Thank you Daniel for letting me know that the videos of this lecture are available online… it’s interesting to revisit part of the lecture (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xc1Z6HRyl4U).

After re-reading my own comments judging someone else based on a loose presentation in a forced environment, I would like to say that I really have no basis to form an opinion on whether Neville Brody is a Genius or a Wanker, but perhaps this is the lesson I was supposed to learn. When forced to make a choice between A) or B), we also have the choice of C) which is to not make a choice or D) to choose something completely different altogether.

Should have a beer soon fella, dust the cobwebs off!

Dial my digits Phin, I’ve lost yours.

Hope your swell anyhoo.

Love love x

I think it would interest you, especially as an intelligent, creative thinker with school-aged kids in your life. About a quarter of the book revolves around the difference between networks and communities and why it’s so problematic that we (“we” being western culture, that favorite punching bag of people who haven’t read enough Derrida [and I'm including myself in that snarky parenthetical]) have essentially traded the latter for the former. It’s a very good read, even if you don’t end up agreeing with the author’s proposed remedies.

It’s now been two months of abstinence, and so far I may have missed out on seeing some pictures or websites. On the plus side, I’ve spent more time with real humans than I have in the past year, and have funnelled my freed-up time into developing a creative AI machine. Who knows what ‘you’ could be doing with all those extra minutes.

You didn’t realize that the said “terrorist” was a mother or a father, yet that thing existed. You considered them a terrorist and that thing did not exist.

Determination does not make a thing what it is as information is not a judgement. There are several real things. The judgement happens in your head, and not all judges are fine judges.

Perhaps this is more of a concept of classification of perception. Words are convenience and help us to communicate ideas. Words work because we either agree on them, they are intuative and instructive, or they are forced upon us early enough to hold in place. We all agree that there are “boys” and “girls” though there is no “boy” and none of them are exactly alike – only similar.

The “reality” of a “terrorist” is not possible to see because it is a perfect idea and there is no perfect example.

Imagination is not reality, it is lie. Lies can be useful, however, as they are a tool.

All of us walk around with a universe of perspective inside of our blood. As entertaining as it is to pick and choose what we hold inside of our universe – determining that fiction rules your world is only as useful as reaction from the things outisde of your imagination that it can motivate.

I hope that you’re thankful that your body can still elicit such reactions from the world you think inside of. Such fanciful thoughts are a convenience that do not come to every animal.

Although space travel is a concept that seems within the capabilities of nature. Instead of helping grow Lili to build a space vehicle, maybe I’ll help Lili help her children, help their children, help their children, help their cyborg offspring develop baby cyborgs that work towards the goal of perfecting the mess of space travel that humans will have been failing at for the next few centuries.

Also read something interesting ages ago on the Selfish Gene by my favourite think- Richard Dawkins – http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Selfish_Gene

1. You; to deliver your music to the people who will respond well to it.
2. Fate (or rather my belief that the set of events which make up each persons individual behavioural patterns); to respond with either positive or negative, depending on whether it wishes you to continue along this path.

Think of Fate as your game of Domino Rally, and you are the cat that decides if and when to step in and change the direction of the game.