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Change in the air…

Thursday, April 17th, 2008

Everything is in a flux. I’m changing my life and now it is final, Ill be changing jobs in six weeks. Put in my notice today… I am going to be a system analyst :) In 2 weeks I will be on my Europe tour wondering wild and free. Ill be attending the Libre Graphics Meeting in Wroclaw, Poland and I will take almost a week to find my way there and another week to get back… I do not have solid plans or routes other than this destination… I intend to be FREE. And take lots of pictures. Hoping for a good weather… Then I’ll be back at work for two more weeks, hopefully passing my stuff on.

And then… The great unknown waits. :)

The amazing fenomena known as “Project Chanology”

Saturday, February 2nd, 2008

There’s something interesting happening on the wire. Its the “Project Chanology” and the communal slash back at the Church of Scientology for trying to suppress information by use of law. When somebody seen as morally unfit to use the law uses the letter of the law against the intent, there will be a lash back. The strength of this tide is amazing.
Scientology is pretty much unknown in this corner of the world and those who know of it regard it as a suspicious cult. I personally had heard the word only a few times before the start of this campaign. Then I got interested. The look into a world of Corporate Religion left a bad taste in my mouth. I did not like what I was seeing. And that was before learning of the “fair game” policies, disconnection, organizations criminal roots and idealistic unattainable dreams.

Call me SP if you want but some things are not worth having…

A world without crime? Such a world is impossible without paying the ultimate price, ones humanity. Crime is a violation of society’s rules. Rules that are defined by men. As long as we are human there will be a deviation in what men consider normal, and there will always be those that are left outside that normality. A world without crime is a world of machines all identical, all programmed the same way. Would you want to live in such a world?

A world without insanity? Insanity it is a breakdown of the mental faculty of man, be the cause a “bad media” or “bad data”. Why should it be treated any different than a disease of the body? Why should it be more permanently curable than a flu? The only way to permanently remove insanity is to give up human body and all human experiences. And that is pretty insane in it self…
That said, if Scientology works for you, it is your right to practice it. Practice it with full awareness of what it is and do it without fear of harassment outside the “Church”.

When I was a child I loved to play with my fathers electrical tester. It would register all sorts of funny numbers and fluctuations when a person was between probes. The numbers varied dependent on a million little things, how tight you were holding the probes, how sweaty your hands were etc. Now when I found out about the E-meter all those games were instantly reminded. I thought about the procedure and the function of E-meter and intent of the system became clear.
E-meter is a primitive stress detector, used as a training tool under same principles that let you let you beat the lie detector. You must believe what you say or your body will give you away. You squeeze the cans harder, you sweat at the right question and the resistance changes. They will know you have been bothered by this question.
E-meter makes it apparent when one lies to one self or others. We all have those insecurities, those moments, those little things we are bothered about. All those gypsies at public places trying to sell you fortune-telling when you are down pray on the same state of mind, but they have intuition to see who would be susceptible. As pack animals we seek acceptance and relief of those through sharing with others. If we share with the wrong people however the price can be rather high.
Auditing is designed to give you that relief of fears through identifying and replacing your doubts. By repairing gaps in your ego. I imagine it to be a very effective way of gaining confidence and introspection… I for example have used Tarot cards to obtain the same introspection, to have a dialog with myself… But they abuse the process to fill you with their beliefs.

They make you believe things they want you to believe by repeating them until your mind accepts them as truth and they no longer cause you stress that registers on the E-meter. Simple brainwashing operation, nothing more. If you are going to try it, know what you are facing.
These things are obvious to anybody with decent analyzing skills. But not everybody have those skills and cults like Co$ prey on them to get funding and slave labor. See, even I find what they do wrong. It shouldn’t be a surprise ho much support this project has got over the days.

So it is easy to see why this “Church” is getting lashed at so strongly. They are to the world of the mind what pedophiles are to the physical world. Abusers and deceivers of those without the intellectual capacity to choose for themselves. Everybody with adequate mental capacity hates them.

Intellectuals hate them because they are kooks and abuse the “scientific” approach. Other religions hate them because they blaspheme their god, ex-members hate them because of the acute awareness of everything that is going on inside and even common people find what they do amoral. Add to the mix a generation raised on the global information exchange that is the internet to whom the gag is the ultimate threat and you will get an explosion.
The group that started this had a unique name. The Anonymous. The Anonymous say “We are Legion” and in a cause that attracts so many they truly are. This name expands endlessly to cover anybody that due to fear of prosecution over something so simple as a protest choose to stay anonymous. Its an interesting development. Suddenly masses of people are moving on one direction, working for one goal. The movement has no leader, just a master plan. The instruction was to do what you can to bring down the Co$ and do it so that for them and anybody you do not know enough to trust you remain Anonymous. It has gone way beyond its roots in a hacking community. It is now a force thriving on public opinion on selling gibberish and it is transforming constantly. Its source, the Project Chanlogy wiki pages history is the best evidence. The transformation from “lulz” to “srsbsns” is evident. And it is incorruptible from inside.

If one acts outside the interests of the group one immediately becomes an outsider, a “spai”(meaning spy) and a not part of the cause. If one tries to claim fame by by using ones real name, one automatically is not Anonymous. Since it has no leader and it is united only for the cause it is a force cannot be used to attack anything else.
I doubt this will be last net-movement under the name of Anonymous tho it may take time until something as public and as hated comes into limelight to again unify as many people into a single minded entity. After all, the force that drives this tide is not some hacker group but an almost total condemnation of the the “Church” of Scientology-s practices, its status as a legally sanctified corporate religion in some countries and  its operations that make it a cult.

My take on the matter is simple. Somebody said that you cannot kill hydra that does not have a head to chop off… That is certainly the case here. Co$ can sue its ass off, no relief will come of it, for each sued 10 will join. It will push the movement into action.

Signed,

Unanonymous Alexia Death

New year…

Tuesday, January 22nd, 2008

A lot of time has passed again. FX-Foundry has had two releases in the mean time. I have a new pack of scripts to sort somewhere and a bug to fix…

Another small victory for myself has come to pass. First bits of my code went to GIMP SVN :) recently. I’m very happy about that.

Wikipedia is falling out of my focus fast. Its too much pain for too little effect. Wikipedia is like sausage. You can like it but you will not feel the same about it once you have seen it made from start. Your sausages used to be live animals you know. You can imagine what kind of animal became your sausage but their personality is gone. The same thing happens to facts on Wikipedia.
My desire to fix things, all things i see broken, is till there. I fixed some electrical wiring at my friends house because her husband is clueless about electricity, “fixed” her router to work as switch on top of its connection providing router, tried to teach her teenager daughter not whine and his hyperactive boy to not try to fool everybody all the time or get attention or he wont be believed when he really needs to be believed… I know its not really my business to try to teach her kids but life’s lessons are hard enough as is, some pointers can only help. I took apart my cars rear brakes, because workshop would have been way too expensive and because I was curious. Turned out I needed more parts to get it back together and fixed and it would have cost me a fortune to keep it in the workshop while the parts arrived…

Ive tried to fix my own life too. It remains to be seen if it will work out that way or not…

:) C’ya

Lots of GIMP goodies coming your way!

Friday, November 16th, 2007

Well… I always try to fix things. This time its the availability of GIMP scripts. It not optimal to go all over the net to pick up this and that and go trough all the hassle and now a lot of scripts are broken for gimp 2.4… So I’ve started a project at source forge to collect, maintain and fix gimp scripts and provide them as a nice add-on pack. We(I have already enlisted two volunteers) have collected 44 files with 88 different functions and packed them into our first release! It contains both of my vintage film and LOMO effects scripts plus a brand new cross processing effect. Also others have contributed brand new scripts.

Get it here: http://sourceforge.net/projects/gimpfx-foundry

Convulsion presets script converted for 2.4

Wednesday, October 24th, 2007

I have fixed convulsion presets script to work with gimp 2.4. :) Enjoy.
DOWNLOAD: convolution-presets_1.1.scm.zip

Gimpshoping a vintage film effect

Thursday, October 4th, 2007

There was this neat action by fallout75 for Photoshop. It made your photos look aged. But alas, I’m a Linux user and haven’t had the inclination to just buy Photoshop and mess with wine, when Gimp is freely available. But I wanted that action… So it came to pass that I wrote a Gimp script. I had never used the Gimps functional scripting language, Scheme, before and had had only a brief encounter with functional languages in school… Alas, life has shown me that programming is programming, you need documentation, some samples , syntax guide and a plan and it can be done. I admit, it took me a while to put it together working more like solving a puzzle than writing code, but I did it. :D I also wrote a second script to create LOMO effect. There are probably more configurable options out there… but I like it.

Heres a sample:

vintage_lomo_sample.jpg

Download: death_effects.zip

NOTE: These actions are for Gimp 2.4(tested on RC-s and GIMP2.3, the dev version of 2.4), vintage is confirmed not to work in 2.2, rumors say that Lomo does.
Put the scripts into your scripts folder and run Gimp. They appear under “Filters->Photo Effects”. Have Fun :) .

Oh! I uploaded this one too, a sample of LOMO effect at work.

TWINS

twins.jpg

Some sweet macro games…

Saturday, September 8th, 2007

My family went to Vitipalu hike trails for a little Saturday outing today and of course I logged all my photo gear with me. Landscape there was pretty but a bit boringly green since autumn has not fully come yet and painted it in interesting colors. Perhaps I will go back there a bit later in the year for the landscape. Now to the fun part. There were interesting bugs around. Some spiders, failed to get a good picture of those :( , some giant ants and and a bug I cannot name in English. Perhaps they are called ladybugs?A friendly ladybug

The ants were VERY offensive when I approached their nest. I tried to take pictures of some mushrooms near one of their heaps and had to take a hike, because they were literally trying to eat me. So I decided to try the buggers instead.

Thats what I got:

Hostile Ants

That aggressive little bugger just bit that twig of grass and would not let go… We took a hasty leave…

Long time no see…

Wednesday, August 15th, 2007

I haven’t posted here for a while. Somehow have not felt like it. But now, I think its time for a recap. Hmm, lets see what Ive been up to.

Art&Photowatersports

Sometime in march I got myself an airbrush. Ive made altogether five canvas paintings so far, you can see pictures of them at my DeviantART page. Airbrush makes sense for me somehow. I can almost make it draw what I imagine. Ive actually SOLD one painting to a coworker of mine. Incredible :)
In photo, well, I sold my E-500 and the accessories. The lens prices were depressing me without end and lack of manual focus confirmation broke the camels back. Hello K10D! I had drooled over this camera for a LONG time, ever since it became available and now I owned it. I had to sell my soul to the bank for two whole years to get it, but by god got it :) And with my own choice of lenses too. I did not buy the kit lens, because I figured I would not need it. I had my Sigma 28-70 f2.8, truly a SWEET lens, and a Sigma 70-300 no APO version for my tele needs. Well, i figured wrong, soon I was itching for a wider angle for my architecture photos. So I bought the kit from after market. Next in order was a manulal focus vivitar macro lens. Another sweet addition to my set. The spider pictures in my photo gallery are taken with that one.

Widelands

I’ve joined opensource game project called Widelands. This settlers like game just happened to need a Elder of Graphics and I volunteered. It has a few disturbing bugs in it at the moment, but slowly its getting better and better. At the moment, easiest way to come chime in is at Widelands mailing list or on the Widelands web page

Wikipedia

I became active on Wikipedia during the end of April events here in Estonia. Our big neighbor has lost its marbles apparently, just one look at its state controlled medias shit slinging campaign is needed to be sure. The same happens on Wikipedia and the cleanup duty is onerous, because shit tends to cling on the cleaner and not the thrower. There has also been a small local uproar over an incident involving Rein Lang, his political advisor and exceptionally rude newbie. As a result I ended up giving a radio interview explaining the Wikipedia and its basic governing rules in technopolitical radio show Tehnokratt. If you have iron nerves and desire to help out, come along, contribute :)

The one million masterpiece

Friday, November 17th, 2006

It’s a collaboration of hopefully a million people on a single piece of art and for charity.

This is mine:

Its about otherkin… Go leave your own mark on the worlds largest canvas at http://www.theonemillionmasterpiece.com/ .

I hate SPAM!

Thursday, November 2nd, 2006

I do. I really really DO! Ive had it with moderating spam every day from this page. So from now on any comment contang word product, casino or any kind of gamble gets tossed automaticaly. You have been warned.

EDIT: heres the full list of banned words:

casino
poker
blackjack
craps
roulett
free
register
mega
product
foreclosure
bingo
xoomer
http://

So NO links mkay… adresses are ok if you leave the http part

 

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