About Me

(Matrix Reloaded using an actual exploit)
I have to find out “the hard way”. I’m a former psychonaut not by choice. People I look up to are hackers, chemists and professors.

My Language

(representation of Indra’s net)
I’m a Caucasian from San Diego, California. I’m a yellow belt in Shaolin Kempo. I have friends that I’ve met online that I’ve spoken to through free (for us) conference lines. When I’m discussing philosophy with a friend I find I can convey the concepts best through metaphors like Indra’s Net when discussing the interconnectedness of reality. I also use language differently depending on who can hear within the range of my voice.

Favorite Movies

( from Nausicaa)
The Matrix – Wachowski siblings
Gozu – Takashi Miike
Nausicaa – Hayao Miyazaki

Favorite Word

Puppet is my favorite word and I love to use it around people whose only source of news comes filtered through fox or msnbc and its related affiliates. Puppet is such a childlike concept that can induce such rage in someone deeply amuses me.

Here’s an example, The US government went to Central and South America and destabilized governments through various coup d’état in which they installed a Puppet dictator whose strings could be pulled by the CIA in Washington.

Sanskrit Adventure

(character is called “aum”)

                                                           (is said to be the sound of the first utterance of the universe)
My ideal linguistic adventure would consist of a Brahmin fluent in Sanskrit who would break down the words into morphemes so that with his guidance we could could form phonemes giving me access to ancient texts which contain a well’s worth of wisdom and knowledge. Eventually after studying with him for many years my phonology would pick up the words near fluency.

Pinecone

(a computer model representation of the pineal gland)

Linguistics is like a pinecone because it’s strength lies at the foundation like that of the language families similar to a tree. These trees can be found in linguistics like the “Indo-European” family which breaks down at least partially into the Germanic branch. The pinecone also represents the pineal gland  within the sphere of linguistics in addition to a lot of interdisciplinary studies which try to define its one specific use but like linguistics its not entirely fleshed out and to say it is would place limitations on it. There is even the pinecone looking quite similar physically to the pineal gland or as Descartes’ put it “the seat of the soul”.