lava

friend who teaches a class there in interface theory and other things that I

don't know so much about, but it seemed we shared so many ideas...

and well .. afterall .. if writing is forgetting i shouldn't be too

surprised that i don't remember what's in there

interface theory

i'm just doing user interface design

visiting hotels .. just came from one

<-o-> something like that, it seemed more theoretical that just the

idea of the interface, at least to me...

<-o-> hotel, traveling?

no, just in the neighborhood, we're visiting them to analyse them and

design things

as a practical approach to interface design

<-o-> hmmm

guest's interface to a hotel

receptionists and other people are good but also other things are

needed

<-o-> ever heard about feng shui?

sounds familiar .. i don't know

<-o-> the Chinese system for energy flows and placement of objects

and elements in houses (a western definition...)

oh that, yes

i was just reading one book about it last week

there was also the same for cats :)

<-o-> it is quite interesting, like the idea in Carlos Castenedas

books about place in a room, that everyone has a special place...

<-o-> the placement of cats in rooms? ;)

we just moved so it was kinda right thing .. no, not quite that :)

<-o-> it is an interesting process, settling a constellation of

objects into a space...

homebuilding

<-o-> like shaking a tray of marbles, if you shake it regularly, and

gradually slow down the period of shaking, the marbles form a regular

pattern, if you stop it quickly, they are more chaotic...

gotta try .. although i almost see it in my eyes already

suddenly fall in love with symbolic links that allow synonymes

<-o-> it was a model for molecules of molten rock, lava, that when

they cool quickly, they have small crystals and are chaotic (fractal?), if

the lava cools slowly, you can get fabulous huge crystals with high degrees

of symmetry...

<-o-> time and the even flow of energy

huh

my flatmate knows of crystals

<-o-> they are cool!

and i'm a bit confused

<-o-> about?

being tired and things to do i suppose

there are people around

<-o-> oh yeah,

<-o-> I am just sitting in the corner of the lab here, not too many

around, with headphones, listening to a friends real audio station in

colorado...

you are telling such nice things :)

<-o-> I will be off line enjoying family life with friends for a

week, so I have to get some practical things happening online now...

practical

<-o-> well, thank you, I feel energetic today

like?

<-o-> well, just anwsering emails that if they sit for a week, people

get worried...

<-o-> mostly arrangements for the next place I will be teaching in

Kiel starting next Monday

yes. i really couldn't figure out how listening to the station would

be practical :)

<-o-> but, and trying to add some writings, impressions to my

travelog web space...

i almost lost my ambitions

<-o-> no, it just is nice crazy mix of musik

fell into a weird world

<-o-> uh-oh, maybe time for a beer

travelog?

*** End of Lastlog

<-o-> well, I have been writing a travel journal online for two years
through all my long travels...

thought so

a friend just told me about sound generator

for some reason (i know) i'm a bit enthusiastic

(my screen is a bit busy

)

<-o-> your text pages are a trip, I love the flow of info, very

organic, and readable...

you met perttu

i'm not a reader

<-o-> yeah, he took me on a tour of Kiasma

i almost worked there

and my mother is almost from tornio

<-o-> wellmuseum, it seems cool, plenty of tech toys, for sure,

nothing new in Finland, but impressive in the big picture...

<-o-> yeah, Tornio in 2.5 weeks

i'm stuck here

the me-the-traveller

<-o-> I'll meet Terhi there, and take over the internet course for

the next six weeks..

<-o-> well, time to rest, time to move

i find it so funny you tech the net :)

teach

<-o-> well, I want artists to engage it

*** End of Lastlog

<nAm:#42> le fittan i le handen

funny how people want things

<-o-> it isn't such a great thing if there are only a few elites who

know it, a net has greater value for all, the more people there are on it...

<vmp:#42> nuku yön yli ;)

the sooner it will be forgotten

which is good

the goal, even, was at least

<-o-> well, I come from a military-technology background, and want to

oppose that in some ways...

you do? funny

<nAm:#42> öh. noku noku ;)

<-o-> but what was the goal?

to get the society over the net, to let them forget about it

back in '94 when netppl got started

<-o-> well, in most places in the world they don't even know about

it... I heard the number 3 percent of the world's pop have any access to a

computer...

<-o-> it is a small splinter in the eye of god...

"for most telephone is just a rumour"

was a headline today

<-o-> right

<-o-> I heard 15 percent have telephone access...

that many?

<vmp:#42> "peanuts. europe sucks."

<vmp:#42> :)

i dont

*** Signoff: koki (Connection reset by peer)

<-o-> ;0

count 15% +1

<-o-> over the top...

<-o-> in the US if you are on welfare, you arenot allowed to have a

phone

<-o-> keep the poor silent...

all that misses everything important but has to be pushen through

*** End of Lastlog

im' sorry i'm not expressing myself really

<-o-> do you want to reject the net for yourself and everyone? or

technology in general? or mediation in general?

i just want other things to exist for change

which is of course mindless babble i'm sorry again which seems to be

all i'm capable of today

<-o-> but mediation of the world always changes, and the world itself

is always changing even when you don't want them to...

<-o-> okay, forgiven, maybe time for a BEER!

"i just want other things to exist for change"

<-o-> I have to talk with Christa about the performance I will do

here in June...

<-o-> they will, they do

suddenly i'm happy about those words, triple meanings

<-o-> deep breath

hope to see you in tornio

<-o-> uh, sure, look me up!

hope to see a performance one day :)

<-o-> well, hope you see one of my good ones... they are erratic...

once i noticed that performances are easy to do and did some already

in my mind

forgot about it later, though

<-o-> see you around here though, too, I will be IRCing more from

Lapland... that's what the course is about -- communications...

<-o-> I like spontaneous ones

<-o-> unprepared

naturally

<-o-> yeah

i'll twist some of these words into something

which will be far from communication

ok?

<-o-> cool...

<-o-> (oh gotta run talk with C. now, on the schedule for the thing

in June...)

<-o-> later, don't forget that beer...

i will

<-o-> Far away from communication... is the electricity of Being

<-o-> bye

bue

bye i mean :)