deep not overextended (norma fraser versus judy mowatt)

Seems to me the only time I feel OK is when I'm not feeling
overextended in one way or another. Like the times when I'm not
saying "oh yes for sure I can do that" to everyone. And the times
when I've got a reasonable amount of money in the bank. And when I'm
getting enough sleep. Ha ha ha.

Pretty rare times, seems like, but maybe it's just because I never yet
mastered the idea of keeping it simple, herp/derp. I got a new idea
about that.

The world reduces to Projects X Time. Or Activities X Time, whatever
you want to call it. And Time naturally breaks up into Now, Next,
Soon, and Later. Projects at any given moment break up into whatever
you want. And then things just pop off the various stacks without
disruption.

* * *

that's how my love is
listen to me boy
alright now
silent river runs deep
when it comes to lovin' me she's worst
but when it comes to being loved she's first
I say silent river runs deep
I realize love ain't no toy
you might think I don't love you boy
you might think
but listen
things ain't that bad
listen to me boy
baby you can’t love a key without love
but I realize
love ain't no toy
but there's someone who's torn it apart
but listen
if sometimes I feel sad
silent river runs deep
silent river runs deep
when I say listen to me boy
when it comes to being loved people
I say silent river runs deep
The first cut is the deepest, baby I know
'Cause when it comes to being lucky people
I love you boy
just to help me dry the tears that I've cried
but listen
listen to me boy
alright now
but listen
The first cut is the deepest
The first cut is the deepest
'cause when it comes to being lucky people
that's how I know
that's how I know
I say silent river runs deep
but baby, I'll try to love again, but I know
I'm cheating boy
silent river runs deep
believe me when I say
silent river runs deep
The first cut is the deepest, baby I know
I love you boy
that's how my love is
I'm cheating boy
and it's taking almost all that I've got
Just to hold you by my side
when I say believe me when I say
I would have given you all of my heart
but listen
The first cut is the deepest, baby I know
listen to me boy
silent river runs deep
when I say
you might think
'cause I'm sure gonna give you a try
silent river runs deep
and if you want, I'll try to love again
don't worry darling
The first cut is the deepest
when it comes to lovin' me she's worst
but if you want, I'll try to love again

nested

"Without sustained social interaction, the human brain may become as
impaired as one that has incurred a traumatic injury."
--http://www.boingboing.net/2010/12/17/is-long-term-solitar.html
quoting http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2009/03/30/090330fa_fact_gawande
which cites a 1992 medical study.

I can't find the study written up anywhere in particular, but cf.
http://www.solitaryconfinement.org/uploads/sourcebook_web.pdf
and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sremska_Mitrovica_camp

This is all circulating now with regard to this:
http://www.salon.com/news/opinion/glenn_greenwald/2010/12/14/manning/index.html
(it being mainly an irony that Assange was briefly held in solitary
confinement in the UK).

?em ekil uoy t'nod yhw (beck versus radiohead)

"Generally speaking, those men who reported a great deal of sex
fantasy had no partners or were in some sense sexually unfulfilled.
Women who engaged in a great deal of fantasy were usually also having
an active and satisfying sex life with a loved partner. Thus it seems
that men's fantasies often signify sexual frustration, while women's
fantasies are awakened or liberated by sexual activity." -- Glenn
Wilson, The Great Sex Divide, pp. 10-14. Peter Owen (London) 1989;
Scott-Townsend (Washington D.C.) 1992.
(http://www.heretical.com/wilson/sfantasy.html)
* * *
(double barrel buckshot)
You're so fuckin' special
so why don't you kill me?
You're just like an angel
asleep on the love-seat
Ban all the music with a phony gas chamber
Sprechen Die Deutsch hier, Baby!
You can't write if you can't relate
Soy un perdedor
She run run run run...
run away
I'm a weirdo
I don't care if it hurts
Dog food stalls with the beefcake pantyhose
With the rerun shows and the cocaine nose-job
I wanna have control
One's on the pole
Forces of evil on a bozo nightmare
I want you to notice
Your skin makes me cry
Someone came sayin'
I'm insane to complain
You float like a feather
And my time is a piece of wax
fallin' on a termite
You're so fuckin' special
when I'm not around
I'm a winner; things are gonna change I can feel it
You're so fuckin' special
I want a perfect body
But I'm a creep
I wish I was special
so why don't you kill me?
I'm a driver
Whatever makes you happy
In a beautiful world
Don't believe everything that you breathe
With the plastic eyeballs
Savin' all your food stamps
and burnin' down the trailer park
I want a perfect soul
'cuz one's got a weasel and the other's got a flag
run... run...
spray-paint the vegetables
why don't you kill me?
Baby's in reno with the vitamin d
He hung himself with a guitar string
Whatever you want
Trade the cash for the beef for the body for the hate
I wish I was special
You get a parking violation
(yo bring it on down)

head in up to your diagram

"We report two experimental studies on the potentially detrimental
effects of nonshared, external representations in an instructional
setting. Domain experts viewing an external representation responded
to E-mail inquires for medical advice written by people who were
unable to see this external representation. Based on research on
expert–layperson communication, we predicted that the experts'
extensive and highly integrated knowledge of their own domain would
make it very difficult for them to comprehend the completely different
perspective of a layperson. We assumed that such a one-sided immersion
in one's own privileged knowledge would be exacerbated by the
availability of external representations (e.g., diagrams of body
functions). Results confirmed that visualizations making the subject
matter immediately evident for the expert did have such a detrimental
effect." -- "Explaining with nonshared illustrations: How they
constrain explanations" (abstract), by Regina Jucks, Rainer Brommea
and Anne Rundea
Sadly I seem to suffer from this problem quite a lot ><

the thin ribbons of gray macadam

The ambush of Barrow and Parker proved to be the beginning of the end
of the "public enemy era" of the 1930s. New federal statutes that made
bank robbery and kidnapping federal offenses, the growing coordination
of local jurisdictions by the FBI—plus the installation of two-way
radios in police cars—combined to make the free-ranging outlaw bandit
lifestyle much more difficult in the summer of 1934 than it had been
just a few months before. Two months after Gibsland, John Dillinger
was ambushed and killed on the street in Chicago; three months after
that, Charles Arthur "Pretty Boy" Floyd took 14 FBI bullets in the
back in Ohio; and one month after that, Lester "Baby Face Nelson"
Gillis shot it out, and lost, in Illinois. Thereafter, the Public
Enemies would no longer operate on thin ribbons of gray macadam across
America, but only on silver screens throughout the world. --
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bonnie_and_Clyde

naming things

Example: The Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics gets its name
from the fact that song and voice is carried by the breath. Kerouac
practiced tracing his mind's thoughts and sounds directly on the page.
Allen Ginsberg's poetry works on this model, and Chögyam Trungpa
wanted meditation-teachers-in-training to learn to be poets in this
style, so they would teach with attention to the breath, as poets. --
Based on page 427 of "Recalling Chögyam Trungpa"

a void

"My input revolved around the idea of ritual art—what options were
there open to that kind of quasi-sacrificial blood-obsessed sort of
art form? And the idea of a neo-paganism developing—especially in
America—with the advent of the new cults of tattooing and
scarification and piercings and all that. I think people have a real
need for some spiritual life and I think there's great spiritual
starving going on. There's a hole that's been vacated by an
authoritative religious body—the judaeo-Christian ethic doesn't seem
to embrace all the things that people actually need to have dealt with
in that way—and it's sort of been left to popular culture to soak up
the leftover bits like violence and sex." -- David Bowie,
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Hearts_Filthy_Lesson

the most wonderful time of the year

"Knowledge will forever govern ignorance; and a people who mean to be
their own governors must arm themselves with the power which knowledge
gives." -- James Madison

"While it is a crime to leak classified information, receiving and
publishing it is not."
--http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/paypal_announces_it_will_no_longer_handle_wikileak.php

$ -> WikiLeaks
BOX 4080
Australia Post Office - University of Melbourne Branch
Victoria 3052
Australia

how'd that happen?

An engineer, Hines said he was inspired to create the robot after a
friend died in the September 11, 2001, terror attacks. That got him
thinking about preserving his friend's personality, to give his
children a chance to interact with him as they're growing up.

Looking around for commercial applications for artificial
personalities, he initially thought he might create a home health care
aide for the elderly.

"But there was tremendous regulatory and bureaucratic paperwork to get
through. We were stuck," Hines said. "So I looked at other markets."
--http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/gadgets-and-tech/news/worlds-first-sex-robot-revealed-at-porn-show-1864266.html

open sourcerors

"Open source development and OSINT are conceptually linked because of
their inherent collaborative nature and wide focus, as well as an
emphasis on transparency in methods and sources. When employed
jointly, these two methods can serve to force a break from the culture
of secrecy in the intelligence community to an more open system that
is better suited to the challenges presented by increasingly networked
adversaries. The interaction between a new kind of knowledge
management (open source development) and collection (OSINT)
indiscriminately empowers government affiliated groups, positive
social activist networks, as well as terrorist and criminal networks.
Groups who take advantage of open source methods gain access to huge
pools of collective knowledge and the means to build networks to both
collect and distribute it, facilitating the horizontal movement of
information and knowledge. The possibility of the application of an
open source development system to the intelligence process allows for
the best practices of the IT industry to be applied to the exponentially
expanding quantity of open source material available to create the highest
quality intelligence products with the greatest utility." -- Freeing
knowledge, telling secrets: Open source intelligence and development,
http://epublications.bond.edu.au/cewces_papers/11

the applications layer

My "psionic" review of the recent film, "The Social Network":

As I understand it, Facebook exploits semi-open information in a
semi-centralized way.  Instead of the Applications layer being
something that people can really socialize about, it only supports a
closed, firm-like, collaboration at that layer.  I hope that Diaspora*
et al. will support "social apps" that aren't just miniature corporate
themeparks, but which instead correspond to real "grassroots social
organizing".  How might that work?

Some analogies:  this might be like adding a "problems" layer on top
of PlanetMath's mathematics encyclopedia, or like adding a radio drama
layer on top of the collection of sounds at Freesound.org, or like
adding a literary discussion layer on top of the collection of public
domain texts at Project Gutenberg.

Indeed, maybe these aren't just analogies, but could themselves become
"applications".

tarot + AI

"Computers were originally invented to process patterns denoting
numbers, but they are not limited to that use. The patterns stored in
them can denote numbers, or words, or lizards, or thunderstorms, or
the idea of [J]ustice. If you open a computer and look inside, you
will not find numbers (or bits, for that matter); you will find
patterns of electromagnetism." -- Herbert Simon, quoted in
http://newsletter.tarotstudies.org/2009/03/tarot-dis-contents/

selfsploitation: beaten to the punch

http://dawnokoro.blogspot.com/2010/07/selfsploitation-women-technology-and.html
(prose) &
http://www.dawnokoro.com/selfsploitationproject.html (paint)

However, this only adds fuel to the fire, like so much lighter fluid.
As John Bernoulli said about Isaac Newton's anonymous solution to the
brachistochrone problem, "I recognize the lion by his paw." Only this
time it's as if I'm walking in my own footprints, but faster than ever
before!