This song is called Regulator by a band called Clutch. It’s a bit different from the other songs I have posted. I only found out about this song through watching the walking dead, which is really awesome as everyone says.
I really like the long intro and how it gets a bit harder on the chorus. Of course I checked out the other clutch songs after I heard it and they’re a pretty good band.
Here is The XX - Infinity. It wasn’t that long ago I got into The XX. This is one of my current favorites that they do. I really enjoy the melodies and direction of their songs. The male and female singer dynamic works really well for them.
I go on Youtube regularly and I have noticed that most of the time when people are arguing about something, there is one person who makes rational arguments and the other person will ignore their logic, twist their words and go on to say why they are right in a convoluted way. I’m sure that some of them are trolling but they can’t all be, right?
I already knew that there are many illogical and irrational people of this world but I just find it irritating how stubborn people get in arguments. They see an attack of their views as a personal attack, get emotional and express their opinion as if it were fact. They make out that they know a lot about the topic they are discussing but it looks like they don’t know much at all. You can just tell when someone just isn’t going to let go of their beliefs to consider other possible angles.
The only reason I bring this up is because it concerns me that we as humans have to deal with a large number of idiots that just end up causing disruption and anger, even from intelligent people that just want them to accept logic and reason. I know, I’m probably preaching to the choir. I suppose the only real thing that can be done is improve education.
This is one of my favorite songs by Telefon Tel Aviv, Lotus Above Water. Don’t worry, I’ll be posting many other genres of music to share, but right now, this is the song I have just been listening to. It soothes the mind.
It might be an accepted truth for some, but others see something more. They see a vessel for the “soul”. It was created by god. Okay, but it’s still a machine assuming your beliefs are true.
Your body, down to the molecular level, is made up of elements, which are formed into compounds of varying complexity. Zooming out a bit, you can see cells. Lots of them. All hard at work, doing their single or multiple jobs they do. They are like a a small code script; once they are created, they execute what is written and nothing else.
Zooming out further, we see our bones, muscles and organs. There are trillions of cells working in each of those organs and moving around the body. They are created in the mitosis process, they carry out their job then they die. Here is an interesting research quote about the number of cells in a rat’s heart:
“The total number of heart muscle cells of rats was estimated by a histometrical method. It was approximately 5 millions immediately after birth and rapidly increased to over 19 millions in the first month of life.”
You can read the full quote here. The website itself is Japanese, so I used Google Translate to check out the ‘about’ page. It turns out, it is a website that is dedicated to collecting information and has done so since 1990, a year before I was born. Sounds like a source you can trust.
These cells don’t have thoughts or emotions, they’re just cogs in the machine. I imagine the part of the brain that controls everything in your body is like a hive mind; A large collection of cells which on their own are nothing, but banded together to make a system that can regulate and keep the body stable (much like programs are made up of bits that cannot function alone). Brain cells retain information but cannot do anything with it, they are the memory unit of our body. Blood cells are pumped around the body at 0.64 to 4.0 mph (depending on where they are in the body), but do they have to think about what direction to take? No. They are forced down a series of tubes to unload O2 around the body.
Then there is emotions. People say emotions are complex. This is not quite true. Emotions themselves are quite basic, it is the thought process that goes on during a period of elevated emotion that is complex. This thought process cannot always be deciphered. Thinking, while being in an emotional state, can skew your rationality. You are filled with a hormone-induced feeling which you automatically try to justify in your mind. If you’ve ever had an argument with someone that is angry, you will know what I mean.
So why have I bought this up? I just want to share my thoughts with anyone who comes across this blog and hopefully opened their mind if it isn’t already open. I want to tell the ignorant that our body isn’t so mystical as you might believe. I don’t want to offend anyone reading this, I’m just saying that these are my beliefs that are based upon hard facts, do you think the body as more of a machine now?
Even getting to this point, some people might argue and say “Well machines were borne many years after man and were created by man. If you say that we are machines, does that not mean there is a man that created us?” This is just a play on words. I could then change my headline to “Your body works just like a machine (But is not actually one because the human race created machines so it would be silly to think a “man” created us)”, but they will probably still use the same argument because they don’t have anything else.
Then there is the “The body is complex so it must have been created” argument. Just because you can’t fully understand something, doesn’t mean it had to be created. Evolution is the culprit for our creation. Cells might have started out having really slow splitting cycles, sped up their cycles and the ones that just happened to stay in a close space were able to live better and longer being able to mutually do several things as one. This effect over a vast amount of years has made us what we are today.
I would love to hear anyone’s opinion on this post, whether you found it interesting or thought it was stupid I don’t mind, just tell me why you think so =).
You know the adverts you get on sites / applications that tell you if a friend or several friends own it or like it? It is a marketing ploy to get you to try something, because your friends have, right? Wrong. It is becoming all to often that these websites and applications are telling us that our friends have used their service, when they haven’t even heard of it!
I think this is a disgusting practice. No company should be allowed to do this. I have seen one for a dating service on Facebook saying that my friend has used it. I asked him to make sure and of course, he didn’t know what it was until I told him. This could possibly make people regard their “friends” less because they believe those people have used something that they think is stupid. It is inadvertent defamation. The worst part is, even steam is doing it. I didn’t really suspect it when I saw “5 friends have this game” for a free title, so I at the time thought why not, even when I was skeptical about the game. I quickly deleted the download when I realized what was going on. Please, stop doing this, Valve. I thought you had higher standards than that.
I came across this small program yesterday called Pomodairo. It is an automated way of tracking your progress when working with the Pomodoro Technique. If you haven’t heard of it, the Pomodoro Technique is a method of managing your time, increasing your working efficiency and ultimately boosting your productivity (if you stick to it).
To explain the method briefly, what you do is work for 25 minutes and then take a 5 minute break. This is one Pomodoro. After 4 Pomodoros, have an extended break (20 - 30 mins). Repeat until the task is done. There are more rules to it so if you want to learn more, click here. I don’t think it is necessary to follow it to the book, though.
I am currently using it to practice piano and learn C++ from a tutorial. It is early days yet, but I have used the Pomodoro Technique previously (without the application) and it works quite well for me and this is exactly the kind of app I wanted to find. If you do get it, I recommend changing the alarm sound in the settings, the default is very annoying.
My Pomodairo window
EDIT: I stopped using this app not that long after this post, I didn’t like the Pomodoro technique in the end, at least what I was using it for. I might use it in the future though.
On with the content! Here is one of my favorite songs to chill out to - I’m God by Clams Casino. Note that it is a fan video created by a user named PiK on Vimeo. Footage from “Lost in New-York” (Jean Rollin, 1989)
Hi there. I’m rather new to blogging. Just thought I’d get that out the way.
So lets get to the point: What is this blog about? My digital life. If you have an interest in gaming, self-motivation, programming and music, this might be the blog for you.
Here are some things I want to achieve with this blog:
1)Become more motivated and achieve whatever goals I set myself
2)Share my thoughts and opinions
3)Link content that I find interesting
4) Always put the reader in mind when I post
In terms of how often I will post, I would say at least once a week. I will post when ever I feel I should share something which I think is interesting and think you will too. Please keep in mind that I will post a variety of content so if one of my posts isn’t to your liking there’s plenty of different ones.
Game - Audiosurf
Feel free to leave a comment or ask a question, I will reply =)
