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 ofthe 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
preview of new comp
title field, attaching information to differently-ignored nodes
"title forming quotation marks around undominated parse trees"
TRUE FEMINISM TAOIST MONARCHY
Recorded music playback that once started can't be stoppedpress '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.
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?
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.
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.
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
grouping sugar factors at the sugar factory
I'm down to our last sugar cube, my team having eaten 251 of them. It seems a good number to have had in so surprisingly short a time. I hear the first cubes (a pink and white present!) came by the 350, and their commercial successors by the 250. I'm curious which of their respective factors (2*5*5*7 and 2*5*5*5) got paired to make a box. Ours (C&H) could have been 4*7*9 and brought the wrapper closer to a fold-out cube-eater's progress-bar, but 3 met 4 instead to make a nice tissue-box of 3*7*12.
sugar-shapes
I bought a box of sugar cubes a few days ago and it's been wonderful to "faire" a few "canards" whenever I feel like it-- turns out: mornings mostly. Wondering about them this morning computer suggested that there were surely sugar cubes at the boston tea party. I replied that there must have been cubes, but that they might have been ice-cubes and lemon slices in the iced-tea of the time, and that I couldn't recall exactly. (I also thought of Fourier's lemonade ocean, but didn't mention it)Yesterday I found a Bob Cobbing note tucked away in a book about animal walks:
and today when coming back to look after clumps and lumps and klontjes, I found what might be another, but not quite:
please contact me and tell me what the picture says
cat's present
while I'm often thinking about closing my eyes permanently, still it's the logging of visions that bring me to write here. Have a cat living with me now, and I note two things about her here: her eyeshine is red in sunlight and orange under incandescent and compact florescent lamps, And that when my foot fell asleep she immediately displayed an attraction to it.
could go on conjecturing indefinitely about these two, but I'll leave it
could go on conjecturing indefinitely about these two, but I'll leave it
St George St
Last last post's apostrophe two-pack's got me on a roll: along Street George Saint last evening.
Imagination Fights !
"panel proportions' analogies; (2:(1+(5^.5))):(7x:(76-y)z):(4.25:7= 17:28):(80:80). I mean, 7:76=1U:19, pizzabox (see appended patents pending more proportions' talk) IEC60297:IEC60908, IEC60297:x::x:IEC60908, 1:x::x:x+1"
We come by this caption's image as illustration for an imagination's hope it recently had to fight for. The conflict's transcript makes reference to 2xxe (alphabetize 281e, 256e, 210e), depicted above amidst imaginary friends in a field hoped to bring them closer
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RESTATE COMPLETE WITH ERROR
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Date: Sat Jan 10, 2009 4:04 am
Not owning a 256e yet, hopefully soon, How similar is the 281e OR's to the 256e?
Yahoo.Groups.Buchla.200e #1533 yasi_p@hotmail.com
Date: Sat Jan 10, 2009 5:33 pm
wow! what a beautiful question!:
>How similar is the 281e OR's to the 256e?
To be able to answer this at all I have to make a lot of assumptions about what the two 281 subsections that are feeding the maximum-selector-circuit are doing. Searching for what these assumptions could be is a really fun part of thinking about the question. another fun thing is that the question seems to proceed from observed behavior without too much hinderance form theory.
One situation that comes to mind has both subsections set to Decay mode and triggered by a common pulse. If their rise and fall times are set in different ways to the same overall envelope length, then looking at their OR output and turning the associated control could produce results indistinguishable from one of the subsection outputs manipulated with a 256e.
makes me realize I always felt the OR sections' control range was too narrow. now I see one simple reason why: in some situations like the one described above the OR control range could be sensibly doubled by switching the inputs at the end of the present range. And I know there ought to be even more besides. yet more notes towards a 281F I guess
another situation where we find indistinguishable (or nearly so) behaviors in the 281e OR and the 256e is btained by setting the leveled 281e subsection to Release mode and constraining the triggering pulse to last as long as the unleveled subsection's envelope time. Or we could simply trigger the Release mode subsection from the unleveled Decay mode output. In either case we see some kind of dead-band-type behavior at the OR output that could be found with a 256e
begs more: hysteresis-like possibilities for the 256e by using different transfers for rising vs falling inputs. ..extending this to general slope dependent look ups
another thing I love about the prompt: the impossibility of answering in the same spirit it was asked
Yasi CC: PP: errata
Yahoo.Groups.Buchla.200e #1535 amni56@... healyr@tpg.com.au
Date: Sat Jan 10, 2009 6:29 pm
Thanks Yasi for the reply....
what I was trying to ask in a very simplistic/naive way was ....to my mind the OR's seem to mix A and B voltage by turning the dial left or right, so therefore isnt that to a small extent what the 256e does? What exactly are breakpoints?
Yahoo.Groups.Buchla.200e #1536 cbm@well.com
Date: Sat Jan 10, 2009 10:06 pm
> What exactly are breakpoints?
http://xfade.com/Buchla/256/
Yahoo.Groups.Buchla.200e #1541 verbos2002@yahoo.com verbos@simple-answer.com
Date: Sun Jan 11, 2009 2:27 pm
no. The OR section only has a control for the second input. The first input is always at maximum. It is not a crossfader between the 2. AND, the crossfader in the 256e mixes the two signals together, it does not give only the higher of the two. That means if the lower of the 2 signals is moving around, it will make a difference in the output, where as in an OR circuit it would not.
Yahoo.Groups.Buchla.200e #1543 yasi_p@hotmail.com
Date: Sun Jan 11, 2009 6:38 pm
> no.
?
shit dog I thought I just said why "no" isn't really I thing to say right here. I often have to say to myself, and now I have to say to you: stop denigrating reality with empty oversimplifications
Yahoo.Groups.Buchla.200e #1544 yasi_p@hotmail.com
Date: Mon Jan 12, 2009 10:54 am
ok I try again: cray's two questions on the 256e: is it like the 210e? is it like the 281e's OR section?
I personally feel it's more like the OR section than the 210e (though I say clearly: it really is a personal question. a personable question !). Set up your 281e like how I described earlier: A and B sections triggered together and having about the same total envelope time but doing divergent things during time. the OR section will do some of the things a 256e subsection would do given an input of the same duration. We could imagine the similarity is that in both situations the time stays about the same globaly but in a more localized view the time is getting warped. the 256e is basically like 4 of those with 2 input vc cv crossfaders in front of each section. So besides the crossfaders there's this whole other bending thing happening.
I note here: the time-bending/flopping/flipping is a perceived effect distinct from user-manual texts about what's going on. and even divergent from the front panel markings. Someone hung up on what they think they know might say: "there's no temporal component to the 256e's behavior; time needn't enter into it's description." or even "oughtn't", and as proof read me the front panel legend. But I know how to read. I also know how to hear, and of the two, I like the second. not that reading and hearing should stand for degrees of rigidity, but perhaps you know what I'm getting at
Distinct from the OR section, in the 256e each subsection starts with one input to make the warping things, not two like the OR.
it's the warping that's particular to the 256e-- the crossfader part of the 256e's behavior cray's right in comparing to any old mixer in a general way. BUT again the time attitude is distinct: in a static situation where we're just aiming to get two control signals both effecting some parameter in a particular fixed proportion it doesn't really matter much if we use a 256e or a 210e because we usually have a multiplier at the final parameter input.
In a dynamic situation (time enters) we notice immediately the difference and to mitigate the difference takes a bit of patching (or several coordinated hands: ask Neil Young's tech!). The 256e CAN do a 210e-type mix of 2 inputs, but that's just one of many behaviors that all feel about the same to it
I won't even ask if I'm helping. just make the text pile and let it be searched. I put characters in order.
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U.S. Patent Appendix: (besides other things- time-code! towards Neill-Nouy)
5,381,949;D356,254;D371,296;5,549,241;5,553,771;5,586,716;5,595,339;D380,152;D380,072;
D380,965;D385,785;5,713,509;5,752,651;D394,388;5,806,755;D400,438;5,833,130;D402,435;
5,881,948;5,918,797;5,961,035;6,016,951;6,065,669;6,070,791;D427,526;6,092,715;D436,533;
6,196,448;6,206,277;6,223,979;6,290,122;6,533,164;6,547,125;6,748,722;6,889,891;6,892,932;
6,922,976;7,007,837;D525,867;D531,898;D538,648
(IEC#'s subsets might yield more of the same)
description of today's reward
Spent as long as needed at Joanne fabric today (it's own reward) looking over available flavors of black and white velcro with a chess field in mind. On the return drive was rewarded with the sight of a recently freed cluster of black and white balloons traveling westward together. about three and three I'd say.
brought to mind Timothy O'Malley's 25 Graphics Programs in Microsoft Basic !
associative memory, damaged key
by luck: the first three recollections prompted by "box" give us sequential pages-- fill in the story a little bit:
ascending the spiral
Reading Lethbridge's Power of the Pendulum, I started to wonder if Gayle Greeno knew his work. Lethbridge imagines cats dowsing using their whiskers and ascending the "spiral of rates", only four whorls of which he's examined, but which he indicates continues on, while Greeno's ghatts slowly learn to ascend the spiral to the seventh turn as they mature.
Lethbridge found his rates to be spiraling by what seems to me rather circuitous reasoning: following the leading fact that out-of-body experiences often include the viewing of the recently vacated physical body from a specific altitude and azimuth he connected the two points over 6-1/2 feet distant, the viewer and her body, with a spiral because of his finding that his pendulum rates tended to recur with a period of 20 inches and that the recurrence was not perfect, but rather suggested a relation analogous to that between the physical and astral planes. So a three dimensional Archimedean spiral, but what ought it's height function be? the only illustration I've found in Power of the Pendulum leaves quite a bit to the imagination! I haven't yet studied his data on false positions; perhaps those will delineate things for me a bit more sharply.
All this, not just to poke at Lethbridge, but to wonder out loud if Greeno could have followed the same trail independently, or perhaps come to the same end by another route
Neill-Nouy units
"There is no scenery -- only grey curtains. When the cue is Enter villagers through gap in hedge, the actors push the curtain aside." This from Neill's Summerhill.
I came to it looking for this other remembered fact: "Children who come to Summerhill as kindergardeners attend lessons from the beginning of their stay; but pupils from other schools vow they will never attend any beastly lessons again at any time. They play and cycle and get in people's way, but they fight shy of lessons. This sometimes goes on for months. The recovery time is proportionate to the hatred their last school gave them" while following Pierre Lecomte du Nouy's derivations in his Biological Time.
I'm searching now for more mental recovery time data in the hopes of uncovering something like Nouy's unit.
[by the way, when looking for the bit on time proportions in Summerhill, GoogleBooks couldn't help much, but eklavya.in/pdfs/res delivered. I'll post about their namesake's psychic resonator soon enough.]
more house equations
well, just came across Georg Pick's Theorem relating lattice points (columns) to areas, and somehow coprimality (GCD) -- I like this pop book of Keith Ball's quite a bit so far. It's nice having lattices stay on so long, giving a chance for neighbors to drop by. Today's office hours saw an old friend come by, looking a bit worse for wear: 6 progressively moth-eaten leftovers were all the networked evidence I could find of the cover I drew for the Curtains' FAST TALKS. At least they were all still square, and enough to point out the lattice has been on my mind quite a while now. Someday I'll post up a one-step-bigger-along-the-progression scan of this old friend, and perhaps the same week I'll figure out how to post a few stills from "Mystery Liner" showing 3 peacoats' 6 parallels becoming a swimming lattice itself.
Buckminster Fuller made much of the exponentiations of 1001, I wonder if he ever tried something like 0x1001^2, 0x1001^3 ... gets a whole lot of numbers looking pretty good, namely all the (x^3)+1's. I'm not just posting to make fun with Bucky, but out of myself too, as I find myself doing 10901*91, 109901*91, 1099901*91, wondering if there's some closed-ish positional number system with unequal steps. Do you know how to say what I mean?
Before a couple days ago I'd never considered any personal reasons for anyone's shacking up in an arcology of Soleri's but feeling far from a few animal friends gave me new look at it. Posted on the inside of my door in imitation of a hotel emergency exit plan is Samuel Sagan's map of the Temple of Eisraim, an aid to imagining living in the living plass. I'm thinking now of replacing it with an arcology escape route behind plexiglass passing by all my friends' quarters.
at Don's, listening to the 259 mod pulse going into independent AM, FM, TM and phase lock depths, coming out as much more, I'm still amazed-- Sweetheart, you opened that bottle of water like a safe-cracker! lately the partial inseparability of dimensions has been coming back more and more frequently, and a knob that says as much would be quite a cracksman's treat!
kinds of rewarming!
In connection between the last thermodynamics question's lifelike expansion and the talk on kinds of heat and kinds of cold, I've uncovered some precursors in Sigmund Rascher's work. His translators mention both "dry cold" and "animal warmth", the special transference of the latter being investigated following Himmler's intuition. My intuition agrees entirely, in fact, that I'd be more likely to be returned from freezing to the living by the tapping of sensual, psychic, erotic energies in aid of the mechanical ones.
some bits from the Nuremberg trial transcripts:
"What is an airfleet or flight surgeon or sea rescue service to do when they fish a man out of the North Sea? Are they to warm them in blankets or warm them in a cradle, or give them whiskey or put them in a hot bed or treat them with diathermy of the heart."
"Just as the temperature is reduced more quickly by cold water than by cold air, so an increase in temperature is better attained by warm water than by warm air. We found most successful the effect of so-called ultra-short waves in rewarming. While a rat, with its critical body temperature of nineteen degrees, recovers totally in thermostatically controlled temperature of forty-two degrees in about three-quarters of an hour, it can, subjected to such low frequency alternating currents (Verschiebestroeme), appear almost entirely normal in its motor and sensory reactions after two to three minutes. The observation that in a hot sand bath the rewarming occurs as rapidly as in a hot water bath seems to be of practical importance."
Prosecution Exhibit 105 isn't available on the network yet, but a transcript of it's partial reading is:
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Experiments for re-warming of intensely chilled human beings by animal warmth.
A. The purpose of the experiment: To ascertain whether the re-warming of intensely chilled human beings by animal warmth, for example, the warmth of animals or human beings, is as good or better then re-warming by physical or medical means.
B. Method of the experiments: The experimental subjects were cooled in the usual way, clad or unclad, in cold water of temperatures varying between fo[u]r degrees Centigrade and nine degrees Centigrade. The rectal temperature of every experimental subject was recorded thermo-electrically. The reduction of temperature occurred within the usual span of time, varying in accordance with the general condition of the body of the experimental subject and the temperature of the water. The experimental subjects were removed from the water when their rectal temperature reached 30 degrees Centigrade. At this time the experimental subjects had all lost consciousness. In eight cases the experimental subjects were then placed between two naked women in a spacious bed. The women were supposed to nestle as closely as possible to the chilled person. Then all three persons were covered with blankets. The speeding up of rewarming by light cradles or by medicines was not attempted.
C. Results:
1. When the temperature of the experimental subjects was recorded it was striking that an after-drop of temperature up to 3 [degrees] C occurred, which is a greater after-drop than that seen with any other method of rewarming. It was observed, however, that consciousness returned at an earlier point, that is a lower body temperature than with other methods of rewarming. Once the subjects regained consciousness they did not lose it again, but very quickly grasped the situation and snuggled up to the naked female bodies. The rise of body temperature then occurred at about the same speed as in experimental subjects who had been rewarmed by packing in blankets. Exceptions were four experimental subjects who, at body temperatures between 30 [degrees] C and 32 [degrees] C, performed the act of sexual intercourse. In these experimental subjects the temperature rose very rapidly after sexual intercourse, which could be compared with the speedy rise in temperature in a hot bath.
2. Another set of experiments concerned the rewarming of intensely chilled persons by one woman. In all these cases rewarming was significantly quicker than could be accomplished by two women. The cause of this seems to me that in warming by one woman only, personal inhibitions are removed, and the woman nestles up to the chilled individual much more intimately. Also in these cases, the return of complete consciousness was strikingly rapid. Only one experimental subject did not return to consciousness and the warming effect was only slight. This person died with symptoms suggesting cerebral hemorrhage, as was confirmed by subsequent autopsy.
D. Summary:
Rewarming experiments of intensely chilled experimental subjects demonstrated that rewarming with animal warmth was very slow. Only such experimental subjects whose physical condition permitted sexual intercourse rewarmed themselves remarkably quickly, and showed an equally strikingly rapid return of complete physical well-being. Since excessively long exposure of the body to low temperatures implies danger of contral damage, that method must be chosen for rewarming which guarantees the quickest relief from dangerously low temperatures. This method, according to our experiences, is massive and rapid supply of warmth by means of a hot bath.
Rewarming of intensely chilled human beings by human or animal warmth can therefore be recommended only in such cases in which other possibilities for rewarming are not available, or in cases of specially tender individuals who possibly may not be able to stand a massive and rapid supply of warmth. As for example, I am thinking of intensely chilled small children, who are best rewarmed by the body of their mothers, with the aid of hot water bottles.
Dachau, 12 February 1943.
(Signed) DR.S. RASCHER
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So as we deduce when moving from the longest-coffee-heat problem to the longest-body-heat one, heat is not just physical, one woman serves better than two for the reheating of a frozen man.
What's more, some of the report's unread bits are at least described: graphs showing the time-course of the rewarming, organized by type, and of particular interest, distinguishing the cases where intercourse followed from those that didn't, showing they grasped more of our nature than many of us today! These plots that I hope to see someday I'd file along side Reich's electrical recordings of orgasms: precious signals
some bits from the Nuremberg trial transcripts:
"What is an airfleet or flight surgeon or sea rescue service to do when they fish a man out of the North Sea? Are they to warm them in blankets or warm them in a cradle, or give them whiskey or put them in a hot bed or treat them with diathermy of the heart."
"Just as the temperature is reduced more quickly by cold water than by cold air, so an increase in temperature is better attained by warm water than by warm air. We found most successful the effect of so-called ultra-short waves in rewarming. While a rat, with its critical body temperature of nineteen degrees, recovers totally in thermostatically controlled temperature of forty-two degrees in about three-quarters of an hour, it can, subjected to such low frequency alternating currents (Verschiebestroeme), appear almost entirely normal in its motor and sensory reactions after two to three minutes. The observation that in a hot sand bath the rewarming occurs as rapidly as in a hot water bath seems to be of practical importance."
Prosecution Exhibit 105 isn't available on the network yet, but a transcript of it's partial reading is:
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Experiments for re-warming of intensely chilled human beings by animal warmth.
A. The purpose of the experiment: To ascertain whether the re-warming of intensely chilled human beings by animal warmth, for example, the warmth of animals or human beings, is as good or better then re-warming by physical or medical means.
B. Method of the experiments: The experimental subjects were cooled in the usual way, clad or unclad, in cold water of temperatures varying between fo[u]r degrees Centigrade and nine degrees Centigrade. The rectal temperature of every experimental subject was recorded thermo-electrically. The reduction of temperature occurred within the usual span of time, varying in accordance with the general condition of the body of the experimental subject and the temperature of the water. The experimental subjects were removed from the water when their rectal temperature reached 30 degrees Centigrade. At this time the experimental subjects had all lost consciousness. In eight cases the experimental subjects were then placed between two naked women in a spacious bed. The women were supposed to nestle as closely as possible to the chilled person. Then all three persons were covered with blankets. The speeding up of rewarming by light cradles or by medicines was not attempted.
C. Results:
1. When the temperature of the experimental subjects was recorded it was striking that an after-drop of temperature up to 3 [degrees] C occurred, which is a greater after-drop than that seen with any other method of rewarming. It was observed, however, that consciousness returned at an earlier point, that is a lower body temperature than with other methods of rewarming. Once the subjects regained consciousness they did not lose it again, but very quickly grasped the situation and snuggled up to the naked female bodies. The rise of body temperature then occurred at about the same speed as in experimental subjects who had been rewarmed by packing in blankets. Exceptions were four experimental subjects who, at body temperatures between 30 [degrees] C and 32 [degrees] C, performed the act of sexual intercourse. In these experimental subjects the temperature rose very rapidly after sexual intercourse, which could be compared with the speedy rise in temperature in a hot bath.
2. Another set of experiments concerned the rewarming of intensely chilled persons by one woman. In all these cases rewarming was significantly quicker than could be accomplished by two women. The cause of this seems to me that in warming by one woman only, personal inhibitions are removed, and the woman nestles up to the chilled individual much more intimately. Also in these cases, the return of complete consciousness was strikingly rapid. Only one experimental subject did not return to consciousness and the warming effect was only slight. This person died with symptoms suggesting cerebral hemorrhage, as was confirmed by subsequent autopsy.
D. Summary:
Rewarming experiments of intensely chilled experimental subjects demonstrated that rewarming with animal warmth was very slow. Only such experimental subjects whose physical condition permitted sexual intercourse rewarmed themselves remarkably quickly, and showed an equally strikingly rapid return of complete physical well-being. Since excessively long exposure of the body to low temperatures implies danger of contral damage, that method must be chosen for rewarming which guarantees the quickest relief from dangerously low temperatures. This method, according to our experiences, is massive and rapid supply of warmth by means of a hot bath.
Rewarming of intensely chilled human beings by human or animal warmth can therefore be recommended only in such cases in which other possibilities for rewarming are not available, or in cases of specially tender individuals who possibly may not be able to stand a massive and rapid supply of warmth. As for example, I am thinking of intensely chilled small children, who are best rewarmed by the body of their mothers, with the aid of hot water bottles.
Dachau, 12 February 1943.
(Signed) DR.S. RASCHER
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So as we deduce when moving from the longest-coffee-heat problem to the longest-body-heat one, heat is not just physical, one woman serves better than two for the reheating of a frozen man.
What's more, some of the report's unread bits are at least described: graphs showing the time-course of the rewarming, organized by type, and of particular interest, distinguishing the cases where intercourse followed from those that didn't, showing they grasped more of our nature than many of us today! These plots that I hope to see someday I'd file along side Reich's electrical recordings of orgasms: precious signals
precious signals
Signals! how to both make them and get to keep making them. So-- how to make the most, best.
thinking of Kay Sorg, my 8th grade science teacher, who once asked the question of whether boiling coffee and chilled cream should be combined early or late to longest preserve their combined heat, makes me think of the question of Shakuni's blood's best chance for revenge. His entire family was imprisoned and fed only enough for one with the hope they would all die. The solution to that thermodynamics problem was not to share the food but to feed it all to the youngest life, their best chance at revenge.
When should the cream's and coffee's heat be combined with the body to sustain its heat for the longest duration? I believe Kay Sorg faces the possibility of imprisonment now, and I'd like to present this and the other questions it brings up to her. (how many calls from prison are we now allowed? what precious signals!- to pass along a puzzle in moments that lasts for years (for me it's another ratio of 6 or 7 orders of magnitude!)!)
how to best bring the other world here. how to open the space most, longest, best/
Staying alive is part of it, and staying awake, and being rich might be too!
Rényi's machine for turning what temperature coffee into theorems: bringing the other world.
thinking of Kay Sorg, my 8th grade science teacher, who once asked the question of whether boiling coffee and chilled cream should be combined early or late to longest preserve their combined heat, makes me think of the question of Shakuni's blood's best chance for revenge. His entire family was imprisoned and fed only enough for one with the hope they would all die. The solution to that thermodynamics problem was not to share the food but to feed it all to the youngest life, their best chance at revenge.
When should the cream's and coffee's heat be combined with the body to sustain its heat for the longest duration? I believe Kay Sorg faces the possibility of imprisonment now, and I'd like to present this and the other questions it brings up to her. (how many calls from prison are we now allowed? what precious signals!- to pass along a puzzle in moments that lasts for years (for me it's another ratio of 6 or 7 orders of magnitude!)!)
how to best bring the other world here. how to open the space most, longest, best/
Staying alive is part of it, and staying awake, and being rich might be too!
Rényi's machine for turning what temperature coffee into theorems: bringing the other world.
my house's equation
I've found the way to see what might be seen sitting in the middle of home in an array of columns: GCD again! If the steps to a column are reducible by steps to another it's occluded by the part's landmark. In the talks I've followed so far Reimann's Zeta function gives 6/pi/pi as the portion of visible columns the bigger my house gets assuming too riduculously thin columns.
I think a small house would serve better anyways, as long as it was warm enough, the deviation from the calculated shown in the ragged line of column plinths' shapewaves to be continued in surrounding topiary giving a big feeling.
I think a small house would serve better anyways, as long as it was warm enough, the deviation from the calculated shown in the ragged line of column plinths' shapewaves to be continued in surrounding topiary giving a big feeling.
hair dimensions alphabetized
How much hair does one need to be able to flip it? Separating the question by dimension, I need very few hairs do it, if only long enough.
Read a bit today on dimensional formulae after alphabetizing a list of words for coffee from languages of differing orthographies. That was fun for a start, and now I feel like alphabetizing units by their dimensions: first would come the dimensionless constants, then dimensionless units, followed by length, area, volume; mass.. starts to get funny here, and the fun is a bit like gray code, but brighter!
the dimensionless units might like better to be folded over the rest showing their spacious origins;
parting the hair before flipping it
Read a bit today on dimensional formulae after alphabetizing a list of words for coffee from languages of differing orthographies. That was fun for a start, and now I feel like alphabetizing units by their dimensions: first would come the dimensionless constants, then dimensionless units, followed by length, area, volume; mass.. starts to get funny here, and the fun is a bit like gray code, but brighter!
the dimensionless units might like better to be folded over the rest showing their spacious origins;
parting the hair before flipping it
column's counter
The talk about kinds of heat brings us naturally to IR and wanting to put Infrarotheizung in the walls. From here, I think of Wittkower opposing wall-architecture to column-architecture, and of columns as my idea of a fun time. So, together, I see now IR emissions from columns opening the way for me to live in an opened column environment-- I won't need walls when I have heat!
this brings me to my question: I think I once saw on TV (Square One, I think) a formula for the number of columns visible when standing inside an array of them, but I can't find it now. How's it go?
when considering the limit of visibility of the distant or nearly occluded columns, think on the surprising durability of my 1 minute memory at a distance of ~20 years: a range of 10 million to 1! I know not all the minutes stand out so strongly, but many certainly do, and the televised formula's minute of fame has come to me not just this once, but many times since. I recall remembering it being driven past fields planted in grids, trying to catch the passing shapes waves in the column's varying visibility.
How's it go?
this brings me to my question: I think I once saw on TV (Square One, I think) a formula for the number of columns visible when standing inside an array of them, but I can't find it now. How's it go?
when considering the limit of visibility of the distant or nearly occluded columns, think on the surprising durability of my 1 minute memory at a distance of ~20 years: a range of 10 million to 1! I know not all the minutes stand out so strongly, but many certainly do, and the televised formula's minute of fame has come to me not just this once, but many times since. I recall remembering it being driven past fields planted in grids, trying to catch the passing shapes waves in the column's varying visibility.
How's it go?
adding light to heat
The night my car first wouldn't start I shined my phone's light into the engine compartment and was convinced that some large part was missing. I later realized it only looked different because I was comparing it to my sunlit memories. The phone's backlight penetrated the surface the sun had made showing me the pavement under the engine I'd not seen so much of before.
Taking a shower in my elliptical bathtub a night after a morning one I played at making waves as I had then and saw them so differently: again the artificial light penetrated a surface the sun had made while it was up. My sunlit waves reflected crosses, while the night waves lensed the vanity lighting into bouncing lassos.
So I found different kinds of light to go along with the kinds of heat I've been thinking of for years: sun-heat, fire-heat, steam-heat, water-heat, air-heat. Bath-heat warming me up while I read Carroll's Circular Billiards or wonder on what someone's mom once told me about the chaos bouncing around inside the slightly imperfect ellipse. Better to feel!
This second I wonder about kinds of cold!
Taking a shower in my elliptical bathtub a night after a morning one I played at making waves as I had then and saw them so differently: again the artificial light penetrated a surface the sun had made while it was up. My sunlit waves reflected crosses, while the night waves lensed the vanity lighting into bouncing lassos.
So I found different kinds of light to go along with the kinds of heat I've been thinking of for years: sun-heat, fire-heat, steam-heat, water-heat, air-heat. Bath-heat warming me up while I read Carroll's Circular Billiards or wonder on what someone's mom once told me about the chaos bouncing around inside the slightly imperfect ellipse. Better to feel!
This second I wonder about kinds of cold!
an intermediate result
on the old subject of Kierkegaard's words on James 4:8, I recently made a little step summarized by: Purity of 'purity of heart is willing one thing' is heart.
how do you call a hand-sized plastic box with a slot cut out of one face disclosing a freely rotating bristle- encrusted wire mounted inside such that sliding the box over a surface rolls the bristle wire over it transferring dust and dirt from the surface to the box. The box also happens to pop into two pieces so the dirt can be easily removed later on, and then pop back into one piece.I've been asking and getting no help dear reader.
some computer questions
I've been asking a few questions here recently. so here's one more from the vaults:
Is there a internet search engine that pays attention to punctuation marks?
I was also going to ask how to tick GUI checkboxes from the keyboard as I've been trying to use the keyboard more (and one-handed, and left-handed, and mousing reverse-grip left-handed, too. Actually, I'm trying to get past even that now, to just keeping on the flow and feeling both hands as much as possible), but I figured it out: once you TAB onto one, SPACEBAR does the trick.
Is there a internet search engine that pays attention to punctuation marks?
I was also going to ask how to tick GUI checkboxes from the keyboard as I've been trying to use the keyboard more (and one-handed, and left-handed, and mousing reverse-grip left-handed, too. Actually, I'm trying to get past even that now, to just keeping on the flow and feeling both hands as much as possible), but I figured it out: once you TAB onto one, SPACEBAR does the trick.
a little on driving
I note here, something I haven't seen mentioned before on the subject of driving:
the effect of accelerations on the vertical tracking (pitch) of the road surface. I noticed this early on in a gross way, feeling my way over speed bumps, that decelerating coming onto the bump and accelerating while leaving it keeps the car tracking the surface smoothly. I had supposed the principal similar to popping a wheelie: accelerations first tend to pitch the car's nose up decelerations, down, but now that I write out these two long growing parts of my idea they seem to not lay quite as neatly together as one thing like I'd imagined. Maybe "tracking" was the wrong image-- if only for the reason that I see now it leaves out entirely the shock absorbers, leaving them to be canceled by my foot's activity. Well, I'll just watch more what happens: that's what I'm really aiming at here anyways.
Another thing I've started to pay attention to while driving is hitting the little reflectors glued to the lane divisions when changing lanes. Trying not to touch them has given me a finer perception of the total road surface. It helps to have these tricks of getting to perception and away from oversimplifying reality.
the effect of accelerations on the vertical tracking (pitch) of the road surface. I noticed this early on in a gross way, feeling my way over speed bumps, that decelerating coming onto the bump and accelerating while leaving it keeps the car tracking the surface smoothly. I had supposed the principal similar to popping a wheelie: accelerations first tend to pitch the car's nose up decelerations, down, but now that I write out these two long growing parts of my idea they seem to not lay quite as neatly together as one thing like I'd imagined. Maybe "tracking" was the wrong image-- if only for the reason that I see now it leaves out entirely the shock absorbers, leaving them to be canceled by my foot's activity. Well, I'll just watch more what happens: that's what I'm really aiming at here anyways.
Another thing I've started to pay attention to while driving is hitting the little reflectors glued to the lane divisions when changing lanes. Trying not to touch them has given me a finer perception of the total road surface. It helps to have these tricks of getting to perception and away from oversimplifying reality.
Kennedy's keyword
Speaking of playfair ciphers: it seems JFK cut one into a coconut, but I haven't had much luck finding what keyword he used, and the closer I get to the details the less sure I am that he used one at all. I'd like to know
materials science by proportion, part 2
so, last I mentioned it I hadn't really gotten to the materials science part of the proportion story, but it's short: 'tatami-' describes proportion by material embodying it; 'golden-,' too, but in reverse-- the proportion embodying an abstract quality described by the material. There must be others
I first thought of crystal lattice constants (zb, CdS-paned, 1:1.624.., close to gold!), and the 7 systems caught my eye though I still don't know what to do with them. speaking of which, yesterday I spent some time extending Euclid's algorithm to unequal pane dimensions, but didn't get farther than 2:1, and even that I think I might have mixed up. funny that the thing I came up with kind of reminded me of the Stein's binary version with the factors of two taken out and saved for later. I just kept in mind parity of the number of subtractions before switching measures, and used the last parity leading to zero remainder to either divide by 2 or not. I'm not sure if this is really right to have done but it seemed to work and the sounds surprised me!
I first thought of crystal lattice constants (zb, CdS-paned, 1:1.624.., close to gold!), and the 7 systems caught my eye though I still don't know what to do with them. speaking of which, yesterday I spent some time extending Euclid's algorithm to unequal pane dimensions, but didn't get farther than 2:1, and even that I think I might have mixed up. funny that the thing I came up with kind of reminded me of the Stein's binary version with the factors of two taken out and saved for later. I just kept in mind parity of the number of subtractions before switching measures, and used the last parity leading to zero remainder to either divide by 2 or not. I'm not sure if this is really right to have done but it seemed to work and the sounds surprised me!
roman side note
By the way, I've been thinking of roman numerals for the last year thanks to Shannon's THROBAC, so seeing last post's "Ctrl+C-Ctrl+V" made me think of Ctrl+C+(-ctrI)+V. [and thinking so made me tidy towards it, too] Elements out of strictly descending order having their signs reversed by roman convention we can make it just nice looking CCIV.
materials science by proportion
Speaking of coming in pairs of threes: I recently read, I think in Sayers' somewhere, "square paned," and have found it since in others'. 'Recently' meaning sometime since I've had Euclid's algorithm steadily on my mind, so the windows naturally made me think of its proof of the window's commensurable dimensions. I wondered then about panes of other proportions: 'golden-paned', for example was the example I found for my marginal note prompting future wonder.
That future came today when tatami mats suggested themselves as members, immediately followed by bricks, which I had just a little less recently thought of as adjuncts to a then-separate look at cultured stone. Bricks kept their place as adjuncts for today while I defocused on tatami mats --the most promising and elusive of the partial finds: a paper entitled "the forty-one steps," yet to be located in full
square-paned is to GCD as golden-paned is to Greatest Golden-Tile as bricks [header-, stretcher-, english-, garden wall-, flemish-, quarter-, herringbone-, basket-, american-, rat-trap- Bonds] are to [H-, S-... (-CD)s] as tatami-covered is to Greatest Tatami Mat Tile.
Along this sentence we are asking not only for the largest tiles possible, but first for the decomposition to be made in irrationally proportioned units, and then their arrangement to follow some special rules I've had trouble locating. Hopefully the forty one steps will tell all.
The least vague source I've found so far has been a Alt+PrtScr-Ctrl+V google books' limited preview of Heino Engel's "Measure and Construction of the Japanese House", most repeating one another to say only that "mats must not be laid in a grid pattern, and in any layout there is never a point where the corners of three or four mats touch" while implying that there's much more to be found out somewhere, and perhaps Ctrl+C-Ctrl+V'ing wikipedia's Image:Tatami_layout_1 that one might have drawn in the same time.
still, there's enough to start some thinking, so I'm thankful: Thanks!
But the way, what do you call two shapes made by slicing a cylinder at an angle, made to rotate relative to each other about their once shared symmetry axis for the purpose of producing a rising motion? It has something to do with saloon doors, but probably much more to do with something simpler. I'd like to know.
Sayers and other hopefuls
Not having a very good idea what to do, I've fallen back on some standards as evidenced last post. One I've yet to mention is a pile of Dorothy Sayers' books in my favorite avon edition; the one with covers marked by concentric circles and episode numbers. Having recently passed through 'Have His Carcase''s beautifully involved passage describing a Playfair decipherment, I fished out a Dover edition of Helen Fouche Gaines' Cryptanalysis from under the wicker couch where I'd left it so many bedtimes ago, and had a look through the early chapters discussing scrambling operations which finally struck me for the first time as related to the duration-scrambling I've been up to recently. It'll be time to pack the car again soon, and I wonder if Gaines will make it in. (the idea will at least)
Last night I finally got the power up to fetch a few CDs from out of my old room, and of these I also wonder if they'll follow along on the drive south: Revenge, Conqueror, Blasphemy, Bestial Warlust, Black Witchery, Havohej
These two families of aspiring itinerants don't seem to have much in common, and perhaps they don't: will I be able to will one thing someday? Though I sometimes demand purity in the form of solidity and stability the same everyday, I don't think it's a question of finding space in me for different things, but just looking on them with spacious eyes. could be
Last night I finally got the power up to fetch a few CDs from out of my old room, and of these I also wonder if they'll follow along on the drive south: Revenge, Conqueror, Blasphemy, Bestial Warlust, Black Witchery, Havohej
These two families of aspiring itinerants don't seem to have much in common, and perhaps they don't: will I be able to will one thing someday? Though I sometimes demand purity in the form of solidity and stability the same everyday, I don't think it's a question of finding space in me for different things, but just looking on them with spacious eyes. could be
data at least
I can't tell very well what's important anymore, the one thing I knew being removed. So I'll fall on some technical notes for the moment: looking at "Sound in, Sound out" as a category in which to stick things I can see my recent 8085 programs as falling in the periphery, and more importantly pointing to the middle. Paul Berg's PILE seems so too, even if he didn't act on any apprehension of the possible fact (the RNG he wrote so many routines based around is "Noise in" after all.). With "Noise in" as the in of "Sound in, Sound out" I've mostly been looking for nice separations and mixtures: distilling essences in an ideal space at odds with the basis handed in. to this end:
2nd: was thinking of how uniform distributions add to make triangular ones and then on to normal curves. and that it'd be useful to have a more concrete, perhaps geometric understanding, first thought in the 99cent store's exit queue, close to the front, with someone's xeroxed handout on Xenakis' probability distributions I found in a french copy of Musiques Formelles in my pocket, 2nd thought last night, and followed by a few drawings of rotating direct and retrograde copies of integer lists against one another. not sure yet what sense the drawings make, but the basics are reproduced above.
2ndy2nd: Then, this morning looking at ways irregularites are separated, mixed and compounded in the casting of the I Ching, I noticed the rotation of direct modulo sequences against one another to manipulate distrtibutions. (that's how we see first the 1:4 distribution, and then 1:1 -- a little rotation). [I wonder now if I could describe these things as convolutions as they look so similar to that other shifting and combining of direct and retrograde sequences.]
So. having made this little mess, I'm not any happier, but I have something to think about on the BART ride I'm treating myself to the instant after this post goes up
got a little better today
two years ago or so I found the instructive value of eating doritios. They taught me to pay attention to the position of food in my mouth as I'm eating it, and to notice the boundary at which I lose the individual pieces. Today I picked up a plate of meal remains I would never have chosen myself - a tortilla that had formerly housed a breakfast burrito, hashbrown nuggets with cheddar cheese, fragments of 2 scones, one cranberry, one plain, salsa, and some tiny bits of wet-ish bacon. the tastes were sort of rubbing on each other, and I started making more rubs, pickgin up salsa with the plain scone. Eating this I thought of Buddhist monks who before eating whatever is given them, mix all their gifts together, and tried it too. I'd always thought of the monk's practice as a sort of sense-mortification, to learn to not care somehow, but it had a quite different function for me. I was very much in my senses, and checking out the whole landscape of possibilities evenly. It could be also a monk's goal here too. I'm happy that at least that prescription of theirs might only be the physical injunction with the theoretic support removed for us to use as best we can. It's a new view of pedagogy I've had just recently. prior I've always been stuck on the theoretic aspect almost exclusively, being bored with reality somehow, or trying to skip it-- which is the most nonsensical behavior I can imagine now.
Yesterday I was watching some ants, very briefly, and thought oh, it's strange that I think I know that all worker ants are female, something unverifiable by watching, but that I don't know many other more fascinating (to me (the all female workers thing doesn't even mean anything!) ) and harder to codify things that I'd notice first if I'd just watch the ants. so I really don't know ANYTHING. so my education starts now as fast as I can start being how I want.
Yesterday I was watching some ants, very briefly, and thought oh, it's strange that I think I know that all worker ants are female, something unverifiable by watching, but that I don't know many other more fascinating (to me (the all female workers thing doesn't even mean anything!) ) and harder to codify things that I'd notice first if I'd just watch the ants. so I really don't know ANYTHING. so my education starts now as fast as I can start being how I want.
Today we admire the thick walls attributed to the ancients' sense of propriety and silence, but are unable to build in their proportion. But we are able as ever they were. Most of them were like most of us, but some with deepened rhythms moved in ways that reach us now, and them only we call the ancients.
physical proofs day
working on the car's shape some today. Trying to make my bed by stacking the cats' last known addresses: mattress and chair. a sign between obelus and fermata makes the arch under the bed! that cornell is still hidden in the heart of the drawers, what else?/ discovered a new rhyme: pocketknife and folding-toy on the backseat
Gears, what is fun?
I imagine tumbling down a steep hill, in a sporting event, and still moving some volitionally also, and hoping my little movements will communicate to the judges somehow my beautiful intentions.
The olympics seem still to linger in the air, nicely, but that they were there at all is a troublesome thought. I don't want to be leaving so open to chance sensitivities close to the heart,
but it's precicely the sensitivity that's picking up all the noise that we want to talk directly.
The olympics seem still to linger in the air, nicely, but that they were there at all is a troublesome thought. I don't want to be leaving so open to chance sensitivities close to the heart,
but it's precicely the sensitivity that's picking up all the noise that we want to talk directly.
Gears part 2
In the shower today I altranately wobbled and tensed my thighs, which seems full enough of possibilities to serve as theme for a new sport similar in kind to the type requested in part one. Have I not seen this exact behavior in bodybuilders? So step one could be to modify body-building to focus more on body resonances than their static correlates, shape and size.
I tried supplying my thighs with impulses timed to excite the wobble resonance, but wasn't able to yet. that would be something to see though, wouldn't it-- a slowly building wobble, seemingly arising from the void, but really coming from precise micro twitches deep in the heart of the muscle.
then we'll see what step two is!
I tried supplying my thighs with impulses timed to excite the wobble resonance, but wasn't able to yet. that would be something to see though, wouldn't it-- a slowly building wobble, seemingly arising from the void, but really coming from precise micro twitches deep in the heart of the muscle.
then we'll see what step two is!
split mind another way
A recent hobby of mine developed in social settings when the groups' talk split into several smaller conversations, I try following all of them. I've not yet an active role in any once the game gets started, but I try to at least remain aware of my participation in each, mostly entailing knowing glances, (How knowing the glances are I have no idea: a newly-this-second concieved hobby is watching a friend with my older hobby's face at work while remaining firmly embedded in a single sub-conversation.) and posture. Especially interesting to me are the moments of splitting and of other uncertain or dual structure. The hobbyist tries staying in that moment's form, dragging it out with split attention, slow and dragging, but in particulars, often scanning very rapidly for particulars.
And speaking of the game's glances, I notice playing at it often gives me the defocused face that I love so much in others. I wonder then if it's the clue leading me on to new interests and that the story of my development could be abstracted as the search for glazed eyes. I'd rather not except as yet another idea among many to have fun in the mean-time.
And speaking of the game's glances, I notice playing at it often gives me the defocused face that I love so much in others. I wonder then if it's the clue leading me on to new interests and that the story of my development could be abstracted as the search for glazed eyes. I'd rather not except as yet another idea among many to have fun in the mean-time.
Though the empty cages of the abandoned zoo are still revered for the care and intelligence with which they were laid out by the ancients and often attract stray students and adepts of the silver age, they're now the regular domain of the caretakers of the vast herbarium planted throughout the gilded lattice.
lying under, looking up into trees
I've noticed many mechanical things about my behaviors lately that I really don't like and am trying to quit, but, however much reporting on my occasional stop by the Albany reading room to check out the latest CS bible lesson may be one, I'm still going to do it now.
the bit that stood out to me says the the world couldn't accept Jesus' righteousness, but that the earth was able to recieve the harmony his example introduced. Made me think of the trees I'd been laying under, looking up at them and really appreciating their way of doing things. at the reading room I wondered if Jesus' harmony was lost to us, but had somehow gone into the earth and communicated to the trees, and if before him, they had grown differently.
I'm interested in different people's sense of trees. Lately I've asked a few people how they see windy trees; if they see the tree movments as passive, or somehow volitional. Ezra, the first, said he always sees them as moving themselves, waving at him. for me it's a rare thing, and I have to ask for it.
So, here are two, of many, things I've been repeating lately, the tree question, and posting about CS readings. The first seems like fun to me, but the second not: stopping by the reading room I'm already wondering if it'll make something interesting to post about. I hate it, and it's a very small thing out of all the stuff I see myself doing that I hate-- just promise again to keep it in view and keep going
the bit that stood out to me says the the world couldn't accept Jesus' righteousness, but that the earth was able to recieve the harmony his example introduced. Made me think of the trees I'd been laying under, looking up at them and really appreciating their way of doing things. at the reading room I wondered if Jesus' harmony was lost to us, but had somehow gone into the earth and communicated to the trees, and if before him, they had grown differently.
I'm interested in different people's sense of trees. Lately I've asked a few people how they see windy trees; if they see the tree movments as passive, or somehow volitional. Ezra, the first, said he always sees them as moving themselves, waving at him. for me it's a rare thing, and I have to ask for it.
So, here are two, of many, things I've been repeating lately, the tree question, and posting about CS readings. The first seems like fun to me, but the second not: stopping by the reading room I'm already wondering if it'll make something interesting to post about. I hate it, and it's a very small thing out of all the stuff I see myself doing that I hate-- just promise again to keep it in view and keep going
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
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!
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
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.
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
(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
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
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