Sunday, May 23, 2010

Georg Dietzler

When I was performing in Cologne last year, the man who picked me up at the train station (with the black-rotting cathedral overhanging it), was Georg Dietzler. Looking like Doc from BTTF, a mad scientist on vintage bicycle. Long white hair poofed out, and a quite pleasant humor. Good guy. Before the show, we had ice cream and he told me about his work.

Seems like a long time before Paul Stamets, there was an understanding of the primal importance of Fungus, as a sort of universal solvent made out of living foam, that can eat anything, including crude oil. Unfortunately for the Gulf of Mexico, fungus needs earth to survive, thus it cannot be grown in the sea, but perhaps this is where some more research can be done?

Georg Dietzler is one of these visionary artists, who derived his piece from a fundamental question: how do we cure the PCB problem? Not Printed Circuit Boards, but Polychlorinated Biphenyls, which land in our earth after they fall out of the many wires of a electrical transformer, and then soak into the ground. After that, they keep on falling down until they hit groundwater, and then Boome, they're in your power supply and you have cancer.

So... The goal is to decompose them while they are still above ground. This is Georg's work. You see, PCBs resemble cellulose chemically, which makes them "feel" like wood, although they are a lot worse. So George built structures of grass and organic materials on a "cursed ground", to encourage our myrical foam to arrive, fungus, which then penetrates the ground and eats the "cursed wood".


Tuesday, May 18, 2010

Meme Collage

  • High Zero Permanente
  • Corporate Reggae
  • Kai's Impossible Object Tools
  • Nautica Almanac
  • Baltimore: Food Folks and Fun
  • Pinus Ravenus
  • Staples Centrebutt
  • Rainbow Random
  • Blasser Tube and Bleaching Co.
  • Electric Feelgus

Monday, May 17, 2010

Mission Fabric Poem






a mission fabric

where inputs from machines, people, video streams, newsfeeds, sensors, cognitive agents, and social networking


fusing voice, video, location, and social networking assets,


harnesses the power of the collective


attempted to bridge

replacing centralized (or star) hierarchies with decentralized star networks

siloed or stove-piped system

application-oriented networking

IP-based

data, voice, and video

evolution of the network from stove-piped systems to a virtualized and integrated network.

nodes on the network—data, machines, objects, and people

White Paper: Anticipating “Rare Events”

Communications
self-configuring, -managing, and -healing.

mobile ad hoc network (MANET).

distributed nodes
self-sufficient network resource: a transmitter, receiver, relay,
mobile nature of MANETs
MANETs are normally decentralized
peer-to-peer basis
By applying this feedback
router floods information

Figure 4. Router Flooding Protocol Effects

Adherence to standard DoD IPV6 naming conventions will be essential.
Deep Packet Inspection.
Most importantly, senior leaders also have the ability to modulate this distributed control throughout the fabric.

Senior leaders and tactical commanders can distribute and modulate control within the nodes (using advanced routers) of the mission fabric.


Thursday, May 13, 2010

Open Letter to U.S. Navy

Do you know what's the best thing to do when you're stressed? Ground yourself. Go on a walk in the park, sit in meditation on a cool basement floor. Two good ways to get the bad energy, negativity, and cynicism out. Now, some people think this helps because it gives you more cool air, which is true, indeed; a hot head with many thoughts needs aircond.

But something aircond doesn't do is give your body a way to let the other energies besides heat out. This is where the ground comes in. Basically anything on the E-M spectrum below microwave gets "sinked" down into ground. This includes radio, ultrasonic electronic, audio, and theta waves. These are all nullified by our ground.

Think of World War II. People think of how submariners lived on those tiny ships, with lots of stress, millions of pounds of water pushing in on them. How did they get through it? Metal decking. You see- the metal of the ship, and the salty bathybaric water all are connected to ground, they are one big relief of the thoughts. Actually submarine captains were known to be especially coolheaded. You had to be.

Nowadays, think of where most of the decisions are made. On the computer deck. And I'll bet that nowadays the computer deck has a wooden subfloor, all insulating you from the primitive, powerful ground that runs through the hull. The consequence: unrelieved theta wave activity, dissonance.

And everyone knows that fibreglass boaters are extremely hotheaded.

We have this wonderful history of Avant-Garde music, which has shown us the beauty of cymatic sound. This is best heard on a "untuned" bell, or piece of scrap metal, where there is a cacophony of many inharmonic partials. Today, musicians use scrap metal in their rigs, because our ears have opened to the possibilities of these tones. Now we know there's nothing wrong with the sound of metal structures.

But if there is a specific, targeted, need for silence, say on a stealth or swift boat, there are systematic changes we can make to make our stealth captains more coolheaded, since they need to be the "007" elements. We would make them barefooted. Now, your thinking, that would look funny, Captain standing there with all his military regalia on, but barefooted! Well, the answer is, he doesn't wear military regalia. He, or she, wears a Dobok (道服), or martial arts uniform.

The asian tradition designed these uniforms for the bare-footed, or litely slippered masters, to practice full-body co-ordination, by including the foot in the list of articulate limbs. Contrast this to the naval-boot, as hard as possible, the toes are not used at all! On today's boats, skippers hardly do the dangerous things they used to do: caulking seams, cutting rope, hauling masts, sewing yard-cloth. In fact a bare-footed captain would be an advantage nowadays, since he has control of stealth on-boat.

When he controls stealth on-boat, he controls stealth off-boat.

Tuesday, May 11, 2010

Gay Ducks Spotted in Jones Falls

Baltimore, a river known for its labyrynthine tunneling under the city and also its raw sewage smell, but also ruboff from the gay and lesbian social clubs directly above in Mount Vernon District. The animals have taken after their masters and started going in gay relationships. Leading the movement are the ducks.

A gay duck couple is easy to spot: look for two drakes, instead of a drake and a dun. Drakes have the characteristic teal green shoulder blades. A dun woman is brown and mottled.


Monday, May 10, 2010

Neuroethology Chromakey

What do bats and electric fish have in common? They both are case studies of Neuroethology, which is the study of brain habits in animals, where they come from, and what they become in humans.

Bats make and receive ultrasound to see around the room, with echolocation. Electric fishes likewise see with their electrical fields. They have something called an "anti-jamming response" which is basically an hysterical phase locked loop- instead of locking onto the frequency of nearby fish, they will move away in frequency, so that each individual fish has its own vibration to "see" with.

This is called "jamming avoidance response" and is seated in the mesencephelon, where it is calculated by differencing two types of neurons, one following the fish's own vibration, the other a differential of the other fish's. This is in "weakly electrical fish" such as the Eigenmania, not strong guys like the eels.

I have been thinking about frequency diversity in the new Deerhorn circuit. It actually uses a PLL to lock onto a radio oscillator, and create a CV from the error signal. But each separate circuit board should not lock onto each other. For now, I am using discretely different inductors to span a range of frequencies, but I wonder if a hysteric PLL can be designed like the electric fishes'?

The phenomena of Neuroethology are best documented by a combination of live video of the organism plus graphs of various functions such as voltage or frequency. That is where chromakeying came in, how I came across "Neuroethology" today. Many scientists use chromakey to squeeze all their data into one video stream, also subjecting the electric fishes to an electric blue background.

Wednesday, May 5, 2010

Baltimore Maxim

Hey All
First on the table, proposal to keep old Baltimore motto, "Baltimore : Believe", and instead of replacing it, add a Baltimore maxim that states "Baltimore : Barcelona". This post is dedicated to John Berndt for making scatology available for me, and Twig James Johnston Harper who encouraged me with my wacky ideas. This one came from the back of a "Barcelona" brand yogurt trail nut mix, which stated "Barcelona Nut Co., Baltimore Md". Literally this is a proposal by a nut case! But it kindof works. Please see our Westside Masonry company as evidence that Gaudi's spirit is alive and well here in Baltimore.
http://www.ciat-lonbarde.net/planter/index.html

BTW I found a circuit board manufacturer out here in Balt. Procyon has an awesome website, and it is run by "Seniors out on Jolly Road, Baltimore"... Awesome. And they don't use chemicals, rather they do it with a precision machine router. Thus they don't do the quantity that I need with Ciat-Lonbarde...