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I want it. If only to drive around the loop (what we fondly call our apartment complex) and scare the natives. It’s located in the same town my mom lives in, I may go up there next weekend, maybe I can go visit it.

Real life takes it’s toll. I have a number of works in progress that I need to get up here, I’ll try to put a little bit of time into it each day, I’d really like to get some conversation/feedback on some of these ideas that have been plaguing me for months.

I’ve been playing a lot of go lately, the game has very simple rules, but the emergent behavior is incredibly complex. Much ‘strategy’ seems completely arbitrary; I’m inclined to wonder if perhaps the familiar ‘strategy’ is a self-reinforcing paradigm.

This quarter should be pretty light. Solid State Physics, Senior Thesis, Aikido, and another class, quite possibly “Music and Artificial Intelligence”. Sounds interesting, a lot of algorithmic work in music. Will be nice to have something outside the standard physics fare.

For those of you MT’ers out there, if you’d like to use a CC license, use this hack first. It will make your MT installation use the v2.0 licenses instead of the deprecated 1.0 licenses.

CC Licenses are the brainchild of Prof. Lessig.

Hi folks, I’ve started blogging again.

My name is Colin Rognlie, I run amuck on the internet under the alias ‘lucifex’. I am one of the high muckity-mucks of Evil Geniuses for a Better Tomorrow, an online gaming clan cum internet community.

By profession, I am a network, security, and systems engineer. I left full-time employment at the end of 2003 in order to return to the university and finish my B.S. in Physics. After graduating in 6/05, I plan to enter graduate school instead of rejoining the work force.

I’ve been having lots of ideas, and I’m looking for a way to both publish and keep track of them. It is my intention that rarely will there be a post in this blog as personal in nature as this one. I will limit it to the random ideas I have throughout the days and nights, and early mornings) to make the world a better place.

Over the next weeks, I’ll be getting out a lot of ideas that have been building up for a few years now. My goal is to facilitate and create a world where freedom, education, privacy, wealth, medicine, and the rest of the positive creations of society are freely available to all. More correctly, I seek a world where the opportunity for those things is available to all persons equally.

My previous blogs (that are still online) are at LJ and Xanga.

A point of light drifts alone throught the bleak grey nothing. The light is self-aware, as much as a light can be. It knows that it is a light, and that is what separates it from the nothing. It hasn’t always been here, but it doesn’t remember anywhere else.

Another point of light wafts past. This is nothing new, the mote is dimly aware of passing many other lights in it’s wanderings through the nothing. This one is different, it feels warm. This light reminds it of itself. The brightness of the other reaffirms it’s own light.

The two lights, feeling similarly, move closer to each other. The warmth and the light draw them in, ever closer. The nearer they get, the brighter their lights. A third mote, looking on from not very far away, can barely distinguish the two.

The two specks of luminescence are in ecstasy. Never before have they been so happy, thrilled that they are lights and not part of the ever-present nothing. For each, the lightness of the other beings them great joy, for, in their proximity, it is just a stronger reflexction of their own light.

As they swirl around each other, their light gets brighter, they illuminate even more of the darkness, and their joy only increases.

But nothing is eternal.

Eventually one of the lights falters and dims, communicating to it’s partner that it needs to rest. The partner slows, and revolves around the resting mote, keeping a watchful eye, in anticipation of the next round of sheer luminosity and heat. The rester awakens, and begins to brighten. It’s partner is so bright that it can barely perceive itself. The light begins to brighten in order to become equal again, while the partner dims so that it can see past itself to the other. The situation is reversed. The light who rested is now brighter. Immediately realizing the futility of pride, the mote dims in shame. The partner, while tired from not resting, only wants to feel the closeness and warmth again, so it dims in order to emulate the other, but moves in as close as it can, to at least feel the warmth.

But the warmth is gone. Oh, it’s still there, but neither can feel it in the face of their earlier brightness. Now the partnership feels cold and clammy, neither feeling the undercurrent of searing light that runs through their connection.

The two lights continue to dim until all that remains is the bleak, grey, lonely nothing.

I’m back. I’m now a Certified Ethical Hacker.

Woo.

Travelling was fun, got to spend a few days with my good friends in san diego, learning lots of new things.

I’m learning japanese!

Off I go for a 13.25 hour train/bus ride to san diego.

Training should be fun, for the traveling, I’m bringing my friend Jack.

As an airplane is about to crash, a female passenger jumps up frantically and announces, “If I’m going to die, I want to die feeling like a woman.”

She removes all her clothing and asks, “Is there someone on this plane who is man enough to make me feel like a woman?”

A man stands up, removes his shirt and says, “Here, iron this!”.