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#Thoughtoftheday – The new most feared song in Jazz should be Giant Steps with 12 choruses of solos ascending a semitone or going down a perfect 5th after each chorus.
Congrats to Vox on this video. I think the best explanation yet, without 20,000 hours of practice.
Engineering is the application of science to solve problems;
Design is using art to do the same thing.
You heard it here first friends ;)
-Alwin
My apologies for the slow uptake on writing, it has been forever and much has changed. Nearing the end of the work-to-live ‘day job epoch’ and hopefully will enter the ‘creative freedom epoch’ within the next couple years.
Uploaded another pic of the Village Vanguard to
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Village_Vanguard.
Enjoy!
-Card games are interesting versions of Wolfram’s cellular automata. Creating complexity from simple rules.
-Watching a nova doc about the monarch butterfly / (also reading Walter Isaacson’s biography of Einstein)…. Metamixer.
It could be that the observed ‘break’ between quantum and relativistic worlds is similar to the insect versus larger species world. The insects don’t seem to be built by the same design principles. But they are. They are strange creatures, unified with all other animals on a different level. The observed dichotomy is an artificial one.
Poem by yours truly – appears as part of Helena Zhang’s A Similar But Different Quality collection of poems.
PICNIC RHYTHM
public class picnic_rhythm extends c#rhythm
{
static void Main(string[] args)
{
danger danger danger danger
cup! danger cup!
danger danger danger
cup! danger cup!
danger (>) danger (>) danger (>) danger (>)
cup (mf) danger danger cup (p)
danger (>) danger (>) danger (>) danger (>)
cup (pp<) cup cup cup (f)
danger (sf>) danger (>) danger (>) danger (>) danger danger danger
cup (sf>p) cup (<) cup (<) cup (<) cup cup cup
cup! danger cup!
dangerdanger cup dangerdanger cup
opossum opossum opossum opossum
danger cup danger cup
opossum opossum opossum opossum
opossum opossum cup!!
If understand_Loops {
for (cup=-1, cup++!, cups <2) {
cup
danger danger
opossum
}
}
Else print (
“cup
danger danger
opossum
cup!
danger danger
opossum
cup!!
danger danger
opossum
vasectomy”
)
legleglegleg (>) legleglegleg (>)
legleg (>) leg legleg leg
leg (>) leg (>) leg (>) leg (>)
leg (.) leg (.) leg (…)
}
}
A clever iPhone application.
Hello All, I ‘ve just published an article called “Upcoming in Interactive” which details 7 disruptive trends and technologies at Bloor Media Group.
the website is site www.bloormedia.com , the article post is here. Thanks!
Here was my letter to Toronto Mayor David Miller in response to Les Klein’s idea to build a green roof over top of the Gardiner: http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/putting-the-garden-back-in-the-gardiner/article1188258/
Dear Mayor David Miller,
I am a great fan of yours and love our city very much. I think you have done an excellent job. Thank you so much for the dedication and honesty with which you brought to the Mayor’s office. Below please find some quick simple points/idea, which I thought to send along and which I hope will be of use to you and your administration:
• Suggest A:
‘one stop rule’ for streetcars and buses, which would prevent 2 buses/streetcars from tailing one another.
Reasoning: especially with streetcars, where one cannot pass another, they tend to bunch, with the front streetcar collecting all the passengers on a run, and the other will follow in its wake, with no passengers for the remainder of the route!
A ‘one stop rule’ would leave adequate spacing between streetcars and buses, which is better resource allocation and improves service. As an economist, I mention that it is a pareto-efficient improvement, with no losers. I wanted to check again, if there was a reason for its implementation or non-implementation?
• Suggest B:
In response to Les Klein’s suggestion of a green gardiner, which seemed to attract a lot of media attention
I thought to suggest to you what I believe is a better idea, (if it has not been suggested before) the possibility of zoning to build an enclosed mall/retail/public space under the Gardiner. At first thinking it is a possibly ‘crazy’ idea, but here are the reasons as a possible method to save and legitimize the Gardiner:
Thank you very much, Mayor David Miller and your staff for handling this email. I hope it affects some change or will be used as an idea to strengthen other more deserving ideas for the improvement of the city.
All best, kindly
Alwin