Happy new years. #calscooking

Analog to digital orig song conversions. #beyondoldschooljuryrigged

Into hr 8 of painting my daughters room. #ifthatsnotlove

Thanks to Cal for the biggest musical revelation i had since 'discovering' exile on main street. #quadrophenia

Listening to Quadrophenia back to back for the first time. In other news, how did i ever *not* listen to this before?

Radioshack hunt for analog digital transfer wire. In other news, i want a Mac Air.

Mongolian grill with Cal.

Double*2

Back home yvr

Nanaimo bound.

Xmas dinner with the welches.

Take a breath, taste the silence, and realize that in reality, there is no separation between us. Merry Christmas all. Namaste. Jerry

Some reading of a recently acquired childhood classic - Prince Ombra. (Thanks H&S!) then a solid 5 hrs before all hell breaks loose.

Merry christmas all.

Timmys and Cap Bridge lights

Candy and We Bought the Zoo

Let us push as aggressively as we can to procure supplies so we can cloister ourselves in the name of togetherness. #shopping

Freedom from the desire for an answer is essential to the understanding of a problem.
- Jiddu Krishnamurti

Jerry: Great, succint article: Who's to blame for Washington gridlock? - CNN.com http://ping.fm/4o61P

Jerry's prediction 2011: Obama's playing the long game and will be a two term president. No question. http://ping.fm/RYcDn

SimplyNoise - The Best Free White Noise Generator on the Internet. http://ping.fm/2VrK9

The Fate of Schrodinger's Cat

--
Jerry Mesner
shadechaser@gmail.com
aka mezzy@shaw.ca

Injo (Aum Sante Maria)

Wine spills from your chalice
Blood red stain upon your robe
The sacraments give comfort
But oh God you're feeling old

Your masters pass the flaming stole
Before their eyes go long
You fade back inside yourself
And listen for the song

(Chorus)
Aum Sante Maria Hallelujah El Shaddai
Broken open koans "I am That" and "I am I"

You start to pace the hallway
Wearing only your remorse
Fully clothed for battle
If they'd only bring your horse

Time and legalese and King James English
Fill your head
The only place your shouting gels
Is lying in your bed

(Chorus)

Grabe the scythe or cling to life
Based on the neurons flare
Regardless of your choice the song you heard
Is always there

(Chorus)

The Green Avenger is rightfully tucked between an Audi and a Mercedes. #downtownparking

In the face of some trials that are ongoing,there is this:I just successfully obtained all seasons of Welcome Back Kotter.#sweathogs#woodman

Bad elevators and necrotic food services. Yup, the hospital is sick.

Xmas lunch with the kids and Nana.

Last two hrs: cap guns, basketball, visiting and burning rack of lamb. Looks salvavageable .

Parker Mesner Xmas

"What is love?"The young boy answered,"It's what's with you at Christmas if you stop opening presents and listen to the silence."-SKiloby

Article: 24 hours in pictures

24 hours in pictures
http://www.guardian.co.uk/news/gallery/2011/dec/17/24-hours-in-pictures

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Let us discuss this in more detail.

I feel delicious

At Starbucks not getting coffee. Ok, getting coffee.

Article: Christopher Hitchens on life, death and lobster

Christopher Hitchens on life, death and lobster
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-16214466#TWEET46061

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shadechaser writes: Occam's Gestalt http://ping.fm/6CG4m

Occam's Gestalt

I am living proof that Occam's Razor makes a lot of sense.  But it doesn't mean that there is not a place - and a joy - in complexity as well.

Complication is my modus operandi - and also a signal to noise ratio for how my particular pathologies are raging within the machine on a given day.

Still,  on the relative plane, complication is also a gift.

Complication is embedded in patterns - or maybe the other way around - but without question there is a relationship between Gestalt and Complication.

Complication - at times I have to watch myself:

1000 words instead of 100 to explain something at an emotional or professional level.  Drives others crazy;  eyes roll back in their heads or simply gray out to those fuzzy screens you'd use to get on antenna-ed TV's.

Trying to get ideas across. Often good ideas - but by the time they spider off in lexicological decision trees about how to proceed,  the listener is left with a spaghetti-ed mess of rhetoric that must be abandoned or simply not engaged with from the outset.

Gestalt: at other times,  I just watch 'my' Self:

Spiritually,  patterns within the complicated explanation light up; figure 8's on the spaghetti plate glowing neon bright or muted pastels  circling this way and back and eating their own tailes.*(tales|tails)

Complexity and Gestalt  were birthed from a corn husk last nite.  It flowered and opened like a womb,  and I was ushered into a darkly dimpled Nebraska evening.

Below:  the earth;  verdant,  rich and wet

Above: somebody stringing Christmas lights in figure 8's *exactly* 17 feet above the tallest corn stalk.  On the lights, a race of sort - imps and devas and faeries or god-knows-whats chasing each other towards infinity,  and me,  suddenly on the bench,  begging to join the race.

Be careful what you ask for.

The want, borne from the need,  was fulfilled.  I was in the race,  baton in hand, and the other racers dissolved into me.  ONE,  racing till my heart synced with the light's on-and-offs and the speed dissolved into no-speed and the distance dissolved into no-distance,  and I raced,  one foot *just dragging* in the relative,  with the rest of me forcing myself into

Infinity:

Which planted itself into new stalks,  causal wires criss-crossing into impossible patterns below ground:

Complexity:

Which I was left on waking with trying to decipher, or simply live.

Namaste.

Police Officer Comforts Woman Pinned Under Utah Bus - EMSWorld.com http://ping.fm/00XKh

Article: Postscript: Christopher Hitchens, 1949-2011

Postscript: Christopher Hitchens, 1949-2011
http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/newsdesk/2011/12/postscript-christopher-hitchens.html

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RIP Hitch. I often disagreed with you, but your intellect shone like a sun.

Hitchens, militant pundit, dies at 62 – USATODAY.com http://ping.fm/NOw5S

I am living proof that Occam's razor is a good idea.

I think I just won an IPad 2, and it wouldn't have happened without my unfettered trust in an unsolicited internet offer. That is all.

These are some things I think fuck (astonishment) is an appropriate suffix to: Joni Mitchel. Paul Simon. Rumi.

Email Study Suggests You Should Spend the Most Time on Emails You Respond to Within 11 Hours http://ping.fm/8vIGy

One of the next big things http://ping.fm/1hG0a

http://grooveshark.com/s/Up+On+The+Roof/335zif?src=5

--
Jerry Mesner
shadechaser@gmail.com
aka mezzy@shaw.ca

Article: FBI using Carrier IQ info for "law enforcement purposes," refuses to release records

FBI using Carrier IQ info for "law enforcement purposes," refuses to release records
http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2011/12/fbi-using-carrier-iq-info-for-law-enforcement-purposes-refuses-to-release-records.ars

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I would like to personally thank MSWord for elegantly recovering from its own internal crash, *without* saving my content. That is all.

*Smoking*: Joss Stone & James Brown Men's World - YouTube http://ping.fm/jfCYc

Join the fight: the sarcastic font movement http://ping.fm/wbLAS

If St Pauls hospital was ever diagnosed, its presenting complaint would be pathological elevators.

Fulcrums, Jung, Wilber, coffee, and helping relatives. That is all.

Activated charcoal. That is all.

Photos of an Encampment on New Jersey Cliffs - NYTimes.com http://ping.fm/AdOBs

Seth's Blog: The trap of social media noise http://ping.fm/ECl0i

A fine time at the boss's xmas party

Damn, I missed international anti-corruption day *again*.

Here's a video of an hour of mixing UK garage and hip hop with live strings. http://ping.fm/kQeQH

The New Evangelicals - NYTimes.com http://ping.fm/rNdik

Untitled | Flickr - Photo Sharing! http://ping.fm/naTs2

Even in the post-post modern, Perry's regressive worldviews have a spot. They might be shallow and underdeveloped...oh don't get me started. http://ping.fm/9X83u

Fresh from the really, really irrelvant news-cylce trashbin:TRENDING: Trump ‘very disappointed’ in Bachmann http://ping.fm/sB4jl

Damn that cigarette smells good.

If you haven't listened to Zeus, please do. #CanadianTreasure http://ping.fm/HWTx6

Epic Canadian rock - -Zeus - Are You Gonna Waste My Time http://ping.fm/OktnD

The Knowledge http://ping.fm/LmJp0

Herman Cain Campaign Ad: When presidents get laid, you get paid http://ping.fm/QVxXL

Always, always wait for the second elevator. That is all.

RIP Harry Morgan: An appreciation of an extraordinary ordinariness http://ping.fm/JpFrz

Started the day 5 mins late for an understanding CEO. The day got better. That is all. Except I think i like Ken Hegan more than a friend.

india71 | Flickr - Photo Sharing! http://ping.fm/i4yit

Aggregated: writing, music, photography http://ping.fm/7SiZ5

I could be a Unitarian simply on the basis of the founder's name: John Biddle. That's up there with Catticus Finch. #carl

Studio Honda closed for the nite. Another song wrapping. #lightlyrics #sullymademedoit #country #churchversushormones

John Wesley's brother wrote over 5500 hymns. Now *that's* a protestant work ethic.

Awesome and disturbing. Awesurbing

Feeling Amish today, with just a *hint* of William Shatner.

Sure way to kill productivity in the name of efficiency: upgrade building elevators. #8minwait #70smotifinsulttoinjury

RIP Greg. My heart goes out to you, Nellie, and your extended friends and family.

Man up, Mr. Long, on many, many levels: Televangelist Long to take time off after divorce filing - CNN.com http://ping.fm/jnkQG

Best photos of the year 2011 | Analysis & Opinion | Reuters http://ping.fm/eW5b7

Note to self: you can't ctrl-z when you're writing lyrics in a moleskin. #oldschool

East side marios with uncle dan aunt karen, steads and mesners.

Xmas lights and wilbers audiobook history of everything. Something's going to get enlightened, dammit.

Find-the-Spam http://ping.fm/Fmbdx

"It was a simple and crazy idea: to celebrate her 28th birthday by renting a hotel room, cover it in paper and spend a week drawing on the paper - 'Week in Hell' http://ping.fm/gR9pT

Fall of Rome, chapter 17c: Coke changing cans after consumer complaints | http://ping.fm/tbQtK

Unpersuasive, childish PR-huckster tactic # 17b: Herman Cain Launches ‘Women For Cain’ With Brutal Attacks On ‘Husbandless’ Accusers | TPM2012 http://ping.fm/jvekn

Prayers go out to Kim and Chris. Time heals all wounds. God bless and watch over these tender souls. http://ping.fm/25x8P

Nice: Carrier IQ: Your phone's secret recording device - Dec. 1, 2011 http://ping.fm/haxqX

Welcome Back Kotter Theme Song HQ (Ending) - YouTube http://ping.fm/UGqUY

Welcome Back Kotter Theme Song HQ (Ending) - YouTube http://ping.fm/xbaO2

Greatest American Hero Intro - YouTube http://ping.fm/tytZD

Chips Theme Song on pipe organ - YouTube http://ping.fm/GTMXS

Chips Theme Song - YouTube http://ping.fm/3qZUK

Cool: Deepak apologizes to Richard Dawkins http://ping.fm/5Jpjr

I hummed the theme from CHiPs as the motocop pulled over bylaw-badass JUST loud enough he couldn't hear it. #giggle

Wake up and smell the post-post-modern: Small Ky. church bans interracial couples - CBS News http://ping.fm/gsXUt

Today's train companions: the love child of Snooki and a big Pharma Rep.