Lurking Fear

“The ‘Net is a waste of time, and that’s exactly what’s right about it.”

William Gibson quote

For a few brief seconds of the 2001 IMAX film “Great North” a dark figure is seen on the far side of a river. The figure, which went unnoticed for 9 years, seems to startle part of caribou heard that the crew was filming crossing the river. While the figure is currently unidentifiable in copies of the film available online, big foot researchers are currently attempting to track down the filmmakers in the hopes of being able to find a print of the film at the full IMAX quality for further analysis. If they are able to find a high quality version of film, the researchers should be able to tell whether or not the film crew inadvertently documented the existence of an undocumented North American hominid. Until that happens we are left to ponder over lower resolution versions of the clip, like this one taken from Youtube:

The Voynich manuscript is a mysterious illustrated book written in an undeciphered text. It is thought to have been written between 1450 and 1520. The author, script, and language of the manuscript remain unknown.

Over its recorded existence, the Voynich manuscript has been the object of intense study by many professional and amateur cryptographers, including some top American and British codebreakers of World War II fame (all of whom failed to decrypt a single word). This string of failures has turned the Voynich manuscript into a famous subject of historical cryptology, but it has also given weight to the theory that the book is simply an elaborate hoax — a meaningless sequence of arbitrary symbols.

The book is named after the Polish-American book-dealer Wilfrid M. Voynich, who acquired it in 1912. As of 2005, the Voynich manuscript is item MS 408 in the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library of Yale University. The first facsimile edition was published in 2005.

Recent reads include.
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Stephen King – From A Buick 8
This was a pretty good read, the storytelling was excellent and the story itself was compelling although sometimes was slightly drawn out.

J.D. Salinger – Catcher In The Rye
You cannot go wrong with this.  I decided it was time to re-read it after 20 years or so and I think I enjoyed it even more.

Stephen King – The Dead Zone
A great tale, you cannot go wrong reading this if you like King.  Note of course this is far better than the movie.

Stephen King – The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon
This was a very strange book.  The read was good and I am not a sports fan at all so the references to sports I found odd, but it is a major part of the book. 

Ray Bradbury – The Martian Chronicles
Kind of dry to most people I would think but definately worth reading.

Ben Bova – The Green Trap
This is a very fast read, if you like detective novels with a bit of modern references it is real good.

Richard Matheson – I Am Legend
I decided to read this because of the movie and because of the other movies Omega Man, and Last Man On Earth.  It is so much better than the Will Smith movie and I was sad it was over.  I also found out he wrote the story that the movie Somewhere In Time with Christopher Reeves was in.

Ben Bova – The Exiles Trilogy
This is one of my favorite books of all time, a sci-fi classic and a great read.

I was dreaming the other night that I was in a classroom full of people.   I was moving about and interacting with all of these people some of them in a very in depth manner and after I woke up I started to think about these people and how in depth their personalities and individual histories were.  This led me to start wondering who they actually were, are the entities simply constructs of the brain?  Are the faces from people I have seen in my past, are their stories tied to my personal life of brought about by sheer imagination.

The movement called passive actionism is still in its infancy although it has been around since the beginning of communication. So many people are involved in this movement but have yet to accept or recognize it. The basic tenant of this movement or basic conceptual statement is ‘It’s a good thing I was here/there’. For instance, you were with a friend crossing the street one day, your friend and you crossed and your friend didn’t get hit by a car and die. Seems normal right? Well the reason behind this is your passive action, meaning simply by you being there with your friend, he/she did not get hit by a car, and you actually helped them stay alive. The heroism of this movement is just uncommon surpassing that of firefighters and superheros. It also works at a less physical level, meaning, by just being there things happen, for instance you are at work, a meeting starts when everyone sits down, you can easily state ‘Its a good thing I was here’. Everyone might look puzzled, but any passive actionist in the room will understand and will probably counter, ‘Agreed, its a good thing I was here too’.

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