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Hey Ribosome, do you think Mr. Joyce would be a good English teacher?From: c_howdy
Subject: Philosophy
Date/Time 2012-02-09 02:53:02
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Message...you could spend a year in the orchards
or make half as much in one ten-hour shift...
-BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN, Sinaloa Cowboys
They're tracking every click on their sites. They know where we come from, what we buy, how much we spend, which advertisements we see. They even know which ones we linger over for a moment or two with our mouse. In the online world, businesses no longer look at us as herds but as vast collections of individuals-each of us represented by scores of equations. They prove every day that merchants who know their customers have a big edge. They can study our patterns of consumption, anticipate our appetites, and entice us to spend money...among the most unpleasant buckets a manager must confront are those loaded with "barnacle" shoppers. That term comes from V. Kumar, aconsultant and marketing professor at the University of Connecticut. Barnacles, from a retailer's perspective, are detestable creatures. We all know a few of them. They're the folkswho drive from store to store, clipped coupons in hand, buying discounted goods-and practically nothing else. Kumar calls them barnacles because, like the mollusks clinging to a ship, they hitch free rides and contribute nothing of value. In fact they cost the retailer money. Kumar, who sells his advice to Ralph Lauren and Procter & Gamble, says that retailers should "fire" customers who look likely to drag down profits...discouraging unwanted shoppers is far easier on the Internet. Already online merchants are assailing their barnacles with advertisements. And if these bargain hunters click to browse the pages of a book or gawk at the free photos on a paid-porn site, they get shunted to the slowest servers, so that they wait and wait...barnacles aren't the only creatures in Kumar's menagerie. He also warns retailers about "butterflies," customers who drop in at the store on occasion, spend good money, and then, and then flit away, sometimes for months or years on end. They're unreliable, and retailers are warned about to void lavishing attention on them. "You shouln't chase the butterflies," the professor says. However, by studying their patterns of behavior, smart retailers may learn which butterflies they can turn into reliable customers-a bucket Kumar calls...
-STEPHEN BAKER, They've Got Your Number
On the steps of the Paris stock exchange the goldskinned men quoting
prices on their gemmed fingers. Gabble of geese. They swarmed loud,
uncouth about the temple, their heads thickplotting under maladroit silk
hats. Not theirs: these clothes, this speech, these gestures. Their full
slow eyes belied the words, the gestures eager and unoffending, but
knew the rancours massed about them and knew their zeal was vain. Vain
patience to heap and hoard. Time surely would scatter all. A hoard
heaped by the roadside: plundered and passing on. Their eyes knew their
years of wandering and, patient, knew the dishonours of their flesh.
-JAMES JOYCE, Ulysses
The folios are drawn in black ink on cotton paper watermarked 1809. The text is plain English written from right to left in a simple substitution cryptogram known as the Trithemius cipher, attributed to Johannes Trithemius, a medieval German abbot. Numerals are substituted by Hebrew letters – Aleph=1, Beth=2, etc. Crude drawings of diagrams, magical implements and tarot cards are interspersed in the text. One final page translates into French and Latin.
The Ciphers contain the outlines of a series of graded rituals and the syllabus for a course of instruction in Qabalah and Hermetic magic, including Astrology, Tarot, Geomancy and Alchemy. It also contains several diagrams and crude drawings of various ritual implements. The Cipher Manuscripts are the original source upon which the rituals and the knowledge lectures of the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn were based.
The actual material itself described in the Manuscript is of known origins. Hermeticism, Alchemy, Qabalah, Astrology and Tarot were certainly not unknown to 19th century scholars of the Magical arts; the Cipher is a compendium of previously known Magical traditions. The basic structure of the rituals and the names of the Grades are similar to those of the Rosicrucian orders Societas Rosicruciana in Anglia and the German 'Orden der Gold- und Rosenkreuzer'.
-http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cipher_Manuscripts
The answer to life, the universe, and everything is 42.
-DOUG ADAMS, Hitchhiker's Guide to theGalaxy
I somehow like Joyce's two novels. Very special. Is that some kind of verbal-mental alchemy? Again main problem is time factor.
I also wonder why M. Chia's NEIDAN teacher adviced him not to study obscure Daoist texts? How important is imagination by the way? And this Charle Luk's text claims that imagination is completely unimportant which sounds foolish.
When observing few Indo-European languages, about which I know enough, using typos and awkward or even false grammar might be usefull in some situations. I wouldn't try to go as far as Nostradamus, but it can be used sometimes.
Sino-Tibetan language family is completely out of my reach, but for example Nahuatl would be somehow interesting and there is even quite good Nahuatl language course written in Finnish.
I have too female relative who was in her own words aiming to do field work on Aztec shamanism, but she was clearly not good enough for that, but she lived in Mexico few years and even found Mexican man and they are now happily married with one child.
And also I could mildly use this link to make some private investigation of course avoiding places like Sinaloa, Guerrero, some parts of Chiapas and Oaxaca and so on.
There was also sometimes travel companions of some concern, because when for example I hitchhiked in Yucatan I met one dishevelled second generation German-Mexican who read Madame Bovary and smoked something...
HOWDY
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I379HHdy7ak
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8FUxtqrKaWA
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