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Post by VanillaFlava on Oct 9, 2006 15:11:57 GMT -5
I happen to love text editors, but you are right, they are kinda boring. VI roks btw Well, well now, VI and invoking the ghost of Marshall McLuhan ... Is Bukanator a child of the sixties? *primes his ears to detect Leary quotes*. Although, point taken, BSD altogether does indeed rok! I'm more of an UltraEdit person though ... simply because more means MORE. No matter that I will never use any of it. Will YT deliver the world, where TV has failed? Has the telephone brought us closer together? I mean emotionally? Empathically? I doubt it. That's where McLuhan fails, astounding visionary that he was (I mean who else was talking of the global village when Strawberry Fields Forever was yet to make the charts?). But, he was also, at least in my eyes, a techological determinist. Technology would drive history for him. I think it never really has, but it certainly gave it shape. I think, when trying to understand what really determines history we should look toward Foucault (well not the one with the pendulum, but the one with the panopticon). The answer is simple: power! Technology can be power, and yes, it can liberate, but it is not the only, and maybe not even the most potent source. What is then? Stories! They change history all the time! Called, somewhat disdainfully, idology by Marx, religion by some, scientific discourse by others. I guess today we would remain respectfully neutral and simply call it memes. War on Terror, Axis of Evil, World Poverty, etc. Sure, there is truth in there, it's not all just smoke and mirrors. But more importantly than the fact, at least for us people, is the meaning they have to us. What am I trying to say? Well, unless World Poverty actually MEANS anything to us, above one of the ticker tape entries on CNN, then a LG15 on YT will change very little in the end. McLuhan also, a little later, proclaimed that the medium is the message. Now, not to get into that can of worms too deeply, but I think it is always the message. The story, and what it means to us. Whether it's told around a campfire, piped to the world via YT or brought to us in Lucas-style infini-surround ... it is always the story, and if it is powerful enough, it will shift things. Should be invigorating to anyone who thinks he has something to say. Because eventually, if the story, the meme or whatever you call it, is convincing, touching or relevant enough it will change reality, forever. VanillaFlava>> So, if poor Boris is dead, who is the new Bukanator? Good question. We are all wondering ourselves ( me included ) But hang in and be patient, we did not know who Bree was for quite a while. You know, we all love a mystery ... Hmm ... I am trying to decipher this. Who Bree was? You mean the real person? I don't think we will go on quite so determined an investigation this time, because in the end, it just brought disenchantment. I am more delighted in the fact that the ghost of Bukanator, who in a sense is the reason we are here in the first place, has sent us an emissary. Let's not disenchant it again, and just see where this particular rabbit hole will lead us. And yes, we love a mystery! So tell us a story and maybe we'll change the world.
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Post by noasinger on Oct 9, 2006 15:19:19 GMT -5
So how's the shiba inu these days? Or did she disappear into the virtual ether as well?
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Post by jayhenry on Oct 9, 2006 15:44:43 GMT -5
PS Marshall McCluen - in understanding new media predicted that the TV would help end social injustice, by bringing education and knowledge to the world and end poverty. He was wrong, there is still poverty. Maybe YouTube can change this? Dunno? Lets see what vids come out of the UN. Compare to this quote in the NY Times: Not sure if it's deliberate, but this seems to suggest that the Bukanator still has vestiges of Steinfeld's personality. The Bukanator's interests in swimming, South Africa, and Leica photography were based off the real Grant Steinfeld as well. Dunno. Weird. Definitely.
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buka
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Post by buka on Oct 9, 2006 15:46:18 GMT -5
AishaPup is out hunting right now, or maybe visiting that cute Schnauzer Ziggy she met last week. Here she is getting some loving from Jess.
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Post by buka on Oct 9, 2006 15:59:40 GMT -5
Jay are you a detective
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Post by VanillaFlava on Oct 9, 2006 16:03:34 GMT -5
You have stumbled into a cove(en) full of detectives. So, expect stones to be turned. Words to be weighed. IPs to be traced.
I was kidding about that last one ;D
But seriously, I see a specific persona, the question is, how much is the ghost of phorum past?
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Post by buka on Oct 9, 2006 16:08:00 GMT -5
Story, that is what matters! ( mckeestory.com ) A good story, one to change the world eh, well what is wrong with the world anyways I'll try to think of one, I'll consult my memory catalogs.
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Post by jayhenry on Oct 9, 2006 16:11:52 GMT -5
Jay are you a detective Buka has somehow just realized that some of us follow this very closely. No, Buka, I'm not a detective, but in my circles the name Marshall Mathers is dropped a lot more than media ecologist Marshall McLuhan -- so the McLuhan reference sticks in my mind. Also, please never show me a picture where you photoshopped a blemish on to Jess's chin. Jess is perfect and has never had a blemish in her life.
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Post by buka on Oct 9, 2006 16:15:24 GMT -5
He's real. The e-mail he used has been activated, and, unless lonelygirl15.com has been hacked, its him. we prefer to use the term 'jack into' but no the mail is currently working correctly. This may change as some of the original creators may shut that off. Alt buka@bukanator.com ( as for the shiba, email her directly at AishaPup@bukanator.com )
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Post by buka on Oct 9, 2006 16:17:30 GMT -5
to see if email is comprimised, send me secret mail periodically and I'll publish it on bukanator.com,if that stops, well ... we all ARE detectives
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Post by buka on Oct 9, 2006 16:19:15 GMT -5
STRANGE, i seem to be gender neutral, or at least feel so, mirror is broken, sigh, well have to see if the ol' webcam can fire up some image bytes, Bukanator does sound decidedly male though.
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Post by VanillaFlava on Oct 9, 2006 16:21:44 GMT -5
A good story, one to change the world eh, well what is wrong with the world anyways There does not need to be anything wrong with it to want to change it! We need to change it, it's our nature. McKee is a nice reference though. It ain't the plot, nor the dialogue ... forget the mechanics. I'll drink to that! Btw, I wasn't weasling for an InstaTale(tm), I was cheering on the LG yarn. So rest easy with those recently reclaimed memory banks.
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Post by Alissa Brooke on Oct 9, 2006 16:25:06 GMT -5
Buka. <3
My e-mail is always open to you, I think the best way to continue verification is for you to set up a MySpace account that is virtually uncomprimisable ((I dont care about spelling right now)) this way you can PM me always and we will always know if you is you or not.
Phone correspondance is also an option. <3
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Post by milowent on Oct 9, 2006 16:26:04 GMT -5
love your photography, buka. and your newly upbeat outlook on life!
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Post by VanillaFlava on Oct 9, 2006 16:27:47 GMT -5
we prefer to use the term 'jack into' but no the mail is currently working correctly. This may change as some of the original creators may shut that off. Alt buka@bukanator.com ( as for the shiba, email her directly at AishaPup@bukanator.com ) Oh! We're adding an element of the clandestine to this now? Or is this just in reference to the old, 'Dude! Where's my car? -Jacking into the evildoers email is so SWEET' whistle blowing? Hmm ... I am confused now.
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