wanderlust

Anyone who attempts to generate random numbers by deterministic means is, of course, living in a state of sin.

https://random.jamesbridle.com

The signals say: A good answer is worth reinventing from scratch, again and again. They say: The air is a mix we must keep making. They say: There is as much below ground as above. They tell her: do not hope or despair or predict or be caught surprised. Never capitulate, but divide, multiply, transform, conjoin, do and endure as you have all the long day of life. There are seeds that need fire. Seeds that need freezing. Seeds that need to be swallowed, etched in digestive acid and expelled as waste. Seeds that must be smashed open before they’ll germinate. A thing can travel everywhere, just by holding still.

richard powers, the overstory

Be softer with you. You are a breathing thing. A memory to someone. A home to a life.

nayyirah waved

There are things known, and there are things unknown, and in between are the doors.

Jim Morrison

In the Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, the supercomputer Deep Thought is built by a race of hyper-intelligent alien beings to determine the answer to “life, the universe, and everything.” Deep Thought determines that the answer is, somewhat anticlimactically, ’42’. It sounds like a joke, but is there more to this answer? Douglas Adams was an unabashed computer nerd and knew a heck of a lot about programming language and coding. In programming, an asterisk is commonly used to translate as ‘whatever you want it to be.’ In ASCll language, the most basic computer software, ’42’ is the designation for an asterisk. A computer, Deep Thought, was asked what the true meaning of life was. It answered as a computer would. 42 = ‘anything you want it to be.’ Genius.