Hi. I feel a bit of "horny" right now (sorry, it's not an appropriate word, actually) so I decided to share one of those "coincedence stories". And yeah, the title of this post is not relevant to coffee, again.
Aight. I don't know exactly where to start. I'm not going to excuse for my poor personality like in other posts, so I'll probably start with a rather brief note about how I got into this. Into all of this synchcro-non-nonsense. You see, back in school I've read first of the Illuminatus! books by RAW and Robert Shea. If you know what it's all about, you probably don't know s%@t, so sit down now, won't you? /*just kidding*/ OK, so why did I read the book? There were plenty of reasons, but the main one was the number. The number 23, of course. Now, it's a long story (about me and the number 23), probably a size of a book, so let's skip it now. What's important here, is that this connection (between the number and the Illuminatus! trilogy) is used in the 1998's german movie "23" by Hans-Christian Schmid about a computer hacker from Hannover, Karl Werner Lothar Koch (took that from Weekeepudia).
It's a long story, so get some patience!
Aight. I don't know exactly where to start. I'm not going to excuse for my poor personality like in other posts, so I'll probably start with a rather brief note about how I got into this. Into all of this synchcro-non-nonsense. You see, back in school I've read first of the Illuminatus! books by RAW and Robert Shea. If you know what it's all about, you probably don't know s%@t, so sit down now, won't you? /*just kidding*/ OK, so why did I read the book? There were plenty of reasons, but the main one was the number. The number 23, of course. Now, it's a long story (about me and the number 23), probably a size of a book, so let's skip it now. What's important here, is that this connection (between the number and the Illuminatus! trilogy) is used in the 1998's german movie "23" by Hans-Christian Schmid about a computer hacker from Hannover, Karl Werner Lothar Koch (took that from Weekeepudia).
...so?
OK, that was important, because other parts won't make any sense w/o that. So, back in my school days, I've read that 1st book of the trilogy, and also read bits and pieces from RAW (on the interweb) about the number, and by doing so I've also found some info about the movie with J. Carrey as well as about that movie mentioned above. For "The Number 23", I even bought a DVD almost instantly (was my first movie where Carrey played something different from Ventura and Mask, I think). The german movie - I haven't watched it up until this month.
Eleven years back from now, on March, 2nd, my brother was born. It was an extremely significant event in my life, from any standpoint. I was 13 y.o. back then, and this event was, politely saying, unusual, to me. I've grown as an only child in the family, after all. Since that day, I went through a very large spectre of feelings, and, how some people say, "personal mumbo-jumbo" about my role in his youth, and my life in general, and what my purpose might be, and long-long list of things. Of course, I cannot lie here: I was angry at times, some times it was completely unnecessary, but one way or another, we are where we are now, and my brother is my #1 friend now and a person who understands me, and knows how to cheer me up when I hit the ground. In other words, I don't know what my life would be now without him (I thought I knew, but I was severely mistaken). Well, why is I'm saying this here, would you guess?
March 1st, 2016. I've bought a present for him, on Stea-I-hate-this-glitchy-eam, which is, a game about Nyan Cat. Yup. An internet meme. So, the game was originally developed for handheld devices, but made it's way to PC on Vaalve's stim on Dec 4, 2015. He saw it back in 2015 in an advertise, and I was near. We laughed at it a bit, but, somehow, I felt he might like this game. I had no idea about the features of the game back in the day, but prior buying it for his BD, I checked the screenshots and the description and so it said a number of fun things, one of which was customization. And it was available for all kinds of operating systems (Win, Mac and Linux). Here I also must go over another fact related to brother's birthday, and this will be about his notebook. See below.
Operational system
Alright, we're getting close now, hang on. So, I'll try to put it as short as I could... //Dam, it's hard!
This dates back to when I was still working at that factory. As I stated in other posts, I was living separately from my parents at those times, and so I had to plug in internet there myself, while back at home I had it turned off (I decided to cut the cable for the time being as the room where I lived was rented by neighbours) /*Ugh, it's so complicated*/. Why, the point is that ME, myself, I - had interwebs at the flat I was living in, while back at my home, parents and brother had no working ethernet cable. So, my dad decided to fix that. He said he had a decent offer from a large (other) ISP, and so it was cheap, and fast, and whatever. I did not care all that much. Some "tech guy" went to the house and plugged notebook into webs, as mom says. The connection required to enter some login name and password, which is rare for most of these days' ISPs, but, again, I didn't care /*I should have, though*/.
This dates back to when I was still working at that factory. As I stated in other posts, I was living separately from my parents at those times, and so I had to plug in internet there myself, while back at home I had it turned off (I decided to cut the cable for the time being as the room where I lived was rented by neighbours) /*Ugh, it's so complicated*/. Why, the point is that ME, myself, I - had interwebs at the flat I was living in, while back at my home, parents and brother had no working ethernet cable. So, my dad decided to fix that. He said he had a decent offer from a large (other) ISP, and so it was cheap, and fast, and whatever. I did not care all that much. Some "tech guy" went to the house and plugged notebook into webs, as mom says. The connection required to enter some login name and password, which is rare for most of these days' ISPs, but, again, I didn't care /*I should have, though*/.
Problems started to pop-up when mom had her social network page hacked. That happened in the beggining of 2016, so I was already living back at my room and, of course, I had my ISP plug that old cable back online. Anyway, mom's page. Someone logged into her profile, and sent PMs to her friends, while the message itself was something like "I'm in tough situation please gimme some moneys". As soon as she noticed, she asked me to help, so we, together, changed her PW, added two-factor authentification (SMS codes to login), tweaked some security settings, etc. However, it did not stop there. Apart from reports from mom about stange browser behaviour, everything seemed to be fine. So, I decided it was some kind of malware, and installed some utilities to clean up the notebook. One day, I surfed web on the notebook myself, and noticed that adware didn't go anywhere, and was still there. So, I decided to check everything once again - and, oh f@$k - I opened up "My Computer" (Notebook's OS was Win7 Pro) and, shortly afterwards, "My Network". And... There were two machines specified. One was, of course, the notebook itself. The other machine called VLADIMIR. So, wow, great. Someone had remote access, all the time while that cable was in. Without any hesitation, I plugged it off.
From that moment, they had no web, again. There were alternatives, or so I thought. I thought that wi-fi signal from my router was covering the area large enough, so they could connect the notebook and their smartphones into my wi-fi network, but the signal was too bad... And yet, we had no idea if the notebook itself had some sinsiter code in it still, already infected. After rather short round of debates, we made a decision to wipe out the system back to it's "factory state". However, I wasn't careful enough, and it indeed returned to factory state, meaning: the notebook now had no OS. Which was unfortunate, but yet, managable. For the time being, I decided we should give a try to a free OS such as a Linux-based system called Ubuntu. "It is a temporary solution" - I said. Now, I'm not that much of a tech-guy (if I was, probably we could've evaded most of that mess with cheap internet ISP), so it was a bit challenging to install that system to a "clean" notebook. I did it, however. Some workarounds with Ubuntu itself were required, though /*Hello, Terminal!*/. But, without much of a headache, everything worked. I rushed with the installing of the OS in the beggining of March, because at the time the notebook was just staying there at the table without any use. And, brother's BD was just around the corner, so I wanted to get his machine back.
Dude, wtf?
Well, so far it seems like a f@%kload of disconnected bs. What we went over, again? So, that german 23 movie, my brother's BD, the Nyan Cat: Lost in Space game, the notebook and it's OS (Ubuntu)... Alright, I think we got all the pieces needed. Oh wait, no. We also need to include here my "Owl story". Yeah. It is described in my previous posts. Briefly, it goes like this: I saw an owl, took a photo, uploaded it with a caption, then, long time after, randomly stumbled upon a video on utub and it was about owls and UFOs. Am I such a weirdo? Well, if you need a bit more detailed review, check my previous posts from early 2016.
OK, OK, it's been too long! Here's the punchline.
At march 4th, two days after brother's birthday, my old good friend called me and invited to be his guest. Unlike me, he got a job, and he had a free day. So, I bought some chips and drinks, and met him at his flat (well, not exactly his - he also rents a room, like a lot of young peoples here). After some talk and browsing some utube videos, he said something like: "I'd like to watch that "Number 23" film with Jim Carrey", and I'm like: "Have you not seen it?" He replied no, he saw it, but he wanted some second thoughts and stuff. And then - Jing! - I go with: "Hey, how about to watch another movie about the number 23? I bet you haven't seen that one". That's right. That german movie. He didn't want to watch it, at first. I convinced him it would be good to see a film that will be new to both of us, however. So, we did browse some sites for other movies to watch, but, in the end, I encouraged him to watch 23, and we started to watch it.
I'm not going to review that movie here, it's not my goal, for now. Thing is, seeing that movie about hackers in late 80s hacking some serious installations and selling information for money... Well, it triggered something, huh. My friend said, after watching 23: "Hey, I know a better movie about hackers, it's awesome!", and, after quick search, he launched "Who Am I - Kein System ist sicher" /*this one also german, he he he*/. And, now, the reason why I wasted another hour of my life compiling all this text here. Upon certain scene, in the movie, I see one character describing one certain event of the film, naming the number 23, and showing footage where an OWL-LOOKING Nyan Cat meme is playing on loop on the monitor due to hacker attack. WHAT?!?!?!
Well, you may be wondering: what's so special about it? What does it mean? My reply will be: "The f**k I know? I HAVE NO IDEA". It's just a stange compilation of very different events that happened in my life, flashed in a movie I'd probably never watch myself. The number 23, the hacking proccess (or remote access, in general), the "terminal interface" /*or command line interface, generally*/, Nyan Cat, Owl, security breach... This doesn't make any sense, right? And I would understand you, if we cut away last two months of my life. All of these coincedences wouldn't have any meaning to me. More than this, I wouldn't even try to find any clue. With that being stated, and if you are not me, you can't comprehend how funny and mysterious at the same time it was. It was just a brief flash, but it was a very rich experience that I cannot comprehend at all with my rational mind /*if I even possess one*/.
Whatever it was, it was (at the very least level) a rich theatrical experience, as I experienced it. Ugh, sorry for my poor handling of words, but I don't know how to describe it other way. For some sort of "proof" I've just made two screencaps from that movie I watched with my friend, so just my words won't be completely bare. Also, keep in mind I did not made up my stories, it all happened, and I tried to describe those events as brief as possible. Some kind of synopsis, if you will. I'm 100% sure you won't dig this up yourself, but there is, actually, quite a HUGE F*$#ING LOAD of coincedences related to the number 23 alone, and it's actively being used by different media (Max Headroom TV show, for example). Something is definately going on, but I'm not sure I want to find out what exactly. And, as always I do remember, nothing is true. Hue Hue Hue.
Here are those pics. //Internet such a place to find anything, huh
Thanks for attention.
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