The Windleverse

The idea of personal transportation has existed for a very long time. Ever since one creature has found a bigger less lazy and intelligent creature to carry them. Man is somewhat unique that in the late 1800’s he invented his own beast of burden now commonly known as the automobile.

The automobile was a giant leap forward in personal transportation. Not only did it run on an unlimited natural resource called oil instead of hay, but you could take up twice as much space on the road to that of a horse. As a bonus automobiles produced emission just like they were mini factories. Carbon emissions made your city look modern and productive. This was much preferred to that of biodegradable horse poo.

As the automobile became more reliable man could travel far distances. He no longer had to worry about the convenience of building little shops within walking distance of his home. Because he loved traveling in his automobile so much he built small roads that went to far away areas. These areas were designated for giant ugly retail establishments that he would not want near his house. Now entire cities could navigate their cars via these small roads called highways to the designated areas for shopping. Man was very cleaver in creation of these roadways. Because the roads can not handle the volume of entire cities trying to go shopping an new wondrous byproduct of the automobile was created. With the invention now known as traffic man had another excuse to spend even more waking hours of the day traveling inside his large motorized vehicle.

With the cheap production of automobiles public transportation and general human happiness has sored to new heights. We have also found that those carbon emissions help trap sunlight in our atmosphere creating an warmer more pleasant climate. This helps to melt those pesky ice caps at both the north and south pools thus creating more water for fish to swim in and more land for people to live on.

Indeed the automobile is such a perfect model of transportation the idea has not needed updating or innovation in over 100 years. Only time can tell what wonderful things this model of transportation has in store for us. Three cheers for the mechanical horse.

Tonight my car got broken into while I was at work. Driving home in the cold rain with my passenger and rear window busted in I had this sense of numbness. I’m still not sure how I should feel about these events.

I have never really been a pro-materialist. I know my lifestyle seems to contradict that being filled with high tech gadgets and all sorts of expensive material possessions. In the end it’s all just stuff. We come into this world owning nothing and we leave this world if we are lucky owning nothing but a memory.

I would post a picture of my smashed in car but my Canon Powershot S60 was among the stolen items along with my 12″ Apple Powerbook G4. I guess the thieves were not interested in role playing because they left my D&D PHB and Monster Manual. Thankfully they were also not audiophiles leaving my Grado Labs SR 125’s well alone.

I’m kind of irritated that they stole my sweatshirt and an extra set of jeans I had in my car. I can’t help but think how much I hate going clothes shopping. I think at this point the idea of buying another set of pants is almost more painful then coming up with the money for a new laptop.

At this time of loss I keep going though ways that it could have been prevented. The truth is I live in my car and all my stuff is in my car. It was bound to happen someday it just so happened on a day I had more in my car then less. I also have this need to place blame on something. It’s really silly. Oddly enough the first thing I found that I wanted to blame was Christmas, followed by George Bush, and then Wal-Mart. I think I want to blame these things because I feel that they have some sort of personal vendetta against me or my character. The thieves just simply want money and this is the way society has trained them to get it, nothing personal about it.

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This is the Windleverse wishing the real universe a very happy new year!

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It is but a week till that crazy holiday called Christmas here in the real world. What other holiday causes riots over crappy laptops, or gets people to cram themselfs into malls and retail outlets just so they can find that “prefect gift” at the “prefect price”?

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Recently I had the fine opportunity to participate in what this empire of a country calls democracy. I find it funny how the United States considers it’s self to have the strong hold on democracy on this planet yet uses one of the most antique and low rated system for colllecting and counting votes. I think one of the problems is the idea of anonymous voting. If you switch to an electronic system it becomes harder to secure that your vote is anonymous and not directly traceable to you.

In the windleverse everything is decided by votes. Elected officials for decision making are uncommon. Every citizen that lives on Mack is assigned a special user key that is linked to them via biometrics. Needless to say it’s near impossible to tamper with the voting system. Even after a user has voted they can continue to monitor their vote or change it up until the poll closes. Vote tampering is a serious offense which includes loss of citizenship status. Anyone can propose a new law, initiative or any other idea. If something turns out to be rotten it can simply be overturned by a new vote the next day. Voting in the windleverse takes place anywhere you are via your personal computer device.

I don’t think the people of the real world are ready for such control and responsibility over their own governance. On the other hand the system we are currently using is a few centuries out of date and does not reflect the resources we have available to us. It’s as if the “founding fathers” of this country were democracy programmers and after they died off no one continued to maintain and update the democracy software. Thus we are stuck continuing to use this V0.5 beta release of democracy when we should have developed version 2 by now.

Things that do not grown and evolve with society will die by it.

In the windleverse we have done away with lossy codes for the most part. People have realized that more then enough loss takes place when capturing analog signals in a digital form that loosing even more from the file format is not desirable. The people of earth have not yet come to grips with their choices.

In the windleverse we not only have a high speed global wireless network but a massive decentralized storage system. All content is stored in a lossless format which everyone can have access to. Some high resolution video is still streamed in a lossy format to conserve bandwidth but all audio and still picture formats are streamed in lossless. No digital media is ever archived in a lossy format.

The amount of lossy media that is consumed in the real world disturbs and worries me. We are slowly locking ourselfs into media formats that are quickly outdated even if people like to pretend they are not. The MP3 format is a perfect example of an outdated codec still in strong use today.

Lossless codecs are different in that nothing is thrown away. When a new lossless codec comes out you can always decompress and recompress with the new codec without any loss to your orginal file. Once compressed with a lossy codec you are forever doomed to that format.

So please stop using lossy formats for archiving and stop buying lossy media. You are only dooming yourselfs.

Well here it is the mighty Windleverse blog in all it’s glory. It would have been here sooner except for the fact that blogers seem to like these horrible themes that don’t make any sense. In the Windleverse this webpage would look awesome but seeing how it must exsist in the real universe we will live with what we get. I get this overwhelming feeling that people who make blog themes think that blogs should look like they are printed on paper. Unfortunately they have not discovered the advanges that computer monitors have. One being the resolution setting. Something else that really bugs me is all this white. Monitors emit light smart one, if you make the background white and the text black like paper it’s going to make the monitor blind people with light.

Anyway despite all the problems I had with blog themes I think I found one I can live with for awhile.

Welcome to The Windleverse.