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A tarot reading from today. In this reading I asked the tarot about a focal point for operating in present-time (Ace of Fire - The Sculptor) and forces that seem to tear me away from this focal point (left - The High Priestess [air] - Mensa || right - The Lovers [water] - Cancer). I then asked about pathways that could help lead back to the center (left - The King of Earth - Auriga and The Five of Earth - Triangulum + Norma + Triangulum Australe) (right - The Two of Water - Antlia and The King of Water - Camelopardalis) To me, the ideal of centeredness is about being improvisational, cultivating ways to exist in and interact with the vast forms and challenges of life in a way that is kind and thoughtful and custom. The ace of fire (wands in classic tarot decks) is a card that signifies all of one's creative and connective potential. In it lies a super-abundant pool of resources but is as yet unrealized, like the visions of a sculptor regarding a block of material. I see in this card the continuous ongoing nature of art. On the outsides, The High Priestess, a card that represents the mysterious subconscious, that which is hidden or unrealized or not yet revealed, and The Lovers, a card that embodies the height of interpersonal and intrapersonal connections and the dangers of misusing mirrors. To me the card on the left points to an anxiety I often feel about creative projects that aren't finished and the weight I feel from all that I haven't revealed to people. I generally prefer transparency to secrecy, but I know there are times when staying quiet is the better option. The conflict here revolves around time: I fear that because I haven't yet had a chance to tell someone how I feel about something, that this will inevitably lead to confusion if it isn't resolved. The solution is patience and diligence. I am constantly faced with decisions (as the King of Earth must face the decisions of his/her kingdom) but if I take them one at a time and use each challenge as an opportunity (the five of earth) to continuously add to a body of work, then instead of worrying I can know that in each moment I am slowly adding to the ongoing project of becoming myself. In the card of The Lovers, I find myself reflecting on the delicate balancing act of an open and loving relationship. On one hand, forming a healthy relationship is about knowing myself and being able to communicate this idea of self to others with confidence so that they know what makes me feel comfortable or uncomfortable. On the other hand, understanding this same truth in others requires a certain fluidity of self. Getting to know people is not always a 100% comfortable experience. And going outside of that comfort zone can open my eyes to new ideas and forms of self. Often, I find myself slipping into one side or the other: either I try too hard to control/manipulate aspects of a relationship or I lose myself in trying to be someone who others would like. Again, the solution is patience and a big-picture sense of ongoing time. There is never a point at which a relationship is "fully formed." Everyone is constantly in the process of becoming. In this state, it is necessary to be both one who studies (the two of water) and one who teaches (the king of water). These roles can switch all of the time. The point is not to gain power over others, but to continuously form shapes with others. Over the whole reading, I pulled an Oracle card - #13 The Binary System. It's symbol is the symbol of infinity. This is a card that signifies coexistence. This card acts as reminder that things and environments and people and situations are constantly changing form, breaking apart and fusing back together. The same is true inside of oneself. To stay in this state is to be constantly aware and constantly moving. But most of all, it is about learning to coexist with myself.

#tarot #cosmos deck

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social media use authenticity to set up a protocol by which users can mutually shame one another for their failures to be entirely real

http://robhorningtni.tumblr.com/post/132952573695/the-passage-above-is-from-amy-adele-hasinoffs (via nathanjurgenson)

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i love this game

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Got the #raspberrypi with #retropieproject up and running! Genesis games seemingly functioning normally!

#raspberrypi #retropieproject

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What I’m Reading

Starting a log of what I’m reading and giving it the tag #Currently Reading

Here is my list from yesterday:

http://blog.newhive.com/why-internet-subcultures-are-good-for-sad-teens/

http://blog.newhive.com/so-u-want-to-date-an-artist/

http://vk.com/doc257003332_324639013?hash=3b90b1132001b1b791&dl=c4e5f227900a077f28

http://www.archchinese.com/arch_chinese_radicals.html

http://blog.petrockblock.com/retropie/

https://meaningness.wordpress.com/2015/10/12/developing-ethical-social-and-cognitive-competence/

Eventually I’d like to start including links to annotated readings through Hypothesis with the tag #Annotated Reading

#currently reading

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Thanks to everyone who came to last night's tea tasting! Got to taste some choice Cha! Clockwise from North West - Sichuan Feral Green Tea, Moonlight White from Yunnan, Sparrow's Tongue Oolong from Wuyi Mountains, Pine Smoked Black Tea from Wuyi Mountains

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YOU WERE SUPPOSED TO BUY GROCERIES!!!

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crime against property is relatively unimportant

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october witch icons I did for me & my squad @erikduemig & @josephduemig

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I LEARNED RECENTLY THAT PLATO WON THE GOLD MEDAL IN THE OLYMPICS FOR WRESTLING THREE TIMES. THIS PUTS A NEW PERSPECTIVE ON THINGS. I ALWAYS IMAGINED PLATO TO BE FRAIL AND MISSHAPEN BUT HE MUST HAVE BEEN FRICKEN RIPPED. I WONDER IF ARISTOTLE EVER FELT ANXIETY ABOUT GETTING PHYSICALLY (I.E. NOT JUST METAPHYSICALLY) DISMANTLED BY PLATO. PLATO WAS PROBABLY PISSED OFF BY AT LEAST A HANDFUL OF QUESTIONS ARISTOTLE ASKED HIM. ARISTOTLE WAS A LITERAL GENIUS TOO. IMAGINE PLATO LECTURING AND WRITING ON A BLACKBOARD AND ARISTOTLE THROWING A COMMENT OUT THERE ABOUT SOME COMPLEX MISSTEP IN PLATO’S LOGIC AND PLATO’S CHALK JUST SNAPS AND ARISTOTLE’S TESTICLES SUCK WAY BACK UP TO WHERE THEY DROPPED FROM, THEN PLATO IN A BLUR APPEARS BESIDE ARISTOTLE SITTING AT HIS DESK AND HE PICKS HIM UP AND SUPLEXES HIS MACEDONIAN ASS.

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Aaaaaaaand here’s the water pokemon plus dragonair and dratini! Floating in a little pond ツ

You can find it here on Spoonflower! Should be up for sale in a few days

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You don’t need to be better than anyone else you just need to be better than you used to be.

Wayne Dyer (via digital-femme)

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Cover design of the comic anthology VOLCAN (www.lagonrevue.com)

Silkscreen : gradient yellow to orange / warm black / mettalic red

Printed by Séverine Bascouert (L’Institut Sérigraphique)

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Oh this is so good!

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The Lossless Self

By ELIZABETH NEWTON

Audio fidelity is more a matter of subjective emotion than empiricism. But what are we trying to be true to?

In June, NPR published a widely shared quiz called “How Well Can You Hear Audio Quality?” It tests a listener’s ability to perceive distinctions among different recordings of the same track. Presented with six songs from a range of genres, listeners were asked to select the highest quality version of each song from among three of the same recording encoded at different bit rates.

How I yearned to ace that test, proving to myself that my ears are not only capable of perceiving slight shades of sonic nuance but also discriminating correctly, ordering such distinctions from best to worst. I took it twice. I flunked the first time. The second time I got three of six correct.

I was not alone in my failure. The aggregate results of quiz takers suggested that few listeners can correctly distinguish a lossless, uncompressed FLAC file from an MP3; overall, listeners scored barely higher than if they had guessed at random.

When I failed, I, like many listeners, blamed the quiz’s authors for choosing tricky songs. Then I glared at my headphones for leading me astray. Finally, growing desperate, I resorted to critical theory: “What even is real?” I asked, channeling Baudrillard a few decades too late.

Counterfeit money is real if someone accepts it. Is counterfeit sound real, then, if someone hears it as such? If someone likes it? If someone buys it? If someone shares it with a friend?

Simply put, there is no such thing as an “authentic” reproduction of a sound source. Philosophers such as Joshua Glasgow have exhausted themselves trying to prove that full fidelity, identical replication of an originary musical event, is possible, but myriad factors impede perfect replication of a listening experience, however pure the signal: the varying lengths of our stereocilia (ear hairs); variations in the acoustics of our studios and in our playback equipment; and most significantly, our unique memories and aesthetic ideals. But, they say, imagine if we could listen in a vacuum. Okay, but we can’t. From nearly every angle, listeners keep getting in the way.

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This morning feels clean and early. Clean like a hangover, wiped over by poison and left fresh. Early like a Saturday morning that feels like a Sunday, but still with the promise of Sunday ahead, such that time seems to stretch and yawn.

#feels