Promiseland

[Fetian]

It's very peaceful, very cosy, to be in a house while everyone else in it, people and animals, are taking a nap

[Fetian]

God I'm tired

Definitely going to bed as soon as it's late enough to give the cat her pill

[Fetian]

Guess who forgot there wasn't a towel in the bathroom before he took a shower

[erikavonkaiser]

Guess who forgot there wasn't a towel in the bathroom before he took a shower

I do this chronically and if I could teach my dogs to fetch me a towel from the hallway closet I absolutely would

[Fetian]

I'm thinking about, like-

So, how computer passwords work, generally, is that they hash your actual password and store the hash instead of the password itself. That's why if you lose your password no one can tell you what it was, unless the admins are either very shady or very incompetent -- your password isn't stored in "plain text" anywhere

Anyway, what hashing means is that your password is encrypted, scrambled up so badly that no one could possibly recover the original, and then that scramble is stashed instead of your password. Then, when you need to log in somewhere, they scramble your password in the same way, compare it to the hash, and if it matches then you get in. This means that it's possible for a different password to get scrambled and end up with the same hash, and therefore allow access to your account -- a lot of hacking is finding strings that will match the hash even if it's not the actual password.

(When I explain it like this it actually sounds less secure than just storing the actual password, but that's just because I'm oversimplifying it)

Anyway. The point of what I'm saying is that you can construct something designed to function as a password, that isn't the password, but that the computer will recognise as being the password.

In different terms, there are viruses &c that work similarly, tricking cells into thinking they belong when they don't. Chemicals, that match receptors for different chemicals, so your system thinks they're something else. Predators that imitate pray!

What I'm thinking about though, is what if art is this? Maybe certain art, maybe all art, but maybe what art is, is a mechanism with a hash that matches the thing that makes us feel an emotion, or relive an experience, or think a thought.

Maybe looking at a painting, and feeling remorse -- maybe the painting is encoded to fit that receptor. Made to be received in a certain way -- to look like a certain thing -- to hash into the same code as -- the chemical that makes our brain go.

Like what if art is a QR code that makes our brain open a file when we look at it

[Fetian]

Like, sympathising with characters in situations, that's the password. That's synthetic chemicals.

But does this make you feel something?

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What about this?

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Or this?

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Is C Major happy? Is C Minor sad? Does a perfume smell like 'home' without smelling like anywhere in particular?

Just thinking

[Fetian]

Exhausted again, today - cat woke me up about 1, and by 5 I was so tired I went back to sleep for two or three hours. I don't know what's going on, this time of year it's so hard to tell where any given body disfunction is coming from

[Sorcyress]

I like your art-as-brain-password comparison.

The specific pictures you chose don't really do anything for me (they're like the wrong hash, man) but I still remember rounding a corner at the Chicago Museum of Art, seeing a Degas I'd never seen before, and just...being floored and staring for a while. That one was close enough to a lot of passwords for me!

_Sor
MOOP!

[Fetian]

My Awesome Coffee Club coffee arrived a few days ago -- I had a cup then and under-sugared it as a taste-test, and it was very decent. I'm having another cup now with a bit more sugar and it's extremely good, a damn fine, as they say, cup of coffee.

 
That bed desktop I ordered arrived today -- the seller has a concerning number of 'sent me the wrong item' reviews and the way they set up their shop was a little confusing, so I was worried I would get the smaller half-desk, but I needn't have because they sent me the correct one. It's nice, though made of cheap bamboo so I need to be careful of slivers and should at some point go over it and do something about the rough spots.

It might be too tall for how I want to use it, or it might be that I need to get used to things being at a different height, but if it does happen that it's too tall then I can just fold it up and use it as a board to work on. I'm going to give it a fighting chance though and keep using it as intended for a while. If nothing else it's forcing me to sit upright, which is useful until the fatigue starts setting in, and then I can just move it out of the way and lay down.

In addition to giving me a better work set-up, hopefully this also lets me play PC games that need a keyboard/mouse, like the sims

 
Up way too late this morning, which tracks what with napping so late, but I've gotten enough sleep to be functional but not quite enough to be a full night's sleep, so I should be good to go to bed at a more decent hour tonight.

I really need to roll my sleep pattern back so I can get maximum daylight hours

 
Okay, gonna go do other things now.

[Fetian]

Okay! Going to bed on time. Tomorrow I start doing the pomodoro/habitica (habitomato?) again, be productive, get things done.

Feeling okay. Feeling optimistic.