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Unison 2.13.16 Lin/Win File Synchronizer
Subject description: A Linux to Windows (or Linux) graphic file synchronizer w/conflict resolution!
I've just created a new dot pet for Unison 2.13.16.
Description from the developer website:
Unison is a file-synchronization tool for Unix and Windows. It allows two replicas of a collection of files and directories to be stored on different hosts (or different disks on the same host), modified separately, and then brought up to date by propagating the changes in each replica to the other.
Unison shares a number of features with tools such as configuration management packages (CVS, PRCS, Subversion, BitKeeper, etc.), distributed filesystems (Coda, etc.), uni-directional mirroring utilities (rsync, etc.), and other synchronizers (Intellisync, Reconcile, etc). However, there are several points where it differs:
* Unison runs on both Windows and many flavors of Unix (Solaris, Linux, OS X, etc.) systems. Moreover, Unison works across platforms, allowing you to synchronize a Windows laptop with a Unix server, for example.
* Unlike simple mirroring or backup utilities, Unison can deal with updates to both replicas of a distributed directory structure. Updates that do not conflict are propagated automatically. Conflicting updates are detected and displayed.
* Unlike a distributed filesystem, Unison is a user-level program: there is no need to modify the kernel or to have superuser privileges on either host.
* Unison works between any pair of machines connected to the internet, communicating over either a direct socket link or tunneling over an encrypted ssh connection. It is careful with network bandwidth, and runs well over slow links such as PPP connections. Transfers of small updates to large files are optimized using a compression protocol similar to rsync.
* Unison is resilient to failure. It is careful to leave the replicas and its own private structures in a sensible state at all times, even in case of abnormal termination or communication failures.
* Unison has a clear and precise specification.
* Unison is free; full source code is available under the GNU Public License.
This version was chosen for compatibility with older systems.
There is a newer stable release (2.27.57), but I didn't make a pet of that one because it is less compatible with older Unison releases, and apparently some newer versions of Ubuntu Unison as well..
This version works wonderfully with every OS I've tried it on.
The unison-2.13.16.pet can be downloaded here:
Note: after installing Unison, navigate to usr/X11R7/lib/x11/fonts/misc/ Then right click in the directory,
Window>Terminal Here
(opens a terminal in that directory) and enter:
Then re-start X (or reboot). This registers a font that is essential to Unison. And it resolves the error message reported further down in this thread.
For more information, the Unison website is here:
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Posted: Mon 09 Nov 2009, 17:55
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Hi tried it out on puppy 4.12 and get this error with the gtk version
Happen to get the same on 2.12.
Any ideas...
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Posted: Mon 09 Nov 2009, 20:49
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Hmmm, no Mike. I actually created and used it on 412.
I'll try to look at what I have for gtk installed.
Oh, okay, I get it -- you're not using the .pet I made up, but are going to the Unison website to try to load one of their binaries.
Did you try the .pet I made, Mike?
If for some reason you need something from the Unison site instead of the .pet above ...... as I recall there was a big problem for me in creating that .pet that took some fanagling to figure out and solve. The problem was that Unison required a weird font that I had to locate by trial and error in a big package of fonts by the same name.
If you take my .pet and open it in xarchive, you can probably find that font and install it manually.
That's just a guess, MikeB. My memory isn't great for this stuff once I get something working!
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Posted: Mon 09 Nov 2009, 22:42
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No ... definately used yer pet and made sure that odd font is in place. Perhaps it is related to the font and it needs adding to X in some way...I will persevere as it is a very useful binary in spite of this hiccup. I did find some google references to it but no obvious solution.
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Posted: Mon 09 Nov 2009, 23:00
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That's odd, Mike, out of curiosity, I just added to this 4.3.1 I'm testing, and it worked fine.
At what stage do you get the error message? Is it right off the bat, or do you get into the program a ways?
Sometimes fonts don't register properly. Did you re-boot? Maybe check permissions on the font, and look for it in your directory. Let's see, what are some other causes of fonts not being picked up .....
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Posted: Mon 09 Nov 2009, 23:11
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hmm fonts cache perhaps......odd as you chose this version as pretty universal..and when you made this pet 4.12 was the current version I believe....I will play with it again soon and sort the stubborn little darling...no worries...could be something silly at this end
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Posted: Mon 09 Nov 2009, 23:18
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not so fast.....it might be my bad....
You should have:
ahh, wait.........it looks like it belongs to a user named 800 instead of root if I look at the pet in xarchive..... could that be the problem?
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Hmm root commands all but could be a clue....after all that font is about the only external difference from the cli so yer never know...will test later
bummer...chowne to root but same error
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Posted: Tue 10 Nov 2009, 23:43
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Got it Mike!
Open a terminal in usr/X11R7/lib/x11/fonts/misc/ and type:
Then re-start x
Otherwise the new font isn't registered/recognized, even though it's in place.
Now to test: try a new profile in unison with two test directories Test1 and Test2 in /root. put a few files in one and then sync them.
after you try a few things, you'll find it easier to alter profiles by editing them in geany -- they're located in /root/.unison
Took me awhile to be able to duplicate your error message -- had to do a new install. I was fooled into thinking everything worked okay because I assumed you were crashing after trying to open Unison, and I was able to open it -- but I hadn't tried going further and testing a local sync -- that's when your error message must have come up.
Anyway, I'm editing the original instructions to include the fix.
Mike you must be the first person to have tried this .pet --- or else everybody else has been suffering in silence!
Thanks for the feedback!
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Posted: Wed 11 Nov 2009, 07:43
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Ooops no mail notification....
Mike you must be the first person to have tried this .pet --- or else everybody else has been suffering in silence!
I never suffer in silence and nor should anyone else
well so simple once yer know how...a bit like running depmod for module.
Running nicely now...off to test.
I noticed it says it has to be running on both machines when used over a network but I use NFS so I will test if it's ok running one sided.
Using rox or gftp for synchronising just doesn't quite do it does it plus I need something under my belt for small businesses.
Thanks for the help
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Posted: Wed 11 Nov 2009, 15:05
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No, mike, I don't have to run it on both machines -- I don't believe.
I use ssh, and that takes care of it, I think.
For instance, I might just start it up from the menu on my laptop, and as long as the desktop is up I can just initiate a sync from the laptop.
I don't remember that Unison itself runs as a server app on the desktop. But then I really haven't looked at the docs in awhile. Once things are running well I tend to forget about how they worked! I'm testing dpup beta4 now and it won't let me scroll down the Unison Help file on this laptop for some reason I get one screenfull and that's it. So I can't read up on it at the moment.
I think my Unison setup just uses the ssh app. The only reason I'd start Unison on the desktop is if I wanted to initiate it from that one. Which is rare, when using the laptop.
Of course it doesn't matter which one initiates it, you can always control the direction of any particular sync for any particular file or directory..It's Just a matter of convenience where you initiate from.
The biggest boon to this would be if someone wrote a script to merge mailfiles which were out of sync and had both been updated separately. I once found someone who had done this for Unison using Ruby code. But I never could get his program to successfully merge my mailfiles.
Obviously, since a mailfile is a single file, if you force a sync, you will only get one file clobbering the other, not a merged set of contents of the two files. If mail files were composed of separate document files in a folder, it would be easier.
The workaround for mail files is to, say, sync lap and desktops before a trip, then go on a trip with your laptop, receive your mail on it, and when returning home, immediately sync them. Then only use your desktop for mail until your next trip, then sync the laptop, etc.. In other words, only download mail on one machine until you sync them. Don't use both in parallel.
But it should would be nice to have a mail file merge program to resolve conflicts. Then we'd really have true independence for the machines.
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ssh is used to run the remote copy I believe.
I was able to sync one sidedly (this is english?) via NFS and also to our website using curlftpfs...neat. First scan is slow but after that is slick and efficient
I tested with the gui launched with folders in the command line which avoids a profile being created each time whilst testing or for one off syncs. Neat software
As for mail syncing.....hmmm...my setup is only the main machine uses pop and has local folders for archives. Everything else uses imap or if not available pop but leaving files on the server.
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Posted: Wed 11 Nov 2009, 22:07
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Yup, I think it's a great program, and as you say, fast after the initial sync.
The last thing I remember that worked like it was Lotus Notes' "replication" capability. The ability to deal with save conflicts on different machines is the really important part. With that capability you can create good collaborative groupware.
I once worked in the ISO 9000 quality system software field where this ability was an important component of real time qs operation. Notes was a central piece. Maybe Unison could be combined with a database app and a mailer to make something similar.
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Posted: Mon 11 Oct 2010, 16:30
Post subject: Re: Unison 2.13.16 Lin/Win File Synchronizer
Subject description: A Linux to Windows (or Linux) graphic file synchronizer w/conflict resolution!
vtpup wrote:
The unison-2.13.16.pet can be downloaded here, but you will need to enter a username and password to get it (u is
p is
For more information, the Unison website is here:
I don't find the unison pet file the link is not good (excuse for my english i'm french)
thank you
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Hmmm, my mediapup directory seems to have disappeared (or maybe it was moved..... will have to check on it.
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Local film historian Shelly Isaacs bring his Café Cinematheque series of international films to this small Delray Beach cinema for a special screening of "Le Havre" before the movie opens in a handful of theaters on Dec. 9. Directed by deadpan Finnish master Aki Kaurismaki, "Le Havre" is one of the year's most critically acclaimed films, boasting a 98 percent positive assessment on the critic aggregator site Rotten Tomatoes. It's about the relationship between a bohemian shoeshiner and a young African boy who risks deportation from government officials. The special screening price includes popcorn and a drink.
Opening night of "Mark Handforth: Rolling Stop" at Museum of Contemporary Art, 770 N.E. 125th St., North Miami; 7 to 9 p.m.; free for museum members and Art Basel VIP members and $25 nonmembers; 305/893-6211 or www.mocanomi.org
Back in 1996, Miami sculptor Mark Handforth was the first artist to have an exhibition at the fledgling, newly opened Museum of Contemporary Art in North Miami. Now, to celebrate its 15thanniversary in the Joan Lehman Building, the museum is returning, full-circle, to the artist who started it all. Handforth specializes in large-scale, outsized sculptures of quotidian, everyday objects like coat hangers and traffic signs. "Rolling Stop" compiles more than 30 works spanning Handforth's career, including a new light installation occupying more than 80 feet of the museum's walls. Tonight's opening-night party also celebrates the kick-off of Art Basel.
Opening day of "Jenny Saville" at Norton Museum of Art, 1451 S. Olive Ave., West Palm Beach; 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.; $5 to $12; 561/832-5196 or www.norton.org
Contemporary British painter Jenny Saville is the first of at least three coups in the Norton's 2011-2012 season, which seems to be chockablock with young, groundbreaking female artists. Lumped in with the Young British Artists movement that began in the late 1980s, Saville makes rough-hewn, abrasive and thematically heavy renderings of the human form, often spotlighting transsexuals and transvestites. Preferring to focus on the female form in its many variations, Saville has said that she paints subjects with "floating or indeterminate gender," making spectators rethink any preconceived notions about gender in the process. The exhibition is on display through March 4.
Howie Mandel at Hard Rock Live, 5747 Seminole Way, Hollywood; 8 p.m.; $49 to $69; 800/745-3000 or www.hardrocklivehollywoodfl.com
This slot in the Week Ahead was initially supposed to filled by Don Rickles, but after the legendary insult comic canceled last week, Howie Mandel was gracious enough to fill in. Frankly, I find most of the biggest marquee names in stand-up comedy – Jay Leno, Dane Cook, Carlos Mencia – to be fame-stained hacks who have rested on their laurels and forgotten their comedic roots. I've never gotten that impression with Mandel, a seemingly effortless funnyman whose career as a comic remains his strongest calling card, despite achieving newfound notoriety as a game-show host. But if you see him before or after his appearance, don't offer to shake his hand: His germophobia is notorious.
Bill Clinton at Books and Books, 265 Aragon Ave., Coral Gables; 5:30 p.m.; $23.95; 305/442-4408 or www.booksandbooks.com
On the other hand, it's not often you get to shake hands with a former president, let alone score the man's John Hancock. Visitors to Books and Books on Thursday evening will have the opportunity to do just that, provided they buy Clinton's new tome, "Back to Work," for 24 bucks at the bookstore. Purchasers will receive a voucher that allows entry into the autograph line. A far slimmer volume than Clinton's autobiography, "Back to Work" is a timely, 208-page remedy for our current economic woes. A long time ago, Clinton may famously have said, "The era of big government is over," but this time around, he lays out just how the federal government can fix a broken financial system.
Thursday to Sunday
10th Annual Art Basel at Miami Beach Convention Center, 1901 Convention Center Drive, Miami Beach; noon to 8 p.m. Thursday to Saturday and noon to 6 p.m. Sunday; $23 to $40; 305/674-1040 or www.artbaselmiamibeach.com
Expect to see the work of more than 2,000 diverse artists from more than 250 galleries from North America, Latin America, Europe, Asia and Africa. As the most important art fair in the Southeastern United States, if not the entire country, Basel's reach extends beyond the convention center; the satellite fairs, film screenings and free concerts scheduled around Miami are often as exciting as the main attraction. We'll have more on the music end of Art Basel on this site later this week, with previews of the unique concerts coming our way.
Thursday and Saturday
"Luisa Fernanda" at Broward Center for the Performing Arts, 201 S.W. Fifth Ave., Fort Lauderdale; 7:30 p.m. Thursday and 8 p.m. Friday; $21 to $200; 954/462-0222 or www.fgo.org
Florida Grand Opera launches its season with a rare and special treat for Hispanic audiences and opera aficionados alike: its first production of a zarzuela—an ancient, populist form of Spanish musical theater. Titled "Luisa Fernanda," this romantic zarzuela by Federico Moreno Torroba debuted in 1932 and has since been sung by Placido Domingo at Madrid's legendary Teatro Real. What separates zarzuelas from traditional operas is that the works have spoken dialogue (projected with English and Spanish subtitles), a rarity in a Florida Grand Opera production. Zarzuelas are typically on the lighter side emotionally, so "Luisa Fernandez" looks to be a pleasant introduction to an FGO season heavy on tragedies such as "Rigoletto" and "Romeo
and Juliet."
Buzz Bake Sale at Cruzan Amphitheatre, 601-7 Sansbury's Way, West Palm Beach; 12:30 p.m.; $26 to $46; www.livenation.com
On South Florida FM dials littered with station after station of hip-hop/R&B, top 40 and country music, it's nice to know that there remains at least one – and only one – venue for alternative rock music. The Palm Beach station The Buzz 103.1 may be the lone dial for teenagers to get their angst on, but it's still responsible for one of South Florida's major single-day musical festivals. The Buzz Bake Sale features live performances by 10 acts on the station's rotation. I've only heard of three of them, but here's the full list: Staind, Seether, Chevelle, Hinder, Everlast, Adelita's Way, Art of Dying, Middle Class Rut, Falling in Reverse, and One:. Gotta love superfluous colons.
The Boca Raton Symphonia at St. Andrews School, 3900 Jog Road, Boca Raton; 3 p.m.; $33 to $59; 866/687-4201 or www.bocasymphonia.org
The Boca Symphonia, one of our city's top nonprofit arts institutions, opens its 2011-2012 season with this afternoon concert, which will include pieces by Mozart, Prokofiev and Schubert. Guest violin soloist Tim Fain will perform with the Symphonia. Fain is charismatic young star who has appeared on the soundtracks of "Black Swan" and "Bee Season," performed at Alice Tully Hall and Lincoln Center, and has played everything from Beethoven to Philip Glass.


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Beat the Streak Report: Weekend, June 3-5
'Member a few weeks back when we threw down a batting glove at America's favorite news host/presidential candidate? Well, that's still pending.
But in the meantime, the BTS Report holds the court and we're issuing a new Streaking challenge.
Here's a hint: he's an action hero, a rap superstar, a philosopher, an honorary U.S. Deputy Marshal and the 2000 NBA MVP. He slept in a Superman bed well into his 30's. A man of many, many names who really needs just one: Shaq.
That's right, Diesel: we hear you're going to have a little more time on your hands. How 'bout a 1-on-1 Streak game? We'll play pickup rules — first to five wins, call your own fouls, rims with no nets. DM @MLB if you think you've still got game.
Streakers: Get at the Big Aristotle/Shaq Fu/Shaqtus/Wilt Chamberneezy and let him know you want to see a 7'1″ man make a pick. Please do not inquire as to how your Streak tastes.
Friday's picks:
(Make a BTS pick)
Oh, hello there …
• Billy Butler: .457 AVG (16-for-35) since '06 vs. Twins starter Carl Pavano
• Curtis Granderson: .429 AVG (6-for-14) since '06 vs. Angels starter Jered Weaver
• Rickie Weeks: .556 AVG (5-for-9) since '06 vs. Marlins starter Ricky Nolasco
Feeling kinda spicy?
• Skip Schumaker: .459 AVG (17-for-37) since '06 vs. Cubs starter Ryan Dempster
You'll thank me later …
• Carlos Gonzalez: .120 AVG (3-for-25) since '06 vs. Giants starter Matt Cain
• Miguel Cabrera: .100 AVG (2-for-20) since '06 vs. White Sox starter Mark Buehrle
Home Run BTS pick:
Saturday's picks:
(Make a BTS pick)
Oh, hello there …
• Vladimir Guerrero: .615 AVG (8-for-13) since '06 vs. Blue Jays starter Ricky Romero
• Brandon Phillips: .600 AVG (6-for-10) since '06 vs. Dodgers starter Clayton Kershaw
• Jimmy Rollins: .714 AVG (5-for-7) since '06 vs. Pirates starter Charlie Morton
Feeling kinda spicy?
• David Murphy: .714 AVG (5-for-7) since '06 vs. Indians starter Fausto Carmona
You'll thank me later …
• Denard Span: .136 AVG (3-for-22) since '06 vs. Royals starter Luke Hochevar
• Paul Konerko: .122 AVG (5-for-41) since '06 vs. Tigers starter Justin Verlander
Home Run BTS pick:
• Jayson Werth: (8 HR this season) vs. Diamondbacks starter Joe Saunders
Sunday's picks:
(Make a BTS pick)
Oh, hello there …
• Aramis Ramirez: .462 AVG (17-for-38) since '06 vs. Cardinals starter Chris Carpenter
• Joey Votto: .438 AVG (7-for-16) since '06 vs. Dodgers starter Chad Billingsley
• Angel Pagan: .533 AVG (8-for-15) since '06 vs. Braves starter Tim Hudson
Feeling kinda spicy?
• Alex Rios: .600 AVG (9-for-15) since '06 vs. Tigers starter Brad Penny
You'll thank me later …
• Kosuke Fukudome: .100 AVG (2-for-30) since '06 vs. Cardinals starter Chris Carpenter
• Prince Fielder: .071 AVG (1-for-14) since '06 vs. Marlins starter Anibal Sanchez
Home Run BTS pick:
• Jeff Francoeur: (9 HR this season) vs. Twins starter Brian Duensing
Top MLB streakers
Ryan Theriot: 15 games
Hunter Pence: 13 games
Chase Headley: 11 games
Mike Morse: 10 games
Jhonny Peralta: 10 games
(Make a BTS pick)
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Another weekend upon us, another mass kill off? Kinda feel somewhat like 13-year cicadas, but of the 7-day variety 😉
Good luck to all except those atop the charts
No leaderboard comments today?
Did he run out of jokes?
Or did Shaq smash the leaderboard?
Friday's Top Picks of the current Top2500, 151 batters picked overall
Batter, Times Picked, Percentage
Billy Butler 205 8.28 (runner up)
Victor Martinez 181 7.31
Andre Ethier 172 6.95 (Leader)
Rickie Weeks 158 6.38
Joey Votto 148 5.98
Albert Pujols 116 4.69
Jose Bautista 100 4.04
Adrian Gonzalez 89 3.6
Ichiro Suzuki 74 2.99
Matt Holliday 64 2.59 (DL)
Matt Kemp 60 2.42
Placido Polanco 49 1.98
Curtis Granderson 47 1.9
Lance Berkman 47 1.9
No Selection 43 1.74
Josh Hamilton 38 1.54
Robinson Cano 36 1.45
Highest "No Selection" 🙂 pg# 9 with streak of 15 back to zero.
Yesterday's Top2500 reset rate was 14.43% with As.Cabrera resetting the most. There were 12.9% that remained idle
Got Pinched OR 1 AB Wonders. Top2500 saved or reset by pinch hitters and/or defensive switch, 1 AB or more
W.Bloomquist PH RESET 2, 10 & 8-gamers
Bloggers Group Top2500
UserName, Streak, Page#, Rank, Pick
YanksGiantsDevils33, 13, 15, 347, A.Pujols
Top2500 Bloggers Reset Yesterday
Well I guess LaVolpe is rooting against me today since I went with the leader's pick.
Well, not directly against you — not til you get into the 20's 😉
4th-inning single moves me onto 4!
Looks to be very few resets today, especially if Weeks gets a hit tonight — pretty offensive Friday
I went with Jhonny Peralta of the Detroit Tigers today for the hitters and Nelson Cruz of the Texas Rangers today for the pitchers.
I took Jeter today based on his numbers off of Ervin Santana. He broke a 15 game streak I had earlier, he better not let me down again.
Friday's Top Picks of the current Top2500, 170 batters picked overall
Batter, Times Picked, Percentage
Miguel Cabrera 206 8.24 (Leader)
Josh Hamilton 200 8
Jose Bautista 148 5.92
Alex Rodriguez 119 4.76
Adrian Gonzalez 110 4.4
Lance Berkman 100 4
Vladimir Guerrero 99 3.96
Todd Helton 90 3.6
Albert Pujols 76 3.04
Brandon Phillips 73 2.92 (runner up)
Ryan Braun 66 2.64
Asdrubal Cabrera 65 2.6
Jimmy Rollins 62 2.48
No Selection 56 2.24
Prince Fielder 52 2.08
Highest "No Selection" 🙂 pg# 3 with streak of 18 back to zero.
Yesterday's Top2500 reset rate was 23.11% with R.Weeks resetting the most. There were 8.6% that remained idle
Got Pinched OR 1 AB Wonders. Top2500 saved or reset by pinch hitters and/or defensive switch, 1 AB or more
R.Braun PH SAVED 17, highest was 18-gamer
B.Dewitt PH SAVED 1, 11-gamer
A.Craig PH RESET 1, 14-gamer
B.Hawpe PH RESET 1, 13-gamer
J.Drew PH RESET 1, 17-gamer
R.Santiago PH RESET 1, 9-gamer
Bloggers Group Top2500
UserName, Streak, Page#, Rank, Pick
YanksGiantsDevils33, 14, 11, 254, D.Jeter
Top2500 Bloggers Reset Yesterday
Oops, above listing is for Saturday, not Friday.
So who had Nyger Morgan for HRBTS 🙂
So far this weekend has just been average with 23% falling yesterday and nearly 20% today. Near bottom of the heap, personally I'm hoping for some big upsets on Sunday; a lot of last AB hits saved a ton of people today.
damn, I am pretty pissed that I switched from Moreland to Peralta towards the end of my analysis.
that is 2 "second-guesses" in the last 12 days.
I should be at 12 now, instead of 0!
At least Cruz came through in HR BTS!
That part of this game sucks, I agree. I've had several of those in the past 2 weeks which is probably why I'm in a "2-3 game & reset" pattern since my 10-gamer ended 2+ weeks ago. Over analyzing on my part and some bad luck. But when it comes to good luck, I fall short there all the time…. Let's put it this way: when I play penny-poker, I'm always digging into my wallet for those big bills 😦
My problem seems to be that it is always easy to make winning picks each day, but as my streak gets longer and longer, I always trick myself into thinking that if I analyze further, my picks will be even safer and that is when I go 0 for.
Maybe that is why my career best streaks always come in the summer, when I am busier.
Sundays are days of rest for starters sometimes. May want to check the early lineups and rotoworld to make sure your pick isn't benched & potential pinch hitter later.
My picks today:
BTS: Jay Bruce
HR BTS: Jose Bautista
Survivor: Where is this contest?
Odyssey: Why did this contest never start? It drives me crazy to not even know what it would have been about!
Sunday's Top Picks of the current Top2500, 168 batters picked overall
Batter, Times Picked, Percentage
Joey Votto 452 18.08
Robinson Cano 179 7.16
Wilson Betemit 125 5.0 (runner up)
Josh Hamilton 119 4.76 (PH maybe?)
Albert Pujols 118 4.72
Michael Young 112 4.48
Adrian Gonzalez 85 3.4
Ichiro Suzuki 85 3.4 (0-fer last 3 games)(Leader)
Placido Polanco 73 2.92
Jose Bautista 56 2.24
No Selection 51 2.04
Matt Kemp 46 1.84
Matt Holliday 43 1.72 (DL)
Andre Ethier 41 1.64
Derek Jeter 39 1.56
Highest "No Selection" 🙂 pg# 6 with streak of 16 back to zero.
Yesterday's Top2500 reset rate was 19.52% with J.Bautista resetting the most. There were 10.12% that remained idle
Got Pinched OR 1 AB Wonders. Top2500 saved or reset by pinch hitters and/or defensive switch, 2 AB or less
S.Schumaker DEF RESET 4, highest was 12-gamer
C.Crisp PH SAVED 2, 12,9-gamers
LMontanez DEF RESET 1, 13-gamer
S.Smith PH SAVED 1, 10-gamer
Bloggers Group Top2500
UserName, Streak, Page#, Rank, Pick
YanksGiantsDevils33, 15, 9, 195, M.Holliday (DL)
Top2500 Bloggers Reset Yesterday
1at AB single by Bruce moves me to 1!


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Invasive species are plants that have been introduced to an area
that can alter and damage the ecological relationship among native
species. The list below contains some of the more aggressive invasive
plants found in Bernards Township. The Environmental Commission
recommends that all development applications be checked against
this list to insure that invasive species are not listed. Township
residents should learn to identify each species. Due to their highly
aggressive nature, we urge you not to plant them on your property.
Black Locust - Robinia pseudoacacia
Norway Maple - Acer platanoides
Tree of Heaven - Alianthus altissima
Autumn Olive - Elaeaghus angustifolia
Japanese Barberry - Berberis thunbergii
Multiflora Rose - Rosa multiflora
Russian Olive - Elaeaghus angustifolia
Japanese Honeysuckle - Lonicera japonica
Oriental Bittersweet - Celastrus orbiculatus
Common Reed - Phragmites australis
Japanese Knotweed - Polygonium cuspidatam
Purple Loosestrife - Lythrum salicaria
Japanese Stilt Grass - Microstegium vimineum
For a complete list of invasive species, to aid in identification,
and to learn the best methods for control please visit the
States Department of Agriculture National Invasive Species Information


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A Sandwich A Day: Salt Beef on a Beigel in London
A different sandwich profiled every single day.
In this great country of ours, one could eat a different sandwich every day of the year—so that's what we'll do. Here's A Sandwich a Day, our daily look at sandwiches around the country. Got a sandwich we should check out? Let us know. —The Mgmt.
At the end of Brick Lane just beyond the Indian markets and restaurants you will find Beigel Bake, a 24-hour bakery that is known for Jewish style bagels as well as apple strudel and rye bread. The simple sandwich that puts this shop on the map is salt beef on a beigel.
Salty, tender beef piled high on a perfectly cooked fresh bagel with smear of mustard. Hearty, filling and just what you need after a few too many pints.
Salt beef, or corned beef as it is known in America, is a brisket that is brined in a mixture of sugar, salt and spices for a period of days then is gently boiled for several hours until the salty, savory meat is impossibly tender. If you find yourself in Brick Lane and you have had your fill of Indian food grab a salt beef beigel and an apple strudel for a satisfying hearty snack at any hour of the day.
159 Brick Lane, Shadewell, London, Greater London E1 6SB UK
159 Brick Lane, Shadewell, London, Greater London, E1 6SB UK (map) (020) 7729-0616 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beigel_Bake
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For reasons too lengthy to go into, I've found myself back in school to get a degree in Film Studies. In some ways I'm just spinning my wheels, but a refresher will be very good for me and force me (and others) to be more analytical toward my work. One of my first assignments in my Film Production I class is to make a short film with no dialogue. This exercise is to help you tell your story with visuals, so you can't rely on the spoken word (voice overs are allowed, but I'm sticking to the letter of the law). It's essentially a silent film, something I've never done before.
Anyway, I thought it might be educational to post my progress on this assignment which may help others who are trying to do something similar. I also hope to get feedback from you, which can only help me to be a better filmmaker. The due date is June 24, so I had better get cracking.
The other criteria for this project is that you have to shoot it yourself, you can't star in it, and it can't be over five minutes. I have no problem with the first two items, and there is no way I even want to approach the five minute mark. I just don't have the time to craft a film of that length. I want my story to be about three minutes, which is will still be tough, but doable.
The first thing I needed was an idea and one came to me while getting out of the shower. Oddly enough, the bathroom is a place I often get inspired and this time was no different. I wanted to do something more character driven and less plot-heavy than my previous work, and I think I hit on it with Payoff, a short story that plays like the tail end of a prodigal daughter tale.
I wrote a first draft of the script pretty quickly, and it came in at just over two pages. It's all action (of course), which may mean that it plays longer than written. I should be able to get my three minutes with ease.
Read the screenplay for Payoff...
Please click on the above link, and feel free to give me your input below. My schedule is pretty compressed (casting and shooting next week), but I am always open to good ideas. I've had pretty good collaborative experiences when shooting, but have resisted this at the writing phase. Now's your chance to make a difference! Tell me what you like and why! Tell me what sucks and why! Just make sure you tell me!
Friday, May 30, 2008
Tuesday, May 20, 2008
The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian
Not Quite a King
Three years ago, I had an unexpected surprise in viewing the first film of Disney's The Chronicles of Narnia series, based on the C.S. Lewis books. I didn't expect anything above decent, but what I got was spectacular. The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe became my favorite film of 2005. Now comes the next tale, Prince Caspian, which reunites almost all the same talent to continue the saga. While equally impressive in scope, this sequel suffers from a weaker story and underwhelming villain.
One year has passed since the Pevensie children unexpectedly left their beloved world of Narnia. Summoned back for unkown reasons, they discover their former home now an ancient ruin. 1300 Narnian years have passed in their absence and an evil king now reins. The true heir to the throne, noble Prince Caspian (Ben Barnes), has fled to avoid being murdered at the hands of his wicked uncle. It is the prince who has magically called the Pevensies to save Narnia and return it to it's rightful citizens. With the odds against them, they must form an alliance and find the only one who can save them all: Aslan.
The look of this film is simply breathtaking. Returning director Andrew Adamson and his new cinematographer Karl Walter Lindenlaub (Georgia Rule) have crafted a vivid canvas full of epic scope and lush detail. When the kids first return, they arrive on sparkling beach with water that looks so inviting you can almost smell the salt water. The forest is rich and very green, and the fields of battle are majestic and deep as far as the camera can see. It's all very impressive.
The CGI work is again excellent. With many a mystical creature filling this universe, they all appear realistic. From warrior centaurs to flying gryphons, it all comes across well. Aslan again projects himself as the regal Lion, the spiritual leader who we really believe is there (Liam Neeson's voice work doesn't hurt, either). There is a spectacular dream sequence where Lucy envisions flower petals carried upon the wind that form human shapes and faces. Beautiful.
All of the actors playing the Pevensie kids return, with only young Lucy (Georgie Henley) showing signs of growing up. I love these characters, and they have such good chemistry together that I could watch them for hours on end. Henley still steals every scene she's in, but I also liked the fact that older sibling Susan (Anna Popplewell) has feelings for the Prince and is no longer a kid, but a budding young woman. Another character I really enjoyed was the dwarf Trumpkin (Peter Dinklage), who's sarcasm is much larger than his tiny body should allow.
So why the so-so rating? As much as I found to like about Prince Caspian, I had almost as many dislikes, which I am disappointed to report. A large part of this is the story--it's just not that interesting. While Lion had a great slow-brewing plot that culminated with an exciting battle sequence, Caspian seems to just be about the battles themselves. There are more of them, but they are without tension or drama. I was bored during most of these segments (with the exception of Susan using her bow to great effect), which became bigger as the movie went along, but never seemed to get better or more engaging.
Another gaffe is the bland villain. King Miraz (Sergio Castellitto) is not very menacing, and never generated any worry inside of me for our heroes' fate. Add to that the very lucid memory of Tilda Swinton's wonderfully evil White Witch from the first film (she makes a cameo this time), and the letdown continues. In any kind of thriller you simply must have a great baddie to initiate jeopardy, but the limp one we get here doesn't do the job.
I really wanted to like Prince Caspian. I love those kids, and the world Adamson and company have created is a vision to behold. It may be unfair to compare it to the far superior first film, but even on its own merits, this movie comes up short. And I haven't even brought up the sword-wielding mice...
Monday, May 19, 2008
Your Tripod is Really a Dolly/Crane?
Prolost just turned me on to this excellent micro-budget trick that should be in everyone's quiver. To get a smooth dolly or low angle crane move, simply shorten the front leg of your tripod and push or pull while tilting. It's stupid simple, but can yield some very professional results. Check out the video above for some very convincing examples. Sure, you still need a tripod, but you own one of those anyway, right?
Monday, May 12, 2008
"You have to be very, very, very good at film making to entertain people for 90 minutes with string and a webcam."
There's a great debate going on over at $1000 Film concerning the possibility of making money with a micro-budget movie. This is, and always has been, the mantra of Clive and his excellent blog, but it is a radical concept. It boils down to this: you can make something great for a paltry sum, as long as you know what you are doing. It's a philosophy I completely agree with.
Click on the link and read what others are posting (and Clive's responses) for a very informative read. $1k rocks!
Click on the link and read what others are posting (and Clive's responses) for a very informative read. $1k rocks!
Tuesday, May 6, 2008
Iron Man
Heavy Metal
Did we really need another superhero movie? We seem to be inundated with them as of late, and while some do the job well (the Batman reboot, and the Spider-Man series), most have fallen pretty flat (Daredevil, Hulk, Fantastic Four and its sequel). I grew up reading my share of comics from the Marvel universe, but haven't been as excited about the latest villain-smasher as in previous years. When I heard that ol' Metal Head was coming to silver screen, I was mildly interested. When I discovered Robert Downey, Jr. was going to play lead Tony Stark, I was very interested. Fortunately, they really got it right this time--Iron Man is a very good movie in almost all categories.
Tony Stark (Robert Downey, Jr.) has it all. Brains, money, women, all the booze he can drink, and the most powerful weapons manufacturing corporation in the world. While showing off his latest creation in the Afgani desert, he is abruptly captured by a terrorist army armed with his products. Locked in a cave with the man who saved his life, he must build his latest missile from spare parts or face certain death. Stark has other plans, however, and learns that he must give back to all the lives he has indirectly taken over the years. He shuts down weapons production and creates a high-tech suit of armor that gives him super powers. But will his own company and partner Obadiah Stane (Jeff Bridges) sit still for such radical action? Does Tony Stark care?
This is a great story that flies in the face of just about every rule we've been taught about movies of this ilk. Instead of already being a straight arrow type, Stark is a selfish man of the world, who has a change of heart. He's not a mutant of any kind, but creates his powers through the ability of his creative engineering chops--he's a DIY Superman. He even lacks the typical alliterative name that we usually associate with superheroes (personal assistant and love interest Pepper Potts (Gwyneth Paltrow) does have one, however). The film carries this theme right down to the last line of dialogue which lets us know this ain't your mom's comic book movie. I love it.
All the characters are well-devleoped, but this is Downey, Jr.'s movie. He is so good here, bringing a snarky likability to the shallow-turned-deep Stark that you totally root for him. He fights not only the obvious baddies, but also the corporate America he helped create. A great script from the writers of Children of Men, fleshes Stark out and gives him lots of funny dialogue (As he gets in an Army vehicle: "I'll be here in the Funvee, while you're back in the hum-drumvee"). Who better to cast as Stark than a guy who himself has turned his life around?
There are three relationships in the movie, but two are critical and effective. Stark and Potts have several great moments, including a potential kiss on a balcony and another where she must perform impromptu surgery on him. It's funny, tender, intense, and perfect. The second involves Bridge's character and he is wonderfully sinister here. I've never seen him play someone this dastardly before, but he nails it. Every comic book movie needs a great villain, and Iron Man has one, thank you very much.
Of course you gotta have action, and director Jon Favreau (Zathura) gives us just enough to keep us happy. Iron Man flies, shoots repulsor beams from his palms, micro-missles from his forearm, and can take out hostage-holding bad guys with one shot. The CGI work really excels, looking realistic enough to suspend our disbelief and keep us in the movie. My only qualm is that while the action is good, it doesn't blow your socks off. Considering how high the bar was set by the rest of the film, I was hoping for more, but didn't really get it. This is just a minor knock on an otherwise excellent movie.
In my book, Iron Man ranks right up there with (but doesn't surpass) the very best of superhero cinema, the first Superman (1978). It's got a unique, well-acted character in Tony Stark, an engaging plot that never feels boring, good relationships, and decent action. It fulfills every requirement of the genre and then some. It sets a very high standard for the rest of the summer, and here's hoping that's a good omen rather than all downhill from here.
Monday, May 5, 2008
Speed Racer vs. Lexus: Yeah Right!
This past weekend I had the great joy of experiencing the wonderful Iron Man (review coming), which ranks right up there with the best of the superhero movies, the original Superman (1978). Since it was the first big movie of the 2008 season, I was excited to see the new crop of trailers that would tease audiences about what this summer might be like (as if we didn't know already).
One of the best is the goose-bump inducing Speed Racer which looks visually stunning and super exciting (let's hope there's a story to go along with all the flash). Here's what I saw:
This trailer made me want to test drive the nearest sports car and stomp hard on the gas pedal. The tempting thrills presented in these few minutes were immediately dampened by this laughable commercial from Lexus:
This typical slo-mo car ad, quickly became a joke due to unfortunate placement. What about this boring spot makes you want to drive their fancy car? Not much. I want a Mach 5 instead! I wonder if it comes with a white helmet...
One of the best is the goose-bump inducing Speed Racer which looks visually stunning and super exciting (let's hope there's a story to go along with all the flash). Here's what I saw:
This trailer made me want to test drive the nearest sports car and stomp hard on the gas pedal. The tempting thrills presented in these few minutes were immediately dampened by this laughable commercial from Lexus:
This typical slo-mo car ad, quickly became a joke due to unfortunate placement. What about this boring spot makes you want to drive their fancy car? Not much. I want a Mach 5 instead! I wonder if it comes with a white helmet...
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cairnswk wrote:Thanks natty for the xml check.Gilligan wrote:ender516 wrote:I wonder if the term "non-stackable" will be clear to all users.
The only bonus I am unclear on now is the 1 Rev. + 6 Landowners, which is worth +3. If I have 2 Revs. and 6 Landowners, will I get +6, or do I need 2 Revs. and 12 Landowners? There is a way to code either one.
2 Revs and 12 Landowners, 3 Revs and 18 Landowners, etc. It's coded to be that way.
Yes, that means it accumulates, doesn't it.
So for the other bonuses which don't accumulate, they would be non-accumulative, or is that still the wrong word?
How about this:
"Can only be used once (will not multiply)"
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Nick Sun: Blood On The Yolks In The Key Of Owls
Note: This review is from 2006
Time and time again in his debut show does he sabotage his routine with self-doubt. Whenever he builds up some head of momentum, he brings it crashing to a halt by criticising his material, his delivery or the dynamic of his tiny room. It's very frustrating.
Of course, he's aware of the effects such insecure overanalysis has on the dynamic of the set – he can't help but mention that, too – but it would be more helpful to combat it, rather than draw more attention to it.
After all, he cares more about these things than the audience, who in an hour-long festival show are prepared to cut the performer a little slack so they can hear what he has to say. And when he does allow himself to get going, Sun can shine.
He's formed opinions on everything from laddish clubbing culture to the vacuity of much conversation and from death and terrorism to the aggressive sexuality of the Pussycat Dolls. There's often a need for stronger punchlines or more jokes, but Sun is more interesting than he believes himself to be.
Typical of the unnecessary knots he ties himself into is his segment on his ethnicity. It's clear he doesn't feel defined by it, or indeed find it any big deal, yet feels compelled to discuss it. So we end up with a lot of time spent talking about why he doesn't want to talk about it.
Insecurity has been used as a powerful comedy tool from Woody Allen onwards, but at the moment Sun too often lets it get the better of him, rather than harnessing it for his own ends. This 24-year-old Sydneysider still has a lot of promise, if only he could find the confidence to realise it.
Reviewed by: Steve Bennett
May 2006
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After some consideration I finally decided on a song for this year. When I was a little girl, my mom used to play Brenda Lee's Christmas album, "Jingle Bell Rock". I loved those songs, but there was one that always gave me chills and brought a tear to my eye (almost every time...even today). I've played this album for my kids as well, and my oldest son Benjamin loves this song too. It's called, "The Angel and the Little Blue Bell."
Now let me see...no hot toddy for me tonight, but my cup of tea is still warm.
The Angel and the Little Blue Bell
At Christmas time in the steeple high
The bells would proudly ring
To tell the world of the joy and cheer
That Christmas Day would bring
But one little bell in the steeple high
Could only pain alone and cry
No matter how he'd try and try
Poor little thing
He couldn't ring
At all...
All the other bells in the steeple high
Saw all his lonely tears
And watched him try his best to ring
Each Christmas through the years
But the little blue bell in the steeple tall
Just cried when Christmas came to call
For like I said in spite of all
Poor little thing
He couldn't ring
At all...
One Christmas Eve in the steeple high
An angel did appear
She smiled and said to the little blue bell
I've come to dry your tears
And on that night so the story's told
She changed the little blue bell to the purest gold
With the richest tone to hold and hold
Proud little thing
Just hear him ring
At all


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BEOS may never have been sucessful, but it also might have been had microsoft not actively squashed it. Its nice to try and quarter back last saturadays game, but it doesn't change the outcome.
Its not a strength. Its a weakness becuase no one has stood up to people who insist on needing some silly unque little widget for one application. the linux API is a mess on the desktop. Unifiying the API would good a long way to making more 3rd party developers like adobe get on board with tools like photoshop etc.


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Somewhere in France
June 10, 1918
Dear sister Madaline:
The days and nights go by so quickly and quietly that I cannot seem to realize I am so far away and on foreign soil. We are not very far away from the trenches and our real training has just begun. Our training over hear is going to be very much different than what we have been getting on U.S. Soil. As yet I haven't heard from you or Anna in fact no mail has arrived in camp since we left the states. You don't realize how anxious I am to hear from you about home and when I do you can assume I will feel very much better. Although my health and condition is the best yet I have been taking good care of myself and haven't smoked since May 19th.
We drill about six hours each day and get three good meals a dy. Their are certain hours when we can buy wine for 3½ francs or about seventy cents and real beer for twenty centimes or four cents per glass. The wine is sold only by the bottle. How is pa and every one home? Many a time I think of home and wonder what or how you all are feeling but do not feel sure of myself as its so long since I heard and was sure that you were all feeling fine.
Must close now dear sister as drill call is about to sound and that means work.
I am. Your Brother
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My Factoid Trivium
June 10, 2008
Toxi published some images from his fiducial generator project; making keys for a reactivision setup (I guess…)
Reactavision, in action, can be seen here, rocking out with Bjork, no less.
You see the blocks they are using on the table? The underside has an image, which is a key, which connects to other objects in predefined ways – programmed as the image.
But the images,they're great fun, just as images. They all have a MutantTeddyBearNess to them.
I couldn't …resists…meddling.
Bit of context with warm sunny light.
Mocking something up on a side of something, gives context of sorts.
Viscousy and silk-screening; tacky pop.
TV themed, in a poltergeist kind of way.
And something you'd find on a techno album cover.
They kinda got darker as I went along, into the night, Gimping. I sucjk at photoshop.
Now, as they (the images) are 'keys', and he says they need only be binary (black and white), so colour has no impact on their function (their geometry gives the uniqueness, thus there can be maaaaaaany of them.), therefore, I guess they will still work, even if hacked with some poor 'photoshopping' gimping.
Exploring the idea of keys having personalities, to the point where you don't need the physical 'key'.
Kind of like the 'book people' in Fahrenheit 451.
QR codes don't really do it for me. They need to have more 'personality'. Though I do like the term paper storage. Did you know you could get video encoded into coloured QR codes? You can, you know. Not available yet though.
As much as I liked pixelated animations, it takes some extremes to work in a (full functioning) QR code.
I picked up a book called Meet Mr.Product whilst in Dusseldorf, visiting the exhibition Tim Keil suggested over the twitterwaves.
Here's some photos.
What a wonderworld that must be, if they could all live in a Truman show kind of thing.
Clear characters, with purpose in life, looking for friends, happy to help and eternally young.
It could be a world where brands could bred freely.
Could a multi-branded version of Spore, the new eagerly awaited game from EA, be educational or really annoying? (<- use this link if the video below has given up the game.)
See, a platform like reactivision, affords many, many, maaaaaaaaaany clear characters to exist, with purpose in life, looking for friends, happy to help and eternally young.
Platforms inspire a million characters, if they have a clear purpose within the context.
But, these characters are roles, if they have purpose. Roles are agents conspiring to bring conformation through differentiation; the fiducial teddy bears are the affordance of the platform; conformed in geometry logic, diversified through irrationalities.
The benefit to this: transmission.
Finding friction free, high capacity storage 'objects', needs for one thing – be able to transmit.
Technology is a real time story, looking to make objects that transmit.
Objects, that receive is not a request of technology, or any facate of craft, but a burden of language.
Language doesn't learn to be better, users adjust it to work within changing frameworks.
To store changes, we have to extend language to work as containers, to which we can place 'understandings'.
We create languages to store objects that relate; sub-languages such as slang, is used within peer groups, who want to describe 'understandings' in their social-economic contexts.
The relationship between language and object, is technology – the crafting – the act of transmission is a scribe within the objects construct. Technology gives us a timestamp to decode the relationships between objects, but cant itself create languages. Technology may give us daily, monthly, yearly, new parameters for 'creating', but the ability to create 'storage' objects comes from the limitations of expression within time.
Could it be possible to make zillions of boxes, and automate the storage of things as they 'appear' to us?
Without an understanding of surface, a complete understanding or the properties of the perception plane, the answer is no. The translation of 'insight' to the 'physical' requires a mapping of time to material – unless we can find ways of making things outside a linear production model. Open Source, which you may not consider a linear production model, is just that. Although all the tributaries flowing into a single build, the linearity occurs at the 'gateway'.
It's because things are not divisible by things. Everything is estimate; precision lies.
Although storage is amenable to the most awkward items, it handle infinite variants very well.
Another Gursky.
As soon as a wrapper is applied to an object, the immediate context changes and thus invokes the story of the relationship between the storage and the contents.
This relationship is the root of the factoid, the point where fabrication and digestion of the narrative's objects commences, unleashing it's trivium. Because you apply a language to something, you are creating the relationship.
Thomas Ruff.
Another Thomas Ruff.
Note the jaggy jpg compression tearing (the pixelation), that's intended. These are huge digital prints, made up of recursive colouring of the pixels. Here's some more, so you get the idea. (I saw these in NYC last November, and feeling blown away by them.)
Both these artists studied under the Bechers , who did lots of this:-
It's why this campaign is more than an advert. It's demonstrating personalised recursive storage. The creative multiples the storage of the media space. Spaces within spaces within spaces, all 'humanised'.
Check out the London underground carriage posters – they all have 3 'hidden' smiles. Brilliant recursive design.
Using anthropomorphic storage platforms enables us to see 'things' as people and relationships.
We can engage in these relationships as we would people – on our own terms, our own language systems, our own arguments attended to.
A world of relationships, seen not as things.
A technology of stateless storage, recursively designing, producing and distributing relationships, for personal gain.
Which takes us into the uncanny valley.
An anthropomorphic system that responds with authenticity, requires a depth of experience that equates, not betters, the human relationship. Importantly, feedback time is critical to authenticity. The space of time that something is not doing something indicates factors of the transmissions.
The pauses between our spoke words are just as important as the words themselves.
This is a form of error handling for the transmission. Packets of data are sequenced with silence. Like music…
Scripting Artificial Intelligence will lend itself to one benefit: building a system to judge and attempt- it's why they are so popular in gaming systems – A good AI is judged on the array of faults you can exploit, not the definition of it's persona. In fact, the array of faults constructs the personality based upon your Factoid Trivium. Any faults in comprehension remains in the design of the key properties.
So where can character driven arrays take us if sequencing is initiated by investigation?
More likely to be this…


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The church elder was not happy when he saw the church parsonage. Two previous ministers had lived in the house, but he hadn't seen how it looked empty. "When you go into a furnished house you see the character of the people in it," Rick Kehl says. "When you go into an empty house, you notice every flaw." So Kehl led members in a church version of the television show "Extreme Home Makeover" to redo the parsonage.
The church elder was not happy when he saw the church parsonage. Two previous ministers had lived in the house, but he hadn't seen how it looked empty.
"When you go into a furnished house you see the character of the people in it," Rick Kehl says. "When you go into an empty house, you notice every flaw."
The new pastor's wife's first reaction wasn't much better.
"They should have shown me the people before they showed me the house," Cheryl Briseno says now.
The kitchen may as well have been a large, dark closet with six cabinets. Forget about space for a kitchen table. A dark tunnel of a space separated the kitchen and dining room. Upstairs, the minister, his wife, and three teenage daughters would have to share a bathroom. Other than that, the house hadn't been updated since the 1970s.
But Cheryl Briseno was as committed as her husband, the Rev. Joe Briseno, as he took over the pastorship of First Christian Church in Mason City. She was willing to accept, she says, "whatever God provided."
To her way of thinking, God must have provided Kehl, the church elder, who thought the house didn't exactly show how much the church honored the new pastor and his family.
So Kehl led members in a church version of the television show "Extreme Home Makeover" to redo the parsonage. They tore out walls, gutted the kitchen, redid one bathroom, created another, rewired, carpeted, painted - basically remodeled the entire house in about six weeks in the summer of 2007.
"It was such a coordinated effort of so many people, we called it being in the body of Christ," Kehl says. "Somebody was the hand, somebody was the foot, everybody had a different job."
For Kehl, a retired art teacher and aficionado of TV home design shows, updating the parsonage became an opportunity to put his artistic and teaching experience to the test.
"What blows my mind is we did the kitchen for under $7,000," he says.
Cabinets, one of the more expensive parts of kitchen remodeling, became a focal point for Kehl's designing-on-a-dime ingenuity. They bought good basic stock cabinets, installed glass doors in some doors, accented other doors with bead board and/or rope molding, then distressed and glazed them.
Such simple, but inexpensive tricks, gave the cabinets a finished, high-end look, Kehl says. They were equally creative upstairs when they enlarged and remodeled one bathroom and tore out walls in another room to make a master bathroom.
The house, an arts-and-craft style built in 1910, had good bones and strong features, including large main rooms and a living room, staircase and entrance full of old-timber red oak. It's just, in some cases, space hadn't been used effectively, Kehl says.
He and Cheryl Briseno became something of a team during the project. Kehl recalls how, one night, he woke up with a vision for the new kitchen. He sketched out his ideas, then called Briseno, who had not yet moved to Mason City. He told her he hoped she liked French country style. As it turned out, she had been collecting French Country items for years.
Kehl picked out most of the colors throughout the house, she says, but they matched her style and furnishings.
Re-doing the parsonage also became a team-building project for the church. Kehl is full of stories about how the job brought members and other volunteers together, such as the grade-schoolers who helped build the island countertop in the kitchen or the elderly member who didn't think she had anything to contribute until she learned workers appreciated her home-baked pies.
There was one other unintended consequence.
"A lot of people either used skills they hadn't used in a long time or learned new skills," Cheryl Briseno says. "So we've had a breakout of other home remodeling projects in the congregation."
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