I just bought this for experimentations yesterday.

How to Make Musical Floppy Drives

I don't know why I just posted it now, but I made this way back in the month of May.



This got featured on Instructables! :D

Tetris Battle

I'm a noob player. I just started playing Tetris Battle the other day out of curiosity and I've just discovered a couple of tricks. Now that I know all about them, I guess my opponent should ready themselves... XD

Sucker for Skyrim

Easily one of the best original scores I've ever listened to. Makes me want to find adventure of my own. This should win "Game of the Year" award! I'm at work but I want to go home, lock myself up in the room, explore Skyrim and slay dragons. The only game for years that brought me back to my D&D days. Skyrim is definitely more than just a game. It's a carefully crafted art, a masterpiece...

Last Musings For 2011: Is There A God?

Truly fascinating how these remarkable link ups to cyberspace and social media would easily present you a group of interesting individuals of different cultures and beliefs. A really thought-provoking night brought me to a thread of discussions about God and his non-existence. As much as I would want to participate in the discussion, having to argue about the existence of a higher presence and religion is a very complex and delicate matter that I dismissed the thought and decided to keep it to myself (well, almost). I am not a psychologist nor a sociologist nor a philosopher nor a cosmologist nor a theologian. I am far from being one because I'm an engineer who just happen to outwardly express her personal opinion about the matter, but I do take interest in the subject and have read quite a number of decent books expressing topics of evolutionism, creationism, Scientology, atheism, pantheism. As far as I've understood the complexity of such subjects, focusing on human evolution, including the development of man's emotional structure, logical reasoning and analytical thinking which later led to the formation of civilization, the invention of religion would likely to happen and it is inevitable. The same thing with the invention of government and political systems through innate human characteristics of leadership. On a macro view, Religion and God are two entities which are bound for singular context. When we say Religion, it is a collection of fundamental set of beliefs passed along every generation and when we refer to beliefs in religion, something or someone is subject for worship. Although the definition of the word varies as it is also subject to evolution. One particular modern-day definition I found that really caught my attention is religion as a collection of cultural systems, belief systems, and worldviews that establishes symbols that relate humanity to spirituality and, sometimes, to moral values which is the most accurate definition of what religion is by far based on other definitions I've read. God, on the other hand, is most often conceived of as the supernatural creator and overseer of the universe and when we talk about God, most of the time our tendency is to ask which God one refers to and then we easily distinguish the individual's religion and provide us an overview of his culture which will make us understand his behavior. However, if we dissect Religion and God, we could personally create or imagine a clearer framework of what these two entities are. This is where the root of all the confusion and misunderstanding lies which formulate the never ending arguments of no conclusion. It is like having 10 people read a book written entirely metaphorical and at the end of the activity asking them what the book is about finding out that every interpretation is diverse. A product mostly of the culture they have acquired and adapted. But imagine this applied to billions of people. Your ideas would seem a speck. But a tiny portion your ideas may seem, every opinion is important. It can only attest the human capability to think for itself without the will of a higher force other than just mere curiosity. And to elaborate on my personal interpretation of the following, I do not solicit further argument, just a way to personify ideas in the form of a blog entry.

Astronomy is the most essential element of the creation of religion. Archaeological evidence of many ancient cultures demonstrates that celestial bodies were the subject of worship during the Stone and Bronze Ages. Amulets and stone walls in northern Europe depict arrangements of stars in constellations that match their historical positions, particularly circumpolar constellations. These date back as early as 30,000–40,000 years ago. Although this is not the oldest evidence of the origins of religion. The earliest evidence of religious thought is based on the ritual treatment of the dead. Most animals display only a casual interest in the dead of their own species. Ritual burial thus represents a significant advancement in human behavior. Ritual burials represent an awareness of life and death and a possible belief in the afterlife. Paleolithic burials date back as early as 100,000 years ago. History about the origins of religion could go on and on. Since I am inclined to an evolutionist view, in my opinion, Religion is the deepest part of man's emotional structure. It is the test of man's passion for his existence and it is also subject to evolution. During the course of man's brain development, the expansion of this growth not only lies within but is shown in traditions, practices, beliefs and culture which mainly led to various transformation of systems may it be political or religious. The same thing with God. When man can no longer find coherent answer to his queries he turns into a presence higher than his own, a force, similar to science with its physical laws. God is the deduced product of logical and analytical thinking at the limits. It is the cognitive dissonance of most people to conclude anything unexplainable a result of mystics concerning God. It is the test of man's ability to evaluate and explore, the test of intelligence and when combined, God and religion, it is the assessment of your spirituality, your entire being the humanness.

Earlier this December, I went down to search for a book I needed to accomplish a small project of mine, creating my own Dobsonian telescope. I have been recently engrossed with night photography that I got the enthusiasm to build my own telescope. An alarming rate of published atheist books actually struck me. Written by the famous Richard Dawkins, Christopher Hitchens, Sam Harris and many others. Although I do not have anything against the idea of atheism, the apprehension of such is how people, particularly students recognize the points given through explicit statements that have the tendency to affect them psychologically and emotionally. Actually, reading a thread on facebook regarding the non-existence of God is so inculcating, individuals may actually acknowledge. What's even more surprising is the sudden appearance of militant atheists and when I say militant, they shame your beliefs and substitute their own. They attack you with their numerous unpleasant scenarios and how God has not made his presence felt during those times. Certain delicate subjects that a believer would find insulting, simply because insulting one's belief, religion and God is like wounding his entire being, his humanness. This is mainly the reason why I never argue about religion, spirituality and God because at the end of everything, usual result is the non-popular idea always being ostracized. The customary dispute is what science has not proven, does not exist. But Science is nothing more or less than a method of inquiry based on hypothesis testing facilitated by data collection. It is distinct from, though intimately connected to logic and rationality. Notably, the concept of falsifiability is key to this tradition, hypotheses must be stated in such a way that they can be dis-proven with but one antagonistic observation. Science doesn't prove a thing, but that doesn't mean science is useless. What science does is pare away less plausible explanations for any given phenomenon, thereby hopefully leading us closer and closer to the truth about the phenomenon. And yes, Science has not proven the existence of God but it has not dis-proven his existence as well. I know I've claimed that I follow an evolutionist view and Richard Dakwins is an evolutionary biologist but I do not conclude that there is no higher force governing the universe. Every time I look up at the sky and see these sparkling lights above me while I'm trying to capture them nicely, I can't help but think there must be something that made everything I see. I cannot allow that we came from nothing. The beauty this world presents us is inconceivable that I'd like to believe in Spinoza's God.


As a closing remark, arguments about religion, faith, and God is letting ideas free and allowing it evolve into a different breed that could freely swim in the depths of all unanswered questions but still they will remain unanswered...

Facts About The Esoteric Knowledge

People who don't have enough esoteric knowledge makes this world even worse...

This note was inspired by the people I deal with everyday. I always love the idea of learning a person by playing stupid around them to see their knee-jerk reaction towards the bluntness. If I feel even slightly insulted then that only means one thing, and you should know the rest.

What is Esoteric Knowledge?

Esoteric knowledge, in the dictionary (non-scholarly) sense, is thus that which is available only to a narrow circle of "enlightened", "initiated", or specially educated people.Esoteric items may be known as esoterica. In contrast, exoteric knowledge is knowledge that is well-known or public, or perceived as informally canonic in society at large.

Finally, it can be noted that esotericism, beside its scholarly and dictionary definitions, can be used in a loose, popular sense: not in order to denote e.g. mystical knowledge or practice, but rather informally to mean any perception or knowledge that is for the advanced individual such as theoretical physics, or that pertains to the minutiae of a particular discipline, such as "esoteric" baseball statistics.

My Views...

In short, esoteric knowledge are things you don't usually learn from any standard institution of learning. Esoteric knowledge are acquired either through meditation or contemplation. This could be traced on how you percieve things mainly in your childhood. People with esoteric knowledge are usually mistaken to be passive. Passiveness is totally different from open-mindedness. Open-mindedness shows the higher existential understanding of a person. If you look at some of the monks in meditation at a quantum level, the mind frequency produced in meditation is much higher than a person working out on a sweat which means you are communally being one with the universe.

On the other hand, if we're gonna talk about the telescopic evolution, a segment from my favorite movie "Waking Life," we have had some discussions about the new evolutionary paradigm that connects also to esoterism. If you try to perceive the heavy technical terms, you really wouldn't understand what the man is trying to deliver since the conversation came out naturally, existentialism, it's happening right now, right at this very moment, no pre-organization of thoughts.

Telescopic Evolution Excerpt:

"If we're looking at the highlights of human development, you have to look at the evolution of the organism and then at the development of its interaction with the environment. Evolution of the organism will begin with the evolution of life perceived through the hominid coming to the evolution of mankind. Neanderthal and Cro-Magnon man. Now, interestingly, what you're looking at here are three strings: biological, anthropological — development of the cities — and cultural, which is human expression.

Now, what you've seen here is the evolution of populations, not so much the evolution of individuals. And in addition, if you look at the time scales that are involved here — two billion years for life, six million years for the hominid, 100,000 years for mankind as we know it — you're beginning to see the telescoping nature of the evolutionary paradigm. And then when you get to agricultural, when you get to scientific revolution and industrial revolution, you're looking at 10,000 years, 400 years, 150 years. Uou're seeing a further telescoping of this evolutionary time. What that means is that as we go through the new evolution, it's gonna telescope to the point we should be able to see it manifest itself within our lifetime, within this generation.

The new evolution stems from information, and it stems from two types of information: digital and analog. The digital is artificial intelligence. The analog results from molecular biology, the cloning of the organism. And you knit the two together with neurobiology. Before on the old evolutionary paradigm, one would die and the other would grow and dominate. But under the new paradigm, they would exist as a mutually supportive, noncompetitive grouping. Okay, independent from the external.

And what is interesting here is that evolution now becomes an individually centered process, emanating from the needs and desires of the individual, and not an external process, a passive process where the individual is just at the whim of the collective. So, you produce a neo-human, okay, with a new individuality and a new consciousness. But that's only the beginning of the evolutionary cycle because as the next cycle proceeds, the input is now this new intelligence. As intelligence piles on intelligence, as ability piles on ability, the speed changes. Until what? Until we reach a crescendo in a way could be imagined as an enormous instantaneous fulfillment of human, human and neo-human potential. It could be something totally different. It could be the amplification of the individual, the multiplication of individual existences. Parallel existences now with the individual no longer restricted by time and space.

And the manifestations of this neo-human-type evolution, manifestations could be dramatically counter-intuitive. That's the interesting part. The old evolution is cold. It's sterile. It's efficient, okay? And its manifestations of those social adaptations. We're talking about parasitism, dominance, morality, okay? Uh, war, predation, these would be subject to de-emphasis. These will be subject to de-evolution. The new evolutionary paradigm will give us the human traits of truth, of loyalty, of justice, of freedom. These will be the manifestations of the new evolution. And that is what we would hope to see from this. That would be nice."

It's definitely not transhumanism nor religion nor politics. After watching this movie, this scene, over and over it finally came to me that he was simply explaining about the evolution of man bearing human traits of truth, of loyalty, of justice, of freedom. The new evolutionary paradigm only means that the SMARTER you are the more PASSIVE (in a wiser sense) you get and by this, war and predation would be a subject to de-emphasis, de-evolution. So in return, neo-humans are those who are being selfless, those who have true spirit, those who are open-minded, those who think of helping others, of being equal, of loving everyone.

Realizing these things helped me truly see myself, see what I am right now. Am I starting to become a subject to the new evolutionary paradigm, a neo-human or still on the stage of a Cro-Magnon man whom we cannot blame to embrace war and predation?

After hearing this from a Chemistry professor (Dr. Eamonn Healy - the one you see on the vid), having the vision of a peaceful future, you can't help but be optimistic about it. If this would truly be the track for the new evolution, then I wouldn't worry much about the future...

Made in the 80's...

Kinda bored. So sorry for this totally pointless note?! >,<

Proudly made in the 80's, although I kinda like 70's better...
Best things from the 80's as far as I could remember...

1. MTV
2. Perfect Strangers (It never occurred to me as a child just how queer it was for these two single middle-aged men to be living together... LOL XD)
3. Miami Vice
4. John Hughes movies
5. Eddie Murphy was funny
6. new wave/alternative
7. hair bands/hard rock
8. early hip hop
9. The Fox network
10. Solid Gold
11. Madonna was cool
12. Michael Jackson was cool
13. Debbie Gibson (When pop singers HAD talent, also would add New Edition & George Michael)
14. Back to the Future
15. Fast Times at Ridgemont High
16. Choudenshi Bioman
17. He Man
18. "Weird Al" Yankovic
19. Metallica were underground & had great music
20. Ghostbusters
21. Who Framed Roger Rabbit
22. Walkmans
23. young Jason Bateman
24. Only one lame boy band in the tail end of the decade, not tons like in 1999/2000 XD
25. Pee Wee Herman
26. Nickelodeon
27. No reality shows (Except for the nightly news and very few like "That's Incredible")
28. Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
29. License To Drive
30. ripped jeans

Stimulate Your Frontal Lobe... (Waking Life and Me)

An excerpt from my favorite philosophical movie "WAKING LIFE"...

Since the world is in constant flux, nothing that occurs has any relevance to anything else. What you believe, feel, or think is based on the assumption that truth exists. Thus, you're free to do anything that brings you pleasure. That humanity feels constrained by morals is one of the funniest jokes I've ever heard…

Honestly, I’m really having a hard time describing myself since I believe all you know about one self is always just as shallow. Yeah, I can be superficial but most of the time I’m complex. Being a rational technophile is what defines me best if this even exists. I’m into sci-fi books, brains that will take you millions of years from now. Having arguments specially the ones that’ll make your brain bleed is what motivates me. I don’t like non-sense; feeling my brain cells dying is really dreadful. I come from the principle of being agnostic. I don’t believe in universal God because I have my own personal God. Incredulity fills me in specially when talking about Quantum Mechanics and the so-called freedom. It’s only our emotional structure which makes us want God to exist and this is what you call faith. I also consider free will and Physics argument comical. I’ll be quoting something from what I replied on some forum.

Quote: "Because if you're talking about free will there's always this assumption that God exist, on the other hand if you're talking purely about Quantum Mechanics since it's so deterministic then if we look at it in a small scale, large scale either way seems so that we have no freedom at all so why this argument. Isn't free will just another part of our emotional structure, the same structure that makes us want God to exist?"

Also talking about telescopic evolution, another segment from my favorite movie “Waking Life”; we have had some discussions about the new evolutionary paradigm. If you look at it on a larger scale, perceiving the heavy technical terms... you really wouldn't understand what the man is trying to deliver since the conversation came out naturally, existentialism; it's happening right now... right at this very moment... no pre-organization of thoughts.

It's definitely not transhumanism nor religion nor politics. After watching this movie, this scene; over and over again it finally came to me that he was simply explaining about the evolution of man bearing human traits of truth, of loyalty, of justice, of freedom. The new evolutionary paradigm only means that the smarter you are the more passive you get and by this... war, predation would be a subject to de-emphasis; de-evolution. So in return, neo-humans are those who are being selfless, those who have true spirit, who’s obviously kind, those who don't think of competition (competing with one another), those who are thinking of helping others, of being equal, of loving everyone.

Realizing these things helped me truly see myself... see what I’ am right now. Am I starting to become a subject to the new evolutionary paradigm, a neo-human or still on the stage of a Cro-Magnon man whom we cannot blame to embrace war and predation.

After hearing this from a Chemistry professor (Dr. Eamonn Healy - the one you see on the vid), having the vision of a peaceful future... you can't help but be optimistic about it. If this would truly be the track for the new evolution... then I wouldn't worry much about the future...”