Thursday, December 31, 2009
It�s Official: There are Now More Tweets than People http://ping.fm/CREwb
Tuesday, December 29, 2009
Friday, December 18, 2009
Thursday, December 17, 2009
Today was interesting for an ad hoc spontaneous and informal M&M (mortality & morbidity) meeting at the end of my shift....
what's beyond logic happens beneath will;
ee cummings
ee cummings
I count time; my earliest memory of counting time was age 6 - it was a very busy year....
Friday, December 11, 2009
http://ping.fm/hVJWl
Who's going to tell the patients?
Who's going to tell the patients?
Thursday, December 10, 2009
Dawn: When men of reason go to bed. ~Ambrose Bierce
Monday, December 07, 2009
In pursuit of Craft does one eventually arrive at Revelation?
Loss-Gain curves are surprisingly extensible...
Saturday, December 05, 2009
Death is currently irreversible. What would be the consequence of reversibility?
Wednesday, December 02, 2009
Scientists Say a Dirty Child Is a Healthy Child http://ping.fm/tX57p
Tuesday, December 01, 2009
since feeling is first
who pays any attention
to the syntax of things
will never wholly kiss you;
ee cummings
who pays any attention
to the syntax of things
will never wholly kiss you;
ee cummings
A world of made
is not a world of born
ee cummings
is not a world of born
ee cummings
Monday, November 30, 2009
researchdigest: Mapping the unborn baby's brain in 3D. London hospital first in the world to offer high quality MRI scans of foetus: http://bit.ly/4Ms29Q http://ping.fm/01Te4
Our lives are structured by familial/social obligations....
Sunday, November 29, 2009
The primary purpose of sleep must be emotional regulation. And any deficits in such regulation must have corollary attentional deficits. Attention, then, is a feature of emotion....
Saturday, November 28, 2009
Tuesday, November 24, 2009
Are you risk neutral? How do you keep yourself risk neutral?
Quote Details: Albert Einstein: Reality is merely an... - The Quotations Page http://ping.fm/mKoRw
Thursday, November 19, 2009
Wednesday, November 18, 2009
A&E patients are admitted at last minute 'to meet targets' - Daily Mail http://ping.fm/PAANe
Sustained low grade hypothermia as a route to improved longevity?
If I say "Life is complex", do you hear "Life is complicated"?
Do you answer the question asked, the question implied or the question you want to hear?
Do you answer the question asked, the question implied or the question you want to hear?
People with severe chronic pain who won't take painkillers are just aggravating....
Saturday, November 14, 2009
People actually believe that human evolution is complete?
Contact lenses to get built-in virtual graphics http://ping.fm/Yv5W8
Newborn Babies Cry With Mother's Accent http://ping.fm/C2Ezw
NASA finds water on the moon - (Global) http://ping.fm/Nn6qI
Do you blog, journal, tweet or otherwise write?
cnnbrk: Facebook posting provides air-tight alibi in robbery case. http://bit.ly/2b7Cko http://ping.fm/OQkKD
Friday, November 13, 2009
Thursday, November 12, 2009
http://ping.fm/llkXp
How well prepared are medical students for their first year as doctors? The views of consultants and specialist registrars in two teaching hospitals
C Matheson, D Matheson
How well prepared are medical students for their first year as doctors? The views of consultants and specialist registrars in two teaching hospitals
C Matheson, D Matheson
Fasting before a cholesterol test 'is a waste their time' - Telegraph.co.uk http://ping.fm/eOYRy
Symptoms represent threshold effects. Physiological systems are robust; homeostasis aims to prevent such threshold effects. Mitigating interventions reduce entropy: such interventions can be milder and slower.
So, treat the numbers. [Even in the absence of threshold effects aka symptoms.]
So, treat the numbers. [Even in the absence of threshold effects aka symptoms.]
Utility of post hoc analyses given large sample sizes?
What is the risk of cefalosporin sensitivity in Penicillin-sensitive patients? My memory of medical school teaching was 10%, however a search just completed shows that such sensitivity is less than 1%. Calibrating and updating my entire knowledge base is impossible. How then to proceed? What do you do?
What is the sociocultural correlate of deflation?
At species level, controversy has great utility; at the individual level it does not.
If Satori is entirely a neurological event is DBS a route to enlightenment?
Tuesday, November 10, 2009
Monday, November 09, 2009
20th Anniversary of the Fall of the Berlin Wall - (Germany) http://ping.fm/50Jlx
Saturday, November 07, 2009
The Most Creative People in Health Care http://ping.fm/RV2dy
"Passing on the bill for treating Aids to very poor countries would be a colossal betrayal."
!? There seems a colossal disconnect here....
!? There seems a colossal disconnect here....
Inappropriate acute medical admissions are pareto inefficient. Doctors are aware of this, but it is easier in a socialist healthcare model to accede to social pressures because of the disjunction between costs and benefits.
I am fast approaching my STOP.
I am fast approaching my STOP.
Re-reading MacDonald: are treatment effects binary? Of course not, physiology is fractal!
It's a truism that the more complicated a mechanism the more error prone. What ubiquitous mechanism is more complicated than the brain?
Clinical treatments aim to maintain or restore physiological parameters to preserve organ function hierarchically (brain, heart, lungs, kidneys, liver, gut, remainder). Because physiological systems are dynamic, correction is not the aim and velocity is also a consideration.
If the systems cannot self-correct or sustain the forced corrections treatment is considered futile. Non-optimal organ function is acceptable; all systems degrade over time so the accepted metric is quality of life.
If the systems cannot self-correct or sustain the forced corrections treatment is considered futile. Non-optimal organ function is acceptable; all systems degrade over time so the accepted metric is quality of life.
If experiences are immortal, recall is repetition and reflection is extension. In an autistic world such manipulations are new experiences without losing the benefits of frequency as salience.
Friday, November 06, 2009
"Oh Shnocks! The state of healthcare technology in '09" http://ping.fm/fLJYp
Direct Evidence for Spinal Cord Involvement in Placebo Analgesia -- Eippert et al. 326 (5951): 404 -- Science http://ping.fm/xXKTK
what's beyond logic happens beneath will;
nor can these moments be translated:i say
that even after April
by God there is no excuse for May
ee cummings
nor can these moments be translated:i say
that even after April
by God there is no excuse for May
ee cummings
voices to voices,lip to lip by ee cummings http://ping.fm/bEJQU
Clinical encounters as playing to loss aversion: primum non nocere!
Generalised Anxiety Disorder: what is the probability of a white woman dying of cervical cancer before age 40?
Thursday, November 05, 2009
Implementation of the Canadian C-Spine Rule: prospective 12 centre cluster randomised trial http://ping.fm/6m7XP
PLoS Medicine: Why Most Published Research Findings Are False http://ping.fm/xHdAW
RT @tweetmeme BMJ Group blogs: BMJ » Blog Archive » Richard Smith: The beginning of the end for impact factors and j... http://bit.ly/1zrwMa
Can You Pay Off a Sleep Debt by Sleeping Late on Weekends? http://ping.fm/Q9Wqy?i=4e6fe72364823431d6c8b4d27562a2eb
Thursday, October 29, 2009
Better recommendation engines as a step towards autonomic computing
Wednesday, October 28, 2009
Listening to you at last: EU plans to tap cell phones ( http://ping.fm/j0W1j )
Tuesday, October 27, 2009
Leaving work today, the darkness was shocking, oppressive....
Monday, October 26, 2009
POLST - Physician orders for life sustaining treatment
What does a comprehensive lifestream look like at the end of 2009?
Sunday, October 25, 2009
Hard Work's Overrated, Maybe Detrimental. | Design & Innovation | Fast Company ( http://ping.fm/IsQJE )
Saturday, October 24, 2009
Sunday, October 18, 2009
#haiku quantum entangled / strange science, raison d'être / your pulse in my heart
#haiku ice cream coke breakfast / food is grooming tongue teeth smell / crackers and old cheese
#haiku Katanakagi / God as Maker I am made / forged flexible force
#haiku Stranger to myself / Image beauty diamond charm / my love unestranged
may my mind stroll about hungry
and fearless and thirsty and supple
and even if it's sunday may i be wrong
ee cummings
and fearless and thirsty and supple
and even if it's sunday may i be wrong
ee cummings
until out of merely not nothing comes
only one snowflake(and we speak our names
ee cummings
only one snowflake(and we speak our names
ee cummings
TEDTalks : Rory Sutherland: Life lessons from an ad man - Rory Sutherland (2009) ( http://ping.fm/tRecB )
Saturday, October 17, 2009
researchdigest: Studying the gut instinct that saves some soldiers from being blown up? Excellent New York Times article: http://bit.ly/ivrZr ( http://ping.fm/toLWE )
Friday, October 16, 2009
"Argue for your limitations and you get to keep them "
The utility of tools is largely constrained by the imagination of users
Thursday, October 15, 2009
as freedom is a breakfastfood
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as freedom is a breakfastfood
or truth can live with right and wrong
or molehills are from mountains made
-long enough and just so long
will being pay the rent of seem
and genius please the talentgang
and water most encourage flame
as hatracks into peachtrees grow
or hopes dance best on bald men's hair
and every finger is a toe
and any courage is a fear
-long enough and just so long
will the impure think all things pure
and hornets wail by children stung
or as the seeing are the blind
and robins never welcome spring
nor flatfolk prove their world is round
nor dingsters die at break of dong
and common's rare and millstones float
-long enough and just so long
tomorrow will not be too late
worms are the words but joy's the voice
down shall go which and up come who
breasts will be breasts and thighs will be thighs
deeds cannot dream what dreams can do
-time is a tree (this life one leaf)
but love is the sky and i am for you
just so long and long enough
ee cummings
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as freedom is a breakfastfood
or truth can live with right and wrong
or molehills are from mountains made
-long enough and just so long
will being pay the rent of seem
and genius please the talentgang
and water most encourage flame
as hatracks into peachtrees grow
or hopes dance best on bald men's hair
and every finger is a toe
and any courage is a fear
-long enough and just so long
will the impure think all things pure
and hornets wail by children stung
or as the seeing are the blind
and robins never welcome spring
nor flatfolk prove their world is round
nor dingsters die at break of dong
and common's rare and millstones float
-long enough and just so long
tomorrow will not be too late
worms are the words but joy's the voice
down shall go which and up come who
breasts will be breasts and thighs will be thighs
deeds cannot dream what dreams can do
-time is a tree (this life one leaf)
but love is the sky and i am for you
just so long and long enough
ee cummings
To one and all I wish a speedy victory ( http://ping.fm/G7yXE )
Wednesday, October 14, 2009
[love is more thicker than forget]
BY E. E. CUMMINGS
love is more thicker than forget
more thinner than recall
more seldom than a wave is wet
more frequent than to fail
it is more mad and moonly
and less it shall unbe
than all the sea which only
is deeper than the sea
love is less always than to win
less never than alive
less bigger than the least begin
less littler than forgive
it is most sane and sunly
and more it cannot die
than all the sky which only
is higher than the sky
BY E. E. CUMMINGS
love is more thicker than forget
more thinner than recall
more seldom than a wave is wet
more frequent than to fail
it is more mad and moonly
and less it shall unbe
than all the sea which only
is deeper than the sea
love is less always than to win
less never than alive
less bigger than the least begin
less littler than forgive
it is most sane and sunly
and more it cannot die
than all the sky which only
is higher than the sky
"skilled in quick softness. Unspontaneous. cute."
Teaching Students to Sift Mountains of Data - NYTimes.com ( http://ping.fm/LWbdl )
Monday, October 12, 2009
google: Here's video of "Seeing Data as Change Over Time" - talk by Googler Ola Rosling at Gov 2.0 Summit (#Gov20s) bit.ly/T62O2 ( http://ping.fm/kqzCk )
One in six NHS patients 'misdiagnosed' - Telegraph.co.uk (http://ping.fm/tCseT)
Saturday, October 10, 2009
For the past to be immutable we must accept events as concrete; they are not
Friday, October 09, 2009
Presentation: Anders Sandberg - Cloud Superintelligence (http://ping.fm/iGJmm)
Thursday, October 08, 2009
Choosing a smart password (http://ping.fm/vHlF2)
Wednesday, October 07, 2009
Friday, October 02, 2009
Monday, September 28, 2009
Saturday, September 26, 2009
What is the richest, highest density communication available to you?
How to communicate Gestalts without a shared lexicon?
Friday, September 25, 2009
Intelligence and consciousness are not synonymous
I am continually amazed by how few people live within their skins
Thursday, September 24, 2009
Conversation is the exchange of percepts not sensory data. All information is mediated.
What do you say when your lexicon cannot readily express your meaning? Do you approximate? Is satisficing possible in the domain of semantics?
Low trust environments are high friction environments that are effectively unworkable
The scientific method can generate no hypotheses....
Working Less Means Working Better, Says Study [Office Culture] (http://ping.fm/7TRPT)
Wednesday, September 23, 2009
google: Cool new Trendsmap shows you where Twitter trends are - http://bit.ly/3Qi4K4 (via @googlemaps, @mpegg) (http://ping.fm/AymZN)
Synaptic exchange as an endpoint of genetic coding as a template of information-architecture---terminal-effector
Transclusion as an argument for the utility of autism in digital computation
Tuesday, September 22, 2009
Friday, September 18, 2009
Thursday, September 17, 2009
Where phenotype suggest one species and genotype another, blueprint takes precedence over observed structure. In social relations will provable intent take precedence over observed behaviour? [Poor Skinner!]
I lose nothing and gain considerably in admitting wrong; self-deception has very limited utility
Wednesday, September 16, 2009
Frustration Exasperation & Disappointment are features of Expectation
Watching someone die is many lessons in helplessness
Tuesday, September 15, 2009
Friday, September 11, 2009
A hermit learns silence as a fish learns to swim
Monday, September 07, 2009
To be possessed of a universal physics in the stone age must be an almost unendurable frustration
Sunday, September 06, 2009
“Has anyone you know ever been ritually mutilated because they were seen reading a book?”
Saturday, September 05, 2009
Virtuality promises eternity in each instant. Eternity is not sufficient...
"At 20 I was shocked and disappointed by my parents' unmitigated ignorance. At 25 I was amazed at how much they'd learnt in a scant 5 years!"
Friday, September 04, 2009
Casting pearls before swine harms neither the pearls nor the swine; the value of pearls lies elsewhere...
Thursday, September 03, 2009
Monday, August 31, 2009
Words said are ripples in the thoughts of others; a defiance of entropy.
Ignorance is infinite; yet everyones' ignorance has it's own magnitude: so again, infinities vary.
Monday, August 24, 2009
An Extreme Programming approach to clinical encounters
Google Trends + Google Insights + Google Finance + Google infrastructure = (potentially) the largest, fastest investment trading company in the world
cnnbrk: Britain's top court loosens rules on assisted suicide http://ping.fm/2GuUC (http://ping.fm/I15ht)
Sunday, August 23, 2009
Semi-permiability in relationships:
across membranes everything is communication but shared meaning is a construct
across membranes everything is communication but shared meaning is a construct
Semi-permiability as template for engagement, defence & integrity
TedTalks: Clarity, Interactivity & Persistence
Saturday, August 22, 2009
Information Overload, the Index Medicus, and PubMed (http://ping.fm/Bfwmb)
Friday, August 21, 2009
The only resource constraints are energy and computation
Tuesday, August 18, 2009
Sunday, August 16, 2009
Stress, satisfaction and burnout among Dutch medical specialists -- Visser et al. 168 (3): 271 -- Canadian Medical Association Journal (http://ping.fm/dpgon)
Sunday, August 09, 2009
I am confounded by questions of utility; that broken things must be fixed is a peculiarly male perspective...
Friday, August 07, 2009
The primary perspective of immortality is that nothing is urgent
Tuesday, August 04, 2009
Another attempt: a language in which connotation and denotation are equivalent is autistic in the sense that autism is atomistic (sic) - everything is discrete, concrete & only itself.
Another attempt: a language in which connotation and denototation are equivalent is autistic in the sense that autism is atomistic (sic) - everything is discrete, concrete & only itself.
Meaning can be compressed to an irreducible black hole. However, such black holes are essentially nonsense....
Metaphor is an attempt at dynamic representation that is highly contingent. The utility of mathematical languages makes them necessarily autistic.
Saturday, August 01, 2009
Unreal friendship may turn to real. But real friendship, once ended, cannot be mended.
-- T.S. Eliot
-- T.S. Eliot
"Metaphysics of Quality would show how things become enormously more
coherent--fabulously more coherent--when you start with an assumption that Quality is the
primary empirical reality of the world...."
coherent--fabulously more coherent--when you start with an assumption that Quality is the
primary empirical reality of the world...."
Monday, July 27, 2009
Sensory deprivation time to hallucination as a proxy for cerebral complexity?
An exhortation to work by the numbers could arguably be extended to live by the numbers?
Sunday, July 12, 2009
Does a transhumanist utopia have a different happiness-setpoint?
Wednesday, July 08, 2009
If infinities vary in magnitude they must do so as vectors...
CHIFF
CHIFF -- an acronym for "clever, high quality, innovative, friendly, and fun"
My list of proxies: Age = experience
Marriage = compromise
Kink = negotiation
Articulation = intelligence
Marriage = compromise
Kink = negotiation
Articulation = intelligence
Tuesday, July 07, 2009
The supercomputer in my thumb unfortunately came without an OS or UI.... And Baby is 3
Friday, July 03, 2009
Consciousness as entropy solution; Civilisation as Gaia's evolving autonomic computing...
Thursday, July 02, 2009
Iteration: Information form, tempo & function. Extensibility, scalability & reproduction
Tuesday, June 30, 2009
Reminded of just-in-time learning vs. just-in-case learning.
Wednesday, June 24, 2009
"Life is real! Life is earnest! And the grave is not its goal..."
Longfellow
Longfellow
Monday, June 22, 2009
"... if a man will begin with certainties, he shall end in doubts; but if he will be content to begin with doubts he shall end in certainties." Francis Bacon
Saturday, June 20, 2009
Conflict and confrontation as stimuli to reflection - another argument in favour of an unjust world
Friday, June 19, 2009
"Indifference is isolation.
In difference is texture and wonder."
-- Edwin Schlossberg
In difference is texture and wonder."
-- Edwin Schlossberg
Saturday, June 06, 2009
The average trumps the extraordinary - move the mean.
The ideal life has unlimited bandwidth across wetware and network
If an observed frequency does not define a probability, how are probabilities to be determined?
Thursday, June 04, 2009
One Bin, One Queue
Classic scheduling theory: it is most efficient having a single queue for all outstanding items: think bank queues, airline queues as opposed to supermarket queues where people have to choose between multiple queues and switching has high costs.
Single bin means that most things need be handled only twice: classic GTD: once to decide what to do about it and once to do it. The decision is a queue decision: now/soon/sometime/never and a quadrant decision: urgency vs. importance.
With everything in one bin there are no places for things to get lost and nothing else to keep in mind. A single queue means you must always be thinking about how important things are in terms of your ends.
Wednesday, June 03, 2009
Do you collect artifacts? (http://ping.fm/yyYLv)
Given sufficient acuity everyone is an open book. Privacy as opposed to permission is anachronistic.
Monday, June 01, 2009
Sunday, May 31, 2009
Saturday, May 30, 2009
Friday, May 29, 2009
Remoralise work - Barry Schwartz - TED: http://ping.fm/cId7k
Wednesday, May 27, 2009
An information-rich attention-poor non-editorial 140-character 20-font world - Welcome to the present!
Tuesday, May 26, 2009
Monday, May 25, 2009
Saturday, May 23, 2009
If this is the attention economy, the next is the bandwidth economy and that includes the bandwidth of attention
Physiological hygiene: fluid calories protein sleep sun skin
Monday, May 18, 2009
I do not understand the desire for an interesting life: interesting lives are chaotic and given to extremes. I am all for a boring life. And a long boring life at that.
Friday, May 15, 2009
Thursday, May 14, 2009
SATO speed (S) and accuracy (A) trade-off (TO)
Future historians will consider Warhol to have had an amazing attention-sp
Today's session on domestic abuse reminded me of wicked problems and the law of unintended consequences. Domestic abuse is common, under-reported, undesirable, costly and complex. Causes, consequences and modulators are not separable and interventionists often have little to show for their efforts. Webs are dynamic open systems; think ecology, not crystalisation.
Wednesday, May 13, 2009
It is valid: if teleportation is technically possible, all energy is information. And so it is not provable that reality is not a simulation. That is as consoling as God, Who lives in the temporal lobe.
Today's lesson was Denial. The suicidal kind. It is a truism that no-one endures the unendurable.
I RESOLVE to sleep more, read less, grow up and grow wings.
Saturday, May 09, 2009
#haiku Katanakagi / God as Maker I am made / forged flexible force
Pleasure as primary or Pleasure as derivative?
Friday, May 08, 2009
Thursday, May 07, 2009
Wednesday, May 06, 2009
Friday, May 01, 2009
what utility intelligence in the absence of primary scaffolding?
Wednesday, April 29, 2009
Tuesday, April 28, 2009
Silver lining: with a 5-10% case fatality rate swine flu is a good rehearsal for a bird flu pandemic. We are woefully unprepared.
Saturday, April 25, 2009
#haiku surface and marrow / Infinity and Omni / all is illusion
#haiku blood burning boils BOILS! / skin a frozen carapace / all is illusion
#HAIKU this self this island / my blood it's beat it's spark is / Mystery SPOKEN
#haiku Prime Creation / every breath heartbeat a grace / God Spoke us extant
#haiku parched soul privation / soft skin cinnamon sweat salt / anticipation
#haiku rain dark gloom concord / seraph's shining symphony / drown me in exult
Wednesday, April 22, 2009
In repose there is no respite; respite is an altogether different animal...
Sleep that knits up the ravell'd sleeve of care, The death of each day's life, sore labour's bath, Balm of hurt minds, great nature's second course, Chief nourisher in life's feast,—
Tuesday, April 21, 2009
#haiku eloquent skin-skin / love's the language of mute hearts / We - I it speaks... spells
#haiku lover beloved / infinity in clasped arms / The Ourobouros
Monday, April 20, 2009
#haiku words with teeth and claws / with judging eyes flaying tongues / lave renew exalt
#haiku maya samsara / samadhi, love, satori / I am! I am here.
#haiku this self this island / in an ocean encompassed / named happy herald
#haiku delicious joy / oh! delicious joy! praise! / delicious joy
#haiku Solomon David / Moses Jesus Muhammad / You and I brother
#haiku reverence worship / devotion adoration / meaning manifold
#haiku Judge me as you will / I remain myself still; True, / Multifaceted
If I believe 3 impossible things before breakfast, do I get to experience 4 impossible things before dinner?
Sunday, April 19, 2009
Words punctuate the silences of meaningful conversation
Single input, single output = sensitivity
Single input, multiple output = amplification
Single input, multiple output = amplification
There's a surface to things that attracts or repels quite apart from function. The marrow is insensible however germinal.
Wednesday, April 08, 2009
#haiku Ovid Anais / de Sade Miller and Vassi / Nafzawi and I
#haiku delicious joy / drenching bliss: ecstasy: ahhhhhhhhhh! / wild detonation
#haiku delicious joy / drenching bliss: ecstasy: boom! / sighs moans grunts whimpers
#haiku delicious joy / drenching bliss: ecstasy: wet / tutored tongue touch
#haiku delicious joy / drenching bliss: ecstasy: hot / wax trailing tattoos
#haiku delicious joy / drenching bliss: ecstasy: sharp / edges limning skin
Simulation is neurologically equivalent to reality
Tuesday, April 07, 2009
The marginal utility of intelligence is an interesting consideration; some argue for diminishing returns above IQ 110-115. I would have guessed higher 180-200 and that only for social utility...
Wednesday, April 01, 2009
The world is as it is. It is not as we believe it to be - desire, wish, conceive or trust it to be. The only true representation of the world is the world itself.
Monday, March 30, 2009
#haiku sitting listening / stars shine the grass is growing / I am created
#hailu "As kingfishers catch / fire, dragonflies draw flame... / MYSELF it speaks... spells."
"If from the palette mortal man could steal
The precious pigment, pain, why then the scroll
Would glare with colour meaningless and bright" Ella Wheller Wilcox
The precious pigment, pain, why then the scroll
Would glare with colour meaningless and bright" Ella Wheller Wilcox
#haiku In these simple things - / chuckles gurgles little toes - / is joy manifest
Monday, March 23, 2009
Musing on honesty vs authenticity & self-censorship and emotional self-regulation....
#haiku running on empty / every breath heartbeat a grace / running on empty
I was reminded again tonight that perspective is important and that composite perspectives have great utility.
Saturday, March 21, 2009
Friday, March 20, 2009
How is it that doctors can consider the principle of Occam's razor esoteric?
Thursday, March 19, 2009
Legacy
In thinking of utility I return continually to the utility of my grandmother's life. She was born to relatively wealthy parents in an age when daughters inherited nothing and married well to an intellligent man with good prospects and yet she ended up a widow without wealth, uneducated.
She lived a long life and died quite suddenly of an acute surgical emergency without preceding debility: she took ill and died within hours. I think that if she had thought of it, it would have been her desired type of end: an independent life fully lived.
I hope that her later years were happy. She was a vibrant, forceful intelligent woman and I never had the impression that she was depressed or overwhelmed; I never had a sense of despair or desperation. And yet for all the joys of busy days with friends and family in beautiful and temperate country she has left no legacy.
Unless I AM a legacy.
I have no children. I am unlikely to have children. So, my legacy will have to be otherwise. And I do not have even an inkling of what that legacy could be. I have a keen appreciation of the how, but not even a glimmer of the what.
Do you have a sense of your potential legacy?
"This human mind wrote history, and this must read it." Emerson
Monday, March 16, 2009
Skill is domain specific; wisdom would seem to be domain independent. Accepting it as orientation makes value judgements implicit and yet no-one would argue that wisdom is value-neutral....
Better thinking and wisdom are different. If wisdom is a matter of orientation how do we define the space?
Sunday, March 15, 2009
#haiku Viewing the cherry / blossoms on the second day / Lambent Glory - Hai!
#haiku Stranger to myself / seeking post-reciprocal / for my alter ego...
#haiku silk skin on silk skin / skin hunger satiated / a consummation
#haiku Imagination /swish tap huh! slick sut! sut! sut!/ Anticipation
#haiku Locks on desire / as tinder to living flame / and I am strung taut
Saturday, March 14, 2009
Exemplars serve by repetition because language is a blunt instrument and the brain without a user manual. Time and frequency are essential because the brain takes frequency as a proxy for import.
#haiku The infinite host / dancing on an electron / angels' ecstasy
#haiku Imagination / In the beginning was WORD /Prime Creation
#haiku Wartenberg wheel skin / silk leather ice wax whisper / blissful sensation
#haiku Neurotransmitters / Dopamine Serotonin / Oxytocin - Joy!
Tuesday, March 10, 2009
#haiku There is a promise / of soothing release in this / tender ecstasy
#haiku In these simple things - / water salt sun fresh bread milk - / is joy manifest
#haiku Why the eightfold path / if happiness is wisdom? / Grace is sufficient....
Monday, March 09, 2009
#haiku possessing possessed / holding held loving loved twinned / ineffable joy
Sunday, March 08, 2009
#haiku Desires warring / the stigmata of love mark / this flesh battlefield
#haiku Anticipation / nipple near almost... - a peg / and I am strung taut
#haiku Time is a gift past / measure between lovers who / trusting accept all
#haiku This adoration / my blood it's beat it's spark is / delicious joy
#haiku This is a prayer. / my fragile heart in your hands / This is a blessing.
#haiku This is a haiku. / my fragile heart in your hands / This is a prayer.
#haiku Anticipation / then drenching consummation / a resurrection
#haiku Mellow tenderness / my little finger clenched close / in infant fingers
Friday, March 06, 2009
#haiku trial and trial / pounding folding pounding soul / forged flexible force
#haiku Mystery exists / in all the shadowed hollows / of sweaty after
Percepts are learned, modulated and enriched by experience. To be perceptive is to be engaged and reflective, embedded and observing....
Thursday, March 05, 2009
#haiku words all shaped perfect / God spoke my flesh into yours / meaning manifold
#haiku words shaped perfect / God spoke my flesh into yours / meaning manifold
#haiku Anticipation / consummate kiss on my nape / undammed liquid flood
#haiku This is true wisdom / be subject before object / loving's need, loved want
#haiku mismatched threads quilting / doings and done patched end-end / my history me
Wednesday, March 04, 2009
#haiku a crucifixion / stigmata of love adorn / a resurrection
#haiku pressing pain pleasure / promise pain pleasure 'peasement / a crucifixion
#haiku Measure without end / each his own scale for others / my chi dances blithe
#haiku lone candle flickers / gentle breeze in darkest night / eyes focussed inward
#haiku skin thin skin thick skin / heart heavy heaving open / encompassed loving
Tuesday, March 03, 2009
#haiku touch three turquoise ting / synaesthete floats on the sound / buoyed to heaven
haiku touch three turquoise ting / synaesthete flies in the taste / Proust's deepest envy
#haiku a ton of coal pressed / sunshine aeons uncounted / a perfect diamond
#haiku failure and failure / lessons each a sharp chisel / sculpting a human
#haiku skin thin skin thick skin / heart heavy heaving open / encompassed loved
#haiku touch three azure ting / synaesthete drowns in the taste / ineffable light
#haiku one prime holy clang / synaesthete drowns in the taste /mystery spoken
#haiku Adam Eve Michael / Moses Mozart and Euler / you and I brother
#haiku Adam Eve and Michael / Moses Mozart and Euler / you and I brother
#haiku symmetry beauty / no-mind instantiation / purpose perfection
#haiku in inhalation / preparation; performance / in exhalation
#haiku in inhalation / expectancy; completion / in exhalation
#haiku completely submerged / in abyssal history / silence shouts volumes
#haiku a touch here soflty / a whisper warm close against / and I am unstrung
#haiku velvet skin glimmers / ebon eyes glisten a caress / deep satisfaction
#haiku two mirrors facing / an infinite corridor / unspoken koan
Tolstoy had it wrong; joy is not undifferentiated
Monday, March 02, 2009
Saturday, February 28, 2009
#haiku joy! joy! joy! rapture! / wafting fragrance of incense: / soft skin enfolding
#hailu walls without frames are / reminders of what was home / ghosting grey outlines
#haiku desire corruption / the hot glistening welcome / taboo quarantined
Starvation has definite and defined emotional correlates
Friday, February 27, 2009
The most interesting things happen behind your eyes - hack your brain & you won't need anything else
#haiku Combust ATP / BURN BURN BURN! Mighty! Mighty! / Mitochondria
#haiku Men are principles / women are particulars / wabi and sabi
#haiku Energy stocks flows / attention economy / fictional constraints
#haiku The arrow of time / points both ways. Now and Then Here. / Quantum consciousness.
If consciousness is a cognitive illusion it should be possible to run several streams simultaneously like virtual machines. And so will begin the post-attention economy
Wednesday, February 25, 2009
#haiku "War is intellect" / Sun Tzu Musashi Clausewitz / Conviction! Resolve!
#haiku There is power in / a Name; Shaman speaks Totem: / Begone Misery!
#haiku Sound as signal / body language - semaphore - / communication
#haiku Beauty realised: / Snowflake, spider's web, starlight, / Adam before God.
#haiku in the void zanshin / brushed ink circle on rice paper / Wabi and Sabi
#haiku this is Bushido / no-mind in exhalation / breath and pulse resolve
#haiku walking through clouds / no-mind in exhalation / each heartbeat resolves
#haiku Wabi and Sabi: / Ecstasy and Agony / A lover's tears: care.
#haiku … Time’s sands measure… Life. / Burn through like a bonfire, / Carpei diem - now!
#haiku joy and rapture both, / as pain and anguish, are / points along the wave
#haiku This is alone life: / To know passion, pain, love, loss / And say Yes! Always.
#haiku This is alone life: / Purity, chastity and / Sublime decadence.
#haiku This is alone life: / Ecstasy and Agony / Merrily coupled.
#haiku intense emotion / leaves me a wrung out dish rag / empty and deformed
#haiku In some strange time-space / allusive thoughts are heard in / seventeen sound bites
#haiku sleepless in empty / bed I lay composing haiku / blossoms of sorrow
#haiku sleepless in empty / bed I lay composing haiku / blooms of the bereft
Tuesday, February 24, 2009
#haiku a million monkeys / tapping industriously- / cogito ergo ...
#haiku I in some strange world / now speak allusive thoughts in / seventeen phonemes
#haiku to live to write truth / to act to speak true - cohere / authenticity
Monday, February 23, 2009
My recent realisation that an unjust world is the best of all possible worlds lead further to the realisation that there can be no Ultimate Reckoning, no Judgement Day
I seem inadvertently to be compiling a list of the overrated: being right is overrated...
#haiku "Brevity is the / soul of wit." - "...to make settled / things strange" IMAGINE!
#haiku Five - 5 - syllables / Lines one, three. Line two: seven. / This is a haiku.
#haiku sighs moans grunts whimpers / plead pray protest please Please PLEASE! / Yes! There. Here. Now! YES!
#haiku fantastic pleasure / unendurable torment / my nape almost kissed
#haiku action as intent / revealed: poetry as lush / language compressed
How how is it that people with scoliosis don't know that their spines curve?
Sunday, February 22, 2009
#haiku tick tock tick tock - Aiiiii! / lub-dub lub-dub shhhhhhhhhh lub-dub / gravel on wood - done
#haiku delicious joy / drenching bliss: ecstacy: sweeeeet: / sugar on child's tongue
These status updates remind me of the Journal of Mundane Behaviour - such a rich research resource
Saturday, February 21, 2009
Today was rather unexceptional at work & I was grateful considering I got no sleep last night
There's so little risk in being honest with strangers we should perhaps have a daily "sit & talk to a stranger"...
Friday, February 20, 2009
haiku commentary - tears are neither + nor -, they are simply emotive and they = spring... wrinkles=winter
#haiku life is like a pearled / string of moments: now and then: / tears, smiles, hugs, wrinkles....
Thursday, February 19, 2009
Musing on the discipline of pleasure and the pleasure of discipline...
What is the colour of magic? The smell of ecstacy? The taste of anguish? The feel of conviction? The sound of mystery?
#haiku flickering candles / soft skin cinnamon sweat salt / sighs ...uh... ahhhhhhh. Oh. Yes.
#haiku each heartbeat restores / the world; summer, fall, snow, blooms: / all recreated
Fitzgerald had it wrong: the rich are not truly different...
Diamond is to carbon as poetry is to prose....
#haiku open on eight sides / no mind in exhalation / violence as repose
#haiku open on eight sides / no mind in exhalation / repose as violence
#haiku Soft hair against my / cheek; scents of joy remembered: / conflate past-future...
#haiku After chrysalis - / samadhi, love, satori / -Lepidoptera
Monday, February 16, 2009
#haiku Purring sigh so deep/ everything slick molten bright/ juddering climax
Sunday, February 15, 2009
"Communication isn't as simple as saying what you mean."
Saturday, February 14, 2009
Searching for the story after the fairy tale ending
It's lack of reflection that leads people to believe in hard/clear/determined margins. Edges tend to be fuzzy however sharp they feel - sense and perception are 2 very different things...
Science verifies or falsifies hypotheses but how do scientists generate hypotheses? Clinical medical diagnostics is essentially hypotheses generation and yet when I ask doctors how they arrive at diagnoses they very often tell me that they take a history or examine the patient. The truth is that histories and examinations do not generate diagnoses....
Valentine's Haiku 2
For Valentine's Day:
Loving: fierce hugs, kisses,
Little nips - Passion.
Valentine's Haiku
For Valentine's Day:
Loving: long hugs, soft kisses
Sweet smiles - Tenderness
Friday, February 13, 2009
Anti-emetics
A little note on Cyclizine and Metoclopramide
It is surprising and sometimes annoying when people state categorically and definitively that cyclizine and metoclopramide antagonise each other. Cyclizine acts centrally on H1, M1, M2 and M3 receptors and Metoclopramide acts both centrally and peripherally on D2 and M1 receptors. Theoretically, there may be competitive inhibition of the one or other at M1 receptors without clinical effect.
These antiemetics do not "block each other" or "cancel each other out".
Act in haste repent at leisure - Why is the repenting always so EXPENSIVE!
Ahhhhhhhhhh! My soul is almost almost a circle - not quite infinite-sided....
Thursday, February 12, 2009
An unjust world is the best of all possible worlds!
Wednesday, February 11, 2009
Enhanced human cognition is a bandwidth issue
Started following (twitter): CNN, NYT, 10Dowining Street, BBC Click....
If we've spoken - I don't have "normal" conversations. What point normal? I'm looking 4 the shape of your soul; mine's probably similar....
Sunday, February 08, 2009
In celebration of commitment devices & mental accounts - Yay! Tversky! ;-)
Friday, February 06, 2009
I do not know the shape of my soul - & I think that I should.
Prayers complete; why do I pray? It's self management in the same way as meditation....
Can you imagine: doctors used to touch paitents!? They called it an examination!
Can you imagine: operations were done under inebriation!?
learnt tonite that manual evacuation of a rectum is verboten without an anaesthetic (?GA) = abuse....
Thursday, February 05, 2009
Sunday, February 01, 2009
Thursday, January 29, 2009
Reading an '89 journal: the entries do not recall the events. Memory is fickle
Tuesday, January 27, 2009
Simpler: how broad & how deep are your stated / known preferences?
Monday, January 26, 2009
Twitter spam is going to be a huge problem - and I'm not talking about me :)
Sunday, January 25, 2009
In search of an affectometer: a device that measures physiological arousal+ambient temperature+geolocation and tells you what you are feeling
Saturday, January 24, 2009
At some point life will be perfect - even if only for a day....
Chat better than email for updates too? multiple lines text & multi-updates at a time.
Thursday, January 22, 2009
With blogger added to ping I'll have to do more housekeeping
Monday, January 05, 2009
Sunday, January 04, 2009
TIABIM
TIABIM: Taking into account and bearing in mind.
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