Garbage Collection

Too much going on in my little world. Much room for optimisation. This is a Monday-Friday note.

On School

Focusing on time sensitivity. Making efforts to clear my mind fast, so that I can quickly shift to different parts of the day. The conscious mind can be understood as an information system with finite memory. The task we are discussing is the displacement of old memories with new ones (e.g. Zero-values) on a moment to moment basis. This is part of what it is to manage the said information system. Traditionally some call this meditation. Stephen Chow might call it kungfu. Betcha don't find many people who equate qi or consciousness with information. Bed time. Studying the SNR in my mind. Looking for a quiet place amidst subconsciously generated sensations in my imagination.

Good run. Did a hundred standing jumps as well. In a forum, discussions on the construction of guitar pedals remind me to focus on SNR as a metric of meditative success. Buzzing from dinner. I should probably eat more breakfast. Rare moment these days: teasing my understanding of sound, with music. I miss messing with synthesizers. Looks like Amazon's resurrection of A9's going head to head with Siri as well. Phew. Cloud intelligences, fight! I miss editing and shooting films too. "run time. braving the traffic before. standing by for armageddon." Getting juiced at Hartamas while the jam clears. #runFail

Resuming my studies, on the financial statements of a construction company. I think the Investopedia app is going to keep me busy for a while. COME ON FRANCE!!! (hooray for quantitative easing) #paybackLater Need my calculator to be more aggressive - going to factor in the online non-margin account incentive. Feeling like the financial noob that I am. Good goading to study harder. Tis the season. US auto factories doing 3 shifts; ECB printing E by the 100Bs; I wonder what's next. I must seek noise and purge it. I shall understand the structure of my mind. #lullaby Too much going on in my little world. Much room for optimisation.

On Roof

Early-week: Nada. I still don't know if the vendor has signed the S&P or not. Mid-week: Vendor has signed the apartment S&P!

On Job

Had dinner with the physicist/C-hacker I hired off a FB ad for an RA in 2009. Reminiscing startup life. "Tremendously worried that I am sending my friends more trouble than a job may merit. But on we go. #mercenary" "Survived six months in job; wondering if I can survive another six without morphing into a change manager. #autobots...t..." Marketing should inform Branding, should inform PR. But when the upstream terms aren't well defined, they are reinvented downstream. #hmm Off to PJ Old Town for bahkuteh dinner, then home to clean up some graphs. Tired. I must stay focused on school priorities, and ignore any vices that might distract me.

On Society

Geez and I thought I was weird - on Malaysians inventing LouSang, I never understood how sashimi was helped by mixing in a lot of coloured Twisties. 2 things to celebrate today. (1) An old acquaintance gave me some useful career advice. (2) Mom found some of my clothes that she'd stolen. Who knows what this means? "Wakkakudi... alakepadi!" I learnt it from the bar boys. They turned it into a song when I was working as a bartender. It's really deep stuff. "your sister's c''t... is ours to share."

In a world this complex, everyone is everyone's first something-or-the-other. On The Girlfriend Experience: not a bad movie for the surrealists... I mean, it's actually pretty romantic, and not as raw as life may be. I didn't know the lead was a pornstar. Learnt a lot about pornstars from chatting with people on Twitter tonight. I mean, where else can one learn about... oh... ok. On crowd-sourcing legal advice: Twitter, Quora, LinkedIn, Facebook, are all valid places for this sort of thing. There are storytelling strategies that work better for each platform - for Twitter, people have to empathise with your content; on Facebook mere shock value is sufficient because you can chuck pictures in - there's higher bandwith for low-level content that hits below the belt of peoples' verbal processing facilities; LinkedIn is a place where people want to be seen as being professionally smart (so bait the show-offs); Quora is specifically targeted at the stuff you're trying to do, so it probably offers the most space to be cerebral about it with the least effort on empathy.

"#CNYpotluckEmails: ok, 3.2 is bringing duck, 4.1 is from outstation so getting snacks, 5.1 (me) can you order a chicken? #parentDotChild" "#CNYpotluckEmails: pizzapizzapizza! / vodkavodkavodka! / guys we get the point. / nymphosnymphosnymphos oh wait, am I off topic ?:-S" I become the people around me. Read all about it. It's just anthropology. Some art hints overwhelmingly at what cannot be shown, without showing what cannot be shown, at all. I just told my biggest middle school crush that I had a thing for her 14 years ago. When I was 14. Joked with my boss, also a female, that I might tell her the same thing one day. Whatever the truth of it, it makes for great conversation. It's a great "I waited half a life time" story. Haha.

On scapegoat duty. Because the dark knight can take it! Lulz