Comments for A Foolish Manifesto

Comment on Ruby 1.9 is out! by fREW Schmidt

fREW Schmidt — Thu, 27 Dec 2007 08:18:44 +0000

Darry: I fixed the typo. Does it make more sense now?

Comment on Ruby 1.9 is out! by Darry

Darry — Thu, 27 Dec 2007 07:00:38 +0000

This part right here:

a = [1, 2, 3, 4, 5] a.drop(3) # => [4, 5] a.drop {|i| i < 3 } # => [3, 4, 5]

wasn't really making sense to me? Typo maybe?

Comment on Walking Through Walls by Fjord

Fjord — Sat, 29 Sep 2007 01:20:09 +0000

I’m super happy with my little HP Pavilion, so I guess I’d recommend them. Good Linux support too.

Comment on Time Travel (Forward) by oscar

oscar — Thu, 23 Aug 2007 20:08:23 +0000

¿Chemicals? ¡Shhhhh, be careful, the DEA can be listening! Perhaps you can find LSD in comfortable suppositories. But watch out… Say “God bless America” or “Allah bless America” 2 or 3 times after each one and your nighbours will keep thinking you are a good guy. Ok, we will check following investigations at next opprtunity. Vectorial drawing looks fine. Great job, lot of fun detected. Keep reporting. Have a very good bye.

Comment on Creation of Warmies by oscar

oscar — Sun, 19 Aug 2007 22:04:27 +0000

May be the controlled entropy creation could be useful. My brain is always producing entropy, useless thoughts bouncing a hundred times inside the head and then loosing as emitted warmies to the air. But the answer can be anywhere, tomorrow a brilliant scientific may find the exact resonating frequency to build a Faser (Fart Amplification by Stimulated Emission of Radiation)…Oops, sorry. Ahem… well, I’ll wait for your next experiment.

Comment on Cotrolling Fanblades by oscar

oscar — Mon, 13 Aug 2007 18:07:43 +0000

Finally somebody has tried to do something really useful. I am bored listening to politicians, “we energically blah blah…”, “we met yesterday and blah blah about those very important questions”, “surely we’ll blah blah and next we’ll meet for further blah blah in order to blah blah…” However, you TRY to change the world. May be you will get it, may be you will not, but carry on, don’t give up. Perhaps one day you will discover you can talk to electrons and say: “ok boys, come here all of you, together at this point”, and suddenly you have 1000000 volts for doing whatever you want with them. Or you can rise your hand one day, and discover you have canceled the religion-based hate in 10 km around… You will be the 5th fantastic!!! Please keep us informed about your research. Good luck!

Comment on Seeing in the Dark by fREW Schmidt

fREW Schmidt — Mon, 06 Aug 2007 00:23:09 +0000

Yeah man, it’s cool. The main thing that I would suggest that I did was consistently ask myself if I was (were?) in a dream. No matter what was going on. Also a dream journal helps, because there are some things that can alert you to that you are dreaming. For example, I found out that a pretty large percentage of my dreams are on boats, so if I am on a boat, it might be a dream! There are also similar things with colors, although some people don’t even dream in color so that may not apply to everyone.

Comment on Seeing in the Dark by Fjord

Fjord — Sun, 05 Aug 2007 21:06:28 +0000

Woah, you have lucid dream capability? I've been interested in that for a while. What's your technique? I never got it to work reliably. There have been a few times when it just happened. But when I was actively trying for it, I only got it once (that I remember), and I slipped back into the dream pretty quickly.

Lucid dreams seem like a good place to test out all kinds of super power capabilities.

Comment on Seeing in the Dark by admin

admin — Sun, 05 Aug 2007 15:18:08 +0000

Fjord: I totally understand what you are saying. I have a couple ideas for stuff like that. For instance, the freeing of the mind may be capable in dreams, and I may re-cultivate my lucid dream skill for that specific purpose. Also, like the flying thing you mention, that may be possible with a dream-chemical combo. Normally people don’t sleepwalk because of a chemical their body produces that inhibits movement. I think my body gave me too much when I was little because when I woke up I couldn’t move my hands for about 5 minutes. Anyway, inhibiting that chemical may allow me to fall 10 feet in a dream and then begin flying in both dream and real life. Also: I could sky dive and then just not land.

Comment on Seeing in the Dark by Fjord

Fjord — Sun, 05 Aug 2007 13:57:43 +0000

I wait in eager anticipation to see which one you have! But how can you safely test all of them? For example, what if your super power is flying, but it only kicks in after you’ve fallen for 10 feet? Or what if it works like the Matrix and you have to “free your mind” first? Nobody passes the jump test the first time…