April 2009 Archives
Happy Birthday, Bill.
I hope the day is as good as it can be -- and here's to better days ahead, brother!
Love,
John
It is beautiful and bright. Sitting on a chair, in the lush green of the front yard. Sweating slow. Late April and it is in the 80's. Every once in a while a cool breeze curves around from the back of the house -- bringing with it a pale white confetti of flower petals. They swirl and twist in the air. A butterfly the exact shade (but on a larger scale) just fluttered by. Then, again.
It's Sunday, and I'm done with work for the day. So good to be home.
This is cool and disturbing, all-at-once:
Shot In The Back Of The Head from Moby on Vimeo.
Shot In The Back Of The Head from Moby on Vimeo.
The instrumental has a feel that's a cross between Twin Peaks and Silent Hill (to me, at least). It's a free mp3 download on Moby's site. The video, created by David Lynch, is primitive, perverse and hauntingly noirish. I like.
Ah. It's later than I should be up, but here I am, listening to Arcade Fire and typing. Waking at the alarm will be painful. Again: ah. And add a, "well" to that. Just feeling open. Playing a bit. Stretching the time. This is a small moment.
But I'm happy. Carpe Diem.
Adam came up with a theory about the genes in a type of yeast, devised experiments to test that theory, ran the experiments (more than once) and interpreted the results. Turns out Adam was correct in his hypothesis. Pretty good, considering Adam is a robot.
Robot Scientist Becomes First Machine To Discover New Scientific Knowledge
ScienceDaily (2009-04-03) -- Researchers in the UK have created a 'robot scientist' which they believe is the first machine to have independently discovered new scientific knowledge. The robot, called Adam, is a computer system that fully automates the scientific process.
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/04/090402143451.htm
How cool is that?
