Indeed, it is time to blog again. For this season's blog entry I propose a flight of intellectual fancy with the following series of suppositions.

1) Suppose there are countless numbers of worlds in which biological life could develop. Statistically, life would develop on a great number of these planets.

2) If life develops, then the chance of intelligent life developing is also fairly high.

3) If intelligent life develops, then some subset of these life forms would probably develop technology.

4) If technology is created, this would undoubtedly lead to machines.

5) Some of these machines will probably be autonomous.

6) Some of these autonomous machines will probably be self-replicating to the limits of their available resources.

7) Certainly at least some of these self-replicating machiens will have abundant enough resources to continue replication over a very long period of time, even millions or billions of years.

8) During the process of replication, accident or intentional variation will probably occur.

9) Variation will make some machines more adaptable than others. These machines will probably out replicate other machines.

10) This will lead to specialization and futher adaptation. This is essentially the same as biological evolution.

11) Some number of these mahcines would then develop better ways of understanding their environment than others. This could be considered to be intelligence.

12) Some intelligent, self-replicating machines, inbued with a drive to continue replication and survivial of their species would no doubt find space travel to be the best way to garner new resources and ensure the survival of their species.

Based on the above, it is now clear that the universe is no doubt populated by super intelligent machines.

 
By request, here comes a new blog.

I moved to Ballard. It's great here. I love it. I live in a duplex with the landlord living next door. The idea makes me nervous, but she seems to be very cool. Our stove and oven is original, which means it is from the 50's. In addition to looking cool, it is amazing how well they work. The over maintains a perfect tempature and heats up to 450 in around 4 minutes. Isn't it funny how sometimes they really just don't make them the way they used to?

I've very, very busy at work, but I'm also really happy with what I get to do. Without going into any details, I'm making a completely original, amazingly ambitous application from scratch. Once it gets past Beta stage (around 4 months from now) my entire company will be using it. It will be the thing that everyone does their job in. It's even going to have instant messaging built in to it.

Moving itself sucks. Dana and I are broke and exhausted, but we love our new home and no longer are woken up by asshole neighbors and car crashes. I was worried that the bus ride would take forever but it's only around 10 minutes longer than my old ride. It goes down the western edge of Seattle, and has a totally different feel than coming in from the hill.

 



Yesterday.
6:30PM.
My Bus Stop.
Viva, baby.

 
On the one hand, Bush authorized leaks to media, while on the other hand, Jesus authorized his own crucifiction. All in all, it's a good day for news.

I leave you with this image of Aloha and 21st.

 

I parked next to this truck this morning. If you can't read it, the bumper sticker says "God Bless JerUSAlem." I would also like to add, "Jesus Save lUSAka"

 
It often seems like the Republicans in general and the Bush administration in particular have no idea what they are doing. They seem really stupid.

I have trouble reconciling this with the fact that they have been smart enough to be grossly successful in taking over the US, and much of the world. That makes them look smart.

So sometimes I look at the mess in Iraq and I think, "Man, Bush is an idiot." Other times I try to see if there is any way that things could be going right along with their diabolical plans.

Well, here's a thought. I just read an article talking about how the Shia/Sunni balance of power has been significantly shifted as a result of the US invasion.

Maybe that was the real point behind the invasion. So Iraq boils over into civil war, and this war spread to encompass all countries with mixed Shia and Sunni populations. We get an Islamic version of the 100 years war.

If you viewed the Islamic world as our enemies, what could be better than getting them to wipe themselves out.

This is just a thought. I know it s a big conspiracy theory, but every other explanation for the Bush administration behavour requires one to accept that they are all really, really stupid.

What if they're not?

 
Animal Human Hybrids have rights too.