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I Googled Stephanie Seymour and, instead of getting the image I was looking at, got you and your pretentious and presumptious dialog box implying that I was here for the wrong reasons.
There are, apprently, no right reasons for visiting your site. Furthermore, you have no cause, no basis, and no right for speculating about my reasons for doing anything.
Your site does not speak of the unity of beauty, it speaks of the uniformity and thoroughgoingness of your self-involvement.
I am ashamed that beings such as yourself still exist. I pity you and your self-righteous opinions, which, like most opinions, are based on nothing.
There's an excellent little tract by Harry Frankfurt you might want to check out, it's called "On Bullshit." You could be its poster child.
«Probably the crappiest site about PHP I have ever seen. I still wonder how the hell google placed you first on my query.
But anyway keep learning PHP and one day you might end up with a decent site.»
Your question is
self answered: Google, to quote but one, placed me first in
your query. Self explicative for
your harrowing questions.
Why you look for an answer
by me, and what
kind of portentous answer are you in
search of that you have to query me
personally beyond search engines?
You make a "
crappy" website like mine yourself with 140 html files and you will show up first as well in your category, and this shall make you feel much less frustratred and will make you look much less like of a spiteful loser - for that is the impression you gave.
Because the reason you provided no website url of
yours is that
yours either does
not even exist and
yet you judge the website of the others, or it does and won't appear on Gooogle or Altavista or Excite even
last.
A good chance to learn
yourself how to code, my dear anonymous 81.56.146.[***] coward who thinks he knows about relevance of websites more than a Google million paid algorithm does.
In the meanwhile, the moon suggests: sign yourself with
your name and
your website when all you can do is not
your own website but hurling
entirely gratuitous terms of abuse at the
others, because cowards never did good programmers - and Google as well as Excite, Altavista, Lycos and the alike know this very well.
Put
your face and name on
your words as I do, if you deem them
respectable.
Are
your PHP codes (which we can't either see or judge,
of course) like
your syntax here? Is
that the parameter you have been taught to judge codes after?
And: are you a woman? 'Cause you see they
say that hide and seek is like envy: an
allegedly mostly feminine thing. But it is not envy what does actual website and
struggles for years to make a way through Search Engines.
I did it
working, not stealing: and
certainly not whining, but in
silence, and in
humility - I did it
From The Underground.
Code with some virility: coding
needs that, because it involves the
management of so many emotional and not just intellectual sides that you simply have no idea.
Once you will have that, you won't feel any longer any need to call names the other guys in the field who provide
Open Source codes to the community as I do, rather than going around doing nothing constructive all day long as
you do.
I appeared first in
your query.
You say that.
Maybe this is why you are
still looking for an answer to
your question: because you
accept as answers only the ones that you like.
Do you
also program PHP that way? Does it
crash often?
When
you will appear first in
your own query for
your own questions,
then and
only then you will be in such a position to judge and criticize me with
any credibility (and yet still without insults) - but when you'll be there, you won't do any of it
any longer.
Why? You'll
probably never find out.
Till then, Search Engines' opinion for
your own query is that
you should learn its answer
by me in the first place - and
not vice versa as
you claim.
Isn't all of the above what your post -and not me- implicitly admits?
Feel free to learn by the second or last place: I will
not complain
in the least, the internet is
free -
you are whining & complaining.
But for the time being Search Engines' opinion is the one as
you yourself report it: they say it is
you who should learn PHP by me
for your question, since
you raised
this issue.
Just take it the way it is, or work and
make yourself a better site: that shall come
easy to
your genius and expertise, so why not
just doing it rather than
insulting?
That's called adulthood - and constructiveness, and creativity.
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In 5 years online, Unitedscripters received on the whole 5 emails (
five; six if we include a guy who sent to me his second email so to reply to something written further on on
this file) of guys that covered me personally (as if they would have known me or I would have done something to them) with insults as much
entirely gratuitous as they were
heavy, and who declared a stubborn, diehard unflinching hatred (I said:
hatred, and I am weighting my words) for this website.
I'm going to address the
related arguments now, though of course
four emails could also have gone simply ignored and though, probably, you have never noticed the effect Unitedscripters does when seen under
this perspective.
It is
not that you do not like my colors, it is that you are not used or you have never been educated at
seeing colors at all. You have been educated that a
beautiful world is one where all is
grey and identical.
This can be proved: it is at times said I use "awful color schemes": and yet if you make a mathematical calculation, each file (except the indexes and about four intentional exceptions) is strictly built upon amounts of colors all
rigorously belonging to
one type of hue only: either the orange, or the purple, or the green, or the blue, or the yellow, or the red etc.
Yet, your
perception is that "colors do
not match"
all the same.
Have you ever wondered
why you feel so, considering that
if there is a thing my colors do is
exactly matching?
After all, also the
green of a tree has nothing to do with the
brown of the ground where its roots stay, the
blue of the sky where its branches spread, the
yellow of its flowers that bloom:
It is
not that you do not like my layouts: it is that you have been educated to respect only layouts that are all identical to each other.
I am to provide you with a few examples, that are to be considered regardless of the contents which are good: we are talking here of how
you have been unintentionally educated.
I would have
happily avoided mentioning any example at all, but I want to defend myself making you
see why you feel about
United Scripters the way you feel.
I do
not imply by the examples below any judgement: what I
really imply and what I really
care about, is to make
apparent that you have developed an
habit.
What I want you to understand is that I neither signify nor really care whether this habit is good or bad: what I signify is that
it is an habit, and you are
under its spell.
You do not
think, you
react.
So,
please do spot the layout difference between:
- this
-
this
-
this
-
this
-
this
-
this
-
this
-
this
They seem all to be variations on each other, as if one constitutes the draft of the other, and thus the first who makes a choice draws to the undergloom or to heaven all the others: in this way you get
implicitly taught that you cannot get anyhting different, and that whatever
differs is ugly.
I contend
this.
I do
not think those would have been ugly websites: what I mean is that you can
not say that you do not like
me, if all you have ever been
raised to appreciate or to be familiar with are
templates.
United Scripters is
not a website that wants to repeat the
already said or the
already seen.
Clearly.
I want to do it
my way, and therefore my underlying "lesson" for you is: you too should want to do things
your own way rather than
someone else's way, expecting to see it everywhere as a
canon.
Though it has
never been in my goals,
United Scripters has got flattering rankings on all major & minor search engines anyway.
I am not speaking here of the inclusion in a search engine
database, which is customary for just nearly whatever web resource; but I'm speaking here of the
directories of all major search engines (with one exception which is
yahoo, whereas anyway I am
not sure on whether to be ranked in a Yahoo's directory you
now need to perform a payment).
In these directories the top 30 sites in the world for
one given category (case in point:
javascript) get listed.
If you know how a search engine robot works, this means that the
contents of the site
definitely qualify, and score as
not trivial.
It's a
fact, not
my speculation.
Unitedscripters has been ranked on all of them for over 3 years now. Of course, things may change: but it is still
enough of a fact that
at least till today (september 2001 till december 2004) it's has been there firmly as a stone.
Of course, it is always possible you don't like
Unitedscripters, though you should also remember that this website is
not stealing anything from you: on the contrary it offers
thousands of PHP and Javascript scripts in over 120 files for
free. I charge you nothing for them, and if you think this is normal, I can assure you that it is the contrary: with one tenth of the scripts I offer here,
nearly anyone else would have started setting up
members' areas and the alike (or hosting paid banners, which I do
not do - I don't even include Google's ads, for which I would
qualify, and which even sites of 3 pages immediately include hoping to raise a fistful of dollars out of them).
So like me or dislike me, but credit me with the generosity that I
prove I have: you can raid my scripts at your will as long as you just keep the one line comment which stays at the bottom of them.
And if you don't like them, all you have to do is to
go away.
That simple.
So I guess that if you like this online resource, all you have to do is to attend it, and if you do not like it you can go easily in a better place which can't be more far than
two clicks away.
So before we start addressing the things you may
not like, let's can bring forth evidence first about why it is
quite possible you may well either like this website or find it useful.
Here is why, 'cause you wouldn't be
entirely alone in finding
also something appreciable with it:
These are the major ones.
Of course, there is a
plethora of minor ones (by minor I mean simply less widely queried) where Unitedscripters is ranked in the same fashion, which are just too many to mention them all. Things like:
Eventually, you may enjoy the results returned by this query:
http://www.google.com/search?q=unitedscripters
This all has
no special significance, and I am sure your website is there as well because many other excellent websites that I enjoy appear there.
Except that it would be pointless if you start speculating that
Unitedscripters is the website you hate and dislike
most when you have enough evidence which should
not induce you into changing your mind but just into
moderating your opinioned moods with a dose either of
relativism or of realism.
The current amount of html documents here to date is 125. They average 75kb.
A programming class developed by me normally includes 400 or 500 lines of code, with manifold methods. You then have html test forms to see them in action argument by argument, case by case.
Developing one of those classes
may take weeks. I do
not get paid, and I eventually offer the product for
free here. Take or leave then, for I am
not stealing from you.
Ponder.
Ponder, because I am not going to make to those who insult me for free the favour of a direct link or even a plaintext mention here, because this would increase
their lousy page rank popularity parasitically encroaching on mine, aside from the fact it is
not in my style declaring the sinner's name when declaring the sin is enough - though I guess at least an instance to prove I am
not telling stories might be required.
And yet the type of guys who normally attack me are guys who have websites composed of:
- seven to twelve html files.
- These files have no more than 20 lines of text in them, when they are long. The average is -no kidding- 3 lines of text per page.
- Those 20 lines are often links to external sites!
- They do not appear in any search engine directory - I mean not even one.
- On the whole they have no more than 15kb of text in the whole site.
- Often the longer paragraph (say 4 lines) in their sites is not text of their own brains, but a comment posted by someone else.
This is not legend: this is
precisely what they
statistically have. Visit them [instance from
a public archive] and just
do the math.
So if it wouldn't sound so conceited by me (warning:
foul word ahead), it looks a bit like callow mosquitoes farting at, and belittling, a full fledged eagle.
But after a while I cannot see why I should allow these technical
nullities of the web to cover me with
gratuitous insults of
their own initiative (let's not be mistaken about this) while I am always supposed as the one who should abstain in an adult and responsible manner from retorting
in the kind.
Because it is not that the guys who email me say they don't like something: when they do, they brim with every possible term of abuse and of heavy
mockery. One would suspect I did something to them. I don't
even know them.
I would have liked to show to you those four emails, all from different persons, and
what was written in them, but though opinions can be reported,
publishing online a private email whose sender can be identified or whose contents are sensitive is in many countries a
violation of Law - though many are not aware of this.
Even on
december 25 (that is the
email timestamp), which gives an idea of
what these guys are busy doing on
Christmas, I received this type of email (a second one, read by me on December 26
obviously) after I have put online the current file:
«I am not coming to hear your thoughts on plato, michaelangelo, socrates, the french, or johann strauss!
Ever read Ulysses? Your site reminds me of that book because of the nonsensical comments thrown about.
What I am saying is that if you want a blog, open a blog. If you want a javascript directory that people will love, then cut the crap and give them what they want.
It almost seems as if you use a thesaurus to change any word you find a duplicate of.
And PS: If you are going to post peoples emails, at least post all of them in their entirety
Copyright 2004»
That is, UnitedScripters gets
compared to James Joyce's unrivaled masterpiece, which masterpiece is brought about in as an
instance of -nothing less-
nonsensical «crap» fit to be used as a paragon: the comparison is brought forth as an implicitly and obviously
detrimental one: in fact the Ulysses is perceived as that book where «
nonsensical comments are thrown about». Joyce's
Ulysses is about that, and that is the meaning of its structure: «throwing nonsense», and that masterpiece is
an example for that.
Wow, what a refined analyst.
No wonder this typology of person is disturbed by any surfacing of culture.
Then he calls
me crap - emailing me
repeatedly.
This does
not need comments I guess, and gives an idea of the
intellectual level of some persons I have to deal with.
The
deeply limited mental structures that they have, get employed to judge those who do not share such narrow minded goals: javascript go with javascript, thoughts go on
blogs only (
guess how many thoughts they have on their blogs?), paintings
must be in a dedicated page, Phps go with Phps, and, in this line, I guess you can have sex
only after 9.30pm and before midnight otherwise it is an
unrelated intrusion. Guys like this are probably in a relationship with Cinderella, for they seems used to the
guidelines you can get educated to respect by visiting
her website.
And yet Search Engines do consider Unitedscripters absolutely relevant about Javascripts and Phps though I did not solicit them in order to list me (I only made two Search Engine submissions on year 2001, as everyone does):
they found me and rubricated me by
themselves .
But these guys
insist that
they know it better simply because
they are so mentally tight that
they cannot spot a script documentation and its codes if they are framed by four or five paintings.
They then lose
every orientation if there is in a page an intro, or a premise to a article, where for instance
Isaac Newton is quoted (which some consider just «
crap» «thrown about») in order to prove, in that case, that it is not necessary to know what a binary tree is in order to deal with it
since even Newton declared he
was successfully dealing with gravity though he repeatedly
admitted he had
no clue what it
really was.
And all the while Search Engines robots do see Unitedscripters as
dealing with script issues indeed, and return it as such -
correctly: the site is
indeed in its
overwhelming majority about javascript and Php, and it does not get mistakenly ranked as a site about paintings
just because a guy who considers the
Ulysses a book written to provide us with an instance of «nonsensical comments» artwork, and who probably has never been out of his native city, sees
only them.
Of course, that creating a website whose purpose is
PRECISELY
that of
contributing to demonstrate that there are
no boundaries between disciplines, that ultimately we are born again to live in a (
neo?)
panhellenic world (calling it
globalization means using a neologism that
impoverishes the
available traditional term) stemmed from the age of the
internet and of the
hypertext, and that
all is art, and that so
Stonehenge belongs to the same
frames of mind as Howard Gardner meant them to which
Computer Architecture belongs as well and fully partakes of, all this seems an objective that they find impossible to believe anybody (
me, in this case) may
really entertain.
And do you know why? Because we still have a vast majority of persons whose idea of the internet is that it is just meant to facilitate bank robbings, that it is just a
commercial avenue to take the money and run, and thus it can have or host, or
deliver, nothing
coessential with
ambitious artistic expression or experiment.
Vivaldi's «
cimento della armonia e della invenzione» does has to do with programming languages, as
Johann Sebastian Bach does: for Bach and Vivaldi
composed music after mathematical formulas. And yet -take
this- they
produced stunning art beyond
any doubt.
A Bible chapter
is a cipher better than a DSA algorithm.
A William Faulkner convoluted book
is an algorithm trudging its way through a tough data structure.
A Johann Strauss
waltzer is absolutely the
same thing as an unfurling, long winding, marvelously twisting
Microsoft algorithm: and please
notice this, I didn't say it looks like, I said:
ABSOLUTELY THE SAME
It constitutes an
amazing achievement I posed to myself and yet that I did not hope to attain, that the idea Unitedscripters
had to prove to be fit to summon
even from clearly unlearned persons who know things by hearsay had to be that of recalling
James Joyce's Ulysses. And raising that comparison constitutes an immense
compliment. Yet, these are both things that to these guys' minds never loom:
in fact they
overtly propose their complaints as denunciations, and their examples (Joyce) to corroborate the former, as extracted and unzipped from the quiver of the
curses!
And that producing an internet website about web scripting that looked
exactly like
an holistic book as James Joyce's Ulysses is, and that its transposition on this new internet medium that appears so suited for that type of artistic approach was
PRECISELY MY GOAL
never crosses their limited minds! But didn't I state exactly this,
exactly in the
main index page?
«This site blends mathematics, beauty, literature and the arts, and partakes in the everlasting western Frontier, that Utopia which encompasses us all in one breed: for, like with Milton and like with Kafka, America is firstly a state of mind, not just a place on earth.»
And that I even added to this goal, with miltonian «equal hope,
And hazard in the Glorious Enterprize», the
supplemental intention (that Joyce could not nurse, having lived in another time where programming nearly did not exist) to prove beyond doubt that programming is
a fully qualified Expression of the Fine Arts, that religion is coessential to programming as it has been to
everything else (thus programming makes
no exception) accordingly to
Max Weber's «The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism», that thus
algorithms are prayers, is another set of goals that clearly have escaped their imagination: they retort them as an
unintended fault of mine, which would have leaked in by my cracked brains, and which would have been derived from conceptual schemes gone awry, whereas it is all a
devotedly, intentionally, systemically pursued and yearned for goal.
But Nay, these guys say all they see is: «nonsensical crap»: they think I reason
like them, and that my goals are as reduced and simplistic as theirs: they can't see the
fractal, and therefore
having themselves in mind, they judge I must have misfired accordingly to their own rules. I didn't at all. I precisely aimed at the
intended target they mistake and report as an error.
That was not an error: that was
precisely where I flung my arrow and what I knocked my bow for.
Argue I missed it, if you want: that would be fine. But arguing I hit the wrong target by the arguments that are actually underpinning that I hit the
designed one, means having thought I had
your default goals in mind. I hadn't. I had in mind the goal you reproach me for: that is,
ULYSSES ONLINE
The enterprise is
so vast a Leviathan that I cannot even be accused in case I fail, for: «America, I did not call upon your name in vain!» [Pablo Neruda]: in enterprises of this momentum, inspired by such good a goal, pursued by positive means, you
can never completely fail.
But you see,
no wonder that with
that type of vocabulary my few detractors invariably use, full of words like «crap», «ass», «suck it», then whatever is located at a slightly better level than theirs, gets immediately perceived as an exercise of
immense erudition by me: «as if you use a thesaurus to change any word» a guy wrote to me, you see: but I use no thesaurus (though it wouldn't be a bad idea, although it is presented as such!), in fact being normal persons with some
natural interest in the arts and being able to read a few books
understanding what is written in them, is
more than enough to have a vocabulary
better than theirs namely which
easily spans beyond terms like «crap» that they have been
educated to consider as the
normal, respectable ones.
This type of guys are probably
beautiful minds: when they meet a lady in order not to look too
erudite they start with: «I am not good with words so what about skipping the blabberings and go directly to fuck» your a**?. Does this warrant they are consequently going to perform well at what they say they do well?
Do I sound
so erudite now? For it is perfectly possible to read Plato, code, enjoy Raphael and Andy Wharol, and to like Pamela Anderson too. Or let me see if I got it: if you like Plato, then you must be an eunuch, or if you like Raphael, then you can't code. Is it like that?
But nay, these guys insist all
they can see are the paintings - "
misplaced": or that the fact I have a comparatively much smaller
dedicated section for my own philosophical studies or political thoughts would
not be legitimate on my own personal website that I manage entirely alone.
And yet some of them cannot leave Unitedscripters and
keep visiting it: because for instance the guy of the
Ulysses found this file, and he mentions Strauss (which can be found quoted by me at this file:
The complete dhtml dom manager class) when
neither of such files is on any search engine
yet (that is: he therefore
keeps visiting by a
direct hit), and wrote
again to me.
Curious: a guy who keeps visiting what he declares he does neither like nor understand.
As for quoting emails in their entirety (which is alleged as a would be
correct behaviour - that is, he wanted his
name printed here), and at the same time laying a claim to copyrighted contents, speaking of mail
trespassing would have made more sense than speaking of copyright: for
no copyright is involved: emails are
not copyrighted,
unless you are
Seneca writing his epistles -pardon, «crap»-, or
Machiavelli writing an incredibly beautiful epistle to Francesco Vettori whose artistic value stands out as self evident. But, very simply, this is
just not the case, as everybody
immediately sees...
It seems it is argued we can promote
email harassment under -ahem- protection of
copyright laws: therefore spam would be legitimate an
exercise of copyright rights, and meant to be defended, and I can be called names all day long by you as long as you are cautious enough to do it via
emails rather than vocally...
Your insults would have been copyrighted - well, we ought to admit there is something
humorous in these guys.
But when I don't like something,
I leave it alone, simply: I prefer being
constructive and creative in life, and
thenceforth I never feel any special need to notify anyone online about what I do
not like. I mean, who cares: I don't like it, I
just move on!
So, let's address the typical things I get insulted after:
Could I have been a better gentleman?
Probably. But I am fed up with guys who call me
names and never had a
real look at
their own websites.
But of course, needless to say, I still prefer waltzing with Johann Strauss. And now I'll go back to it, and to provide you with colorful pages full of codes paintings models and poetry.