watching the sun come up, slowly, on a webcam and, slowly, getting a feel for how its us that moves around the sub

TFW you realize you can invent your own rituals, traditions

replaces a four letter word with a three letter word - feels good (and its not a swear word)

do one thing, get an idea for another thing, is that how it works?

Happy solstice day, tilting towards another trip round the sun

For fans of Tufte, this is the best-designed book I've seen that shows off science pubs.usgs.gov/publication/...

search as a simple source of serendipity, if we're not too specific, and are happy to go off on a tangent

rainy day = reading day

so much solar in the stream, seem like we're in a transition from solarpunk to the main stream norms, more money in growth there than protecting the dirty old moats

"the trickster is a mediator. Since his mediating function occupies a position halfway between two polar terms, he must retain something of that duality— namely an ambiguous and equivocal character" -- Levi Strauss

the sun is so low, as we approach the equinox, you can sense the tilt of the earth - and start to imagine how far around the sun we'll be in a few months

seeing lovely aurora photos, then sensing something not quite right - the same questions we learned to ask about urban myths, shifted to a visual format

being in a space as an ecstatic feeling

covered bridges - appeal to humans like a box to a cat

"Understanding" is my favorite word" -- Taiichi Ohno

"My mother spoke only Irish Gaelic until she was quite old, but numbers… numbers are the same in any language. When I came to America in 1924, I had to learn a new tongue, but math was a constant" -- Kathleen Antonelli (on the ENIAC)

"When you have no manual, no language, and no one to ask, you improvise" -- Frances Spence (on the ENIAC)

I’m a little late with this but here’s December arriving, from Makorori Beach, Aotearoa / New Zealand. Ata mārie / Good Morning ☀️

"Each century originates a new complexity and each new generation faces a new vexation in it" -- Niebuhr

"Beauty is all around us"

two typos of people

do all science experiments look like mad science?

what if the extended brain decides to exclude us (hmm, scratches chin - embodied brain feels its still connected)

"this curious-child was very fond of pretending to be two people"

gets into a flow-state, looks at clock, and wonders why we still use clockwork technology for coordination, no longer needing to meet in same space etc.

maps, explanations, laying it out flat - to look down on the world, like the architects visions - the stuff of spy films, and competence porn in general

"Tomorrow Was The Golden Age saw the group pare down to a seven-person ensemble composed of a pianist, two clarinetists, two bassists, a cellist and a tape-delay operator" en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bing_%2...

system on a chip - nice datacenter on a chip - wait what

It is incredible how many stars can be seen even with the light pollution from Glastonbury Town below. Orion just to the left of the tower. Photograph from about 04.30 this morning.

"how" seems to waste less time than "why"

(loving all the wild turkey photos - amazing birds)

TFW you get-it, can see-it, and its more than a feeling

amazing photo, when you think about it

"whatever" - "attested from late 14c. as "any at all; no matter what or who" (as in whatever may come)" - also "late 13c., ware euere" www.etymonline.com/word/whatever

empty the cup, empty your mind, let go of the apparent answer, its when we stop-thinking that the better answers seems to pop up

Today we found something magical, deep in the wild green heart of Sumatra: Rafflesia kemumu in full bloom. One of the world's largest flowers, to see this extremely rare species in full bloom is truly special.

beauty in all parts of the spectrum

stuck - changed the name of a thing, and something else appeared, a different way of seeing

follow the curve

was reflecting on how effective a simple timeline is to show data in space and time, that another key dimension is color, and what would that be like - ah, team sports

Last night was really cool

autumn foliage - wonderful colors, variety, variation, processes auroras - wonderful colors, variation, processes ongoing processes inspiring living processes

notices the first christmas tree going up

"squelch" - one of those words that opens up rabbit holes

"everything is..." as a dramatic over generalization... "everything as..." as an interesting way of seeing differently

(TFW you lose a day on syntax errors, and find Hegel easier to read)

"There is an alternative to tormenting ourselves with such useless ideas and stock phrases...." - Hegel

even if we only speak one language, etymology reminds us speak bits of many languages

"townspeople, the yeastiest citizens in Western as in most societies" -- Alfred Crosby

"Fish don't vote" -- Hyman Rickover en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Hyman_G...