BigSmoke

I am BigSmoke. For a moment, let's just prentend this doesn't have something to do with drugs. Problems. In the past I might have made too much of a hobby of them, inhaling more and deeper than I could, leaving no breath for…

Most things that interest me now—such things as included on this page—are not the things I really care about. What I ultimately like are living things. The rest just tends to get in the way. Whether this is a good thing or bad depends…

If you want things to change, I can help you. I have strength. On the photo, I'm seventeen. In the meantime, I got power.

To help you, I need inspiration, or some huge compensation otherwise. I'm expensive, I am. Read on if you want to learn to inspire me.

Me. This page is about me and the things I like. I like being me. This is an advert. If you like what you see, get in touch. If I like what I see, you can touch me. Or we fight. I like fighting.

What I don't like is being contacted for bullshit reasons, such as “Great Opportunities” and “unique offers”. Fuck off with that. Or we get back to the fighting.

For the suits, there's my curriculum vitae.

Ik bin in Nörg geboren. Non woon ik in Ol' Eel, vlakbie Grûnn. Moar in tuschentied heb 'k ook nog in Oosternijlaand, Woagenbörg, Grûnn, en zölfs in 't zuden, in Roermond gezeten en een toerlang nog meer noar 't zuden, allendal in 't boetenland (Frankriek).

't Hoes waarin ik woon hiet “De Olde Melenstien”. A-j wilt, ku-j doar slaopen, veur betaoling.

I kick ass. Seriously… The photo is done after a Wushu (kung fu) demonstration for Yamaha with the Aihato demo team. Aihato is the kung fu club where I've been taught lots of impractical show stuff, called taolu (套路) in Chinese.

If you join Aihato, you can also be trained in taolu. We do MMA (Mixed Martial Arts) training too.

If I'm not doing martial arts or sitting on my bum updating this text, I can usally be found walking, running, swimming, climbing, jumping, cycling, skating, or trying to do a hand stand.

Wilderness

I'm a wild ape and civilization is a bad joke I didn't get the punchline of. Tell me I'm crazy; it's pretty much the same for you. Let me tell you one thing: we're both messed-up monkeys and we need to wonder where we did mess up.

We were succesfull in taming the world, taming the beast within. We've become docile and compliant, but we haven't become happier by leaving behind our animal-like tribal nature.

By destroying the wilderness around us we've lost the silence within us. We're obsessed by structure but nothing will ever really fit until we realize that all the structure that we need is what's already within us.

My dad is an evolutionary biologist who believes in the evolution of consciousness towards conscious evolution. Borrowing from Teilhard de Chardin, he calls this transition Point Omega.

In his time, he has done some research into learning behaviour and population cycles. This, combined with a lot of reading—too much of which has been about enlightenment and spiritual awakening—has given rise to his scientifically-sounding version of the familiar new-age.

Myself, I'm not of the scientific inclination, but I've created an on-line stage to put his theories to the test. If you're the truth-seeking type, you might find something there that you like.

Six kids. Two parents, separated now. The nuclear family is a fantasy, not a family. My mom's ambition was to just have a big, happy family, but she wasn't happy. Besides, my dad had bigger plans, plans to change the world. The world wouldn't change, but his family did. We fell apart and hate carved its distance.

The way to change a world is to change its people. But, would we change just to accommodate someone's lack of people skills? If, if… Even if we would, we couldn't. Hate for human nature will not change the human, only suppress its behavior. Monkey wants to be free!

Jorrit can do anything you want him to do. He's currently for hire.

This website is rather peculiar as far as websites go. It doesn't have a common “theme”, “vision” or even a consistent “house style” for its pages. That is intentional; it is done on purpose. I'm not much of a believer in technology, but I believe that information technology could one day dissolve the boundaries in this world. That is, if we first remove the boundariesbarriers from information technology.

I particularly don't want this current page to have a “visual identity” because it's meant to be a presentation of what's of interest to me, stuff both hosted inside and outside of this website. And what does that mean, hosted on this website? I have no clue. Does that mean answering to GET request with their Host header set to www.bigsmoke.us?

• AJAX validation on Rails
• Extensible Bookmark Exchange Language (XBEL)
• PHP templates: Smarter sans Smarty
• PHP template processor in 1 function
• Pure PostgreSQL unit tests – test and debug pgsql constraints and procedures/functions
• Readline shortcuts

I'm not a believer in “intellectual property” or any other of that copyright nonsense. Richard Stallman is the man to explain this to you if you belong to a fossilized branch of dinosaurs who just can't get along with the times. As far as I'm concerned, I'll limit myself to laughing in the face of fucking fools who think that they can own creative ideas or any fucking sequence of bits and bytes. You're extinct, but to fucking stupid to realize it. I'd say that I'd vote for the Pirate Party if I lived in Sweden, but I don't need to live in fucking Sweden to see some stinking dinausors rot in the anguish of their final cramps to regain control over a lost cause.

Until your hopelessly crappy control systems are dismantled, all the stuff on this website (including text, photographs, audio files, and any other original works) is licensed under a Creative Commons licence, unless otherwise stated.