The events that shape our lives often seem random and appear to have no apparent meaning. What does it matter to the grand scheme of things whether or not one gets up at a certain time in the morning or goes to class? Does what we do have any impact on the world, if not the universe. Of course it does. Every little event is a small push that along with many other minuscule actions culminates into a big effect. You may not get into your house in time to answer the phone and cause a star to go supernova. This is Chaos theory, which in a classic example states that a butterfly flapping its wings in Africa can cause a hurricane off the coast of Florida.
I have conclusive proof that this is true… well sort of. I have written a program that given a set of IP addresses pings all of them and outputs a # if the computer responds or a simple space if it does not. I wanted to see when people were using their computers. This is possible because most operating systems these day have a TCP/IP stack that is loaded on boot up and stays loaded until the computer is shutdown. The data was collected over a period where the program was run every five hours. It reveals many interesting details. But analyzing when people are using their computers is not that interesting. Instead it is the fact that this data makes cool images that is intriguing. I will help interpret these images into what they are and what they mean. Here to follow is a sampling of some of the data I have collected.
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In this set of addresses it appears that there is a man who is spitting into a urinal whilst there is a man behind him with some kind of blunt instrument ready to strike. I translate this as meaning that no matter how trivial a thing we do to annoy people is, it will eventually culminate into them getting really pissed off and giving us what we deserve.
128.x.x.25 128.x.x.26 ## ## # ## # 128.x.x.27 ### ## ############ 128.x.x.28 ### ### ## ##
Here it seems that there is a guy who is watching the TV that can be seen to the far left. Behind him are two people playing patty-cake. Looking through the Franklin/Puritan perspective of leisure time we see that this image is telling us how much a waste it is to watch TV, which we all know is true. After all when have you even seen anything actually worthwhile on TV lately?
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Interestingly, we can see here an apparent man who is on his hands and knees bearing some sort long pole. Could this be saying something about the frivolity of hard work? That once we pull the pole that is stuck to our backs out of the ground, we are only left with it to weigh down our travel?
128.x.x.38 # # 128.x.x.39 ### ### ### ### ## 128.x.x.40 ############# ####### 128.x.x.41 ############## ### #
This is a portrayal of the perversion and corruption that lies within the government. I will leave it to the reader to figure out what exactly the image is. But I will give two hints. One: the mass to the left is the top of a castle tower. And number two: “this is what the king was really doing during the battle.”
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Ah, America’s pastime of viewing nature at national parks. Old Faithful can be seen spewing in the background while a few tourists sit upon a bench watching the miraculous event. This is a kind image, which suggests that despite man’s wretched state he is still above the animals in that he can recognize the beauty that lies in nature.
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Here we see a Zamboni machine named after that industrious pioneer in ice resurfacing Zamboni Alfredo (no that is not the name of a pasta dish). This image implies that immortality can be achieved by all sorts of means. The real name for the machine is the ice resurfacer “but all over the world the resurfacer is called the Zamboni.” This is an example of how a man achieved immortality by passing his name onto his invention.
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This image is a little surrealistic in that it presents a man flowing through time to reach for a phone offered to him by the person to the right. This could be interpreted as a statement of how machines have come to rule our lives, shown here by a man who rushes to the phone when he does not need to. Or is this a man at a bar where his wife has called wondering about why he is not home yet, causing him to rush to the phone to explain.
128.x.x.60 # 128.x.x.61 # #### ## ### ## 128.x.x.62 ######### ####### ## 128.x.x.63 ## ########### 128.x.x.64 #######################
A typical scene in an American life: a convenience store clerk being held at gun point, forced to deliver money to a masked young man. A suiting image to exclaim the fact that inner city youth usually have nothing better to do than armed robbery. While some may have the hobby of putting together model airplanes, these youth have the hobby of juvenile delinquency.
128.x.x.65 128.x.x.66 ### ### ### ## 128.x.x.67 ### ## #### ### 128.x.x.68 ####################### 128.x.x.69 # ### ## 128.x.x.70 #### #### ## #
What we have here is a flower growing sideways. Why is the flower growing sideways? One interpretation could be about beauty, the flower representing beauty such that its sideways growth means that beauty can come from any direction. See that landfill you drive past on your way to work? Well it is in its own right beautiful.
128.x.x.78 # # # 128.x.x.79 #### ## ### ## 128.x.x.80 ### #### ### ####### 128.x.x.81 ## ####### 128.x.x.82 ## ############
In this image there appears an alien representative who has just landed on Earth and is greeting Earth’s representative who is to the right of the alien. The Earth representative seems to have a disembodied head and hand. The disembodiment appears in order to show the incompetence that world leader will show to aliens who most certainly will come. To the right of the world leader is a platform connected to what appears to be a representation of a broken down UN building. So to recap; aliens will visit Earth, and talk to a man with a floating head who lives on the side of the UN building after it was shot by the aliens because their psychic powers revealed our true intentions. Maybe I am reading too much into this one…
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Here it appears that we have a man who is looking over a fence into some sort of pasture. So maybe he is a rancher observing his prize cattle. Or maybe he is a cattle rustler picking out his method for stealing the cattle. But in any manner, this picture seems to suggest a sense of the serenity one can get from viewing nature.
128.x.x.105 ####################### 128.x.x.106 ####################### 128.x.x.107 # # ## 128.x.x.108 ########## ### ## 128.x.x.109 # # ## 128.x.x.110 ####################### 128.x.x.111 #######################
This one is just too simple. It is a man sitting on a zero gravity toilet reaching out for the toilet paper which must be unrolled from across the room to him. This only goes to prove the fact that most products are poorly designed. Would you want to have to reach across a room when you are sitting on a zero gravity toilet for toilet paper? No, well I did not think so.
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Remember in the cartoons when somebody was running too fast, encountered a building and went straight through, leaving their outline behind? Well that is what this appears to be. It appears that a large, massive headless creature has run through a mobile home. What does it all mean? It means that if you live too far out in the middle of nowhere, this could happen to you and no one would ever know. So many times have friends from Montana related to me stores of Uber-Trout and headless aliens.
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Here we see a baby’s first toy at Christmas, a joystick. The child sits with outstretched arms towards the joystick while another present awaits behind him to be opened. This image goes to prove that we are increasingly becoming a computer society. We will eventually become so dependent on computers that we will lose the ability to perform any physical activities with out help. For more info on this subject buy my book entitled: “The Computing Paradigm and What It Means to Christmas”
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Here it is evident that we have a mural of the progression of man from childhood on. Yet, the progression begins at the right and moves left. Man moves from a toddler who can only crawl, to a toddler that can walk to, an adult, to a statue and into the final stage of life as a two headed armless being. This speaks out about how we are really in the process of the big crunch. In this process the universe is constantly diminishing in size up to the point where it will be extremely small and then once again the big bang will start anew. But, we do not perceive that this is happening. To perceive it we would have to look upon our situation from outside of the universe. This logic leads us to realize the disturbing notion that our universe is constantly contracting and exploding. This idea in turn leads to the idea that given the exact same starting conditions from which the universe expands, everything would happen the same way as it did before. So we have possibly each lived our lives many times both backwards and forwards. Scary thought, is it not?
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From the left to the right we can see a throne, an elf in a sombrero and a raindeer. This most likely represents the statement that the Santa Claus myth has reached its apex and that it now reigns supreme over the real meaning of Christmas, getting lots of nifty gifts.
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A foreshadowing of the 2000 presidential race. Here we see candidates Al Gore and Marv Albert debating over the issues. This simple image reveals the public’s amazing ability to forget so easily.
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Remember that Twilight Zone episode with the kid who could use his mind to do bad things to people if they pissed him off? The episode was making the statement that power in the hands a naive, inexperienced boy could really suck. Here are some of the adults from that episode trying to rid themselves of the boy by throwing a large object on him. Yet, it does not work and the boy tells the thrower of the blunt object: “Your a bad man, your a very badman!” And thus the man becomes a Jack in the box. Like I said before, this is about power put in the wrong hands and its effects.
128.x.x.156 128.x.x.157 ### # # # ####### 128.x.x.158 ## ### ### ### ## 128.x.x.159 # ## # 128.x.x.160 ###### ######### 128.x.x.161 ## # 128.x.x.162 # # #### ### ### ## 128.x.x.163 #
Who’s afraid of the big bad wolf? Well from this image it seems that one of the three little pigs and a flying fairy are indeed afraid. The fairy, a long time girlfriend of the wolf, was found in bed with the third little pig. Before this occurrence the wolf had made his peace with the pigs. However, this event set him off on another round of huffing and puffing. This image speaks of a torrid tale of adultery, revenge and violence, the same kind of scenario that permeates today’s culture.
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Its just a train! Nothing more, nothing less.
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The following comes form another researcher into this field of research, Dr. Scott Martin of Furman University: This appears to be a man looking at his penis while a dog with a hen on its back looks on. The KGB, represented by the dog (see Animal Farm), monitors closely the Russian public’s (man’s) attempt to expand while the hen lays the eggs of a new government (at the heart of the KGB)
There you have it folks, proof that your can say just about anything with the right amount of data. So I hope to have added something to your life and to have distracted you from this helter-skelter world we live in. Sometimes it is nice to just sit back and write meaningless drivel. Till anon we meet again, farewell.
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