There is no display of power more arrogant than beauty. Thats why nature just has to sit there and we get overpowered by her time and again, like ants getting crushed under the feet of dinosaurs.

If the Roman alphabet were not made to be pronounced in so many ways, if English could not be spoken with so many different accents, if Chinese characters were not modified to be written in so many different versions, if religion were not twisted to mean so many things, if the early days of HTML were not so non-compliant, maybe none of them would have survived. #diversity #trp2015

It's a long night

It's a long night
It's a long day
It's a short life
But it's a long way
There ain't no ghosts but the nights still haunt the same
Suddenly morning comes like zombies we rise again
Into the day we go
Make money spend money repeat
The jobs a sucker
But not bad enough to quit
This is not what I dreamt my life to be about
But I'm lost in orbit and time is running out
I pour my life into everything I write
But I'm an odd beat
The world doesn't need my vibe
So I hide from myself writing code for a living
But regret comes visiting me at night on a time machine
I know the day I'm told I get just one year to live
I'd be writing like my life depended on it
It's be epic it'd be my whole life in print
But deep down I know it's not something you'd pay to read.
It's a long night
It's a long day
It's a short life
But it's a long way
There ain't no ghosts but the nights still haunt the same
Suddenly morning comes and I wished I could have caught some sleep.
It's a long night
It's a long day
It's a short life
But it's a long way
There ain't no ghosts but the nights still haunt the same
Suddenly morning comes.

I miss the sound of USRobotics modems, volume turned down in the middle of the night, rustling ferociously to that satisfying click, like you have finally made that connection back to yourself in a world that's already asleep, released from having to feel how long the night can be.

No family is perfect, but some know how to handle brokenness while others hold on to the belief that it doesn't exist.

TNBT : imagine extra sensory perception

TNBT : imagine extra sensory perception

Next-gen wearables that get implanted into you body and interfaces directly with your brain.

Imagine - Just think about something you want to know and you instantly know it. No longer is there a differentiation between learning and knowing.

Imagine - seeing infrared and electromagnetism, and being able to have extended sight at night.

Imagine - seeing nutritious food getting colored to look more appealing in real time, while junk food getting photoshopped instantaneously to look less delicious.

Imagine - being able to sense the earth's magnetic field and locate yourself like GPS and never getting lost again.

Imagine - being able to smell disease and keeping yourself safe.

Imagine - being able to hear thoughts through other peoples brainwaves.

Imagine - sensory overload, and a class division between those with the capacity to process the additional information, and those who are too stressed out by it.

Imagine - yet another class division between those who can afford implants and those who cannot - with those who can benefitting from being able to make instantaneously professional decisions and those who cannot getting left out.

And the imagine genetic level implants...

Welcome to the post-homosapien world.

Imagine Autism

Imagine that you suddenly had a superpower - one day you woke up and found that you could literally hear people's thoughts. Everywhere you go, you'd hear what people are thinking, like they are speaking it to you.

When you walk into a room full of people, you'd hear their thought all at once. Like they are all trying to talk to you at the same time.

Your brain tries to focus on a few people's thoughts, but you find yourself unable to filter out all the noise. You find big crowds incredibly tiring because you cannot focus in all that noise. It sucks the energy out of you, like you're perpetually in a dance club trying to do your math homework. You spend most of your time indoors, going out only where strictly needed.

But you keep on trying, because you understand that you need to control this "noise" in order to function in society. After a few years of trying, your brain finally manages to filter out most of the noise except those who are within a few meters of you.

But big crowds still tire the hell out of you. You wished you could hear the thoughts of exactly who you want to hear.

But it seems that the sensory perception of thought doesn't work like that. It seems that your brain needs to work very hard to do all that filtering work, to remove what you do not need to hear. It's not like your senses can "target" someone - it's more like your brain functions like a superhuman firewall that monitors and filters every single piece of information coming in to decide if it's better you hear something, or you do not. If your brain had been doing something other than filtering, you probably would have been pretty intelligent. It kinda sucks.

You fight so hard just to function normally. Until one morning.

One morning you woke up and found that all the voices were gone. Not one single voice.

It seems that your brain had found it impossible to filter out single thoughts, and that all this filtering was a waste of energy. It seems that your brain has decided that being unable to tap into this super-power was better for you - it seems like your brain has given up fighting. At least you could now function like an ordinary person.

You wished you could keep some of that super power, but it doesn't work that way. But you do feel very relieved that it's all over. It's something you spent a lot of your life fighting, but not something you want to talk about. It's like an experience that made you so much more, yet you would be deemed so much less if you even hinted at it.

But sometimes you wonder, if there is someone in the world out there, who could live with having such super powers, hearing every single person's thoughts and responding to all their voices where nobody else could, living such impossibly extraordinary lives that you know deep inside you have given up trying to achieve.