Calabrese, Shadow of Sicily.

My Interests

Music:

Django Reinhardt, Acid King, Primus, Blind Willie McTell, Electric Wizard, Herbie Hancock, Pink Floyd, Hendrix, Miles Davis, Coltrane, Charlie Parker, James Brown, Soundgarden, Beck, The Mars Volta, Skip James, Meshuggah, T. Monk, The Beatles, Nick Drake, Kyuss, Black Sabbath, Tower of Power, Curtis Mayfield, Bob Marley, James Brown, The Meters, King Crimson, Yes, Gentle Giant, John Frusciante, RATM, Tool, Robert Johnson, QOTSA, Grant Green, RHCP, Led Zeppelin, TROJAN BOX SETS!

Movies:

pulp fiction, donnie darko, dr. strangelove, the brave little toaster, being there, days of thunder, jesus of nazareth, run lola run, (italian) mob movies, the song remains the same, the wall, shaun of the dead, dawn of the dead, naked, malevolent alien movies...

Television:

seinfeld, futurama, athf, harvey birdman, the simpsons, south park, family guy, 12 oz. mouse, working, the law and order with vincent d'onofrio.

Books:

Recent Readings: Philosophy of Psychology by Bermudez; A History of The Modern Middle East; Papers by Searle, Fodor, Rosenthal

Heroes:

all my heroes are dead... except jimmy page and the nuclear bomb

My Blog

Calling All Robots: Uncle Sham Needs You! (00101010001010111010101001010100010110101001)

Something I learned to appreciate by reading the Singularity is Near by Ray Kurzweil is the importance of our conceptions about machines and intelligence. In the early days of AI when we looked a...
Posted by Calabrese, Shadow of Sicily. on Tue, 21 Aug 2007 12:00:00 PST

Ground Control, This Is Major Tom

Aren't there fucking rocket scientists working on the whole space shuttle thermal tile thing? They keep on getting damaged, and it already cost us one shuttle and a few astronauts. I ...
Posted by Calabrese, Shadow of Sicily. on Fri, 17 Aug 2007 11:52:00 PST

"Blah Blah, Woof Woof" -Jimi Hendrix

They say that people don't know how to think because their opinions are readymade and they're uneducated, or that people are afraid of questioning because they like their stability and everything the ...
Posted by Calabrese, Shadow of Sicily. on Mon, 06 Aug 2007 09:38:00 PST

Thoughts on the Future of the Species

"Man is a rope, tied between beast and overman--a rope over an abyss." - Friedrich Nietzsche, Thus Spoke Zarathustra "[B]ut what convinces is not neccessarily true--it is merely convincing: a no...
Posted by Calabrese, Shadow of Sicily. on Fri, 20 Apr 2007 11:38:00 PST

On "My Sweet Lord"

Catholics believe that Jesus was both god and man. What better way to illustrate this than by depicting Jesus in the nude, that is, by showing his manhood? This is exactly what Canadi...
Posted by Calabrese, Shadow of Sicily. on Tue, 03 Apr 2007 04:15:00 PST

The Great Thing About A Book...

...is that you don't have to pay anyone for the rights to use a song.
Posted by Calabrese, Shadow of Sicily. on Mon, 26 Mar 2007 10:01:00 PST

It's Getting Hotter On Mars, Too

The gases produced by the flatulence of livestock contribute to global warming. So, what then? Do we need to start a "Green Animals" campaign?
Posted by Calabrese, Shadow of Sicily. on Sat, 24 Mar 2007 06:08:00 PST

What Pisses Me Off About... The Matrix

Why would machines with greater-than-human intelligence even need to stay on the Earth? Why wouldn't they just go to the moon, or the asteroid belt (after all, they don't need an ecosystem, and ...
Posted by Calabrese, Shadow of Sicily. on Sat, 24 Mar 2007 05:50:00 PST

Report of Internal Mental States

It's incredible that we live in an age where our scientists and philosophers can seriously discuss things such as artificial intelligence, time travel, higher spatial dimensions, a...
Posted by Calabrese, Shadow of Sicily. on Wed, 21 Mar 2007 06:17:00 PST

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Posted by Calabrese, Shadow of Sicily. on Tue, 13 Mar 2007 12:30:00 PST