Author Archives: Pace Arko

The Heavy

Okay, so I haven’t written anything for more than a week and, frankly, I don’t have anything to say now but, just last night I heard some bad-ass retro soul. I haven’t anything else by these guys but this tune … Continue reading

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Shades of Algernon

The Blue Brain Project requires one of the most powerful supercomputers on the planet to simulate a single cortical column of a rat’s brain. This project of computational neurology has been running since 2005. In my opinion, this project, out … Continue reading

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Boring status message

So I’m revising this entry on the bus home from work. Thank you 3G! And the next hour or so, I roll some dice with Toby, John and the New York Crew on Skype. People in Thailand, the Persian Gulf, … Continue reading

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Apply sledgehammer gently to CPU

So, I discovered that the import file of my old posts has a lot of mangled markup and incorrect hard line feeds in it. This may be due to: Taking it straight from Linux but uploading it from Windows to … Continue reading

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Back in the World Wide Web

So, after two years, I’ve nearly cut all ties to Facebook. I say “nearly” because I haven’t deactivated my account and do plan to check it occasionally to see what my friends there are doing. What I mean is that … Continue reading

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Back online!

Ladies and gentlemen, children of all ages, I present to you the return of the mighty, mighty Farlops Industries. The ponderous and sluggish engines of thought have been stilled for more than two years now but, no more! Let’s see … Continue reading

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MLK Day Again!

Today, I worked. But I saw something interesting today. A lot of people didn’t come to work. I base this on the mostly empty park and ride lots my bus zoomed past into Lynnwood. This wasn’t the pattern only just … Continue reading

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Feed the Machines!

This was news I meant to post here months ago so, it’s kind of stale but, to keep a personal site fresh you gotta start somewhere. So several months ago, towards the beginning of a summer, I saved up the … Continue reading

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What Does a Wormhole Look Like?

In science fiction movies, games and television, I’ve seen lots of attempts to depict spatial wormholes and “portals to other universes.” In nearly every case they get the geometry wrong. It doesn’t look like this nor does it look like … Continue reading

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There is no forbidden knowledge

So I read today that scientists at the Large Hadron Collider have received death threats. The LHC death threats are example of ignorance out of control. The risk from the LHC is minimal. How do we know that for certain? … Continue reading

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