Post by foxx on Aug 28, 2012 3:32:41 GMT 9.5
Greetings all, and no worries, I am no elil to the warren. A wee bit about me? Where to start. The name perhaps? When I was young I had a natural speed and reflex that made me fast on my feet and quick with wits. When I was 6 or 7 years old the children at school would play tag (or dodge ball) and would all try to chase me but I could never be caught. Eventually they would tease me with the name of "Fox". "Fox cant play, we wont play with him". This turned me sour to competition of all sorts, this has happened my entire life. To soften the harsh nature of the tease my family used it as sort of a nickname for me, then later on in life it just stuck. After a while it wasnt just an online alias, its my name now. I am also somewhat of the inventive type. I had an early adaptation for applied sciences, electronics, and computers. As a child I loved to build, create, solve puzzles, even break codes. By the time I was 15 I was pretty ahead in many of the major classes. Though I still had a disdain for any sort of competitions. I still remember being excluded form gym activities because of the unfair advantage I had, or the kids fighting over who would have me on their team. I soon found in some games even my own teammates would pair against me to try and prove they were the better. It didnt keep me from being physically active. I enjoyed gymnastics, acrobatics, martial arts, climbing, jumping, still to this day you can find me in a park, on the side of a scaffolding, or randomly jumping off of walls despite a horrible event of when I was 15.
I was struck by a speeding car, suffered a brain injury, and had to learn how to walk, talk, write, and learn all over again. Doctors are still amazed I can do the things I can do. While I was in rehab I had to learn a lot more about myself, and learn new skills and tricks to become a sociable member of society again. I became very dark, morbid, and angry. My memory was severely impaired, moods would waft over me without warning, and a new world of language had opened up to me... neuro linguistic programming. I was able to see subconscious body language, but it took many years to learn what it meant. Also my memory issues meant I couldnt read books anymore, which was a very harsh acceptance. In fact Watership Down was the last book I have read in the past 4 years.
With what I have been through, and my own personal experience with having a lapine family of my own for 8+ years I can very much relate with rabbits. I never knew how social and psychological they were. I can go on for days about rabbits, I do mean DAYS, but I will save it for other posts. After seeing the move Watership Down, which I still cant believe they had as a childrens movie even by my nearly psychotic morbid tenancies, I saw it was based on a book. I had to nab a copy, and I did! Absolutely fell in love with it. I have read a lot of classics, greek, roman, norse, mythology, even religion, and much of what I enjoyed reading, apart from all the obvious sci-fi stuff a technophile such as myself would certainly be into, the book Watership Down was a beautiful amalgamation of many familiar classic stories, mixed in with a lot of adventure that stems from being forced to make a change.
After I was left a cripple with a TBI unable to tend to my natural states, having to re-learn how to live life in a new way, Bigwig refusing to burrow, the bunns' not knowing how to make a warren, not knowing what is out beyond the woods. What it meant to "Float" and a lesson I still have a hard time to this day, how to sense friend from enemy. This is something I can personally understand through real world experience. If you saw me now you would never have thought what hardships ive been dealt, the horrors ive seen, and the undefined poetry that sparks though my mind in a language that does not exist, and I can not express. I am by heart a hacker, by that I mean I explore, understand, and improve a system. I mainly work on hardware, my paint brush is a soldering iron. My canvas is a circuit board. My poetry is in computer code. But with a classic hacker ethos to do no harm and only make the most of what is available, I didnt sit in a bed and abide by the doctors to not walk again. I learned about the human body as well as I could and I set out to not just regain my abilities but to improve them beyond what is natural. Then I learned about how the brain works, and learned how to use my deficits to my advantage. Its been 15 years now and I still work on developing new tools, in fact, in an ironic sense, I teach! I do an open-source tech show that I take questions the community ask and create tutorials based on our topics of technical interest. I also invite others to do the same. We banded together to create a new online community where outsiders are welcome, and are even pushed to their limits. The whole idea is that together we can do things we would not be able to do on our own. We are a free community to learn, share, and most importantly, grow with the help of each others strong points, while trying to help them strengthen their weak points. Yeah, a lot of WsD similarities with my life. Also with my house rabbits.
So you want to know about the rabbits. Ill post about them later but let me tell you what I have learned from them. Rather, what they have taught me. Rabbits have no voice, they can not speak, thus their language is spoken in body. The pose, poise, even ear positions mean something. They certainly do like their tricks, and they are quite cunning! I very much enjoyed making treat-toys for them only to have them find a loophole in my design to get right to the treats instead of batting it around getting one out at a time. No matter how hard we try to keep them out of my electronics lab, or away from areas they could find some sort of human harm, they always ALWAYS find a way. Their ability to learn and memory are impeccable. My rabbits knew their names, words, sounds, and even special whistle commands (which I used during my time in my own Owsla).
Though they have cages its not their home, its their personal burrow, their den, its there they can feel safe. Rabbits naturally love to explore, and the youngsters love to get into trouble!! So they have a cage but they are always let out. They are strict creatures of habbit and have an impeccable sense of timekeeping. On a daily basis they would know when I came home from work, when I woke up. In fact one of my bunns loved to come out of the cage ay 8:30AM every morning, she would rattle her door until let out... she found her way to the window, which for a rabbit is quite the feat of agility, a hop to the couch, wall run across the back, a leap to a book case, and a short reach to the window, and she would watch all of the families walking their children to school. When I saw this is what she wanted, I made an easier path, and knew she liked to watch them. It became a spectacle for the familys too! Every day they would always see the bunny in the window and wave to her. To and from school, every day. Rabbits taught me new physical feats as well. Seeing the young ones do their runs is much like modern day Parkour. Seems to me, rabbits in an ethos of the definition, are a sort of physical hacker, like myself. They use their speed, agility, and memory, to navigate their terrain in order to escape elil, which is exactly the kind of training I had been doing. After seeing the rabbits move, ive learned two new techniques. The "Bunny Under" is how rabbits can squeeze under low objects very quickly, with a technique of putting your arms in front of you, then sort of barely dragging your belly along the floor only using your legs to push forward and your arms and spine as a guide forward. For you Yoga folk, its similar to an Upward Facing Dog, but with your legs tucked in so you can push forward instead of up. The second is the "Bunny Plop" where when on a tall wall you crouch on all fours, then throw yourself to the side (more like fall). Not many people I know can do this, because it is so unnatural for humans the brain instantly goes tharn. As you roll sideways, gravity leads you down and you spin, but, with the right technique you land on your feet. Rabbits tend to do this just to get comfy, throw themselves sideways or onto their back just to get comfy and relax. There I go rambling on about my rabbits again! Sorry about that.
Cheers, Beers, and Bunny Ears!
Here she is, waiting for for the first sight of the children:
picasaweb.google.com/FoxxOTG/OMFGBunnies#5781415915138972626
I was struck by a speeding car, suffered a brain injury, and had to learn how to walk, talk, write, and learn all over again. Doctors are still amazed I can do the things I can do. While I was in rehab I had to learn a lot more about myself, and learn new skills and tricks to become a sociable member of society again. I became very dark, morbid, and angry. My memory was severely impaired, moods would waft over me without warning, and a new world of language had opened up to me... neuro linguistic programming. I was able to see subconscious body language, but it took many years to learn what it meant. Also my memory issues meant I couldnt read books anymore, which was a very harsh acceptance. In fact Watership Down was the last book I have read in the past 4 years.
With what I have been through, and my own personal experience with having a lapine family of my own for 8+ years I can very much relate with rabbits. I never knew how social and psychological they were. I can go on for days about rabbits, I do mean DAYS, but I will save it for other posts. After seeing the move Watership Down, which I still cant believe they had as a childrens movie even by my nearly psychotic morbid tenancies, I saw it was based on a book. I had to nab a copy, and I did! Absolutely fell in love with it. I have read a lot of classics, greek, roman, norse, mythology, even religion, and much of what I enjoyed reading, apart from all the obvious sci-fi stuff a technophile such as myself would certainly be into, the book Watership Down was a beautiful amalgamation of many familiar classic stories, mixed in with a lot of adventure that stems from being forced to make a change.
After I was left a cripple with a TBI unable to tend to my natural states, having to re-learn how to live life in a new way, Bigwig refusing to burrow, the bunns' not knowing how to make a warren, not knowing what is out beyond the woods. What it meant to "Float" and a lesson I still have a hard time to this day, how to sense friend from enemy. This is something I can personally understand through real world experience. If you saw me now you would never have thought what hardships ive been dealt, the horrors ive seen, and the undefined poetry that sparks though my mind in a language that does not exist, and I can not express. I am by heart a hacker, by that I mean I explore, understand, and improve a system. I mainly work on hardware, my paint brush is a soldering iron. My canvas is a circuit board. My poetry is in computer code. But with a classic hacker ethos to do no harm and only make the most of what is available, I didnt sit in a bed and abide by the doctors to not walk again. I learned about the human body as well as I could and I set out to not just regain my abilities but to improve them beyond what is natural. Then I learned about how the brain works, and learned how to use my deficits to my advantage. Its been 15 years now and I still work on developing new tools, in fact, in an ironic sense, I teach! I do an open-source tech show that I take questions the community ask and create tutorials based on our topics of technical interest. I also invite others to do the same. We banded together to create a new online community where outsiders are welcome, and are even pushed to their limits. The whole idea is that together we can do things we would not be able to do on our own. We are a free community to learn, share, and most importantly, grow with the help of each others strong points, while trying to help them strengthen their weak points. Yeah, a lot of WsD similarities with my life. Also with my house rabbits.
So you want to know about the rabbits. Ill post about them later but let me tell you what I have learned from them. Rather, what they have taught me. Rabbits have no voice, they can not speak, thus their language is spoken in body. The pose, poise, even ear positions mean something. They certainly do like their tricks, and they are quite cunning! I very much enjoyed making treat-toys for them only to have them find a loophole in my design to get right to the treats instead of batting it around getting one out at a time. No matter how hard we try to keep them out of my electronics lab, or away from areas they could find some sort of human harm, they always ALWAYS find a way. Their ability to learn and memory are impeccable. My rabbits knew their names, words, sounds, and even special whistle commands (which I used during my time in my own Owsla).
Though they have cages its not their home, its their personal burrow, their den, its there they can feel safe. Rabbits naturally love to explore, and the youngsters love to get into trouble!! So they have a cage but they are always let out. They are strict creatures of habbit and have an impeccable sense of timekeeping. On a daily basis they would know when I came home from work, when I woke up. In fact one of my bunns loved to come out of the cage ay 8:30AM every morning, she would rattle her door until let out... she found her way to the window, which for a rabbit is quite the feat of agility, a hop to the couch, wall run across the back, a leap to a book case, and a short reach to the window, and she would watch all of the families walking their children to school. When I saw this is what she wanted, I made an easier path, and knew she liked to watch them. It became a spectacle for the familys too! Every day they would always see the bunny in the window and wave to her. To and from school, every day. Rabbits taught me new physical feats as well. Seeing the young ones do their runs is much like modern day Parkour. Seems to me, rabbits in an ethos of the definition, are a sort of physical hacker, like myself. They use their speed, agility, and memory, to navigate their terrain in order to escape elil, which is exactly the kind of training I had been doing. After seeing the rabbits move, ive learned two new techniques. The "Bunny Under" is how rabbits can squeeze under low objects very quickly, with a technique of putting your arms in front of you, then sort of barely dragging your belly along the floor only using your legs to push forward and your arms and spine as a guide forward. For you Yoga folk, its similar to an Upward Facing Dog, but with your legs tucked in so you can push forward instead of up. The second is the "Bunny Plop" where when on a tall wall you crouch on all fours, then throw yourself to the side (more like fall). Not many people I know can do this, because it is so unnatural for humans the brain instantly goes tharn. As you roll sideways, gravity leads you down and you spin, but, with the right technique you land on your feet. Rabbits tend to do this just to get comfy, throw themselves sideways or onto their back just to get comfy and relax. There I go rambling on about my rabbits again! Sorry about that.
Cheers, Beers, and Bunny Ears!
Here she is, waiting for for the first sight of the children:
picasaweb.google.com/FoxxOTG/OMFGBunnies#5781415915138972626
