Pi in the Sky

F.A.Q.

Seeing that people is making/will make me questions, I’d rather put some answers here instead of answering the thousands dozens couple of emails I received, or expanding other pages even more with senseless blurb.

Question: How do I contact you?
Answer: At the top of every page, where it says contact. Don’t expect a reaction from me, but miracles do exist…

Q: Letters are too small, can’t you make them larger?
A: You can buy a larger monitor, change your screen resolution, or press control + and control - (those are the plus and minus keys in your numeric pad while holding the control key) to enlarge or shrink the font size in your browser.

Q: What kind of stuff do you write?
A: You’re thinking of short stories and poetry, literature in prose or in verse. I did some of that many years ago, but I don’t have the concentration and persistence to finish anything. I mainly write articles and essays about variated stuff, from movies reviews to criticism of today’s society.

Q: What are those flashes in the logo?
A: Actually they’re not just random flashes. It’s an image from Cassiopeia A, the remnants of a supernova which exploded more than three centuries ago, in the sky area of the Cassiopeia Constellation. What looks like dirt is the cloud of the supernova, and the flashes are actual stars around the supernova, magnified by the Hubble telescope. The original image is much more beautiful seen altogether. And it’s simply that I wanted to have a real starry background for the logo of this site.

Q: Why don’t you put videos, music and…?
A: This is not MySpace (ick!) nor YouTube. I know I’m some years behind of the blogging phenomenom, and I intend to keep that way. I don’t like Web 2.0, not interested in Social Media, and I don’t trust diggs or del.icio.usness. This site will not be better if you have to load a picture slideshow, an mp3 and a video whenever you enter the frontpage. I actually think the site is overloaded as it is, as my first intention was to do something very minimalistic. Until I saw Vistered Little, of course.

Q: Why don’t you want direct contact with your friends, yet you spend a lot of time writing all this crap and maintaining this site?
A: That answer is too complex and personal to be said here. Right now I’m at a delicate moment in my life, and I don’t really want direct contact with anyone(for an indefinite amount of time) be it phone, email, forums… Yet I have a need to keep writing and saying things, that’s the reason I started to build this site in this moment of my life.

Q: Why do you keep your name secret?
A: Because it would be misused. I’m not paranoid that you will blackmail me or anything, it’s simply that my name is hard to comprehend by the people around me, so it would be harder for overseas people with a different language. I’m tired of being called by names which are not mine. That was one of the reasons I adopted the nick Pi in real life, long before I discovered FidoNet and internet.

Q: Where are you from?
A: Jupiter.

Q: Seriously, where are you from?
A: I told you, from Jupiter.

Q: What is Unimultiverse?
A: Unimultiverse is 42. 42 is the Answer to The Ultimate Question Of Life, the Universe and Everything. Or better said, it’s not. It’s just a section with my views on many things, from the four main branches of modern philosophy (ethic, metaphysic, epistemology and logic), wisdom, nature, love and all that, to critics towards today’s society, the meaning of life (or lack of such meaning), my cat or why women are so attractive. It is not universal or multiuniversal, but unimultiversal.

Q: What are koans/what are those stupid nonsense sentences?
A: Koans are sentences, questions or dialogues in the Zen tradition to help with the enlightement of oneself or others. I discovered them while reading the dialogues with Ummon in the Hyperion Cantos saga. Perverted from their original meaning, I use koans to reveal/hide some of my thoughts in a very cryptic way. It’s not my intention that any of them is understandable (albeit some are glaringly obvious). Don’t try to get any meaning out of them, they’re misleading. And they probably have no meaning at all. If they had it when I wrote them, I already forgot it.

Q: I like your site. Give me your site so I can make my own site without writing any PHP line.
A: That’s not a question. But if you know a bit of setting up a PHP application, and some MySQL to upload an already made database, I can give you the skeleton of my site so you can do what you want with it. The problem is, I’m not going to give you tech support about it, so if you want to change the logo, substitute wallpapers or place new options/features/things, you’ll have to learn by yourself.

Q: Man, you’re mean.
A: I’m not. Just because I don’t want to do what you want me to do, or say what you want me to say, doesn’t mean I’m mean. If you think it means that I’m mean, then it means that you’re mean.

Q: Why? What? How? Where?
A: Contact me and if the planets align appropiately, I might answer.

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