Message-ID: <Pine.NEB.4.58.0406212329290.752@panix3.panix.com>
From: Alan Sondheim <sondheim@panix.com>
To: Cyb <cybermind@listserv.aol.com>,
"WRYTING-L : Writing and Theory across Disciplines" <WRYTING-L@LISTSERV.UTORONTO.CA>
Subject: "difficult to get carbide"
Date: Mon, 21 Jun 2004 23:29:41 -0400 (EDT)
"difficult to get carbide" difficult to get carbide, calcium carbonate, necessary for the two miner's lamps; the bottom chamber is filled with the same, water drips from the upper, acetylene is produced which escapes from a nozzle, burning, a lime residue is formed. but the lamps are outmoded, and apparently one needs a permit for the substance, which is part and parcel of West Virginia history; i want to illuminate bodies with the same, technical apparatus, works; i want to see the reflective glow of heat on skin from fair distance to fair distance. the program is to eval an expression in x over a text, filtering out the hits after taking the int. strings are needed in arrays, input and output files, and the two programmers working with me, undergraduates, have been three days at it, the room is cool, thermostat fixed so we're back at a homeostatic temperature independent of the external world. the project is to provide tools for working between code and the real, thinking of any entity as filterable; one might eventually move from [a < filter > b] to [<a filter b>] to [filter(b)]; in other words the ontology moves from objects (a,b) to process/object(b) - which reflects on states replaced by operators, entities replaced by processes etc., shades of Whitehead here. everyone born in WV that we've talked to has worked in the mines or has relatives who have done so. one of the people we've met spent years preparing lamps for his father and grandfather; i'm hopeful he'll be able to help get it working again. he mentioned a place that still sells carbide. http://www.clc.wvu.edu/sondheim/files/family.mov and http://www.asondheim.org/crimescene.mov worth watching _