August 2008
1 post
February 2008
4 posts
the flicker fusion factor →
“… consider the northern goshawk, which lives in deep forests and earns its living by chasing down other birds. without benefit of road markings, warning signs, traffic lights and speed limits, the goshawk zooms around its wild neighborhood in relative safety. as it hotly pursues a ruffed grouse or wood duck, the goshawk may fly just above the ground at 40 miles an hour, mirroring the...
tempest prognosticator →
“when they become agitated by an approaching storm they attempt to climb out of the bottles and trigger a small hammer which strikes a bell.” mainly i just like the name of it.
January 2008
17 posts
something happened
http://www.bluemoment.com/moitessier.html
watersky and iceblink →
..and iceblink luck
black swan theory
“a black swan is a large-impact, hard-to-predict, and rare event beyond the realm of normal expectations. taleb nassim regards many scientific discoveries as black swans—”undirected” and unpredicted. he gives the september 11, 2001 attacks as an example of a black swan event. the term black swan comes from the ancient western conception that all swans were white. in that...
Dead Doe
by Brigit Pegeen Kelly The doe lay dead on her back in a field of asters: no. The doe lay dead on her back beside the school bus stop: yes. Where we waited. Her belly white as a cut pear. Where we waited: no: off from where we waited: yes at a distance: making a distance we kept, as we kept her dead run in sight, that we might see if she chose to go skyward; that we might run, too, turn...
“i come down here and the sound of the water and seeing the birds are broader...”
– lyanda lynn haupt
“When you’re not dominated by feelings of separateness from what...”
– robert m. pirsig
Do Easy →
essay by William S. Burroughs explaining a concept of his invention known as ‘the discipline of Do Easy’, much of it matches the concepts of mindfulness and flow. the major example he uses is about tidying up one’s dwelling place fluently and efficiently.
the conet project - numbers stations →
static. faint voices. seven slow, monotonous tones. a pause. suddenly, you hear music—one of those wind-up songs played by a child’s toy. The melody repeats three times. a pause. suddenly, you hear a female voice counting off the numbers 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 0 in german. a pause. she repeats the numbers. a pause. the children’s toy melody returns. the conet project
