I finally found a good use for the ipirates.net and intellectualpirates.net domain names:

Intellectual Pirates: Information Dissemination for Sustainable Thinkers.
http://www.IntellectualPirates.net (we’ll have ipirates.net working soon)

I went and saw a movie (“The End of Suburbia”) showing in a coffee shop the other night about peak oil and the end of the suburban dream . There were about 20 people there and afterwards, we had a little discussion about ideas and solutions, concerns and questions. One of the big comments that kept coming up is that most of the people there didn’t know where to find information. Most of the people there had never heard of peak oil before and didn’t know how to get information like this fast enough.

The main purpose of iPirates is to share web resources in an effort to disseminate information that most people can’t find.
It works like digg.com (user submitted web links that users then vote on to promote to the front page–so we can be sure only relevant links get published and you can see how popular the resource is by how many votes it has).

Examples of Appropriate Content:

• News stories
• Tutorials on growing your own food or making wind turbines, etc…
• Blogs, discussing sustainability, peak oil, etc..
• Humorous comics relating to sustainability, politics, oil, humankind, etc…
• Organization websites (such as seattleoil.com–although I don’t want this to be a Seattle only resource)
• Links to youtube.com videos with interviews or protest footage

So, check it out, submit articles relating to peak oil, alternative energy, climate crisis, protests–anything that relates to information not readily acquired through mainstream media (but should be).
And don’t forget to vote on stories in the “unpublished” tab.
Let me know if it’s missing a category for an article or web resource.

Have fun and send this to anyone you think would like to know about it :)

Current Lifetime Goals
01. Do a free standing backflip (with no assistance)
02. Achieve financial independence by the age of 30
03. Fluently speak several languages (English, German, Chinese, Russian?)
04. Live in a foriegn country for a year
05. Control sleep schedule (achieve 30 hour cycle?)
06. Raise a child (only one)
07. Position self on forefront of technological advancements
08. Live a carbon negative life
09. Move my dwelling off the power grid
10. Write a book
11. Become a nanotech singularity (live forever)

Achieved Goals
01. Reach the age of 18
02. Attend enough college
03. Buy a house
04. Start a business

Andru Edwards talks about George Budabin.

I just remembered about Kiva. Check it out. Definitely makes a good holiday gift:

Yesterday, I took Lena to Banya 5, a Russian style bath house/day spa. It was amazing. They have 5 areas in the downstairs pools to circulate. First, the hot pool, then the Turkish steam room (very steamy), next a Parilka (dry sauna), a cold plunge, and lastly a warm salt water pool. You make that circuit a few times and by the end (as long as you drank a lot of water  in between), you feel like you were just born–without the crying and shock of a new world order.

After spending most of the day at Banya 5, we cooked dinner and watched Munich, a fascinating film that was sort of the opposite of Banya 5. It brought back the realization of what kind of world we live in. But I couldn’t help thinking how the world would be different if everyone spent a couple days a week soaking in a banya.

It’s almost 4am and I may be totally out of my mind–but this popped into my head about an hour ago.

let } define the output or the “yield” of a mathematical operation.
Here are the two points I am going to make:

1) x divided by zero yields zero: x/0 } 0

2) x divided by zero equals x: x/0=x (with = defined as the balance point)
Imagine you have a cake cut into 6 slices.

If I divide your cake by 2, taking 3 of those 6 pieces, you keep the other 3. When I divide your cake’s 6 pieces by 2, 3 pieces don’t magically disappear from the universe. Therefore:
6/2 != 3; (that is 6/2 does not equal 3)

6/2 = 3+3;
6/2 } 3; // (6/2 yields 3)

I divide your 6 parts by 6, taking 1 part of 6 (1/6), 5 other people each take 1 piece or 1/6.
I divide your 6 parts by 3, taking 2 parts of 6 (2/6), 3 other people each take 2 pieces or 2/6.
I divide your 6 parts by 2, taking 3 parts of 6 (3/6), 2 other people each take 3 pieces or 3/6.
I divide your 6 parts by 1 (all for myself), taking 6 parts of 6 (6/6 or 100%). You keep 0/6.
I divide your 6 parts by 0 (nobody wants any), taking 0 parts of 6 from your cake (0/6 or 0%), you keep 6/6.

Therefore:

6/0 = 6;

6/0 } 0;
I won’t be hurt if you find a good argument for why this is totally absurd. I’m heading back to bed. Hopefully writing it down will be enough to let me sleep.

OK, I just signed up for Second Life and It’s pretty cool:

I was hesitant at first because it’s just another MMORPG. But it’s not. What makes it different (besides it’s real world economy and complete customization)?

Well, for starters, there’s the LSL (Linden Scripting Language). You can create objects in world and then write scripts to make them do things. You can make anything–then you can sell it.

Crazy? Yes. Profitable? If you code or design. I’m in. I’m hooked. Damn… check it out. Look me up:

My second life identity: Atom Ewry

I’ve been oversleeping lately anyway ;)

Today marks the full 1 year of sleep logging. (although, not so consistent with the sleep blogging).

In 1 year, I’ve managed to post 68 entries including this one.

Anyway, the graph is available here:

http://sleep.shadowpuppet.net/graph.php

I decided to grab an open source graphing library and map out my last 357 days of sleep logs.

This graph is kinda big since it’s almost a whole year of data

As you can see, my sleep patterns are quite irregular.