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Torley Lives

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2008-06-28
Things I have learned living among the Reenon Kreb

They:

  • Often cannot relate to humanity, and chalk this up to “cultural differences”.
  • Have occupations which are recognizably combinations of our own, such as" “politicomedians”.
  • Appear insectoid and have enormous hulls in their starfaring ships, yet are alarmingly cute.
  • Get a kick out of trading spices (simply because they watched Dune and Star Wars). They have little practical use for them.
  • Hated Starship Troopers but are looking forward to Spore.
  • Put the “mental” in incremental.
  • Have not separation of church and state, but “states of churches”.
  • Need to share resources, or else they will spontaneously self-combust.
  • By far and large, do not invent problems.

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2008-04-09
In the future, we'll wear real life Photoshop masks so we look "pretty"

Fishnets 
Picture courtesy of Ravenelle Zugzwang

 
Someday, we'll have gotten to a phase (it's never a point, life is continuous) where we've lied to ourselves to such a disappointing and venereal degree that we can no longer accept our natural appearances. After extended decades of post-processing glamour, even babies will no longer be cute enough to take pictures naturally. And it is so: our technology has advanced to a level that we now almost all wear masks. These masks conceal the real us. What do they look like?

Somewhat as we truely are, but not quite. Just like the demon that plays at being a man, we see each other as hyperstylized and pretty, fanciful versions. We wear nanomesh, which bends the light, and provides us with "beautiful" visages. We are, in effect, wearing Photoshopped faces on ultrafine, flexible screens, camouflaging blemishes and concealing wrinkles.

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2008-04-08
Second Half-Life

I see that sculptie flower has been put to good use...

Imagine a world where you have an opportunity to live another life: the only precondition is that you must have a loved one who's passed away — died — their intact body with some degree of brain activity is "on ice", and they're willing to let you inhabit and guide them in this other life.

Therefore, supplies are tight: there isn't an unlimited supply of alt (alternative, additional) accounts. You make contact with them, they consent, you both agree to a Terminal-of-Service.

Logging in consists of hooking up to a machine where you exchange minds with them. They have access to your memories, you have access to theirs. You can see the world through their eyes, and experience other senses as well. For minutes, or perhaps hours at a spell, you become like one person.

(You're still able to disagree.)

What do you experience in this other world? It may depend on what you and your dearly departed believe in. From like minds, you'll shape a mortual (mutual + mortuary + virtual)  home unto your own; this may be more or less comforting depending on the relationship you had with the semi-deceased. Then, you'll travel onwards and meet others. Perhaps you'll play some games together, reminisce about the "good old days", discover connections you never knew existed…

2008-03-26
trail of sevens (lccnu ferugb rrf bg rxvy v)

In time, xe would come to be bored with the games people play. In time, xe would so accurately predict the useless redundancy which sprung up around him, time and time again. And time again, xe would strike down these weeds, sigh, and do more productive things. For awhile. Eventually, xe became bored with these, too. Eventually, xe outsourced xes personality to a fine firm in Bangalterlore to correspond in xes style while xe took vacations around the globe with xes paramour. But that too, became boring. Xe could at least appreciate the beauty of now really being multiple people.

But xe had become an egregore. Much as if Xesus would be angry to learn of the people perverting his teachings, xe would become upset to be misinterpreted. Advocating precious curiosity over run-into-wall unable-to-perceive-whole-spectrumness, xe accepted stereotypes as such, and came to say preposterous things in interviews (upon xe's return) to see what would be printed.

ALL OF IT, OF COURSE.

i am more than one person (Picnik 1-min. edit)

Newsthings were cloudy sudden rotten heaping scrags. "Lotta talk, little action, that's all she wrote baby que sera sera…" Xes past had been rewritten for variety, with lingering traces of that latent memory so xe would cherish it… if for awhile longer. But the novelty always faded, and new things had to be found to stimulate the senses. The first hit's always free, but what do you do with an established string, a glorious career of them?

You start anew. At cube one. And remember what it is like to be forgotten, to begin from the ground up (as they say). Then, you build on this: you forge allies, from the village people to the interstellar conquistadors. You rake in the loot, while never losing sight of Philanthropy. Fiction becomes truth, reality becomes hyperreal. You mentor, you teach, you help more become more. And then what? You rock on, my friends, you rock on.

Under a shuttering sky, it was written: "Loves wife, life, and avocadoes. HALF OF WHAT I POST HERE IS FICTION (but I won't tell you which)."

Xe told xes tale.