http://blog.y2ism.net All That Is, but Nothing In Particular Fri, 27 Feb 2009 16:55:39 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en morning web browse running over (as usual), need to get to work. will have to check these out later... NEW N.A.S.A. (FEAT. DAVID BYRNE) VIDEO - "THE PEOPLE TREE" NEW N.A.S.A. (FEAT. M.I.A., SANTOGOLD, SPANK ROCK & NICK ZINNER) - "WHACHADOIN" NEW N.A.S.A. (FEAT. KANYE WEST, SANTOGOLD & LYKKE LI) - "GIFTED" WHITE STRIPES ... http://blog.y2ism.net/links-for-later/ Don't really update this thing much anymore.  What with twitter, facebook, and blip.fm, my limited publishing desires are pretty much met.  So i'm going to use this as a log for my daily bike rides.  Today is day 2; i've set a goal to go for a ride of 30 ... http://blog.y2ism.net/bike-riding-blog-log/ So last night I tweeted that I needed a break from humanity and was gonna watch some good ol' David Attanborough nature documentaries.  I selected the classic "Trials of Life" series and went for the episode on Living Together.  I figured some inspiring examples of inter-species cooperation would be just ... http://blog.y2ism.net/what-makes-us-human/ Last night I fell asleep on the couch after watching the first half of Across the Universe.  I think the detail and music and idealism inspired my dreams in some way.  I woke up around midnight after having a really fantastic dream and did my best to write it down ... http://blog.y2ism.net/tech-geek-wonderland/ I can't believe how excited I am to be turning 30. Its not anything like i'd thought it would be, but then again I don't think about stuff like that much anyways. Its all so gradual, how are you really supposed to know your getting older anyways? I guess thats one ... http://blog.y2ism.net/my-30th-birthday-song-hurricane-by-jamie-lidell/ A little while back I went for a drive where I was able to give myself over to the moment pretty effectively.  Every light, every sound, every driver seemed more there.  More a part of the whole.  Every sensory input and every one of my movements a delicate piece of ... http://blog.y2ism.net/videotape-by-radiohead/ While I have spent most of my life as an idealist, I do not seem to be able to continue such a world view any longer. Idealism: The property of having high ideals that are usually unrealizable or at odds with practical life. Central to the idealist view is seeing the world ... http://blog.y2ism.net/idealist-no-more/ I ordered a new book from Amazon this week, You Were Never Born, by John Wheeler. After reading a physics article (that I can't find now) calling him a "poet physicist," I began a search for books by theoretical physicist and Einstein collaborator, John Archibald Wheeler at Amazon. ... http://blog.y2ism.net/all-that-is-but-nothing-in-particular/ Of course my next phone would be called "Android."  http://blog.y2ism.net/yay-my-next-phone-doesnt-have-to-be-an-iphone-now/ Oink's Pink Palace, my favorite site on the entire internet was shut down this week. October 23, 2007 - a sad day indeed. I don't think I could give a better epitaph than DJ Rupture did on his blog. A musician aware enough to actually be encouraged when he ... http://blog.y2ism.net/rip-oinks-pink-palace-may-30-2004-to-october-23-2007/