tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16435271.post5018905507776124836..comments2023-05-14T21:11:23.699-04:00Comments on CHEESEBURGER BROWN: Story Wallah: Gitchy Manitou's BangCheeseburger Brownhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01384136287767500794noreply@blogger.comBlogger20125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16435271.post-30107620189457078002016-06-02T12:17:49.815-04:002016-06-02T12:17:49.815-04:00I enjoyed reading this. Thanks.I enjoyed reading this. Thanks.Gary Morganhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09934552877086935070noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16435271.post-22700348583111985682016-01-06T06:49:56.890-05:002016-01-06T06:49:56.890-05:00Guess the folks at Volkswagen should have heeded y...Guess the folks at Volkswagen <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2015/business/international/vw-diesel-emissions-scandal-explained.html?_r=0" rel="nofollow">should have heeded your advice</a>.<br /><br />Perhaps we, <a href="http://schneeblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/glados-princess.jpg" rel="nofollow">like GLADOS</a>, are <a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22173769" rel="nofollow">in danger of losing</a> our <a href="http://scifi2scifab.media.mit.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/15/2013/10/know_your_personality_cores_by_anda02-d4x9k9i.png" rel="nofollow">personality cores</a> somehow.<br /><br />I'm trying not to be quite so much of a robot.Edwardhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10112396507341720195noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16435271.post-78854501597553564092015-11-25T07:15:41.351-05:002015-11-25T07:15:41.351-05:00How can we stop the madness?
How much has alread...How can we stop the madness? <br /><br />How much has already been spent by people <a href="http://content.time.com/time/health/article/0,8599,1937370,00.html" rel="nofollow">looking for that mysteriously elusive 'God' particle?</a><br />Any day now we're sure to have a proper <a href="http://www.focusfeatures.com/the_theory_of_everything" rel="nofollow">theory of everything</a>.<br /><br />Or will we just all end up indirectly <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6O1gNVeaE4g" rel="nofollow">Working for Google?</a>, which has seemingly taken the place of the Catholic Church in so very many ways. <br /><br />It's lovely that there are now so many people with a special insight into the mind of God, offering to sell their expertise with Search Engine Optimisation, so you too can, for a price, get the name of your business slightly higher up the list on the great stairway to heaven. <br /><br />I hear they have some <a href="http://steve-yegge.blogspot.co.uk/2006/09/good-agile-bad-agile_27.html" rel="nofollow">really great kitchens</a> too, so at a least <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pYLs4NCgvNU" rel="nofollow">it get's better</a> for some people, and so long as you are a proper 'genius'.<br /><br />Now <a href="http://www.bl.uk/learning/timeline/item106122.html" rel="nofollow">who do we have to blame</a> for all this mess? ;-)Edwardhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10112396507341720195noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16435271.post-32967434010673482662014-09-12T08:25:55.154-04:002014-09-12T08:25:55.154-04:00It's kind of funny where you could go with thi...It's kind of funny where you could go with this idea, someone has already suggested <a href="http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/jesus-christ-hermaphrodite-dr-susannah-cornwall-paper-307940" rel="nofollow">something rather unusual happened</a>, as has <a href="http://autisticsymphony.com/jca.html" rel="nofollow">someone else</a> in a roundabout way. Maybe at the end of the day <a href="http://keithsneuroblog.blogspot.co.uk/2012/08/autism-gender-defiant-disorder.html" rel="nofollow">it's all much the same thing</a>, and maybe it doesn't really matter. ;-)Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16435271.post-73700095874221024062014-01-10T05:23:39.890-05:002014-01-10T05:23:39.890-05:00I still love pointing this story out to people, it...I still love pointing this story out to people, it just says so much so neatly. I couldn't resist showing you <a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-YSnk8gNwIeI/TdrYw5OX3hI/AAAAAAAAP_E/yUOaJgbqwGY/s400/god-dice%252Bcopy.png" rel="nofollow">this image</a>Edwardhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10112396507341720195noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16435271.post-17473084553970089952013-06-07T18:05:35.349-04:002013-06-07T18:05:35.349-04:00John enjoined,
"I believe these "than&q...John enjoined,<br /><br /><i>"I believe these "than"s should be "then"s, unless you're playing with switching sequence and comparison(which given this story, might be deliberate)..."</i><br /><br />Not deliberate in this instance. I think you're right, John, though it hurt my brain to think it through for some reason. I will amend the text.<br /><br /><i>"I felt like you use words and phrases of opaque meaning as a kind of artistic interlude..."</i><br /><br />Definitely. This isn't hard sci-fi, in which I explain to you all the underlying mechanics of this choice leakage thing. It's the purest technobabble with mostly poetic intentions.<br /><br />I'm just a bit proud that I managed the whole thing without even once using "quantum."<br /><br />Yours,<br />Cheeseburger Brown<br />Cheeseburger Brownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01384136287767500794noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16435271.post-46889683722436449422013-06-07T11:31:33.685-04:002013-06-07T11:31:33.685-04:00I've never seen someone mix Latin and global w...I've never seen someone mix Latin and global warming doctrine to make a joke that... well, I'm not sure I have an adjective for it.Sheik Yerboutnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16435271.post-20694936040924179242013-06-07T09:58:56.064-04:002013-06-07T09:58:56.064-04:00I don't know if it's a case of the collect...I don't know if it's a case of the collective unconscious coughing up<br />a concept through multiple minds at once, or I just have some kind of perceptual filter running that keeps noticing these kinds of things but <a href="http://secretsun.blogspot.co.uk/2013/06/unified-weird-theory-addenda-astro.html" rel="nofollow">this</a> and <a href="http://www.quora.com/Ron-Maimon-1/Why-does-Ron-Maimon-believe-in-God" rel="nofollow">this</a> appear to also be saying mostly the same kinds of things as you are, but from very different angles. <br /><br />All posted within a week of each other.<br /><br />Captcha: "very ebstraid"Edwardhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10112396507341720195noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16435271.post-29045619473141318442013-06-07T03:39:30.283-04:002013-06-07T03:39:30.283-04:00My dad makes me roll my eyesMy dad makes me roll my eyesTolomeahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16384928311920896699noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16435271.post-21118773700198965732013-06-06T20:48:21.895-04:002013-06-06T20:48:21.895-04:00Edward elucidated,
"Roger Penrose would be p...Edward elucidated,<br /><br /><i>"Roger Penrose would be pleased."</i><br /><br />That's high praise. Especially because of the zombie angle.<br /><br /><i>"I'm going to share this link around..."</i><br /><br />Hallelujah!<br /><br /><i>"There is also *this* from LessWrong...</i><br /><br />LessWrong can be awesome, but sometimes it just makes me feel more wrong than ever. I'm currently at the tail end of a multi-week marathon of uninterrupted work, so when I tried to grok the linked essay my pancreas exploded and I died.<br /><br />Candidly, I exaggerate. But barely. Because my brain is too fried to parse that prose. Gracious!<br /><br />(In 42 hours I will be free.)<br /><br />Yours,<br />Cheeseburger BrownCheeseburger Brownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01384136287767500794noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16435271.post-80014466764969004242013-06-06T20:43:52.052-04:002013-06-06T20:43:52.052-04:00SaintPeter said,
"I especially like how you ...SaintPeter said,<br /><br /><i>"I especially like how you managed to stir in some real world social commentary along with your artificial world social engineering."</i><br /><br />Well, all science-fiction is really about the present, isn't that taken as read now? You've seen through my layers of obfuscation right to the heart of it: this story couldn't possibly be more about the merits of being a vegan.<br /><br />I mean, obviously.<br /><br />Yours,<br />Cheeseburger BrownCheeseburger Brownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01384136287767500794noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16435271.post-31232692909685122712013-06-06T20:40:45.466-04:002013-06-06T20:40:45.466-04:00Tolomea mentioned,
"Oh and the whole god doe...Tolomea mentioned,<br /><br /><i>"Oh and the whole god doesn't play dice joke was really cringe worthy."</i><br /><br />Is that cringe-worthy as in "awful, why did you insult your story that way?" or more like cringe-worthy in the sense of, "My dad makes me roll my eyes"?<br /><br /><i>"Also a sentence somewhere up in the middle bit was missing a word, but I forgot which sentence, good luck with that."</i><br /><br />Fixed! Thank you very much.<br /><br />Yours,<br />Cheeseburger BrownCheeseburger Brownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01384136287767500794noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16435271.post-50516472123222358832013-06-06T09:44:20.252-04:002013-06-06T09:44:20.252-04:00Sheik said,
Dang. That was a massive undertaking....Sheik said,<br /><br /><i>Dang. That was a massive undertaking.</i><br /><br />About a third of the way through I realized I had to scale back my ambitions, so to me it feels no matter what like a brief précis. But then I realized a) I wanted to get something posted and was running out of time to keep chewing on this; and, b) Nobody wants to read more than 7,000 words of "floridly dimensional" gobbledigook.<br /><br /><i>Your direction was obvious early on…</i><br /><br />If anyone wasn't tipped off by "I am that I am" I can recommend some intensive study courses designed specifically to get you caught up with which planet we live on and the foundations of our English literary culture from the King James translation.<br /><br />My hope was that by dropping the clues early enough I could avoid the whole story seeming like a joke (or an M. Night Shamalamaramarosanna movie) that builds to a punchline…where the punchline is a ham-fisted shout out to the allegorical nature of the thing (up tip the point of the shouting, at any rate).<br /><br />There are numerous possible punchlines to interpret from this telling, but none of them are "Ooh, it turns out it was God all along!"<br /><br />Yours,<br />Cheeseburger BrownCheeseburger Brownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01384136287767500794noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16435271.post-90413120835376895052013-06-05T21:25:57.772-04:002013-06-05T21:25:57.772-04:00I believe these "than"s should be "...I believe these "than"s should be "then"s, unless you're playing with switching sequence and comparison(which given this story, might be deliberate):<br />"If you won't answer to me, than you will to the board; if not to the board than to the inquisitors."<br /><br />I felt like you use words and phrases of opaque meaning as a kind of artistic interlude. Like when a musician adds flourishes between melodic themes. Best thing I've read that I didn't really understand.Johnhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17680056990468177565noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16435271.post-81283997551791722392013-06-05T13:13:14.531-04:002013-06-05T13:13:14.531-04:00There is also this from LessWrong
but I think you...There is also <a href="http://lesswrong.com/lw/o5/the_second_law_of_thermodynamics_and_engines_of/" rel="nofollow">this from LessWrong</a> <br />but I think your version is easier to get into.Edwardhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10112396507341720195noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16435271.post-32064477858717197462013-06-05T09:12:37.209-04:002013-06-05T09:12:37.209-04:00Great joy, and gratitude..
This version of events...Great joy, and gratitude..<br /><br />This version of events ties up with a lot of other fragments of memes I've been wrangling for the last couple of years.<br /><br />The physical scale of the universe has always been a sticking point with me. Any creator capable of making sand castles out of galactic clusters would have no possible concerns with events on our scale.<br /><br />Seen through the angle of information theory and entropy this takes a very different perspective.<br />Roger Penrose would be pleased.<br />You might make a believer of me yet.<br /><br />I'm going to share this link around, I think you have come up with something very special.Edwardhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10112396507341720195noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16435271.post-41827283996980477182013-06-05T03:43:59.675-04:002013-06-05T03:43:59.675-04:00Found it: "There were no private industry pro...Found it: "There were no private industry projects that even close to having the necessary infrastructure."<br />Missing "were" between "that" and "even".Tolomeahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16384928311920896699noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16435271.post-63118531006498235872013-06-04T15:48:14.017-04:002013-06-04T15:48:14.017-04:00I liked it.
Also a sentence somewhere up in the m...I liked it.<br /><br />Also a sentence somewhere up in the middle bit was missing a word, but I forgot which sentence, good luck with that.<br /><br />Oh and the whole god doesn't play dice joke was really cringe worthy.Tolomeahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16384928311920896699noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16435271.post-58935005664490104302013-06-04T15:42:47.875-04:002013-06-04T15:42:47.875-04:00I like it. I like how you start of with hints of ...I like it. I like how you start of with hints of how it might be and then add more and more clues until its undeniable. It builds nicely. I came away with a nice smile.<br /><br />I especially like how you managed to stir in some real world social commentary along with your artificial world social engineering. Delightful!<br /><br />When it comes to lab-coated universe creators, you will always be my first choice.SaintPeterhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02064605142705446251noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16435271.post-5607004809968557342013-06-04T12:21:03.127-04:002013-06-04T12:21:03.127-04:00Dang. That was a massive undertaking. Your direc...Dang. That was a massive undertaking. Your direction was obvious early on ("I am that I am" was a big enough tipoff), but still I was amazed at the Burgerization.Sheik Yerboutinoreply@blogger.com