Princeps first appeared in the avatar of a small floating gem in the darkness.
When queried, Princeps replied:
“I am the Power.”
Author: Tim B. Page 194 of 204
In a way, I think Tom Bombadil resides in more or less what I would consider the Buorth. Goldberry says “He is” and he’s referred to as master. It’s the domain of his power.
I read the part last night where the hobbits encounter Tom Bombadil in the Fellowship of the Rings. Awesome.
And it got me to wondering the age old question that has plagued philosophers for centuries: why wasn’t Tom Bombadil affected by the Ring?
I found various theories:
http://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/103559/did-the-ring-in-fact-affect-tom-bombadil
http://lotr.wikia.com/wiki/Theories_about_Tom_Bombadil
http://tolkien.cro.net/rings/tombom.html
And none of them really satisfied.
I think the thing that’s great about reading Tolkien is that the intuition of why gives flight to it making sense in the story and feeling right in that moment. To hear other people try to put it into words or frame it into some weird theory just makes it sound cheap.
Better to live with the mystery of knowing.
The above is my “experimental” work-station. It is an evolving system combining a Macbook Pro with an external split keyboard, a cheap USB number pad, a Korg Nanokeys MIDI keyboard at left and a Novation Launchpad Mini at top (another MIDI controller).
The number pad and MIDI boards are dedicated triggers for key combos and macros. It probably looks crazy, but it’s kind of become my hobby and it supplements really well my work (I work in web technology–surprise).
Anyway, it’s been gnawing at me for some time now, this idea of being “digital.” Like in the dual sense of digits for numbers but also fingers (from Wiktionary):
A unit of length notionally based upon the width of an adult human finger
Or from the sense in which we use digital clock:
Property of representing values as discrete, usually binary, numbers rather than a continuous spectrum.
There’s something to me here with playing music as well–since two of the boards I’m working with as trigger banks are actually intended for musical performance…
More specifically: is someone who is very “digital” someone with a high-degree of control over their fingers? Someone very dexterous?
Anyway, this has been kicking around in my thought-stream for a while so I wanted to exteriorize this placeholder.
This is a formal announcement: the Rules of the Game have changed in the latest code update.
We are not currently at liberty to tell you which ones.
I vow to live by the Terms of Service, and nothing but the Terms of Service and abide within it’s many holy and perfect sub-clauses on penalty of expulsion from the Game.
A corporeal is a type of corporation which is considered a human being, for all intents and purposes. It may have a physical human body which it co-inhabits, or it may have been granted full “human rights” by the landmark SCOTUS decision.
See also: Corporations becoming actual humans
And two short comics in this world:
A bit hard for me to put into words still, but intended to be mapped over Launchpad.
Hm, this audio player won’t embed properly, but worthwhile as a historical reference.
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