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Adam K Olson

Shift Happens.

About Me

Boku wa tsuihou sareta node rainichi shimashita....

...and now I'm in the Empire Metropolis.

My Interests

Aesthetics, Design, Art, Language, Systems, Epistemology, Ontology, Architecture, Wabi Sabi, Modernism, Postmodernism, Artificial Intelligence, Kansai, Kansai-ben, Japanese

I'd like to meet:

Yukiotoko demo kaiseijin.

Music:

Philip Glass, Kraftwerk, Skinny Puppy, downLOAD, Sakamoto Ryuchi, Depeche Mode, Boards of Canada, Aphex Twin, Balanescu Quartet, Rob Dougan, Alan Wilder, Autechre, Digitonal, Ulrich Schnauss, Dead Voices on Air, Massive Attack, Mu-Ziq

Movies:

Primer, Koyaanisqatsi, Being There, 2001: A Space Odyssey, Bladerunner, Metropolis, Dark City, The Limey, The Hudsucker Proxy, The Man Who Wasn't There, Film Noir of Any Sort, Metropolis, Brazil, The Malteese Falcon, D.O.A., The Big Sleep, Oldboy

Television:

Doctor Who, Twilight Zone, Profit

Books:

Anything by Philip K. Dick, 2001: A Space Odyssey, Vurt, Life After God, The Illuminatus! Trilogy, The Big Sleep, I Am Legend, Gun With Occasional Music, Pollen, Snow Crash, Neuromancer, The Intelligent Universe, Up Wingers, Prometheus Rising, The Gunslinger, The Selfish Gene, The Age of Spiritual Machines, Ideas and Integrities, Godel Escher Bach: The Eternal Golden Thread, Foucault's Pendelum, House of Leaves

Heroes:

Philip Marlowe, Sakamoto Ryomo

My Blog

UFOs built in Japan to make mountains, says Louis Farrakahn

From http://www.finalcall.com/MLFspeaks/destruction.html"The final thing is the destruction. The Honorable Elijah Muhammad told us of a giant Motherplane that is made like the universe, spheres within...
Posted by Adam K Olson on Sun, 29 Jul 2007 03:15:00 PST

Lisa, in this house, we obey the laws of thermodynamics!

http://www.engadget.com/2007/07/04/steorns-orbo-free-energy- machine-demonstrated-tomorrow/
Posted by Adam K Olson on Wed, 04 Jul 2007 02:19:00 PST

30% Chance of Showers, 67% Chance of God

"In The Probability of God: A Simple Calculation That Proves the Ultimate Truth (2004), Stephen Unwin uses the Bayesian analysis - a math equation developed more than 200 years ago by European philoso...
Posted by Adam K Olson on Wed, 14 Mar 2007 04:04:00 PST

An infinite blind alley

There are no ghosts, there are no monsters, there are no auras, there are no souls. We often find this scientific thinking dry, bland, and simply /un-fun/. By no surprise then the new-age movement, th...
Posted by Adam K Olson on Mon, 26 Feb 2007 09:54:00 PST