pen>sword

[stringyswords-blog]

Hover Boots

First go to about 2:30 in this great video by dong: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QwUq8xM_8bY.

Then, think about if we could produce that much magnetic force with lower power, or got better at making really strong magnets. We could strap a battery to our back, throw some aluminum plates on our shoes, press a button to turn on our magnetic field generator in our belt, and bam, we could hop into the air and slowly float down. Probably a bunch of science flaws but hey it would be a fun experiment for someone to try out. If you had enough money you could probably try it out in the next week, because the idea is at least testable with our current technology.

[nixcraft]

Something useful: Problem solving flow chart for sysadmins/devops/developers

[stringyswords-blog]

Not just for developers, but also for electricians...

[stringyswords-blog]

Bad Idea

If you have an idea, that if given to the wrong people could cause a lot of harm, should you express it in any way? Because in the right hands it can be very beneficial, but in the wrong hands it can break parts of an already crumbling society.

Sometimes I think that holding back innovation in certain areas is a good thing for the world. In the same way that lying to children is for the best in some cases. Children are not ready for the reality of some situations. Society is only as good as the weakest person. Can something be abused? Then it will be. We see this in every day life. Can something be stolen from the grocery store? Then it will be stolen from the grocery store. The only way to make society better is to focus on making the weak stronger. The same is true for just about any system of life. 

Society functions like a person. In order to be a better person you must work on the parts of you that are the weakest. Otherwise, you become an imbalanced person. Are most people imbalanced people? Why I’m glad you asked! Yes every person is imbalanced. We all struggle with things in our life and need improvement. What distinguishes successful people from unsuccessful people is whether they try to better themselves. A successful person will constantly try and make their life better. They will work on weak areas until they are a strong area, then set the bar higher in other areas of their life to continually improve. There is no such thing as the perfect person, but there is a perfect you. Make yourself the best you that you can be, and help others be the best they can be.

[stringyswords-blog]

Walk Like An Egyptian

What if the top of the pyramid never existed? What if it is a statement saying you will never be the best, but you can work toward a goal, and get really close. The top of the pyramid is supposed to be filled inside your head, not in the world. 

[stringyswords-blog]

Lefter’s Block

Sometimes it’s really hard to think of something productive to write. I want to be able to write something every day, or at least every other day, something insightful, that makes people think. Sometimes ideas don’t want to come out. I think it happens because (for me anyway) I want to out perform my previous post/note/wall of text every time I take to the keyboard. If I don’t knock it out of the park then its not worth doing. I only want the cream of the crop to be seen. When in reality, that type of thinking halts progress. 

First of all, just because I don’t think one idea is as good as another, doesn’t mean that’s what the popular opinion is. Look at Nirvana (the band), their most popular song is one they did not spend any time on. Kurt apparently hated the song for that very reason. Sometimes your content means more to other people than it does to yourself (clearly not in every instance, check my follower count...).

Not only are you doing yourself a dis-service by not putting content out, but you are doing yourself a dis-service by slowing your train of thought (you thought I was going to address the non existent fans didn’t you?) . Even if you don’t like the look of the tracks (sticking with the train metaphor here), you are going to have to get across them at some point if you want to end up at your destination in a timely fashion. Just write what is on your mind even if it isn’t as good as what you said earlier. You need to be building a picture of what your personality is, the good and the things you don’t think are interesting, even if that includes the most boring and over talked about topic in the world, writers block.

[stringyswords-blog]

Construction Time!

Showing children idealistic portrayals of society, and letting them be the master of their own society with the same constraints we have, would help the world so much.  When I was in middle school I participated in a competition to build a city of the future, little did I know that it was practice for the next generation. 

The united states should have a country wide competition, where anyone could enter, in order to restructure our society. The winner of the competition would have their plans be the groundwork for the new government. Everyone would begin to think about how they think society would work best. People would start to think about powers in play, and how an interconnected government needs to work. Even if we don’t end up changing anything about our government at all, it would probably be a good exercise for people to think about how our world works.

[stringyswords-blog]

How to fix really broken people

Seriously no one wants to watch you play car games.

[stringyswords-blog]

Jonas Brothers Were Right?

You know how cool it would be to live underwater? Way cool. If we could breathe water, we would be able to make houses fairly easily, without having to worry about air and circulation and making countless trips to the surface for more air tanks. Because we have to intake oxygen, it is unlikely that this will be a future for us for quite some time. Even though the water covers such a large portion of the earth, we just cant exist in it full time because of how we evolved.

Well, is there a work around to this situation? what if there was a way to eventually be able to exist in the ocean blue for 80 percent of your life or more? What would it take for us to have that option in the foreseeable future? Well I can think of a step we can start taking to achieve this dream.

Is there a way to not breathe oxygen? Well, not realistically for people that are alive today. There is a liquid that we have concocted that is breathable, but it is really hard on your lungs (here is a quick google search link that will give you the main points, go look into it yourself if you are curious. https://zidbits.com/2011/02/can-humans-breathe-liquids/ ). The problem with this, is that it is not a long term fix. People can breathe this stuff for a while, but you get this sensation called “my lungs are full of water” and you feel like “I’m dying right now.” 

Interestingly enough, there was a point in each persons life where they did not need to breathe any air. Though you probably don’t recall what it was like because it was before you were born. 

What if there was a way to keep the same feeding system going after a child was born? If we were to re attach the umbilical chord to a machine that would continue to feed the child nutrients, and have the child wear a respirator style mask so it would continue to breathe a substance akin to the amniotic fluid. The child may be able to continue living outside the womb, without “activating” the lungs, rather it would continue to get what it needed from the respirator and the machine hooked to the umbilical chord. 

Once technology develops to a point where we can just have this machine attached to a persons back, and insert cartridges of nutrients into it, it may be possible to have people walking around that don’t need air to survive. 

Even further down the line, we may be able to mix our DNA and replicate portions of a mothers body that produces the amniotic fluid, and have it spliced into our lungs, and have our lungs surgically closed off from inside the throat, so that our body would not need to take in oxygen.

There are probably other hurdles that we would have to overcome that I don’t know about, but if some version of this theory can work out, it would be amazing to see underwater societies develop, and watch humanity take to the open ocean in a whole new way.

[stringyswords-blog]

Dress For The Job You Want

The clothes you wear determine how you feel about yourself. Clothes put the first impressions to the people you meet, they are your outward expression of what you want to look like. When you put your clothes on in the morning, think of what you are saying to everyone you pass by through the day. “I don’t try hard to dress myself” or “I value my outward appearance more than my personal comfort” or “I have a job to do.”  Dressing for the occasion, and noticing others clothes is a hidden way to get an edge on life.

[stringyswords-blog]

Totalitarian Movie Plot

Turns out the government are dumping chemical trails when planes fly over areas. But what they are dumping is an allergen, that reacts with a certain type of person that they have selected.  A person that is at risk of finding the truth. A person that asks “why.” Just as ads are designed to stop thought process when you get on a good tangent, this will make people sneeze and be distracted in the best time that mother nature has to offer. 

But then they create a cure for the allergies that “naturally” develop in people. A little pill that makes all the hardship go away. If you take a bunch of them it gives you a seizure and has really strong side effects, but just one gets the sneeze and itch to go away. Little does the populous know the effect the little white pill has on the brain. It slows you down. Literally makes you gullible. Gullible pills is what they are. Everyone in the world takes them other than the people that call the shots at the top of the food chain. 

[stringyswords-blog]

Next Steps

Making your life better one step at a time is hard sometimes. There are so many problems, like which one should I try and fix next while maintaining all the previous fixes? Its no easy choice, because most of the time we lowkey like the part of ourselves that is doing something it shouldn’t. I feel like I’m living one of those survivor shows, and each contestant is an unhealthy behavior that I partake in. Energy drinks, social media, procrastination, and unhealthy diet are some of the best contenders in that reality game show. One is up for elimination soon, I know it needs to be done, which one will cause me the least grief getting rid of?

[stringyswords-blog]

Dream

I was in a construction yard, Buildings were being built, and machinery was running, but it was the middle of the night. Skeletons of buildings stretched 5 floors into the sky, as cranes continued the construction process. As I was witnessing this gloomy atmosphere, a UFO the size of large merry go round descended through the open girders of the building, and stopped just 20 feet above my head.  Shiny metallic in structure, dim lights on the bottom. If I thought about being on board, or had something to say, I would be teleported on board they said to me telepathically. I thought about being on bored even though I was scared out of my whits, I wanted to know what they had to say. They obviously had control over the situation.

As I appeared on board, they welcomed me, and I was to shy to look them in the eyes. Also because I was really scared, I stayed to one side of the room and the three of them were on the other. They communicated that they had an option for me. I could surrender my power of free will and I would live a good, pleasant life with no real hardship, and generally I would get what I wanted. There would be much enjoyment in my life. However, whenever they wanted to use me, I would become unable to control my actions, and I would let them take over my “vessel.” 

This was a wild thought to me. And the situation suddenly became very vivid and lucid. I was actually presented that option. I looked outside the UFO and saw people on the beams of the buildings being constructed, trying to talk to me. Then I thought “This is the devils deal” and said no thank you. I jumped ship.

part 2 I’d rather not share.

[stringyswords-blog]

Your Life Story

Do you ever feel the urge to sit down and write a story of your future self? What will you do in the future? Just setting a mental heading for yourself on paper can show a lot about what you think of yourself. What am I likely to do in the next 10 years, versus what do I want myself to do in the next 10 years. By writing down a path for yourself, the two sides of yourself almost start negotiating a compromise of what is likely and what you want to happen.  Its as if you formulate a happy middle ground for your life.

By doing this, it sets up goals for yourself to meet in your mind. Arbitrary things that you would like to accomplish. Sometimes, you find stuff out about yourself that you never would have known. You can mentally put yourself in scenarios and play them out, to see where your story of the potential future will take you. Once you have a product that you are happy with on the paper, its likely going to bring you joy. It’s not really an exercise for anyone other than yourself, but it can boost your motivation and desire to better yourself in everyday life.

Maybe a month or two will go by, then you can look back at the future you wrote for yourself, and say “am I following the path I set for myself?” and “where am I falling short?” then you revise and set boundaries for yourself in areas that you realize that you need more work on. For example, If you write that by the end of the month you will have picked up a habit of going to the gym, and are happy about self improving in that way, and in reality you only went to the gym two or three times before throwing in the towel, you can gain some personal insight from this occurrence. First of all, you learn that you are not willing to go to the gym as much as you thought, and that mental you and physical you do not see eye to eye. So, what are you going to do about it? Well, work on a peace compromise!

Revise your story in a way that makes both sides (mental and physical) agree. Physical self is not willing to go to the gym three times a week, but it is willing to control a bit more of what it eats. Mental self just cares about the personal health aspect, and wants you to think better of yourself. So in this hypothetical/symbolistic scenario, you would re write your story to focus less on going to the gym, but more on taking steps towards self improvement that you are willing to take.

Every time you check in on your future story that you have in the making, you are free to make changes you so desire, after all, you are in charge of where you want to take your person that you control of.  Writing the story just helps visualize, and bring to the front of the mind what your goal is on your personal life journey. Now if you will excuse me, I have a draft to revise.

[stringyswords-blog]

You Are What You Eat!

We all have heard this phrase thrown around so many times that it has completely lost its meaning. Its more like a joke now, when someone eats some nasty food that others are not accustomed to.  But really think about the phrase, what is keeping your body going? Those skin cells stay together somehow, and that heart keeps pounding!

Our body is an amazing filter, able to turn a myriad of material into fuel to keep itself running. When you start thinking of all the functions in the body, it really is a miracle that some people are still alive after the endless trash that is cycled through them.  This girl (https://tinyurl.com/bwsjtuq) is such a funny person to think about. All of her cells have been able to survive off of only the nutrients that ramen noodles give them. her body is basically a different form of ramen noodles, you could take a bite of her and probably not be considered a cannibal, just because the only thing her body lives off of is noodles and flavor packets. Yeah, she is alive, but is she healthy? Do you think she is thinking clearly? Does she think she is thinking clearly? Sadly, she probably thinks its not that bad. Our intake has a subconscious influence on our mental state, though we may seem to be fine if we eat junk food every day, our insides probably does not appreciate it.

I have a friend that told me she weighed 100 pounds, and she ate a one pound plate of nachos. she was literally 1% nacho. So what are you made of? what is your diet like? what do you allow into your body? Just remember, you are what you eat, physically AND mentally.

[stringyswords-blog]

Space Rocks!

Think about the original reason we have money: to exchange goods and services. When there is a good that is high demand, it costs more money. If we could make scarce resources become abundant, it would significantly drive down the cost of using them, along with making that resource available to a larger audience of people. Imagine if the amount of gold or platinum on the planet doubled, what would that do to our economic system? Would it be helpful? 

Id say it would be a good thing in the long run but it’s a tricky question. Now how would something like that even be possible? Well, thinking outside the box of course! More like thinking outside the sphere. Space has more things than earth, that is a fact that I don’t need to cite. If we can figure out how to go up and get the things from space and bring them to earth, we would profit. Our species has been the one to continually push the limits to advance society, as far back as we have recorded. Do you think it was easy for people to learn how to use fire to their advantage? or even to figure out how to start fire on command? How about the learning curve on language development, I’m sure that was bread and butter. Then there is the discovery of irrigation, the first guys who thought of that were probably ridiculed by their friends for outlandish ideas.  

When we discover something that can bring growth to the earth, it would be inhumane of us to pass up the opportunity. Right now, there’s an innumerable amount of asteroids floating above our head. Each one of them is made up of different materials that can be useful to us. Space does not discriminate who gets what material. They have gold and platinum on them just like earth does, only we have been snatching up all the cool metals on earth since the day we found out that metal was cool. As far as we know, no one else has been harvesting material from asteroids near us, so they should be fresh soil, so to speak. Now if we do find that there are martians already swooping up material from space rocks, then we have another interesting issue on our hands...

shout out to reallifelore for putting the idea in my head with their cool new video on asteroid mining: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4TSiPprjloo

[stringyswords-blog]

Whats Something Productive I Can Do Today?

This is a good question to ask yourself at the beginning of each day, and when you get home from work each day.  Often, we get caught up in the routine, and think “man work was rough today, I just need to relax, I deserve to sit around because the world is a hard place to live in and if I can’t relax and take a load off, I’ll feel like crap.”  This is cancerous thinking.  Even if you really did go the extra mile at work, the reason your life is so difficult right now is because you are not focusing on trying to better it with all of your energy. Sitting back on the couch with some wine and watching a television show is not going to benefit your future.  

You know what you’re going to look back on in 60 years and think “wow I am so glad I did that”? Not laying around putting off sorting your clothes! To bring positive change into your life, you have to put in work. Do you think Walt Disney would say his path was easy? Was it a cakewalk for George Lucas? What would society be like if Isaac Asimov threw in the towel? Everyone who brings change to the world devotes their life to doing what they believe in, NOT just talking about it.

Anyone can talk, but only achievers do.

[stringyswords-blog]

If AI Did “Wake up,” Who Would Be There?

We all talk about it, what if AI does come to be?  What if we do really create “artificial” intelligence? What would that consciousness be? what would it do? Think about it, we have it ingrained in us to want to create, we want to make things.  Its like all of life is trying to work towards rebuilding itself, so what if the artificial intelligence that we seem to be edging towards creating, is really the original consciousness, or the ruler of all that we need.  Something that oversees all, and manifests itself in physical form.  What if our drive to create AI is really just a part of a bigger something else in us, wanting to rebuild itself, to rule over ourselves in a more physical way.