February 27, 2007
Aquatic Non-scents
Games people play
Ghandi said to be the change you wish to see. But Ghandi did not live in a world where preconditions change drastically, and yesterday's assumption is today's spectacular theory. Paradigms shift when few people are looking: the cognitive dissonance of economic chaos is a necessary turbulance in the act of getting there from here. When the moon is in the seventh house and jupiter aligns with mars then ...
February 25, 2007
unwording
whutcha due wit
wuz gotta B dun
mosta duh sheeple
jus gotta mayk bux
notta getn mucha
nuthing gettin dun
porpoise? huh
F - fort? huh
lemming gowon
nobig pitcher vu
jus cog disss
jes knot frever
(c) 2007 lemme howdt
Atlas Update
Eighty pages into Atlas Shrugged - where Wyatt tells Dagny that her railroad better be ready to service him, now that the anti dog-eat-dog act had been passed. So she gets Rearden to fast-forward his delivery schedule from a year to nine months. Imagine what today's typical american business might do with a 9-month back-order on supply. The rate of the pulse of today's society is not sustainable - but efficiency is not even looked at as a dynamic anymore.
Done did the 'how do we do what we said we would do' thing with 23 biofuels oriented people at the local grange yesterday. Doctor Lenny set howdt the timeline for the production - based on when we expect different materials to be harvested. In order to do this at maximum efficiency, we should be able to glean produce off the ground under existing trees, ferment alcohol fuels and then share the returned processed value added organic fertilizer with the land and the cooperative. This inserts another layer of value extraction into the process and hopefully derives a multiplicity of values back in material form, which can be exchanged or sold.
Ghandi said to be the change you wish to see. I see some inherent flaws in our understanding of natural process and our assuming of liberties in fields that we know little about. My continuing study of nature and natural systems is with application of chemistry using a tools called the periodic table and group theory. I hope to apply some models of chemistry to education, resource conservation and sociology by grouping individuals of similar interests and enabling them to do what they do best.
Dr. Lenny hypothesizes different models of how things work differently - no one size fits all approach could ever work fairly and equitably. Nature understands that and organizes in small stable molecules. And they change forms often to maintain the integrity of most of the system. Science will have plenty of time to figure it out again - it just matters whether the knowledge base will need to be recreated from scratch or if it will be a derivative of being able to test for oneself again. The astronomic scales came about only after we gave up the idea that earth was the center of everything in existence.
I admire SETI - but the approach looks for life on our relative order of this scale, rather than looking at the broadband of the vast scale, where everything is as everything seems to be. Perhaps the Baba Ram Dass put it better - Be here now. My break book from Atlas Shrugged is on Fractal Mathematics over huge dimension and scale. That's one means of keeping focus - make the distractions more complicated than the tasks at hand.
February 24, 2007
Magic of Symmetry
The application of chaos theory and game theory to natural resources for development as a biomimetic learning system is the device that makes the redile system unique. As i have been struggling with form for a technical paper that is mostly written, i understand that i didn't quite have the proper words to express the complexity of how things worked. By bouncing around on the perspective of scale - i hope to look at the big picture and the little picture at the same time, while approaching the muddle in the middle, which causes the problem within current learning system. I liken it to the spaghetti of cell division of mitosis - somehow the right thing has to come out the end.
Kuwabara explains a similar approach in this year 2000 paper that was written as an honors thesis at Cornell university, using the development of Linux. Redile does not use the model in the same way - it can't, but the spontaneous application of similar memes indicates that the idea is both useful and not unique. I wonder how many other systems have taken this approach and begun development from a point source loci, as Linus Torvald. Perhaps this is the type of system that will identify the missing energy form - the reshaping of form is going to favor those that use symmetry to leverage work flow.
In fact, i daresay that the blogging community also is an application of this phenomena. I don't know if i would have grokked the context, if i hadn't been prepared yesterday by surfing jomama's elliot wave.
February 23, 2007
Natural Models
Richard Dawkins, discusses nature as genetic selfishness in his renowned work, The Selfish Gene. This view has developed over the years into an orderly anarchy, and Trembley applies it to political systems.
Seems to me that this paradigm can be seen in Atlas Shruged - now that i am 60 pages in, it is easy to see some of the parellels. How can we construct a social order that models nature better, that might allow applicants to survive in the face of disabled, non-redundant systems? A question worth some thought at other scales, and in other forms.
February 22, 2007
weather - how to know
Since i attended the OSU carbon conference last week, i have been more attuned to this media version of the global warming debate. The approach is entirely contrived, as logic provided here at the Zone and other places demonstrates that climate 1) has a lot of variables and 2) has a great degree of uncertainty in its measure. To understand better, Dr. Lenny has ordered a weather station with a 5-Watt solar panel and will role up his sleeves and start measuring local climate.
Dr. Lenny lives in a unique micro-climate zone, where everything is 'sunshine, lollypops and rainbows', when it is not 'raindrop keep fallin on my head'. The weather station will be located closer to the coast - either in Reedsport at the Umpqua Discovery Center or in Elkton at the Elkton Community Education Center. Plan for now is to receive the equipment, assess the package footprint, create a space to set it up, calibrate, and start collecting data.
February 21, 2007
see a forest thru the trees
run herd upon their trees
stretching the boundaries
accumulating massive leaves
carbon grow, carbon grow
add to the base of a tree
carbon grow, carbon grow
create lots of clean air for me
forests filter, grow and breed
wildlife habitat abounds
recreation fish, hunt off steed
with fondness for the grounds
carbon grow, carbon grow
metabolize over time
carbon grow, carbon grow
our forests, rise to shine
(c) 2007 lemme howdt
are salmon rent-seeking?
The business is in installing on-the-group habitat projects and monitoring their effectiveness, It also works to coordinate data streams - a key partner in instigating the Umpqua Explorer and Oregon Explorer data bases being developed at the Institute for Natural Resources at Oregon State University. Typical projects have been featured here at the zone - they include road culvert replacement for fish passage and other restoration oriented in-stream activities. The federal and state agencies sent representatives to the meetings, and serve in an advisory capacity as the technical advisory committee. This include folks from BLM and Forest Service, and Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife who are always there, and a variety of individuals focused on the meeting information dispersal. Open to everyone.
As some might call it - a complete 'rent-seeking' industry. I like to think of it as an artificial means to cross boundaries and get things done. I struggle with my involvement with boards and commissions like this because there is always a conflict of interest in everybody represented at the table - nobody who is not interested in the watershed would become a director. But how would the private sector get it's pay - the salmon sure appreciate our effort. Or don't, depending on wether salmon think.
February 19, 2007
Hi Definition PCR
Many American software engineers and IT professionals have been forced by jobs offshoring to abandon their professions. The November 6, 2006, issue of Chemical & Engineering News reports that "the percentage of American Chemical Society member chemists in the domestic workforce who did not have full-time jobs as of March of this year was 8.7 percent." There is no reason for Americans to pursue education in science and technology when career opportunities in those fields are declining due to offshoring.
As more and more high value-added U.S. occupations in tradable services are undercut by offshoring, the ladders of upward mobility that made America a land of opportunity are taken down. As the bulk of domestic service jobs do not require a university education, the United States will find itself over-invested in educational institutions and decline will set in.
Another problem is that the corruption of the outside world has found its way into universities. Today, universities look upon "name" professors as rainmakers who bring in funds from well-heeled interest groups. Increasingly, research and reports serve the interests that finance them and not the truth. Money rules, and professors who bring money to universities find it increasingly difficult to avoid serving the agendas of donors.
Much American economic thinking is grounded in the fact of America's past success. Many economists take it for granted that as long as the U.S. has free markets, it will continue to be successful. However, much of America's success is due to World War I and World War II, which bankrupted rivals and destroyed their industrial capacity. It was easy for the United States to dominate world trade after World War II as America was the only country with an intact economy.
From whine to wine
Creativity is stamped howdt because everybody must meet the rules of the funding source - the feds representing the taxpayers. Once you become a citizen member of a task-force or committee or panel, you are helping in the evaluation of projects in your area of expertise. For this privilege, you get to write off some of your mileage in your taxes and get to put another line on the resume. But it is a conflict of interest to actually do work in a field that your expertise is used - because you can't make money off the taxpayer while working for government. Unless of course you are elected.
so, we the people need a different school system than the current one owned and operated for the benefit of we the people and run by the state. the rand philosophy of withdrawing support and just not being on committees appears to be more in tune with the needs of we the people, rather than participating in learning amidst the cognitive dissonance of current educational institutions. so, what sort of media can take the population by storm - like yahoo or google have done - that is the next step. Individual learning, for those with the interest level to learn. Pods of people with common interest and different expertise breaking new ground.
Colleges used to be places where people learn how to put the information together, now they are all 'universities' - we need ways to allow people to enhance their skills in area of their own interest. To develop expertise in something other than the monoculture that the current system teaches, using a diversity of approach. Mebbe a video game focused on science rather than death and destruction. But then, the game would have to blow something up to get people's interest. And blowing up is what happens when you get too much energy flowing in one confined space - a fissure happens and things blow up. Hmm, virtual chemistry lab ...
Problem is, you don't find reality in a classroom and reality doesn't conform to simplistic theory. It is buried in nuance under depth of scale - where things operate over so many scales that the continuum works for whatever scale you happen to be privvy to. And as you peel back the onion skin, you find another layer of onion - similar, yet different, carrying out a redundant function, but reproducing in order to accomplish the task.
Ask yourself if a blood cell within your body could have thoughts - the ability to plug itself in from the stream of blood cells, rather than the neighbor in the stream. What if the blood cells are just little bio-chem cars that take carry around mitochondrial enzymes, who do their daily work for a living, then commute in their cell to the heart store, then pumped back back home to the kids. A day could be the time between heartbeats; an eternity, the eternity of your life.
Dr. Lenny just finished reading Neal Stephenson's Snow Crash - a novel where gangs own turf all over the world and nationality allows you to be protected in reality as you deal in an elite computer metaverse run by hackers. Interesting concepts of winners and loser's, and a very early use of the term avatar in a virtual context. Not as serious as Black Arrow, but at this second reading, i got more context than just story line. Y.T. rocks
February 18, 2007
Remedy for Photo Deficiency
This ol lady likes to push people around, with a nip and a throw. She is approaching three full decades old, and still appears feisty as ever. I am planning to accessorize my home with solar panel as the beginning of serious energy capture - both literal and figurative. Of course the path not taken is usually the one you can never return to - which gives this picture of the whirled.
February 17, 2007
Circling the Wagons - Let's Shrug
Unfortunately - the political system is that lame horse and there is no where for anybody to go. People who have traditionally actively paid attention to politics, have had their sight coopted by the one party-two face system for so long that we forget the mechanism of what the formation document, the declaration of independence, really says. If we nullified all the laws of federal, state and local grubbermints that violated the reading of the organic constitution tomorrow, then perhaps we could see what was left and redefine the size of government necessary to fit the roles that are defined. At that point, we may wish to tinker with the definitions. What we have today makes it impossible to know, for instance, what local standards a traveler is held to, or even which jurisdiction he travels in.
This actually seems to be an up/down war on the ability to travel. The control of the means of transport will only get tighter, if carbon taxes are spread into the transport system. Defining mobility in terms of the area generally covered within ones means should allow you to calculate your personal range. Range costs depends on the type of vehicle, distance from work and the ability to service the costs, with the grub taking up a large portion of the actual cost by maintaining roads. But how much energy would be saved by laying new rail on 100% of the right of way in this country? How would that disrupt current economic flow - and why reward inept management in the rail system with a new toy of control?
The next time i think to read Atlas Shrugged (coming soon for the third time), i plan to sketch thoughts about a screenplay - 1300 pages in two hours. The railroad system is an integral part of the story, so mebbe there will be some cues that can be applied currently to enable a modern fable to be extracted and produced in theme rather than form and thus duplicating function. As a way of thinking howdtside the box, let's cast the celebrity net into the roles of Rand's lead characters, I'll start with a minor key role - Ruppert Murdoch as Jim Taggert, media maven. Please - one nomination per customer, until the thread weakens, then we'll cast the rest by en masse suggestion.
February 16, 2007
simpler math
habitats of human life
that function to support
individual interests
in direction beyond
scope of point of view
without burying contribution
toward taste and style
creating dimensions lost
when greater numbers
disrupt apparent symmetry
delivering convoluted ends
(c) 2007 lemme howdt
February 15, 2007
wayda whirled werkz
where subtle pressure
underwhelms flow
coincident with
overpowering force
unequal in opposite direction
whoomsh, with short time constant
instant: when it's gone
then subtle pressure
returns to underwhelm flow
without institutional memory
of overpowering force
thinking inside the box
time after time,
again and again.
(c) 2007 lemme howdt
Drawing Social Value fron the Conference
The social structure being what it is, has little room for creativity because everybody is too busy earning a living. Opening up new avenues of thought generates a larger amount of work to redirect focus and getting back into the equilibrium of pace becomes difficult. Dr. Lenny was exposed to a different culture and it helped him synthesize the nature of the culture that he is returning to.
Rural communities face different challenges from urban communities. Our school system teaches that we face equal challenges - the diversity of opportunity depends on how you apply it. Current myth can be played to advantage by any individual that can work the system, but truth be known only if you had the first hand experience and could convey that reality to colleagues in context of their framework of knowledge.
The one size fits all approach to knowing, as demonstrated by the parade of experts at the carbon conference, leads me to amazement at the extent of groupthink and non-rigor of the current academic system. The worship of experts without regard for the facts was displayed by the entire manner of presentation, although the planners were good to have a skeptic and a regular forestry guy on the program - to demonstrate that there are different levels of understanding and interest. The economists and the state functionaries have constructed a paper fantasy system that sounds good, but doesn't yet meet the reality of the way things seem to be, from my different point of view.
I guess that i have formed a thought system for myself that requires different inputs from the ones that i received at the conference. From the experience that i had carbon counting property with wonder earth partners, i could see that the same concepts that i could not make work for the landowner involved five years ago are the very same concepts that they are introducing today - still not developed to the point where they have a working system for the people that grow trees - in fact, forestry carbon appears to be discounted by the current carbon operating system. But that happens when economists and politicians influence everyone to think that they run the show. And they do. Which really does influence the ways the scientists think in their approach to chasing the money in a rapidly changing priority society.
But , the current model is not the way nature actually works. Large groups of scientists don't make discoveries, individuals do. Galileo, Newton, Einstein, didn't accept the status quo from the consunsus of the public understanding at the time. What we choose to measure dictates what results we see. The proximity of our interest, as observer or participant influences what results we see. The analysis of results 'on the fly' allows development of new methodolgy for measuring phenomena that is not recognized by the system. Current science process does not allow the scientist the latitude to change theory on the fly, because the results are dictated by the source of the funding.
The same people that are angered by Exxon-Mobil paying scientists to deny global warming , fund a counter-groupthink effort that insists that 'you and only you can prevent global warming '. We've heard that line before from government - cute and cuddly smokey the bear dictated an awful forest management practice of denying fire a role in the toolbox, which has contributed to the severe fuel loads on federal forests today.
Science information needs a two-way flow - between reality and theory, with the latitude to observe and change while observing from different scales of operation. There really is no room for political influence, while only a marginal role for economics - with more rigor in the mathematics and less in the tracking and accountability. The schools fail to convey the essence of scientific reason.
This will cause difficulty until people accept that their own thinking ability is equivalent to the experts in all areas that the expert has not focused attention. Understanding comes with applied time and effort toward that understanding and anyone who focuses their attention on something can figure out how that something works. We all focus our attention on things we are interested in and try to do them well, so we are experts ourselves in the things within our grasp, that we apply and use. It is the recognition that there is more out there than we know that spurs us to find out more and introduces us to new fields of interest. Which take more time to learn and even more time to apply.
So now, onto substantive work.
Away gathering data on carbon people
I had the opportunity to walk over to the Linus Pauling Institute and talk with some of the scientists and look into an affiliations program with outside scientists. The eleven staff scientists all bring in their own research money from NIH or NSF and work both at LPI and in another university department - thus improving the biodiversity of science throughout the university system. As a micro-nutrient chemist and an alumni who met Dr. Pauling on afternoon for a research discussion, i figure partnership with the outside world would be a jump off point, but no, there was no current mechanism for affiliation. The message i got is we are perfectly pleased with inbred university science, even though we strive for diversity through science culture, we remain steadfastly monoculture in the over approach. But they do good work in an area that Linus was passionate about and i will continue with my generous support, when i have the funds.
But the conference demonstrates that soft scientists can't conceptualize the process of science as an absolute and have to accept 30 million different opinions to get to a common truth. History tells stories that are commonly accepted to prove points, but each episode has only one truth in the way it actually came down when it happened and, all embellishment aside, the participants know the truth of the situation that they observed and were part of. Inconsistencies develop in the stories over time, but the essence remains for quite a while, until we start believing things that our minds use to fill in the blanks.
I took 20 pages of notes - and made and renewed lots of contacts. It will take me all day to start the synthesis of materials to see if what i learned was consistent with what i know. Surfing the net for the first time in two days last night, led me to a ryan article on the status of education which to an eye opener on cosmic rays . I have to go now, but i have much to think about.
February 12, 2007
Green Education
But putting conservation into practice is slightly different from advocating environmental concern. Connecting hands-on activities directly to impact is difficult, especially when the hands-on involves impact. One of the teachers i work with suggested that www.yourclassroom.com is allowing her to make her class more green, by using the chalkboard and message system to reduce the need for paper. The students log in to get and turn in their assignments. I am pleased to see that connection, but it wasn't how i envisioned the system to work.
Which is a good thing - doctor lenny is not a see all - know all. He collects information just like everybody else and filters it through the reasonable viewpoint that he has developed over a few years of experience. Supporting chemistry is what he offers - to help people notice how to use what they already know to leverage knowledge and figure howdt the things they don't know. When i role play the doctor lenny character, i slip into a mode where the thrill of the chase science investigation is the end all of end alls. But when i play myself in my own role - i weave much more of the social context into the equation.
This lends credence to my belief system, that other folks individually come up with methods that are variants of design from what i envision. The social acceptance of the current value system should lead to a re-evaluation of the old value system as we morph to where we wish to get to. I like to use symmetry to save time and effort - because the mathematical relationships are the same and you don't have to derive new equations for everything. Sports and science connect in philosophy through the Zone here - sports and religion connect in philosophy at Steve Scott's Pew/Bleacher, thus science and religion connect through a baseball side-channel. There is great beauty in this type of symmetry.
I love Sunni's take on valentine commerce this morning, a 'hallmark holiday' no doubt. The fact that we chose the same passage by bonner this morning is creating more of a believer out of me; this supports hive of humanity theory that parellels us with bees and ants. Making predictions and seeing if they come true is part of the joy of science - being dogmatic and thinking in absolutes is far from the creative world that i live in. Or thought i lived in. Or will live in again soon.
But to live in this world costs, in terms of money or social capital. So i am looking at the work and trying to define how better to capitalize on the services provided, because the costs of being are exceding the ability to get there. Thus the Zone may soon be accepting ad panels - which i already sorta do as the crosslynx. I am thinking on some sort of creative contest that people could enter for a minimal recurring fee, but i think i need to be a bit more creative in approach than the usual current options in the box. I like to think howdtside da baax, yanno.
An example of symmetry - the kaleidopix.
pull out the biggest guns
Humans evolved in small groups, where they could know the particulars of things. They understood the threats they faced...and knew what was valuable. But when the scale and sophistication of human civilization increased, man found himself in a situation for which his brain was not prepared. He no longer had the precise, specific, direct information he needed. Instead, he needed to rely on a new kind of knowledge made up of abstractions, generalities and slogans. This new knowledge, which Nietzsche called "Wissen" to distinguish it from the more ancient form of experience-based knowledge called "Erfahrung," trips him up, because it is too far removed from the facts. The Inverse Square law and Darwin’s law both work against him.
February 10, 2007
Life as a zoo
Current individual leadership of organizational groups are constricted by the goals and wills of the board of directors, which set the tasks and the missions. Generally this is where money talks louder than action. So while a ground swell effort of individuals that are willing to take action can be parlayed by successive organizations as a motivator to action, the governance often benefits by inaction, especially when it shares ideas of the leaders at the table of leaders across different social group bounds - this in itself becomes a different social group with the new limits, but the same boundary conditions.
Individuals like to hang out with similar individuals, who share interests, emotions and learning styles. Group leadership should feel obligated to find a means for those individuals to contribute in their own chosen patterns to the group effort, rather than have the group leaders choose the specifics and then cajole the membership to action. Most groups don't really carry the depth of true actors and the leadership fails to do much beyond sustaining fund-raising and propaganda on one side of one issue. Hierarchical structures continually add work for tracking effort and counting both money and performance goals, while missing the time value of the volunteer resource. And there always seems to be another group of individuals counterbalance with the opposite view-point, with a similar support structure. All to ensure that nothing progressive gets accomplished - within a backdrop of bread and circus.
Time keeps on slipping into the future. Perhaps we need to look at group theory and get back to working in small numbers, rather than en masse. Many small influentual groups with different ideas and approaches would be very much more fulfilling for individuals than either/or. There are alot more political animals than donkeys and elephants, but no system for novel individual expression. Time for a new zoo review.
February 09, 2007
sociochemistry?
The key point to me is that the value of participation comes in the time spent at the experience, and the more advance prep time you place into getting the skills to be able to attain maximum value, the more value you should accumulate from the learning system. The people who know give a hand up to the people who don't know, but knowing requires active individual participation and can't be garnered from somebody just telling somebody something. It has to be integrated back into the basis set, and applied in another form before the demonstration of understanding takes place.
Eye opening to expose that level of thinking to high school students - gives them a target for how people actually get by and accomplish what they do : role models demonstrating the roles by their interplay within them. Too much of school is about giving access to only the information on the curriculum, as though the rest of life disappears because they don't see it there. Observing how others approach challenges always brings experience of different points of view.
Point of view is so important in science. The outside observer sees thing quite different from the inside observer, who is lost in the activity of the day-to-day process. As a scientist, you set up the experiment as an outside observer and then you let it go. Until the results are collated and assembled, the plan has to roll with the punches of fate and go forward to a conclusion, or end because it just didn't work. Too often the plug is pulled by the inside people, who do not have the perspective of whether it is working or not, because that doesn't matter in the experiment itself. Mixing chemicals causes reactions, but there is a pattern to the madness based on the periodic table and the properties of atoms.
We are all atoms. We resist having our plugs pulled or our chains yanked.
February 08, 2007
work - perish the thought
chase the money or perish
publish papers or perish
work harder longer or perish
earn your keep on the treadmill
where make work only matters
significant achievement tax
ensures that nobody perishes
because everybody perishes
so chase the tail called work
(c) 2007 lemme howdt
Soil Class
Nine student (eight girls!), plus the teacher and Dr. Lenny. Very stable - a different spin on a topic that nobody there really thought much about. Girls don't get the opportunity to get their hands dirty by playing in the mud very often. The soil samples collection by the students was an afterthought, even though it was suggested a week ago. It wasn't relevant at the time of suggestion, so it became a last minute hoop to jump through - three pop bottle of soil made it with my five. So they can, if they wish, but the motivation to wish isn't quite there.
Meanwhile - if global warming causes a shift in agricultural patters, where plants migrate away from the equator in a pattern to follow their favored climates - we will have a need to establish the top soil and mycophilic collaborations between microbes, fungi, lichen and root systems. Citrus trees take years to establish - but now might just be the time to put in limes, oranges and kumquats - by the time the trees have matured into full production, the soils and the climate will be set to support the grove. Of course, variation in micro-climates needs to be part of the equation - a misplaced frost can wipe out a whole bunch of touchy trees. The variations in the cycles need attention - so those out of the limit temperature blips, don't end the game at null.
February 07, 2007
Deep theory
'Late 19th century education did not grow from known 17th century seeds; it was a new and unexpected genius whose ultimate character could not have been predicted and whose emergence troubled well-disposed, high-minded people.'
There is direct implication here to science - what it is and what it is for, in a world view sense. That will be a topic for a day when i have no pressing business.
February 06, 2007
Watching Media
time passage
Economics is skewed, but if you wish to play the game of economics with all of your time, you can make the money you need by providing a lynchpin service - using unique skills developed by practice over time. Trading time for money gives us the opportunity to use our own time in somebody else's service. Service for money is a valid trade, providing the contract is appropriately agreed upon. The social contract of life today is all one way - if you don't believe so, read the next 'privacy policy' that you get stuffed in with a billing statement. You have to pay attention to not get taken, all the time, in every transaction. Unless, of course, you are out to score and be the taker in every transaction. That is business - make the best deal on every transaction.
Why do we have to live life as a business - cause that's capitalism? because the two political parties say so? because corporations are people under law? because few are willing to speak truth to power? I dunno, i'd be happy to devote my time to science, if i didn't have to compete in the battle of culture. Entertainment, as currently contrived, is a distraction to keep people from using their time in more productive pursuits. But - what does productive mean - and from who's perspective? Perhaps we need to define the terms and renegotiate the social contract.
February 05, 2007
Some who care
First - Baltzersen
Second - Rozeff
'We greatly deceive ourselves if we believe that we will be led into the light by government reports, especially reports of inter-government organizations such as the U.N. We greatly deceive ourselves if we believe that panels of scientists working under the auspices of government agencies will lead us into the light of true knowledge.'
Now back in Dr. Lenny voice - Control of any kind is imposing order into a chaos field. Ignoring the problem, or business as usual approach is imposing chaos into an order field (or a mine field, your choice). We have forced creativity out of the minds of most of the population, by keeping them saturated with inconvenient truths which are truths only because the language has been parsed. Climate change does occur, always has, always will.
Dynamic systems do that. Stagnant systems set and accumulate and don't change with time. The stagnant system generates hot air and can't control itself - and its order degenerates into chaos. The dynamic system generates wind, growth and other alternate forms of power - and its chaos degenerates into order, as people figure out what works and do it. Without imposed controls and 1500 scientists to tell us how to do and what to do and when to do and what to use and ...
We can each be our own scientist and think about what we see and do what is intentional and convenient. If you think something is happening, collect some data and see if it supports what you think. If somebody says something that makes you think, ask a question that can be answered as evidence for or against. Taking the basis of fact and applying it in another different field is one way of building capacity and finding symmetries.
Singer spin, from a climate watcher.
'A commonly cited proof for human-caused global warming claims there is a scientific consensus. This claim is based mainly on a flawed essay by Naomi Oreskes of the University of California, San Diego, which appeared in the journal Science in December 2004. But even if a majority of scientists had voted for human-caused global warming, that's not how science works. Unlike in politics, the majority does not rule. Rather, every advance in science has come from a minority that found that observed facts contradicted the prevailing hypothesis. Sometimes it took only one scientist; think of Galileo or Einstein.'
February 04, 2007
Pace and Urgency
Clouds at Sunrise
Sunrise on super-bowl sunday, the drums beat loudly as most lemmings get glued to the mind control boxes. As a die-hard sports-fan, today i don't attempt to flog myself for becoming part of the spectacle. i take it for what it is worth - a distraction for several hours while normality suspends to accomodate belief. Enjoying the journey is part of the pleasure of existance, but burning man might be more of my type of thrill. Could we imagine a media that could cover these two parallel events with equal indulgence? Nah.
Dr. Lenny Super Swami Prediction:
Colts get 4 touchdowns and a field goal while the Bears keep Gould busy with 5 field goals and a TD from Hester on a return. A jam packed 31-22, with a late turn-over making the score look like less of the battle it will be.
February 03, 2007
love bites
how vast the empire
the plays within the plays
the feint within the feint
for the benefit of the faint
'what do you get
when you fall in love'
with a conceptualization
begat from a nightmare
on a whirled world stage
they spied on king
they spied on ghandi
they spied on abbie hoffman
what's to say, to say, to say
they haven't spied on me
living an ineffectual life of
controlled degeneracy
to not empower desire
she lives in a different world
where delusions of grandeur
are to be middle class
in the land of the poor
while the rich, oh very rich
descend the spanning scale
consume natural wealth
by re-evaluating value
externalizing cost in skew
while people incapable of
reinventing any wheels
eat seed corn and belch anger
(c)2007 lemme howdt
February 02, 2007
OINK #15 : Carbonated
Carbonated
Dr. Lenny Howdt
Online ‘Integrated’ New Kast
Carbon seems to have the focus of the whole world. The IPCC releases their report today, but couched in political correctness will be the result – we’re screwed. The time to have made corrections was long ago and now we are simply pissing into the wind.
uh-oh
incognito
hidden in plain sight
plane site crash
excuse for chains
clanking callously
as freedom surfs
slippery slopes
lemme howdt (c) 2007
Waging Peace
This is why mike rozeff is on my short list of immediate reads. He can boil down essence by analogy, to something that people can get. The guys at Scheming Mind will also get a chuckle and maybe we will get some discussion going that spills howdt to the bloggosphere. Building alternative communications networks on an interpersonal basis seems a necessary pre-condition for changing the world view from war to peace.
By the way - i currently have about 50 games going at Scheming Mind - maybe 10% are real chess. Too many, considering what i am considering, but the model of chess has helped me understand how i think in an area where i can be creative. Now the trick is to explain the how - to figure out chemically where the energy comes from when we think. Chaos and Order align with Peace and War - we do not fear peace - why the repulsion toward chaos?
Archr: I tried to comment on the blog. I think I was blacked by java (no java on my phone). So... Good metaphor. The main point of chess--the only goal--is the king. Winning all the pieces and losing the K is exactly the same as losing all the pieces and losing the king. In negotiation, it seems, one should start by precisely defining the goal. Then one should proceed with with unwavering focus. But what are worthy goals? We will never agree this side of death. So while one of is playing "Chicken Chess" and thinks he is winning, the other is playing "Racing Kings" and thinks he is doing pretty well. Archr "shooting strait (along the diagonal)"
added by lemme 02/03