tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-49314447887600791712024-02-20T13:11:52.067-08:00Bad AxiomsUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4931444788760079171.post-80732441944682944492013-09-06T15:34:00.001-07:002013-09-06T15:34:55.926-07:00I hope all this referring to Congress is a sneaky ploy to advance the cause of the International Criminal Court, which is who should be handling the poison gas case, if anyone should.<br />
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The USA has proven itself fatally flawed at world policing, mainly because its politics are merely advocacy of corporate greed, not any kind of deep desire for the advancement of the human race.<br />
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If I knew then what I know now, I'd have stayed in Denmark in 1964. I really loved the attitude of the common folk, so different from the mean, stingy and widely prejudiced American style. But, ...sigh... here we are, older and wiser and pretty much stuck in English.<br />
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Obama is screwing the pooch on so many fronts...Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4931444788760079171.post-59215269275438297202013-07-21T10:41:00.000-07:002013-07-21T10:41:55.499-07:00Sunday news acerbics:<br />
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Detroit: no one seems to be able to get their head around the idea that a city can get smaller, because all they ever talked about was growth. Same problem as China is having with their shrinking (fake) GDP increases. (see www.sinocism.com )<br />
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Trayvon Martin and George Zimmerman. Z acted wrongly in profiling. M acted wrongly in responding violently. The jury acted correctly. The state acted wrongly in giving Z gun permit. Obama finally spoke out for the young black, but he's already spoken out by example for forty years.<br />
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The no-snitch culture so prevalent in black neighborhoods needs to go, but that depends on better policing which depends on more taxes, which gerrymandered political districts won't allow. So whites can keep clutching their purses and crossing the streets, and blacks can keep murdering each other. Shareholders need their profits, so legislators will keep siphoning profits to the corporations instead of funding infrastructure and social services. Nothing to report, really.<br />
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<br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4931444788760079171.post-37506798185325835962013-07-14T16:54:00.004-07:002013-07-14T16:54:57.809-07:00Oblique strategies:<br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">(Organic) machinery </span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">A line has two sides </span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">A very small object -Its centre </span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Abandon desire </span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Abandon normal instructions </span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Accept advice </span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Accretion </span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Adding on </span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Allow an easement (an easement is the abandonment of a stricture) </span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Always first steps </span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Always give yourself credit for having more than personality </span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Always the first steps </span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Are there sections? Consider transitions </span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Ask people to work against their better judgement </span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Ask your body </span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Assemble some of the elements in a group and treat the group </span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Back up a few steps. What else could you have done? </span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Balance the consistency principle with the inconsistency principle </span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Be dirty </span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Be extravagant </span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Be less critical more often </span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Breathe more deeply </span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Bridges -build -burn </span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Call your mother and ask her what to do. </span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Cascades </span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Change ambiguities to specifics </span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Change instrument roles </span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Change nothing and continue with immaculate consistency </span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Change specifics to ambiguities </span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Children's voices -speaking -singing </span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Cluster analysis </span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Consider different fading systems </span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Consider transitions </span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Consult other sources -promising -unpromising </span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Convert a melodic element into a rhythmic element </span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Courage! </span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Cut a vital connection </span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Decorate, decorate </span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Define an area as `safe' and use it as an anchor </span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Describe the landscape in which this belongs. (9 August) </span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Destroy nothing; Destroy the most important thing </span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Discard an axiom </span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Disciplined self-indulgence </span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Disconnect from desire </span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Discover the recipes you are using and abandon them </span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Discover your formulas and abandon them </span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Display your talent </span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Distorting time </span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Do nothing for as long as possible </span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Do something boring </span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Do something sudden, destructive and unpredictable </span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Do the last thing first </span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Do the washing up </span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Do the words need changing? </span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Do we need holes? </span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Don't avoid what is easy </span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Don't be afraid of things because they're easy to do </span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Don't be frightened of cliches </span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Don't be frightened to display your talents </span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Don't break the silence </span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Don't stress one thing more than another </span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Emphasize differences </span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Emphasize repetitions </span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Emphasize the flaws </span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Faced with a choice, do both </span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Feed the recording back out of the medium </span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Feedback recordings into an acoustic situation </span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Fill every beat with something </span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Find a safe part and use it as an anchor </span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">First work alone, then work in unusual pairs. </span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">From nothing to more than nothing </span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Get your neck massaged </span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Ghost echoes </span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Give the game away </span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Give way to your worst impulse </span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Go outside. Shut the door. </span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Go slowly all the way round the outside </span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Go to an extreme, move back to a more comfortable place </span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">How would someone else do it? </span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">How would you explain this to your parents? </span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">How would you have done it? </span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Humanize something that is free of error. </span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Idiot glee (?) </span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Imagine the music as a moving chain or caterpillar </span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Imagine the music as a series of disconnected events </span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">In total darkness, or in a very large room, very quietly </span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Infinitesimal gradations </span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Instead of changing the thing, change the world around it. </span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Intentions -credibility of -nobility of -humility of </span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Into the impossible </span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Is it finished? </span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Is something missing? </span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Is the intonation correct? </span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Is the style right? </span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Is the tuning appropriate? </span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Is the tuning intonation correct? </span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Is there something missing? </span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">It is quite possible (after all) </span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">It is simply a matter or work </span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Just carry on </span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Left channel, right channel, centre channel </span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">List the qualities it has. List those you'd like.</span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Listen in total darkness, or in a very large room, very quietly </span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Listen to the quiet voice </span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Look at a very small object, look at its centre </span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Look at the order in which you do things </span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Look closely at the most embarrassing details and amplify. </span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Lost in useless territory </span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Lowest common denominator check -single beat -single note -single riff </span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Magnify the most difficult details </span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Make a blank valuable by putting it in an excquisite frame </span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Make a sudden, destructive unpredictable action; incorporate </span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Make an exhaustive list of everything you might do and do the last thing on the list </span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Make it more sensual </span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Make what's perfect more human </span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Mechanize something idiosyncratic </span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Move towards the unimportant </span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Mute and continue </span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Not building a wall but making a brick </span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Once the search has begun, something will be found </span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Only a part, not the whole </span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Only one element of each kind </span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Overtly resist change </span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Pae White's non-blank graphic metacard </span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Pay attention to distractions </span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Picture of a man spotlighted </span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Put in earplugs </span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Question the heroic approach </span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Remember those quiet evenings </span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Remove a restriction </span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Remove ambiguities and convert to specifics </span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Remove specifics and convert to ambiguities </span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Remove the middle, extend the edges </span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Repetition is a form of change </span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Retrace your steps </span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Revaluation (a warm feeling) </span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Reverse </span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Short circuit (example; a man eating peas with the idea that they will improve his virility shovels them straight into his lap) </span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Shut the door and listen from outside </span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Simple subtraction </span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Simply a matter of work </span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Slow preparation, fast execution </span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Spectrum analysis </span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">State the problem in words as simply as possible </span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Steal a solution. </span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Take a break </span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Take away as much mystery as possible. What is left? </span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Take away the elements in order of apparent non-importance </span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Take away the important parts </span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Tape your mouth </span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">The inconsistency principle </span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">The most important thing is the thing most easily forgotten </span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">The tape is now the music </span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Think - inside the work -outside the work </span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Think of the radio </span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Tidy up </span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Towards the insignificant </span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Trust in the you of now </span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Try faking it </span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Turn it upside down </span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Twist the spine </span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Use "unqualified" people. </span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Use an old idea </span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Use an unacceptable color </span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Use cliches </span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Use fewer notes </span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Use filters </span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Use something nearby as a model </span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Use your own ideas </span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Voice your suspicions </span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Water </span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">What are the sections sections of? Imagine a caterpillar moving </span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">What context would look right? </span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">What do you do? Now, what do you do best? </span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">What else is this like? </span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">What is the reality of the situation? </span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">What is the simplest solution? </span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">What mistakes did you make last time? </span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">What most recently impressed you? How is it similar? What can you learn from it? What could you take from it? </span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">What to increase? What to reduce? What to maintain? </span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">What were the branch points in the evolution of this entity </span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">What were you really thinking about just now? Incorporate </span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">What would make this really successful? </span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">What would your closest friend do? </span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">What wouldn't you do? </span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">When is it for? Who is it for? </span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Where is the edge? </span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Which parts can be grouped? </span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Who would make this really successful? </span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Work at a different speed </span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Would anyone want it? </span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">You are an engineer </span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">You can only make one dot at a time </span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">You don't have to be ashamed of using your own ideas </span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Your mistake was a hidden intention </span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4931444788760079171.post-68201983529683174312013-07-14T14:31:00.001-07:002013-07-14T14:31:36.293-07:00Here's a helpful book for the type of thinking I'm trying to encourage.<br />
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http://bigthink.com/big-think-mentor/the-philosophers-self-help-book-with-daniel-dennettUnknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4931444788760079171.post-7021751037762942512013-07-13T21:11:00.000-07:002013-07-13T21:11:39.285-07:00I'm informed by my superior other that I'm using the posting mechanism wrong, so I'll try to remember to post from <i>my </i>assigned slot instead of the one for the hoi polloi.<br />
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Interesting discussion today about the difficulties in improving the lot of the public when it involves their making a slight, albeit profitable, change in their life. The example?<br />
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AT&T charges about $45 for their fake 20 mbps internet feed, which is typically oversubscribed until it peaks at 4 mbps. I live in a compact cooperative of 450 apartments on 19 acres, 162 buildings. I administer a self-built and financed wireless network of 12 nodes which services about fifty customers a day on a 6 mbps honest feed, for which I pay $50 a month. I ask for an optional donation of $20 a quarter, but only a few people actually pay it, since the only advantage to paying is that the 2.0 mbps speed limit is removed. Nonetheless, I limp along. It's gratifying because some of the "parasites" or "freeloaders" are people so poor they can barely afford their computer or smartphone.<br />
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But the board of directors of the cooperative won't cooperate by supplying space on the administration building for a master antenna, and refuses to subsidize the operation, Their reasons for refusal are the interesting part. "It's too complicated." This from a corporation with a $1.5 million budget, in the middle of a similar-sized sewer replacement budget, ~9 employees, and they're obtaining grants from the city to cover part of the sewer expenses.<br />
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With another dozen nodes, we could supply every computer and wireless phone in the village with signal. For another thousand dollars, we could tap into an 80mbps free signal from The Internet Archive by erecting an antenna on the admin building.<br />
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So far, no go. Every request founders on weird objections. Bad axioms.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4931444788760079171.post-50789242090255083782013-07-11T22:58:00.000-07:002013-07-11T22:58:38.792-07:00Hi there.<br />
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I'm going to move all my internet activity here, I think, a bit of a withdrawal from the constant skipping around from New York Times to Andrew Sullivan to the Nation, or any of the 200+ blog bookmarks.<br />
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I'll leave my Facebook up, but put a link to here www.badaxioms.blogspot.com Same with LinkedIn.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com6