#mark currie

[heartlandians]

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When Katie Brown comes to town there is never a shortage of laughs. We had a very busy week with my official Marshall’s Country Store launch, but regardless of how hectic our visits are, we always fit in an epic adventure. It was also Kerry James’s birthday yesterday so we brought him along for the ride. 😉 And thanks to Mark Wayne Currie for being our trail boss in the back country.

[heartlandians]

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Part two of the video I posted yesterday. 😁

[timeloop-s]

The notion that the future is ahead and the assumption that time goes forward are perhaps the most fundamental orientational metaphors we have, but the fact is that they contradict each other. We might think of the first metaphor, with Lakoff and Johnson, as a human subject moving in a landscape, eyes facing the direction of travel, so that the future is ahead. In this case the subject is moving forward while the landscape moved through stands still. How do we reconcile this with the idea that time moves forwards? It would seem that, in relation to a subject moving from left to right, from the past into the future, time must either be static or be moving in the opposite direction: the direction that would, in fact, be backwards if the person involved were to walk that way.

Mark Currie, The Unexpected: Narrative Temporality and the Philosophy of Surprise

[timeloop-s]

The philosophy of time is a history of metaphors[.]

Mark Currie, The Unexpected: Narrative Temporality and the Philosophy of Surprise

[timeloop-s]

[T]he relationship between an open future, which is still to come, and a closed one, which has already happened, is the defining feature for the relationship between a reader and what has traditionally been called a protagonist or any other participant in the action of a written narrative.

Mark Currie, The Unexpected: Narrative Temporality and the Philosophy of Surprise

[omg-casualbeardstudent]

Megalomania (Feat. Mark Currie) by Allera http://ift.tt/2tEwJOp

[kamdong]

The Boxer

Jacques Derrida's philosophy - 

Logic of supplementarity: "Temporal loop by which things happen later in a sequence are understood as the origins of things from which they apparently originate."

Ex. "If we apply this logic to the case of digital video recording, its structure becomes apparent, since the event being recorded often comes into being only as a recording, or as something to be remembered...The same thing happens if I go to India so that I won't regret not going, or because I want to have been, or because I envisage the stories of adventure that I might tell.  A possible future produces the event to which it is said to be added on, or the archive produces the event as much as it records it."

- pg. 42, About Time, Mark Currie explaining Derrida 

'Logic of Supplementarity' is Derrida's term for the idea of doing something not for the sake of the activity itself, but for the memories, stories, reflections, narratives, or documentation the activity will produce.  An easy example of this is standing on the edge of a cliff, just so that you can take a new profile picture for your Facebook.  In any case, it seems there are a lot of activities in which one engages just so that one can talk later about completing the activity.  You do something for the future, not for the present.

Derrida then goes on to point out that this documentation - photo, memory, whatever it may be - actually creates the activity.  The future becomes the origin of the present. 

[maverickuk]

Chopper Commando came out in 1990, written in Turbo Pascal by one guy (as was the fashion in those days).

It's a very simple game with simple graphics, but extremely playable mechanics and a control scheme that takes time to truely master.

One of the things that makes it special is that the rules of the game change. You start off flying your powerful helicopter, but if it gets too badly damaged you need to eject and attempt to survive on foot.

You can explore the landscape this way (and find a few secrets) although you're a lot more vulnerable. If you can hold out long enough a rescue chopper will actually come and pick you up.