Joseph Ducreux Protects His Rep

I saw this link on know your meme for a while so I decided to check it out. A French artist named Joseph Ducreux was a kind of off-beat painter for his time and painted himself in a kind of thuggish manner. The painting is a picture of him chilling with a hat and a cane and pointing at you while seemingly slipping you a wink. It just looks really out of place for a painting of that time, but honestly its great. People started putting rap lyrics on the portrait that kind bash women (which I don't agree with, easy) or anything else that you think he might be thinking. There's hundreds of renditions of the painting all over the web. I just love the fact that the dude looks so chill for somebody coming from that time period. You would expect him to look like a typical French stiff with a powder wig and make up, but this guy is just ready to party. The link is at the bottom.

The Cookie Monster gets Famous

I recently just visited "know your meme" for the first time. The first video that popped up was an on-line episode from the KYM staff. It dealt with something called "om nom nom nom". Anyway I clicked on it and found it it was some slang used over the internet to make it seem like your were eating. Prolly something like the "woot" thing that's out there.

Turns out this om nom nom nom originated from the cookie monster. Yeah, the cookie monster. The big blue monster thing that eats al ot of cookies from sesame street. Hangs with big bird? Yeah you know the dude. The episode said he did it for the first time way back in like the 60s. Even did it for IBM in 67'.

Today its become a sort of fab to the om nom nom nom phrase. It translated to something like, "I'm about to eat this now" or "I'm eating right now". Doesn't really do it for me, but to each is his own. The link is somewhere connected to this thing.



Word Up Ya'll.

Dustin Jack

Ray Kurzweil

Well off the bat the man seemed very professional. Seemed like he was the type of person ready to jump into a full on debate about the state of the economy or our black president. That was not the case obviously.

His theories are very interesting. His mind is way out there. I mean the idea that nanobots would control your body within 20 years is a little crazy. You usually only see things like that on the sci-fi channel or on Star Trek. His ideas on how this will come to be almost mimic the Terminator movies. They compare in the ideas that we will have these drastic breakthrough in technology that will ultimately give this technology a "mind" of its own.

One thing that he did do however was back up his claims. I'm no scientist and can't confirm or deny any of his arguments but the man didn't put anything out their without some strong arguments to back it up. The thing that got me the most was the virtual reality. They idea that we could enter a cyber world through control over brain activity is pretty cool. It’s also a little bit scary to put your mind in the hands of a computer.

As far as his University goes, it’s a start. If he really wants people to buy into his idea globally, getting Google to back him up is a step in the right direction. Google has virtually become an empire on the web. No one other company can even come close to the break throughs they’re pushing out. With them backing him it would really add a lot of fuel to the fire.

As far as if I really believe all this is going to happen, not really. I do believe that someday we could get to this level but I don't think technology will progress as rapidly as he believes. I think the nanobot idea could come around within 100 years more likely, versus 20.

Dustin Jack