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

preview of new comp

title field, 

attaching information to differently-ignored nodes

"title forming quotation marks around undominated parse trees"

TRUE FEMINISM TAOIST MONARCHY

in music and in cooking

sustained qualities of doing

continued movement-abstraction

pasta: architecture for the mouth

chopping: the center of cooking

probability field sensation

"blend flavors, differentiate textures" (The Lins' Chinese Gastronomy)

Recorded music playback that once started can't be stopped

press 'play' by closing the safe door 

UL safe ratings as in

(TX|TR)TL-'net working time in minutes'(x'number of faces rated')

fail-deadly constructions

(Clark Ashton Smith's idols in narcotic metals)

Safe dial movements designed as a message to the cracksman, hypnotically reprogramming his heart.

storage for anticommunications from Brün

In the middle of Freeman's The Cat's Eye now, pausing to record:

a crashing sound described by someone being strangled as a bursting sound.

If this induces anyone to dig in, I'll note that the events just described follow those in Helen Vardon's Confession, and The Moabite Cipher at least, but only note. Chronology, being so explicit, seems to divert attention from other opportunities in the very act of forming a support for them. (Order of Office, Order of Birth.) So, please: it's not a recommendation, just an answer to a question I had myself, later on.

also, it's helpful to fall asleep at the moment the romantic subplot starts opening up.

a dream-catcher and an img no one knew you could click on

THAT'S IT!!-theway of speaking the old ones had

similarity of developers of recipes for microwave ovens

to tales of those few famed with natural talents voicing the DX7.

especially desert recipes we reflected

praising 24-hour FedEx Kinko's amazing as an open UPIC installation with fees accessed by the minute. 

Paul Lockhart's Lament televised a few other worlds for me recently,

deposits, feeling of supplies γ simulating still-moistness, at the base (when visiting the basement)

that the door to music could be closed; listening to the party from bed--

night-air!  //in search of fragrant door to lay down with blankets by (linoleum floor)

thin-door-reverence   (thermostats)

formation-floating

as promised long ago, stills from Mystery Liner. Button formations float off-- a new kind of space.

How would you call this metal box, seemingly the approximate size of a pack of cards, with semi-circular notches in the lower wall permitting rods to rest in them in the manner of an ashtray (but in two places, in the manner of a log-bridge), and provided with a lid that, once secured, secures the rods in place, perhaps loosely?

And the rods?

georgehart.com/made/some/sugarcubes/for/the/meeting

photo by erikdemaine.org/thok/pix/moneya.gif

Ezra advises interpolating between polynomial fits of the available outlines to find out what AUS-VSΠ might look like. (CUT:USA::TUC:AUS::UTC:SAU?)

If you want another activity besides coloring, locating population centers might interest you.

Did you happen

to notice this -------------->---

This next was suggested to me by a Disc-Kabob visitor who cut gems for a living, based on corespondences between the distribution of deposits of precious stones in the San Francisco Bay Area and in those described in Ancient Egyptian texts:

And finally this little one is for Peter Suber whenever he happens to find it.

Her street scene looked about right except every face was a bit flattened, carrying the suggestion of wormholes to dimensionless inner worlds.

The way she painted the aquarium I could tell the fish were swimming in their own tears.

it's no good thinking of bedding and sleep supplies- stay in the final moments

looking up the deep backyard hole

speaking of whiffs, as in 'somehow...', (I've) been cooking, and tasting whiffs as I go. Or this particular brand, or this particular batch, has a hint of that taste, reminiscent of the country I've been exiled from, becomes my unknown favorite. A degree of humanity already, to let it become favorite, and another to have it unknown.

Have I already mentioned about repeatable experiences, about tea, the same circle every time? about the ocean: a different way in which the scale of detail helps it be the same later.  I tied a barrel sling around my tea yesterday (Haven't settled on which edition of Ashley's Book of Knots to find yet but I hear it's in there under #459, #2176, #2177), imagined lowering it down a backyard hole to a waiting friend. Having tied a knot, or felt one, it's logic is absorbed somewhere, sensitized to it's particular complication. Pulling up bights, in anything [e.g. language], did I call what the bights do 'humanity'?

This question echos weirdly, throwing loops in  the rope, hoping at last to hitch onto something. I think I might have.

Safari Pranks Unweary User

somehow...

everything turning into cats, neighborhood and weeks replaced by a cat. 

this word 'somehow', I think I learned from Clark Ashton Smith, or Lovecraft, or from my imaginary friend of theirs they told me about. Imagine a writer has a word special to them, their best work centering around it, that communicates them best always uses it. If I do with 'somehow' it shows what I need.

A truck passes by the slightest whiff of it's music passing through the rolled up windows-- actually less than slightest, so the whiff is no longer of music but sub-music. There are surely senses like that, too, used rarely enough to be not known as senses-- used only once maybe. And arts like that, too: perhaps all of them!

I note it's been four months since last post, vulnerable to the habits of mind this log's format encourages. Who agreed me that time's accumulated measures could be subtracted so confidently, without a glance anywhere? An unmeasuring glance it must be, and tells without measure, by light, that it's been far longer from here to anywhere I've been before.

have I made way-of-looking explicit enough here before now, I'll read to remind myself, but later. Sure to have made it explicit differently than this: at Banshee's house now, and for the week, looking at her bookshelf in a new way-- vague familiarity with the family to which I'd say the new understanding belongs that I'd called to myself 'black air'. [the idea 'black air' itself has a life and history with turnings to be uncovered some other day. I only note here it's changed since I first said it to myself maybe 15 years ago

 (naming so long a duration that I can't even make the kinds of mistakes that get me complaining about 'four months'. other mistakes surely)]

books looking like what they were. masses; not sheaves, but not surfaces(covers). and also temporary missives. Katie and Lyal who live here, might see them this way always. for me it's a lesson

gazes not correlated to one another or body movements. not used to cognize space. ten hundred glances only!

for friendliness, a little nice thing about 'four months': being of different lengths, months, when collected, carry tolerances with them, without being told. a house for thinking