between gears and the transducer-myth

I just noticed that between my last post on muscle twitch speed games and a much earlier one on my guitar hero there's a memory of mine: my friend Daniel Pennypacker once got me to play a funny computer game with him. It was basically checkers, but occasionally, in order to capture an opponents piece one would have to beat them in a short physical challenge. There were several, but I only remember one clearly: producing more keystokes per unit time than the other fellow. I was very interested in that challenge in particular, and wonder now what it would be like if the challenge would go on for longer than the then-alloted 30 or 10 seconds.

by watching many competitors' fates as the time interval was lengthened we might be able to typify something about people and time. Just like I wonder how the standard footrace lengths were canonized. Perhaps we'd have a completely new crop of race winners if the lengths were all changed to others. Not too hard to count keystrokes, I don't think, so this one'll go on the to do list, but at the bottom.
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PS, I can't believe I just told everyone I put things on the to do list based on how easy they are to do! I need to work this out

Gears

I saw some olympic running out of the corner, and then the front, of my eye. It seemed some people were running much faster than others, but not going as far. Which reminded me of seeing 88 drummers playing at the same tempo by the La Brea tar pit recently, and thinking that some looked to be playing much faster than others.

I have a possibly related private problem: when running I seem to have 'gears', and I can't always get to the one I want, and can't even tell what another gear would be like, but just that there's some other way I could be doing things that's not fully accessible to me.

could we have sports where the objective isn't to move oneself fastest through space, but just to move oneself the fastest? Body music! Brings to mind an old discussion with the aforementioned Saunier: the fastest drummer -- not the most impulses per unit time, but the most sudden impulse. the drummer who doesn't need drums, but rather plays sonic booms by breaking the speed of sound at each stroke. Whips!

loop skewing

here's a picture I drew this morning just now while trying to understand loop skewing from a really obscure description. So obscure it's not even really a description, but an example that's supposed to be exactly irregular enough to exemplify every contingency that might arise in the skewing of an everyday 2d array. teaching problems have to have this quality in a way, but it's funny if you try putting everything to be taught into exactly one problem. so funny that I thought I'd like to learn loop skewing that way- seems a certain kind of efficient. But, I haven't understood it yet so the drawing is of the pre-skew traversal of the array in a usual way, showing dependencies of later assignments on prior ones. Then I got a bit frustrated and crumpled up my drawing. hopefully I'll be posting a not frustrated drawing soon-- maybe after pancakes

Above the empty cages of the abandoned zoo, revered still for the care and intelligence with which they were laid out, rise pantries full of minerals, spices, essential oils, and liquors, above which stand rows of perfumes compounded by the old masters, singular essences built by the careful combination of complex materials.

motorcade memories

reliving old pleasures I had a brief chat with Saunier(deerhoof@hotmail.com), through my unfurled car window adding a new twist. In our short-as-can-be talk, he mentioned the recent passing of a congressional motorcade past our chitchat stop in surprising numerical detail, bringing to mind Borges' argument for God's existence based on numerical half-certainty. Borges imagines seeing a pile (we'll get into collective nouns another day!) of less than ten but more than one (hardly a pile. we'll get into sorieties on a yet other day..) birds, and knows he's seen some whole number of birds, but can't say which one. Greg gives us a specialised version: he says there were either 4 or 6 motorcycles in the motorcade! --definitely an even number. I asked if they were riding in pairs, the simplest way I could account for his particular brand of certainty, but he assured me, no, they were in a single file.

Did he count them as they passed, and now recalls only the then-derived fact of their parity? No, he is describing now, for the first time in explicitly numeric terms, elements from his visual memory.

Ask about counting without words and you'll soon ask why is Gibson (egibson@mit.edu) mucking about with empty spools of thread and uninflated balloons when he could be riding the motorcycles of mind? I'll ask him, unless you do first, and probably in far less pejorative terms. I know physical reality has it's own charms (still reading about Joseph Cornell, I started to fit my so-far-favorite book on him into a secret hiding hole in my new cupboard. fittings and comensurate packings and cozy shapes! --I know they constitute arguments and proofs stronger than many from the more etheric varieties.), but I'm surprised to so often detect bizzare and unnamed anxieties behind the commonplaces of our scientific method. Does persisting in playing with empty spools hold in it an unexplored fear that spools full of turquoise thread would call out other number words entirely? Or that if we were to use inflated balloons, perhaps their levity would uncover a series of fractional numbers used only to count objects lighter than air? (or perhaps the counts ought to be made with imaginary numbers!) Here we see deep in the heart of commitment to consensus physicality many small shrines dedicated to every not-yet-explicitly-disproven-conjecture

a tour guide to the shrines (star's houses)

yesterday's 'ought to' becomes today's 'ok!'

Bought a couple disposable cameras (to be color-coded tonight) in line at Grocery Outlet and photographed a close packed subset of our pantry filling purchases (including the camera packaging). not quite on the conveyor belt -- there wasn't line enough for that, but later on in the parking lot. expect photos 26 shopping sprees from now.

Answer to another day old question: based on today's title, looks like U+0027 (APOSTROPHE)s are another thing that come in threes.

materials science, in general

Lyal's intelligence doesn't quit. an example from last afternoon, after quite a workout:

(D,P, F,I, S,F,V,K,O,P)Q: "How do you get some gooey stuff off?"
(R,O,A,R'S;S,A,V,O,R)A: "You take your hand and rub it back and forth over the goo, and the sticky stuff sticks to itself and finally makes a sort of dirty string and you just pick it off and throw it away."

I'd like a language with a word for 'question' starting with W(ill Sherwin) and a word for 'answer' starting with L(yal Michel). (roman script, please. Or maybe, what's a word for superficial translitteration based on letterforms instead of sounds? has this ever even been asked before? I should probably ask the OCR brain and not you, but I don't know to talk it's languge, or even enter it's time.) Maybe that language is English and I just can't test all it's words now. this would be a cheap kwanzaa gift for me: make me a convincing pair of words for this occasion. cheaper than a pair of earrings, and might it perhaps be better fitting to my ears?

maybe starting with Y could be a word for 'leading question'. ..earrings might come in threes someday. what comes in threes today? what comes in pairs of pairs? 6packs, what else//
commensurate grocery store purchases, proven by tiling the conveyor belt's surface. I ought to be taking pictures of these, my masterworks. paperclipped to it find the receipt becoming a shopping list for next time = timeless perfection

imaginary bridge

Last night I checked out this week's CS reading and get this: it includes a definition of "Gods" as "supposition of sentient physicality", moving the glossary to the top of my list! in summary, define a concept by it's utmost implication (utmost being a bit foggy, but still) might make a mess of math, or might help it along. brings to mind Rylan's description of her "imaginary bridge" as a machine for calculating the value of i.

(you know, (-1)^(1/2). or maybe you don't, in which case you should call me. I'd say ask google, but it'll just tell you to ask answers.qualm who doesn't really know. today's illustration, by the way, shows google using much more conventional, and in this case useless, definition methods than Mary Baker Eddy. in my other hand, I could be less single-minded and just suggest you ask your definer about "imaginary numbers"; 'i' standing for 'imaginary' anyways. but really we're talking about definitions, and "standing for" isn't really one.)

Rylan's machine, according to her, enacts Euler's formula by making damped wiggles from step functions popping (that's her bridge, between digital and analog computation). She threw in as an aside that another way of enacting this reality would be to iterate a step forward followed by a rotation back, which I couldn't follow, but someday I'll ask --depending on who you are (define by act) you might be the first to know.

If I had the same question in front of me I'd focus on stereo. the feelings of separation and togetherness, touching, that I guess the word "bridge" starts to get right. parallel worlds put into distant communication. orthogonality making a space between worlds that can't touch. perhaps my vexation at rylan's bridge is that it connects worlds of diferent types, of wholly different character, so their touching or not comes as no surprise at all.

there's something fake about rigor

my solution is moving to the tip of my tongue but isn't even there yet. I'll ammend this post when I finally hear what I think come out of my mouth. for now I'll say 'series of similar pryings, complex pairs, quaternions, non-commutivity, non-commutivity back-formation'

in the meantime, I'll delay with another side note: putting the glossary in front in S&H, makes it much like Irwin's Dictionary of Pipe Organ Stops, my original inspiration to stereo thinking, it's ancient forshadowing being the reconstruction of an Emily Dickinson poem from a concordance of her works (this also lighting my path to incipits)

I'll spend my day off on thank you notes!

some x-mission details: "web color basics", radio hope

Hello, while thinking of what to do I spent an idle moment selecting-highlighting this blog's title area, a common past-time. (but how idle was I really? -I'm still here) upon sudden deselection (blue-to-white flash) the white appeared defocused and beige. a repeat performance didn't dissappoint, and moreover, the new appearence persists in uniform expanses and the periphery, these two conditions summing their effects where they overlap still.

where can I see this phenomenon regarded as basic? where eye-axioms teach me me, please.

instead, searching for this post's title's enquoted fragment yeilds irrelevant descriptions of hexadecimal encoding. we asked for basic, and see anything but. math and codes surely also reflect something central about being a person, and even perhaps having an eye, but aren't body music, which is all I want to come on the radio

speaking of which, getting tired of waiting, I propose a reorganization of the electromagnetic transmissions bandwidth (pictured above, sort of): over the current commercial AM/FM bands, pack looped songs, having a known bandwidth for each transmission. Pack, not space - get it? "Song" should be held to perceptual and not linguistic or commercial standards to mean a recognizable time/pressure patterning: sing along! (here we enter into eveidence the idea of interlocking/multiple grooves on uncertainty records, also pictured above, centrally. different particulars, same record) the definition should, as it does now, melt to fill the voids the transimission system leaves it. and then set and hold a shape to work out other problems with; go on!

and as an side-note, I note: if we fix the definition of song, it automatically drags the idea of "looped" along with it to a nice new home, or halfway house at least. given enough time it probably gets the definiton of "pack" a bit soggy too, which is the best yet hoped for today

what is fun? part 3

Kierkegaard, thinking of James 4:8, says purity of heart is willing one thing. like this:

purify hearts, ye two-souled!
clear your minds, you doubters.
purify your hearts, you double-minded
put away deceit from your hearts, you false in mind.
make your hearts pure, you who are half-hearted towards God.

(double-mind, half-heart!
what's the only thing, there's all too little of?
enter size metaphors, which are more real than their anchors. Ask Will Sherwin (415 695 1605) how big his heart is. That's a basis-vector-- measure the world with it)

Did continue by reasoning thus: to be not-half-hearted means to will just one thing. to will one thing only, is to will the Good, no other is possible. and not just that but a specific Good: the Good in truth. because the others are all too small! can I only meet him when the biggest thing I can think of is still too small?

good is fun, but fun isn't often the good in truth, and some of us get confused

example 2.00.1 Love-words!

love, love love love love-- love-love, love. Love. not-mushy love. ..seriously, love, break-point; love-love. love all.

I re-messed my knee. it always happens when I'm screwing around, this time it was not when I was actually playing tennis, but when I ran over to fetch a ball that had rolled over into the neighboring territory. I think there's some telekinesis by which my attention holds the knee together, and when it falters, it falls apart. the knee brace works by focusing my attention where it's needed

love,
Love

What is fun? part 2

someone write me software to read and replace every word I produce with distinct instances of the word "love" (all nice instances). that's the blog I mean, not this skeleton

What is fun?

Scooped up Jessica Rylan last night from castle-2, two walks up from humble roots (pie maker's haven, among MANY other things), and toured the ville. We had fun when driving and letting the car stereo sing out, but elsewise, what happened?! stork club, top dog, pub; holes all. But what's the difference really? destructured? danger? control? exhortation! something in the swerving car helps.

ended the night turning the Nirvana tape down, in the face of some other true beauty: deer. which makes it sound like prior we were doing nothing but shouting and jumping, which may or may not be true, but I'll say that's not what I really want but quietness. start acting like it, dear

Benzoin

Bought my first essential oil directly after last posting -- Benzoin. I had a vague and pretty immediately controverted idea of what to expect of it based on reading up on occulted sense data. Seems Benzoin used to be a common concoction, some pointing to it as a primary scent-note, others calling for it in ritual practices, but I've not heard much at all of it from contemporary sources. The past masters talk led me to expect a much simpler sensation, but on first sniff it seemed to me compounded of complexities -- perhaps I'm getting tripped up on reductionist eigenvector thinking and ought to just sniff again. If I'm not willing to raise new non-orthogonal percepts to basis-status I oughtn't even start. or perhaps one part of me can drag the rest on to a new way without cooperation..perhaps even a very little part.

speaking of orthogonality, listen to this body music: poincarre says something like "space is not isotropic/uniform, but has as many dimentions as I have muscles," which is all nothing but an exhortation to try harder, so let's sniff: call the study group

Essential oils study group forming

While hitting the ball around with Carreira just now I saw a rainbow cloud and thought: rainbow, watermark; (which reminded me of an earlier one in the same category:) resonance-spectra, cooperations. The way of speaking the old ones had. the floor of the court (what a special red!) had, off to one side, a small "tenis" in chalk.

Off now to start my studies of essential oils. Call and teach me so

most workers are grafting branches on to one another, but I am pointedly CHOPPING AT THE ROOT

it's not abstract if you take it as primary

Yesterday's late night visit to the Christian Science glass house yeilded this: "When it is learned that the spiritual sense, and not the material, conveys the impressions of Mind to man, then being will be understood and found to be harmoniuous." Which fact I'd been focused on for days by then./ though I still don't understand, or find harmonious, whatever does happen seems definitly rooted in the beyond, and that it's all beyond, with no known available

Before the spirit drove to the reading room, he partied with Buchla and Associates, and got loose on the Petrof -- this piano's really maturing! Prior to which she baked an entrance-ticket peach pie up in the very castle where love grows. What does it all mean?

Sigil Talk

While talking, I discovered I'm not saying what I mean, because the things I want to say appear before me in an unknown script-- magic sigils, composed of dances and ducking smiling profiles, besides other things I don't even know to sketch. There's a long list of questions and sorrys and thank-yous, (before you think I'm feeling bad about me, some are adressed to myself, too) but only the lowest entries are in english. I try for the middle entries, but end up with short-hand not even I can't decipher the second after. I will try again. (as soon as you call, 510 316 3404)

I realised late that I have two sadnesses, one about something and one not, but more about tenderness. and that it's hard to see both, and especially the tender one. The tender one is good, and gets me breathing right, or at least lets breathing feel like it should. I want to stay on that, upright, and send a message that I'm fine, full of love, and open for bussiness.

GKC on my inside

This morning laying up in a solarium, I thought that perhaps we do some detective work on our selves. Looking at the clues, we see an incommensurable pile of measures, and to solve the puzzle by adding just one thing, we deduce what we're feeling: love. Hearts move all sorts of different ways, and I think mine made a rare leap

Stephan Bodzin's full-length is called "LIEBE IST..." A man after my own heart? Could be if not for the ellipsis, but it seems he's a bit older than me, so, to be excused, to be continued

transduction myth

Ok, there's a guitar player who's really messy- all scraping and sliding and buzzing slurs - NOT CLEAN. But, she plays hex pitch trackers, and somehow her messiness is understood by the synth. The only and messiest mess to be understood. a special and meaningful mess, she's my hero

//oct 30th 2009 edit- forget the hex trackers, do it mono. phase relations magnified to melodies. rubbing down, digging into the fretboard, mining for shapes

drinking down Taglioni's cubes

Alluded to briefly last post, catagories of sparkle meeting each other makes for a lovely time. "placing a piece of artificial ice in her jewel casket or dressing table where, melting among the sparkling stones, there was evoked a hint of that atmosphere of the starlit heavens over the ice-covered landscape."

Last afternoon I gave my lucky iridescent orange espresso cup it's first filling with an almost matching cantaloupe agua fresca. Two aging pieces of ice floating there had no other colors to reflect and so almost disappeared, but remained as rough spots, looking quite a bit like torn bits of cantaloupe. That cup's been with me a year and a half, mostly living with a little copper snake who used to prefer sharing the control surface of a Boss PS-2 with a tube of C5-A loctite. The cup he shared with a few stainless steel 1/4" 4-40 screws from Don Buchla's house in it whose finish I've yet to find the equal of, but stayed on the saucer-porch. Sometimes a magneton-pokemon would come over to visit with the silvery screws. But now, the cup's getting ready to travel, saying gooodbye to the friends and burrowing into a duffle bag full of softies. The PitchShifter-2 is on it's way to Scott Jaeger's wahid-ithnan-thalatha--Stilton-Adaptor, but softly

I ought to take a few pictures of these old friends sharing a glass. I hope the recreations give some of the old feeling, hope the little snake doesn't feel uncomfortable or stick to the cantaloupe film.

1/2 episodes connected by a fine silver chain

Yester-noon laying up in Bill Schaaf's truck (of 94706-2143), a habitual resting place of a venerable copy of Science & Health, I remembered having one of it's beautiful sentences pointed out to me through the CS reading room(-2148)'s glass plate (was it just the night before?). bright sparks shining mistily out from the ice-cube like the next-door jeweler's charms! On the page facing the first S&H bit from the featured Bible Lesson we saw: "By trusting matter to destroy it's own discord, health and harmony have been sacrificed." On second reading, in the truck, I thought of GK Chesterton who might really think what I think he thinks: by our senses we apprehend an incomplete and incommensurable system. solve the puzzle by adding the least number of things: God

Meow, morning!

Sensitized -finger skate rink- Surface

Last night I saw a man sitting on a stool between A.a laptop facing andB.a rock band, running Windows Media Player visualizations on the PA mix, projected onto them. I don't know how it started, but if he had first sat down at the computer to modify the "random" visualizations' abstractest there-allowed pace, he'd have been disappointed at the there-disavowal of even that simple request, then he may have swiveled a quarter revolution left leaving his right finger shortly-blindly on the trackpad, turning his head another quarter, but the whole way to the main attraction, to watch the band possessing the commonest degree and type of usefulness. Seeing the projected visualization, re-finding his projected finger, he notices his finger skate tricks in the trackpad's sensitive arena cause screen redraw blocks - black and white cake. Grinning and index finger dancing to my startled appreciation, he spends far too little on anything. dabbling in light waters, but got too cold and got out. I bet the "random" plug-in select threw him off but that's not verifiable by anyone. the zebra flicker might only look good with a purple which was perhaps as evanescent as the rest.

Ma Seeger of Bielefeld's verbal style sets it off

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pre--interlang-surface posts recap here:

M. defocused hair spins in chaotic toilet vortex +0
pardon my shaky hands, I first looked in wondering if I had to vomit (flu this week), but became distracted by the defocused hair spinning in a chaotic toilet vortex. later taped a guide de la route fresnel to the rim for optical gain, but unfortunately couldn't focus through it. later videos of incremented names supplement focus, and the last supplies a sound track in collaboration with jessicarylan@gmail.com

C. defocused hair spins in chaotic toilet vortex +1
second, if in sequence, my eyes adjust to the facts of my spinning hair fragment still remaining quiet about it. shortly the phone will ring: dial -1 (parent title, +0) for more details; dial +1 (parent +2) to answer it

MC. defocused hair spins in chaotic toilet vortex +2
Talk and Shoot between unseasonably well behaved state variable filters and their chaotic parents (jessicarylan@gmail.com, and nonfigurative mom on line two) and how March will be retrograde till February (yasi_p@hotmail.com). could do with some compression between these two sides of the story, or an auto-hybrid for the remake of this second sequel.

X. (It, subject) ripples off the boardwalk
Scry tool found off the boardwalk after dust allergies to Patchen's archive. I didn't yet ask Lyal what he saw, but I will.

and then finally for now
MX. Don Buchla's washing machine always excites resonances in his shelves, and it's always the transistors that shake the most. I failed catching their shakes twice in a conventional way before I decided to bring the camera and it's stand into resonance with the shelf to amplify and substantiate the shakes. My bendy legged tripod tunes in to the vigorous vibrations quite easily; in fact, perhaps the remake of this third try calls for heightening mistuning and insensitivity

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