Friday, March 15, 2019

California Sister butterfly (Adelpha californica): Power just went out in Canyon, so Wi-Fi too (but not phone internet 2nd signal) re getting out WUaS MBM News & Agenda, Main Canyon 94516 road is closed today * * * A kind of mini-ethnography of technologies used in daily life today


Power just went out in Canyon, so Wi-Fi too (but not 2nd phone internet signal) busy busy & there was email earlier saying too main Canyon 94516 road is closed today WUaS MBM News & Agenda > - - -







Power just went out in Canyon, so Wi-Fi too (but not 2nd phone internet signal) busy busy & there was email earlier saying too main Canyon 94516 road is closed today WUaS MBM News & Agenda https://twitter.com/WorldUnivAndSch/status/1106386787482517504 … > https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Nation_States … - @WUaSPress - http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2019/03/boojum-tree-agenda-and-news-for-world.html?m=0 … -

scottmacleod added,


https://twitter.com/scottmacleod/status/1106603125148811264

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Please join us at our open (hour-long) World Univ & Sch @WorldUnivAndSch monthly business meeting this Saturday, March 16th, 2018, at 9 am Pacific Time, electronically, in a Google group video Hangout, if interested people email WUaS about this info@worlduniversityandschool.org.

https://twitter.com/WorldUnivAndSch/status/1106386787482517504


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HI Scott,

We had a really warm day today, in the high sixties which prompted me to do some work in the yard.  It was fun and then I stayed out and read some of the New Yorker before supper.  

I had a little GI bug earlier this week; that is gone, thank goodness and maybe, just maybe spring is really here.

All’s well here.

L, MA


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Hi M,

Good to hear! Thanks for letting me know that you're better, and glad you got outside today and are reading as well.

Still circulating here ...

Glad to have met very impressive Brett McGurk (https://twitter.com/brett_mcgurk) yesterday, a new distinguished Stanford lecturer, in conversation with Jason Rezaian (@jrezaian) a
senior Washington Post editor (with Iranian background) -

https://twitter.com/FSIStanford/status/1106005792128299010 - where Brett is from the US State Dept too, and was born in Pittsburgh, and who may also have some military experience at the State Dept too - although probably not as GI. Very impressive conversation about Jason's new book.

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Moving along steadily with the WUaS News and Agenda ...

Happy upcoming birthday, by the way, Ma!

L, Scott


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Hi M,

Tweeted about Brett McGurk and Jason Rezaian's book conversation here, as well as Iran WUaS in Farsi ...

https://twitter.com/WorldUnivAndSch/status/1106055089205141504 ...

Thanks so much Jason Rezaian @jrezaian (& @brett_mcgurk @FSIStanford Payne Distinguished Lecturer) for your great conversation about your new book "The Prisoner" (To @WUaSPress /bookstore) Here are the beginning Iran WUaS
https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Iran_(Islamic_Republic_of)
… in Farsi https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Persian_language
… ~

You'll find a number of related Tweets about Jason and Brett around the above Tweet here https://twitter.com/WorldUnivAndSch/ :)

What, Ma, might you teach at Iran World Univ and Sch (which will also be in English?:) ... this is the wiki idea where we call can become teachers and learning, simply by clicking "edit" this page ... here, too ... https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Subjects (find
the JS Bach page, and see if there are any MIT OCW courses there) ...

On with getting out the remaining WUaS News and Agenda here ... sent this from Stanford to 488 people on the A list ... now for the remaining ...

What are you up to this weekend? And are you out walking with friends currently? :)

... nice dancing here re SCD by some folks in the Boston area ...

https://twitter.com/TheOpenBand/status/1105535227093381120 :)

L, Scott


-- 
- Scott MacLeod
- http://scottmacleod.com




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Hi M,

Power out so no wifi, and road closed I had read, ... Seeking to get out the WUaS News and Agenda, I drove down to see if road had opened, but still blocked with tree workers and big machines in front of a woman's house (Maggie from Massachusetts who had adopted some black kids from Haiti ... but who may have changed in moving to Canyon, from her liberal MA values) who once came to a few yoga classes I taught in Canyon. A worker said they could move everything in 10 minutes, but I said I'd come back in an hour. A bit uncentered, I went for a walk on ridge road ... where I am now ...  attention brought outwardly in a beautiful place (from Web)  ... almost stepped on a beautiful butterfly, and 2 minutes later, came upon some wild turkeys, which then ran off road ... so sitting now with view, attention returns to phone with battery almost out ... beautiful here ... may meditate since temperature shade/sun and place are good for this here, then walk farther ...

Time to meditate on a mid-day walk, due to power outage / road closure. Continuing to circulate ...

All's well here, and have a great weekend. L, Scott



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Hi M,

Full road blockage for possibly 5-6 hours 'mire' ... a new guy said ... Maybe they're putting in / adding a new router system to Canyon. .... feels Canyon messy ...

Time to get a bicycle that I can then add a smartphone power generator to, and then a Zap electric DX motor (like I had in the '90s) ...

May walk out now anyway through beautiful "Indian valley" ... long walk ... seeking electricity too ... I think I can possibly send some WUaS emails from my smartphone first actually.

L, Scott


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Afternoon, ma mere,

I walked down into the beautiful quiet valley (Indian Valley) to the east of the ridge where I live, thinking I'd walk into Moraga (which on the longer way/ road via the Post Office would take 1:23 minutes, per Google Maps) and found healthy scared-of-humans' cattle.

I had walked here before, down as far as the fence before the road pretty near the Valley Viste staging area park, but this time a gate midway down was more tightly fastened, - so I don't think I'll proceed. Instead I walked to the right toward the creek - thinkng communing with nature ala Gary Snyder-wise, and my hiking the Pacific Crest Trail - along a partly decrepit fence which the startled cattle had broken thru when I came to get to the herd on the other side, when I had come along, sighted the burbling creek, and sat down on a big old tree stump that had been sawn some years ago. Here I write on my smartphone in gmail, with brand new backup battery, but w/o internet signal (amazing I.T.) AND type with one finger. Time to get a second new battery, since all other lithium ion batteries I have have swollen with age, and this new one feels longer lasting than swollen ones. Probably won't head to Moraga over field afterall, probably will get a new used bicycle (have already inquired from Byron today) as a back up, and for movement (but won't use it that much currently to avoid crushing my perineal area for one) but eventually use it more, and to get into Moraga and back at first.

I can use this phone as a wifi hot spot, so if I didn't have to worry about battery life / lack of power I could continue to work today. Might possibly explore the pedal power electricity generator below called KTor. No signal in this Indian valley, but phone wifi signal on the ridge.

 ... am curious re his language about thinking in terms even of husbandry,  ... of becoming a husband that is ... which is a way if thinking I haven't explored but which probably has a long farming history (in our family too).

Creek, sunny day, light sprinkling in among lots of green varied trees bushes, completely natural all around ... no internet or road and nice day ... out for a walk ... a Haiku-ish to emerge?

Keeping an eye on the battery life ... couldn't email WUaS MBM agenda/news from meeting@worlduniversityandschool.org on smartphone (may need to download an add on for these special email addresses in Google Suite / for Education -since exclamation marks started appearing for these 3 wuas accounts a few weeks ago) ... will hope internet and power come on fairly soon.

Getting into the mind of this valley, this nature, slow steady evolutionary biology all around, and out of the information technology human constructed Work world I swim in gazing at the box, developing WORLD UNIV & SCH and my actual-virtual Harbin project. May photograph stump.

Could change focus too to artistic one, and take photos (except re battery life). :) ... exploring consciousness questions here too ... (in ongoing way re eluciting loving bliss neurophysiology creatively too), Ma :)

Taking a 'sit and meditate' approach too re ' ecology of life questions' I'm asking these days (where the agency I have now includes, still, walking to Moraga either by field or road +++)

Pulled books by Manuel Castells off shelf this morning when power went off ... reading as an alternative to interactivity of internet when power's off? Still am liking interactivity of Web over book reading :)

May write BPPE app durther today - that which I can ... before computer dies

May do too some inverted restorative yoga poses soon ...

'Took a walk' (with lift in right Birkenstock to keep hips even, since my left leg is longer than right - helpful and worth it) ...

In writing modality kind of re centering, Ma ... may get hair cut by April 2 ... might be an opening re possibly becoming a husband even ... on to handstand / shoulderstsnd soon too ... and BPPE app.

Interesting Universal Basic Income panel yesterday at Stanford ... I asked at close about Calif state and Stockton exp. and bank cards delivering $500 ... and possibly into a single cryptocurrency backed by many central banks. WUAS would like to help with thus ... on with BPPE

Earlier in a Stanford Law SVDX meeting, I had asked about both Boards and blockchain ledger, as well as a cryptocurrency that was trinary or ternary (rather than in binary, which is what much of the internet runs on) which MIT's Neha Narula had mentioned in this video - - and, further, re my questions, where a SINGLE cryptocurrency with blockchain ledger could be backed by some percentage of ~200 countries' central banks -  since no one had touched on these questions whatsever in a panel on cybersecurity and publicly traded companies' Boards. either of these.

How was your day? How are you? What's up this weekend for you?

Much l, Scott


To Ed, Byron, Larry, Jiin,

Power just went out in Canyon, so Wi-Fi too (but not 2nd phone internet signal) ... busy busy here ... not sure what's in the air, and there was an email earlier saying too that main Canyon road is closed today (but just saw a car go by) ...  will seek still to get out the WUaS News and Agenda (sent 488 from Stanford yesterday) to remaining people on lists when wifi is working again. Active on Twitter re MBM+ -

https://twitter.com/WorldUnivAndSch/status/1106386787482517504 ... looking into pedal powered electricity generator charger ... has potential:

https://www.amazon.com/K-TOR-Generator-Emergency-Lightweight-Polycarbonate/dp/B00EZS8VQS

https://www.k-tor.com/pedal-powered-generator/ ... how's your day going, Ed?



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Hi M,

Have gas in my car ... re re-charging phone and calling and even hot spot  ... drove out on the back dirt road until I got phone signal (I don't get phone-internet signal where I park, but do in house-let), turned on smartphone T-mobile hot spot, with car on, thus charging smart phone ... and connected smartphone with laptop and it works ... fairly good wifi speed too :)

Hadn't thought of this earlier today ... re consciousness questions even ... so Now I should be able to send WUaS MBM emails, and work on CA BPPE licensing app from car ... :) (will keep a bit more gas in car in future just in case for such cases ... and get bicycle and re recharging smartphone too - "All About The Best Dynamo USB Chargers For Bicycle Touring and Bikepacking" - https://www.cyclingabout.com/best-dynamo-usb-chargers-bicycle-touring-bikepacking/ - with some new terminology too, when riding into Moraga too). The bicycling community has been very creative with generating goods and products for bicyclists!

Nice day too sitting in my running car (where hybrid engine is sometimes quite on this ridge with pretty views to west and east ...

How was your day, M?

L,
Scott


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Hi M,

Nice J.S. Bach St. John's Passion - https://youtu.be/zMf9XDQBAaI ...

Am now charging both laptop and smartphone from a splitter in a power adapter in the lighter socket from my running Toyota Prius hybrid 2005 ... and with hot spot on smartphone connecting me to internet on laptop ... pretty great engineering ...

And could be a good argument for a hybrid hippy van that gets 100/mpg with shower ... without any electro-voltaic fields, which I felt for 6-12 months when I first got this vehicle, with a newly installed
batter system ...

Husbandry re having a family ? Or ...

L, Scott



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Yay, road opened around 5:35 pm and I left, When I got back, power was on :) ... freezer is refreezing things after around 8 hours of no electricity, Ma ... a bit discombobulating, but also happening less these years  !









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