Domingo 13 Feb 2011, 11:26

Here's why I like my brain:
Whenever I'm asked in a job interview, "can you do C.G.?" I describe the upper-limits of my abilities by describing many of the exact elements that appear in this music video. I visualize the cars, I speak of them only as they exist conceptually in my mind. Then, one night after browsing YouTube cuts of the original Tron, I find it: what was in my head already exists. It's like never knowing what steak tastes like, but still having a full understanding of what steak is actually like:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SQSHg-SJXR8
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SQSHg-SJXR8

PS: Derezzed is an ill new Daft Punk track. Also, Human After All (Sebastian remix) and Kavinsky - Testarossa (Sebastian Remix). Yes yes yes.

PPS: I hear big man Marky Z. is gonna change my facebook interface for the 6th time this week. I might be getting old or something, but I'm putting put my foot down here. The young embrace change, but does anyone embrace moving the friggin' light-switches in your house around every few months and vaporizing your notebooks?

I used to have a nice little collection of video / music video links and somewhat meaningful written commentary on my Facebook page before the history depository vanished without a traced and content continued to be shuffled into the endless oblivion that is my Facebook as if no one would notice. In fact, I think no-one did. It's like never noticing what colors you're working with because they constantly are giving you new tools to illustrate with.

First the pen, then the brush, now the paint-filled squirt gun and tomorrow you will have the to flick the saliva from the snout of a live-salivating-anteater. Oh, but the new anteater comes at the cost of the pen, brush and paint-blaster, we tossed that stuff out: the fuzzy guy was just too bulky and we had to do a little spring-cleaning to make room for him. Before I know it, every ounce of effort we put into our "user-generated content" is going to get steamrolled by some other exciting "Zynga sponsored re-education camp" that burns our garden to the ground to make room for its farm-ville cattle.

What can the hapless user do? Word to the wise: back up your data. Everyone should already be doing this with their offline files and it's high time we did the same online. I plan to automatically double-post my content initially in an appropriate secondary location like this one and then simply centralize it all via RSS syndication that streams to my Facebook. Mark is already passing around our data to other partner websites anyway, so hey, if you can't beat 'em, join 'em. Then get the hell ahead and post your excitement about your Kavinsky / Sebastian discoveries in a safer place.