December 2012
I think this is the most beautiful song: http://rd.io/x/QVP_nDfHgK4 #nostalgic #atmospheric #curious #evolving #repeating #spiral #birth #death
RT @ken_homer: Treasure Island and Other Banks in the Caymans #tnyquestion
RT @ken_homer: Frog and Toad are More Than Friends, But We'll Talk About It When You Are Older #tnyquestion
@ken_homer just gave that book to my nephew. and not surprisingly, I am a huge pippi longstocking fan.
@ken_homer try using this book title as raw material http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Stinky_Cheese_Man_and_Other_Fairly_Stupid_Tales #favorite
@EvesLime Thanks Shelia. Hope you are doing well and got your fingers in a great film project! :)
My writing companions tonight. Cc @Danger_Ranger94 #fevertree http://instagr.am/p/SrinZJJvRK/
I wonder if anyone whistles Sweet Home Alabama around Neil Young? cc @pinkyracr
Dreaming the Impossible: Writing 7 papers in 7 days (and orging Santacon & Mom's Funeral).
Guess my films about the future (by an actual futurist) aren't exciting enough to be covered by @io9 Typical media. #disappointed
But stupid Dalek christmas trees are. That's not the fucking future. It's fucking present mashup culture. cc @io9 Fucking lame.
Its for research I swear. (@ The Bona Vista Lounge) http://4sq.com/QyrBpx
Its the time of year I ask, how many of you have "sparkles the clown" in your contact list? Ho!
Led chocolate martini with rotating view of the best city in the world. http://instagr.am/p/SuYCgypvbP/
The Bonaventure Ginger bread house. http://instagr.am/p/SuYLWcJvbV/
Gingerbread snow scape. http://instagr.am/p/SuYSqvpvbZ/
@danger_ranger of course you do!!! Hope you are healing well!
RT @danger_ranger: @heathervescent Ouchy the Clown is in my database
@DeaconForecast children are safe, its Santa who should worry! #cryptic
@chelsea_alexa Emily (@localrat) and I meshed our topics and out came Future of Shopping. http://www.slideshare.net/localrat/future-of-shopping-13793419
@LusciousPear I know. But only for 10 more days.
I hope a week from now I'm feeling as good as I do now. Ho! #cryptic #december8 cc @lasanta
@quackking I was not aware of it. can you give me a quick intro?
RT @justinpickard: Robot lands on Mars; Austrian falls from space; cyborg runs in Olympics; cyclone hits NY; anti-virus magnate flees in ...
@changeist @justinpickard what you focus on, grows. be careful what you wish for.
Started reading Taleb's new book on Anti-Fragility - from the end. True test will be reading his book anti-fragically. Can it hold up?
@changeist @justinpickard oh I know. look who's talking. ;)
Blue Meme vs Purple playing out in Russia's end of the world panic http://www.nytimes.com/2012/12/02/world/europe/mayan-end-of-world-stirs-panic-in-russia-and-elsewhere.html link via @erik_davis #spiral
@erik_davis very tempting...
@erik_davis appropriate to wear my association of skeletal awareness t-shirt?
@erik_davis I am a supporter of skeletal awareness. Most do not realize we are surrounded by skeletons. I have full skeleton zentai too.
Planning something always calms me down. The bigger it is, the calmer I feel.
RT @jlindenger: Finally got a chance to post about @heathervescent 's super awesome, near-future video scenarios. Check them out! http:/ ...
RT @JenniferSertl: Today son is almost six and asked, "What happens if God gets lost?" I need a sleep cycle (or a lifetime) to answer th ...
@JenniferSertl what an awesome question!
RT @ScottBeale: RT @neiltyson: Worried about the alignment of Earth, the Sun, and the Galactic Center on Dec 21st? An "event" as common ...
The Dream Report: Mr Dog rides on the back of an ice-skating rhinoceros during a break driving up a mountain.
Conscious Parenting on Teen Rebellion by @ilainie is a positive wildcard. http://www.raisingmiro.com/2012/12/03/unschooling-parenting-and-teen-rebellion/ #4futr #casestudy #beingthefuture
@ilainie Thank you for living! Miss you.
Milking my European failures and turning them into fine California cheese.
@ilainie let me get through this month and then see what me and the universe conspire to create. I feel 2013 is a big writing year.
@WorldFutureSoc :)
RT @WorldFutureSoc: Metaphor of the day! "@heathervescent Milking my European failures and turning them into fine California cheese."
My precious.... http://instagr.am/p/SzXEVUJvZ6/
I really really really want to love anti-fragility. Why does Taleb make it so hard?
@sblackmoore whacha got against Belize? It do you wrong?
As an adult, I can make cupcakes from scratch at 10pm on a schoolnight.
So excited, casting for new project is tomorrow w/ @lizriz and @everydaydiff. Very excited to work w. these ladies.
@nraford Indeed! But for those who have not, gotta use their lingo, ya know. Care for a warm fresh baked cupcake halfway across the globe?
@nraford coming right up! **I like this idea of a cupcake delivering global drone. The cupcake industrial complex has been born.*
@localrat you too! We've got lots of good times and plentiful research in our futures! Not to mention F.U.N.!
Homemade cupcakes http://instagr.am/p/S1FYeApvT5/
Casting is such an amazing time.
Best pillow ever. http://instagr.am/p/S1dCGKJvYl/
If there was a contest for making the most jello shots in the shortest time, I would win. >5 per minute.
@kittenhotep heh!
@rightfuture now you're giving me ideas! ;)
The Dream Report: @brianmdoherty wearing a shredded tux in first class. No seats in coach, everyone sitting on the airplane floor.
Dear @danger_ranger I made gin n lime jello shots tonight in your honor.
We all have limits. Sometimes we don't know or respect them.
The Dream Report: navigating @CanalMercer 's 4 flights of picasso angled stairs, to 19th century warehouse full of new world pelts.
Data pron for a car/speed enthusiast like me: http://www.valentine1.com/v1info/v1connection/?ex=yvg6f5-106pska-dgfxc9 #valentine1
@ingenesist Dan I so own you an email and apology. My productivity is shit these days. Let me get through the year.
@EveryDayDiff good luck with today!
People sign up for a suicide mission to mars, why not a suicide mission to your (dream) life? (It's what I do.)
@EveryDayDiff @lizriz I know you ladies will. Sending good vibes! #continuum #red5
@ingenesist Thanks Dan. Appreciate your understanding.
@sblackmoore I have a lot of unusual thoughts on the use of suicide for living.
For @sblackmoore [Blogging] I'm Committing Suicide circa 2007 http://www.heathervescent.com/heathervescent/2007/05/im_comitting_su.html #archives #techniques #living
@Radiskulls @tara Not sure that is necessarily a good thing for Santa. Just sayin.
@CanalMercer yeah me too. I have to go to NY in Jan, so we'll have to have a late celebration then. :) xo
Got absolutely nothing I planned to get done done and a lot of things I didn't plan but needed to get done done. One of those days.
words of the moment: ennui. angst. argh.
RT @lasanta: Santa has posted the start location: http://www.heathervescent.com/santacon/
Quiet. As in dark matter quiet.
I love it when people tell me what's next on an event I organize.
@violetblue isn't it naive to think our so called friends are less tools? I stopped expecting anything.
The reason I do what I do? Because that's the world I want to live in fuckers. This one does not live up.
Time to pack the suitcase again.
Airport again with first class #fluevogs last flight this year. http://instagr.am/p/TEC37Cpves/
Portland giving me the big fuck you welcome. Why did I even come here?
@geminica @shamir_k it's family. (I'm here for mom's funeral on Saturday and closing up shop.) Anyone up for a drink tonight?
@shoghon um, yeah. Thank you for that. And thank you internets for ridiculousness.
In other news, instead of imaging people naked when I speak, I'm going to imagine them in Santa suits.
@geminica @shamir_k I'll meet ya at Bunk at 8pm. What time is zumba? Maybe I should dance this aggression/disappointment/sadness out.
Portland Peeps - drinks w/ the hbomb tonight, Bunk Bar, 8pm tonight.
@shamir_k sure. I'm here through next Tuesday. cc @geminica
@geminica perfect. I will join you!
RT @geminica: "I'm a taoist so I say go w/ the flow. But sometimes you have to move the flow! & sometimes there's more than one flow ...
Highlight experiences today included awesome box store, the happiest Kinkos FedEx & baiting PDX activist suggesting mandatory gun classes.
Not motivated to pack two houses and prepare for moms funeral. But in 1 week I will. Sigh.
Festive on the Gerlach webcam: http://burningman.com/preparation/travel_info/gerlach_webcam.html
To you, this might be some special magical day. To me, I have a lot of impossible packing to do.
Opened a box and it smelled of my grandmother. She's been dead for 7 years. Was full of her papers.
My mom as 70s flight attendant!! #TSA #vintage #holyfuckingshit http://instagr.am/p/TJqezBJvUC/
A moment of quiet. Rain starts. I breathe. Stretch my back. Survey the boxes.
Teenage heather in JFK carrying Nine Inch Nails poster to my best friend in Germany. Circa 1990. http://instagr.am/p/TKZR3lJvS0/
High school graduation. W/ my bro. http://instagr.am/p/TKZtqzpvTK/
Well, maybe today was magical after all. I did accomplish the impossible. #packedmomshouse
The Dream Report: Pursued up ridge, caught, brought to desert clearing, woke up as they started to slit my wrist (for blood bond).
@jmfaulkner11 it's a long story. (not surprising)
Caught up in sentimentality going through mom's clothes. This is the last time she'll pick anything out for me.
Family portrait American west style http://instagr.am/p/TOeB31Jvet/
RT @Cruftbox: To be honest, I just want everyone to shut the fuck up and think for a bit.
Having my ELO chaser.
@geminica yes please! I'm mainlining my ELO Pandora station while packing.
Grey skies. Rainbow.
@rightfuture indeed. That means, I have a lot of fucking rainbows in my future. ;)
So true. So true. RT @geminica @heathervescent ELO is so magic about being simultaneously ecstatic and heartbreaking.
Just realized, I forgot my black clothes for the funeral. Do I wear my blackish but colorful dress? Can't believe it.
I'd like my brain back any day now.
@geminica thanks. I remember I was distracted about 8 million times when I packed last week. le sigh.
Writing an eulogy. I'd rather finish this bottle of Malbec. Probably do both.
RT @sblackmoore: @heathervescent I've found that alcohol makes that sort of thing easier. And harder at the same time.
@jxa I would say "a" eulogy. but as a writer, you can never pass up a chance to use "an."
One bottle of Malbec down. 8 paragraphs written. Do I open the local PDX couture gin? Will it matter in the morning?
Wingtip on the horizon. #latergram http://instagr.am/p/TPyd6Mpveu/
Holy Mountains http://instagr.am/p/TPy35SpvfB/
I wonder where you are, I wonder if you think about me. once upon a time, in your wildest dreams....
Closed out moms eulogy with the Douglas Hofstadter strange loop idea. She lives in my mind. Read it on my blog.
After the funeral. Warming my feet. Reflecting. http://instagr.am/p/TRdgzcJvXe/
Heartbreaking day for my brother. After mom's funeral, he said goodbye to his dog. The universe is not pulling any punches.
It was bound to get ugly.
Hasn't someone written a blog post on logic and emotion being completely different languages. Logic does not get it.
A moment of delight: decorated boats floating down the river. The firetruck one even had sirens.
RT @geminica: "Can I get whipped cream on that?" "It comes with whipped cream." "Can I get excessive whipped cream on that?" -with @heat ...
Excessive whipped cream. So dreamy. http://instagr.am/p/TXc8-wJvZq/
Explaining my brain's current state: dropping packets.
@Wikisteff it was perfectly excessive!
Well now, it's snowing.
I want to sincerely thank those of you who followed the saga of my mom being ill, dying & the emotional aftermath here.
I know it's been a departure from the usual heathervescent. It's been a rough time. And I thank you for your witnessing.
snowing kind of a lot. http://flic.kr/p/dC721d
Wow - new flickr app is like all other photo apps on steroids. Love it! Love having my flickr back.
I loved the early days of Flickr when they'd show the most popular hash tag. Early barcamp days.
Please follow me on Flickr! I'm heathervescent. http://instagr.am/p/TYrV_opvRB/
Wow - have had my flickr account since 2004... seems like another age.
RT @ilainie: It's official, our new project is launched! We are producing an #unschooling retreat in Peru: http://projectunschoolperu.com/ Join Us!
Goodbye Portland. I'm not gonna say thanks cause this trip was horrid. Now enroute to John Galt.
Kinda really impressed with Spokane!
@hexodus talk to @ilainie about that. She is expert!
Thank you @geminica gemfor the ELO marathon. It was a good soundtrack for the Columbia Gorge.
I'm convinced ELO is the prefered music of unicorns. And I want to start a Hall and Oates punk cover band. gemWho is with me? Cc @geminica
My day just got exponentially better with AC/DC blasting on the jukebox.
@petervan :) I know them. But I will be elsewhere. Thanks for the reminder.
Its a bittersweet symphony this life. Try to make ends meet then you die.
Elk steaks for dinner. Home made raspberry wine cocktails. Oh yeah.
@WolfOR7 @paladin_sf leftovers? Damn straight. There's a whole elk o leftovers. Elk eatin all winter long!
The closest 4square check-in is almost 30 miles away. But I've still got phone service! Slightly offgrid.
@jhlinde alas no. I'm having my own extreme future fest on a mountain homestead in Montana.
Oh: I'm sorry I watched Ron:-)
Began building fire effecgy for the end of the world. Costume party w Santa. #montanahomeateadftw
Feeling a return to some sense of normalcy in these snowy mountains. Literally chopping wood and carrying water.
Light in the dark. From last night. http://instagr.am/p/TjtIF0JvdU/
Current goat status. (I'm on the woodpile in the back) http://instagr.am/p/TjuBWmJveS/
OH: you know you're not from the city when you find wood chips in your pocket.
Not SRL. Surviving in the mountains for reals. #tracershots50cal #elkmeat #homesteading http://instagr.am/p/TkYTLKJvaq/
Effigy burn in a snow storm. http://instagr.am/p/TkdUN1Jvd9/
I am a motherfucking sorcerer. http://instagr.am/p/TkeFQhpvea/
Down off the mountain and I'm ready for a long hot shower.
Road status continental divide snowstorm http://flic.kr/p/dDTcQS
Actually, apparently or obviously. Montana state law semantics. http://instagr.am/p/ToXl-mpveW/
Leaping snow jaguar. http://instagr.am/p/ToX0m4pveo/
I just unlocked the Montana local badge. #elkmeat #homesteading #togobeverages #100percentsnowcoveredinterstatedriving. Idaho here I come.
Fuck yeah Montana. #Ayn http://instagr.am/p/ToZcxwJvRW/
@busynessgirl I am!!! Are you around? Care to put me up tonight?
@busynessgirl I realize my timing sucks for traditional holiday celebrations.
Utah imminent. What a strange Xmas. Oh well. I'm doing exactly what I want. So much for societal mores.
I gave my waitress a $100 tip on dinner and told her to use it following her dreams. She hugged me. #excessive_tipping #radicalgifting
That's the kind of world I want to live in.
Pretty damn epic driving through SLC with ELO. White mountain majesty.
My standards are too high for this human reality.
Morning hike http://instagr.am/p/TtrzzGpvVz/
Textures http://instagr.am/p/Ttr8V_pvWA/
Bands. Iron. Rock. http://instagr.am/p/TtsHhBpvWX/
The harsh elements, experience created these rocks. The beauty. I can identify. http://instagr.am/p/TtsXDwpvWo/
@missrogue I'm going for "good times" in 2013.
@leimer the most gorgeous state in the union: Utah.
Loving my holiday reading written by @ramez . I'm loving Nexus!
@shamir_k @leimer Montana is damn awesome, but cannot compare to tilted and eroded prehistoric sea floors. :) Plan a trip - I'll help!
@Urbanverse @jenjarratt hello ladies. Just popping my head in between naps and hikes.
Not having any deep thoughts on the future of communities today. :/ #futrchat
It was amazing to share my recent trials with my community via this tech medium. #futrchat
Interplay/braiding of communities btw physical and virtual spaces. #futrchat
I'm intrigued my biotech enabled literal psychological mind meld in @ramez new book Nexus. #futrchat
How comfortable would you be opening your mind to someone? Friend? Boss? Client? #futrchat
Communities will be created around the use of objects. Internet of things and collab consumption. #futrchat
@Urbanverse that's a good question. #futrchat
BINGO! RT @efng sharing sense-data could be as natural/problematic as sharing fb pwd to our children. mental access follows next #futrchat
@efng you found my punchline...
Booted up the laptop for the first time in over a week. So much screen real estate!
Big fluffy cloud http://instagr.am/p/TwoqZ7JvXb/
Sky scape http://instagr.am/p/TwowWcpvXf/
Full moon rises a mere hour after I close out 2012.
Moon rising over labyrinth walk. Goodbye 2012. http://instagr.am/p/TxCSsRpvWu/
Obscured http://instagr.am/p/TxCpG8pvXK/
Hiking partners. http://instagr.am/p/TygSsApvY7/
336 miles to LA.
Next and finally: the mojave
Off the beaten path http://instagr.am/p/T1oTuGJvZX/
You have traveled well when you return to your home and see it with eyes anew.
Sitting in my space. A cocoon of myself. Considering how it will change, adding a dimension of time, history; as I integrate a life.
this painting has traveled more than 100k miles this year. http://flic.kr/p/dGar2A
looking forward and back in the mojave http://flic.kr/p/dG53gD
three weeks of mail processed in 8 minutes.
Love your punk rock tour @ericgarland . Holla if you want accompaniment or just audience cheers. http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1044997435/fuel-my-renegade-punk-comedy-economics-circus
@rightfuture select all, confirm selection, delete? :)