 |
|
archives push me to post webmail :: xenii mail the hive :: for trading and raiding polymorph :: a cosmographia universalis chrisnelson.ca :: chiefwagonburner has a blog fortune cookie distro :: x's distro
Hey Coop, I was just looking at your pictures of the Grand Canyon - very lovely! I've always meant to go there, but have never managed to somehow. So many places so little time. Ah, well. Charlotte is just so durn cute. the little peanut... I'm all alone at work today and trying to remember why i came in. I'll let y'all know if I remember later. Anyhoo. that's all....
Miss Speck and the Giant Librarians Well hey howdy all! It's back! The chair once again, speaks! I finally figured out how to get here, and even more astonishing, how to post! Great about the show Anna! It looks real nice! Funny shoes, Speck! Don't break your... well be careful! They are quite lovely. Easy to see why you'd design an outfit around them. I look forward to pictures of the ensemble! "Chinese Food" not unlike "Happy Food", "Good Taste" or "Good Food." Such as are some of the Asian restaurants in Richmond called. There's this one Asian buffet that my buds and I frequent, called "Hong Kong King Buffet." They have unlimited snow crab legs, a steak/stir fry grill, suchi, amid lots of other interesting Asian and other cuisine items, including pepperoni pizza, chicken wings, fried shrimp, fried frog legs, and carve it yourself roast beef. All you can eat at $13.60 with drink and tax on the weekends, it's one of my favorite places to tie on the feed bag. I often make innane jokes like, let's go to the "King Kong Ding Dong Cafe!" Jimmy I have been giving your language idea some thought. One basis upon which it might gain structure could be natural, instinctual sounds that all people make. By this I mean laughing, screaming, crying, whispering, singing, shouting, grunting, humming, spitting, belching, yawning, etc. Thus to be frightened might be a scream of one sort or another. You could even whisper a scream immatation, and thus mean some hidden fear or fear of unknown. Obviously laughter already communicates that you believe something is funny. It goes without saying. Tapping or stomping your feet might have a correlation to counting, at least using your fingers can mean numbers in most any language. Hand motions, as in charades, play a large role in some communications, especially when there is no common language. When we were in France, we used a map and pointed to where we wanted to go. Those kinds of communications are common to most everyone. A motion to appear to be eating, as in placing the hand near the mouth and chewing is an obvious signal for food. Anyway, those are some of my initial thoughts. I am interested in seeing where you'll go with the project! Wish I was near enough to participate in one of your group, non-language based experiments. Oh and if this works, I hope to upload an "Art.eMorph" one of my computer creations.  This one (if it appears), is called jayne_mansfield007a0064a0001.jpg, a derivation of the original photo's filename. It is half sized to post easier. Many thousands more are available, perhaps for Polymorph? Glad we're back! Good to see everyone! Peace Yo! Awwa \A/
Aw Thanks to the Chief for letting me know about this. xenius dot org now blocks the RIAA and MPAA. 
jimmy Hey kids. The chair is alive!! Like a frog in winter it digs into the mud and goes dormant, and then when daylight savings time comes around, the frogs dig themselves out and have a look around....... nevermind, lol. We just got back from our first "family" vacation to the Grand Canyon. (edit: finished the picture site.) Charlotte is awake now so I must fly. We both have nasty respiratory things thanks to the airplanes. hey Jimmy... I need to talk to you about my xeniusmail account... I forgot to ask you to turn it back on after the big switchover. oopsy. maybe I got rid of some of the spammers that way. heh. more later :)
coop Thanks, Speck. Jimmy, I thought you had an L j and tried searching for your username there a couple of weeks ago but didn't find anything, so I wasn't sure if you were still doing it or not. Of course I know now. I started one because Mac had one and I was jealous. ;)
Anna Here's a better link of pictures to the Albany Waterfront/ Sniff (that's what the collective of artists is called who created the work there) thingee. Sniff I'm obsessed!
Miss Speck and the Giant Librarians Jimmy, you want Kraft. You love Kraft. Give in to the Kraft. Kraft loves you... Wow, that's pretty cool, Speck. Not quite the same, but for some reason that reminded me of exploring ghost towns as a kid. There were a lot of them in Canada, the remote locations tend to have boom/bust cycles. I used to love checking them out. Makes me wonder why I never pursued archeology or something. Spent yesterday in the desert with Anna and my folks (they are down for a week to visit). Saw some good cacti blooms, but a lot of them needed another day or two to really get going.
chiefwagonburner I haven't seen generic labels since I was a kid. I mean, the blue and white kind like they had in Repo Man. "Drink" and "Food" are two that I recall from the movie... heh heh.... Now they just have the store name on the generic stuff "Safeway Select Macaroni and Cheese" and they've added color to the label. But they're not fooling me.... Anyhoo, those pictures are beautiful Anna, I love the starry sky one. It must be a relief that it's over, but what a beautiful show! Cutty and I went for a walk yesterday on the Albany waterfront (by Berkeley) behind Golden Gate Fields (the horse racing track) and saw the coolest stuff! I guess it used to be a landfill, but now has turned into a park which is a lovely spit of land that extends out into the bay. There's lots of rusting metal bits and smashed concrete blocks in the foliage, and people have graffitti-ed a bunch of it, and made strange art out of some of it. But the best part was that at the end of one path, down by the water, someone had painted all of these huge paintings on stuff that they'd found down there. Giant pieces of wood or concrete. They'd made a massive sculpture of a woman out of styrofoam and spray painted it. There was a sculpture of the devil riding a dragon - all made out of driftwood, a pirate ship, an archway with a sculpture of a man on one side and a woman on the other - made out of spray painted blocks of styrofoam. It was so cool! We were amazed since we had no idea this stuff was there. I found this link to some pics of the art there and here's a link to a site about the waterfront They're trying to save it from getting cleaned up and the art being tossed out... That would be a real bummer if they did that. It's another one of the places that makes me glad I live in the Bay Area! ah, well. We shall see....
Miss Speck and the Giant Librarians 87 bucks, Jeffron!! Factor in the mandatory food and refreshments and the social time and, well, I think I need to learn how to play Poker. It sounds like a game that pays off pretty well. Chinese Food. That sounds like a government chain. Like the packs of cheese they have in grocery stores with the plain blue and white label which says "cheese". And the soda that merely says "soda". Ever see those? They're fascinating AND scary. But what does it mean when I'm more comfortable with labels which are mere abstractions to the food product they represent? Why does the word 'Kraft' speak to me more about the cheesey contents of a box than 'Macaroni and Cheese'? What have I become??! I tried endlessly to decorate this post with a nice picture of a generic soda can or especially generic 'beer', but there seem to be no such pictures on the internet. Remember 'Repo Man'? ----------------------- Fancy seeing you on LJ, anna! I've been posting there awhile, myself. The photos are lovely. Do you explain the focus thing on your journal? I'm about to read them anyhow...but if not, will you?
jimmy More on my show in this blog thing I started. Some tedious academic writing and some black and white pictures taken by a pro. I'm so happy it's over that I haven't even complained about the time change.
Anna Daylight Savings Time is making me its bitch today. Not the sleep, so much as the one hour. I made 87 bucks last night playing poker, which is either a decadent or degenerate way of making money, or maybe both, but the upshot is that I slept late, which would have been okay, but I lost an hour, and made a date to watch the first baseball game of the season, Red Sox vs. Orioles and it starts in an hour and a half but I had to come here to get directions from mapquest for the new job I start tomorrow and had to take back two dvd rentals that were a week overdue, and I really want to invest a portion of that 87 bucks in Chinese food, so, I'm off. I suspect everyone else has similiar reasons for posting infrequently over the last few weeks. I will avoid run-on sentences in the future. Off to the Chinese Food place, which is called, creatively, "Chinese Food".
jeffron x Praise Bowie, it's over.  the show had 3 rooms- the first was normal lighting (though it looks dark in this shot) detail of the piece above The second had a modified german projector in it called a Braun D 300. My uncle rigged it for me so that the focus would shift between two slides without stopping. There's what the Braun was projecting, that big bright circle on the far wall. The third room had a regular Kodak projector in it, with a tray of 80 slides on auto advance, here are two of 80 images.
Anna It really was a badass-kickin' car. Funny, it went straight downhill the day you and I and Cutty talked about how immortally cool it was. It was dead in two days. The polymorph template is up, the subdomain is created and will be active soon. Submissions are welcome. polymorph A friend of mine, Jeff, just sent me an email with a brilliant idea concerning the language project: I took a look, and immediately got an idea for the language project. Get some people together to hang out and interact for a time period with the following rule: you may not speak or write a word of any natural language you've previously learned. Then try to do stuff together. It'll help to have physical stuff to interact with: tea and sandwiches, musical instruments, drawing paper. Keep the media appliances unplugged. Hide books and anything with writing on it. It'll be playfully primeval. This could be done periodically in parallel with the theoretical developments. Now that's a beautiful idea. Maybe I'd have to put an ad in the paper for that, then send everyone a blank book and a pencil, trying to organize a meeting at some coffee shop somewhere.
jimmy 
|
