Re: [FRIAM] 3d projection

2013-03-20 Thread cody dooderson
I rememeber some old arcade video games http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pepper's_ghostusing a similar setup On Tue, Mar 19, 2013 at 3:36 PM, Joshua Thorp jth...@redfish.com wrote: This is a cool little build, plexiglass prism makes a hologram like effect: http://vimeo.com/59377788#

[FRIAM] re lofty wrong issue

2013-03-20 Thread peggy miller
I, for one, sort of enjoy lofty wrong people. Loft implies lift, going up, lightness. Wrong implies down, the other way, backwards. I see lofty wrongness as a sort of equilibrium, allowing the interjection of either lofty right, or just plain wrong to comment without feeling unprepared. (actually

Re: [FRIAM] The nature of Discussion Fora

2013-03-20 Thread glen ropella
On 03/19/2013 07:03 PM, Steve Smith wrote: do you have any references I could follow? The Twitch Ontology would be new to me (excepting what you just wrote). It felt as if it explained human behaviour as an automaton, but obviously more than that? No references. As far as I know, I made it

Re: [FRIAM] The nature of Discussion Fora

2013-03-20 Thread Steve Smith
Glen - No references. As far as I know, I made it up. 8^) I'm sure I've stolen it from somewhere, though. Thanks... I definitely don't need you to be a scholar and I'm completely comfortable with stuff people pull out of a dark place on their own while any given example may be total

[FRIAM] Twitches

2013-03-20 Thread Frank Wimberly
In the Pulitzer Prize winning novel All the King's Men by Robert Penn Warren, the protagonist, Jack Burden, eventually decides that the Universe is ruled by The Great Twitch. This nihilistic cynicism arises from his experiences as the right-hand man of Governor Willie Stark in 1930s Louisiana.

Re: [FRIAM] re lofty wrong issue

2013-03-20 Thread Arlo Barnes
To give my input on a related recent topic, I would rather be uncertain or silent than vague, but would rather be any of those than wrong. That implies certainty in an unverified belief, which is something fixed with science, some effort, and a little introspection. -Arlo James Barnes

Re: [FRIAM] Fred Davis, The Looking Glass: Language as Mirror 2013.03.13: Jerry Katz, Nonduality Salon: Rich Murray 2012.03.16

2013-03-20 Thread Owen Densmore
On Sun, Mar 17, 2013 at 9:22 PM, Rich Murray rmfor...@gmail.com wrote: Steve, I really enjoy and on a deep level trust your sharings with me -- you are a kindred pioneer, which is a rare treat in my life to find. I've noticed I'm unable to tell if someone is far ahead of me, so I aim at

Re: [FRIAM] [EXTERNAL] Please sign this thing! Eliminate the bi-annual time change caused by Daylight Savings Time

2013-03-20 Thread Owen Densmore
I think I confused folks: the reference to europe's DSL change being 2 weeks after USA was just an example. Steve Smith: thanks for making me recall the north/south difference as well. I just gotta think we have to - Change times at the same date universally - Just stick with standard time -

Re: [FRIAM] Yet Another, Tower of Babel, Cambrian Explosion

2013-03-20 Thread Owen Densmore
Well, here's the puzzler for me: Why is CSS an entirely different syntax than JSON or even HTML? Fail! I guess Sass/Less may get close, as well as CoffeeKup http://coffeekup.org/ which just sez: WTF, lets just mash them all up, no prob. I would like a markdown equivalent to CSS. Seriously.

Re: [FRIAM] less

2013-03-20 Thread Owen Densmore
Anyone? How about one of the other CSS tools? Or even HTML/CSS combining stunts. On Sun, Mar 17, 2013 at 1:18 PM, Robert J. Cordingley rob...@cirrillian.com wrote: Does anyone have any decent experiences with Less http://lesscss.org/they can share? Robert C

Re: [FRIAM] [EXTERNAL] Please sign this thing! Eliminate the bi-annual time change caused by Daylight Savings Time

2013-03-20 Thread Nicholas Thompson
Owen, Why not simply refuse to change your clocks.Don't change when you get up and go to bed, eat breakfast, etc. When you make an appointment to meet somebody, just bear in mind that they are in a different time zone from you.In the fall, for instance, you remain in Santa Fe, and

Re: [FRIAM] [EXTERNAL] Please sign this thing! Eliminate the bi-annual time change caused by Daylight Savings Time

2013-03-20 Thread Carl Tollander
So everyone would have a little bit string (updated incessantly) that identified How You Relate To Time. There could be some ancillary info: Best met when shadows are long and so forth. We could go back to the hour of the tiger way of talking about time.This would open up whole new

Re: [FRIAM] less

2013-03-20 Thread Carl Tollander
Less used to be more, but now its something more and something less. Mixins, hmmm, is somebody trying to bring back flavors? In lisp land they were great until they weren't, it was like buttons and threads. Suddenly, a mess. On 3/20/13 9:25 PM, Owen Densmore wrote: Anyone? How about one