cyberpunk
October 2008 
What sort of people have you been communicating with?
Posted on Jul 6th, 2008
by 
Shameslaya
Shameslaya
This is in Response to the Questions and Reflections for July 06, 2008:
30 years ago, I worked as an IBM Systems Engineer.
And first image I had here, folks, was of punch cards...remember them in the Cyber-Jurassic Era of the 1970's where infobytes were encoded by combinations of punched holes in cards before they stored the EBCDIC notation system electronically and shrunk the whole thing down..... sorting......and you American cousins had that TV detective show Mannix who worked for an agency which possessed that sort of computer for sifting through the kind of info which these days wouldn't trouble the titchiest MP3 player.....
30 yrs ago I communicated with people who spent all their time talking CyberYawn...then I dropped out and joined a commune and they all hated CyberYawn and talked CosmicDrugTrash which I liked very much especially after six joints and a couple of microdots......then I became a Nurse Therapist and they were all bilingual and talked a heady combination of HealthRazz and MortgageBitch...and then I became a psychotherapist and we all speak PsychoBollocks and EverymanPal....
I pride myself on being multilingual as I guess we all have to be in this postmodern multitribe zeitgeist...and I like it that i can blog in Integralese..... which doesn't mean slavishly churning out Ken Wilber terminology....but that I transcend-and-include all the other tribal lingos in the particular constellated way which i do and that other like-minded people like yourselves drop in and say hello and not "You're a pretentious infoslut young Jonathan"....and that I can reciprocate and greet you in the same accepting spirit....
So I peg youse guys as receptive, smart, compassionate neophiles with interdependence needs for the sort of tribe which probably is not yet capable of emerging geographically because there are not enough of us...whoever we are....to flocculate in one openned space...
love and blessings, Jon x
And first image I had here, folks, was of punch cards...remember them in the Cyber-Jurassic Era of the 1970's where infobytes were encoded by combinations of punched holes in cards before they stored the EBCDIC notation system electronically and shrunk the whole thing down..... sorting......and you American cousins had that TV detective show Mannix who worked for an agency which possessed that sort of computer for sifting through the kind of info which these days wouldn't trouble the titchiest MP3 player.....
30 yrs ago I communicated with people who spent all their time talking CyberYawn...then I dropped out and joined a commune and they all hated CyberYawn and talked CosmicDrugTrash which I liked very much especially after six joints and a couple of microdots......then I became a Nurse Therapist and they were all bilingual and talked a heady combination of HealthRazz and MortgageBitch...and then I became a psychotherapist and we all speak PsychoBollocks and EverymanPal....
I pride myself on being multilingual as I guess we all have to be in this postmodern multitribe zeitgeist...and I like it that i can blog in Integralese..... which doesn't mean slavishly churning out Ken Wilber terminology....but that I transcend-and-include all the other tribal lingos in the particular constellated way which i do and that other like-minded people like yourselves drop in and say hello and not "You're a pretentious infoslut young Jonathan"....and that I can reciprocate and greet you in the same accepting spirit....
So I peg youse guys as receptive, smart, compassionate neophiles with interdependence needs for the sort of tribe which probably is not yet capable of emerging geographically because there are not enough of us...whoever we are....to flocculate in one openned space...
love and blessings, Jon x
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There's always enough of us in one geographical spot, unless you live in a small town in one of those big vacant rectangular states here in the US maybe.
The problem is that we don't wear name tags. I vote for name tags.
name tags :)
I'm all for Open Space. x
i'm all for flocculating, whatever the heck that is!! sounds fun…
Gaia Name Tags!!!!!!…fab idea Jeannie and Nicole…..gonna mount a pic of Spaceship Earth with a spot of glitter and mount it on card and safety pin with “I'm Jon…fly me” in silver intaglio underneath….
Stacey…you're an ace flocculator…term is a pedalogical one (study of soil) to indicate muddy stuff sticking together.
J x
I want one that says “receptive, smart, compassionate neophile with interdependence needs” and then “Hello, my name is” and then my name. I would like to decorate it with things I find along the way please.
name tags? i've worn more than my share of those things. yech. i think i'll pass. but you'll know me by the big red A inside a circle painted on my tshirt. deal? :-)
muddy stuff sticking together! see? i told you it sounded FUN!!! woooooo
yeah, I'm thinkin' name tags might not be necessary. I think we're tagged already for tribal ID by other members.
EBCDIC??! Goodness! When is the last time I heard that?! I still have some Hollerith cards (I use them for bookmarks). Do you remember COBOL? 600 code cards and you hoped you didn't drop them in the rain? I used to make up programming songs while I was waiting for my syntax run on the IBM mainframe:
“Power/vs made me have to stop - I like to run in background but it won't let me - my virtual storage won't become unblocked - but it easily accessed unlike those libraries….COBOLitus drove me up a rack - what the hell do we need to have it for? - O'Hare should be gagged and thrown in the back - of the nearest printer jammed on carriage restore…”
See? …already “tagged.”
I wear a name tag,funny no one calls me by my name though ;-)
Seriously a lot of people call me B.B. or Bridge,or mom,or nurse ( well in quebec infirmiere or garde,cuz along time ago nurses were called garde malades),sometimes people call me bridget,some of you call me bridget,i think anything is fine except for maybe Gerda i am not fond of the name Gerda
Scribey!!!!…you speak CyberYawn!!!!….not heard that stuff for some time…I get less narcolepsy listening to you than with CyberNerd which is closely related like French and Spanish…a badly-COBOLed together syntax…..virtual storage….did all those 12” discs get used as frisbees or do they rot in la musee de dead tek?
Hollerith cards as bookmarks…o my…theres a good use for them….
Jeannie…there's a big badge or a microscopic writing task….you could use the option of GaiaGal……or GaiaPal…..
Stacey….you mean you don't want a badge with I love to flocculate? Ya disappoint me gal….
BB..I wouldn't like the name Gerda either….it's Anglo-Saxon for Plastic…J xx
Bridget is a fine name…bride…etc…
I personally dig, “Infoslut” :-D
I am certainly one o'them Ariela.
Bye the bye scribe Sky I forgot to give you a positive stroke for yr song which, being slow on the uptake, meant I neglected to see the rhyme……
J x
I'm in as long as the name tags are changeable, with gltter and marquee …
I am not getting you a name tag with glitter on it given you may be mistaken for Gazza Glitta and that simply ain't cool…….but if yr good I'll give ya one with Phil Mike Rateness inscribed…J x
Love it - naughty BUT nice.
Hey Jon-
I remember punch cards. One time in college ont the east coast I sent our sschool's computer (which took up an entire room) into a tail spin because I skrewed up my punch cards. After that I was politely told maybe computer science wasn't for me. I dropped the class. You've had an interesting series of careers. What did you do as a nurse therapist?
Dee
Yeah, Dee ~ back in the day, you had to do your computer assignments in THE computer room (I think someone messed up the college payroll in my class…I can't remember if the data was on one of those disk drives that was the size of a washing machine).
B.B. - garde, huh? that was interesting info about quebec nursing. And, merci, Jon, for the props for my whimsy. I don't know where the 12-inches are (no pun intended) and I can't believe I remember that poetry stuff…
we're the midnight programmers and we come up with DUH right answers….
bridget, you certainly wouldn't want to be called garda, that's what they call the police in Ireland