here's an idea

A dialer for the android phone.
A list of contacts in alphabetical order.


The contact list in android reeks of sloppy re-ification. 'Contact information' is a very good talking point . But it is not used that way, is it now ?
Somebody would've thought - these things are all variations of the same thing - sms, home phone, cell phone, work address, etc ..  so let's build a complicated filing system for the contact information.
Of course, we won't worry too much about things as user experience.

There was an article doing the rounds that the unveiling the iPhone made the guys behind Android  to go back to the drawing board.  With Steve Jobs dead,  and looking the 'features' released it's inevitable that Apple's no longer in the groundbreaking 

here's an idea

It's really easy to have a website showing you many many books and artifacts.
People also set up a shop with limited inventory, but real human beings who talk to you.

Combine the two of them.
Mechanical turk .Legion of sales personnel sitting at home or in offices matched to a long-tail based inventory system.
Give jobs to all our sellers,  at the same time, give buyers a human to talk to.

song list

1. Crazy - Gnarls Barkley
2. How the west was won - R.E.M
3. 

prometheus

Prometheus brought fire from the Gods to the masses ...

there're facts and models
facts themselves are based on one particular model

there's a common thread running between ranprieur.com, the art of maniless  (.com), mcluhan, scott locklin's tips for big babies, , the little prince, goethe's quotations,  general theme in cracked.com , and to some extent, pirsig's first book....

two points

1. list of slots to focus on
2. copying out passages makes for meditation

emptiness and the energy-manueverability theory. Daoist priests inside f-16 cockpits. hold fast !!

when is an apple like a pear tree

Indian communication is not based on deniability.  It is used  enforce hierarchy. Usually volume and tone denote authority.

everybody has to discover God on their own. They have to lay aside  known definitions and  cherished values and  replace them with new ones which are just more real.
At some time in life, all your known paths and value systems become just junk.

to replace bad habits with new ones, you run into the problem. the new habit must have meaning.
you need a new ecosystem of meaning to go around the new behaviour.  replacement behaviours are expensive. they need encouragement and attention and celebration, else they won't become habits.
and habits are gunning for.
acknowledgement of new behaviour by others are not enough - this will help to remind you that you are doing something different, but this is not enough.
for the new behaviour to become a habit, it must pay for itself,   it must become repititive, it must survive long enough to become unconscious.

a behaviour can pay for itself  if  you can see growth - you can pump a bigger number, you can run more time without dying.  som etimes the payload is mental .
there is often a lot of friction with the real world - your idea of behaviour will  almost always clash.
being water here is to bend enough to stay a bamboo tree  .
there is a constant challenge to determine your real enemies and focus your daily effort on the enemy of the day/hour.

the only solution is to be eternally distrusting the status quo.  (is this Mumon's Mu ?)

the world is full of opinions and they're all justified in their own sense
one needs some part of the world to  shares their own model of it ,else you'll go mad.

squirrels are rats with better marketing

"He that would make his own liberty secure, must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty, he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself."
--Thomas Paine

"The second half of a man's life is made up of nothing but the habits he has acquired during the first half."
--Fyodor Dostoevsky

"He who every morning plans the transaction of the day and follows out that plan, carries a thread that will guide him through the maze of the most busy life. But where no plan is laid, where the disposal of time is surrendered merely to the chance of incidence, chaos will soon reign."
--Victor Hugo

http://blogs.uw.edu/ajko/2012/08/22/john-carmack-discusses-the-art-and-science-of-software-engineering/

http://worrydream.com/dbx/

have you ever got to the middle of a long ride and realized that you want to get off ? 

The streets of high-density-warm-clime lands resemble a herd of cows or flys let loose on a source of food. A lot, bumbling ,noisy.
The way people move about in cold lands is like a pack of wolves hunting .Few, focussed, lean.

use the dialectical technique to break a new idea to someone who won't take in a different opinion directly.

problem is , most people i meet, don't talk to discuss, they talk to push data. i've learnt that personal analysis of things are not up for discussion, typically because they are not accessible.

staying positive, asking and working for things, ignoring the diss-ers - thta's the way to go

life is a fucking thing - metaphorically speaking ,and otherwise

think globally act locally
think romantically [pirsig] act classically

>> One of the interpretations is that the Gita's topic is about the body, and that fighting against your family >> means fighting bad habits (like drinking coffee, playing video games, ..) that you consider as friends but in >> reality are barriers which prevent your liberation. In this interpretation Duryodhana (who is blind)
>> represents the mind succumbing to passions




I find this fascinating.  
I find the whole idea of a emergent cybernetic whole arising ,not as a sum of parts, but as a  transcendence of common parts. Thus the body, mind, state ,city ,cell - are all emergent wholes interlocked in mutually beneficial  division of labour. But to identify the self with the whole, is actually the whole identifying itself with the whole, and hence an illusion and a tautology. Then what's left  ? Who sits out in the space beyond and holds meaning ? who is left who can identify ... 
 
 each hand holding up the rest, an eternal cycle
all knowledge is simulation, but who knows ?

ps:in the story, Duryodhana was fooled into thinking the palace floor was solid, as it was cunningly artificed, when actually it wasn't, and he fell into the water , and Draupadi laughed, and this angered D greatly, and this kicked off  the war