COSMIC TRANSLATION CLASS 12 - refusal to use rancour and contention ----- Original Message ----- From: Mystery Writer Date: Thursday, November 14, 2002 20:44:12 To: Greydon Moore Subject: Clyde gets a word in... Hey, you sound just like me in your refusal to use ranker and contention. Unfortunately, I learned the hard way to keep my mouth shut when a couple of years back I was shunned by staff at another school for being a bit too blunt with my opinions on the stupidity of sections of the curriculum (much contention). People became defensive and I found myself wide-eyed with surprise over the alienation. I am not too pleased with humanity in general, and it is precisely because gifted people or even just non-sheep people are given the invisible treatment, unless they squash themselves into a normal box with everyone else. I have always refused to do that, and I don't like walking on eggs with people. Basically, I'm a normal guy, but I am not a Yes man. Still, I learned a hard lesson about tact in honesty, so I can't say the experience wasn't needed. I admire your faithfulness to creativity. I love to write and have a few boxes of notes myself. Maybe Mystery Writer and I will be able to find Billy Barker one of these days. Take it easy, Clyde ----- Original Message ----- From: Greydon Moore Sent: Tuesday, November 12, 2002 11:53 AM To: Mystery Writer Subject: Re: **SPAM** Clyde gets a word in... Hi big fella. I used to fantasize that soon I would get called into the circuit and travel around giving talks or presentations at universities and interested congresses but so far not a single invitation, not even a hint. I am out in the wilderness howling as loud as I can where the dark winds are big and noisy, the more degrees and indoctrinations out there the less my high pitched intones are heard no matter how loud I project intent. I do not choose ranker or contention which I am sure are ways to get immediate attention in some circles. I choose to wait quietly in the background hoping this way I cannot be seen to be out there willfully interferring, and, get far less psychic comeback. In the sixties I was keynote speaker at a weekend science symposium held at an ocean side camp in the Olympic penninsula - where I met David Susuki he liked my keynote and joined me for breakfast. I was also keynote speaker at two academic symposiums held under the guise of University of British Columbia when the university president, and Dean of men, and myself were a buddy trio that weekend, interesting by that I was a third year student not a phd or post grad which everyone kept wanting to assume. However, these days, my contacts with astronomers and scientists are very limited, I know a few but we get along well best when I keep my mouth shut. Nearly twenty years ago over some mathematical work I did involving special relativity theory and atomic structures I was stopped one day in a corridor of Canada's National Research Council main building by Canada's first nobel prize winner (Gerhart Herzberg - I think that is the spelling) who stopped me as I passed me nodding politely and addressed me by my first name surprise! into his office we went for the afternoon as in 'hold all calls and cancel my appointments' - his instructions to his secretary as we entered his office his hand gently pressed between my shoulders guiding me straight into his inner office. Nice fellow. He spent some time re-iterating his creative approaches to finding things scientifically and when he was going through how you work night and day, all weekends, sleeping catnaps on a sofa, listen to no one who tries to discourage your explorations, and realized he was telling me that the exact means I had been using to work around the clock pursuing a solution was exactly the correct way to work was valid. Most scientists tend to be disciplined and rule their creatives according to clock schedules but most interesting new finds are made by individuals willing to work full time around the clock putting all else aside including private lives until solution is found on a project. Marshal McLuhan once asked me (fall 1969) if I would attend his coach house seminars at the University of Toronto with the view of me giving a few of his seminars for him, a very generous offer me sitting at equal hight on an equal hight chair on the other side of his desk. I left instead to return to the west coast to continue a writing project I was working on at the time my thoughts plagued with nothing else but passages for the writing project all of my notes in temporary storage in a friend's place in Vancouver. I may have been the only person to turn Mcluhan down on an offer, but, I have always had priority that creative is first, anything else second. Sometimes I wish it was not so however if I do not get it when then the push is at maximum it slides away unfinished as nothing more than rough notes in the bottom of an apple box holding notes in storage I have quite a few apple boxes full of notes in storage. Someday I hope to get back into them to see what interesting notes are sitting there but do not see a day until I am free and clear of income burdens, for instance currently delivering pizzas part time for grocery money. I used to be able to work two shifts, that is, income, then creative, then income back to back through the months but not it seems anymore. (insert) Not at the present time - no incomes - and that innexorable glide of age which slows physical motors, makes them feel pull of gravity more and more. The reverse is supposed to be happening, aging slowing or even stopped, and pull of gravity experienced less then hardly, but planetary happenings and current chaoses are making the schedule itself slow down in the pull of gravity, at least, for the time being. As far as I know the pull is due to change as it effects us soon, very soon, perhaps in our lifetimes. Even as it is I am oft (when feeling really chipper) eyeballed as in my early 40's when 63 years old is standing there beaming in the admiration of eyeballer's interpretations of my physical appearance - to me it proves the big plan is working. A number of people, more and more, have roasty toasty good looks and stay youthful looking despite that glide into geriatrics. I take this as a good sign, a very good sign, because I know the some of that long lasting youth in so many is not from chemicals. (end insert) Rogers home internet cable is in use here, two years ago it was lightning fast typically 230 to 450 kb in internet connects and image downloads, 800 up to 1400 kb in FTP upload-download, compared to 5.6kb for high speed telephone modums. Rogers however is getting creakier and slow typically about 80kb sometimes up to about 120kb occasionally over 200. The speed apparantly, has to to with how many clients online now, when first hooked up I was on a new line that had few clients now the line seems full up. Alas. Even so, I can load a page from my site at about the same speed as the page loads at home from directory in my computer. A slow internet connection tells, there can be up to 7 or more megs in loading one of my astronomy pages most are in the 1.5 meg to 3.5meg range, I do this deliberately, put as much as I can in one page, to get around the typical astronomy site of having to click around back and forth back and forth to find one image or description or another, then waste 1/2 hour or so trying to get back one image. I have the fatalistic belief that someone - professional for instance - keenly interested in my pages, will go the extra step in converting to high speed, except, where income does not allow it. Some scientists last week suggested I split my site into that which is so-said religious in nature, and that which is purely scientific and empirical. I do not know how this could be possible since experience and conscioiusness intunement are directly related to science modes where only a few salient facts are deemably empirical on the bottom line. Greydie/ -------Original Message------- From: Mystery Writer Date: Tuesday, November 12, 2002 08:22:16 To: Greydon Moore Subject: Clyde gets a word in... Hey Greydon, I teach at a local university - English Comp.. and Tech writing. During certain parts of the semester I get quite bogged down with papers. You can imagine that correcting about 100 mid-term essays does to the brain. From your web sites I would guess that you must also teach science or astronomy at the university level. Mystery Writer has gotten me into astronomy and your sites are her favorites. She knows quite a bit, though she claims to be able to recognize only Orion and the Pleides (sp?). We are still waiting for all the pictures at your site to display so we can see Quasar. Dogs stare out at us from everywhere in our apt. We love dogs! Take it easy, Greydon. (Notice I got your name right this time). Clyde (insert) Never taught at academy, never wanted to, there you teach what the university wants and what you urge might never be spoken without dismissal discussions, unless, of course, some great prize of prestige won giving you elbow room, but, even then, such prizes go to those who write what the prize givers want and what they don't want is never rewarded, if not outright interferred with or suppressed. (end insert) (-finished-) greydie@look.com