Write a novel

This year, this semester, this quarter, this period, you ought to do something great.

Big bang bass undulates eternal void
And all at once the nothingness destroyed!
Believe as well that there was treble too,
No cosmic notes could miss music's debut.

I consider myself a mediocre poet at best, but nobody gets any better humbling themselves all day. So, I've resolved to try to write some sort of an epic poem in heroic couplets, possibly about what humans consider the story of the universe.

Music will be involved.

Thu, Jan 24, 2008  Permanent link
Categories: music, alive, humanity, space, poetry,

The universe is so trendy

Tue, Dec 25, 2007  Permanent link

Echoes

Voyager 2...[entered] the heliosheath on Aug. 30, 2007. Because Voyager 2 crossed the heliosheath boundary, called the solar wind termination shock, about 16 billion kilometers (10 billion miles) away from Voyager 1 and almost 1.6 billion kilometers (a billion miles) closer to the sun, it confirmed that our solar system is "squashed" or "dented"- that the bubble carved into interstellar space by the solar wind is not perfectly round. Where Voyager 2 made its crossing, the bubble is pushed in closer to the sun by the local interstellar magnetic field.

Oh, this universe. These humans. Always discovering one thing or another. 1 discovery begets 10 mysteries beget 100 discoveries beget 1000 mysteries, and on and on.



everything swinging
everything spinning about
everything. we keep discovering that it's just a bigger circle, or a bigger orbit, we're almost there, we're in this 'this'. i've almost got it, i'm on the verge of a
scientific breakthrough.

Mon, Dec 17, 2007  Permanent link
Categories: space,

The Night Sky and Animals

Now, I'm certainly no adherent of astrology, but no one can deny that the moon and the stars have some, if not tiny, effect on the inhabitants of this planet. Just as the great circling rock moves the oceans, it can move us all. It's not that I think that people will go insane during different a full moon nor that a complete lack of moonlight will have other profound effects, but I do think we could all use a little more moonlight and starlight, as those are the two original night light sources of this young planet.

That's why I think lunar-resonant streetlights are a fantastic idea:

Lunar-resonant streetlights sense and respond to ambient moonlight, dimming and brightening each month as the moon cycles through its phases.

Utilizing available moonlight, rather than overwhelming it, saves energy and mitigates light pollution, while facilitating the urban experience of one of the most fundamental and beautiful cycles of nature.

Fri, Aug 10, 2007  Permanent link

Hubblevolution

Stunning, isn't it? As a very heavy StumbleUpon user and lover of all things space, I stumbleupon pages containing this image quite often. And I never feel anything short of absolute awe. It's the Hubble Ultra Deep Field (I'm sure you already knew) and, in my opinion, it's the greatest image humans have ever produced.

A collection of snapshots of such a small patch of sky managed to capture about 10,000 galaxies. Such large implications from such small dimensions. And I don't mean to ignore all the other great images the Hubble Space Telescope has produced. I'm practically on my knees, grateful to this machine.

And now, there's this:



That's the James Webb Space Telescope, the significantly more technologically advanced successor of Hubble that's slated for a 2013 launch date. To NASA, it's a tool for studying the origins of the universe, the nature of galaxies and dark matter, and for analyzing planets for the potential of life. To all of us, it's another collection of high-resolution pixels to stir our imagination.

Wed, Aug 1, 2007  Permanent link

HUMAN HUMAN HUMAN HUMAN

I'd just like to quickly apologize for the high concentration of Daft Punk references on this page, for now. I just saw them live last night and am doubly obsessed, if that's even possible. I'm only human, after all.

Aside from my musical preferences though, I've been thinking quite a bit about something lately. The show was outdoors. Surrounded by fog-shrouded tall trees on all sides of the venue along with the faded stars and a bright moon resting on the blackness above me, I began thinking a great deal about how interesting all this was. All of these thousands of people paid a great deal of money to go listen to a couple other people on stage recreate familiar music that merely says Look at how human we are! Dancing! Love! Humanness! Life! I am alive! ALIVE!

And we are a tribe dancing around the fire to the drums. Nothing more. But we're alive. And that's all that matters.

Sat, Jul 28, 2007  Permanent link
Categories: music, humanity, alive