Wednesday, June 7, 2023

Continuing the Conversation

Joe Clinton opens by reading a lengthy passage by some philosopher, which begins to sound like Bucky in places, but is this text by Joe Clinton himself? Is Joe into being this metaphysical? He quotes Bucky internally, so clearly the outer quote is not Bucky.

Funny how the term "dictate" forces itself into so many discussions of metaphysical rules. Grammar police.

OK, they're his own words, he's taking credit (these are notes in real time). He addresses his convention of colorizing internal Bucky quotes.

Joe is a big Froebel fan.

Lots of good pie crust language around the Jitterbug Transformation. Yeah, Bucky called just about everything he treasured a "dymaxion" at one point or another.

Joe has spent a lot of his time on this Jitterbug Transformation, a centerpiece in Synergetics, a kind of dumbbell dorge if we look at symmetrical expansions to outer limits around a zero center, called a "bow-tie" by Bucky (he used a symbol):

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Monday, May 29, 2023

A Memorial Day Meander (School of Tomorrow)

I was up early making this YouTube.

I'll blame Sydney, my dog. But then I wanted to get some kind of YouTube out. So Sydney was more my excuse. I like being productive in the early pre-light hours.

Then I pushed myself to walk to the top of Mt. Tabor and back, starting before 6 am. As I was up until maybe 2 or 3 am listening to Ram Dass, I was operating on next to no sleep and found I was battling brain fog, even after drinking a lot of coffee and doing this somewhat off the cuff (impromptu) YouTube.

By the time I started down, the cold air and continued exertion level had put my brain back in gear. I'd forgotten my iPhone and my Apple Watch ran out of change before my return.

Actually finding said iPhone required quite a bit of movement as well. Matters improved when I realized said phone still had charge and I'd be able to make it ring using the watch, once it was charged a little.

The iPhone was under the living room futon, the kind of place it'd take forever to find were it not able to make noise.

I'm chatting a lot about my devices because they're a big part of my up close reality these days, along with my pets. I also took a Lumix camera up Mt. Tabor. I have two such cameras since that night I fell and thought I'd lost one of them and so purchased another (used). That was in 2022. I still feel that knee injury sometimes.