Indian Henry's Hunting Ground and Patrol Cabin(this was our lunch time view, days like this are why I love being in the mountains). This was October, 2006

Indian Henry's Hunting Ground and Patrol Cabin
Originally uploaded by brewbooks.

Donald Keene at his Tokyo home
Originally uploaded by ionushi.

Reading what Keene has written makes me think that my efforts to archive photos and memories may be worth while. We can store vast amounts in the memory palaces of our brains, photos and some related words are the key that lts us unlock the rooms we seldom enter in our mind:

" Some readers of my serial have expressed admiration for my ability to remember so much that happened long ago. I, on the contrary, am more aware of what I have forgotten. Recently I had the occasion to take out some old photographs. They show me standing next to other persons, all of us smiling at the camera. I don't remember either the places or who the people were. I search for a clue, perhaps words written on a wall in a foreign language, anything that might reveal in which country the picture was taken. All that survives of these moments are some photographs without captions.

"I have often regretted that I haven't kept a diary. A diary would surely help me to recapture much of the past. But perhaps it is just as well to have forgotten so much. If I remembered everything, I would recall things that frightened me when I was a small child, teachers I disliked at school, friends who I thought had be

trayed me, people I loved who did not love me. No, it is probably better not to try to remember. I hope that this chronicle, for all its deficiencies, has at least suggested how one human being spent an essentially happy life." (Chronicles of My Life in the 20th Century)

Breakfast in Bed Mary Cassatt
Originally uploaded by brewbooks.

This was one of my favorite paintings from when we visited the Huntington Library on 14 September 2006. Here is the explanation from the painting at Huntington Library, with some added hyperlinks

Mary Cassatt 1844-1926

Breakfast in Bed ca. 1894

Gift of the Virginia Steele Scott Foundation

Mary Cassatt became one of the first American women to achieve international recognition as an artist. Born in Allegheny City, Pennsylvania, she spent most of her life in France. There she became part of a group of artists lnown as the Impressionists , who pioneered the technique of using small brush strokes of unmixed color to capture the effects of light. They also tooks elements of daily life as their subject, rather than historical or mythological scenes.

Beginning in the 1880s, Cassatt depicted the subject which absorbed her for the rest of her career: the mother and child. She often dealt with tension between a mother's focused attention on a chaild and a child's desire to explore the world. In Breakfast in Bed the mother gazes at the child wrapped in her arms, while the child gazes out in to the room. By focusing closely on the figures, Cassatt draws the viewer into the intimate scene.

Words I couldn't resist copying

So, so you think you can tell Heaven from Hell,
blue skies from pain.
Can you tell a green field from a cold steel rail?
A smile from a veil?
Do you think you can tell?
And did they get you to trade your heroes for ghosts?
Hot ashes for trees?
Hot air for a cool breeze?
Cold comfort for change?
And did you exchange a walk on part in the war for a lead role in a cage?

We’re just two lost souls swimming in a fish bowl, year after year,
Running over the same old ground.
What have you found? The same old fears.—Pink Floyd

Christopher Alexander Books
Originally uploaded by brewbooks.

Christopher Alexander has written (another) interesting series of books on architecture and design. I came across these in my fine local bookstore, Third Place Books of Lake Forest Park, Washington, USA. I could not help laying them out in an array.

I have just started Stephen Wolframs "A New Kind of Science". These books by Alexander seem a very good complement.

Evolution of Boing Boing website
Originally uploaded by brewbooks.

I was very interested to look at how a website evolved over time. I chose boingboing.net as I had noticed it grow and thouhgt it would be interesting to see it evolve. Here's the result, using some excellent tools that are available over the web.

I also consider it a form of computer art, it really shows the evolution of the web.

flicker_photos_lorenzodom_alltags_082206
Originally uploaded by brewbooks.

Here is a more complicated web graph
I noticed that lorenzodom does a lot of great tagging and documenting of his photos. It leads to more complexity and a more interesting photo collection
This is a snapshot of lorenzodom flickr all tags page
www.flickr.com/photos/lorenzodom/alltags/

He has several thousand tags amongst his 16982 photos as of 22 August 2006

For a comparison of complexity, see a graph of my alltags page (~ 1/4 to 1/5 as complex)
http://www.flickr.com/photos/brewbooks/222876313/in/set-72157594248410291/



see www.aharef.info/static/htmlgraph/


Try a search for the tag websitesasgraphs to see some other very interesting patterns

I learned about this from r.rosenberger websitesasgraphs
www.flickr.com/photos/rrosie/sets/72157594152137978/



What do the colors mean?
blue: for links (the A tag)
red: for tables (TABLE, TR and TD tags)
green: for the DIV tag
violet: for images (the IMG tag)
yellow: for forms (FORM, INPUT, TEXTAREA, SELECT and OPTION tags)
orange: for linebreaks and blockquotes (BR, P, and BLOCKQUOTE tags)
black: the HTML tag, the root node
gray: all other tags

2006 Quotations

"The only death you die is the death you die every day by not living."
quoted by Ted Perkins, attributed to explorer Norman Vaughn, in Seattle Times 5 Nov 2006

Ars Sine Scientia Nihil art without science is nothing

If we don't build it; we'll never need it.
(William Muholland, quoted by K. Hays August)

Don't drive 20 nails at a time, just one. (25 July)

Notes from The H. Paul Rockwood Memorial Lecture: A New Kind of Science - Stephen Wolfram UC San Diego April 30, 2003




Intro by Terrence Sejnowski
Director Institute for Neural Computation

Wolfram Science Website


Cellular automata 1981

Rule 30

Rule 110

"Its sort of interesting to think about how we interact with the ultimate limits of technology. I don't have any doubt that there will be a time, potentially quite soon when it will be possible to capture all the important features of human thinking in pieces of sold-state electronics and no doubt things will get more and more efficent until everything is on an atomic scalle so that our processes of human thinking are just implemented by individual electrons whizzing around in lumps of something."

Computational equivalence


"... if everything was computationally reducible, then nothing could be acheived by history."

worked every day and every night for 10 years while CEO of Wolfram Research

NKS represents a Kuhnian paradigm shift.

Took 20 years to think about... so read it carefully. Read the notes.
Used Mathematica as notation.

Look at NKSX - NKS Explorer.

Summary of NKS
1. New areas of basic science.
2. Whole bunches of applications.
3. Conceptual directions.

First Scanning tunneling microscope
IBM Research Zurich 1981
(Explanation from Deutsches Museum with wiki hyperlinks added by me)

Top view

Side View

The scanning tunneling microscope has given rise to new possibilities of investigating surfaces on the scale of individual atoms. Rather than "seeing" the atoms, the instrument "feels" them by scanning the surface line by line with a very sharp tip at a constant distance of a few atomic diameters. This distance is minimized in a feedback loop by the tunneling current tip and sample when a voltage is applied. The current is extremely dependent on the distance between tip and sample - the smaller the distance, the larger the current. Reducing the distance by only one-tenth of a nanometer (a millonth of a millimeter) increase the current tenfold. A tripod of piezoelectric rods allows very precise movement of the microscope tip in all directions. By applyingand removing a voltage, these elements expand and shrink, between 0.1 and 10 picometers (a billionth of a millimeter) per millivolt.

The STM measurement results constitute a field of scanned lines from which a three-dimensional image of the surface can be obtained in millionfold magnification e.g. by computer image processing.

Since the breakthrough of the first STM in 1981, numerous further developments and variations quickly led to a wealth of new knowledge in quite diverse research areas. The STM principle is generally considered a key in nanotechnology owing to its capability to image surfaces and investigate their properties on the nanometer scale.
and ultimately, even to change structures atom by atom. The first significant step in the latter direction was the controlled deposition of individual atoms in 1990.

The invention of the scanning tunneling microscope brough Gerd Binnig , a German, and Heinrich Rohrer Rohrer, a Swiss, both from IBM Zurich Reasearch Laboratory, the physics Nobel prize in 1986.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scanning_tunneling_microscope

See also:
http://www.deutsches-museum-bonn.de/ausstellungen/meisterwerke/2_5raster/raster_e.html

A CLOSED MIND ABOUT AN OPEN WORLD
By James Boyle
Published: Financial Times August 7 2006 20:24

Over the past 15 years, a group of scholars has finally persuaded
economists to believe something non-economists find obvious: "behavioural economics" shows that people do not act as economic theory predicts.
Link

Hike List 2006


1. 14 Jan Washington Park Anacortes Washington BD Group Roger Linda Rose Bruce Brenda
2. 04 Feb Santa Catalina Island California alone
3. 05 Feb Santa Catalina Island California alone
4. 11 Mar Twin Falls Washington Washington BD Group
Bruce Brenda Bob and Carl Maier
5. 22 Mar Black River Riparian Forest Washington (with Clark)
6. 25 Mar Black River Riparian Forest Washington (with ME)
7. 01 Apr Vantage and the Potholes Washington alone
8. 08 Apr Multnomah Falls alone
and Tom McCall Point Oregon with ME
9. 09 April Hood River Meadows Oregon with ME
10. 09 April Catherine Creek WA Washington With ME
11. 27 April Little Si Washington with JS group (12)
12. 30 April Langus Park and Spencer Island Washington with Jim C.
13. 06 May Duckabush Washington BD Group Bruce Brenda
14. 11 May Tiger Mtn Washington JS group (9)
15. 12 May Beacon Rock Washington - alone
16. 13 May Tom McCall Point Oregon
with ME, John, Catrine, and Oliver B.
17. 14 May Horsethief - Oneonta Falls, Oregon Loop with ME
18. 21 May Carbon River and near Windy Gap MRNP Washington with Jim C and Clark
19. 27 May Mt Wank Germany alone
20. 03 Jun Arthur Seat Edinburgh Scotland Alone
21. 05 Jun Aonach Eogagh Scotland alone
22. 06 Jun Hidden Valley Glencoe Scotland alone
23. 22 Jun Mt Washington Washington JS group John, Chuck, Steve
24. 24 Jun Mt Townsend Washington Olympics BD group
Bruce D, Brenda, Clark, Bob, Steve
25. 29 Jun Mason Lake Washington JS group John S., Chuck, Steve, Emily
26. 01 Jul Perry Creek Washington BD group Bruce Brenda Clark Susan
27. 02 Jul Table Mountain Washington Mary Ellen
28. 03 Jul Table Mountain Lion Rock Washington NARGS (Mary Ellen, Mary L, Sheila)
29. 04 Jul Table Mountain Naneum Meadow Washington NARGS (Mary Ellen, Mary L., Sheila)
30. 08 Jul Tronsen Ridge and Naneum Meadow Washington with Jim C
31. 09 Jul Iron Peak Washington NARGS
32. 15 Jul Blanca Lake Washington BD Group Bruce Brenda
33. 20 Jul McCllelan Butte Washington JS group
34. 21 Jul Iron Peak Washington Clark
35. 22 Jul Corral Pass Rainier Vista Washington (NARGS)
36. 27 Jul Red Pass Lundin Peak Washington JS group John S., Frank, Steve, Yuri
37. 29 Jul Corral Pass Washington Rainier Vista Clark and Jim B.
38. 05 Aug Sahale Arm Washington BD Group Bruce Brenda, Tom
39. 08 Aug Burroughs 1 and 2 MRNP Washington Mary Ellen, Cliff, Julie and Nathan
40.10 Aug Snow Lake Washington JS group John, Frank, Steve, Yuri, Chuck, Gary, Tim
41. 12 Aug Lake Ann - Mt. Shuksan Washington BD Group Brenda, Mary, Mary Ann
42. 17 Aug Dirty Harrys Balcony Washington JS group
43. 19 Aug Carbon Glacier and Curtis Ridge, MRNP Washington
BD Group Bruce, Brenda, Mary
44. 20 Aug Snow Lake Washington with Clark
45. 09 Sep Lake Stuart Washington BD Group Bruce, Brenda, Clark, Tom, Susan
46. 24 Sep Nisqually Wildlife Reserve Washington with Jim C.
47. 30 Sep Cowlitz Divide, MRNP, Washington BD Group Bruce, Brenda, Susan
48. 08 Oct Slate Peak, Washinton Pass Okanogan Washington , Mary Ellen, Caryn, Matt
49. 09 Oct Cuthroat Lake, North Cascade NP, Washington Mary Ellen, Caryn, Matt
50. 14 Oct Spray Park, MRNP, Washington BD Group Bruce, Brenda, Susan
51. 21 Oct Indian Henry's Hunting Ground, MRNP, Washington BD Group Bruce, Susan
52. 28 Oct Crystal Peak, MRNP, Washington BD Group Bruce, Brenda, Susan
53. 11 Nov Deception Pass, Washington, BD Group Bruce Brenda, Mary, Clark
54. 18 Nov Oyster Dome, Washington, BD Group Bruce Brenda, Mary, Clark
55. 9 Dec Wallace Falls and Lake, BD Group Bruce Brenda

Stats by place as of 18 Nov
45 Washington
4 Oregon
3 Scotland
2 California
1 Germany

Stats by group as of 18 Nov
17 BD Group
9 Mary Ellen
9 Alone
8 JS Group
5 Clark
4 NARGS
3 Jim C