Delusions #2
Delusional Blogpost About Origami Fortune Tellers, Car Camping in Public, and White Noise Being Used for Evil.
Culture - Fortune Telling
This is a fortune teller that I made recently. I had to search the internet for a tutorial because I couldn’t remember from middle school. The suggested prompts I received in my research for the inner flaps of the fortune teller were god awful, so I created my own, adding misfortunes as well.
1 - “I beg you to take things slower.”
2 - “Wisdom comes with open ears. Pain follows an open mouth.”
3 - “Your shadow needs work.”
4 - “Sleep when you can.”
5 - “Deliver yourself. Now!”
6 - “You will die honorably.”
7 - THE TESSERACT. (Fortune 7 is an image of a four dimensional hyper-cube, or tesseract. See image 2.)
8 - “Read more.”
I’m not sure if I have the power to make the fortunes come true, but maybe I don’t need the power as the creator. Perhaps the creation itself is what draws on the power. Who is lady fortune? Does she possess that power? How can I meet her? Is she sexy? Probably.
What’s the deal with fortune cookies? Why are they seemingly becoming worse? Did the fortune factory run out of new ideas? Did they fire lady fortune during covid layoffs? I imagine private equity is to blame, I fucking hate private equity. Divest. Think of the children! If you got a fortune cookie that said “I think, therefore I am” would you start to think that the fortune cookie is alive and wrote that itself? If so, would you then start to think that every fortune cookie fortune is written that way? '
Sports - Car Camping in Public
Finding somewhere to park your car overnight can be the worst thing in the whole world, especially if you want to find somewhere somewhat quiet. You never want to car camp on the street unless you want to have more fun than camping. I’ve found that you can get by in some hotel parking lots, especially shittier looking ones that have big lots, half-crumbled walls with wet stains, and lots of shitty looking cars already. They are risky but can be effective when in a pinch. My original plan was to stay in the hotel parking lot that I stayed in for the last two nights but I decided not to push my luck and move somewhere safe.
Some Walmart parking lots are worthy, but none in the greater area according the RV forums (these are the best places to conduct research when car camping. (I conducted my research while sitting in the very Walmart parking lot that was being warned against. (Something about security tapping on your windows until you leave.)))
Some Cracker Barrels will allow you to sleep overnight, I was hoping the one closest to downtown would be a good choice, but I read on another forum that employees will “shine flashlights into car windows” looking to stop overnight car campers or RVers. Luckily, that same forum inforumed me that there is a different cracker barrel that would host my Mazda ‘BNB’CX-5.
I’m sitting in that parking lot now, drinking a beer. I bought two philosophy books today while killing time and an untitled “manifesto” with no author, no cover, no barcode, no ISBN, no nothing to identify other than the piece of paper next to it in the bookstore which read “Manifesto, by: Anonymous”. I’m also reading Kafka on the Shore by Haruki Murakami and it’s relatable and topical.
I ate a Lunchables pizza for dinner. It was good. The Cracker Barrel closes at 9:00, once all the workers leave I will feel safe. Until then.
Music - White Noise, Static, etc.
I don’t really know if this is considered music to more than just me but I really like listening to white noise and it’s varieties. My favorite is brown noise I think. According to Wikipedia.com, “white noise is a random signal having equal intensity at different frequencies, giving it a constant power spectral density.”1
What I really want to know is what makes brown noise and pink noise and green noise(??) different from white noise?
It turns out it was as simple as clicking a few more links on Wikipedia.com, brown noise, or Brownian noise(referring to the nerd who discovered it) is some physics theory about motion. From Wikipedia.com, “As Brownian noise contains infinite spectral power…. A leaky integrator might be used.”
I also possess infinite spectral power and it’s telling me……………. a leaky integrator is a sign of infection.
Scrolling further throughout the white noise Wikipedia.com article, I discovered the math involved with white noise and it gave me a headache trying to understand so I’ll just leave you with this:
General TV static is nice to listen to too.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_noise