Blog by Sumana Harihareswara, Changeset founder

21 Mar 2012, 9:23 a.m.

Non-Patent-Encumbered Web Video Dream

Hi, reader. I wrote this in 2012 and it's now more than five years old. So it may be very out of date; the world, and I, have changed a lot since I wrote it! I'm keeping this up for historical archive purposes, but the me of today may 100% disagree with what I said then. I rarely edit posts after publishing them, but if I do, I usually leave a note in italics to mark the edit and the reason. If this post is particularly offensive or breaches someone's privacy, please contact me.

Dreamed last night about a series of web videos created and distributed by an anarchist educational collective, filmed on a set meant to evoke thoughts of Oxford/Cambridge/Hogwarts, and with circus-style feats of strength and skill. And science. I guess it was a cross among Steve Yegge, Bill Nye the Science Guy, Cirque du Soleil, and Khan Academy. Oh and it was partially funded by the People's Republic of China, and I think much of the dialogue was in Chinese dubbed or subtitled into English.

Also dreamed that one of the founders was Zach P., that guy I'd had a crush on in middle school but whom I haven't seen in a decade. We compared notes; he focused on underground work, glad it never hit the authorities' radar. I'm with Wikipedia, and say "outreach" a lot, and our free licensing positively invites commercial reuse. Zach was an old punk now, hair highlighted in green and orange but faded wrinkled black shirt mirroring the faded wrinkles on his face. "Women leave me," he confessed. A Dutch couple walked by. "I give all my time to the school." I felt bad for him. Also at this point I remember a sense of grand ecstatic revelation that this is an allegory for the browser wars but upon awakening I don't think that makes sense.

Comments

Brendan
21 Mar 2012, 15:22 p.m.

Hahahaha! I've experienced that too. The fact that grand ecstatic revelations can be triggered in dreams by things that are neither grand nor ecstatic tells me an uncomfortable amount about how my brain works.

Avram
http://agrumer.livejournal.com/
21 Mar 2012, 20:31 p.m.

I think that beats mine. I just dreamed that I was running a backup and accidentally restored from the backup drive to the main drive, and didn't notice till it was almost done.