So there is this Star Treck TNG episode that centers around a crew member named Lt. Barclay.  It in the guy is possessed; almost as if the episode itself was fashion by God out clay it tells a very interesting story. I imagine you can get the full episode on Amazon or something, here's a YouTube clip: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g4AEBiyn8R  

I don't want to spoil the plot, but the subtitle there is "Lt. Barclay is the computer."  The episode brought some interesting questions to my mind about "the computer."  It's an odd scenario that Star Trek presents, the Captain PiCard is constantly demanding that video bet put "onscreen" that warp drive be "engaged" and you wouldn't believe how many people want the doors opened and closed just as they approach them.

The odd thing, though, is in the very beginning of this episode Barclay is on the holodeck (omg holodeck heaven!) discussing some theories he has about relativity with a virtual Einstein--actually a virtual Einstein.  They're arguing with each other about some physics equations that look just like Greek to me and scrawling all over a virtua blackboard.  What's the punch line?

Do you find it strange that nobody ever wonders if the computer is alive?  How is it capable of communicating on the holodeck as if it's one of the smartest human beings that ever lived--and yet everywhere else the thing is an automaton?  It never seems to complain, aside from the one song that started off "Married With Children."  I think that's the computer complaining, anyway.  Can you hear it? 

As an aside there's a very subthread of my little story about our Universe also being alive--I don't think that's true, though it's clear that something close to that might be.  Still, there are no "evil trees" and my couch rarely tries to eat me; in the land of Oz where things can move around and change shape and smile, do you think that a hard drive and RAM are part of the body of the CPU--the brain?  Just curious.

I have lots of work to do today, I am going to try to finish a video for tomorrow morning--I mean edit it.  This is bold, because I havent looked at any of the footage I recorded... and I generally don't like the way I look, something like hearing my voice on an answering machine.  I'll probably do it anyway.  In the meantime... a few days ago I sent everyone a reddit article to look at and vote on; and then that night it was "[removed]" for being "blogspam" which, to me is really a landing page filled with ads-not an actual article or the secrets of the Universe.  Anyway, the next day I screamed some more about reddit.  Long story short, look what reddit let me do--you've read all the stuff there I'm sure, but it seems to evade their evil moderation to to a place where all the traffic is mine.  I made initially as a shirine to their censorship problem, but since it stood that test, I wasted some time making it a little better.

http://reddit.com/r/theabyssoa

Lots of e-mails went out again, who knows, maybe it will do something.

It is a litle insulting to have "the Revelation fo Jesus Christ" constantly called Sthk PAM, and a little more insulting that it has to be distributed in this way, to ensure that it isn't lost on the world forever.  Thanks for listening, and Merry Christmas.

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