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Psychology
Tue, 28 Dec, 2010 16.00 UTC

My father's reflex reaction to me declaring that I have some sort of semi-spontaneous plan is *Emotional Blackmail*. He exhibits this tendency almost daily in differing quantities. Today, I am absolutely sure that he didn't even have time to consider before his response was uttered. It is their anniversary. Less than an hour before my announcement that I would have dinner with Sandy, my mother had stated that they would celebrate their 43rd in Ruidoso this weekend. We are all going to Ruidoso together. But...

Blog
Mon, 27 Dec, 2010 23.56 UTC

Yuppers. I need to work on image alignment. How about floats within Markdown? *I simper*. See, when I do it this way, it most likely will work, but who wants to write html in a journal entry?
I can dig through the BlueCloth code and modify it, ya know. #### *Ya know?* ...

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Goals
Mon, 27 Dec, 2010 23.41 UTC

I'd term today as lackadaisical. I made progress on neither the Sheep Blog nor Hope For Wildlife. Perhaps this is a rationalization, but I conclude my second day of rest is because they are both at a stable point. Heh. I titter at myself. A few items to add to the Sheep Blog: + Multiple user functionality + Signup for new users + Comments + Topics The final one is the easiest to initially implement. The others are all tied together with the idea of multiple users and their ability to each post and each c...

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Praha
Mon, 27 Dec, 2010 21.02 UTC

Guapo thunders in my ears and I am inevitably taken back to spring 2005 and the concert Michal, Patricia and I attended at Klub 007 in Strahov. I must say it was one of the best shows I've ever been to. ...

Music
Mon, 27 Dec, 2010 19.59 UTC

##### Ostinato + verse 1 and verse 2 #### Triplety monotone ostinato + vocal 1 ### 3/4 deranged waltz + vocal 2 ## Ambient extreme dissonance ### 3/4 deranged waltz with resonanced keys solo #### Triplety monotone ostinato + vocal 3 ##### Ostinato + verse 2 and verse 1 ...

Psychology
Mon, 27 Dec, 2010 14.51 UTC

Thinking about *Salience*, I've been concentrating on lack of specific focus when it comes to aural stimuli. Therefore the focus drifts from sound to sound in a spacious sphere enclosing me. In the car on the return trip from the grocery just a bit earlier, instead of blocking out the faint flapping of air scooting through the driver's side cracked window, or the crumbling crush of my father's cigarette being extinguished, I let the minute sounds usher themselves into my left aural field. I identified their...

Cloud atlas
Egoism
Sun, 26 Dec, 2010 23.59 UTC

I enjoy bitching about the despotism that was always a part of my ex-friend Christian and began manifesting itself more and more in his personality throughout the years. It was repressed for quite a long time whilst he was with his bane and obsession, Karolina, and spewed forth geyser-like when he popped free of that relationship. In Cloud Atlas, there is a discussion of a hermetic environment. I believe that is what Christian, in his despotism, is attempting to create. The people who inhabit his world are...

Psychology
Sun, 26 Dec, 2010 20.27 UTC

Wikipedia states that the **Authority Bias** is *the tendency to value an ambiguous stimulus (e.g., an art performance) according to the opinion of someone who is seen as an authority on the topic*. I am strongly affected in a negative manner when people around me exhibit this bias, whether it is towards me or towards others. I find it ignorant and at times sycophantic. One good example follows Wikipedia's description. Many people I have known trust a musician's opinion of a piece of music and especially wh...

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Philosophy
Sat, 25 Dec, 2010 21.50 UTC

...and how I was told time and time again back in the old days that I should always listen to every one's opinion about each piece and change it accordingly to please as many as possible (of my friends, of course, who were pretty much the only ones listening, anyway). I never should have listened to this and certainly do not now. I am happy that Tony and I do not interfere with each others' compositional process. We seem to both appreciate the other. We do make suggestions at multitudes of points. Some are ...

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Hopeforwildlife
Hosting
Fri, 24 Dec, 2010 22.53 UTC

Hello, Irritating Day! I am irritated at you. You are, as some say, an irritant. So, yesterday evening, if I failed to mention it in yesterday's writing, which, if I recall, had very little or nothing to do with what I actually did during the day, I signed up for the hosting service 'Bluehost' because those using their service have SSH access. Well, this excited me. I want to host all my Sinatra apps somewhere (besides Fucksheep, which I haven't pursued so much lately, though I shall at some point). Let's c...

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Writing
Thu, 23 Dec, 2010 23.29 UTC

This evening I am going to revisit the thoughts I scribbled down, usually quickly, in my first pocketmod last week. The first thing I wrote has to do with a currently 'on pause' project, that being the novel I began in November. On November first, in fact. I was inspired by another writing site. Actually, it was the site which recommended this very site on which I am writing now. [This](http://www.nanowrimo.org/user/738589 "My fucking book") is it! I got a little past 25 000 words (I think - I may be fool...

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