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last updated 05/14/09
May 10, 2009
"Cheraz" - Subtle revolutionary, visionary and healer.
Helping the world code by code and blog by blog, he bridges channels of poetics and left-hemisphere logic. His tendency towards cyborg evolution aside, he remains strongly human and reconfigures Codes using his mortal fingers.
Further, in person he reaches out with his energetic fields and unlocks Grids: opening hearts, unleashing the raw potentiality of dance floor evolution AND inspiring the critical analysis of self and community.
The magic of his Darkness is a unique Light offered unto the hearts of those who know him.
If he had a middle name, his could easily be Honesty.
And even with his mirror for admiring his good looks, he is a humble star up in the sky of humanity.
If his heart was any bigger or softer... well, I can just say... look out world, this is gonna get messy!
A Friend Always -- Shiraz, I bless the gifts you offer the world and I empower you to learn healing for what pains you as you help unlock the secret codes to bliss.
October 21, 2007
i like closing my eyes and trancing out with an individual like shiraz rocking out next to me.
it's pretty awesome.
July 28, 2007
shiraz is a true bringer of lighte
channeling it in from far away galaxies
to beam at you from across the dance floor
his smile never fails to melt my heart
and put me in the best of moods
i'm honoured to know him
and call him my friend
February 9, 2006
shiraz,
soul brother,
and an instant connection
in this incarnation.
the sweetest of giggles,
most genuine smile,
those de-ja view eyes,
that i've known a long while.
he listens,
he councils.
tru confidante,
tru friend.
all beautiful
all bountiful
so gracious
so real.
December 19, 2005
Shiraz is one of my most Far-Out friends! i love him!
Shiraz is definately extra-terrestrial! he is a kelidescopic Light Being from the stars! just having a deep conversation with him will show you that!
being with him on the d*floor is like being close to a rod in a lightning storm. he is constantly a vessel for divine energy to download into. you can feel it radiate from his body!
and he has endurance! i remember so many wonderful gatherings and being on the d*floor in the morning dawn (esp at Mile 36) and always seeing my good friend shiraz still dancin with me!
i love to be with him when he channels galactic transmissions, and we've been on many psychedelicious multi-universal explorations together...
if you have the blessing to connect with Shiraz, you will have the opportunity to develop a friendship which will reward you with love, generosity, and mind/spirit expansion...
he's an awesome spiritbrother!
love, Renee
! * POLITICS * !,
! Rumi,
'The Elfinstones'' Gemshop,
11,
akhentek,
Alan Watts,
Apache Web servers,
Bassnymphos,
Conscious Relating,
contraception,
Earthdance Vancouver,
elemental media,
Elvish Nation of Sacred Mt.Elphinstone,
Entheogen Enlightenment Institute,
Faeries & Fools,
future culture,
Galactic Federation,
Hafiz,
High Tech Careers,
Intention Retreat,
nelson/kootenay,
Network Security,
Open Source Software,
portal,
Psychonauts,
Shambhala Music Festival,
Starseed,
Suicidology,
System Administrators,
The In:Vision Future Culture Festival,
Toronto Underground,
tribal harmonix,
Unix Supremacy,
Vote Public Enemy #1,
Year 2012,
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"Pleasant is Shiraz and its incomparable state. Oh lord, preserve it from decline!" - Hafiz
there are repressed faeries in my heart.
they want me to tear my heart open to set them free.
They are my emancipation yet I am their captor.
For me, this feels like blissful agony -- and it characterizes much of this incarnation.
Thanks for being here with me.
My spirit appreciates it of you.
...for who are we if not intelligent?
who are we if not mindful? and diligent?
spirit:mind:body
--=--=--=--=--=--=
my spirit wants to scream for the love of friendship
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I think I've found my new social networking site of choice.
evolver.net is the social networking companion site to realitysandwich.com which is more of a broadcast site.
i'm gonna start blogging on evolver and basically move my profile over, and hope you do too. look for me as "shiraz" on evolver.
basically this is my announcement that I'm phasing out of tribe, for real. if you've enjoyed my writings here please consider joining evolver where the community promises to be lively and e...
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LISTEN: I am NOT unfaithful to the women I go out with. I am honest and loving, and I treat my partners right. The only difference between me and others is that I blog about the challenges of fidelity and commitment, as opposed to hiding it all under the carpet and pretending to be a good boy. So if you're under some rumour-informed notion that I'm a bad boyfriend then try talking to me about it. OKAY?
Wed, April 8, 2009 - 1:54 PM
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i am midpoint
transformation
it has lasted a long ... time...
but not time as radial
it encompasses much of my struggle
the resolution is greater than the struggle
resolve thru paradigm shift
rule #1.
this epiphany has carred me through years and experiences
worlds gigantic and miniature
you are what i call God
always, my heart sits sensitively at the forefront
and my brain operates the machnery
you are my friends, heart and brain!
how did i ever divorce yo...
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by the mind spies,
the cia,
the demonic beasts of control
exhibit a:
facebook
exhibit b:
venue challenges
they know where we're going
they know what we're going to do
and then they send their agents.
so innocent, just like you and me!
dancing! talking! even smokin' dope!
they are amongst us!
---
i am one of them.
they took my mind
they seized it when i was a child
then implanted dreams in me...
...dreams which never could be accomplished,
so that...
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you are the softest pleasure
my heart is agape
Thu, March 5, 2009 - 10:05 PM
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This is my last night in the Sayulita hotel room by the sea.
The waves are so loud, their crashing sound amplified through the open window. The noise is both chaotic and calm, stimulating and meditative.
Mexico in general is loud: the trucks blaring their ads, the barking dogs, the intense volume of the music, the roosters in the morning. The general vibe is relaxed but loud -- a mix of good spirit and boisterousness. The music in particular is noteworthy for its surreality. There app...
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how many kisses are blown in cyberspace
through facebook and tribe
and how many i receive
landing softly on my chest
on my lips
on my forehead
how surreal but true it is
that i can open a panel,
expose a keyboard and a screen
as a portal for my heart.
stop! i hear your resistance already.
but we are *already* cyborgs and
never once did we have to sell our souls or
detach ourselves or
lose touch with nature.
even greater than our ruthless embrace of technology
there is a...
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i sit on sandy beach facing crashing surf,
the soothing sounds of retreating waves, and crashing again.
behind me, an estuary where tropical birds
dive for fish,
rise,
circle,
dive again.
the waves and the birds work in cycles --
as the spin of the earth,
as the orbit of the moon.
but also life is spirals. each orbit brings us higher.
this is the ascenionary process, the subject of our day.
the upward spiral, non-linear, radial evolution
was especially present last week,
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it is not only the crickets and the crashing waves.
these love notes were inscribed at birth.
persian calligraphy.
ask me a question. i will close my eyes
and write for you.
Sun, January 18, 2009 - 1:41 AM
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behind the gateway of language
i have a flood of things i want to say.
doused in thought and feeling
not sure whether to burn it slowly like an oil lamp
or explode it in a fiery array.
i come here to this familiar screen
without any idea of what i'm going to write.
i do not want to burden you with the by-products of my emotional thought processes
for i'd rather be offering you gifts.
there is too much already in this world. too many words, too many products, too much drama, too m...
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I had a proud, fulfilling moment today on my walk home from the beach.
Crossing paths with a middle-aged couple whom I did not know, the man asked.
"I believe I know who you are. Are you the one who wrote the letter to the newspaper?"
of a letter i wrote to the Sooke newspaper about a year ago, which ended up being the firestarter in a successful underdog win to save our access to the beach from the bulldozer.
When I said yes, they applauded! Roundly! Heartfully!
Proudly, I re...
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it's so confusing really, when someone tells you how beautiful you are.
the ego feels vindicated for all its hard work -- all that huffing up the chest and puffing up the shoulders. it's too easy to suck it in, get high on yourself... and fall really, really flat.
it's so easy it's like a trick. for how else can you receive such fanfare? some of it, you can see, is other people's egos, coating themselves in your radiance, but most of it, you can feel, is profound, humble respect. inbetwee...
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by Jen Angel
www.yesmagazine.org/article.asp
In the last few years, psychologists and researchers have been digging up hard data on a question previously left to philosophers: What makes us happy? Researchers like the father-son team Ed Diener and Robert Biswas-Diener, Stanford psychologist Sonja Lyubomirsky, and ethicist Stephen Post have studied people all over the world to find out how things like money, attitude, culture, memory, health, altruism, and our day-to-da...
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indicators of progress
suffussions of syncratic seredendipitous
someone's watching me i can see out of the corner of my eye
i try not to look. reactions are tardant for these divine flames.
all these reflections, an honing of thy skill.
what *would* yoda do? and jesus, and eckhart tolle? my old brother prophet mohammed (peace be upon him), who rode gallantly on a horse.
there are clear indicators of success. they are carrots of the unfolding, beckoning us further, of ourselves, ou...
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Are you looking for a beautiful, spacious place to live?
Do you love nature?
Do you want to live in a room with a view of the ocean and mountains?
Do you hate working job-jobs for others when you could spend that time writing music, making art, doing yoga, or simply meditating by a warm fire?
Do you like to cook yummy vegetarian food?
Do you live with a low eco-footprint?
Do you like to live clutter-free and cleanly?
Do you appreciate good music and a zen vibe?
If yo...
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i know i threatened to leave you for facebook.
and i know you're no longer the place where we all hang out.
but you are the forest.
here, we reflect.
in fact, now that the party has retreated from your woods and returned to the city, you are so much more beautiful.
it is clearer now those of us who are on the same course, as we meet each other along your forest paths, trodding quietly.
Tribe, in you we take refuge from Facebook and its urban traffic.
You might not be the...
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When i'm alone, i tend towards loneliness. When I'm with friends, I tend towards heart-gratification.
This is a response I wrote to Rayann's blog entry, "desolation, relationship, lone words".
( canada.tribe.net/template/...CDetail.vm
I felt it worth reposting (with love for Rayann):
Maybe I'm just not that evolved, b...
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between the lines there are passages which accelerate one's spirit into bliss
underneath the receptacles of life's events are storehouses of calm
written in the books which chronicle weekends are tales of fury-filled love.
i saw endurance and rightful heart toil in her dance floor bliss, and saw a new ally.
the analytics of love are measured in a book tucked away safely on the third floor of the library.
for the gods, love is a science and an art.
there is text and there is moti...
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I'd thought he was gonna be locked up for life or something crazy... check this letter from the fig man himself:
Nov 4th, 2008
Hello to you all (from Tre Arrow)!
Greetings from Herlong, CA. This place is positioned in a valley with mountains surrounding in all directions. Gorgeous sunrises and sunsets have blessed me while sitting barefoot in the grass they only recently planted. Up until about a month and half ago it was all dirt and rocks.
I've been playin' music every day sin...
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*Nice* job on the election, my friends! Nice, NICE!
Obi Nine, Carmen, Howler, and all of you selfless promoters of the right cause, please take more than a few moments to bask in the fruits of your labour!
Still waiting for Victoria's election results. We are *really* hoping to get a bunch of green candidates in there.
In my hometown of Sooke, very sad news with the re-election of our sleazy, two-timing, double-faced, bulldoze-funding, backroom-deal-making, agent of greed, Janet Eva...
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quote:
It's a natural reaction -- and certainly a commonplace media reaction at the moment -- to want to give Barack Obama a "chance." Back off those critical comments, people now say. Fair's fair. Give the President-elect a little "breathing space." After all, the election is barely over, he's not even in office, he hasn't had his first 100 days, and already the criticism has begun.
But those who say this don't understand Washington -- or, in the case of various media figures and pundits...
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Question:
Where did Edgar Cayce, author of The Law of One, Book I, containing conversations with a channeled "social memory complex" known as "Ra" receive his information?
Answer:
"We have explained before that the intelligent infinity is brought into intelligent energy from eighth density or octave. The one sound vibratory complex called Edgar used this gateway to view the present, which is not the continuum you experience but the potential social memory complex of this planetary...
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this alternet article sums it up *really* well:
www.alternet.org/election0...of_obama_/
Quote: The key is whether the activist community is willing to continue on the offensive and take advantage of what may be an unprecedented opening in Washington to affect real change. This is an opportunity that must not be squandered.
toning tweening tuning the action
sploil:ling un:toiling ru:coiling ru:traktion
the tires got weak, the people went to sleep
awakened by death's lull reminded to
~ be here now ~
Wed, November 5, 2008 - 10:48 PM
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system
indian
goddess
consumption
tinker
light
love
the essential companion
we are born to breed
love
living,
strong will
bred in peace
Sat, November 1, 2008 - 7:01 PM
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huddle with strangers
October 6th, 2007
syncopated applications of coincided crop formations.
lightships make serpents in the skies of mexico.
preparation is required — know your kundalini. let your heart and mind come into resonance.
it is easier if you remember that most of society is ego distraction.
especially, prepare for release
as entire knowledge systems will be discarded
and others will be fundamentally upgraded.
cumulatively, it is nothing short of total metamorph...
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pulling on a joint, grabbing the lighter
north york condo, toronto
ontarion overcast sky, mostly hidden
by buildings, glass and concrete
and the walls of my own space
my folks left for india last friday, from the downstairs condo.
i've made re-acquaintances, old friendships -- a grab bag of social experience.
with intention, of course.
what exactly that is, we're *all* trying to figure out.
kid yourself not.
there's a fine line between doubt and exploration.
i barely unders...
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"First, it's sensory and aesthetic," he says. "People experience colors, patterns, intriguing bodily sensations -- what most people think of when they think of the effects of a psychedelic drug. It's not life-transforming, by any means. Beyond that stage, they start dealing with psychodynamic issues -- the sense of self, obstacles, fears. It's very personal." In that stage, people often regress to their childhood and relive emotional episodes with parents, sibling, spouses, and children.
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Finally.
Tue, September 30, 2008 - 8:19 PM
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something i feel
like my love is fragmented
i see this reflected in the number of and mutual independence of my romantic relationships,
it is no wonder that, like others, i yearn
for a unified love.
my (our) dream of a single, lasting, soulmate-like love
is connected to this desire for wholeness
if i am to be frank, i must ask myself,
not, why am i still at this point heart-spread across the universe (for that is a good thing)
but rather, what is it that i long for that caus...
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i thought perhaps that there would be a catch to such love.
must i really feel such tender pain in my heart and soul?
it may have been fair of her to ask it of me,
theoretically i understood,
but even she knew what challenge it represented.
so what to do with this tender heart,
and how to tend to a bruised ego
which may or may not be on my side?
(that being my own)
she realized later that she must send some love to warrant the critique,
and so she did,
packaged beautifully in...
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The theoretical answer is yes. And certainly most people that meditate regularly will tell you that meditation has helped them tremendously.
But in practice, do you, as an outsider notice a detachment from ego and/or an overall improvement in others that meditate?
Just wondering...
Mon, August 11, 2008 - 12:26 PM
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Who else listens to this album? It's effin' good!
Looking for recommendations on other progressive psy.
The Swedish stuff in particular seems to resonate.
Thanks
Sun, August 10, 2008 - 12:03 PM
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angels may mentor you, but god is a teacher that gives you the grade.
i got an A for effort and a C minus for heartache
how life passes by, even as we live it to the fullest.
images on facebook and tribe flush me with something greater than nostalgia.
a lonely kind of love.
these connections, this transcendence --
the verdict is bliss,
with spatterings of surreality
drizzling, drizzling.
indeed, it is precisely when things are going well that we will test you,
sending lovers y...
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this digital apparatus does serve me at 1:11 from the floor of a laundry room next to Shala's temple on Hornby Island
beach fires, warm weather, stunning bays, bike rides through fresh air trails, the full moon.
this marks my first period working as a programmer while outside, with my laptop. there's a good balance to it. i find myself mostly negotiating with people to work less, a positive indicator.
but this time is hardly without challenges. even now my honey is upset with me, and...
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novelty, variance, colour in
how some of it is levelling out,
and some of it is getting wilder.
the most expressive of parties
the solitudinal of retreats
obama the Hope,
or obama the cog?
peak oil --
time to get seriously responsible, start bailing water?
or time to abandon ship? like, let's swim to the next dimension?
with there being so much variation in life,
so many possibilities,
so much diversity in thought and matter
i wish to weave our hearts together
conv...
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Wed, July 2, 2008 - 9:17 PM
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o how this love grows
from flyers to recycling signage to the way we arrange chairs --
the details make the beauty.
from ceremony to workshop to cleansing in the river --
a peek at utopia.
all the fear in the world will never match
this love of present.
love is our guide and our mission. all positive manifestation is derived thereof, as life from the sun.
resounding gratitude to all who worked on Entheos 4 directly, as Byron wrote, and indirectly, as Sijay wrote. (beautifu...
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i've got observational tendencies
social predictions may be getting old
but some things are clear
lucidity practiced on dance floors
whoever thought this was just for fun? ;)
my brain is synchronizing with the Intelligence
i feel as though the shift is already underway.
in saying this, i do recognize how many people, usually but not always from a relatively conservative background, think i'm a flake, or more often, how i'm merely a regular guy just flaking out. those perception...
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Fully cuz I'm stoked on this, I wanted to plug this new soy milk maker -- www.soymilkquick.com/soyquic...930p.php . Seriously something of a revolution this new model (more below).
I recently purchased their older model ($100 delivered from Ebay or you can find it around).
Benefits:
1. pays for itself in no time -- it works out to *tiny* fraction of the cost of buying commercial soy, rice, or almond milk.
2. taste -- fresher, definitely better than the store-bou...
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<<begin transmission: 620-2008-A>>
this is star captain dreamweaver calling all light warriors, offworlders, astral travellers and outer realm journeyers
please be advised the lightship entheos, generation 2 is set to launch in T-14 days and counting
celestial priestess starrchild reports we have received final clearance from the etheric realms and all higher dimensional energy beings and planetary consciousnesses are ready and eagerly waiting to receive our voyage
lightcommander ...
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then maybe your kids won't die
Thu, June 5, 2008 - 12:51 PM
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I just want to plug truthout.org, a site with high quality, non-corporate, and non-commercial news (mostly U.S. focussed). I've been going there for years, but lately they're really ramping up -- massive readership and constant stream of quality news. They're a good example of the internet democratizing the media.
For all mine and others' skepticism, it's rather apparent that we're on the cusp of massive political change.
visit www.truthout.org
man's got a hold on me
stripped me bare through my jeans
yet in my dreams
nothing's confusion
everything is bare
system's indoctrination
i wish not to heed
programmed uncertainty
deliverance from pain
situation's a rub
my loss, their gain
substituted my virtues
with refelections on style
i sold my soul
to the gods of the wild
Tue, May 27, 2008 - 7:39 PM
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Rising oil prices, global food shortages and the economic crisis are proof for many survivalists that society is on the brink of meltdown. But are their predictions all gloom and doom - or a chance to create new communities?
www.guardian.co.uk/society/...ssilfuels
Extract:
Hopkins does possess survival skills, and he thinks they're important. "Bushcraft training is very useful. It's very empowering, learning to eat the things that are around you." But the...
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I took down my last blog by Tom's request. I wanted to thank you for your well-thought out responses, which have helped me along. To Mike I say that I don't need to get over myself -- I'm just seeking out a balanced response to the flood of simultaneous light and dark realities that we're all encountering, in this case the dark as encoded in mass starvation and the light as encoded in 2012 mythology. The 'either light or dark' response doesn't work for me. Both are real and both need to be en...
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$450-$475 per room (inclusive), or cook or clean in exchange for rent. Available now.
My current roomie is pursuing his dreams, opening up spring time possibilities here at my house.
** Click on theshiraz.net/sooke/ for the properly-formatted ad with pictures. **
OFFERING
• house - pictures pasted here shortly.
......o zen, spaciousness.
......o views
............o house is built on a rock face
............o everywhere large windows looking out at nature. ...
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pathetic attractions
dignity restored without the faith
politicians dig dictions without respect
the trinity,
love, hate and glee
summons, the story
precipitous times indeed
truth is in word
but not always heard
spoken in beauty oft-ignored
evaporation crafts vapours across your chin
respect,
sd
Mon, April 14, 2008 - 12:45 AM
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Hidy ho my euphemistically-happy, living on the edge of total system collapse, digging into the soil, dancing by the fire, trancing by the light of the moon friends!!
I just wanted to brag about the site we just re-launched: www.postcarbonbooks.com. I've been working like a dog on it for a while now, subcontracting to an awesome open-source outfit called Affinity Bridge. Ahhhhhh the feeling of completion! Well, near completion. It still actually needs to be designed (I'm a coder, not a des...
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