a self-declared cyborg doing cyborg stuff
The ‘Soulcruzer’ podcast (more of an audioblog, really).
Expect a blend of mysticism and music, psyche and soul, everyday wisdom, and the esoteric. One day, I might be waxing lyrical about Nietzsche’s eternal return, and the next, uncovering the wisdom of the tarot. It’s all up for grabs on this pod.
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Q: what is it about me that i can’t keep my virtual hands off of creativity, love, mysticism, and misfit ontology?
Here’s a first look at the metaverse for professionals, the Engage VR app. I’ll be giving the app a thorough review and walkthrough, but for now, I just wanted to give you a brief overview of what it’s like inside of Engage VR.
The metaverse isn’t just an idea anymore. It’s a reality that’s ready to explode into the mainstream. I spent a good portion of my weekend exploring various versions of the metaverse through apps like Engage VR, AltSpaceVR, and Immersed. I was amazed by what’s already out there and how big...
Table Mountain and Pen Cerrig Calch are two of Wales’ most popular hiking trails. They provide breathtaking views of the surrounding countryside as well as a challenging hike for experienced hikers. At 1085 metres above sea level, Table Mountain is the higher of the two peaks. It is a popular...
I’ve been playing around with beliefs this week. It’s so easy to get lost in our own beliefs. What I mean by that is most of us don’t question our beliefs. We just believe what we believe because that’s what we’ve always believed. Because our beliefs are built up over...
Montaigne: We are never ‘at home’: we are always outside ourselves. Fear, desire, hope, impel us towards the future; they rob us of feelings and concerns for what now is, in order to spend time over what will be – even when ourselves shall be no more. Wretched is the...
I want to be crazy about something again. And when I say crazy, I mean insanely obsessed, filled with passion, evangelistic borderline fundamentalist. A fanatic! I think you get the picture. I want to have that feeling when I first fell in love with The Savage Sword of Conan magazine....
How do I master the art of living? I’ve been in pursuit of that answer for most of my adult life. Every time I think I have all of the answers, they change the questions. Something that I’ve come to realize is this blog has to be first and foremost...
This is what happens when the council decides to fix something that isn’t broken. You end up making extra trips to the garbage dump to offload your rubbish because 3 weeks is a long time to wait for the next scheduled collection. Unless that was the plan all along to...
Sam Harris on the meaning of life What is the reality of your present moment? What Sam Harris does in this video is to get you to rethink the quality of your attention in the present moment so that when you get to the end of this finite life of...
So Coolio passed away today. He was only 59 years old. That’s only 5 years older than me. My reaction to that is damn, I could go at any time, so I best live as though my days are numbered because they are. This is it. This is my life,...
Here’s something interesting to get your head around and it speaks to the idea of attachment. The degree to which you attach your identity to something is the degree to which you’ll suffer when your identity is out of alignment with what you’ve attached it to. For example, the degree...
I stumbled upon a few websites that if you are a nostalgic Generation Xer like me, you’ll love!! They are reminiscent of the weird and wonderful spaces that were spawned in places like Geocities and Livejournal. Here are the links I mention in the episode: NeocitiesStatus CafeDeadjournal Here’s my Status...
This is what I miss about the old Internet, individual flare, and creativity, like this ASCII comic from Michelle. You have to duck and dodge the algorithms and echo chambers if you want to find good stuff like this. I found this on Neocities. If you haven’t heard of Neocities,...
I needed some inspiration today. I haven’t been happy with my voice lately. There’s too much noise in my head and too many voices competing with each other for attention. It’s kind of like the shell game, my voice is the pea underneath one of the shells, and no matter...
I didn’t know you could use your WordPress blog to write Twitter threads or convert your existing blog posts into threads. I’ve been dabbling with threads recently, mostly using Hypefury or Typefully to compose them. I want to write more micro-essays and turn them into threads without overwhelming my Twitter...
The Barefoot Doctor aka Stephen Russell was a practitioner and teacher of Taoism, its medicine, philosophy, meditation practices, and martial arts and manifesting system, or wu wei. I first came across his work in a small bookshop tucked away in the Scottish Highlands. It was his informal, wayward writing style and approach...
Dave Winer shared a tweet yesterday that got me thinking about why I should dust off the soulcruzer blog and start writing here again. The tweet is a link to Adam Singer’s substack newsletter. Blogging in its true form is a great place to work out your thinking, by thinking...
I was fishing for a documentary to watch over coffee this morning. Not something I normally do, but it’s Saturday, and I’m down in Bristol waiting for the rest of the house to wake up before we get up to whatever we’re getting up today. I stumbled upon this mesmerizing...
Hey ho, 4th of July, cookouts in the park or on the beach, hot dogs and burgers, beer…lots of beer, and fireworks, remember why we fought a revolution…don’t let the good times make you soft… music from the score, tom petty, gikini kill, kim wilde, james brown, stevie wonder, tracy...
