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Have just discovered the philosopher Boethius.
Spending the night reading about him with many insights and revelations there. 🎓
It’s interesting to note that in #chess, like life, a player can have ample material but not enough time (tempo) to win or succeed. This is common in a chess game where the player with less material emerges ahead
It’s an interesting but not entirely identical feature, shared characteristic between the two. (Chess games have no theoretical time limit, lifespans do)
After 55 Years, though the originals were erased, the world kept a copy and we have this album of new material from John Coltrane’s Quartet.
Just #thankful that it is here as a document. Coltrane the person, the soul, the musician is like staring at the sky. Thank you Ken Drucker and Ravi Coltrane for bringing this to the world.
https://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/john-coltrane-both-directions-at-once-the-lost-album/
It was an honor to stand behind this couple.. they were holding hands the whole time I saw them and clearly loved each other from their simple gestures. Because of their fragility, they navigated the world in a way that made our world seem Barbaric. They were dressed in absolutely pressed and formal clothing, and were probably late 70s/early 80s in age with dapper hats to go along with their formal wear. They were absolutely civilized and friendly when I complimented them. It occurred to me that they would not be together forever which made me very sad. learned a lot from watching them … and hope to revisit this theme one day again. Goodnite #greyhoundbus #humans
I’ve been thinking about the concept of a shared frame of reference as the beginning of all understanding between 2 disagreeing parties. Is agreeing on axioms and shared perceptual frames the only way to start connecting and speaking meaningfully about something usually subjective?
Noticing that people usually who speak from a subjective ‘I’/my frame, may speak right past one another.
It’s a thought that has been bouncing around.
There is just something that I really love about this photo.
Perhaps the balance of white and black, just a random moment in time. Waiting for the 7 Train in Grand Central Subway Terminal.
#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.
Queen Elizabeth sends email to US Secretary of defense in 1976 to open the connnection between England and the US for the Royal Signals and Radar Establishment (RSRE)
I think of myself as long lived. Growing up in a computer store, seeing many twists and turns within the technology space – I often bounce around as a tech veteran – then you see this, the Queen of England trying email for the first time in 1976 and realize that those among us are much longer lived.. having seen more.
Her email address was hme2 (no hostname to my knowledge). The system was made redundant for military reasons (assured retaliation in case of attack) and its design is ingenious in serving that task. Something I’d like to write about one day.
Enjoy the pic
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.
Submitted to wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Village_Vanguard
Enjoy!