Fresh Stripe

A photo of the "kitten" Stripe, who has been living with us for a couple of months or so.


Here's lookin' at you, kid.

Outsider Logic

In his August 14th journal entry, David Byrne makes mention of an interview with outsider logician Shea Zellweger, inventor of the Logic Alphabet. While working as a switchboard operator in the 1950's, he set about developing a new system for notating logic, which takes the former (and present) three-connector system using "and", "if", and "if...then...", and replaces it with a set of 16 symbols, most of which can be inverted, flipped, and turned to read as another symbol in the alphabet, and which lend themselves to geometric configurations, best illustrated in three dimensions. I myself, know nothing of the subject, but find it fascinating. The whole Froebel/Montessori parallel is interesting as well. Froebel and Montessori, "who founded the Kindergarten movement and the Montessori school system, respectively. Both believed that higher-level conceptual thought should be preceded by concrete hands-on play with geometric forms embodied in solid materials."

Though ultimately less loaded with function, this makes me think of the Soma Cube. Something I came across in my youth, when a friend of the family gave me The 2nd Scientific American Book of Mathematical Puzzles & Diversions and his Soma set, made from children's building blocks glued together. I found the Soma Cube to be both challenging and fun, and much more accessible than Rubik's Cube, which always seemed kind of pointless and hopeless to me. This book also contained a chapter on Phi: The Golden Ratio, which I found inspirational. Its appearance throughout the natural world and in art, in my eyes, immediately embued it with magical powers.

Ow

I feel like my head was in a pinball machine.

I am totally whacked from working all night until 6:30am and sleeping till noon — which still isn't enough sleep, but I really should get back to that drawing-board. Or board-drawing, rather. Storyboards.

Throb. Throb. It moves around. From the back of my head to the side, back again and into my neck. I must have slept wrong.

This all seems like the kind of crap that no one should care to read about another person. Please, what is the point? I am not so self- I don't know, self-consumed? self-centered? that I think this sort of drivel should be of import to anyone other than myself. Besides, it will pass and a week from now I'll be looking back through previous blog entries and wondering, "Why?"

BUT, I feel inclined to put something in this space and the throb crawling around in my head makes it difficult to write about anything else.


What the hell. I'll give it a try, anyway.

Rice Krispies are great. I love Rice Krispies. They are low in sugar and probably have no nutritional value, but I could eat two heaping bowls of them back to back, twice a day. They're a simple joy, Rice Krispies. One unmuddied by green clovers and purple horseshoes (Lucky Charms). Free of sickening flavors and colors that turn milk into Yoohoo (Fruity Pebbles, Cocoa Pebbles). Refreshingly bereft of whole oats, raisins, and nut clusters (Honey Bunches of Oats, Muesli, and on, anon). No sharp corners that tear the roof of your mouth (Cap'n Crunch) or worse, the lining of your esophogus, resulting in odd chest pains (Golden Grahams). Just those beautifully bubbly, oblong little shells of Snap, Crackle, and Pop delight.

There, that's better.

Alles Braun!

Ja! Alle meine kleinen Scheiße sind braun!
Did some color-tweaking and now everything's just a bit mo' caca here. Enjoy!

Flick Fix

Jamie and I signed up for Netflix one week ago and I've since been going crazy adding titles to our Queue. We topped fifty within the first couple of days and have now surpassed the 100-dvd mark. I love it. No more wandering like a zombie for an hour and a half through the aisles of those video conglomerates¹, suffering from that peculiar sort of amnesia in which the movie title section of your brain shuts down.

So take a quick look at the new addition to my sidebar - on the right-hand side of this page. I've added an RSS feed (also see here for more useful rss info) showing the first ten discs in my Netflix Queue. This is a live feed from Netflix. If you would like to learn how to add an RSS feed to your website or blog, take a trip over to this Cut n' Paste Javascript RSS Feed page. You'll need to provide an rss url for whatever it is you want to feed.

Woohoo, Netflix! I am going to have fun with this. Not to mention, that I am relatively new to the dvd experience, having recently purchased my first dvd player. My First DVD Player — you know the one. It comes in that thick bright yellow plastic case so that I can drop it
repeatedly and won't hurt it too bad.

¹ Technically, conglomerate might not be the appropriate word here, but I just like that it has "glom" in it. It has a kind of onomatopoeic thing going for it — like something big and gooey.

New Entry: Still Not A Blog

So what?

New entry, but don't count on anything periodical. I may have an
upswing in activity from time to time, but the overall trend will most
likely be neglect. So as far as blogging goes, I'm pretty much destined
never to have an audience. Just me in my little room. My little white
room with its padded walls. Not a sound from the outside world. Only
the short grunts and huffs I let out as I type this message with
my tongue.

ACK!

Until further notice, shit peddling is suspended. Two prior posts have been removed, due to their boringness. Blogs just aren't blogs unless you keep em up on an almost daily basis. Perhaps someday this too will be a real blog, but it ain't happened yet.

So bleghh...