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Patrick

Grid life is the only life I know...

About Me

I love what I do for a living and always feel like there is just too much to learn and do in the span of one life. I used to like eating beef jerky every day, but I'm kinda chill on that foodstuff these days. Girls don't like the way I chew gum, but it tastes better if you smack it...

The Voltron Clan Podcast:

My Interests

MacPro's, Protoculture , Traffic , Mexploitation movies, Crossing-guards/Gardeners, Shaking my ass, Schlitz dark, Indigenous nudity, Video production, Wired Magazine , Freestyle keyboarding...

I'd like to meet:

I really dig girls who wear hoop earings, but who am I kidding? Meeting chicks on the internet is such a goth thing to do. The only girls I want to meet online are Women Behind Bars

Hatda hatda hatda!!!!

"The key is the signal, not the noise. And, of course, too much noise will drown out the signal." - Esther Dyson, Release 4.0


Music:

King Tubby, Brand Nubian, Unwound, MF DOOM, The Smiths, Bad Brains, Gangstarr, Ceephax Acid Crew, Daedalus, Digable Planets, Drive Like Jehu, Miss Djax, Polvo, Cannibal Ox, Hyperactive, Luke Vibert, Mission of Burma, Boards of Canada, CROM, The Nonce, Auto Kinetic, Jamie Lidell, Group Home, Prefuse 73, Public Enemy, Joy Division, Company Flow, Cylob, Prototype 909, Stone Roses, u-ziq, Mark Verbos, SquarePusher, Clipse, Skream, Clikatat Ikatowi, Pixies, Digital Mystikz, Dub Narcotic Sound System, Low Frequency Oscillations, Adlib, Tipper, Herbie Hancock, Tha Blue Herb, Woody McBride, Hatcha, Elliott Smith, Morse Code, Aphex Twin, Sleep, Eight Frozen Modules, R.A.W., Mars Volta, Matthew Dear, Aux 88, Soundmurderer, Ween, Dead Prez, Richie Hawtin, Godhead Silo, Tycho, Big Audio Dynamite, Rino Latina, Janes Addiction, Algernon, NEILA, 400 Blows, Billy Ocean, Richard Devine, Fugazi, Roy Ayers, DJ Assault, Melvins, Funkstorung, K-OS, Deadnoise, Kid 606, Sonic Youth, Autechre, Nation of Ulysses, Four Tet, New Jersey Drive Soundtrack, Plaid, Beverly Hills 808303, Venetian Snares...

Movies:

La Haine, War Games, Permanent Midnight, The Yakuza Papers, Bad lieutenant, Virgin Suicides, Rockers, The Wicker Man, Red Dawn, City of God, 24 Hour Party People, Do the Right Thing, Diarios de Motocicleta, 28 Days Later, Valley Girl, Serpent and the Rainbow, Don't be a Menace to South Central while Drinking your Juice in the Hood, King of the Jungle, Cabin Boy, Bringing out the Dead, Hurlyburly, Turk 182, Summer of Sam, Sweet and Lowdown...

Television:

Black Adder, Band of Brothers, Rome, Insomniac, California's Gold with Huell Howser, Antiques Roadshow, Da Ali G Show, The Weather Channel...

Books:

Neuromancer, The Dancing Wu Li Masters, Ask the Dust, Soledad Brothers, Geek Love, Dune, Bomb the Suburbs, Interzone, The Age of Spiritual Machines, The God of Small Things, Man's Fate, Women, A Hero ain't Nothing but a Sandwich, The Elegant Universe, The Masks of God, Going to Meet the Man, Brotherhood of the Grape, The Invisible Man, The Foundation Trilogy, Rhinoceros...

My Blog

The Physical World as a Virtual Reality

The Physical World as a Virtual RealityAuthor: Brian Whitworth(Submitted on 2 Jan 2008)Abstract: This paper explores the idea that the universe is a virtual reality created by information processing, ...
Posted by Patrick on Fri, 04 Jan 2008 11:58:00 PST

The Clock of the Long Now

The Clock of the Long Now Project10,000 year clockThe Clock and Library ProjectsCivilization is revving itself into a pathologically short attention span. The trend might be coming from the accelerati...
Posted by Patrick on Fri, 12 Oct 2007 10:41:00 PST

The Physics of Extraterrestrial Civilizations

Original Link.The Physics of Extraterrestrial CivilizationsHow advanced could they possibly be?by Michio KakuThe late Carl Sagan once asked this question, "What does it mean for a civilization to be a...
Posted by Patrick on Sat, 28 Jul 2007 07:47:00 PST

The Jesus Myth

CLICK ME: Who was the Son of the highest God, and the biggest healer in Antiquity? He healed the sick and even raised the dead. Hear and behold: former paralysed walked again, the blind could miraculo...
Posted by Patrick on Thu, 15 Mar 2007 05:50:00 PST

Music of the Spheres

Stars, themselves spherical, can produce notes through their vibrations, like musical instruments. We cant hear the sounds directly, but astronomers can detect them through asteroseismology-looking be...
Posted by Patrick on Thu, 24 Aug 2006 09:05:00 PST

Archaeoacoustics

By archaeoacoustics I mean the recovery of sounds from the time before the invention of recording. This implies that such sounds would have been recorded inadvertently, while intending to do something...
Posted by Patrick on Sat, 29 Apr 2006 07:24:00 PST

Holy Hand Grenade

Ever wondered what an atomic blast looks like before it obliterates everything around it? Before the smoke, the mushroom cloud, the devastation, it's really quite amazing to see the first few fraction...
Posted by Patrick on Sat, 11 Feb 2006 08:34:00 PST

Chernobyl's "Dead Zone"

This site follows a womans travels through Chernobyl's "Dead Zone"- fucking fascinating: http://www.kiddofspeed.com/chapter1.html...
Posted by Patrick on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST