Saw this little guy on the window ledge of the gym I went to today.
More Sacramento street art.
I was taking to my boy the other day and I explained to him that someday he might be a daddy. He told me wants to be a Dziadzia. That’s Polish for grandfather. That’s me. I’m his Dziadzia. Made my heart swell.
Sacramento street art.
The Sacramento Aquatic Center is a frustrating user experience to rent a kayak. Had to call them to walk me through the online reservation form. Person I spoke with was apologetic and know their site is difficult. Almost like they don’t want people to use their facilities.
Next stop, Big Brother Comics. www.bigbrothercomics.com
Heading out shortly to spend an afternoon in Sacramento. Any suggestions?
More Noise Please
One of the CDs I came across last week while packing was my copy of Steven Jesse Bernstein’s Prison album. It’s a fine album, but the sole reason I treasure that CD is his poem, More Noise Please. It’s heart rending. I feel like Jesse is holding on to the world by his fingernails. But it’s also funny, self-aware, and tender.
Bruce Sterling’s Robot Artists & Black Swans: The Italian Fantascienza Stories appeared on my Kindle this week. I had forgotten I had purchased it in advance months ago. I’m looking forward to spending an afternoon reading it this weekend.
A boy and his dog.
I was hoping to sleep in this morning but the grandkid had other ideas. He woke me with a present: a toy car with Mini Mouse as the driver. Best morning ever.
Would you sell your DNA as a NFT? Whose DNA would you buy? I’m experiencing a Gibsonian moment thinking about it. https://cointelegraph.com/news/akon-to-sell-historic-dna-data-art-as-nft-on-oasis-network
I was one of those latchkey kids. One of my favorite summer activities was picking a direction at random and riding our bikes until we came across a pond. We’d swim all day and come home at dark.
Just as Egan cribbed from Dennett for his book, Diaspora, I need to read Terence Hawkin’s The Rage of Achilles because he cribs from Julian Jaynes’s The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind.
I was primed for Diaspora because I had just read Daniel Dennett’s Consciousness Explained, which Greg Egan cited in his novel. Egan did a neat trick turning Dennett’s ideas into fiction.
Egan’s Diaspora is so hard sci-fi that even though the book is almost a quarter century old, it hasn’t aged a day. After all this time it never fails to blow my mind.
Speaking of Greg Egan, the pronouns of Ze/Zir in my profile were taken from the AI protagonists in his book, Diaspora.
The idea of using a synthesis of Greg Egan’s Diaspora and Bruce Sterling’s Shaper/Mechanist stories for the setting for a RPG is really exciting. At least this nerd thinks so.
I’m surprised there are almost no videos of p.m.’s bolo’bolo on YouTube. I did find this one, though. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SKf71qHmJLk
I am wrapping up my Sunday evening watching the X-Men animated tv series. The animation is both crude and sophisticated. The same goes for the plots. The voice talent is pretty good. Overall, the show is better than I anticipated.
