as often, gets softer on downsampling (preview zoom out),
gold to mist. last dusk, the sidewalk took a beautiful pale green cast. a few minutes on into it Eric asked me what color my cat was and I couldn't say. He suggested blue, and reminded us of old films shot through blue filters to get a night time feeling. I mentioned the refinding of Cornell's Rose Hobart- an excited evening as
I understand it filled with projections on ceilings (a favorite mental holodeck program of mine) and floors, and through colored glass, as Cornell himself used to do. I've tried a variety of colored gels, but don't have any glass to hand as of yet

In Training

THERE IS NO OTHER VICTORY

Everyone will tell you you're wrong. As the captain, like we see Picard commanding Jake Kurland, there is only one victory.
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for those who have seen but do not recall Picard commanding Kurland, recall now that during an episode-long probing review of his leadership ability and loyalty to, and vision of, the ideals of Starfleet, all were surprised by young Kurland's impulsive theft of a shuttle-craft to 'run away'. While the lead investigator blocks his view of the situation and continually harasses him with disparagements of his ability, Picard adresses himself to Kurland, who has lost control of the stolen shuttle and is heading for seemingly assured destruction. Picard, over the shouts of the inquisitor, commands Jake with only words through space to take the absolute wrong action in the opinion of every other sentient aware of the situation including Jake himself: to fly directly at the planet below.

PREVIEW OF NEW COMP

liner notes here

I should note here that the entire series of new comps is dedicated to Rey Freeman King, whose comps I used to buy at the Ashby flea market as a kid opened my imagination. The print versions of these come inscribed with sharpie by XYZ-plotter running font data abstracted from Rey's handwriting from those old cassettes and VHSes. He has a single stroke capital 'E' like a backwards '3'. right fashion sense

PREVIEW OF NEW COMP

NEGATIVE MAGNETIC AURA HOVERCRAFT

Freedom between
the strands of the mesh
of law

Freedom in the space
created by the presence
of laws

intersection of sidewalk and driveway. Standing in the crosswalk during the walk phase. Standing at the tip of the corner facing the walk phase tickles like a true smile

TAOIST MONARCHY

INVADE. DAMAGE. OCCUPY
ATTACK. BLOOD. REVENGE
SUPERION. COMMAND. DESTROY
TRIUMPH. GENOCIDE. ANTICHRIST
VICTORY. INTOLERANCE. MASTERY
INFILTRATION. DOWNFALL. DEATH

The hallmark is one used since 1935, the year the Normandy was launched.

I always eat with only the same one knife, no other utensils.
it's a Christofle Hotel butter knife
Christofle has outfitted the first French transatlantic ships and the great luxury ocean liners. They produced the 45k pieces needed for the running of the Normandy in art deco style. Grand Hotels of Joseph Cornell! Designed in part by Christian Fjerdingstad

I don't wash my knife, I only wipe it with the residue from each meal like blood from a sword, to a high polish.

the next hallmark of 1983

FROM CENTRAL PERK

that's crayola.com twistables
something that used to catch my eye in comic strips when the pattern, plaid or checks or squares, on a character's clothes remained totally flat ignoring volume completely. I used to copy it, and try to do versions with and without, variations . I thought Andy Capp did it, but haven't found a good example.

scrolling down- scrolling up

Holodeck Artist

Friend Max Seeger wrote in to report that riding by Spaghetti Charlie's on his nice bike he found it looking very closed. Then we started to discuss bike geometries, fork rake especially- as it's an old favorite discussion topic of ours (we once built a while-riding-adjustable-geometry BMX bike together and one of the Cosovo-Albanians even helped drive some nails into a being-built-at- the-same time trike. I knew they weren't Armenians. The trike and BMX had a parts donor bike in common)
I imagined again a haptic feedback system supporting me in five places (hands feet and crotch), responding like a bike, but adjustable as to specifics, taking adjustment from some small virtual controls at some of the five points (Twiddlers and combined brake/shift levers always remind me of one another) in various degrees of independence from the mechanics of staying afloat.
The imagination is like the holodeck with 'programs' we return to, perhaps refining them.
[what it means, the moment Lt Reginald Barclay deletes his holodeck programs. I watch him blended with Michael's Jugend]
I posit a program- all black ( nearly. that is, to explore varieties of indistinctness, darkness without form/ gravitation), describing the 5 supports.

lists I'd like #5

images for the cover of Peter Utz's Video User's Handbook made with a Rutt(?-Etra) scan processor

A cover of Halpern's Spectrum Suite graced with a still from one of John Whitney's movies

short palette rotation

feels a little like the philatelic cat exhibit I mentioned but without depth. I would only have noticed after the cat stamp experience; there are many like that.

cat feet

always barefoot for one.
kitty, as I, likes stepping on paper over carpet.
cardboard. casio CZ-1 button field. 12" powerbook keys

I like to feel several layers one on another, shoe on paper on carpet on carpet.
which combine well? longer lists?

clothes stored wrapped in medium stiff paper.
My cat also likes biting and playing with crinkly materials: ribbons, wrapping paper, plastic food packaging, plastic bags. [the sound of boiling tea with milk spattering up onto the hot dry metal sides, the sound of plastic bags.] I tried giving her sheets of dried seaweed, but it's not quite right

Spaghetti Charlie's

spaghetti, tomato sauce with grinded coriander while
1 Allan Bryant - Manon (The Moon) First
2 FAT - Mamihlapinatapel
3 Frankie Bones - Acid Break (from Bonesbreaks volume 3)
4 Rekorder 5.2
talking to Max Seeger
5 Anthony Manning - Chromium Nebulae Two
the Armenians walk in. I'm surprised to see them!
maybe get some checkers ready. and have some fruit liquor ready for when they finish, happily avoiding their gaze
6 Muslimgauze - Basra
[at this time of writing I've just poured the last EKU 28 into the Canberra tankard 6'35"]
Muslimgauze - Azzazin, Sectors 1-9,A-D
until my ride comes

I last saw a Rodger Dean monograph at Central Perk where I used to use http://www.crayola.com/coloring_application/index.cfm.
Thinking about owning a green station wagon reminded me of the coral reef like public seating installation I saw in his book Views as a kid. My parents bought it for me at a garage sale in Davis where we used to go often Sundays. Thinking of several other things from that time: a camel saddle chair. my toys
they have shaped me so much

getting sad. I didn't start out to get sad. I was playing
I was going to write all about crayola twistables
I'll come back later

SPINDLARNAS RIKE !!!!

rolling eyes at dark energy, avoid identification

William Sabiston kindly took me to John Hawk's class a few weeks ago, where he read the synopses off the backs of a couple PBS astronomy VHS cassettes so we could all pick which one to watch. One mentioned Dark Energy, which Hawk was understandably dismissive of, and John Dobson, who's mention prompted a little story about attending one of his telescope building classes at a Berkeley Vedanta temple. He did not mention Dobson's own Dark-Matter-and-Energy-free cosmology, which supposes that as particles approach the edge of the universe, our prediction of their velocity tends towards certainty, that by the uncertainty principal their positions become radically uncertain, allowing them to be no longer at the edge, but anywhere within the universe. [starts avoid identification]

reminds of the drawings the theosophical society clairvoyants made during their subatomic investigations

William mentioned had just come back from Mt Tam and Hawk said something about the last time he'd been there. Talking about looking down from there, a small conflict of spatial models revealed. Hawk naturally orienting himself to absolute directions even inside the video lab with no windows and a convoluted entrance hall, to answer the question. I, and it seemed to me William, following but at a distance of calculation on conjecture, imagining the turns walking out of the building and then looking around. [were we the only three there to have been up Mt Tam?]

and again, during a recap of last class talk about which direction the earth turns, Hawk looked up and around, oriented himself and his pointing firger to what I assume to be north, and only then with his other hand described the motion of the surface about the pointing finger. William and I , along with a few others did the same with our hands, but I don't recall who oriented themselves in the same way. Reminds of some experiments on gender correlated preference for absolute vs relative spatial orientation played out in the windowless basement of Tolman Hall. Back then I heard men use absolute navigation and women relative; it was in the newspaper
psychology.berkeley.edu/resources/EvacDiagrams.pdf
(anechoic chamber pending dismantlement in B50F I think)

[and what was the difference between those that copied Hawk's hands and those that didn't? reminds of a class of Andrea diSessa where he described a public trasportation system consisting of a 100 mile high wheel rolling along very quickly (like a revolution in 3 minutes or something), with seats all along the edge. Asking us to imagine that as the wheel passed us waiting on the platform, the instantaneous zero velocity when our seat touched down cycloid style, getting on, and having a chance to get off every 100π miles (Berkeley to CalArts in 3 hair raising minutes! I am not making this up!-- at the time I didn't know what was a little over 314 miles away or any other information of that type which I now do and question.).. all classmates had private imaginings and then we tried talking about it which was as usual in that class totally disappointing. finally, to seal our fate a kid next to me said something like "it's completely out of our experience to be on a giant spinning object so big we can't detect the curve of it [I had already read Borges by then and thought of him] and spinning so astoundingly fast." I almost laughed out loud that this same person would glibly be able to recite that same with opposite meaning if asked about the earth's motions that second. as it was I said nothing and nothing happened, and I think nothing would have happened even if I had said something.]

so: orientation variety, spatial constructs, isolation, nonidentification

This isn't actually of the series we watched but something I think about from time to time:
pbs.org/deepspace/broadcast/animator.html

[ and was the Gallant Lab in Tolman too?
I never saw any rough shit, but I know now.
FUCK THAT SHIT
negotiationisover.com

my ex- and very favorite neighbor Robert Eschellmann (?sp) used to do some of that work. and laughed about it disgustingly, but also I think disgustedly. I never knew why he quit, but I thought so. He who turned me on to Solzhenitsyn (and so much else) ought to have known right?]

TBA celebration post #6

Stopped by the Junket on yesterday's manic flow, where I only get AERO or EKU 28, depending. Got their last 3 bottles, and their distributor doesn't have more. I poured EKU 28 which I may not see again into the magic Canberra tankard who absorbed the first information it's had besides dust in 15? years overnight. The Junket like the Cheese Board.coop also has a cheese scrap box. Was hoping for Gruyère having discovered that combination years ago, but got 2x Jarlsberg and 2x NORD Gut Kräuter 45% Fetti. Tr. 25g instead. Jarlsberg, EKU 28, toast & marmalade.

american.coop/sites/default/files/

Bay Area Directory of Collectives.pdf 1980

InterCollective Directory of Collectives:

West Coast USA and CAN. 1985

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american.coop/sites/default/files/

Bay Area Directory of Collectives 1970s.jpg

displays the Bay Area in a variable scale I can relate to,

and arizmendibakery.org/pizza?print&mon=12&year=2006 is my favorite calendar.

Any one have these going back to 1997?

arizmendibakery.com/pizza?print&mon=12&year=2006

arizmendi-bakery.org/pizza_schedule.php

there doesn't seem to be a arizmendibakery.coop

but, cheeseboardcollective.coop/Pizza Collective/z.htm
(anyone have these going back to 1985?)

the rhythm of movement in the lilac uniform

Fuck J B this is Rey King !!

Rey King sent me a review copy of his new book months ago.
It is fantastic.

He posted to his [electricchurch] yahoo group:
I attended the Pagan festival in Berkeley last week. It was fascinating and the music was great. I actually sold more books there than at the Anarchist convention and the Peoples Park celebration combined. Next: Berkeley world music festival Saturday, June 5th @ Peoples Park, Berkeley, Ca. 12 noon to 6pm. Go to my booth and mention this message and you will get a free copy of my new graphic novel featuring the new adventures of Jimi Hendrix! (donations accepted)

Well, I read it and it's truer than you might imagine at first to call them the new adventures of Jimi Hendrix. I think Rey King is Jimi Hendrix except he doesn't play guitar. Everything you know about Jimi but simultaneously magnified and diminished because you never really knew him.

Regarding Rey at the Pagan festival-- he's contributed several beautiful illustrations to various Pagan Tongue publications. He's not in every issue I've been able to find, but spread around enough to give me the impression that he was present. And that present is in his new book too.

I won't even tell you what his book is called- figure it out. Fight and Learn! Pagans have been the fastest growing religious community within the US Armed Forces forever

Meat and Time

Meat is murder. Fake meat is also founded on murder, but at a distance you can't do anything about. Someone once killed and ate, killed to eat, for the fake meat to exist. Does this prove our unproved conceptions of history and time?

speaking of inverts

lists I'd like #4

Subset Names in Card Games and 'Guess Who'
One-Eyed Faces
Is your person either bald or wearing a hat?

On Naps

Eyes Open Closed 4x4

Breasts painted to resemble eyes

On the whole, which figure most accurately describes how often people sleep per day, once or twice?

lists I'd like #2 and 3

"The young man, smiling mysteriously, dropped something into Robert's hand. Robert looked. It was a dog whistle.
'Good afternoon,' the young man said again to a well-dressed businessman behind Robert, handing him an English penny. He gave the next person a flat balloon. A woman wrapped in furs got a small dead fish." (from Lisa Goldstein's The Dream Years)

Yesterday, Will Sherwin, making an example said something like "when you're a kid and there's a game where you turn over some cups, and each one has something different underneath, like a plastic centipede, and a little mirror, and another one will be a prism."

I used to write down the numbers different people used to mean A LOT, like John Dietrich almost always uses 47. He'll say something like "they had literally like 47 thousand different flavors! I shit you not." or 4 and 7 in some other combinations

Mike Grost says 4 and 7 along with 1 and 9, because of their written representations' strong vertical strokes are used on the costumes of fictional heroes and sports stars. here's something from his Election Day Mystery: "Paul's uniform, like those of the other community policemen, had huge Sergeant's stripes on its sleeve. His name tag read 'Sgt. Henderson'. His badge number was 7194. All the badge numbers were made up of four digit combinations of 1, 4, 7, and 9. There were 256 such combinations, more than enough for the community police. The badges were made of a metal alloy with unusually high reflectivity. Any light shining on them would glitter and glow. So would the insignia on his uniform collar and shoulder epaulets, and the large silver flashlight Paul wore in his belt. Paul was always glittering like a hero in the movies."

While roasting peppers at Will Sherwin's last night I asked him how the professionals do it. "with a blowtorch." and what else do they use it for? "crème brûlée". You learn that stuff on TV, I said.
and said I should get back into it, dedicate time to undedicated, defocussed wide angle information scan so I can learn more of these things I like to know.

title image: right now looking at it reminds me of marvel's Havok. I looked him up, and found most of the images not nearly as cool as I remember (from a single comic that made it's way through a very wide angle comics dump from a serious collector acquaintance to me who knew nothing about the mainstream DC/Marvel world. for something like $30 (significant at the time!) a barely-moveable-by-me cardboard box (or 2?) of comics! (would like to label possesions by how far I can move them unassisted. then figure out the same for combinations. seems obvious they have different combining properties. like periodic table of my possesions) Just a few weeks ago Eben came over for some MIDI help, and my cat visited us in the shed where we were trying this and that. was only peripherally aware of what she was doing, and then suddenly an explosion of cat and comic books from the ceiling right towards us. she walked off unphased, and I can't remember how soon I started laughing. I'll ask Eben for a narration too, and paste it here if he gives me one. it was of course the same box of comics. I never cleaned up the explosion, I wonder where Havok is now?) ..ah, I see the original costume is the one I'm thinking of. just found this that Neal Adams the costume's designer says about it:

"It was like a mime who moves around -- you look at the silhouette of the body, you don't look at the interior of the body. It seemed to me thatthat would be a great idea for a costume -- the idea of doing a silhouette like that and then doing the energy. So if you speculate on the idea, you can say the costume isn't really a costume; it's a kind of energy container through which you can actually see the energy inside of his body. So many guys draw Havok with this thing on his chest and that's not the idea; you're supposed to be able to see in the middle of his chest the energy no matter where he turns.
Tom Palmer, in order to help me out and delineate the drawing, added highlights to Havok's costume. I explained to him, "Tom, I've draw the character in such a way that you can tell what he's doing in every silhouette-- you don't have to worry about it; remove the highlights." While there are positions you could put such a character in so that you would need highlights, I made it my business when I did Havok not to put the character in those positions. If you limit yourself to certain positions, you would never have a problem; the audience never loses track of it and they get it every time."
I'll have to find that comic!!

I wasn't concious of thinking of Havok when I was drawing the title. rather all the stuff we know that we don't know we know- like from TV. those of are the kinds of questions I like to ask Lyal, as I belive I've posted here before. and other people too, but somehow I think of him as a genius of it. He and I recently talked about our once local Warehouse, and I bet he could tell about the poster racks that I think were there if I asked him to, which I plan to.

female tape music

I went to Mill's Music 252 (seminar in electronic music performance) final concert last night. Was looking for Annie Lewandowski as I entered and there by missed picking up a program and out of about 6 things where composer-performers didn't appear (tape music, and one live coding improvisation) I thought vaguely 'oh, this one might be by a woman' of about 2 or 3 of them. later looking at the program, and recalling my many reactions, I slowly realized I was right. that's disconcerting to me. I did however think it a little about the live coding duo (performers represented by side-by-side televised screens. with a little bend in the middle. a really nice touch. I'll try to explain the bend later) (of whom, I thought perhaps one was a woman. and didn't establish which of the two it would be. it was sort of shapeless, but less the right coder who was using linux. and color coded differently), and was wrong. now what was I picking up on? and could someone help me with a t-test or something?

and by the way my favorite moment was in female Andrea Williams' piece. and I think it might have been a female moment. or at least having female concerns. a particular one which I think my own music may have too (hopefully), and that I think Stockhausen's sometimes does too (like when he uses recordings of voices to make "colored silences". but actually, I now realize I hear that as (very) male still...). the moment in question is maybe better described as originating in female concerns, but leaving them, or relaxing the grasp on them. the time of relaxing the grip

And both females with pieces on the concert have first names that could be male names: Andrea and Laurie. and there was one performer-not-composer: Christina (playing violin. not harp at least. but then, being a performer-not-composer, maybe violin is more characteristic than harp. I'm on attack now) There were female listeners. I wonder if they heard what I did, or if anyone did really. this has got me acting weird asking weird questions

I asked my mom about it, and I said 'it's weird, right?' and she said (among other things) 'yeah, it's not supposed to be like that'.

I think the female feeling has to do with conceptual orientation. concerns..

Started running a ViewSonic E771 CRT sideways as a second monitor today. Then I decided I wanted to use it on the other sideways, so I turned it over, and the colors went a bit wonky, reminding me of a recent thread on the time-nuts mailing list:

APRIL 2010 [time-nuts] [OT] degaussing thread highlights

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Dave Baxter dave at uk-ar.co.uk 

Thu Apr 15 08:02:32 UTC 2010

[...] One site, a MRI research facility, the "ambient" magnetic field is strong enough to screw the display off the screen if you are not careful how you position the analyzer.  You can also feel your toolbox being pulled sideways when walking around the outside of the building.

[...]

(The main Tech guy at that site could somehow screw an alloy plate into the field near the MRI scanner, let it go, and it'd sit there in mid air!   If you tried to get it out, not knowing how, the harder you tried, the hotter it got.  The Miensner effect I believe.)

[...]

I've also seen an old guy at a customers site in the past demag a small colour tube using a small strong permanent U shaped magnet on a stick, spun between his fingers while moving it arround the affected area. Absolute magic to watch him doing that.

[...]

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Craig S McCartney CMcCartney at on-sitetraining.com 

Thu Apr 15 15:21:03 UTC 2010

A bit off topic, but likely interesting to time-nuts:

In the early days of HDTV (late 80s - early 90s) we were at a European trade show and had to borrow, at the last minute, a large (~40") CRT-based HD monitor from a Dutch company that was also exhibiting there.  We liked it so much that we purchased it for use at other trade shows.  The very next show was in Sydney, Australia.  The monitor would not converge and had funny rainbow patterns no matter how many times we degaussed it.  Thinking it had been damaged in its half-way around the world shipment we called in the local representatives of the Dutch manufacturer and they were as stumped as we were.  Finally, after they talked to engineers at the factory, the explanation was: "Of course, that is a Northern Hemisphere monitor; the earth's magnetic field is much different in the Souther Hemisphere. It can't work there.". After the show we shipped it back to our headquarters in California and, sure enough, the picture was perfect.

So, we had a HDTV monitor that doubled as a earth hemisphere detector, using magnetic flux differential.  Needless to say, we only used it in northern hemisphere shows after that.

Craig McCartney

WA8DRZ 

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Magnus Danielson magnus at rubidium.dyndns.org 

Sat Apr 17 15:27:06 UTC 2010

Did you ever tried to run it upside down?

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Craig S McCartney CMcCartney at on-sitetraining.com 

Sat Apr 17 16:51:44 UTC 2010

Magnus,

No, we did not think of that at the time.  A good idea, but if it worked the customers at the trade show would have had to stand on their heads to see the picture properly. 

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Magnus Danielson magnus at rubidium.dyndns.org 

Sat Apr 17 17:41:16 UTC 2010

Well, besides that it would be fun to see, it would at least have been a good test to clear out if it was broken or just not adjusted. I would assume that near equator would be another trimming.

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Robert Atkinson robert8rpi at yahoo.co.uk 

Sat Apr 17 21:23:29 UTC 2010

Hi Magnus,You beat me to it. Many years ago a friend brought a high end CRT computer monitor back from Australia. The colours were off (Purity). I told him that it was because Australian monitors only work upside down. He didn't believe me, so one bet of a 6 pack later I turned it upside down and enjoyed my beer ;-) It wasn't perfect upside down, but it was a lot better.

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Kit Scally kScally at BYTECAN.com.au 

Thu Apr 15 23:58:34 UTC 2010

Craig,

If memory serves me correctly, Philips "better quality" PAL colour TV's in the late 70's to early 80's "inverted" the CRT for us in the Southern

Hemisphere.  The TV's were clearly marked as such on the packing box.

For reasons unknown, Japanese-made colour TV's never seemed to have this problem.  Even though I was working professionally with these beasts at the time in a TV station, I never figured out why Jap TV's seemed immune to this problem whilst those made by our Dutch friends were not.

[...]

Kit

VK2LL

Sydney

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jimlux jimlux at earthlink.net 

Fri Apr 16 04:35:36 UTC 2010

And, of course Trinitron tubes, since they have only one gun, no  shadowmask, and synchronize by looking for the backscatter from the  face, are immune to such convergence effects.

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Chuck Harris cfharris at erols.com 

Fri Apr 16 11:54:23 UTC 2010

Are they really?  For some reason, every Trinitron I have ever seen has clusters of little stick on magnets placed here and there on the back of the glass envelope.

The trinitron has a shadowmask.  It is a grill of highly tensioned wires that are positioned just behind the screen.  The original trinitron tube was a little 5 inch diagonal CRT.  It had to be small because the wires tended to vibrate if the set was bumped, and that made for some very odd displays.  The later larger tubes had horizontal titanium wires welded to the backs of the shadow mask wires every 5 or 10 inches, to prevent the psychedelic color fest that happened when the CRT got bumped.

The trinitron has three very carefully aligned cathodes in the gun.  They are positioned side-by-side, creating the slight different projection angles necessary to cause the long vertical slots formed by the shadow mask to eclipse the appropriate color bands on the screen. I'm not sure what you are describing; it sure sounds cool; but it isn't a trinitron. Can you find some references?  I'd like to read up on it.

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jimlux jimlux at earthlink.net 

Fri Apr 16 13:48:54 UTC 2010

You're right...

I must have been thinking about another scheme.. Now I'll have to go find it.

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Arnold Tibus Arnold.Tibus at gmx.de 

Sat Apr 17 12:04:41 UTC 2010

[...]

The small magnets on the back of the [Trinitron and Diamondtron tubes (Mitsubishi) ] tube are necessary to linearize the dynamic field of the deflecting coil and to compensate other small steady magnetic distortions around the tube. There are some more magnets on the neck of the tube for convergence and beam forming.

A long and distracting work to to when you had to replace the tube or coils and then to adjust for white and clean colors and sharp picture...%-))

Older systems needed an earth field compensation in situ. [...]

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Henk henk at deriesp.demon.nl 

Sun Apr 25 15:51:21 UTC 2010

Up to the Philips 20AX tubes they used adjustable multipole units around the neck of the tube. These multipoles can be readjusted if needed. From the 30AX design on, the used multipoles that were internal, thus inside the neck. The required correction was measured during manufacture and the internal multipole magnetized.  Turning the tube upside down will help down under if the tube was manufactured in   the northern hemisphere. Then tune the deflection yoke back or swap line and frame connections.

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Steve Rooke sar10538 at gmail.com 

Mon Apr 26 04:34:35 UTC 2010

When I moved from England to New Zealand I brought my Sony Trinatron TV with me and had the tuner replaced so it would work over here (we still have VHF TV and a different sound sub-carrier). The set worked fine after the conversion and I noticed no problems at all with the picture but that's not to say that the REALLY good TV guy had not sorted things out.

I tried power cycling the monitor in it's new position, and it went back to looking great! Haven't found out about this autocalibration yet, but it's neat. I Always thought well of the ViewSonic because it came together with a pair of IRIS Indigos and a graphics tablet..

What do you call flyer tassels?

Before we put up flyers we sometimes cut little tassels along a side, each one meant to be torn off and taken home by a different reader as a souvenir. What do you know about that?

sister cities

seems the degree of propensity for having sister cities is a good way to match up cities in itself. Long Beach, CA's sister city Bacolod in the Philippines (ranked best place to live in the Philippines by their Money Sense magazine (http://moneysense.com.ph/editors-note/best-places-to-live/#comments)) has one metal band I know of: Sevorum (was Onslaughter). [Kratornas is in very nearby Cadiz] Some songs (and not others) remind of Korihor/Maniak of infamous (in metal tape trade circles) Davao City. I'd like to build sister city parallels based on these sorts of facts like a location scout for biopics shot close to home.

http://www.waltdisneyworldtwinnedtown.co.uk/entry/

http://www.thefairday.com/memories.htm

and as for close to home, how about that idea of the roof of UC Berkeley's South Hall as a Mary Poppins(1964) location?! UCB might make a good sister city to Disneyland. Hidden Mickeys, hidden bear statues!

I wonder if Morgan 'Bill' Evans ever suggested any locations.

learning about microwaving bread.

my first deliberately self-microwaved food in years-

remembering afterschool TV

lists I'd like #1: inverted record covers

I'd like a list of records with photographic negative covers.

so far:

Nirvana- Bleach

the Queers- Live in West Hollywood

Venom- Possessed

and relatedly, solarized covers:

Neil Young- After the Gold Rush

reminds somehow of the last stamp show (philatelic convention) I went to, where the last competing exhibit was a single frame (16 A4-sized pages of a 'scrap book' laid out in a 4x4 grid (same as A0)) all about cats. I got so into looking at it that after a few minutes I forgot what a stamp without a cat on it looked like! the contestant's name is in my notes from that day, but not to hand at the moment. I'll look her up one of these days and thank her properly.

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returned from fact-checking through editorial surprised that I can really call this "lists I'd like #1", swore I'd gotten into it before, but it seems not. tour through the past posts has got me wanting to totally restructure as LISTS I'D LIKE; I can feel the whiffs of it, but I bet it's not even that clear to anyone else. Surprised/Excited!

I wanna be naked

dripping blood

Roland D-50 on ST:TNG, Burzum, and Countess blends well and reaches the feeling. Spear of Longinus advise (I paraphrase from memory) 'never watch a movie in the presence of another humanoid- it blocks the reception of energies from on high'

Havohej amazing rhythm feeling!!

RHYTHM OF MOVEMENT IN THE BLUE UNIFORM

hey latest post at

chrissysdayoffpos.blogspot.com

starts presenting the poetry work slowly

part negative 10 of a series

Pursuant to new year's resolution- C and I hang-up whenever is good to hang up. analogy to improvised music endings. 

sex shop with glitter stickers

dirt of up to similar grit sticking to the adhesive left

behind around the sticker after a while it's slightly

crumpled side on glitter fingernail-polish

white border around black outline of stickers

Radio TETU

learning about broadcast music scheduling software.
http://www.nat-soft.com/nm5/nm5-manual/Ch-05%20Rules.pdf
looks like Optimality Theory!
EndType={Fade, Cold, Decay}
Opener={*, null}
Gender={F, M, Duet, Group, Instrumental}
{TempoIn, TempoOut, Intensity, Mood}={1,2,3,4,5}
...

By Request

Starting a record of Yogurtland recipes. Our most recent visit yeilded: pistachio, chocolate twilight and coconut topped with captain crunch, oreos, honey and chocolate sauce.

In line I wished for photos of everyone's 'interior decorating'..
here's a pale simulation

a salad spinner (filter-wheel, film-reel) on the end of a fishing rod

my cat's toy

store and release

Judge Dee coloring book

THE  THIRD  PRINCESS'S  PEARL  NECKLACE

Van Gulik's endpapers for Necklace and Calabash

Van Gulik's endpapers for his Necklace and Calabash display the 84 pearl necklace in very slightly asymmetric arrangement. 10 crossings where 4 pearls meet. two lower lobes of 7 pearls each. two upper lobes of eight pearls each. of the remaining 15 internal segments between crossings,  each bears a single pearl, but the upper 2 which are bare, and one, which has an extra. 40+14+16+15-2+1, =84. Judge Dee says "Half of 84 is 42."

his drawing comes out looking like taoist star charts or Lo Shu.

mine, I was thinking about a glow-in-the-dark rosary bracelet I had as a kid.

open an account at Tektronix Federal Credit Union

(I'd welcome any ephemera BTW)

Beaming out Energy-Only

Dan Kirk's neighborhood

Just got back into reading Dan Kirk's "Do Over" series, having paused years ago in the middle of the third one, Doing It Right. Such a strong flavor!

Taking a break I looked up

((Mary Lou Hacker)conjunct(Modesto Junior College))

Ah! makes me want to start reading the whole series over again so I can catalog all my notes and findings. for example, I remember learning about a restaurant in Davey's home-town I promised to go to, but now I'd have to read all though from the top just to find the name.. can't remember how closely Davey and Brian's trip through all 50 states is narrated either, though I often dream of following in their steps and doing the same.. ok, here it is: I'll start over

Celebration Postcard #6 !!

I'm writing this quick note to tell you I finally found the Canberra promotional tankard I told you about!! the one my dad gave me. He got it at a conference. I think Canberra makes mass spec machines like he buys for his lab, so they gave him this cool tankard that he brought home to me as a present. I remember it had a little tag or something on it explaining that it was made out of a special metal that absorbed the taste of what ever you habitually put in it, so you should only use it for one type of drink, whatever was your favorite. (at least that's what I understood as a kid, but I think I was right. I've since lost the little note) That made it my favorite mug, but I never used it because I was debating what to put in it, and thinking of the future, when I might get into some adult drinks, etc.. (I think the note mentioned types of ales)

I was really considering Ah!-Laska mint hot chocolate, but the store we got it at  stopped carrying it. So I never used it and it got put away somewhere, and I've looked here and there for it on and off in the years since then. found it today, still unused! Love, Yasi

This gold-covered Skylab Orbital Workshop was the back-up for the 1973-74 Skylab project. Three crews of astronauts lived and worked in Skylab. The longest mission was almost 3 months.

Electrical energy is provided  by 140,000 solar cells in the wing attached to the side. Below is the multiple docking adapter through which the crews entered the spacecraft. 

speaking of lockboxes

pursuing the idea of time-ratings for safes, I'd imagined a safe whose dial sets a time after which the safe will open. something like a microwave I suppose.

nice night-light experiences leading me to work on advancing darkroom timers' routing conceptions now. looking for prior art in the 70's chemistry lab, 80's(?) X10 home automation, 90's(?) lighting show control, and where else ? particular moments in the spread of embedded microprocessors yielding degree of modularity.

I like how motorcyclists decorate their helmets with stickers] where the stickers go.

ask Dick Termes!

colored cigarette smoke

finally saw something akin to what I'd imagined when first hearing a Boston-macrobiotic cigarette story, of a teacher who smoked, said: 'oh, there's blue yin smoke that falls, and red yang smoke that rises. Cigarettes are good to smoke if you hold them pointing up so you take in only the yin smoke'. lit from the side with afternoon light, I saw the blue and red smoke, and sometimes green and other colors. Rainbow training! reaching after a dispersing rainbow, having the sensation that we can learn to see them all over the place

my favorite passage from the Aeneid (at least it was back when) with the rainbow snakes coming out of the ocean. uh, they might not be rainbow, but there's more to ancient color than first blush , and there is some basis for claiming 'varigated' or 'uncertain-saturated' color here.

..the frothing ocean...

Lockbox Soxhlets

a little too out-of-it to know if the analogy-makes- any-sense but my some-time-ago-creation of the not-an-alarm-but has come-in-handy, and I'm can't-help-thinking of 'Soxhlet' my dad told me about for-some-reason. He-loves-saying-it.

lab glass for the extraction of contents of limited solubility. well.. struggling mind.

I'll leave you with a passage from When Rogues Fall Out:

"INVENTORS are a much-misunderstood class. The common man, in his vanity and egotism, supposes that they exist to supply him with various commodities of which he dimly perceives the need. But this is an entirely mistaken view. The inventor produces his invention because, in the existing circumstances, it has become possible. It is true that he, himself, tends to confuse the issues by persuading himself optimistically that his invention has a real and important utility. His inventive mind goes so far as to create an imaginary consumer, so that he sees life in a somewhat false perspective. The genius who devised a family Bible which could be opened out to form a billiard table, no doubt envisaged a pious type of player who had need of some means of combining the canon of scripture with a cannon off the red; while, to the inventor of a super magic-lantern which could throw pictures on the clouds, the night sky was no more than a suitable background on which to declare the glory of Blunt's Milky Toffee.

But this is mere self-delusion. In reality, the inventor is concerned with his invention. Its use is but a side issue which hovers vaguely on the periphery of his mental field of vision. I emphasise the fact, because it has a bearing on the events which I am recording. For our invaluable  laboratory assistant, Polton, was an inveterate inventor, and, being also an accomplished and versatile craftsman, was able to turn out his inventions in a completely realized form. So it happened that a certain large cupboard in the laboratory was a veritable museum of the products of his inventive genius and manual skill; examples of ingenuity— sometimes fantastically misguided— the utility of which he would expound to Thorndyke and me with pathetic earnestness and appeals to "give them a trial." There were spectacles which enabled the wearer to see behind him, there was a periscope walking-stick with which you could see round a corner, a large pedometer with movable dials for metres and yards and a micrometer adjustment of impracticable accuracy, and all sorts of clockwork devices and appliances for out-of-the-way photographic operations. But optical instruments were his special passion, whence it followed that most of his inventions took an optical turn. 

I am afraid that I did not treat these children of Polton's imagination with the respect that they deserved. Thorndyke, on the other hand, made a point of always examining even the wildest flights of the inventor's fancy with appreciative attention, realizing— and pointing out to me— 

that their apparent oddity was really due to the absence of appropriate circumstances, and that those circumstances might arise at any moment and give an unexpected value to what seemed to be a mere toy. And that was what happened on the present occasion. One of Polton's most eccentric productions suddenly revealed itself as, an invaluable instrument of research. But perhaps I am beginning the story at the wrong end. I had better turn back and take the incidents in their proper order."

revision history

http://diagnosingdifference.com/
http://www.newyorker.com/archive/2005/01/03/050103fa_fact?printable=true

rare google biff-marks on some jpgs. top 5 hits of 50 only.

Getting into painting squares, and thinking of the square camera

Today I can imagine being a bee

Today I can imagine being a bee

brimming with fascination with

flowers and wetness

juice fruit floral

nectar. And relating to it

as a collector, making it into

something I can preserve myself

not only enjoying from the outside

like music!

WHAT IN THE WORLD? TOP TO BOTTOM

I haven't seen it mentioned any where that the Oberheim Perf/x housings are stackable. They've got four little hooks underneath that lock into what I'd supposed on first glance to just be stylish ventilation slots in the top. Certain things it's nice to have 2 of, and it's nice to think of a pair of Cyclones multiplying each other's results. (reminds that there are such things as anticyclones, too, and Stommel and Moore's Introduction to the Coriolis Force) --just now seeing 'cyclone' as a rare forceful macro expression of otherwise too subtle to notice laws as sometimes algorithmic arts give us hope of

the only place I've seen two Oberheim Cyclones in one photograph is on Tom Moravansky's website and he didn't seem to know about stacking them... I wonder what my reward will be. perhaps an introduction to whoever made the nice design for the housing, panel sticker, manual, cardboard box, etc..

When you imagine getting blown about by a cyclone in which direction are you blown? that is: is your imaginary cyclone an anticyclone? Is it different on TV in the other hemisphere?

further on the inward directions I remember Rich Shull notes that some come to his blog by searching for "looking up and to the right".

second hit on google:

http://prerainmanautism.blogspot.com/2009/11/hit-analysis.html

(and "looking" seems almost redundant: omitting it gets you the same top hit.)

as for Lane_in_PA's comment there on her years-long search, I think the end might be Niko Tinbergen's The Animal In Its World. Volume two of which has been going around with me in my bag for a few weeks at least now. I wonder what my reward will be...

http://narcissists-suck.blogspot.com/2007/09/do-narcissists-attract-supernatural.html?showComment=1248367682796#c2268034495565057470

(I know much of Lane's search image doesn't fit Tinbergen, but I've mis-searched in similar ways myself plenty of times. and I didn't mean 'end' but 'end')

(time)superstimuli

right at the beginning of Neveryóna: "From all the looms of fabled Ellamon bolts of goats' wool and dogs' hair cloth and sheep wool rolled out, slower than smoke spiraling over winter embers."

thought of products of culture as slowed recreations of what came before, defining superstimuli primarily in terms of time

learning by copying

and enjoying echo effects as never before!

maybe having reached some required internal strength or firmness