listening to historical tapes (from 2004), and the term 'webmaster' sounds so odd

"When there is a supersaturation-of-the-syntax there will sooner or later be someone so located in the syntax, so burdened with just the right amounts of the heretofore unlinkable islands of syntax of disparate areas that in him a synthesis is possible" -- Putnam (1965)

football - the one with helmets, that encourage head injuries - the one without helmets feels safer, yet suffers from heading the ball - a similar pattern in both, ignoring emergence over time - probably in life, too

spends a day researching an issue, gets to the bottom of it, and finds notes dates the same day last year - an initial ugh response, followed by a moment of deeper understanding - things make sense better over time, if we leave notes to our future selves

"A paradoxical, but perhaps realistic, view of design goals is that their function is to motivate activity which will in turn generate new goals" -- Herb Simon (1969)

"The Eye is the first-circle; the horizon which it forms is the second" - Emerson

interesting times, to study interesting systems

listening to Gloria Estefan's Dr.Congo - rhythm gonna get you...

everyday can be like christmas, when we get exciting curve balls from unexpected streams opening a present we didn't even know was sitting under the tree, primed and ready, waiting for the right moment

TFW you replace 'is' with a 'appears'

its uncanny how we can learn by reflecting on the feeling of uncanniness

"German wunder, Old Norse undr), a word of unknown origin" - the wonderful etymology of wonder

its complicated, it depends, its messy, its life, as we know it

"awe and wonder are also modes of perception. We can choose to see ­things with firstness" -- Helena De Cruz

yada yada, everyday life goes on - and then some harp music comes on, so unexpected, so unusual, a delightful little surprise

"flowers sometimes differ wonderfully in structure" -- Darwin

"The question is how to build a reliable system from unreliable parts" -- Herb Simon

(watching a driver who ran over a bike yesterday (no kid, phew), reverse into a curb - probably the most off road the suv thing will ever see)

trees have beautiful branching structures, seasonally spatial processes

pondering how we blame individuals, feeling we need herd-immunity for social systems, and then stumbles into the phrase "Winston began reading..." - ouch

breathlessness - easy to see why, when you see how much content they churn out, ever day in every way

reading conspiracies, and struck at how apt the word "recycle" is for what we see, time and time again

breathlessness - the quality of a podcast you quickly sense is not produced by something that breathes

reflectively sensing reflection as a simple way to get an intuitive feel for a system... and imitation, through simulation, to test that feel, experience differences... and simulation to generate faster feedback (obvious in hindsight of course, as always)

in terms of music, the energy of 1970s punk seems appropriate for these times... but pre-punk 70s disco sure is an upbeat relief from these times

"Peace was just a decade away, not that I or my colleagues imagined it - we were hostage to the drama of the moment" -- Fergal Keane

political cartoons - an intuitive insight into how minds think of one thing in terms of something more familiar

"in 1951, E. Colin Cherry of the University of London, observed that "Early invention was greatly hampered by an inability to dissociate mechanical structure from animal form. The Invention-of-the-Wheel was one outstanding early effort of such dissociation" -- McLuhan (1962)

looking at robots that look like humans - 'fear' as an obvious response, 'desire' as its counterpart...

"we realized the music was a time machine" - Arlene Sarner (screenwriter, on Peggy Sue Got Married)

not unlike algae, and flu, positively blooming

when we think of robustness, resilience, its so easy to think big, strong - yet daisies keep popping up, lawnmowers mow them down, and they come back again

wondering if frank luntz has a replica of the green algae pool in his yard

re. effects - watching the Kapotno refinery blow its lid, in your home, on a mobile device, hours after it happened, years after a conventional 'special military operation' was launched is quite a thing

"The new consciousness like the new prince is a harassed executive, exercising a job, applying knowledge to problems, and having only momentary contacts with his marginal subjects" -- McLuhan (1962)

"bipedalism and brain expansion explain handedness" as fun thing of the day, via Anton Petrov

tfw your-team are called knickerbockers - nick names ftw

transcendence - fancy word for when your-team wins and people celebrate, shared experiences

continue to find wonderful serendipity simplify by reviewing notes made on-this-day

quick non scientific sample of websites, four out of five fail to render anything (without cookies, tracking) - "fox" sites do work

"However, once established as the “Big Cheese,” history has shown that the dictator cannot find lasting solutions to the problems" -- Hal Lindsey

TFW you realize that 'verification' means you're supposed to tick the box, not hit the back button

sees some old black and white photos, wonders what was it like to live then... sees some amazing pictures, from now, wonders if they were in black and white... moments, flowing - "same as it ever was" - enjoy the now

"concepts of time and space reflect the significance of media to civilization" -- Innis

so fun to jump back into what we were doing on-this-day, last year, the year before - async synchronicity

"since noone was listening... I just learned tune after tune, and kept learning" -- Keith Jarrett (the art of improvisation)

there's something soothing about musics, played by humans, in sync, in time with other humans, no needy interruptions

TFW you look at a clock and wonder where the past few hours went

cars, a lovely example of legacy thinking, coping - a walkable, bikable, locale, much nicer, the city as carless technology, connected spaces, no separated by stroads