Sem

About me:

Wikipedia defines it as this...

Search engine marketing, or SEM, is a form of Internet marketing that seeks to promote websites by increasing their visibility in search engine result pages (SERPs). According to the Search Engine Marketing Professionals Organization, SEM methods include: search engine optimization (or SEO), paid placement, and paid inclusion.

Google defines it as this...

The Society for Experimental Mechanics, originally called The Society for Experimental Stress Analysis, was founded in 1943 as a nonprofit scientific and educational organization with the original goal to "further the knowledge of stress and strain analysis and related technologies." In the years since its founding, SEM has continued to adapt itself to the needs of the members in the experimental mechanics community. The members of SEM encompass a unique group of experimentalists, development engineers, design engineers, test engineers and technicians, and research and development scientists from industry and educational institutions.

I define it by Sogyal Rinpoche's definition, from his book "The Tibetan Book of Living and Dying"...

There are many aspects to the mind but two stand out. The first is the ordinary mind, called by the Tibetans 'sem'. One master defines it: "That which possesses discriminating awareness, that which possesses a sense of duality-which grasps or rejects something external-that is mind. Fundamentally it is that which can associate with an "other"-with any 'something' that is perceived as different from the perceiver. Sem is the discursive, dualastic, thinking mind, which can only function in relation to a projected and falsely perceived external reference point, that being Me. When one has fully recognized that the nature of one's mind is the same as that of it's master, from then on one and the master can never be seperate because the master is one with the nature of one's mind, always present, as it is. So Sem is the mind that thinks, plots, desires, manipulates, that flares up in anger, that creates and indulges in waves of negative emotions and thoughts, that has to go on and on asserting, validating and confirming its 'existence' by fragmenting, conceptualizing, and solidifying experience.

This profile is where I do my selfish work.

Where I stroke my deep evil desires.

This is how I use MySpace.

My name is Chris but you can call me asshole. Everyone else does.

I am probably insane.

I am trying to become a paid writer.

I really enjoy writing bad screenplays and children's books.

I really hate writing mass mailings of snail mail and waiting for responses that I never get.

I hate getting drunk and bothering famous people on MySpace but once in a while it happens.

Recently, I've begun writing a really bad screenplay inspired by the comedy of Doug Stanhope. (He has a MySpace page, check him out if you already haven't.) My screenplay is supposed to be a dark dramedy currently titled "My Last Day in Vegas."

I have a rough draft in the works of a screenplay inspired by Steve Agee. He likes the movie "Meatballs" and so do I so I figured, what the hell, I'll waste some more of my time writing shit that will never be seen.

Current finished works are posted in my blogs.

These endeavors towards my delusion of becoming a writer help me to waste my life away.

That and my chores.

And I like to eat.

And I'm an ordained minister.

And I'm a porch monkey.