This collection of quotes is being compiled by Lo Snöfall

28 June 2014

Not Quite Everything?

26 May 2014











En vilande gleshet med djupa nyanser
och en långsam rörelse framåt
förde oss från Linnéparken
till den katolska kyrkans norra sida i Kalmar.

I den korta pausen i Emmaboda
var det vi och allting som räknade med en obestämd konfrontation
på gräsplanen mellan de gamla kyrkorna,
under en undanskymd förväntan på det tidsfärgade caféet
och i den sprida doften av världslighet
som fick oss lyfta några centimeter från den fuktiga marken.

Ibland efter en tanke, ibland framför den,
fram och tillbaka,
katedraler av närvaro,
av det som tätnar.  



Vasilis Papageorgiou

05 May 2014

https://publisher.qbrick.com/Embed.aspx?mid=100DAD6D
http://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sankta_Maria_kyrka,_Ystad


http://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tornvakt
Tornvakten hade till uppgift att från ett av stadens torn, vanligtvis kyrktornen, hålla uppsikt över staden dag och natt efter eventuell brand eller annan fara som hotade...Vakten skulle också meddela klockslagen under dygnets mörka timmar, följt av en besvärjelse. Han kunde till exempel ropa: Klockan är nio slagen – Gud bevare staden för eld och brand och fiendehand. Många kyrktorn i Sverige har än idag bevarade utrymmen för tornvakten.
Ett gammalt tornväktarrop från Västerås domkyrka sjunget lyder: Klockan är 12 slagen. Guds härliga, milda och mäktiga hand bevare vår stad för eld och brand. Klockan är 12 slagen.
I Sankta Maria kyrkas torn i Ystad tjänstgör fortfarande en tornvakt, som regelbundet använder ett horn för att meddela att saker och ting är i sin ordning... Också i Centraleuropa fanns tornvakter och de finns exempelvis fortfarande kvar i tjänst i Krakow i Polen.


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St._Mary%27s_Basilica,_Krak%C3%B3w
Church of Our Lady Assumed into Heaven
 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St._Mary%27s_Trumpet_Call
Hejnał Mariacki (Polish; pronounced "Hey-now Mahr-yahts-kee", derived from a Hungarian expression meaning "Saint Mary's dawn"
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gatekeeper 

07 April 2014




Conquest
The First Horseman
of the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse
As depicted in the Bamberg Apocalypse (1000-1020).
The first "living creature" (with halo) is seen in the upper right.



There is such a feeling in me 
And since a few days
It is not really complicated
I have to say you

Yes, when we see each other again soon,
I am looking forward
until we take into our arms,
Please pass on to you.

Yes, when we see each other again soon,
I've been waiting on
until we see each other in the eye,
Please pass on to you.

All the hours you were there for me,
I owe you much,
much too rare that they say what,
from you I feel understood.

Yes, when we see each other again soon,

I am looking forward
until we take into our arms,
Please pass on to you.


Da ist so ein Gefühl in mir
Und schon seit ein paar Tagen
Es ist eigentlich nicht kompliziert
Ich muss es Dir nur sagen

Ja, wenn wir uns bald wieder sehn,
ich freue mich darauf,
bis wir uns in die Arme nehmen,
pass bitte auf Dich auf.

Ja, wenn wir uns bald wieder sehn,
ich warte schon darauf,
bis wir uns in die Augen sehn,
pass bitte auf Dich auf.

All die Stunden warst Du für mich da,
ich hab Dir Vieles zu verdanken,
viel zu selten, dass man so was sagt,
von Dir fühl ich mich verstanden.

Ja, wenn wir uns bald wieder sehn,
ich freue mich darauf,
bis wir uns in die Arme nehmen,
pass bitte auf Dich auf.

Enno Bunger 
Pass Auf Dich Auf
 
 



20 March 2014

The Project Gutenberg EBook of Fra Angelico, by J. B. Supino


The ressurection of the blessed and the dance of the angels


12 February 2014

11 February 2014

Hud’s molecule uses only two chemical letters, compared with RNA’s four, and the repeating units can easily come apart. That means it doesn’t have the informational content of RNA, an essential characteristic of life.
The molecules seem to seek one another out, reacting without a lot of chemical coaxing. Hud and others say this ease of creation is essential for reactions to have taken place in the chaotic chemical cauldron of early Earth.
Now, Hud's team have found that the presence of certain compounds can stabilise a growing strand of DNA. The compounds are known as intercalators - ... holding the structure in place with non-covalent interactions. The compounds have been termed midwife molecules by the team, since once the polymer is formed they are no longer needed.
'Our work suggests that there might be been a planar midwife molecule involved in the very beginnings of life on Earth,' Hud says. 'But it remains unidentified, and may not even still be around.'
'This study shows very nicely that a combination of nucleic acids and structurally unrelated molecules is more likely to produce a self-replicating system - and thus life - than nucleic acids alone,' 
A Approximate Jewel Heart
 The amplituhedron looks like an intricate, multifaceted jewel in higher dimensions. Encoded in its volume are the most basic features of reality that can be calculated, “scattering amplitudes,” which represent the likelihood that a certain set of particles will turn into certain other particles upon colliding.
http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2013/12/amplituhedron-jewel-quantum-physics/

10 February 2014

The hexadecimal color code #dfeff9 is a very light shade of cyan-blue. In the RGB color model #dfeff9 is comprised of 87.45% red, 93.73% green and 97.65% blue. In the HSL color space #dfeff9 has a hue of 203.08 degrees, 68.42% saturation and 92.55% lightness. This color has an approximate wavelength of 492 nm. Alcro Syre is a matching paint color.


http://www.gutenberg.org/files/33434/33434-h/33434-h.htm
"The fox knows many things, but the hedgehog knows one big thing" is attributed to the poet Archilochus.

The Fox and the Cat is an ancient fable, with both Eastern and Western analogues involving different animals, that addresses the difference between resourceful expediency and a master strategem. In the basic story a cat and a fox discuss how many tricks and dodges they have. The fox says that he has many; the cat confesses to having only one – to climb a tree.
 Every classification throws light on something.



I try to be the Cat in that regard but

[post to be revised]

27 January 2014

Approximate Voronoi diagram of a set of points.
Notice the blended colors in the fuzzy boundary of the Voronoi cells. With epsilon=0.05 
  
 An alternative is to use approximate Voronoi diagrams, where the Voronoi cells have a fuzzy boundary, which can be approximated. 
Another alternative is when any site is a fuzzy circle and as a result the cells become fuzzy too.
Epsilon
 Gammelkyrkan restes på bara tre veckor nere vid Särnasjöns strand – exakt 40 år efter det att Särna erövrats från Norge vid kanske världshistoriens fredligast fältslag.
http://www.idresarnaforsamling.se/?page_id=2
Den byggdes av timmermän från Våmhus och Mora socknar. När väggarna och var uppsatta övergav dessa Morakarlar arbetet och Särnaborna fick själva bygga kyrkan färdigt.
Sockenmannen Israel Eriksson skänkte 1688 en altartavla – nattvarden – som idag hänger på kyrkans västra vägg.


Under senare delen av 1700-talet målades kyrkan vackert invändigt, av Erik och Nils  Wallin från Sveg.
”Väggarna vita och valvet målades med  mörkare himmelsfärger, på vilken himmel synes många skyar”.


 
 





The point:
https://www.facebook.com/notes/mark-rockcity/the-point/10152075844721310
".... Crossing over into the lunatic fringe without going mad can also be achieved in a similar, synthetic manner. All you have to do is treat EVERYTHING as if it was only a metaphor instead of real. Others will still think that you lost your marbles but you will feel calm, collected, and as sane as you've ever been.
So, what happens when you successfully fake your death or speak forever in riddles? I'm guessing that in either case, you've transcended into a realm of weirdness. This realm is the 5-dimensional hyperworld of metafiction. Your identity falls into the public domain where tales are spun and weaved to describe your adventures, your follies, your woes, and your lessons...."


Circle Dot reticle includes a floating circle and a dot in the center.
The circle draws the eye to the target and the dot indicates the exact aiming point.

Crosshairs




25 January 2014

Starks Sopborste

24 January 2014


Mars oppositions











SolTech Energy, a Swedish company selling solutions for clean solar power, has developed a unique home heating system contained within roofing tiles made out of ordinary transparent glass. The attractive house-warming tiles (somewhat ironically) give roofs a beautiful, icy appearance quite unlike anything else we’ve ever seen before.

03 January 2014





CODA
(music)

Its initial performance was only a mild success however and Strauss is reputed to have said "The devil take the waltz, my only regret is for the coda—I wish that had been a success!"
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Blue_Danube

01 January 2014

File:Gray727 anterior cingulate cortex.png
... the brain regions implicated in bipolar disorder, specifically the anterior cingulate...
http://www.mayo.edu/research/discoverys-edge/genomics-bipolar-disorder

The anterior cingulate cortex (ACC) is the frontal part of the cingulate cortex, which resembles a "collar" surrounding the frontal part of the corpus callosum.
It appears to play a role in a wide variety of autonomic functions, such as regulating blood pressure and heart rate... It is also involved in rational cognitive functions, such as reward anticipation, decision-making, empathy, impulse control, and emotion.

A typical task that activates the ACC involves eliciting some form of conflict within the participant that can potentially result in an error.
One such task is called the Eriksen flanker task and consists of an arrow pointing to the left or right, which is flanked by two distractor arrows creating either compatible (<<<<<) or incompatible (<<<>>) trials. Another very common conflict-inducing stimulus is the Stroop task (Pardo et al., 1990), which involves naming the color ink of words that are either congruent (RED written in red) or incongruent (RED written in blue). Conflict occurs because people’s reading abilities interfere with their attempt to correctly name the word’s ink color. A variation of this task is the Counting-Stroop, during which people count either neutral stimuli (‘dog’ presented four times) or interfering stimuli (‘three’ presented four times) by pressing a button...
Many studies attribute specific functions such as error detection, anticipation of tasks, attention, motivation, and modulation of emotional responses to the ACC.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anterior_cingulate_cortex

A... study suggests that people’s ability to distinguish between what really happened and what was imagined may be determined by the presence of a fold at the front of the brain that develops late in pregnancy, and is missing entirely in 27% of people.
The key brain structure identified by the study is called the paracingulate sulcus (PCS), a fold in part of the prefrontal cortex, the region that is involved with planning, thought and judgment. The size of the PCS varies greatly in normal people, and some people have a PCS only on one side of their brain, while others have one on both.
... studies like this cannot determine whether having a small or absent PCS causes difficulties with reality recognition memories, or whether the effect works the other way around.

http://books.google.se/books?id=WQVviYqU-IcC&pg=PA70&lpg=PA70&dq=anterior+cingulate+psychosis&source=bl&ots=3Qu_QIraPk&sig=aR95bFI_OgN9J6H6TiqF7uwz4OM&hl=en&sa=X&ei=DW3EUou8IarJ4gTR14HIBQ&ved=0CGgQ6AEwBw#v=onepage&q=anterior%20cingulate%20psychosis&f=false

24 December 2013

 
For example, a circle of radius 2 may be described as the set of all points whose coordinates x and y satisfy the equation x2 + y2 = 4

24 November 2013



Complex signals trouble my consciousness.
I wish they were not such a streaming mess.
Some messages feel important to get right
Though they demand more than my might.

Some ring so beautifully that they sound true
But most I cannot decipher and I have no clue.
My attention scans signals in an erratic way
And this attention itself has so much to say.

All input that I gather seem relayed from inside
Although stemming from the other being guide.
More or less loosely gathered entities like me
Are placed in as various perspectives as can be.

A message formerly received loud and clear
Can then turn out wrong and nowhere near.
Abundant signals are pressing to take charge
In infinite layers, miniscule and large.

Inputs and outputs cross without interludes
A transformer of different magnitudes.


04 September 2013

I have found a story about a small basque hat. Ill publish a photograph of it and its wonderful emblem on its lining. When I have the inclination. Its from this school somehow. (The photograph above is probably not related to these facts)
http://www.ustaritz.fr/fr/jeunesse-sports-loisirs/enfance-jeunesse/enseignement/afmr-etcharry.html
http://www.lesocial.fr/forums/read.php?f=2&i=43097&t=42372
http://www.richardspens.com/?page=ref/glossary/A.htm

21 August 2013


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Light_pillar
A light pillar is a visual phenomenon created by the reflection of light from ice crystals with near horizontal parallel planar surfaces. The light can come from the Sun (usually at or low to the horizon) in which case the phenomenon is called a sun pillar or solar pillar. It can also come from the Moon
Curly Locks
Author: James Whitcomb Riley

Curly Locks! Curly Locks! wilt thou be mine?
Thou shalt not wash the dishes, nor yet feed the swine,
But sit on a cushion and sew a fine seam,
And feast upon strawberries, sugar and cream.

Curly Locks! Curly Locks! wilt thou be mine?
The throb of my heart is in every line,
And the pulse of a passion as airy and glad
In its musical beat as the little Prince had!

Thou shalt not wash the dishes, nor yet feed the swine!
O I'll dapple thy hands with these kisses of mine
Till the pink of the nail of each finger shall be
As a little pet blush in full blossom for me.

But sit on a cushion and sew a fine seam,
And thou shalt have fabric as fair as a dream,
The red of my veins, and the white of my love,
And the gold of my joy for the braiding thereof.

And feast upon strawberries, sugar and cream
From a service of silver, with jewels agleam,
At thy feet will I bide, at thy beck will I rise,
And twinkle my soul in the night of thine eyes!

Curly Locks! Curly Locks! wilt thou be mine?
Thou shalt not wash the dishes, nor yet feed the swine.
But sit on a cushion and sew a fine seam,
And feast upon strawberries, sugar and cream.




12 August 2013

Trace

Siphonophores are especially scientifically interesting because they are composed of medusoid and polypoid zooids that are morphologically and functionally specialized. Each zooid is an individual, but their integration with each other is so strong that the colony attains the character of one large organism. Indeed, most of the zooids are so specialized that they lack the ability to survive on their own. 
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portuguese_man_o%27_war 

06 June 2013

File:The guts of the Forth Bridge - geograph.org.uk - 1318782.jpg

http://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.com/media/quebec-bridge-6009.jpg
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quebec_Bridge

 



















A cantilever bridge is a bridge built using cantilevers, structures that project horizontally into space, supported on only one end.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cantilever_bridge 

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