The Progressive Patriots Fund is asking for a word or phrase to describe a quality you’d like you see in our next president. You can download the ‘My President Will Be…’ sign or make your own. Write down your word or phrase and upload a photo of yourself with your sign. Here’s Russ Feingold’s video: [youtube]http://youtube.com/watch?v=ivaTo6b2F7M[/youtube] Thanks to Bob Dylan for the inspiration… [youtube]http://youtube.com/watch?v=5KKmQp8-bog[/youtube]
Chuang Tzu (Master Chuang) was a witty and profound writer – and a bit of a curmudgeon sometimes. I love his parables, and his humor, and his mystical – yet very pragmatic – approach to attunement and freedom from conventional obsessions. He lived in China sometime around the 4th century B.C.E. He’s my favorite. You may run across different spellings of his name. This is how I saw it when I first started reading, but you will also see Zhuangzi,…
I think I’m out of Laurie Anderson’s PSAs, so I’m moving on to other Anderson videos for the Saturday post. This one is “Mach 20,” about proportional speed and information-carrying vehicles… [youtube]http://youtube.com/watch?v=SirOxIeuNDE[/youtube] Would they know that they had been sent for a purpose?
I’ve been awarded the “Thoughtful Blogger Award” by Jolly Roger at Reconstitution 2.0. JR said the most lovely thing: Virus Head is one of the most gracious people I’ve encountered in my years of blogging. She has a gentle patience that almost makes me feel bad for the chainsaw approach I take to some of my more notable commenters. I DON’T feel bad, of course, but seeing her way stops me dead in my tracks from time to time. For…
Leave to someone working in theoretical neurobiology and
The semaphore (four rotating disks of light) atop the Adobe tower in downtown San Jose is indeed transmitting a message. Never heard of a semaphore? There are multiple meanings. In programming, it concerns methodology for mutual exclusion (see “excluded middles” below), parallel processing, and synchronization. Predating the electrical telegraph, the semaphore was defined as an optical telegraph that conveyed information via visual signals – towers with blades, shutters, flags and so on. semaphore I wonder to what extent the Adobe…