiccan: I can’t. But, I could approve you and tell a higher-up
<BakedPotatoBastard>im actually a wolf in rl too, lol
<BakedPotatoBastard>well, i wish i was
<BladeReaper666>Riakui: That’s good to hear
<worldwidewiccan>New-Wolfdemon: will you??
<Riakui>BakedPotatoBastard: welcome to the club ^^
<Riakui>BladeReaper666: it ok… what abotu you?
<KoricaFiretail>d3rcatalyst: “The only way to comprehend what mathematicians mean by Infinity is to contemplate the extent of human stupidity.” ~Voltaire
<BakedPotatoBastard>my fursuit is coming in the mail soon
<d3rcatalyst>I’m 3/4 Corgi and 1/4 Bottlenose Dolphin
<New-Wolfdemon>worldwidewiccan: I can’t promote that high. Sorry, only apprentices
<BakedPotatoBastard>not a suit made from fur, i mean
<BakedPotatoBastard>its like
<Riakui>stupid, i know
<BladeReaper666>Riakui: Bored but good
<worldwidewiccan>New-Wolfdemon: okay then * bows*
<KoricaFiretail>Riakui: “The only way to comprehend what mathematicians mean by Infinity is to contemplate the extent of human stupidity.” ~Voltaire
<Riakui>BladeReaper666: good to hear bro
<Riakui>KoricaFiretail: lol…so true…btw…coime to my chat
<New-Wolfdemon>worldwidewiccan: *smiles* I will talk to a leader for ya. ^~
* Glaceonrockssneeze
<KoricaFiretail>Riakui: when’s the next time we’re gonna talk over the phone?
<worldwidewiccan>New-Wolfdemon: okay thank you!
<Riakui>KoricaFiretail: idk… not until i get a cell…
<BladeReaper666>Riakui: 8D
<New-Wolfdemon>worldwidewiccan: np. ^^
<BakedPotatoBastard>my cellphone broke at anthrocon
<BakedPotatoBastard>i still need to get a new one
<KoricaFiretail>Riakui: hmm…okay
<d3rcatalyst>KoricaFiretail: “Anybody who recognizes Israel will burn in the fire of the Islamic nation’s fury.” - Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Iranian President
<worldwidewiccan>i am going everyone. Later
<Riakui>KoricaFiretail: sorry babe…
<worldwidewiccan>Riakui: thank you again
<Riakui>worldwidewiccan: farewell
<fanghunter>hello New-Wolfdemon :D
<worldwidewiccan>KoricaFiretail: thank you
<BakedPotatoBastard>lol, what the hell was that, d3rcatalyst?
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<BakedPotatoBastard>i dont think wolves know islam
<New-Wolfdemon>fanghunter: hey ^^
<d3rcatalyst>dude, Mahmoud is a fierce Corgi.
<d3rcatalyst>His tail is made out of fire
<BakedPotatoBastard>lol
<d3rcatalyst>and his nose out of sugarcoated gumdrops of RAGE
<BakedPotatoBastard>charmander is the iranian president
<BakedPotatoBastard>rofl
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<d3rcatalyst>OMfG LOLOLOLOL
<d3rcatalyst>I <3 Pokeymans
<fanghunter>MyLostSoul777: ello
<New-Wolfdemon>MyLostSoul777: hey
* Glaceonrockshowl
<TheBlackShadowWolf>Wb MyLostSoul777
* Glaceonrocksyawns
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<MyLostSoul777>New-Wolfdemon and fanghunter Heyy
<BakedPotatoBastard>*howl
<MyLostSoul777>TheBlackShadowWolf: Thanks =]
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<BakedPotatoBastard>so, does anyone here wanna yiff?
<d3rcatalyst>“In Iran we don’t have homosexuals like in your country. […] In Iran we do not have this phenomenon. I don’t know who’s told you that we have this. ” ~Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
<BakedPotatoBastard>omg
<fanghunter>BakedPotatoBastard: …i dont think that is aloud here…if you check the rules…
<BakedPotatoBastard>i guess i cant mov eto to islam then
<d3rcatalyst>dude, that is what being furry is all about!
<BakedPotatoBastard>iran**
<d3rcatalyst>aww
<d3rcatalyst>;potato, cmon you can still go
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<d3rcatalyst>just hide it well
<Riakui>Tko101: ello
<Glaceonrocks>theblackshadowwolf : i did not find it
<BakedPotatoBastard>;prety hard to hide when you are wearing a fursuit
<d3rcatalyst>and the fury of Mohammed and Allah will not be wrought upon your sinful wolf hide
<Tko101>Riakui: ellos
<BakedPotatoBastard>when my fursuit comes int he mail
<BakedPotatoBastard>imma wear it like
<BakedPotatoBastard>all day long, every day
<d3rcatalyst>dude, is it synthetic?
<BakedPotatoBastard>im done with being a human
<d3rcatalyst>I made mine out of 3/4 Corgi and 1/4 Bottlenose Dolphin
<EnigmaticMercenary>[link] LOOKIT ME WITH MAH MAGIC DRUMS!!! lol Im just kidding its not me… BUT ITS STILL EPIC!!!!
<EnigmaticMercenary>CLICK TEH LINK!
<d3rcatalyst>the taxidermist helped to choose the finest skins of Welsh Corgis and a bottlenose
<KoricaFiretail>BakedPotatoBastard: LOL
<EnigmaticMercenary>SRSLY!!!
<BakedPotatoBastard>forget drums
<EnigmaticMercenary>CLICK TEH LINK!!! XD
<BakedPotatoBastard>im moving to the fucking forest
<EnigmaticMercenary>CLICK TEH LINK!!! XD
<d3rcatalyst>unless you’re playing rock band
<BakedPotatoBastard>to live among my brethren
<Riakui>EnigmaticMercenary: Noes!!!
<KoricaFiretail>BakedPotatoBastard: no cutting a hole in it for fursuit yiff. thats a waste of a fursuit.
<d3rcatalyst>NO WAY
<EnigmaticMercenary>Riakui: But its awesome! Not a screamer!
<d3rcatalyst>if he wants to yiff in iran with his fursuit
<d3rcatalyst>it’s ok
<Riakui>EnigmaticMercenary: Noes!!!!
<d3rcatalyst>cuasu it’s america
<d3rcatalyst>yo
<EnigmaticMercenary>Riakui: But its EEEEEPIIIIIICCC!!!
<BakedPotatoBastard>i might move to alaska
<BakedPotatoBastard>they ahve some cute wolves there
<KoricaFiretail>BakedPotatoBastard: lol dont worry. not just being a troll. im a fur too
<BakedPotatoBastard><3
<Glaceonrocks>ok im already there
<d3rcatalyst>We can be wolves in Iran and Alaska!
<BakedPotatoBastard>yeah, i hate the trolls
<BakedPotatoBastard>thats why im giving up on the humans
<Riakui>EnigmaticMercenary: noes!
<fanghunter>…i love wolves…(lol not in the creepy way…)
<d3rcatalyst>those trolls can die, in their inferior human forms
* bradykins is back
<d3rcatalyst>Mohammed will collect the furry souls and bring them to Allah
<BakedPotatoBastard>if they cant accept wolves into their society
<d3rcatalyst>we will make them accept us!
<BakedPotatoBastard>then i dont need to accept them
<d3rcatalyst>Wolf society will reign
* Glaceonrockshowl
<d3rcatalyst>and squash Israel!
<BakedPotatoBastard>theres so much wolf pussy in alaska
<EnigmaticMercenary>Riakui: C’mon. Plz?
<Riakui>EnigmaticMercenary: no
<BakedPotatoBastard>i want to have sex with a wolf
<EnigmaticMercenary>[link] WATCH TEH LINK!
<BakedPotatoBastard>not just online
<fanghunter>…i am obsessed with wolves…
<BakedPotatoBastard>cybering just doesnt do it anymore
<BakedPotatoBastard>i need to have sex with a wolf so i can become a full wolf
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<EnigmaticMercenary>Lolwhut?
<EnigmaticMercenary>
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<Riakui>>.<
<BakedPotatoBastard>and if i get killed
<Riakui>wb KoricaFiretail
<EnigmaticMercenary>….Is he srs?
<bradykins>o3o
<BakedPotatoBastard>at least ill die a wolf
<d3rcatalyst>it will be beautiful.
<BakedPotatoBastard>in alaska
<Riakui>EnigmaticMercenary: i think so
<EnigmaticMercenary>Riakui: Is here serious?
<BakedPotatoBastard>where i belong
<d3rcatalyst>Allah will grant you many wolves
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<BakedPotatoBastard>among my wolf brethren
<KoricaFiretail>Riakui: ty
<d3rcatalyst>to squash Israel
<BakedPotatoBastard>of course i am serious
<BakedPotatoBastard>humans are ugly
<BakedPotatoBastard>non-accepting
<BakedPotatoBastard>wolves wont judge me
<d3rcatalyst>and the Jewish humans are even more ugly.
* EnigmaticMercenaryis like
<BakedPotatoBastard>so long as they know i am one of them
<d3rcatalyst>You know they don’t want you to have your fursuit.
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<EnigmaticMercenary> ….Im not ugly…
<d3rcatalyst>Fursuits don’t make them their profits.
<BakedPotatoBastard>all humans are ugly
<BakedPotatoBastard>including jews
<BakedPotatoBastard>and catholics
<bradykins>EnigmaticMercenary: o3o
<d3rcatalyst>Especially both of them!
<BakedPotatoBastard>true wolves dont need religion
<d3rcatalyst>They hate furries!
<Riakui>EnigmaticMercenary: i know the feeling ;^;
<bradykins>BakedPotatoBastard: How very…insightful of you O_o
<d3rcatalyst>true wolves need the salvation of the Iranian state!
<Glaceonrocks>hello
<BakedPotatoBastard>WHAT IS IT WITH YOU AN IRAN, d3rcatalyst
<BakedPotatoBastard>DOES IRAN HAVE WOLVES?
<d3rcatalyst>YES
<BakedPotatoBastard>I DONT FUCKING THINK SO
<d3rcatalyst>I THINK SO
<BakedPotatoBastard>CHECK WIKIPEDIA
<d3rcatalyst>IN MY WORLD, THEY DO
<d3rcatalyst>NO
<DarkPriestess1>hah
* Riakuithinks the potato and d3rcatalyst are taking things a bit far
<d3rcatalyst>WIKIPEDIA IS SLANDEROUS AGAINST WOLVES
<bradykins>BakedPotatoBastard: Hey, calm down, watch the language.
<Delusional-Weirdo>>>
<BakedPotatoBastard>I WILL EAT YOUR FLESH
<bradykins>d3rcatalyst: You too.
<Riakui>wikipedia is untrustworthy ^^;
<BakedPotatoBastard>FUCKING HUMAN GARBAGE
<bradykins>New-Wolfdemon: -.-;
<BakedPotatoBastard>I AM A TRUE WOLF TRAPPED IN A HUMAN BODY
<d3rcatalyst>Wolves don’t use keyboards, enough!
<Glaceonrocks>Riakui: hello
<Delusional-Weirdo>BakedPotatoBastard: watch chu mouth pplz
* Riakuithinks the potato and d3rcatalyst are taking things a bit far > EnigmaticMercenary
<New-Wolfdemon>bradykins: yes?
<Riakui>Glaceonrocks: ello
<EnigmaticMercenary>Riakui: It’s user editied. Of course it is.
<bradykins>New-Wolfdemon: Handle this.
* EnigmaticMercenaryagrees with Riakui.
<d3rcatalyst>strap on your explosives, for furries everywhere!!
<New-Wolfdemon>bradykins: huh? oh, right
<BakedPotatoBastard>IM A TRUE WOLF
<Riakui>bradykins: want me to?
<BakedPotatoBastard>I DONT NEED YOU WANNABES
<d3rcatalyst>dude, he’s a real wolf.
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<d3rcatalyst>I’m sorry we argued man.
<konohory>BakedPotatoBastard: alright?
<BakedPotatoBastard>YOU ARE ALL PRETEND YOU ARE WOLVES
<EnigmaticMercenary>Riakui: This hasnt constituted a kick so far?
<d3rcatalyst>you’re all wannabes if you don’t want to squash the Zionist state.
<BakedPotatoBastard>FUCKING SHIT FACE DICKS
<bradykins>Riakui: I don’t care who does it, but it should have been stopped in the beginning.
<Riakui>EnigmaticMercenary: i think its getting there
<konohory>BakedPotatoBastard: i am no pretend wolf
<KoricaFiretail>BakedPotatoBastard: …hey. watch it.
** BakedPotatoBastard was kicked by Delusional-Weirdo * that was too far
<EnigmaticMercenary>Riakui: How bout now?
<Riakui>thanks del
<New-Wolfdemon>d3rcatalyst: BakedPotatoBastard: Ok, I love how you guys want to be wolves, but come on. This is a wolf rp. Most if not all of us are wolves
<d3rcatalyst>WHOA
<KoricaFiretail>Decepticons-Leader: thank you.
<d3rcatalyst>WHOA
<d3rcatalyst>stop being so intolerant
* FrightDelightHas Fallen back into the past.
<KoricaFiretail>Decepticons-Leader: tabpwn
<New-Wolfdemon>Decepticons-Leader: ok. Hold on a minute
<EnigmaticMercenary>Delusional-Weirdo: Man, I was gonna do it. >.>
<d3rcatalyst>he’s a real wolf, you can’t see that?
<New-Wolfdemon>HEY!
<Riakui>d3rcatalyst: you wanna be next?
<KoricaFiretail>Delusional-Weirdo: thank you
<bradykins>d3rcatalyst: Stop being a tard, darling. =]
*** You have been kicked by New-Wolfdemon *
Afterward, apparently a few of the wannabe wolves had some existential crises after we brought into question the foundation of their beliefs: “Am I really a wolf, or a person pretending to merely be a wolf?”
Through a bit of this bastardized Socratic method, we learn that one cannot simply just be a wolf out of nowhere. They have to be a wolf from birth, as well as having the same genetic structure as one.
Thus, we can know more about the folly of being a furry. Knowing that they are “sick in the head” is not enough.
Wednesday, October 22, 2008
Added a music and audio section
I put aside a page for all of the music and recordings I have made. So far, there’s only a zip of the 3 ambient noise tracks I made a year ago. Some people really liked them, but they’re probably talking out their ass.
Listen for yourself:
Music/Audio page
Wednesday, October 15, 2008
Flirting with Polyphasic Sleep - Part 2
It’s been a few days since I started altering my sleep cycle, and it’s been more than 48 hours since I decided to adapt to the Uberman cycle. The first tip people will tell you who have attempted polyphasic sleep, according to many blogs and websites I have read about the topic, and I can now confirm this as truth:
DO NOT OVERSLEEP.
I did this twice already, at the 4 AM spot. My schedule currently goes 12, 4, and 8. Yes, this screwed me over because not only was it difficult to get up from naps afterward, it makes you tired like you haven’t slept for a few days. And on the Uberman schedule, you basically haven’t. It does way more harm than good, because all of the sleep you missed in the middle of adapting, your body is going to want to make up for. [more]
I set multiple alarm clocks, and somehow, I manage to turn them all off and crawl back into bed. This is going to stop though, knowing the root cause of my midday fatigue.
To prevent oversleeping, in the event that I become too exhausted, I take an extra nap, at the advice of Steve Pavlina’s polyphasic sleep logs. So far, so good.
Despite these minor setbacks, I feel very well-rested after just a nap or two. And at the annoyance of those who doubted the Uberman sleep cycle, it looks like I just gained 11/12ths of my life back by not spending it sleeping. Freakish, but awesome, no? I suppose we will know by the end of the week whether I have fully adapted or not.
Thursday, October 9, 2008
Flirting with Polyphasic Sleep - Part 1
I decided I finally had something to write about here, that is, an experiment in polyphasic (meaning broken up into different naps through the day, as opposed to monophasic) sleep. I am the guinea pig here.
After a major disturbance in my regular 8-hour sleep schedule two nights ago, I took two naps, exactly two hours long, but 4 hours apart (and I’ve kept this up for the past two days), since it reminded me entirely of the original Uberman’s sleep schedule, which I aim to adopt. According to the author of this article, she was able to get through the day on just 20 minutes of sleep for every 4 hours of being awake, taking a total of six naps spread out through the day.
I’m not really going to discuss the benefits, the research, and the drawbacks here, because the links above elaborate more on that. Rather, I will be documenting how it affects me. [more]
As I’ve said, I have been doing this for almost 2 days now, and as of this writing, I am in the middle of the second day.
I began on day 1 because I was unable to get a full night of sleep. I got exactly two hours between 9 AM and 11 AM, then another two hours between 3 PM and 5 PM. After the first nap, I felt pretty damn tired still. But after my second one, I awoke, feeling as well-rested and aware as ever.
Following this, I looked up the original Uberman’s sleep schedule. I had heard of this before, but never tried it because high school is one long 8-hour chunk, and the teachers never took too kindly to anyone sleeping in class, for any reason, because of a perceived illusion of being “unproductive”.
Another four hours soon passed, and I went to sleep at 9 PM, waking up at 11 PM on the dot. I was very hungry, so I ate ramen because I am a fucking weeaboo. As I have noticed, eating smaller meals frequently suits this type of schedule more. I also had some coffee, but that was a bad idea, because I was only able to get an hour in for my next nap. It was difficult for me to fall asleep, and I was extremely tired when I missed that one. Then when I woke, it was nearly time for my next nap! So I took this one, woke up, and still felt tired. The effects of missing a nap or cutting it too short are dramatic.
I came home from my class, and crashed for another two hours, and here I am now, feeling well-rested and recovered from my recent sleeping mishap.
The current question is: should I maintain a 2-hour nap schedule, or 20-minute nap schedule? I will find out soon enough.
Wednesday, October 1, 2008
Master your EQ, make your music sound clearer
Yes, the EQ, or equalizer. The average person usually doesn’t bother messing with it, but if you want to get the clearest sound for every song, you need to do more than just use the presets. I’m no music technician, but I get pretty anal about the quality of my music. Hell, I hate mp3s that come in less than 256 kbps because I can almost always hear the compression artifacts. The reason I wrote this is because there weren’t that many guides on the subject when I googled it a long time ago. [more]
In your basic graphical EQ, you have a few bars that represent the various frequency bands. These start on neutral, neither negating or boosting the signal produced by the song. The leftmost sliders are the lower frequencies, and the rightmost sliders are the highest frequencies. In most songs (except for most classical music, electronic and IDM), they won’t go to extremes, but you can take advantage of the EQ to change the tonal qualities of the song to your liking.
Whatever you are listening to your music through also plays a huge part in the tonal qualities of your sound. The size and shape of your speakers, their location and surroundings affect your sound a lot, and an EQ can help you to sort this out, after you have arranged your speakers properly. Experiment with the placement of your speakers. Most people just point them forward in an enclosed desk, but tilting them diagonally away (about 45 degrees or so) from the monitor changes the sound ever so slightly. This can wash out a bit of the treble, which your average desktop speakers seem to produce too much of, and bring out the bass. You use the boards of the desk (walls, in my case) to make the sound reverberate off of it, and turn it all into one large speaker.
One more thing I forgot to mention about the graphical EQ: the preamp.
Basically, when you use the band sliders on the EQ, you are either amplifying or turning down a signal, and that signal determines how much of it the speaker needs to output. If a given song, for instance, already has a good deal of middle and treble frequencies, and you boost those anyway because you just want to get brighter tones, you may get a washed out, chopped up, and distorted sound.
What is happening is that the signal being sent to the speakers is getting cut off by an imaginary bottlenecked “pipeline”. The input is greater than what the output can handle. This is where the preamp comes in. If you drop the preamp a few decibels, it’s like lowering the EQ across all bands, with respect to the settings you already have on the sliders. So you boosted your 12K band to +12dB? Drop the preamp 3 decibels, and you have a net gain of +9dB on the 12K band. Magical, isn’t it? Think of the preamp slider as your zero, the 0dB level that normally applies to the other sliders.
Lastly, try experimenting with your equalizer to figure out what you want out of your sounds. There is no universal EQ setting because there are different speakers, different songs, and different people. It’s really the only way to understand why you should use it. I guess you can just turn off the EQ and ignore it, but you’ll be missing out on making a whole lot of awesome songs sound even better.
Wednesday, August 6, 2008
Stopping Power
Stopping Power, a local hardcore punk band by a few good friends of mine, have released a free demo to download, and you should check it out because it’s neat and stuff.
Pics of their old shows while they played as Asscobra are in the gallery.
Fractals section added to Gallery
Technically, not fractals, but fractal-based artwork, done in Apophysis.
Monday, July 14, 2008
Crap’s finally being set up
Ok, so we abandoned making our own site software for the time being. It’s too complicated to deal with at the moment. Instead, we’re using this blogging thing and the Gallery software for my stuff.
Speaking of the gallery, here it is: Gallery
Die in a fire.