467th day of the Tens

Just a personal entry, nothing newsworthy... the last act of the day!
My 'the' favourite .gif artist, James Murray, aka Eraserhead, in his manifestation as a digital purveyor of vices that make you laugh alone to no one in front of a screen, on which there might feasibly be nothing at all (because it's virtual), makes you consider getting up from a chair, to stare, to stare at what might not be there. In fact, no one is sitting in the chair at all when you stand up to observe what has taken place but it does leave you with a sense that you might need to do something else instead. That's my review of Eraserhead.
A critical review of the artist, not my response, would lead one to discover that Murray stands on the frontier of this type of digital media. According to one idea. A professional artist who doesn't sell a commodity. Even some of his DJ mixes are for free. If I knew him I'd probably want to emulate him.
I'm reminded of the words of Hakim Bey, who said that immolation was preferable to emulation.
I have a very one tracked mind. If I end up repeating the sentiments of another writer, in such emulationary fashion, then I probably need to do something else instead. Like get to bed...
"Where did you come from?"
"I came from bed. He came from bed. She came from bed. Where did you come from? I came from bed."
I'm convinced that if you use Google Translate to transliterate any English text to make it an arcane one that is either Hebrew or Arabic then you can make it literally word perfect by going via the other arcana, Latin, and then into either of the ancient languages.
Going from one language straight to the desired outcome using Google Translate churns out a word-for-word translation, culturally inept. If you put one in between the two then it creates a cognitive dissonance similar to a local inner monologue vernacular that operates in a foreign speaking place.
Perhaps going via the arcana would make it too common, since Latin was the universal language of an entirety of occident populations once. Bless the Ostrogoths!
If we experiment with the English dialogue above, perhaps it would be more relevant to render a German translation by going via French, since, geographically, one has to travel through France to reach Germany from England.
"where did you come from?"
«où venez-vous?»
»Woher kommen Sie?«
The second conundrum for would-be transliterators, language traitors, and border stretchers is Google Translate's response to the occurences of capitalization within text and even punctuation. It alters the context entirely.
"Where did you come from?"
«Où êtes-vous venu?»
»Wo kommst du her?«
It requires discretion on behalf of the user to consider grammar.
Ah! Ah! The grammarye and the error'er, the bastardization and the corruptor, ever the linguistic phenomenonizer. Yiddish was the bastardization of the Malachiym Messianic Hebrew. It simply vocalized German ideas with Hebrew characters. Interference with Freyja's design for her people caused her great jealousy towards Michael and his people, hence the persecution. Hegel's church steeple. Wrong people.
I reckon a large percentage of Hebrew stored on Google Translate is the bastardized and Latinized vocabulary alongside the ancient portion of what could be words from the Chaldee lexicon added to compensate for the popularity of English in the western speaking world.
It requires discretion on behalf of the user to consider grammar. Or a Latin arcana to make it truly ancient. As above.
"I came from bed. He came from bed. She came from bed. Where did you come from? I came from bed."
»Ich kam ins Bett. Er hatte gerade gelesen. Sie hatte gerade lesen. Wo kommst du her? Ich kam ins Bett.«
I wonder whether we've even got half a translation? I didn't include the French mediatory translation for effect.
If you're German and you're reading this and you think it's bollocks then don't blame Google Translate. Blame me entirely.
Yours.
I'm off to laugh at virtually nothing.

449th day of the Tens

The food we produce, the excrement we consume?
Gizzardy bits.
Lizzardy bits.
Wizardly bits.
Licking lips.
We don't seem to mind whether the food gets contaminated or not so long as we see some suspicious items on the product information, or ingredients.
Take Cochineal for example. The process of making a taste and a dye to form Cochineal involves crushing red beetles. 'Natural' things like this give good health despite their representation as an E-number. E120 represents Cochineal.
Alcoholic cocktails with »lila« colours probably contain Cochineal. Beetle juice! cry the scarabs who love a good crushin'. "Go on, crush us. We love a good crushin'"
The Dactylopius Coccus gets scraped off the back of the beetle, the female one only. No gender equality in the crushing of scarabs.
Some vegetarians, the more discriminating ones, consider it unfair on beetles to go through something like boiling alive to produce Cochineal. It really comes down to the matter of taste.
The process of sun-exposure to the beetle in question matures a flavour for a very humane consumption.

SOURCES:
[1]. http://www.guardianbookshop.co.uk/BerteShopWeb/viewProduct.do?ISBN=9780753822074
[2]. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U3LCDk0xQCU
[4]. http://www.veggieglobal.com/nutrition/non-vegetarian-food-additives.htm

449th day of the Tens

No alternative to life. Except work for a change. 4K kilo-joules get removed and transferred by the likes of Wan Wijnen and other such apartment construction companies. Foremen worry that if it goes over the deadline, the appointed time for work, the cost for public money goes up.
It takes a whole a academic year to make an academic building. The migratory population of students see it go up and then leave town when its brand spanking new.
So Foremen feel relaxed and happy about not overshooting it. The deadline or the public money.
Health-and-safety measures go in place before anything goes up. This includes the 'tipper' which doesn't tip over.
An overtipper looks like a maitre giving another maitre a ten per cent'er.
Public money can only afford 10% for apartment building construction. Otherwise, the Foreman goes to the businesses men and asks them what they want constructing instead.
If we as consumers pursuade business with our custom to invest in public funding then we can make houses together.

SOURCES:
[1]. http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/construction
[2]. http://www.reuters.com/finance/stocks/companyProfile?symbol=STRL.O
[3]. http://www.manta.com/mb_43_E0_05/building_construction/california

448th day of the Tens

Lady Gaga continues to clause controversy both in media discussions surrounding her and the live performances procedding from her. Of course, those in the know realize that her backdrop, as well as her persona, directs people to Madonna. Belladonna!

The non-sensible one and the sensible one, Ciccione, the non-eternal and the eternal. Belladonna!

We, here at zeroequalsthree, perceive it as an elaborate ploy. Do we buy her shameless advertising or do we lap up the sex? Belladonna!

Do we participate in this as a sexual rite even if it appears to us as a Voyeuristic image, spreading out to a point.

«une visage sans visage?»

Take the consumption of pornography as an analogue for what we try to express here, contracting to a point. The symbol behind the playback of a pornographic recording goes into our vision. Consider this:

»Das Auge ist das Licht des Leibes. Wenn dein Auge lauter ist, so wird dein ganzer Leib licht sein«

Does it not lead to a true desire if we consume the image in an orgiastic state, or does it confuse our sexual sensibilities as if the image we consume leads us away from the light in sex to a dark and seedy possibility that may leave us wholly unsatisfied?

The real image internal fairs much better than the external idolatrous celebrity.

SOURCES:
[1]. http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2010/mar/12/internet-lady-gaga-provocative-video-telephone
[2]. http://www.porn-free.org/sexual_idolatry.htm
[3]. http://www.reuters.com/article/2010/03/29/us-film-zoom-idUSTRE62S05920100329

IMG: http://static.thehollywoodgossip.com/images/gallery/lady-gaga-madonna_405x375.jpg

447th day of the Tens

We, here at zeroequalsthree, received word today from Reuters News Agent, Mo Simir, who tells us that:

" ... 'Green Zones' in Iraq expand to accomodate regular Baghdadi civilians and Iraqi citizens alike. If the Military Industrial Complex, responsible for the contracting of reconstruction projects, can successfully expand the 'Green Zone' areas safely, then, everyday people from Iraq can make business successfully. "

"The 'Perimeter', says Mister Simir, "looks like a volatile zone but as long as normal day-to-day life continues without interruption then the threat to safety lessens."
He continues:

"Yet, the challenge for the Military Industrial Complex lies in making the green zones safe whilst employing less force and manpower to maintain it. We, at Reuters, think that if Iraqi institutions inhabit these safer zones, then, more citizens would move to these areas and leave the zones where terror keeps them in fear."

SOURCES:

[1]. http://americasfailureiniraq.com/2011/02/19/cost-of-the-iraq-war-baghdad-wants-u-s-to-pay-1-billion-for-damage/
[2]. http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/oct/22/iran-role-iraq-war-ieds
[3]. http://af.reuters.com/article/energyOilNews/idAFLDE69G0B320101017

446th day of the Tens

Military Intelligence renders itself obsolete like the old warheads of the Cold War. If only. MI5 receives word from travellers these days in the interests of National Security, regularly returning. The worthy, those who travail across Europe and return, tell the authorities what they know. Reports suggest that this kind of intelligence passes muster, and so, it gets passed on after into more reliable hands and more reliable authorities. We receive regular word, here @zeroequalsthree, that the terrorists, who ever they choose to attack, may possesses and share the possibility of nuclear capability, and, if in the wrong hands, the employability. We do not as yet know whether a technology could deploy a nuclear warhead without catching the Private Eye.
The way that this intelligence finds assimilation interests us as it may provide clues to the secret machinations and surreptitous movements of cell branches of many different kinds. What would the IRA do with such information?

SOURCES:

[1]. http://www.fas.org/sgp/crs/terror/RL32595.pdf
[2]. http://www.brad.ac.uk/acad/bdrc/nuclear/terrorism/SAND98-050525.pdf
[3]. http://www.acq.osd.mil/dsb/reports/NWE-National-Enterprise.pdf

446th day of the Tens

The FTSE All-Share as an index loses more money in stock market investment than both Gold and Oil. Of course, Gold appreciates in value according to the current post-recession climate. Pawn shops and brokers alike accepted all types of gold, traded in, melted down and returned to the relevant treasury. Since the infamous date of 'peak oil', July 11th 2008, Oil also appreciates in the post-recession climate. Professional Stock Broker, Jack Stoker, says:
"Buy now, sell later, Hassan-i-Sabbah! Everything must go."
He tells us, that if one were to split an investment across the three markets, FTSE, Gold, & Oil, with equal investment, the losses on FTSE index would work for both aprreciating values that compete against it. He says:
"Expect a rise of 33.36% in Gold & Oil markets and the same as a loss on all FTSE 'Share' indexed."
According to Stoker, the best time to sell occurs when the plus markets begin to show a long-tail distrubution of loss.
"It may look like the stocks begin to fall sharply, but their loss appreciates slower than other markets, so it's a safe hedge bet," Stoker tells us.

SOURCES:

[1]. http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/2006/oct/12/ftse.marketforces

[2]. http://online.wsj.com/article/BT-CO-20110314-706633.html