food processing equipment

an ad in the blogger interface: www.hightekusa.com

supergreen?

I just ordered several blocks of soap - olive oil, palm oil. Here's the plan: I'm going to use a grater to turn it into soap powder, as I need it. I'll use this soap powder to hand wash my dishes.

Hopefully, my soap will arrive with no plastic packaging. That's why it's super green. I'll report.

My plan is: wash my dishes with nothing from a plastic bottle - hopefully nothing with a plastic bag or wrapper, either. We'll see.

I'm watching a pretty darned compelling movie at hulu: Flow: For the Love of
Water. Kudos to Hulu.

goals

sell things in 100% non-plastic packaging
(subtopic: establish a network of zero plastic food service providers)

take home services to the next level

sell information about building web2.0 infrastructure

interface

It's embarassing being a Japanophile and pop culture maven. The Japanese and my own people despise me equally. Also, I'm like a child, except less capable. But, I am what I am. Fighting it only makes it worse.

I read Edwin O. Reischauer's Japan, the Story of a Nation. The brief description of the Meiji Restoration sort amazed me. Who were these people, who had a vision of modernity for the nation, and organized the nation to realize it.

But, few details were provided. At any rate, here I am, watching silly movies and cartoons, because it's the only thing I seem to be able to do. But here's a cartoon about the Restoration (sort of)!

This creepy movie channel, Crackle, is doing a lot of things right. Example: you can watch episode after episode of a cartoon ... just let it run. (The other great thing, besides that there are lots of movies and shows to watch, is: when it hangs up, and you reload the page to reset it, it starts up right where you were. That's extremely well done.)

Why do I call it creepy? So many slasher flicks. But, the truth is, I even like some of those. There are lots of popular films I'm glad to get a chance to see, too. So, I'm on a big movie watching exploration.

Jeepers, I just burned a kitchen towel into a pile of ashes. Explanation, eventually.

kitch

in order to qualify as kitch, a thing has to be both tacky and fun ... and in some way good ... based on reading a third of the book ...

code

The problem is one of the elements of CAD. The project is: developing a CAD that is freely available to anyone, running on line in the browser, with an easily understood interface, limitless representational and publishing power, and supported by advertising.

code

with line AB perpendicular to rectangular plane segment wh through its center (and thus establishing the formula for the plane), and given A, B, w, h, f and O, where A,B, and O are coordinate sets for points, calculate the location of point i, the intersection of line AO and plane wh, in terms of its perpendicular distance from lines w and h

code

Strathern, Paul, Socrate in 90 Minutes:
"Socrates grew up in the age of Pericles, when Athens was the strongest civilized city-state in the Hellenic World. Its advances influenced the entire course of human development."
Did Socrates, debating in the markets, contribute to this prosperity in some practical way?
For example, by convincing people that it is practical to be good ... ? Or by entertaining them, contributing to the urban scene, being a comedian, and inducing the citizenry to think, for recreation ... ?

code

knowledge of the truth is mystical
studying the mysterious
mysterious approaches to studying

Socrates goes out and debates with people at the agora - about what is practical.*
(*for example, is it practical to be evil? is it practical to be good?)

code

problem

discs

muji discs
2 paris
3 italy
6 serbia
7 various
8 sweden
9 napoli
11 hawaiian
14 celtic
15 baroque
open muji discs in a new tab or window, then add selections to shopping cart based on this list

perverse web design allert ... no list of muji discs ... corrected above ... a more integrated correction would require some innovative design, that's why nobody's doing it

disc

muji bgm6: traditional music from serbia

disc

muji bgm3: traditional music from southern italy

disc

muji bgm2 :metro musicians in paris

politics

People living in the neighborhood to the east of those fields will object that their views of the mountains will be ruined, but this development is transparent to views, sky.

land

View Larger Map
let's do a development on these big brown fields ... the plan is to turn this spot on the map, as seen from space, brilliant green, and, at the same time, build a whole bunch of quality "habitat" ... housing and work space ... with garden and park path pedestrian connectors to the surrounding cityscape

united

united

k stewat

hark bio

tsui hark bio at answers.com

video

http://video.answers.com/

scan

tsui hark?

the map at atempenote.com

mapping?

the southern limit of north america is 25 degrees north
the eastern limit is 53 degrees west
the western limit is 163 degrees west
the norther limit of north america is 90 degrees north

north to south, north america is 65 degrees
west to east, north america is 110 degree

arizona:33degreesnorth,112degreeswest
in the area limited by 163degrees on the left, 90 degrees on the top

screen

acconci

j frank

primrose

primrose

primroses

i'm watching the whole stupid movie

to access images of glamour, of clean urban superabundance, we have to watch thrillers?

25 degrees north

the southern limit of north america is 25 degrees north
the eastern limit is 53 degrees west
the western limit is 163 degrees west
the norther limit of north america is 90 degrees north

north to south, north america is 65 degrees
west to east, north america is 110 degrees

well, it's something

it' jackie chan .... !
(it's horrible, but ... well, it's cartoons ... and it's jackie ... !)

oh, and it starts with episode 1

and it's got quality ads
what do you know?

oh, the point was, we should have all sorts of media on the screen at once

who has time for this?

I watch a little of something called Circus, from the movie section. Horrible! Then a little of something called Vegas or Las Vegas, with SNL cast members. Unbelievably boring.

what is crackle?

What is Crackle? I got linked there from Hulu. It looks just like Hulu. You can watch movies. They look really bad.

web 3?

I'm just saying there are things I want in computing that I'm not finding very easily, or they just aren't there. Web 2.0 isn't providing them. So, I'm calling them web 3, without necessarily saying they're new. They just might be.

Since I've been thinking about these things for years, and haven't been able to implement any of them at all, I'm thinking about just putting some of them out there for developers to consider. Maybe I'll get suggestions, or be able to link from here to content about my projects, and that content will help me learn what I need to develop my own product, or I'll get included in the development process, or community. Or, maybe I'll just contribute something. Under the circumstances, whatever. I have a feeling it's the right approach.

So, I'm saying, when we surf the web, every page we view should get stored on our hard drives, period, end of story. Every screen we view should get stored. Scrolling a web page creates a new screen. That's an example. (Recording every screen would be an operating system function. Recording every browser window, where the window correlates to the screen as just described, could be web based, maybe. That's just a development question.)

All the screens we've viewed now become like a movie or slide show or album of our web surfing experience. It calls for a viewer, so we can page through the show. It calls for an editor, so we can edit the show. The potential is there for the show to be something we publish.

This show becomes a reference tool. Having possession of it gives us an automatic reference. It's web de-ephemeralization ... the web as no longer a place where now you see it, now you don't.

This would help solve another problem I have. I often open multiple windows, just so I can keep something I want to go back to on hand. But then my computer bogs down. That's a problem with the operating system and or the browser, but de-ephemeralizing the web as described would solve it. We would only need the one open web page. To get to other pages we use, we just go into the history.

The idea, extended, is to have everything we need vis a vis the web and all the work we do on the web, and even on the computer, in one place. It's not so much about keeping track of things, it's about being able to juxtapose different things. One thing I'm advocating is more tiny web pages, that we can tile and cascade anyway we want, maybe in the browser. People could produce, not sites, or pages, but tools, that web users can float around in their browser.

Maybe that's sort of abstract. Certainly it's a technological problem. In terms of using this post and its comment section as a place to work on that technology, well, OK, let me modify what I said about that in the last post: I don't care how many posts I put up, I can check them all for comments. With something like that, it's not a time question, it's a motivational question, and what motivates is being interested in something. It helps if that thing is possible, but I suspect it is.

making money on blogger

business development

Here I am, back at blogger. Basically, nothing has happened with most of the stuff I've done here, but the platform works, for sure. I'm asking myself, what can I do to make a blog that connects me to people? So, I'm thinking a lot about topics. If I create a place for stuff on a topic, I can go back to that place again and again to extend the discussion. And one thing blogger gives me is a comment section. It becomes a forum. But I can't create endless new comment sections and keep up with them. So a post has to be topical and basically my one and only on that topic.

Business development ... too general, obviously ... My idea is, post an idea and ask for suggestions. That's it? I'm thinking I'll create posts for a few ideas where I'm not making progress, and my biggest priority is to seem some kind of product come into existence, regardless of whether it's me creating the product. Those will be more specifically topical.

One thing I'm encountering a lot, that I think is pretty useful, is the idea of bootstrapping companies. Whatever the pros and cons of getting financing are, getting something going on one's own resources gets you standing ... and, for that matter, it gets you into business.

So, how do you bootstrap a company? Got a story? Maybe you would post something about it here.

OK, that sounds incomplete. Got an idea for a product you want to develop into a company? That makes you one of the nobodies, and this is the place for you. Post something abstract about it ... you don't want to reveal your secrets ... and most of the experts are derisive of that. The web needs a place for you. Now it has one. Do post something, and let's see what happens.