September 2009
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Modernism | Postmodernism
A culture of calculation A culture of simulation Seek reality beneath appearances Accept appearances at face value Outer a sign of inner Take things at ‘interface value’ Vertical understanding Horizontal understanding Reductionist/Symbolic AI (GOFAI)...
August 2009
9 posts
“The communication of “trade secrets” by writing is an illusion of...”
– Mircea Eliade, The Forge and the Crucible
immortal berries
The strawberries fared best when I heated them at 125 degrees for 30 seconds. In two samples from different sources, this treatment gave a total of 1 moldy berry out of 30, where the untreated baskets had 14. I also treated some bruised berries, including one with a moldy tip. After 24 hours none were moldy. The tip mold not only hadn’t spread, it had disappeared.
I tried the same treatment, 125...
i AM an IDEA: obviously i prefer you and mrs.kungfu
(5: 04:04 PM) but i have another route if you chose not to flow this way
(5: 04:14 PM) crevice
(5: 04:16 PM) in the sand
(5: 04:24 PM) litle streams
(5: 04:29 PM) like sand veins
i AM an IDEA: respect the hive. its okay to reject the pull of this tide
(5: 05:31 PM) these crabs are in leather
(5: 05:49 PM) squeeze and tease at the feather
i AM an IDEA: the gulls didnt see it coming
An Interesting Circle of Correspondence
JW: The eternal fountain of hyperdimensional knowledge appears to be shaped like a serpent, and distinctively Egyptian... whowouldathunk?
7 others like this.
July 20 at 10: 36pm
Lynne: I didn’t go so far as Egypt, but the continent I was on sure was shifty and mobile. Much brighter during that second visit, much more prickly.
July 20 at 11: 52pm
Mccreadee: Ummmm..... Diddnt you already know that? I know you did.
July 20 at 11: 55pm
Esins Kayab Lyons: A climbing serpent rapt around a spinal column bursting thru a thousand petalled lotus. Ankh.
July 20 at 11: 56pm
St.even: Two serpents, technically =)
July 21 at 12: 08am
MoMahmoud: I knew it
July 21 at 12: 10am
Neuronaut: Grig The Cosmic Serpent is a great book on the subject
July 21 at 12: 21am
Chrstopher Ryan: Truth
July 21 at 12: 30am
JW: Haha, I love the totally diverse comments here
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theriac of mithridates
Aulus Cornelius Celsus describes the complex antidote of Mithradates, named Antidotum Mithridaticum, in his De Medicina (Book V, 23:3):
But the most famous antidote is that of Mithridates, which that king is said to have taken daily and by it to have rendered his body safe against danger from poison. It contains:
Costmary 1.66 grams, sweet flag 20 grams, hypericum, gum, sagapenum, acacia...
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“There was a king reigned in the East:
There, when kings will sit to feast,...”
– A. E. Houseman
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Sweetened Tea with Milk, Ginger, and Other Flavourful Spices
3 cups cold water
3 cups whole milk
3 tablespoons of light brown or turbindo sugar
1 1/2 - 3 tablespoons of grated fresh ginger
1 1/2 teaspoons of tea masala. (You can save a batch of tea masala and use it over time - no need to make it fresh)
————3 tablespoons of ginger powder
————1/2 tablespoon of clove powder
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