Nothing, that’s what!!! WA is total bollocks! Perth, being a capital of almost half a continent resembles more a small German town, than some kind of capital. Culture? Nothing to do here. Entertainment? Nope. Shopping? Fuck that. The only thing that the city is offering is some poor interpretation of the sum of the named three – a fucking Casino! Perth sucks and I am seriously scared to go to Sydney or Melbourne for a weekend, just not to get disappointed by the entire continent…
It has been over one week now in Libya, which is also my first trip to Africa (no, I have not been to Tunisia, Morocco or South Africa before!!!). While I can not speak for the entire Africa or even for North Africa for that matter, I got pretty clear opinion of Libya by now.
First of all:
Mobile communications here are crap, i.e. local mobile operators are pretty crappy and roaming works only for 2 minutes or so, then the reception disappears somehow
Internet is painfully slow
Good food as we know it in the west (or in the Middle East) is practically non existent. Local food is a bit bland. They try to make up for the blandness by using spices, but this is not like in Lebanese or Syrian cuisine, so either I don’t get it or the spices are not really matching to the base and texture
Here is no alcohol and with it we have realized how much we rely on this social lubricant in our past time in regions without prohibition. It did take us quite some time to find something to do in the evenings without involvement of alcohol
DON’T GO TO THE MARKETS!
ESPECIALLY IF YOU ARE A WOMAN!!!
Not everything is bad in Libya. In fact majority of the negative things aren’t that negative, like with alcohol, for instance. On the other hand there are quite a few nice things about the country:
People are super-friendly and helpful
They don’t bother you at all
Everyone is quite simple with straight opinions and no hidden agenda
If in business someone does have a hidden agenda, you can see it through instantly. If you play along, everybody is happy
Fish is extremely fresh (I can’t look at it anylonger though)
Mediterranean Sea!
Sahara Desert!
Roman ruins!
The old town is worth walking around – it is not glamorous or anything, but it is so vibrant and some of the buildings there are over 700 years old. There are plenty of workshops, where guys are making textiles, bake bread etc. They invite you in, explain stuff (Arabic or at least French knowledge is recommended) and let you take pictures.
I am obsessed with neatness, functionality and aesthetics of bathrooms, so I am having hard time in this department, since folks here don’t pay much attention to this topic (unlike in Morocco, where even the simplest washrooms are done in a very stylish way). Neither attention to details seems to be of a priority here, but this is not the end of the world.
Anyways, these are just the first impressions of the country and generally I am liking it a lot.
It has been only several hours since my first announcement of Ыксентатор, the newly developed mode of Possible World Machine, but I believe I owe at least a more detailed explanation, or manual, so to say, on the way the machine works. Let’s ignore for now the very brief explanation given in the previous post on the subject and start from the very beginning:
I believe there is no need describing the typical Possible World Travel (PWT) mechanism and machines, that are enabling to do so. The difference between the typical PWT and the proposed one is that in the latter time plays a very big role as a factor that can not be influenced. Imagine the counteusness running through the time with the constant speed all the time like on the rails, while the entity is able to make decisions at any time at his or her own will, be it as a reaction to the ever changing environment or simply as an attempt of an intellectual struggle / growth / challenge to the current environment with all typical conclusions happening to the environment and the mid as the result of these decisions. From here, imagine, each point in time, when the decision is possible – i.e. infinite, the world is on the crossroad with as many different directions parting the road as there are decisions. In order to make the whole thing look less like a fractal (because it is), let us focus on the decisions that have already been made in the past and assume that all the decisions, that will be made in the future will create a straight line. Why do we have to be so entity-centric? Simple – because the whole thing is working on the individual basis!
Having constructed the scheme, what we’ve got? We have a straight rail of the past decisions and the assumed future decisions with an infinite number of places where decisions could have been made and have been made or will have been made, let’s call them nodes. Each of the nodes contains a finite or infinite number of decisions that could or will have been made, but have or will not been done with the same continuation of conclusory decisions following it.
Now, in order for the the entity to PWT, the user or the operator is choosing the one certain node that is available at the point of PWT and is bending the vector of this node in the way that it will become completely straight in the relation with the user’s past decisions, thus replacing the current node with the desired.
What changes does it lead to? Well, it is very possible to completely change the environment by changing the node, but this is rather the whole point at this stage. On the other hand – it is impossible to go back to user’s node. Or at least not as his own, as the vector of the nodes have been changed and the newly picked node has become user’s own. Beside, this has happened in the past and the time span, that took user from the point of the node change to the decision to go back has been feeling the nods in the new vector, while the old one will have become another Possible World, where decisions were not taken, but rather picked post factum. This means going back will be traveling to another Possible World, while staying will mean staying in the user’s actual (although recently adopted) world.
This is a second draft of the simple description. The previous models with the multiple railways have been abolished in favor of this particular model.
More detailed explanation is coming soon, possibly.
It will, possibly, exist two different models for the two schools of thoughts on the subject.
The first is the time-independend, space-enabled mode, where the user will face the initial difficulty of self-identification every time the PWM is activated. The second, well, we can not really call it challenge, but rather a property of this particular model is the complete inability of the operator to take any actions, once the vessel has been (even correctly!) identified and taken possession of. The reason for the said properties is the approach of the school of though, that accepts the anchor space-universum, applicable to each consciousness with the consideration of it’s past and it’s previous decisions and by transferring of the said consciousness to another space-universum the machine merely projects the rendering of the “what if” scenario to the user of the PWM like it would be a film. At this stage the user is robbed of the ability of making any decisions as well as being influenced by it’s environment or have any chance of acting or reacting to the changing environment. The proposed name for this model of the Possible World Machine in it’s first version is
Йыхскинатор
The other model of he PWM works like an imaginary set of infinite set of railways, each representing user’s consciousness at that specific point in time. At the same time the user’s consciousness runs through the time with the constant speed with no possibility of the machine to influence this factor. Each said railway track is either connected with the next one to it with the infinite number of side tracks, length of which always equals zero; or as another experimental model is trying to do, connect each track with all other track by ways of infinite number of connections. However we are still not sure how our colleagues are going to manage the mess, considering that we can not afford missing out the decision opportunity even by the smallest minuscule part of the nano-second, thus even in the experimental model’s case the connection still can not be longer than zero. The proposed name for the said model is
Ыксентатор
The Ыксентатор is a very recent model, developed by your’s truly. Until then, the Йыхскинатор has been one of the very few models available for the general use during the initial stages in the philosophical community. It also has been the most successful one too, thus the rest is not named in this document and is considered under the generic term of the Possible World Machine.
The development of the Ыксентатор, IMHO, will positively reflect on the Possible World Travel, while, at the same time, diminishing the problem of the space portability, or rather inportability, since each scenario is readjusted real time to the user, rather than the machine physically takes over the conscientiousness and ports it to some other dimension. Instead it merely replaces the current world with the chosen one, so there is no lag in the perpetual experience as an entity in the user of the machine, such as in the case of the Possible World Travel cases mentioned above as problematic.
More to come … possibly …
Post Scriptum: В Англоязычной среде возможно, хотя и несколько ущербная, полно-латинская версия XCK-HATOP и KCEHTATOP соответственно…
For the past week and, probably, for the week to come I am looking like this:
Damn this dental surgery and damn this ibuprofen, the stuff I am feeding on right now.
On the separate note – it is a lot of fun walking in to the small shops like these. Shop proprietors are not the happiest bunnies. Next thing to try:
walk in, explain the situation, show the swellings, buy something significant, pay for it and when leaving the shop, outside starting to run. Let the guys inside know nothing about guys from the outside trying to save them… Applicable in Germany
This picture I took in Gemrmany. This is the ultimate proof that Germans don’t speak any English. I wonder what the guy was thinking when he got the license plate.
And this is the logo of the actual organization – Auto-Strassenhilfen-Schweiz (which means something like Auto Assistance Switzerland). They, actually, did find the translation to French and Italian, which are other two official languages in Switzerland.
And this is the actual ASS car. Their web site can be found, very appropriately, on ASS.CH.
Mothefucking Hollywood, the factory of the fake dreams. The centre of the misguided personalities. Home of the fucking posers and whores. Fuck all that fake crap and fuck all those superficial motherfuckers!
Fuck Rodeo Drive with their 15 stupid shops, where Zegna, for some bizarre reason, is double in it’s price compared to the rest of the world, while the collection is still the fucking last season.
Fuck all those possies and their De Deux. This was supposed to be the best fucking club in LA, but to me it looks like some guy’s garden party. Fuck all those bitches in Le Deux too, how can’t tell shit Dom Perignon ‘94 from the 2000 Cristal.
Fuck all those stupid bands, that do not know how to place a fucking comma in their own band name, thus completely fucking up the meaning of the three word sentence.
Screw the, supposently best hotel in the Beverly Hills, the stupid Raffles. It’s shit! Size of the fucking suite is not the only thing that buys you class, suckers.
You American twats have no fucking clue about the finer things in life. Your houses are made of cardboard and you live surrounded by fake gold plastic artefacts mass manufactured in China at the price of the fucking peanuts.
Fuck ya all!
Fucking fake flames and shit… You see what I mean?!
Yesterday Atlantis, the new mega hotel on the Palm Jumeirah, in Dubai, of course has had an official launch. Not sure why they did the launch only yesterday – I have been to that hotel at least 15 times already. Anyways, they did have a launch with about 75 class A celebrities like Kylie, Schwarzenegger and fuck knows who else. The pinnacle of the event was supposed to be the biggest, bestest and the most expensive fireworks in the history of humanity. With budget of USD 50 million the fireworks where supposed to be 7 times bigger (not really sure who got that figure and how) that the one in China during the Olympics 2008.
Naturally we decided to take a look at it.
Naturally we didn’t want to go where too many people where.
Naturally we took a boat and decided to see it from the sea, while having a private party.
УГ!
Whatever we have seen was quite disappointing. Don’t take me wrong – it was nice, but to me it seemed that the majority of the money was simply put in pot and burned in cash in the middle of Atlantis lobby, since what we have seen did not look like 50 mil at all.
The smoke cloud after the fireworks was so dark and big, that we really got scared and asked captain go back to the marina.
Today of course, when I went to upload the videos on YouTube, I decided to take a peek of what others have seen – wow! We really picked the wrong side of the show!
Well, at least the party was great…
Anyway, here are the other two parts of what I have filmed. I feel like going back and savor my hangover for now.
LIFEHACKER.COM has been cheapfuck’s lifehacker’s favorite website for a while. The blog is telling people how to do things cheaply and sometimes simply explains to students how some things in life work, starting from opening of can of soup up to the opening the bank account. It’s all nice and well, but the recent explanation has completley shocked me:
These people are unbelievable!!! How to fucking vote?! Six easy steps?! You don’t even have to read the entire article – just skip to those fucking steps?! No fucking wonder the country is ruled by an utter twat and the next presidential campaign is between a guy nobody likes and the guy everybody hates.
I’am happy to be riding back into this country. It is a kind of nowhere, famous for nothing at all and has an appeal because of just that.
Robert M. Pirsig, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance (1974)
LOADS of people in California, especially in LA have tatoos
in New York everyone is trying to fuck you over, even if you do not give them the hint, that you are an easy target
San Diego has turned out to be a really great town (I truly did not expect it)
in Nevada you can smoke everywhere, except in the restaurants
all American airlines are total rubbish, their plains are old, there are no fully reclined seats and no personal entertainment systems. Even in the first class and on long haul flights (with the exception of intercontinental flights – I guess they don’t want to show their primitive traveling habits to the foreigners)
Americans are really slow in whatever they are doing (not only because they are incompetent, which they are, but also just slow). Therefore there are ques and lines everywhere
American TV is utter crap (not the big news, everybody knows this. Just wanted to reconfirm)
in New York you can buy cigarettes at the chemist
Americans are truly naive (except the New York crowd, who is just dodgy)
an American has no problem in going to the wrong que (be it 1st class or VIP, despite the fact that he is neither), but it is not the freedom thing – just a lack of the ability to focus
Americans love their flip flops, especially during the travel
