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Justin Mason


Last Updated: 11/16/2009

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Gender: Male
Status: Single
Age: 29
Sign: Sagittarius

City: Hopkinsville
State: Kentucky
Country: US
Signup Date: 10/4/2005

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November 26, 2009 - Thursday 

Current mood:  adventurous
Category: Travel and Places
From the Associated Press:

A top Russian space official says there is no space for tourists wishing to fly to the International Space Station.

Sergei Krikalyov said that since the space stations crew has doubled to six people, there is no room for tourists in the Russian spacecraft that link the station with Earth.

Russia's Soyuz spacecraft will provide the only link to the station after the planned retirement of the U.S. shuttle fleet next year.

Canadian Cirque du Soleil founder Guy Laliberte returned to Earth last month after a stint as the seventh paying space tourist aboard the station.

Krikalyov, the chief of the Cosmonaut Training Center in Star City outside Moscow, spoke Thursday during a training session for a crew going to station in late December.

My Comments:

Damn it. I want to go to space. The ISS visitors were a great stepping stone towards space tourism, but there needs to be a privately funded venture that can make the cost at least something obtainable to more ready and waiting pioneers. Something in the range of hundreds of thousands per trip instead of millions at the very least. -- I'm still hopeful that this will obtainable in my lifetime.
October 12, 2009 - Monday 

Category: Movies, TV, Celebrities
I was highly impressed with this independent film production. Amazing quality for a fan-made film. I was so impressed, that I had to share it.

A new chapter in the Lord of the Rings saga, created by fan's of Tolkien. This short film is set in Middle Earth and depicts events leading up to the Fellowship of the Ring. Synopsis: The Ring of Power has been taken from Gollum by Bilbo of the Shire. The heir of Isildur sets out to find him before he falls into the hands of the enemy and reveals the location of the Ring...


September 4, 2009 - Friday 

Category: Religion and Philosophy

What I think is probably one of the best scenes ever placed in a television show. It's also the scene that made me a fan of Summer Glau's acting. 

It's true and profound, whichever character's position you take and whatever your belief system is.





From the Series: Firefly.
August 18, 2009 - Tuesday 

Category: Religion and Philosophy

If we are nothing more than information; an amalgam of electrons spinning around in atoms that are amassing into matter, that creates the physical, chemical, and electrical mechanisms of our bodies, and assuming that one day a powerful enough technology could exist to take a complete snapshot of the state of these pieces that accumulate our being, would it also not capture our thoughts, emotions, self-awareness, and memories in that instance?

 

Step further, and image placing said data into an emulator within a powerful computer that provides all of the boundaries and formula (assigned to us by nature and physics in reality) needed to continue functionality of said state. Would this virtual existence be any different than what we assume to be reality?

 

How are we to know that there is not another reality outside of our own, as unperceivable to this existence, as this existence would be to proposed digital existence?

 

Yet another reality beyond this unseen realm?

 

Perhaps we are an accumulation layers; sub-routines within sub-routines within sub-routines (continued possibly to near imaginable infinity), each its own self-contained reality -- each bound by laws and rules that were constructed in some distant reality, an universe of source, where said laws originated -- or perhaps are foreign, fanciful concepts.

 

Would it matter that we were a dream within a dream within a dream, dreamt by some strange entity completely unknown and unfathomable to ourselves? I submit it would not make a difference. Yes, science can create the soul, and perhaps our linear perception of beginning to end could be nothing more than a formula applied to the program that is the emulator of our state of existence.

July 23, 2009 - Thursday 

Category: Religion and Philosophy
Last night, or was it this morning... Before the sun rose in either case, I was sitting on the front porch smoking a cigarette when I realized that causality isn’t completely linear. Last week, during one of my few hours of sleep, I had this crazy dream about a force introducing exotic variables -- free radicals in a sense -- into the otherwise perfect clockwork equation of cause, effect and affect. This dream caused me to reexamine my previous thoughts, and revise somewhat since this concept adds exponential complexity to the predictability of linear causality and explains more wholly the human experience. Of course, this doesn’t degrade from the sum of our experiences that define who we are as individuals, it does likely expand upon a possibility that allows for unexpected results in an otherwise fixed universe.

I just thought I would share for those of you who are privy to my late-night contemplations. Though I’m not completely convinced that this extruding force isn’t just another result of causality in a significantly more complex network, it is a concept that I feel warrants further thought and discussion.
Currently listening:
The Beatles (The White Album)
By The Beatles
Release date: 1990-10-25
June 25, 2009 - Thursday 

Category: Games

Another one of my personal projects was mentioned in WIRED magazine's, GeekDad blog last week. This time related to my game company Mythic Design, Inc., the new release "Adventure Art" was billed as “a great resource for character portraits and campaign imagery”. Special thanks to our partnership with DungeonMastering.com which lead to this article.

It was nice to have the company mentioned by name and linked in such a widely circulated medium.


Click here to link to the WIRED article "Paperless D&D with Dungeon Mastering tools"
May 20, 2009 - Wednesday 

Category: Web, HTML, Tech
As the lead web developer for Cornerstone, this makes me pretty damn proud. :)

Cornerstone Information Systems, Inc., a regional provider of Technology Products & Services including Networking & Security, Software, and Website Development, today announced that it has been selected by Goldline Research as one of the leading Web Designers of the Central United States for 2009. The list of leading Web Designers of the Central United States is scheduled to be published in the May 25th issue of Forbes Magazine.

“Cornerstone is honored to be recognized as a Leading Web Design firm in the Central US,” said David Smith, CEO/Owner, “One of the criteria in receiving this award was customer satisfaction.  This is a key foundation of our business, and we believe this recognition reinforces that company priority.”

Smith continued, “Our team of experienced designers, developers, and programmers supports a large client base while always on the watch for new technologies and capabilities to add value for our customers.  From content management solutions to customized database applications, our team understands the importance of integrating existing “back-end” systems, providing room for growth, and of course, capturing the look for each customer’s needs. ”

“Those selected provide extensive client service that exceeds the industry standard,” said James King, Analyst, Goldline Research. “We believe that they are setting the benchmarks for the industry as a whole.”

Goldline Research recently completed its annual evaluation of web designers in the Central United States. The research study was conducted from early March through mid-April 2009. More than 1,300 web firms were identified throughout the evaluated region.
January 29, 2009 - Thursday 




I was pretty stoked to find out the new website design and updates I worked on for AisleTen's Obsidian Portal were featured in WIRED Magazine. Here’s a link to the article:

http://blog.wired.com/geekdad/2009/01/obsidian-portal.html