Wednesday, July 25, 2007
More on Time
Last night while driving to the airport to pick up Alessandra I was thinking about how I visualize time.
My days of the week are pictured in mostly horizontal circle. Saturday is at the top, furthest away from me, Sunday is a swing back down towards the bottom counter clockwise. And the rest of the days of the week are an angled ramp back up. I only see the present day and the day ahead and behind on my wheel. They are spelled out by name and I can zoom in to look at my day.
Likewise my yearly calendar is a larger circle that runs counterclockwise with December and January up at the top of a 20% grade, then it's back down the dial to reach Summer. Of course the seasons are color coded with January and February being dark, dark gray and Summer the rest of the year being vibrant.
I've tried to describe how the whole thing is lit, and I believe I tried to model it years ago in 3D, but I just can't get it across.
Here, read about Flower Clock Gardens instead.
My days of the week are pictured in mostly horizontal circle. Saturday is at the top, furthest away from me, Sunday is a swing back down towards the bottom counter clockwise. And the rest of the days of the week are an angled ramp back up. I only see the present day and the day ahead and behind on my wheel. They are spelled out by name and I can zoom in to look at my day.
Likewise my yearly calendar is a larger circle that runs counterclockwise with December and January up at the top of a 20% grade, then it's back down the dial to reach Summer. Of course the seasons are color coded with January and February being dark, dark gray and Summer the rest of the year being vibrant.
I've tried to describe how the whole thing is lit, and I believe I tried to model it years ago in 3D, but I just can't get it across.
Here, read about Flower Clock Gardens instead.
Labels: Nice, The Cap'n, Visual Thinking
Saturday, May 19, 2007
Timothy Leary’s Message to You, Here, Now.
Unearthed from the notes of Joe Bageant and recently published in Counterpunch. Bageant desribes a conversation between Leary and G. Gordon Liddy while the two were on their debating tour. It’s probably the most important thing you’ll read this month. Ahem:
Leary: “I’d just like to see thinking come back in style. I haven’t heard a new idea in eight years. Let’s get ordinary people arguing and talking again. I want to trigger new circuits in their nervous systems. That’s the philosopher’s job and I am the most important philosopher at this time.”
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Oh no no no, he's outside-looking in
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