Thursday, February 28, 2002
10239834:: 3:17 PM

I've started development on a system meant to allow musicians to JAM real-time over the web (using MIDI). Pretty hyped, early numbers seem to indicate that it is possible.

Monday, February 18, 2002
9847230:: 6:08 AM

The connections between people on earth are like the connection between neurons in the brain. Each human is a neuron having a list of connections which entitle him or her to action, communication, and purpose. Given this, old friends are like old memories: contacting them triggers forgotten sequences and resurrects common history into memory. The main difference is that human interactions happen more slowly than neuron ones.
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There are 100 billion neurons in the brain, and 6 billion people on the earth. Nearly every one of those 6 billion nodes is connected *somehow* ... making the collection of them equivalent to a 6% (humanity-wide) brain. There are several concepts which gel with this analogy: learning is the strengthening of connections in response to repeated stimulus/action. Cancers are deadly groups of cells which grow to damage the larger system ... What is missing, however, is global purpose. Within the human-brain system, brain activity is informed by biological need and (arguably) human desire for action. We as a race, have no such unifying purpose ... or at least I don't know of one.
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There are about 500 million people who are connected to the internet: an 0.5% brain size equivalent. These 500 million can partially bridge the speed gap between neuron action (3ms), and humanity-wide action (30Ms). [incomplete thought]

Friday, February 15, 2002
9774204:: 4:17 PM

So I've made my decision to work for the man. I think it'll all work out, and I'm getting psyched about rainy Seattle. ah.

Wednesday, February 06, 2002
9462230:: 6:59 PM

I had a dream a couple days ago. I was in a home, 50's era ... in front of a PC, and chatting with my friend ric on IM. Just a couple lines on the screen. I read them and start to type. As I type the letters appear on the screen, and I am able to read what I am typing as I type it. Ric responds. Interesting response, and I start typing, faster ... I have a lot to say, but I can still read it as I'm typing ... soon I'm typing very very fast, clearly faster than fingers can move. The screen fills with words at a page / second scrolling endlessly... it goes on for 15 seconds, and I think "pause". The screen pauses.

I'm scrolling though the pages of text, pages of coherent thoughts interspersed with complex pronunciation tables. I begin to realize that this is a direct memory dump of my brain. With a thought, I start the stream again, and read more.

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