http://raysend.com/mark A study of nothingness Sat, 14 Jun 2008 16:21:54 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en This feed in your reader needs a little jostle. Nothing wrong with letting a field lie fallow. Once I get a handle on this host of ideas I might have something to write publicly about. Maybe. I _would like_ to blame my tools: quite simply I'm turned off framing any thoughts ... http://raysend.com/mark/2007/11/29/plowed-and-harrowed/  http://raysend.com/mark/2007/10/28/arthurs-seat/ Sarah and I arrive at the cinema to see a screening at the [film festival][] only to find a long line of at least fifty people out front. Being our first time at this theater, I did not know where to buy tickets. Leaving Sarah to guard our place, I ... http://raysend.com/mark/2007/08/19/human-behavioral-organization-on-queue/     _[At the Omaha Zoo][]_ by John Sypal [At the Omaha Zoo]:http://kenshukan.net/john/archives/2007/07/29/at-the-omaha-zoo/ I sympathize with the figure in the center. They survey the seen cooly, disinterestedly, neither for nor against the motion parading towards them. We used to posit that animals ran around randomly before we conceived that ... http://raysend.com/mark/2007/07/30/veneer-theory/ I'll sum up my visit to the [Japan Monkey Centre][1] and [PRI][2] with a photograph of a ring tailed lemur.  [1]:http://www.j-monkey.jp/ (日本モンキーセンター) [2]:http://www.pri.kyoto-u.ac.jp (Primate Research Institute) After a year of working with fruit flies, from hereon out I will work only with cute organisms. http://raysend.com/mark/2007/07/26/a-park-of-monkeys-and-other-primates/ [The ground][circle] is [shifting][partI]. Soon we will be standing horizontally. [circle]:http://williamtozier.com/slurry/2007/07/06/one-measures-a-circle "Towards coscience" [partI]:http://williamtozier.com/slurry/2007/07/06/one-measures-a-circle-part-i "Paul Edrös sends William Tozier to tell you..." http://raysend.com/mark/2007/07/07/did-you-feel-it/ [Folding Farmer][service] is a service for [Folding @ Home][Stanford], the protein folding distributed computing project. Instead of downloading the @home client and running it on your own machine, you can subscribe to Folding Farmer and utilize their computing cluster to process work units on your behalf. [service]:http://foldingfarmer.com/ (Folding @ Home as ... http://raysend.com/mark/2007/06/27/service-computing-for-hobbyists/ A deep vein winds through human thinking that we are somehow damaged or broken, cut off from something God-given and elementally pure. Whether we are or not is not a question I know how to approach, and yet I find the idea strangely and darkly appealing. Cultures rooted in Christianity are ... http://raysend.com/mark/2007/06/22/why-do-we-think-we-are-broken/ > I am concerned that in our zeal to move on to the “next paradigm” we may be > missing a tremendous opportunity to extend and deepen the current paradigm. > We have only scratched the surface of what would be possible if end users > could freely program their own applications… In ... http://raysend.com/mark/2007/06/22/web-service-apis-fun-programming-using-data-you-care-about/