Rudy Rucker

Rudy Rucker is a writer, a mathematician and a computer scientist. Born in Kentucky in 1946, Rucker moved to Silicon Valley when he turned 40. Rucker has published twenty-five books, primarily science-fiction and popular science. He was an early cyberpunk and an editor at Mondo 2000. He often writes SF in a style is characterized as transreal. His most recent novels were Frek and the Elixir, a far-future epic about a boy's galactic quest to restore Earth's ecology and As Above So Below, a historical novel based on the life of the sixteenth century painter Peter Bruegel.  Rucker is a professor emeritus of computer science at San Jose State University, where he created a number of freeware programs relating to chaos, artificial life, cellular automata, higher dimensions, and computer games. He is presently working on The Lifebox, the Seashell and the Soul, a nonfiction book about computers and the nature of reality. Rucker's website can be found at www.cs.sjsu.edu/faculty/rucker or at www.rudyrucker.com.

Listen up people As a musician and a contributor to this revolutionary forum we call the Blogosphere, I feel obligated to weigh in on this whole RIAA debacle. Besides, I'm kind of a computer buff and all my friends say I'm really funny. I may get blacklisted for this, but let me just go on record as saying that this whole file sharing thing is just going to take off and be huge. The people have spoken, and the industry better wake up and smell the coffee! Phew, okay, maybe that was a little bit harsh. I mean, don't get me wrong, speaking as an artist, I know how hard it is to make a living expressing yourself through music, sharing your soul with the world and trying to make enough money to eat real food. Not for money or fame, but because it's something you need to do-- it's in your blood. But believe this: Artists need to get paid (that's sort of my mantra, you can use it too). I'll tell you one thing for sure though, those dinosaurs in the RI-double-A better change their business model and stop attacking their customers or the indy labels will bury them. Take it from me. Discuss

Another teeny-tiny guest-edited blog! By Karen As payback for fluffing my blog a few months back, I get to say a few pixels worth of stuff. Except I have nothing to say. I could whine about Burning Man but that's been done to death. All I can say is, a franchise cult is NOT cool, hip, indie, spiritual, life-changing or even alternative. Here's something though: if anyone wants to attend Mark Yim's Polybot class, click on this Modular Robotics Workshop Link. Las Vegas in October. While you're there, you may want to check out the firearms training (weapons and ammo provided) held by Frontsight, a lovely gated gun community and resort in the area. Now, please enjoy my guest blogger Squimpy, who is visiting my guest-guest blog entry. Discuss A guest of a guest edited guest blog, blog entry By Squimpy So I was walking down Mission St. to a BART station and some disgusting dirty bum walks up to me and says, "Hey, cute skirt, hot stuff!" so I'm all FUCK YOU ASSHOLE and I whip out my trusty phonecam and blind him with the tiny led flash, or that's what I would have done anyway if I had remembered to charge my phone. Oh god I'm such a GIRL sometimes!! Anyway I got all flustered and had to stop in a pastry store and stuff my face with a giant chocolate eclair. Christ I hate being PMS-y. Discuss Discuss

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JCWTF Folks, I've had some complaints about not labeling links as NOT SAFE FOR WORK (that's NSFW btw). WTF! You're going to trust my judgement on what is or isn't going to get you fired for looking at while you're supposed to be working?! Maybe I should just base everything on what's not safe for me at work. Discuss

The Guest-Guest Blog By Melanarchy You'd think that Congress could care less about the banking practices that I employ but according to HSBC you'd be wrong. I present for your enragement the following questions I was asked while trying to change my address at HSBC. HSBC: "Where do the funds for your account come from?" ME: "???" HSBC: "Do your parents give you money? Did you have a summer job?" So my bank asking me where I get my money, which is none of there damn business, and it has the mitigating gall to suggest that I take handouts from my parents. I mean I do, but who the hell is HSBC to make such a supposition? HSBC: "How many cash deposits do you make each month? How much do they total? ATM usage? How many checks do you write?" What the fuck? I'm not a fucking terrorist, and if I were I would expect better treatment from my bank. I demanded why I was being interrogated. "Because of the USA PATRIOT ACT." I read the Patriot Act I couldn't find an "all bank users must surrender their privacy" clause. That's my story. I feel violated. Discuss

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Undue Influence
Due to popular demand, I am taking Guest Blogging to the exciting next level of Pay-for-Play. That's right, I am officially opening the doors to all forms of blog-payola. Got a site you want plugged? Want to Guest-Guest Blog in a sidebar of my sidebar? Want to take over the whole thing? How about a banner ad? Pop-ups? Think BoingBoing readers with ActiveX enabled really just want a copy of Gator installed for them? I have a width=25% column here and I will pimp it out like the cheap, unappreciated, whore that it is.

PayPal is pretty fucking evil, so I'll be using it to accept bribes. Honestly though they deserve to be prosecuted under RICO (ya know, stealing money, operating an illegal bank in a whole buncha states, etc.) Favors or creative trades are also welcome, but this isn't craigslist you fucking hippies, so make it good.

Possibilities include (but aren't limited to):

• Link from within a blog entry
• Text link next to Discuss link
• Vertical banner ad
• Guest-Guest Blog
• Entire blog entry

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What day is it?
So I woke up around 7am today, which is like totally early, right? I didn't really still Feel all that tired bUt I managed to stay in bed until 12:45 anyway. Verizon was supposed to install a landline between 1 and 5pm, nothing fanCy just POTS, ya Know? This is a new apt so we're starting from scratch, the cable modem got installed FRIDAY, isn't it crazY how much Verizon sucks!? So I had some cereal and have been sitting on this couch all day with my laptop "working" and watching Mystery Date On Comedy Central. At 5:10 I called Verizon and they said the gUy had been dispatched and at 5:43 the lineman called from the bAsement to say the phone was on (duh!). Now I'm thinking maybe eat something? Maybe take a shower? Isn't blogging great? I think we need more words for blogs, don't you? OMG! Like something cuter, ya know? Like take today for instance, I haven't done much, but I'm totally just feeling bloggy hahah omg LoL you could even call something a blahg, man sometimes I just totally crack myself up. Does that ever happen to you? OMG, sometimes I just want to write stuff down and bookmark it in a special folder so that I can remember it when I'm feeling blue. LOL what if they called that a blug that'd be crazy!

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