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I bet you didn't believe it could happen to you!
Desdichado
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For whatever it's worth (exactly jack and
, that is) a taller and grayer James Purefoy would look almost exactly how I imagined him.
francisca
I got dice older than you.
Well, I do, in fact, work at a conservative, midwestern, state University.
Jack7
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This looks interesting. How do you plan to approach it?
I certainly understand the problem. When I first started researching the Byzantines information sources were less than copious. Still very hard to locate certain kinds of info. Sometimes creative license is all you got.
I wish I could garden. One thing I don't think I'd have the time right now, and secondly I really lack that kind of patience. I'd love to garden, as I like botany and studying plants for their medicinal properties, but waiting on things to grow, that kind of patience I know from experience I'm not so good at. My father and grandfather were pretty good gardeners, and my great-grandfather was a farmer his whole life. I think the gardening gene skipped me though. I have no real talent for it. But sometimes I wish I had it.
The other day my father gave me an old Portable VOR Field Detector. Apparently it had once belonged to my great uncle. I remember as a kid I used to go watch him operate his HAM radio and various other equipment. I haven't had a chance to investigate if it still operates, or even can be made operational. It was last certified in 1952. If it can be made to function I'm gonna take it by my Squadron and see if the Lt. can help me run through a few tests and use it for a homeschooling project for my kids. I've got an old oscilloscope and some Geiger counters I used as a teen. Back when I was doing Civil Defense. I like getting a'hold of antique equipment and seeing what I can make of it. Let us know what interesting equipment you discover.
As for me, had training tonight and we were practicing lift and carry techniques for disaster/injury victims. I was able to do all of the lifts easily enough (even the fireman's carry) except for the last one. That one required that we bend over the victim for a long period of time while he was prone, and he was a big guy. Then lift him to our knees, then lift him with interlocked arms while we came upright. The lift wasn't too bad but due to my previously broken back the bending over for so long was pretty rough. Afterwards my left leg shook for about five minutes due to the fact that the bending over pinched the exposed nerve near where the break had occurred. But I got through it, really like the officer who is our instructor (he's a nice fella), learned a coupla new carry techniques, and had fun at class.
My back still hurts though, but the spasms are gone. So that's all I reckon I can stand for this evening.
I may go post something to my blog if by stretching out I can calm the pain some. If not I'm just gonna hit the sack.
Night all.
Jack7
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Baptist Press - WORLDVIEW: The Word and the word - News with a Christian Perspective
The implications of this article struck me as fascinating because it is something I have been thinking a lot about lately as a writer. And as someone interested in communications, codes, crypts, and homiletics.
I've also been pondering on the questions of, how is this gonna change information systems, how is this gonna change communications and communications systems, how will this change language itself, and how will this change codes and encryptions? (Assuming these implications are true, and I suspect they probably are. Language nowadays is much more primitive in many respects - among many people a much less well-developed and imprecise personal vocabulary for just one example - than that of our ancestors, and yet in some respects also far more complex than ever before with terminology flexibility and neo-logism creation at probably an all time high. I'm also beginning to believe that terms are becoming ever more plastic, as well as "implicational, metaphoric, or hymnological" in usage than perhaps at any other time in history.)
in any case if language is changing in this way, either through interactivity with technological implements and systems (such as information and communication devices, and with the internet), or through linguistic exchange (or through other methods) then how can these alterations and developments be best exploited to create new communicative capabilities? Perhaps even new linguistic functions.
For instance can words themselves contain within them microbursts of related data and information? For instance, could one compose language in such a way that a two or three word sentence might contain both the (extended) vocabulary, and the accumulated information of a much more complicated (linguistically speaking) sentence? Could a single word perhaps encapsulate an entire sentence or phrase, and still be able to imply some real degree of useful precision?
Another thing that occurs to me, is can the alphabetic nature of our language be (re)transformed into an alphanumeric form, such as was the case with ancient Hebrew and Greek (Greek is perfect, Latin is copious, as the old saying goes), and is one way of reducing terminology to "microbursts of inter-related data" via the conversion of words into an alpha-numeric form?
Conciseness (Greek perfection) and Preciseness (Latin copiousness) are often competing modes of communication, and necessarily so. But is it possible to develop an "unfixed" oral form of modern microburst shorthand (digitized idea forms) which still contains within it a much more complicated set of terminologies and related data and information forms that could, if necessary, be used to convert an oral microburst into a far more complicated and precise form of information exchange (maybe in text, maybe not)? I suspect that if you encoded within the short digitized idea forms a specific pattern set of analogical terms and ideas (yeah, I know the process is usually undertaken in reverse, with the attempt to take complicated analogical terms and develop a simplified digital code for process transfer and language function) that it could be done. Next week I think I'm gonna try and write a short essay on the subject and then later one write a Theory Paper on the possibility, and how it might work. (Right now I've gotta finish up some other work. But next week I'll be free.)
Maybe I'll also incorporate the poetry coding experiments I'm working on into the body of the piece (at least the Theory Paper) to see if they could serve as one possible example of how it might be undertaken.
I'm also wondering if the same general principles might apply to the writing of Sermons and to homiletic construction, and maybe even to this project: The Holiconic Impulse
It's something I haven't worked on in awhile, because I was waiting to set up some new things in my lab, but maybe I can experiment with the idea of interjecting within the holographic image either microtext versions of scriptural verses or maybe even encoded textual components within the visual images reproduced within the graphic representations of the holograph itself. (An idea I'd like to pursue one day is the idea of maintaining holographic integrity at the visual level while still being able to sub-fracture other embedded components, such as linguistic components. In that way you could create a routed holographic encoding system which would appear as a normal holographic image under general or normal observational circumstances, but contained within it are sub-fractured stenographic, lingisuistic and/or other forms of coding and creeping structures viewable under special circumstances.)
One last thing occurred to me. Suppose you could develop an oral language that contained within it (inherently) both microburst data clusters, and automatically re-arranging (or self-arranging) terminologies that are multi-implicational? The idea would be to create an oral language that is both concise and precise, and rearranges itself automatically according to the needs of the communicants. How the language is being used would dethrone whether precision or concision were being empathized, and in what way and to what end.
Anyway, if anyone else is interested in these matters I'd be happy to listen to your ideas, thoughts, musings, and observations on the subject.
The implications of this article struck me as fascinating because it is something I have been thinking a lot about lately as a writer. And as someone interested in communications, codes, crypts, and homiletics.
I've also been pondering on the questions of, how is this gonna change information systems, how is this gonna change communications and communications systems, how will this change language itself, and how will this change codes and encryptions? (Assuming these implications are true, and I suspect they probably are. Language nowadays is much more primitive in many respects - among many people a much less well-developed and imprecise personal vocabulary for just one example - than that of our ancestors, and yet in some respects also far more complex than ever before with terminology flexibility and neo-logism creation at probably an all time high. I'm also beginning to believe that terms are becoming ever more plastic, as well as "implicational, metaphoric, or hymnological" in usage than perhaps at any other time in history.)
in any case if language is changing in this way, either through interactivity with technological implements and systems (such as information and communication devices, and with the internet), or through linguistic exchange (or through other methods) then how can these alterations and developments be best exploited to create new communicative capabilities? Perhaps even new linguistic functions.
For instance can words themselves contain within them microbursts of related data and information? For instance, could one compose language in such a way that a two or three word sentence might contain both the (extended) vocabulary, and the accumulated information of a much more complicated (linguistically speaking) sentence? Could a single word perhaps encapsulate an entire sentence or phrase, and still be able to imply some real degree of useful precision?
Another thing that occurs to me, is can the alphabetic nature of our language be (re)transformed into an alphanumeric form, such as was the case with ancient Hebrew and Greek (Greek is perfect, Latin is copious, as the old saying goes), and is one way of reducing terminology to "microbursts of inter-related data" via the conversion of words into an alpha-numeric form?
Conciseness (Greek perfection) and Preciseness (Latin copiousness) are often competing modes of communication, and necessarily so. But is it possible to develop an "unfixed" oral form of modern microburst shorthand (digitized idea forms) which still contains within it a much more complicated set of terminologies and related data and information forms that could, if necessary, be used to convert an oral microburst into a far more complicated and precise form of information exchange (maybe in text, maybe not)? I suspect that if you encoded within the short digitized idea forms a specific pattern set of analogical terms and ideas (yeah, I know the process is usually undertaken in reverse, with the attempt to take complicated analogical terms and develop a simplified digital code for process transfer and language function) that it could be done. Next week I think I'm gonna try and write a short essay on the subject and then later one write a Theory Paper on the possibility, and how it might work. (Right now I've gotta finish up some other work. But next week I'll be free.)
Maybe I'll also incorporate the poetry coding experiments I'm working on into the body of the piece (at least the Theory Paper) to see if they could serve as one possible example of how it might be undertaken.
I'm also wondering if the same general principles might apply to the writing of Sermons and to homiletic construction, and maybe even to this project: The Holiconic Impulse
It's something I haven't worked on in awhile, because I was waiting to set up some new things in my lab, but maybe I can experiment with the idea of interjecting within the holographic image either microtext versions of scriptural verses or maybe even encoded textual components within the visual images reproduced within the graphic representations of the holograph itself. (An idea I'd like to pursue one day is the idea of maintaining holographic integrity at the visual level while still being able to sub-fracture other embedded components, such as linguistic components. In that way you could create a routed holographic encoding system which would appear as a normal holographic image under general or normal observational circumstances, but contained within it are sub-fractured stenographic, lingisuistic and/or other forms of coding and creeping structures viewable under special circumstances.)
One last thing occurred to me. Suppose you could develop an oral language that contained within it (inherently) both microburst data clusters, and automatically re-arranging (or self-arranging) terminologies that are multi-implicational? The idea would be to create an oral language that is both concise and precise, and rearranges itself automatically according to the needs of the communicants. How the language is being used would dethrone whether precision or concision were being empathized, and in what way and to what end.
Anyway, if anyone else is interested in these matters I'd be happy to listen to your ideas, thoughts, musings, and observations on the subject.
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TarionzCousin
Second Most Angelic Devil Ever
Cold Fusion. I figured it out once, but I forgot. 
StreamOfTheSky
Adventurer
That's interesting. Most of my favorite historical figures are misunderstood or unfairly characterized in mainstream history textbooks. I don't suppose that figure is Genghis Khan, the Marquis de Sade, or Nikola Tesla, by any chance?
I'm sure you can't answer that. But it'd be awesome if it were one of them.
Jack7
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For IC training scenarios and missions and the tabletop exercise tonight I got to be the Search and Rescue Team Leader. I was very gratified to get that as I detest work at the Command Post.
Guys who like logistics, administration, operations from command base, planning, etc, my hats off to them. But I despise paperwork in any circumstance, and much prefer field work. Command centers bore me. Since I got team leader tonight and did well, hopefully during the final and in all other exercises I'll also be SAR Team Leader. It's my preference. I'll go wherever they assign me, of course, but hopefully it'll be SAR I'm working from now on.
Guys who like logistics, administration, operations from command base, planning, etc, my hats off to them. But I despise paperwork in any circumstance, and much prefer field work. Command centers bore me. Since I got team leader tonight and did well, hopefully during the final and in all other exercises I'll also be SAR Team Leader. It's my preference. I'll go wherever they assign me, of course, but hopefully it'll be SAR I'm working from now on.
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