Message-ID: <Pine.NEB.4.62.0503280011500.1997@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: Hi - replies -
Date: Mon, 28 Mar 2005 00:11:57 -0500 (EST)
Hi - just to summarize my replies quickly - In regard to Jonathen's assertion - Well, yes and no. The digital is a mapping on the analog; it always requires energy. If the analog simply _is,_ the digital simply _isn't_; if the analog exists in the real, the digital occupies the theoretical/abstract, and its mapping, which appears digital - i.e. 0s and 1s, on the subatomic level, is entangled. Julia asserts that all cats are allergens; that's only partially true. If you bathe them or live with one, the two of you will get used to each other. Marianne, I think you totally misread me. There was no insult intended. Sometimes I'm just too tired to think clearly - I shouldn't reply at all in these states. Please accept my apologies; I'd like to continue the discussion. Richardson: I think you're wrong here. Yes, the audion was created by Fleming, but wasn't it de Forest who brought it to fruition, with the addition of the grid? My history is hazy. I do know that once the _idea_ of the tube was released to the world, development was rapid. It was difficult at first with the spark gap, which stuttered across the electromagnetic spectrum; the very concept of a tuned circuit ("syntony") was unknown. The apparatus was so simple, the concepts so difficult! Edison's work always capitalized on this - the light-bulb, phonograph, motion picture - they all could have been constructed with 18th-century technology. May, you night have to revise the extinction rate upwards. A few years ago it was 3-4 species / hr.; at the moment, with the opening up of new areas for oil exploration, increased rates of global warming, etc., the catastrophic is breathing down our neck. Starflight, try Do[Plot3D[ (x^3 + 4y^3)*Exp[-(x^2 + y^n)], {x, -5, 5}, {y, -5, 5}, PlotPoints -> 80, Boxed -> False, Axes -> False, ViewPoint -> {1.041, 2.877, 28}, Background -> RGBColor[.2, 0, 0] , ClipFill -> None], {n, 1, 10, .5} ]; - it worked for me. Do ContourPlot might be more useful in terms of resolution; I'll try that later. I did substitute some trigonometric functions, but they're really obdurate - they immediately dominated the animation. Anyway, take this stuff and drop it into QT pro. Larry - thanks for the package and INSPIRE information. I'm probably going to build the VLF radio described. In one of the papers, the sounds of early-morning motors is described; I'd like to record that, a town waking up, the stirring of the power-grid itself. These lf radiations entering space probably dominate just about anything else except perhaps what Arecibo produces. And finally Sharon, I've never been into sexual cutting. Splaying the body apart, binding it, exhibitions of all sorts, liquid immersions, but nothing that would really alter things on a more or less permanent level. It's true I can see the advantage of inscribing a history of encounters on the self, the degradation and abjection that would permanently accompany one, but it also frightens me. I think the descent is irreversible; I wouldn't be surprised if endorphins are eventually involved, with the real possibility of bodily harm. Thanks to everyone, and apologies for this group reply - - Ala