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e has trying desperately to unwind typically by getting swept away in a television show or movie now i like tv just as much as the next person i mean we have 6 of them you can t really hate them if you own that many we have one in the living room the bedroom her office my office and both of the remaining kids rooms i say remaining because they re getting older they all don t live at home anymore they re all big and glorious in their hdness and all that i m just telling you that in full disclosure i m not a hater of tv but i am a guy that prefers to read for the most part as much as i love star trek it doesn t compare to a great novel books are just where my heart is but the missus wants to enjoy things with me not separately so i have quite reluctantly this year been reading less of the books and watching more of the television it s our time to spend together and enjoy something and it s been here that i made a startling discovery television is awesome and i m speaking specifically as a concept i thought i invented but it turns out i didn t so damn but it s still interesting and that is a show as a novel so the missus was actively looking for a show to watch something to geek out over as a respite from her day job and i told her we should totally watch this show on hbo called true detective it s a buddy cop show starring matthew mcconnaughey and woody harrelson this is like me trying to explain true detective so we watched that show affected me in a way that i m not sure a show really has ever it was a novel broken down into 10 parts it was slow deliberate and reeked of mood the characters had arcs and the overall plot was tight and there were relatively few digressions it blew my mind this wasn t a serialized show like dallas or falcon crest um those two came to mind i m sure there have been more recent ones this was a series that had a clear beginning middle and end all in a single season of television i didn t know they could do that on tv then later after that was gone and i d spent a few months screaming at everyone i knew to go watch that show we started on breaking bad and again i couldn t believe it this was as enjoyable to me as 95 of the novels i d read it didn t have the spec fic elements i d need to put it at the very top of all time entertainment but it was close and i know it had a pretty deep connection with me because once we were watching the show i had a hard time reading after that a book series that i d started out thinking was pretty good became a chore to read it was good until i found something infinitely better going back to what i had before didn t seem so palatable anymore breaking bad wasn t as tight of a narrative as true detective but it was better in my opinion nonetheless i m a guy that has been standing alone screaming into the night that the masses are morons for wasting their lives watching tv when they can have the most amazing worlds on the pages of a book now i m not exactly taking it all back but i ve shut up some of those scripted television shows are stunning as good as a great novel what does that mean for me well like i said it s premier week for the major broadcast networks as of this writing nothing has been shown yet but the missus is a huge fan of the agents of shield show which was in my opinion pretty awful for 3 4ths of its first season and i m pretty excited to just try some stuff out and see how it goes hopefully something great will emerge this should totally be a subject of a post in the future i have probably around two dozen great ideas revolutionary ones the ones that could start a whole branch of philosophy to explore their genius in greater detail but all of them and i do mean all of them have already been thought of and explored ad nauseam since well before i was born some of them going back thousands of years stupid people stealing all my ideas before i had a chance to think them every damn time i think i have something new to offer the world every time i find out in crushing fashion that i wasn t the first or the most thorough thinker turns out they couldn t it wasn t tv it was hbo posted by rusty carl at 6 00 am 14 comments labels agents of shield breaking bad i ate so much biscuits and gravy last weekend shut up true detective tv shows thursday september 4 2014 i missed iwsg but it s okay robots might want to kill us after all hey all i swear i was going to post yesterday i got sidetracked i don t say that because i expect that anyone was disappointed but because i have an awful affliction where i feel like i have to make people like me studies have shown that people that apologize a lot tend to garner sympathy i m so sorry i wrote that did it work do you like me now regardless i stumbled onto this talk last week on the interwebanets and was pretty floored by the talk the real quick of it is we re all about 20 years of being jobless no matter what profession we choose and also robots will most likely want to kill us all great stuff the vid is about 20 minutes long but i guarantee it s the best thing you ll see all day in case you didn t watch because you re crazy let me tell you a story once upon a time i read a book called the age of spiritual machines by ray kurzwell any would be musician from the 80 s might recognize the name because the man invented the most awesome keyboards on the planet he s the guy that invented the keyboard that had pressure sensitive keys a pretty big deal if you ask me his kurzwell 2000 was the most awesome thing the world ever produced at the time anyway inventing musical instruments was just a hobby his day job was being a futurist he s the guy that introduced me to the technological singularity as a concept in his book he produced a piece of prose hang on while i try to find it downstairs waiting waiting waiting dammit it s about two hours later and i just got back to my computer i forgot that i was going to go get my copy of the book to look up the thing i did however manage to go for a walk my 10 000 steps per day remember and eat supper and watch about 5 youtube videos while i ate multi tasking basically i was awesome but i forgot to get that book i decided to see if that passage was on the interwebanets couldn t find it shazballs anyway in it he had a short story printed entirely written i might add by a computer it was readable not blow you away with it s insight into human nature amazing but readable the point i took away from it was not can i do better than that but how much better will programs be able to write fiction in the future well i read that a very long time ago now in the future where are we well here is a video i found about that which does seem ironic because i m trying to tell a story for those who can t spare the time to watch a different video to summarize it s still early but we re screwed fiction prototype from phil parker on vimeo there is no guarantee i made that up if you don t know what that is think of the terminator movies except that machines that fall in love with humanity and just take care of us instead of killing us well that s his version anyway posted by rusty carl at 6 00 am 9 comments labels computers it s been so long since i ve posted regularly i forgot about labels labels thursday august 28 2014 i m no hero i m a superhero i believe i mentioned last time i posted that i wasted spent most of the spring and summer walking what i didn t share with you is that it was there i first discovered i have a gift or dare i say a superpower laser eyes no telekinesis no again i can do something much more amazing since those are the only two powers i m sure most people care about i ll stop there instead i ll back up for a second and ask a question it s really rhetorical but you know answer if you want anyone but me get really excited by the sound of a crunching leaf anyone not many greater joys in my life than when i step on a leaf and the sound is indistinguishable from biting into a spoonful of cap n crunch cereal krrrruuuuuunnnnnch i love it i love it so much in fact that walking with people is apparently no fun for them i suppose there can be something vaguely embarrassing about going for a walk with a fortysomething year old man and have to watch him stomp around the street like godzilla trying to destroy tokyo i can t help it it s my cross to bear in this world and if you can t accept that about me well then you just can t accept me as a person because that s just who i am at this point i feel it s my duty to point out that i have a similar but unrelated need to kick any pebble i find whilst i walk there have been a few incidents where a pebble just happened to be placed right near a dried leaf on the street in front of me it s then that i learned that kicking with one foot while stomping with the other is really hard to do i have the scrapes to prove that that is not in case you re curious my superpower no my gift the one that has made me wonder if i should be wearing a costume to hide my true identity is my uncanny ability to predict which foot i ll need to use to crush said leaf without being forced to break my stride please quiet down i can t hear myself type over the sound of your collective sounds of awe i ll say that line again so you can know it s true i can crush a leaf as soon as i have it marked with my mental map by just walking over and stepping on it wait when i rephrase it it doesn t sound that amazing let me try again if i were to see a leaf from say 20 feet away and i was walking and didn t want to break my stride i could immediately tell what foot will fall closest to the leaf i don t have to stutter step mind blown imagine the world we d live in if we all had this power i shudder at the thought is this what superman feels as he walks amongst mortals i guess only he and i know for sure happy day world posted by rusty carl at 9 16 am 10 comments labels being awesome fitbit i walk a lot now stepping on things monday august 25 2014 how i spent my summer hint being lame what a summer eh way back late last winter the paying job offered me a fitbit in case you re uninitiated it s a little pedometer that you strap to your wrist and it will record the number of steps you take per day how far you ve traveled how much you ve slept and a few other things that make me feel a bit creeped out i mean i m not sure what the criminal underworld would do with the knowledge of how many hours i slept last tuesday but i m sure in the hands of the appropriately evil it could be worthy of an expose on 60 minutes well the actual point of all this of course from my employer s perspective is to make sure i m fit enough not to drive up our healthcare costs as a whole joke s on them my wife carries my health insurance and one of the big indicators of overall health is body weight i ve spent most of my life being skinny way too skinny as a kid and teen there was a brief period in my mid twenties where i plumped up but then another decade almost of being skinny through exercise and a relatively strict diet then around the time i started this blog i kinda let myself go i stopped exercising and starting eating a relatively horrid diet i got pretty big early last summer 2013 i managed to drop a about 25 pounds by living off of v8 s for a few months but that leveled off once i determined it was untenable for me to live that way long term cut to late feb of this year and these fancy fitbits that they were handing out at work at the time i m still 20 pounds overweight despite having dropped the 25 i mentioned a moment ago i think gee i can take care of those last 20 pounds now so i start to walk the target is 10 000 steps per day for a stride like mine that s just under 5 miles given my walking speed that s about two hours of walking per day well maybe an hour and a half i m rounding here for simplicity s sake and to my great surprise i found that i liked it turns out that i get about a mile per day just doing things like walking to the bathroom and piddling around the kitchen at home the rest is something i d have to do on purpose to rephrase that the rest is me walking on purpose for no reason none at all at first it was a bit tough having to remember to walk even if i had nowhere to go my dogs appreciated it they don t mind walking with no destination for me it was a learning curve i grew up believing that if you start going somewhere well there should be a somewhere you re trying to get to you can t just go off and wander about aimlessly that s the devil s playground or something soon getting 10 000 steps in in a day was too easy by may i was regularly hitting that many by lunch putting in 10 11 miles in a day wasn t unusual if i could only get a time machine and go visit the younger me that said he d never consider walking as an exercise i d show him so it was great the spring came and went and before i knew it i was in the middle of the dog days of summer august came in with a whoosh and i was still at it maybe not quite putting in 20 000 steps per day but still churning out 10k without a problem we d purchased a fancy digital scale a couple of years ago to better document my descent into jabba the huttness i realized that i d not weighed since i began my walking regiment wow six months i had a routine when i weighed before same exact time every day wearing the same thing just to take out any possible things that might cause me to get a weird result like a big lunch i had no problem getting ready to weigh in i stepped onto the scale last week wondering what 6 months of clean living would mean for me these fancy scales don t work like the old ones used to i liked stepping on it and seeing the numbers spin by slow go in reverse slow again then start counting forward and back and forth until settling on a nice number no this one sucks it just spits out a number down to a tenth of a pound as long as that tenth is an even number and that s what you are how d i do you ask i gained 8 pounds sonuvabitch i d been wasting 3 or 4 hours every day walking in the hot sun including weekends and in the rain and when the mosquitos were out for vengeance and when i wanted to just stay in and read a book just to get fatter and with that it all came crashing down on me i ve been living a lie walking isn t exercise younger me was right it might be exercise when i m 80 but it isn t now so whatever posted by rusty carl at 6 00 am 11 comments labels don t judge me fitbit food is so good i m fat wednesday august 6 2014 iwsg the blogfader hi all it s been a while since i was here but it s iwsg brought to you by the indomitable alex j cavanaugh whose dreams of a day where writers can blubber about all that scares them have come true at least on the first wednesday of each month this month like every month i m really interested in talking about me but instead of discussing my never complete manuscripts or my paralyzing fear of rejection i wanted to talk about a thing that i think is real except i don t 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