Saturday, January 23, 2021

Mountain avens (Dryas octopetala): Happy Birthday, Patti! ~ Wondering about riffing with this amazing concert on Scottish Small Pipes :) ... "The Allman Brothers Band Featuring Jerry Garcia ‎– Live at the Cow Palace, 1973" * * * A bit of a trip, here's the Scots' language, Miss Punny Pennie, newspaper article - " ‘They went absolutely mad for it’ - Scottish poet overwhelmed by online response to her latest Scots poem A Scottish poet said she feels touched by an overwhelming response to a poem she wrote in Scots in a bid to keep the minority language alive" * Am wondering regarding the brilliant MIT Professor of English and Shakespeare, Diana Henderson - if she could, in collaboration with MIT OCW-centric World Univ & Sch, take on a Miss Punny Pennie (if she applied to WUaS) in a WUaS Ph.D. English program, and even with a focus on the Scots' language eg somehow related to the MacBeth play



Happy Birthday, Patti!

Scott MacLeod sgkmacleod@gmail.com

12:25 PM (9 hours ago)
to PattiBruceBarbaraHeatherDavidTaylorJanieScottAlexSioux

Happy, happy Birthday, Patti! ... from all of us! :)

Here's an amazing Allman Brothers' concert from 1973 - https://youtu.be/DNAmXz8kc6I - birthday present, which I think you may not have heard live, since it was in SF and you may have been in LA-area - n'est-ce pas? :)

I'm also wondering about riffing with it :) ... 

The Allman Brothers Band Featuring Jerry Garcia ‎– Live at the Cow Palace, 1973

https://youtu.be/DNAmXz8kc6I

... in part with Piobaireachd (classical Scottish bagpiping music) inspirationally, with at least 2-two Scottish smallpipes -

and at the
2:38:00 mark forward for about 30-40 minutes especially is close to what I have in mind for a piping-blues' conversation with Piobaireachd, - and what about this rhythm (and other instruments)?  And isn't Piobaireachd a kind of piping the Scottish Blues? :) ... 

and at the 
2:56 for tone and rhythm - this may be a lullaby folk song , with lyrics, and which I'm wondering about riffing with too, with Piobaireachd, with Cantaireachd even in a creative way ...
Hush Little Baby lyrics
https://www.considerable.com/entertainment/songs/hush-little-baby/


This concert is really 'together' for me - and kinda amazing, even a kinda trip :) Hoping it may be for you:)

Happity, hippity hoppity Birthday, Patti!

Musical cheers, 
Scott
Happy New Year 2021  to you ~ 
 ~ https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2020/12/twinpods-physaria.html (but with nothing yet about eliciting loving bliss neurophysiology explorations - see this blog label - https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/search/label/loving%20bliss) ~





(where none of the keys for my A, D, and B flat Mix chanters seemed right - where the A Mixolydian SSP chanter seems to work well in playing Scottish Country Dance sheet music in the key of D major, for example - https://twitter.com/TheOpenBand !)



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- Scott MacLeod



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Scott MacLeod <sgkmacleod@gmail.com>

Fri, Jan 22, 5:34 PM (1 day ago)

to Tym, Pin, lillianbthomas, Thomas, Hank, Scott, Patti, Barbara, Taylor, Bruce, David, Heather, Janie, Alex, Ed, Linda, Sioux, Scott, David, Rob, Lyle, Scott, Susan, s, Hugh, Betsy, Andrew, George, Bruce


Hi Patti, Barbara, Taylor, Bruce, David, Heather, Janie, Alex (& Salina), Ed, Linda, Sioux, Scott, Susan, Hugh, Betsy, George, Andrew, Bruce, David, Rob, RSCDS teachers, All, 


A bit of a trip, here's the Scots' language, 

https://twitter.com/Lenniesaurus/status/1314675641527275521?s=19 

from Punny Pennie (Len Pennie), a student at St. Andrew's University, whom I heard first on Twitter ... Is this the voice of Robbie Burns? She's old and young, there's a bit of a hippy in her, and a witchie too:), and she's from Airdrie a few miles east of Glasgow ... Talk about identity & culture ... She's a voice from the depths of Scottish time (to my ear:) ... Took me awhile in 1977 - '78 (my first full year on Scotland to learn what Scots were saying in English) ...  she sings Robbie Burns too:


 The Year, by Len Pennie

https://youtu.be/plgAhFDQTA8 (a bit sad ... Seems to be speaking of old Scots' struggles & losses & gains ... Another year :) ... I googled searched to see if this poem was written by Robbie Burns:) (is it?) ... and what year is she referring to even? 


Linda, Alex, do you speak Scots? Do you consider it to be a separate language from English (hope I'm not asking a question which is insensitive or unknowing:)


You'll find here my (simple) take on what makes a language a language ('mutual intelligibility') - http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2021/01/black-winged-stilt.html?m=0  (and check out Harvard / MIT Prof of Genetics' George Church here too, here, too 

https://twitter.com/WorldUnivAndSch/status/1352388867412750336?s=20 ... who could have Scots' heritage as well:)


With an invitation to keep an eye on Punny Pennie's Twitter feed - https://twitter.com/Lenniesaurus - which is a bit of a trip even:)


Scott

Happy New Year ~ https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2021/01/twinpods-123120-see-122320-too-seasons.html ~

- https://scottmacleodhoneyinthebagscottishsmallpipesbagpiping.bandcamp.com/

Miss Punny Pennie doesn't say much (so far that I've heard) about the Scottish Gaelic language, but here's a blog label for this language in Scotland too - https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/search/label/Scots%27%20Gaelic ... 



Len Pennie aka Punny Pennie 

from 

Airdrie (east of Glasgow, kind of Robbie Burns' country)


newspaper article - 

‘They went absolutely mad for it’ - Scottish poet overwhelmed by online response to her latest Scots poem

A Scottish poet said she feels touched by an overwhelming response to a poem she wrote in Scots in a bid to keep the minority language alive.

By Katharine Hay

https://www.scotsman.com/heritage-and-retro/heritage/they-went-absolutely-mad-it-scottish-poet-overwhelmed-online-response-her-latest-scots-poem-3012554?amp


Len Pennie - 

http://forreadingaddicts.co.uk/news/scottish-twitter-has-a-proud-hero-in-puntastic-poet-pennie/52252


Another poem 

The Dragon- A Poyum by Len Pennie


https://youtu.be/d1vCHDAz-_4


More recent poems from Miss Punny Pennie here - 

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCNtTXIIxnGPPi8r1JlIbJgQ :)



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- Scott MacLeod

- http://scottmacleod.com 





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Scott MacLeod sgkmacleod@gmail.com

6:36 PM (3 hours ago)
to SandyMarkPattiBarbaraTaylorBruceDavidHeatherJanieAlexEdLindaSiouxScottDavidRobLyleScottSusansHughBetsyAndrewGeorgeBruceTymPinlillianbthomasThomasHankScott
Hi Patti, Barbara, Taylor, Bruce, David, Heather, Janie, Alex (& Salina), Ed, Linda, Sioux, Scott, Susan, Hugh, Betsy, George, Andrew, Bruce, David, Rob, RSCDS teachers, All, ...

Am wondering regarding the brilliant MIT Professor of English and Shakespeare, Diana Henderson - 
https://twitter.com/EarlyModernDoc/status/1352949690199846913?s=20 - https://twitter.com/DianaHe23732776 - if she could, in collaboration with MIT OCW-centric World Univ & Sch, take on a Miss Punny Pennie (if she applied to WUaS) in a WUaS Ph.D. English program, and even with a focus on the Scots' language eg somehow related to the MacBeth play. At the same time, and as a WUaS PhD candidate in Scotland, could Punny Pennie develop the Scots' language in Scots at World Univ & Sch - https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Scots_language (accessible from Scotland World Univ & Sch - https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Scotland)?

 In a similar vein, the prospective online WUaS PhD student in Cognitive Science / EECS in Madurai, south India, is very interested in developing a Tamil Language World University and School in Tamil (ie re the power of mother tongue / identity / culture) ... and could Prasanth even work with MIT EECS Professor Anant Agarwal, also CEO of edX, with which WUaS is in the process of partnering? Here's Prasanth's beginnings of translating Anant's Circuits and Electronics' CC-4 MIT OCW course in the Tamil language - on Youtube! :) https://twitter.com/Prasanth3Nature/status/1352961386343788546?s=20

 WUaS is exploring the possibility of our PhD students applying through MIT departments themselves - a new possible collaboration for WUaS with MIT founded projects (OCW, edX) - and even regarding insurance for our WUaS students (ie doing field work at Harbin Hot Springs) and in India, Morocco, Indonesia and possibly Scotland per this MIT Medical insurance Tweet - .https://twitter.com/MITmedical/status/1351548738909728775?s=20 - and the benefits of insurance organizations having large numbers of insurees paying into the system or pool!

Scottish Country Dancers how might we dance together, in 1608, in Scotland (from home in Covid-19 pandemic time) far north of the Globe Theater in Stratford upon Avon - in a realistic virtual earth for History - https://twitter.com/hashtag/RealisticVirtualEarthForHistory?src=hashtag_click - and with avatar bots, also in the year 1610 - in lowland Scotland, with artificial human (Samsung Neons?) Avatar Scots speaking Scots and as a single realistic virtual earth for everything iterates in digital masks, on the screen, in holograms, in robotics for the theater, and with the benefits of AI and machine learning and MACHINE TRANSLATION?  

And in what way could WUaS also seek to recruit Amanda Gorman, a recent Harvard graduate, who read her great poem at the Biden/Harris inauguration, and here's the whole poem in Obama's Twitter - https://twitter.com/BarackObama/status/1351995663475728386?s=20 - and also at top here - https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2021/01/black-winged-stilt.html

Seeking to grow our Ph.D. student applicants for this autumn 2021 beyond the 2.5 we currently have, and that WUaS will be in people's homes where all 7117 known living languages are spoken will help generate the Scots' language (and Tamil, and Moroccan dialect + :)

Cheers, Scott


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Sunday, January 24, 2021



Merry, merry & Happy, happy ~


Scott MacLeod <sgkmacleod@gmail.com>

12:42 PM (10 hours ago)

to Byron, Byron, Patti, Barbara, Taylor, Bruce, David, Heather, Janie, Alex, Ed, Linda, Sioux, Scott, David, Rob, Lyle, Scott, Susan, s, Hugh, Betsy, Andrew, George, Bruce, Tym, Pin, lillianbthomas, Thomas, Hank, Scott, Sandy, Mark


Patti, Barbara, Taylor, Bruce, David, Heather, Janie, Alex (& Salina), Ed, Linda, Sioux, Scott, Susan, Hugh, Betsy, George, Andrew, Bruce, David, Rob, RSCDS teachers, Scotophiles, All, ...


Greetings on 1st day, and happy, happy birthday again Patti!


I couldn't find the Scots' language in Google Translate yet, so I translated the following into Scottish Gaelic using Translate (with recent emails here from yesterday - https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2021/01/mountain-avens-dryas-octopetala-happy.html). Perhaps a MIT Prof Diana Henderson with a Scots' Miss Punny Pennie can get the modern Scots' language working in Translate at some point, and also medieval Scots (if this is what it's called from the play "MacBeth's" time) ... not sure about the history of the Scots' language in general however :)


Rinn mi dìreach meòrachadh madainn Navalny - ann an ceann a tuath California - mar sheòrsa de ghearan sàmhach an aghaidh beachd-bharail Ishvara (Robert Hartley), a stèidhich Harbin Hot Springs / Eaglais Mothachaidh Cridhe (an làrach achaidh eitneòlach fìor-fhìor agam). Bha an gearan meòrachaidh agam madainn an-diugh cuideachd an aghaidh fàinneachan feise mì-laghail sam bith, agus an gnìomhachas feise mì-laghail ann an Sgìre Bàgh SF - me am measg Quakers, ann an Canyon 94516, agus ann an NorCal, agus cleachdadh co-cheangailte ri fòirneart, no bagairtean fòirneart, gus a chumail suas no iad. Bha meòrachadh na maidne math, a-rithist, agus mar sin sàmhach, meadhanachadh, lasachadh, leigeil ma sgaoil (ann an dòigh Caraidean / Quakers cuideachd, - deagh bheusachd / math ’gu sònraichte). Le bhith a ’feuchainn ri dreuchd èigneachaidh lagha feadarail a dh’ fhaodadh a bhith air leth soirbheachail thig pàirt ann a bhith a ’lughdachadh gu mòr gnìomhachas gnè mì-laghail ann an Sgìre Bàgh SF, agus gu sònraichte airson a bhith a’ dìon luchd-fulaing, neo-chiontach, boireannaich agus clann ... cha bhith mi nam cheann air ais suas gu Harbin Hot Springs gu math luath - eu-coltach ri Navalny a ’tilleadh air ais don Ruis às deidh a phuinnseanachadh faisg air marbhtach 5 mìosan air ais (gus gearan ÈIFEACHDACH a stiùireadh ann an RUSSIA?) - ach is dòcha gun till mi air ais gu Harbin Hot Springs aig a’ cheann thall ann an co-obrachadh le MIT eadhon , agus a thaobh fìor obair làraich eitneòlach le oileanaich, a dh ’fhaodadh agallamhan astrological domhainn a dhèanamh de luchd-còmhnaidh Harbin o chionn fhada (ris an do chuir an t-Àrd-ollamh Antroipeòlaiche Oilthigh Tuft Nick Seaver Tweeted mu dheidhinn - https://twitter.com/npseaver - agus a bhios mi ag ath-aithris Tweeted cuideachd gu Twitter, ach a dh ’fhalbh cuideachd bho Twitter), agus a dh’ fhaodadh sinn uile fhoillseachadh còmhla ÙR bho fhìor Harbin Hot Springs ann an Google Street View le TensorFlow / Maps / Ea rth, teacsa sa bhàr-taobh.


(Apologies for my poor Google Translate Scottish Gaelic :)


Here's the English:

"I just did a Navalny morning meditation - in northern California - as a kind of quiet protest to the hypothetical despotism of Ishvara (Robert Hartley), founder of Harbin Hot Springs / Heart Consciousness Church (my actual-virtual ethnographic field site). My meditation protest this morning was also against any illegal sex rings, and the illegal sex industry in the SF Bay Area - eg among Quakers, in Canyon 94516, and in NorCal, and related use of violence, or threats of violence, to maintain it or them. The morning meditation was good, again, so quieting, centering, easing, releasing (in the manner of Friends/Quakers too, - good/great ethics' wise especially). Hoping the role of federal law enforcement newly successful might come to play a role in significantly lessening the illegal sex industry in the SF Bay Area, and especially for the protection of potential victims, innocents, women and children ... I won't head back up to Harbin Hot Springs very soon - unlike Navalny heading back to Russia after his near fatal poisoning 5 months ago (to lead AN EFFECTIVE protest IN RUSSIA?) - but I might head back up to Harbin Hot Springs eventually in collaboration with MIT even, and regarding actual ethnographic field work by students, who might do in depth astrological interviews of long time Harbin residents (which the brilliant Tuft's University Anthropologist Professor Nick Seaver Tweeted about - https://twitter.com/npseaver - and which I re-Tweeted to Twitter, but which has disappeared from Twitter), and which we all might publish together NEWLY from a realistic virtual Harbin Hot Springs in Google Street View with TensorFlow / Maps / Earth, text in the side bar."   


The Navalny idea re his returning to Russia and regarding I think the seeming dictator Putin, and re Harbin Hot Springs, came to me this morning when I retweeted in Mike McFaul's Tweet - https://twitter.com/McFaul - in Russian something to  the effect of congratulations to the citizens of Russia in uprising (re Navalny), but this Tweet I couldn't find on my Harbin Book Twitter just now, and couldn't find also on Mike McFaul's Twitter. (Oh my, disappearing Tweets!)


As I write from a position of protest in a 'safe house' (which is 'beachy' with spectacular views of the SF Bay Area, but about 1 mile from the water of the SF Bay :) and overlooking industrialism and cities of Richmond and similar), having called the Moraga police twice this summer 2020 in Canyon 94516, I wonder too about Canyon 94516, where I lived for about 12 years - and where World Univ & Sch is still based - and even re criminality and mental illness there of former landlord, I wonder about returning to live in Canyon 94516 after it's been 'cleaned up' (after a century of outlaws and scofflaws?, criminality and mental illness?). On one of the last days I was there in October 2020, I walked up the main road in Canyon, and spoke with a Reedie (Reed College alum, like myself), Willy, with long hair, who had just backed into Canyon into his mother's house - who had just moved to Point Reyes with her husband, Jim, freeing up the house for Willy, his wife and their child. I like Willy's centeredness, don't know him very well, but he also grew up in the K-8 public Canyon School, and is now a public high school science teacher in an East Bay city. As I continue to whistleblow about Canyon, and the SF Quaker Meeting, am curious if there could be a curious SF Bay Area indirect Bay Area connection between a recent Stanford Law CodeX presenter's last name, (Carla) Reyes - https://law.stanford.edu/2021/01/20/codex-meeting-january-21st-2021/ - and Willy's mother Theo, and husband, moving to a new house in Pt Reyes (who has also been a Harvard Law Berkman Klein Center Fellow for 2 years), and my former landlord moving to a new house or place far from Canyon (to keep kids, and his own child, safe), and my moving in to Canyon.at 670A Ridgecrest again.  


Scots have a long history of protest against 'colonizers' even from the south (the English) ... And who knows too, whether Scots, like Navalny, will be successful in overturning the authoritarian oppressor? Taylor, do you happen to know Carla Reyes since you both went to Whitworth University (in the state of Washington) albeit at different times?


Am hoping we can all be Scottish country dancing and music-making in a realistic virtual earth for history - https://twitter.com/hashtag/RealisticVirtualEarthForHistory?src=hashtag_click - in Scots and in Scottish Gaelic - https://twitter.com/hashtag/RealisticVirtualEarthForLanguages?src=hashtag_click - in 1606, when MacBeth - https://twitter.com/hashtag/RealisticVirtualEarthForShakespeare?src=hashtag_click - may have first been performed :)


Seeking to send out the WUaS Monthly Business Meeting Minutes from 1/16/2021 after getting the legal partnership papers to sign from the University of New Mexico's Project ECHO re WUaS early this week :) - for ~200 planned online Academic Medical Centers, with ~200 online medical schools, and ~200 online teaching hospitals, in all these countries, and in their official and main languages even! :) (Am not sure yet how WUaS Psychiatry will unfold, and even re despotism, and the illegal sex industry, for example ... but the Covid-19 pandemic contact tracing App, and vaccinations in avatar bot electronic medical records, and in a realistic virtual earth for Genetics may help - 

https://twitter.com/WUaSPress/status/1352744685010182144?s=20)


As Aye, 

Scott

Season's Greetings 2021 ~ and re Aging Reversal via genetic engineering ~ 

https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2021/01/twinpods-123120-see-122320-too-seasons.html



Question in my recent letter to Stanford Law CodeX presenters: 


"As a further question, and brainstorming-wise, how might blockchain (with UCC-related forms, Lexon and Gremlin?) work legally for, as I wrote to the WUaS Chairman, Larry Viehland, this morning, "WUaS 'avatar bot electronic medical records' for 7.8 billion people for tele-robotic surgery with blockchain ledger in digital forms (like PDFs) per Stanford Law CodeX presenters' Carla Reyes (a law professor at Southern Methodist University) and Henning Diedrich on Thursday -   https://law.stanford.edu/2021/01/20/codex-meeting-january-21st-2021/ ? Re Europe WUaS blockchain too? ... "




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- Scott MacLeod

- http://scottmacleod.com 





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