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Japan!
28/12/2010 - 10:58:38 - 1 comments - By D47
Only 2 and a half weeks from now I'll be flying away to Japan!

First week is in Tokyo at the Oak hotel in Ueno. It's only one station from Akihabara and very close to plenty of other things to do.

The seconds week is in Sapporo, we will be staying at the Tokyu Inn, right in the middle of Sapporo city. It's going to be very cold, we will be there during the very depths of winter! Temperature in the range of -10 to -5 I believe.

Finally our last week in Japan will be spent at the Dotonbori Hotel in Osaka.
If you google it you will see some strange statues of heads with feet. Dotonbori has some cool sights such as a giant mechanical crab and Americamura (America town).

I've bought myself a rail pass for the total three weeks that I'm there so I'll be able to catch practically any train in Japan freely, so It's well expected that we will journey off the beaten track to some out of the way sights and attractions. I would like to find a cool hot spring in Hokkaido and an interesting small town away from Osaka.

Rest assured there will be many many photos and videos.
 
This site is embarasing.
27/12/2010 - 23:49:58 - 0 comments - By D47
 
Querk.com.au
4/8/2010 - 13:58:45 - 2 comments - By D47
I've been working on a new website for Querk Antique and Unique Furniture at http://querk.com.au. Have a look =)
 
Biding my rage
3/8/2010 - 00:26:24 - 0 comments - By D47
I feel empty and sad almost constantly. I want to meet someone and have friends. I want to be recognised and respected. I want to have something to drive me everyday. I don't know what I need.

I'm so introverted and insanely lonely I can't bear it, I'm filled with inexpressible rage and lust. I can't even express myself any way other than plain text. I feel so stupid in front of other people and at the end of every day I lie in bed and stress over every misspoken word and unintended impression I give to people. I want to be free spirited and not care about anything. I try but it cannot possibly happen.

I can't be myself anywhere. Even when I'm just walking down the street I'm self-conscious of what passer-bys are thinking. Despite this I feel so disconnected and bitter. I convince myself that I'm somewhat emotionless and to a degree I think I am. But whatever the case I'm conflicted and angry, which are emotions themselves.

There are many things for which I feel nothing where everyone else feels intensely. I very much prefer to be alone and feel chills when my phone rings, though I'm comfortable with emails. I can't participate on face-book, it wears me thin. I couldn't care less about other people and I can't see myself ever caring.

I feel that my life is so monotonous, straight-forward and simple; I want there to be no laws and barriers. I want to be free to do what I wish without consequence.

At the end of the day though; I'm glad to be me.

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Potential employers:
Please ignore the above.
 
Improvement
4/5/2010 - 00:21:23 - 1 comments - By D47
Recently I had an interesting exchange with some people about the reason we as a species would want to surpass our current condition and improve ourselves as a whole by whatever means we can manage.

Personally I think that it is very worth our while to explore technologies that would improve our capacity to think and operate as well as to increase our lifespan as much as we would like. But there are others who are comfortable living in the current human condition and believe that any long term improvement methods will not be of any gain to the human species and the individual experience.

A point put forward against transhumanism is that we currently possess all the necessary abilities and features to live acceptably or as best as we ever could. This may be true, but any casual observer can see the current situation as far from acceptable. There is no telling how long it will take and if it will ever come to pass that our species finds itself in an organisational configuration that each individual can happily accept without expanding our own capabilities artificially. We don't know if this is the limit of our society and so we need to find the limit and shape ourselves to experience it. If this turns out to be as far as we can go than so be it, we will never know if we don't search.

I think that by improving ourselves and humanity itself; we will dramatically increase our odds of materialising such a utopia. It may even turn out that by transforming ourselves into a particular form; mere human trivialities we experience today will no longer be an issue for such an entity. It may be that it will no longer be necessary to exist in a functioning society at all if we take the right form, a singular universal gaia type organism for example.

I however don't think a utopia would be a very nice ending to humanity, a society that has reached a plateau in drive and curiosity that merely continues perpetually in the same state unchanged may as well not exist at all. If it's there or not there; what difference would it make? it doesn't interact with the universal stage at all. Much more desirable would be a continually explorative and curious existence. That would be much more acceptable, exciting and bearable than the restricted and scheduled life demanded of a utopian society. I'd rather live in a chaotic free for all than endure an enforced way of life.

I only wish that we don't stop our technological progression at this point and that we continue with the same veracity we have shown in the past; Unhindered by unfounded desires such as remaining "human". We are thought and experience, our vessel is a tool to accommodate our minds and interact physically with the world; nothing more.

I cannot simply become complacent with my current form and living condition, I find my surroundings and human form severely oppressive. My clumsy imprecise and limited mortal vessel gives me the feeling of experiencing life as if I had weights attached to all aspects of my body and mind. I think it is natural and imperative for our own enlightenment that we discover ways to lift the weights that pull us down to earth and learn to master the natural laws of our peculiar reality and spread ourselves to the utter limits. Searching for the ultimate pleasure and comfort. Just as we have been stumbling towards since we sharpened our first shards of rock.

In the face of a meaningless universe and a pointless existence; what better to do than explore, and exhaust every possible means to have fun.
 

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