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thenewgreen  ·  3633 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Update! - I made a thing - Hubski Forced direction graph based on follower count.

It's funny how these things work, chances are that cm joined during a large influx and as such was able to gain a bunch of followers via that. When I look at the list of people that follow him/her, I don't really know any of them. Hasan Elahi follows him/her though. That's interesting.





user-inactivated  ·  3633 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Everyone should read that Wikipedia page:

    Poke around his site and you'll find more than 20,000 images stretching back three years. Elahi has documented nearly every waking hour of his life during that time. He posts copies of every debit card transaction, so you can see what he bought, where, and when. A GPS device in his pocket reports his real-time physical location on a map.

    Elahi's site is the perfect alibi. Or an audacious art project. Or both. The Bangladeshi-born American says the US government mistakenly listed him on its terrorist watch list — and once you're on, it's hard to get off. To convince the Feds of his innocence, Elahi has made his life an open book. Whenever they want, officials can go to his site and see where he is and what he's doing. Indeed, his server logs show hits from the Pentagon, the Secretary of Defense, and the Executive Office of the President, among others.

    The globe-hopping prof says his overexposed life began in 2002, when he stepped off a flight from the Netherlands and was detained at the Detroit airport. He says FBI agents later told him they'd been tipped off that he was hoarding explosives in a Florida storage unit; subsequent lie detector tests convinced them he wasn't their man. But with his frequent travel — Elahi logs more than 70,000 air miles a year exhibiting his art work and attending conferences — he figured it was only a matter of time before he got hauled in again. He might even be shipped off to Gitmo before anyone realized their mistake. The FBI agents had given him their phone number, so he decided to call before each trip; that way, they could alert the field offices. He hasn't been detained since.[4]

thenewgreen  ·  3633 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Yeah, he stopped by years ago, but hasn't been back. Odd that while he was here he followed someone.

as an aside, I just went down the oddest youtube worm-hole and ended up on a very funny Howard Stern bashing of Kirk Cameron.. Schadenfreude

There are moments I really, really enjoy Howard.

user-inactivated  ·  3633 days ago  ·  link  ·  

I'm sitting on kayak and skiplagged trying to plan a trip to Iceland. Pretty great night all around. Did you know retail alcohol on the island is about the same price as it is in the States? Never would have guessed.

thenewgreen  ·  3633 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Wait, so you are planning a trip to Iceland? That's awesome man. I had a good night too. I started a new music project tonight. If I still like it tomorrow, it will be something I pursue till I have a full album. It's a weird idea for a project, but may prove cool.

I wanna go to Iceland.

user-inactivated  ·  3633 days ago  ·  link  ·  

How long's it been since you released an album? How many do you have? I listened to one once that I loved involving ... maps?

I'm a bit drunk.

Come to Iceland! My mates and I are renting a camper van and jetting about on fjords and whitewater rafts and things. Did I mention retail alcohol is the same price as it is stateside?

thenewgreen  ·  3633 days ago  ·  link  ·  

I have released two albums.

I have one (my third) fully recorded, but it's been about 3 years since I recorded it and my passion to release it is VERY much diminished.

I'm excited to start a new project that is more indicative of where I'm at, though I'm sad that this song may never see the light of day. -Groovy tune eh?

user-inactivated  ·  3633 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Yeah that's fucking tight. Love the jangle at the beginning.

thenewgreen  ·  3633 days ago  ·  link  ·  

thanks man.

_refugee_  ·  3633 days ago  ·  link  ·