He’s Just Had Coffee

I’m on the road at the moment, visiting family for Christmas and camping for New Year’s so posting will get a little more sporadic than usual. Merry Everything! (as my friend Woody likes to say)

Wallace Sayre (about whom the web knows very little) was a scholar of public administration and government in the US and is remembered in a chair at Columbia University and several very quotable quotes. I thought I’d add a little something here: Academic politics is the most vicious and bitter form of politics, because […]

Polyphasic Sleep (tags: alternative health howto lifehacks productivity time) Polyphasic sleep - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia […]

FINDING MY RELIGION / Buddhist teacher and author Jack Kornfield on mindfulness, happiness and his own spiritual journey (tags: buddhism meditation religion) […]

Pongsathorn’s Blog v.2: Where I Am Now In The Integral Map: Aeh transcribes a “transpersonal profile” of his AQAL moment.

Dave raves about Markdown, so I thought I’d try it. Hooray. More syntax to learn. Excitingly, ecto’s preview functions seems to deal with it!

In Twenty Boomeritis Blunders, Jim Andrews accuses Ken Wilber of twenty blunders ranging from mild to serious in his novel, Boomeritis. Matt Dallman lauds this as “funny and intellectually rigorous” and talks about the necessity of skeptical investigation of Wilber’s work. Matt also tries head off a “poor argument” against Andrews essay, by noting that: […]

So back in 2003, Jaron Lanier talked about “phenotropic programming” which use pattern recognition to connect components. It strikes me that one could look at systems like Agenda and wikis as things that acknowledge the structure should be allowed to arise from phenomena, rather than needing structure to be defined a priori, for fun lets characterise […]

Long ago, I used to have a great time using online personals to meet people for whatever, but you get bored - there’s something horrible about reducing people to statistics. So, I thought… what other things could a personal ad site ask you for as a way of enriching our picture of each other. Here’s some […]

I’ve just started trying to use more of the data I publish in other places on my blog using the Javascript sticker code that many sites now provide. It makes this page slower to load, so I’m sorry about that. Right now, you should be able to see in the sidebar: my Technorati headshot and some linksMy […]

Some notes I found in an old folder that I wanted to type up. I figured, why not share? It’s a couple of years old and a little rusty, and simplistic, but I’d love to hear feedback… Machines and people share some similar action patterns at the micro-level of mechanical action [1] and the macro-level of […]