Hell has bevels -- Jungian typos

"or" is such a big little word we rarely notice

looking at old-technology, specialist technology, to do a specialized job, professionally - and noticing how much clothes are part of it, too, dressing the part, to look professional, match others expectations

just sitting, aware of how quiet the world can be - recommended, if only to notice the difference - moments

yumin zhengce, via wikipedia's see also on bread and circuses, its a small world

wait - what if everything is sportwashing?

"you didn't know how to say it, there was no language for it... Bob came along and gave us those words, he gave us those songs. and the first thing he asked was you was 'How Does it Feel'?" -- Springsteen (on Dylan)

"Languages are stuttering extensions of our five senses..." -- McLuhan

"... it ignores the nature of the medium, of any and all media, in the true Narcissus style of one hypnotized by the amputation and extension of his own being in a new technical form" -- McLuhan (164)

"The... older megamachine with its rigid limitations and predictable performance might give rise to the exact antithesis: an electronic Anti-Mega-Machine programmed to accelerate disorder, ignorance, and entropy" -- Mumford (1970)

watched a popular podcast, had an actual laugh out loud moment, closed the tab watching an artemis documentary, had an actual 'wow' moment - engineering is cool

saw a guy with a guitar, on a bike - electric bike, acoustic guitar (kids these days ;)

"ask whether it be not probable, that thinking is the action and not the essence of the soul?" -- Locke (1689)

face to face with big systems, we're so unprepared

so much talent, what-if, instead-of, we....

out on a windy day - so much energy, what-if...

(he says righteously ;)

"This is a dynamic list" says wikipedia's "List of dates predicted for apocalyptic events" -- doom and gloom merchants in business for quite some time it appears

refreshing how much doing something can take your mind off the attention seeking noise

(watched arrival again, then re-read axelrod, synchronicity?)

(read the axelrod book again this weekend, part of this little theme of notes to a future self)

messy, imperfect, but mutually rewarding, recognition as the exciting currency, making something together, not playing against each other

collaborative puzzle solving - where no one has all the pieces (answers, or questions) slowly, if we respect that no one can control the game, we can build a picture (this note a piece in a puzzle playing out over time, perhaps)

listening to an interview, that could be better - the questions, prepared before hand - there's no quest if we don't follow the unexpected

the interesting sound of pennies dropping

"Carry on Panicking" -- Stanley Cohen

autumnal 'fall' is a great time for photos, when we focus on the trees, but the early spring can have amazing light, clouds etc.

"These crises are due to our past-successes rather than our failures" -- Robert Theobald

fear is the slop generator

"In a sense we are running an historic social experiment today. We are experimenting with whether or not a society can hold itself together without the core process that has always bound societies, the process of conversation" -- William Isaacs (1999)

watched that vrml cave diver simulation last week, omg, avoid if possible... now watching video from discovery of Chauvet cave art and having flashbacks

TFW you're reading one thing, and something you read years ago falls into place - is it all really one big book?

looking at the gas price chart - "it is risen"

loving the etymological roots of "other" - "Old English oþer "second, the second of two" - a third way as the way out of that limiting game

"the desire for charisma is a political death wish" -- Peter Drucker (1989)

scale as the new mystery - desperately seeking attention

love watching the new seasons leaves bursting out of the trees

"even pure magic requires faith in the magical power of the magician, and... the magician's own faith in himself" -- Weber

"Faith sees best in the dark" -- Kierkegaard

"Faith makes moral certainty easy" -- Peter Berge

"Let your faith light the world" -- Ron Cobb

for sale - cross - never worn truthfully

kind of eye opening how, when you make a discovery, gain some insight, learn something... its so easy to see it everywhere, and yet we missed what was hidden in plain sight

TFW "the button in the elevator says space" :)

watching, what you can do with fingers, its quite amazing, gestures not so wildly, in the direction

thinking that the perspective from earth may make planes and orbiting space stations more photogenic than a little craft all that distance away - hoping for some good news, inspiring images regardless

those photographers, who take amazing pictures of the moon - do you think they're calculating how to get a photo with a space ship in the frame?

"our incredulity is now such that we no longer expect salvation to rise from these inconsistencies" -- Lyotard

"The man of that epoch was so inured to Divine-Inconsistencies that he was not unduly perturbed when they happened" -- Jung

TFW you stumble across something and, wait, hmmm - interrupting the train of everyday feeling of familiarity