BrainWyrms 002: Andromadean Magick Computers
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BrainWyrms 002: Andromadean Magick Computers
Show Notes:
[I have run out of time for show notes today, I'll update them as I can...]
Wyrms are wriggly and can sometimes stink. If you don’t feel like dealing with the foul and possibly disgusting, this show may not be for you.
Opening clip is a bit from “I Wonder If God Was Sleeping (Transcendence Edit)”
by Scott Altham 2008 – Licensed under Creative Commons Attribution Noncommercial (3.0)
Ozymandias
- Percy Bysshe Shelley
I met a traveller from an antique land,
Who said–”Two vast and trunkless legs of stone
Stand in the desart….Near them, on the sand,
Half sunk a shattered visage lies, whose frown,
And wrinkled lip, and sneer of cold command,
Tell that its sculptor well those passions read
Which yet survive, stamped on these lifeless things,
The hand that mocked them, and the heart that fed;
And on the pedestal, these words appear:
My name is Ozymandias, King of Kings,
Look on my Works, ye Mighty, and despair!
Nothing beside remains. Round the decay
Of that colossal Wreck, boundless and bare
The lone and level sands stretch far away.”
—Horace Smith.
In Egypt’s sandy silence, all alone,
Stands a gigantic Leg, which far off throws
The only shadow that the Desert knows:
“I am great OZYMANDIAS,” saith the stone,
“The King of Kings; this mighty City shows
“The wonders of my hand.” The City’s gone,
Nought but the Leg remaining to disclose
The site of this forgotten Babylon.
We wonder, and some Hunter may express
Wonder like ours, when thro’ the wilderness
Where London stood, holding the Wolf in chace,
He meets some fragments huge, and stops to guess
What powerful but unrecorded race
Once dwelt in that annihilated place.
BrainStrain with elegiac on Chapter 1: Applied Cryptography by Bruce Schneier.
Background music during that section is from NIN: Ghost I – Licensed under Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial Share Alike license.
Bump is HardBassDrum002.wav by HardPCM on FreeSound.org under a CC license.
Abstraction:
When beauty is abstracted
Then ugliness has been implied;
When good is abstracted
Then evil has been implied.
So alive and dead are abstracted from nature,
Difficult and easy abstracted from progress,
Long and short abstracted from contrast,
High and low abstracted from depth,
Song and speech abstracted from melody,
After and before abstracted from sequence.
The sage experiences without abstraction,
And accomplishes without action;
He accepts the ebb and flow of things,
Nurtures them, but does not own them,
And lives, but does not dwell.
Outro music provided by Everyday Jones via Podsafeaudio on a Creative Commons NC-SA 2.0 license. Seriously, I totally dig these guys. I bought their album off of Amazon and the quality stays all the way through. Very recommended!
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I neglected/forgot/ran out of time to mention a number of other items that I really should have.
- Today is Joe Day.
- Today is my anniversary. Seven years!
- I had intended to include a tribute to Gary Gygax’s influence to remember his passing a year ago. I’ll have to get it in next time.
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