Profundity #11,346

You always start from where you're at.

blue green

everything through a glass, darkly.

Handy Watch Repair Tip

If you're ever trying to change your watch battery, and you're having trouble getting the back plate to snap back properly, you might think that a light rap with a sledge hammer would be just the thing. Trust me; it's not.

It is, so let it be.

It is.
So let it be.

If you can just ride in your head... If you can just ride around in your head while you go anywhere

observing quietly from somewhere anytime

while you go when you go quiet or maybe you are talking

from somewhere in the back of your mind...while you go about your daily routines, observing quietly

If you can merge your awareness with its own being.

If you can accept emptiness when it comes. If you can accept awareness.
If you can be there when being empties. If you can put it up, so you can lay it down. can you trust?

If you will...
Awareness can accept what you thought was you. Then what was empty becomes full.

Then a loss and a win don't seem so different.
Then miracles happen so frequently you lose track. You win and you lose track.

You stop keeping score.

When the hurt passes through. passes through. passes through. through.

What you once thought of as you. Which once thought it was you.

Which passes through into its own pure awareness of itself being aware of its being.

When you lose track of loss. If you lose you. And win.

Then let it be.
Then let it be.
Then, bliss!

Oak Grove Temporal Distortion

Everyone agrees we seem to be experiencing some sort of time-contraction event. The weekend actually felt more like 1.33 days long. What this means is anyone's guess. If space is really curved, as Einstein proposed, then isn't it possible our sensory-cognitive apparatus could be dimly aware of "curved time". I'd write more on this subject, but my work day seems to be rapidly drawing to a close, and I still have loads to do.

The Headache Sutra

World-Honored One, what must I do to attain liberation?

Subhuti, you have not yet grasped the bottle of spiritual Ibuprofen; much less have you twisted off its child-proof cap. Still further are you from shaking out the Immortal Pill into your Buddha palm. And further yet you are from washing it all down with the Water of Life.

Master, if I may not gain instruction from one such as You, then I must give myself up as lost!

Subhuti, you begin to understand. For who is there that seeks liberation? And where shall it be sought?

Those who believe in a path mistake the effect for the cause. They see the calming of the mind, the quelling of desire, the dispelling of Karma as a path to a state, rather than the symptoms or behaviors caused by a state or consciousness field.

Subhuti, do you know the expression, "Seek first the Kingdom of God"?

World-Honored One, this is a saying of the Christ-followers. It is from a passage that states that the things of the world will be provided to believers, but that they must seek the most important thing first, rather than pursuing the things of the world.

Subhuti, you speak rightly. Do you see the problem with seeking the fruits of attainment, rather than attending to the root? The self that you believe in seeks mastery, enlightenment, peace and other states of being, but in so doing, do you not see the flame of desire burning just as brightly?

What the Christians refer to as the Kingdom of God, we might do well to refer to as Original Mind. If one can regard the self and the phenomena of this world as a sort of dream, one can find shelter in the Kingdom of God, that quiet place that has always remained at the back of your so-called mind. We call this "Abiding in the Golden Abode of the Real."

I begin to see, World-Honored One; one does not need to study the wisdom of the ancients. It is necessary only to "stand where they stood"! The field of consciousness supplies all the rest.

Subhuti, I believed we are finished.

Cookie rocks the xylophone

The Half-Hearted Teachings, Volume 1

It's entirely possible that what you're tripping out about is completely wrong. I'd write more, but I've got to find the wart medicine.

A sickness that heals you?

I know it's going to sound weird, but I feel different today... more unified, if that makes any sense. It's as if I had to have this weird sickness break me down so I could get put together the right way again. Like I wasn't quite right before I fell ill.

And death shall have no dominion.

Sometimes when the going gets rough and I don't know what to do, I like to jump in the backseat with my pal The Constant Observer. He is always there, sitting quietly in the back. Think I first noticed him during a bad car crash I was in. I was in panic-mode, as you might expect, but I still registered the fact that there was... this consciousness... taking it all in. I think that was the first time old C.O. ever really communicated with me, not so much the meaning, "You are crashing the car." so much as the feeling: "But don't worry about it."

So anyway, I think there are certain activities (besides car crashes) that are conducive to C.O. coming forward, and practicing music is one of them I can write about in this blog. There's something about letting the surface mind work its kinks out in the music, and then slowly relax back away from trying to accomplish anything. Then he's kind of there, like he was all along, but he was letting the temporary mind do its thing, because he's got all the time in the world, and he's not worried about a thing. If you're trying to make something happen, he's just going to let you do your thing. But there probably won't be much communication or teamwork or whatever.

I mean, it's really like C.O. is the real one, and I'm just the character he dreamed up. When the life is up, the dream is over. And I think I'm cool with that. I'm very cool with that indeed.

Non-specific happiness

Is perhaps the best. Feeling like the only stuff that's real is what I learned in Sunday school at age 4. All knowledge I've acquired since then is nothing more than the internal logic of a dream that's not particularly good.

Remembrances

Evil Woodpecker

physical reality is what
got left over from a prior existence

Short Story

Once upon a time, there lived a man who was convinced his life was nothing more than an average-length sentence that existed in a set of narratives.

Black Cloud

After signing the stupid tax forms, I was feeling grumpy. Actually, I was feeling grumpy before this, both in non-specific ways as well as in ways that could be attributed to specific things: unexpected news of an old friend's death, missing out on a $6,000 order, etc. So anyway, I decided that some exercise might burn the fatigue-induced adrenaline by-products polluting my body and soul.

I went on my "dream route", so named because it passes through a neighborhood I'm pretty sure I've dreamed about before ever visiting. As I ran, the fatigue from the last run a couple days ago made its presence felt pretty quickly. My run became more of a run-jog, then a jog, then a walk, then a sort of run-walk, if such a thing is possible. All the while, a black cloud drizzling rain close by would start spraying drops on me as the wind changed direction. I discovered that if I ran for 100-200 yards and then slowed to a quick walking pace, I could just keep ahead of the leading edge of this micro-weather pattern that seemed determined to follow me.

By the time I got home, I was still dry, and thankfully in better spirits. It seemed funny that the metaphor for someone being in a mental funk, i.e., with a "black cloud" hovering over their head, was on this particular evening both a metaphor and an actuality for me. Was I giving myself a sign or something? Maybe when we get into these bad spaces, it's up to us to get up and do what we can to run out from underneath the cloud?

You might not believe this

The following is extremely tasty late-night snack!

Take some Greek flat-bread and warm it up in the micro for 30 seconds.
Spread a little mayo on it.
Put three or four layers of raw baby spinach on top of this (make sure it is washed)

Fold it up and eat it like some kind of weird semi-healthy taco.

meditation

majestic sameness. time viewed edge-wise, each moment immediately adjacent to me. the dream-logic of this worry world grows threadbare. I'm starting to see the way again. the way out is the way in is the way across is the way back home. doesn't disappear just because you're lost. we can be who we dreamed in the beginning. the journey only costs everything. but to get back original mind is worth the trip. at least it seems that way to me.

From March 2003

The Garbage Diaries

here there be monsters

What's interesting is how much things stay the same. The link goes to a post which was from six years ago. Could have easily written it six days ago.

The meaning of life.

This should explain a few things.

Housing Crisis

The Machine

The Machine from mudlevel on Vimeo.

The Apple computer I probably won't buy.

I've been on the fence for months now about whether or not to buy a new machine. Figured there would be some kind of price rollback on Apple's ridiculously over-priced machines. Sure enough, they announced it the other day $100 off. Laptops only. No mention of teh Imac I had my eye on.
Meanwhile, I'm getting used to Linux... just need to solve this little pesky problem with video. Will probably burn an image of the Gutsy Gibbon and do a fresh install on this laptop one more time. Maybe I don't even need a new machine. If that doesn't work, then I'll see how much processing power I can buy with my $1000. My bet? Can probably get an Intel quad core with dual 500g sata drives, 4 gb ram, plus Windows Vista Business, plus graphics card, dual monitor capabilities, etc.

Steve Jobs-- get serious! People are willing to pay a little more for your Apples, but this is a serious downturn, and businesses are looking for bargains. You have a great ad campaign, but you haven't closed the sale.

More prognostications

OK, I'm really having a vision of Obama taking the White House, especially after McCain's failure in the debate last night. (Nick said it was like watching Elmer Fudd trying to box with Bugs Bunny!)
Watch big pharma stocks and any ETFs with exposure to health insurance carriers sink relative to the broader market. I think it is starting to sink in that Obama will be our next president.

Roubini-damus

RGE - Bloomberg (October 14, 2008) Roubini Sees Worst Recession in 40 Years, Rally's End: "The economist said the recession will last 18 to 24 months, driving unemployment to 9 percent, and already depressed home prices will fall another 15 percent."

Roubini is a Nostradamus's Nostradamus.

Black Friday: A One Act Play

Here's the scenario... Monday is a federal holiday, so quite a few people will get the day off, or will take a vacation day to stay home with the kids. Some of these folks will also take Friday off, to stretch that three day weekend into a four day weekend.

Mr. Dude: So have you seen the stock market lately?

Mrs. Dude: I don't understand it. I thought the big bailout thing was supposed to keep everything going while they figured this thing out.

Mr. Dude: It doesn't look like that's happening; the Dow dropped down to around 8500 yesterday. GM shares lost 33% of their value in one day.

Mrs. Dude: That's insane! Wait a minute... don't WE own a lot of those stocks in our mutual funds?

Mr. Dude: Well, I suppose so... because we picked those index funds ten years ago.

Mrs. Dude: So what's happening with our retirement money.

Mr. Dude: To be honest with you, I've avoided looking... also because they say we're supposed to be in it for the long haul... yadda, yadda yadda.

Mrs. Dude: Yeah, but I've also heard that some experts say if you're as close as retirement as we are, that we might need to have less stocks, because we wont' have as much time to make up a loss.

Mr. Dude: Hmm... well, maybe we'd better look.

[typing on keyboard]

Mr. Dude: Here it is.... The Edge of the Ledge Mutual Fund...

Mrs. Dude: Oh my god, is that right?

Mr. Dude: Wait a minute...

Mrs. Dude: That's $170,000 less than it was a couple summers ago when we were looking at it! And that doesn't even count all the money we've been putting in there since then!

Mr. Dude: Well...what do you think we should do? If we sell out now, we take the loss.

Mrs. Dude: If we don't sell out now, and it goes down more, we'll have even less money! Or none!
Do you think these guys really know what they're doing? They've never seen anything like this before. What if the company that runs this fund goes out of business like these other companies? What if the money just isn't there when we need it. How the hell are we going to retire?

Mr. Dude: Well... maybe we should take some out, and then if it looks like things are getting better, we can jump back in. I don't think we should take it all out... but we should probably do something.

Mrs. Dude: [Reaching for the phone] I think we need to take out the amount that we simply can't afford to lose if the bottom totally falls out. We've got to preserve a least that much. We can't afford to lose everything. Don't you think? We've got to save at least half... and if we wait to take action, it'll be worth even less. We don't want to be the last people trying to find the exit... this could really turn into a panic!

Mr. Dude: Well... I suppose we could take out half, put it into some sort of cash account, 6 month CDs or something... then we could always go back into stocks if things start looking a little more normal. We'd only lose the 6 months of appreciation, and the stock might still go up from there... but at least we'd have a little security...

Mrs. Dude: I think we should do it, then.

Mr. Dude: We don't have a lot of options. I don't think... If we were 30 or 40 years old, we could probably just ride this thing out...

Mrs. Dude: [starting to cry] I don't want to lose everything we've worked so hard for.

Mr. Dude: Don't worry, honey... we've got a plan. It may not be what we wanted, but we have a plan, and we're working that plan. We can work through this. I'm calling them right now. We're not going to lose everything. I'm calling right now. Everything is going to be fine. I'm calling.

Sort of Nostradamus

Evil Woodpecker: "Predictions from 9/25
1. Washington Mutual will fail this Friday.
2. The Fed will lower rates by 50 basis points BEFORE their next meeting.
3. Current stock market rally is a dead cat bounce. Look for the Dow to sink to 8,700 points in the next 12 months. Expect further dead cat bounce after rate reductions, then much deeper declines as investors lose confidence in government to manage the problems in the finance industry."

Well... my first 3 predictions came true. Sort of. I should have points deducted from my final score for guessing that it would take 12 months for the Dow to get down to 8,700 points. I also guessed that when the Dow got down around this point, it would mark the beginning of the recovery. Timing the end of a bear market, kind of like catching daggers... which is why I am not a day trader.

I would guess that the Dow is now trading at pretty low trailing P/E, historically. As of September 30, it was 15.68 when the DJIA was at 10,850.

So unless these companies have disastrous earnings, that ratio should be much lower.

It kind of hints at indiscriminate selling, which is a good thing if you still have decades left to figure out retirement. It's basically your favorite stocks going on sale.

Fed leads round of global rate cuts - Stocks & economy- msnbc.com

Fed leads round of global rate cuts - Stocks & economy- msnbc.com: "The Fed reduced its key rate from 2 percent to 1.5 percent. In Europe, which also has been hard hit by the financial crisis, the Bank of England cut its rate by half a point to 4.5 percent and the European Central Bank sliced its rate by half a point to 3.75 percent."

Bernanke opens door to Fed cutting rates - Economy in Turmoil- msnbc.com

Bernanke opens door to Fed cutting rates - Economy in Turmoil- msnbc.com: "WASHINGTON - Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke warned Tuesday that the financial crisis has not only darkened the country’s current economic performance but also could prolong the pain.

The Fed chief’s more gloomy assessment appeared to open the door wider to an interest rate cut on or before Oct. 28-29, the central bank’s next meeting, to brace the wobbly economy."

And then the Dow fell 500+ pts. Probably would have had a more bracing effect if he'd talked about inflation and talked about what his buddy over in the Treasury Department was doing to help the commercial paper market. IMHO

Inter-meeting rate cut in the offing?

Credit crunch continues as lending rates climb - MarketWatch: "'The probability of further Fed easing has increased and markets are now considering a 50 basis point inter-meeting rate cut' before the rate-setting Open Market Committee meets later this month, said economists at Danske Bank. 'While we do not rule out such action, we think more specific measures directly targeting the problems will prove more efficient.'"

Subway series in Chicago?

Is it possible we could see a White Sox Cubs World Series?
If the Cubs win, would this be a sign of the Apocalypse?

Terms

Remember what people called the First World War prior to the Second World War?

They called it the Great War.

What term do people use to refer to the economic depression that started in 1929?

That's right; they call it the Great Depression.

Think about it.

U.S. bailout in chaos, feds seize WaMu | Reuters

U.S. bailout in chaos, feds seize WaMu | Reuters: "U.S. bailout in chaos, feds seize WaMu"

Just call me Nostrildamnus.

Predictions

1. Washington Mutual will fail this Friday.
2. The Fed will lower rates by 50 basis points BEFORE their next meeting.
3. Current stock market rally is a dead cat bounce. Look for the Dow to sink to 8,700 points in the next 12 months. Expect further dead cat bounce after rate reductions, then much deeper declines as investors lose confidence in government to manage the problems in the finance industry.
4. Senator McCain will continue to stumble around blindly, blurting foolish things.
5. Senator McCain will win the presidency because he is white.
6. History books will mark the election of 2000 as the beginning of the era of American Descendency. Watch emigration to Canada from America increase in 2008.
7. Doom. Doom. Doom!
8. In eighteen months, when things start to improve, we will have forgotten all of this.

Grosseteste said

Everything is light.

the medication

does it really heal? ponder this.

A new sport being born?

Reality change? Possible evidence of brane shift.

Every once in a while, I discover that I've managed to jump into an alternate reality. Cosmologists posit the existence of branes, planes of reality that contain universes. Branes can be extremely close, yet (in most cases), completely separate from our level of reality. Some believe that the universe is just one of many in a multiverse that is composed of universes embedded in these branes that could be as close to us as pages in a book. I think the people who came up with the word "brane" got it from the word "membrane".

What evidence do I have of brane shift?

I have memories of how things were in the brane I inhabited earlier. We all do. The difference, I suppose, is that most people assume that the brane (or reality) they have memories of is the same one they happen to be living in, the only difference being that their memories were formed at an earlier stage in the brane's evolution. If something is different from the way they have remembered it, they will usually adduce this to a false memory. Normally, I would to, but I am a little obsessive about certain memories. It occurs to me that it might be possible to trace fault lines between the branes by disparities we discover when comparing certain memories against reality.

For instance, in the world I am from, I have a book about the Amitabha Buddha. I also have this book in this universe. Both are about a specific Buddha. Both have green covers. Both were printed in 1974. The main difference between the two is in that my old copy, there is a section in the beginning about a specific practice, that of observing one's thoughts and fields as "ornaments of the reality field". This is a very vivid memory for me, because I thought that phrase was funny: "ornaments of the reality field". In my old reality, I re-read that section five or six times to make sure I understood the meaning.

Over the last year or so, it has become a part of my mental discipline to apply what I learned in that section of the book, because I found it quite helpful in getting through difficult periods. This morning, I felt compelled to pick up this book again and re-read the section, and despite thumbing through the book for two hours, I couldn't find the section.

Now that it's evening and I have more time, I'm going to go through the book exhaustively. There are two other possible books that I could have confused with this book, e.g. I could have conflated the passage with the visual image of the green book. I doubt that I will find that passage in another book, however, because I have purposefully had this little green book by my bedside for the past year and a half-- specifically, because it had this important passage in it. If this passage still exists in any book I own, I think it will be only found in that green book. The question is, will I find it in this brane?

Another Devvo Rap

Where is summer?

You know that feeling, the one you get in nightmares when you try to run but your feet weigh two hundred pounds each? You try to speak, but only colors or crude gibbering comes out of your mouth. I feel that way all the time.

devvo

cryptic

we are the letters and words.

This is cool.

This is cool.: "Ysub"

this is not a blog post

it's theoretical is what it is

lethargins

never feel like working much in the summer. no sir, not a bit.

Everything that's new is everything!

This is the latest post!
I wrote it!
This is my blog!
You are reading it!

What if you took a picture of yourself every day?

This is what it might look like.

What nobody tells you

What nobody tells you is that life requires everything you've got. You will exhaust every reserve. You don't get to hold anything back; it takes it all. Which makes sense, in a way , because everything you've got is on loan. Do you really own anything? You've got the use of things, the illusion of control. But this idea you had that someday you'd be "set". Ain't going to happen. Even Paris Hilton has problems. Think about that, ye mighty, and despair! Don't know why, but this thought was my first of the day - that life takes everything you've got-- not about Paris Hilton.

Free Toilet!

Great working toilet replaced by handicap model

Mario Brothers Music Medley

This is a must-see for anyone who loves piano music and/or Mario Brothers!

Break Dance

Ren & Stimpy

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Sunday Morning

Free Linkin Park concert for all my friends

Stick Man Angst

This folk music vid is surreal.

Rowe

Found this picture at a junk shop in Milwaukie. It was painted by someone named Rowe. We call the man in the picture "Elf."

From the man who brought you saladfinger and Devvo

Crafty Women's Tips And Fiddles

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Dead

Grateful Dead

The Grateful Dead was an American psychedelia-influenced rock band. Formed in 1965 in San Francisco from the remnants of another band, "Mother McCree's Uptown Jug Champions," the Grateful Dead were known for their unique and eclectic songwriting style—which fused elements of rock, folk music, bluegrass, blues, country, and jazz—and for live performances of long modal jams. The band's numerous fans, called Deadheads, were renowned for their dedication to the band's music; many followed the Grateful Dead from concert to concert for years, and often referred to the band simply as The Dead. more...

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Dinner at bill and nancy's.

Dinner at bill and nancy's.

Old oak grove window

These are just some words

These are just some words I wrote once.

Time moves forward like a

Time moves forward like a thick plastic glacier when you're sick. Except you're underneath it, looking for your missing slipper.

Being Sick

Being sick.

Being sick is like going on a little trip.

It seems like you are your ordinary reality, but because you are in a different state of consciousness, you are slightly out of phase with things.

You may stay home from work and lay in bed. From this position, you will notice different qualities of light entering your bedroom, because normally when this happens, you are in a different building. Even if you happened to be home, (say, on a Saturday) you probably wouldn't notice something like this, because you would be in your bedroom for a brief period, or for some reason or other.

When you are sick, it is best not to think too much about work-related things, as this tends to agitate the body and prolong the amount of time it takes to recuperate. At a certain point, it is OK to "give in" and just be sick for a while. Resistance takes up too much energy.

I like to look at times of illness as an opportunity to think different thoughts. When I recognize that I am getting cranky and irratible, the result of trying to "resist" the oncoming illness, I will do my best to clear my schedule and retreat into my bedroom.

Sometimes when you are sick, little thoughts that don't make as much commotion as work-related thoughts have a chance to rise to the surface.

Sometimes when you are sick, you notice the passage of time differently.

There is a secret seed of possibility locked inside all experiences, I think.

Christmas 2006

On my way to my sister-in-law's house, we went by this big graveyard. I glanced over and saw a man in a suit standing in front of a marker reading from a piece of paper.

Christmas at msol's

Hunter and the cat

Outlaw Rickshaw? Pshaw!

How can they do this? A city in India is talking about outlawing the operation of rickshaws. This is an OUTRAGE! I demand an investigation. Read full story here.

the play

Most days...

pirate food art

This is a picture I took at Salvador Molly's in Portland.

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Million Dollar Houses

In case you’ve ever wondered “What do people have to earn to be able to live in a million dollar house?”
I did some calculations based on my experience as loan officer. Lending guidelines were from First Horizon.
Here is the summary of what is required:

Summary
The approximate minimum requirements for the purchase of a house valued at $1.25 M are as follows :

1 Yearly income $320,000, verified by CPA or attorney for prior 2 years.

2 $ 142,328 in cash. includes pre-paids, down payment, 6 months verifiable reserves, etc.

3 Credit Score: 700 or higher 680 may be possible, but more out of pocket and interest expense.

4 Not much other debt!
Less than 1500 in other monthly debt payments (not including present house, which it is assumed would be paid off) You need to have less than 45% DTI, and less than this max would be preferable.

Found

Can you guess where this is?

An Indefinite Period

This was after the fund raiser for the little boy who needed a new heart.

This one isn't

This house isn't abandoned, but you sure could have fooled me!

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Jose

The music stairway.

Lesson Number 22

this is certainly an old bus
an old bus
old buses

Lesson 1

This message was

Moo.

HR

Think I took this in early August 06. For some reason, there is a gravity to pictures of him when he is higher than ground level, especially in odd lighting.

Are you still on that bus.

Saw this lot filled with really old city buses, some of them with the boom on the roof that must have once connected to an overhead power supply.

Seen Distantly

What odd connections one finds between people! Felt out of sorts this afternoon, the way I do when I have a fight with my wife. Couldn't put my finger on the cause. Later, I talked with my secretary and she was having the same unsettled feelings.

Signal Propagation

I don't know how well this will come out, but I thought that it was interesting that the author's message continues to broadcast beyond her or his intended recipient.

Tomorrow's assignment

Please answer the following:

Name of favorite bicuspid?

Approximate level of approximation given when answering questions of this nature? (Be specific.)

Do you believe in the existence of "matter", "space", "time" and "energy"?

What is the purpose of meaning?

Did you ever see an object on the ground, say, for instance, an old rusty paperclip; and did you wonder if you would change the course of your future reality or that of any other being on this planet if you ever so slightly moved this object to the left?

Or did this consume you with a mind-numbing fear of taking action?

List of current psycho-active substances:

Past:

Future:

Thank you.

Geometrizing

Let there be three points: A, B, C on plane P.
Is the triangle formed by segments AB BC CA the smallest shape possible that intersects these points?

Wouldn't a circle intersecting these three points be the largest shape possible?
No, because you could have a polygon with N sides, only two of which need to to pickup points A, B and C. Bastards!

Is a circle really a polygon with infinite edges? Pilar says it depends on whether a segment can be one point in length.

I don't think it can. I think that is prohibited by the whole thing about a line being shortest distance between two points. Bastards!

But what if the two points are immediately adjacent to one another?

I mean, sure, there are infinite points on any line segment, but each one must have a next-door neighbor.

So couldn't a circle just be a polygon with infinite edges formed by immediately adjacent points?

On the sub-nanoscopic scale, each portion of a circle might look something like this:

0-----0
---0---

The main difference, of course, is that this slight difference in angle would be very, very, very tiny. I have exaggerated the angle it by many powers!

Every point on every circle mirrors the angle of both of its neighbors' OTHER next door neighbor. This is another way of saying that they share the same slope, I suppose.

We will return to this fascinating subject tomorrow.

For homework, please write in your blogs what today's inquiry means to your interior life. In your relationships, are there angles of incidence and reflection? In your cosmos, can you predict the movement of other beings by plotting their angles of right ascension and declination?

Ptolemy dedicated his work to studying "those things that always remain what they are"; to what do you dedicate your attention?

Hunter is feeling better.

A Different Way Today

I seemed to go a different direction. Instead of my usual judgementalism or whatever you want to call it, I heartily approved of everyone around me. I do not know why. I was in a McDonalds when it happened. It felt very light and refreshing, like the way DIET PEPSI CLAIMS to be. Later, as I drove through the meth-industrial ghetto of Oak Grove, I didn't have my usual dream of razing most of the dilapidated structures and replacing them with my own shining vision (something evocative of a paper I once read on economic clustering phenomena made me think that Oak Grove was ripe for: a hub of web application and etail developers merged with singer-songwriter musical entrepreneurship... But first we had to tear down the evil store and convince Powell's and McMenamin's to move in.)
No, instead of my usual daydream of urban renewal and economic grandeur for my adopted hamlet, I felt only a profound Taoist detatchment from my past desires. Meth people are no problem, nor is bureaucratic inertia in Clackamas County. Oak Grove was fine. I was fine. I stopped resisting and finally began to approve of thhe reality I found myself in.

Evening in Oak Grove

This rather ordinary summer evening in Oak Grove, Oregon brought to you by me

Received this in my email today

Since it has to do with time, I actually read this spam:

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I recently had an argument about why time is relative. My friend found it hard to conceive how time could not be absolute. At that time, when I tried to explain it, I found that it was hard for me see WHY time really is relative. All I could do was state experimental results that indicate it is the case. This shows that thinking you can understand a deep concept at a very shallow, philosophical level doesn't really mean much, but at least it's better than no understanding at all. binge
Newton's laws put an end to the idea of absolute motion. Two people playing ping pong on a moving train would measure the distance the ball bounces on the table (between consequecutive bounce) as lesser than a person standing along the track watching the ball bounce. Both measurements are equally valid since there is no absolute standard of rest. lubricity
Maxwell's equations predicted that light waves travel at a fixed speed. This is something we have to believe, and it arises out of the fact that his equations predicted "there would be wavelike disturbances in the combined electromagnetic field, and that these would travel at a fixed speed, like ripples on a pond." spook
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