Showing posts with label egg. Show all posts
Showing posts with label egg. Show all posts
Sunday, 2 February 2020
Friday, 15 June 2018
weasel breaks cern
When the machine shutdown, investigators discovered the charred remains
of the weasel next to a 66kV chewed cable which powers the equipment. 2016
Killdeer: A diminutive bird known for its shrill, high pitched call is threatening to derail one of Canada’s biggest music festivals after it built a nest in the same location as the main stage was slated to be erected. The bird – which enjoys protected status in Canada – had laid four speckled eggs on a cobblestone patch, effectively claiming the main stage area as its nesting grounds.
It had already been damaged by ploughing, but permission to excavate a listed site was granted because of damage by more recent trouble makers – badgers which were burrowing out the entire site, and kicking out human bones as they dug.
2019 slug breaks railway
Its electrocuted remains were found lodged inside equipment next to the tracks, Japan Railways says.
Killdeer: A diminutive bird known for its shrill, high pitched call is threatening to derail one of Canada’s biggest music festivals after it built a nest in the same location as the main stage was slated to be erected. The bird – which enjoys protected status in Canada – had laid four speckled eggs on a cobblestone patch, effectively claiming the main stage area as its nesting grounds.
It had already been damaged by ploughing, but permission to excavate a listed site was granted because of damage by more recent trouble makers – badgers which were burrowing out the entire site, and kicking out human bones as they dug.
2019 slug breaks railway
A power cut that disrupted rail traffic on a Japanese island last month was caused by a slug, officials say.
More
than 12,000 people's journeys were affected when nearly 30 trains on
Kyushu shuddered to a halt because of the slimy intruder's actions.Its electrocuted remains were found lodged inside equipment next to the tracks, Japan Railways says.
Tuesday, 21 February 2017
woah spoiler
Thus, in France, four eggs "were placed before birth on top of drones
while still inside the eggshell and, after hatching, kept them there
during their early feeding period," Reuters reported in November.
The eagles were named after characters in "The Three Musketeers," and by February proved capable of intercepting drones in lightning-fast horizontal chases. "Soon they will be casting off from peaks in the nearby Pyrenees Mountains,"
According to a Dec. 12, 1912, article in The Gleaner, the Morganfield City Council yielded to a crusade by the community's "leading women" and passed an ordinance prohibiting such dances as the Turkey Trot, the Bunny Hug, the Jelly Wobble, the Tangleworm Wiggle "or other like lewd and lascivious dances."
"The eagles are making good progress," said the French air force's commander of a program that adapts the ancient art of falconry to the threats of unmanned flight.
The eagles were named after characters in "The Three Musketeers," and by February proved capable of intercepting drones in lightning-fast horizontal chases. "Soon they will be casting off from peaks in the nearby Pyrenees Mountains,"
According to a Dec. 12, 1912, article in The Gleaner, the Morganfield City Council yielded to a crusade by the community's "leading women" and passed an ordinance prohibiting such dances as the Turkey Trot, the Bunny Hug, the Jelly Wobble, the Tangleworm Wiggle "or other like lewd and lascivious dances."
"The eagles are making good progress," said the French air force's commander of a program that adapts the ancient art of falconry to the threats of unmanned flight.
Friday, 28 October 2016
ovum anguinum
There is also a sort of egg, famous in the provinces of Gaul, but
ignored by the Greeks. Innumerable snakes coil themselves into a ball in
the summertime. Thus they make it so that it is held together by a
bodily secretion and by their saliva. It is called an anguinum. The
Druids say that [the snakes] hiss and cast it upwards, and that it is to
be caught in a cloak so that it not touch the ground. One must
immediately ride off on a horse with it, for the snakes will continue to
pursue until the course of a stream blocks their way. If one tests it,
the anguinum will float against the current of a river even
when covered in gold. And, as the magi will throw a cloak of deception
over their trickery, they make out as though the eggs are to be taken
only on a particular point in the lunar cycle, as though it was up to
human beings to determine the snakes’ role in this procedure.
Nonetheless, I have seen one of these eggs myself. It was round the size
of a small apple. The shell was cartilaginous, and mottled with cups
like the tentacles of a squid. The Druids value it highly: it is praised
as insuring success in litigation and in going to audiences with kings.
However, this is nonsense; for once a man (a Roman knight and a
tribesman of the Vocontii) held one of these eggs against his body
during a trial, and was condemned to death by the Emperor Claudius, for
that reason alone so far as I can tell.
https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=F7pZfLUoHJIC&pg=PA279&lpg=PA279&dq=Shepherds%27+crowns,+fairy+loaves+and+thunderstones:+the+mythology+of+fossil+echinoids+in+England&source=bl&ots=vOaKkqEfKL&sig=KgjEwynw9hh9u6PilNtvGn7tzPg&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0CDAQ6AEwAmoVChMIu_6DvM-DxgIVg0bbCh26kACs#v=onepage&q&f=false
Llhuyd informs us that "the Cornish retain a variety of charms, and have still towards the Land's-End, the amulets of Maen-Magal and Glain-neider, which latter they call Melprer, and have a charm for the snake to make it, when they find one asleep, and stick a hazel wand in the centre of her spirae," or coils. The rings thus generated are called Gleiner-nadroeth, or snake-stones.
Where is Sisyphus now? Using the analog sticks on the game controller, you move a little character who rolls a ball called a Katamari. The game is called Katamari Damacy.* The name translates roughly as ‘clump spirit’, which might in turn translate as ‘analog’. As the Katamari ball rolls, things stick to it. At first it is small things that stick, household items picked up off the living room floor. The ball gets bigger as things stick, and so it can pick up bigger things. Once your ball is big enough, you move out of the house and into the world. To move the ball, you twizzle the little analog joysticks. Push the sticks forward, and the character rolls the ball forward. Pull the sticks back and the character rolls the ball back. Turn left, turn right — it feels as though the variable pressure on the sticks translates into variable movements. This is analog — a relation of continuous variation. Only it isn’t really. It is a digital game. The game converts the continuous movement of your thumbs on the sticks into a digital code. It turns movements into decisions — back/forwards, left/right, stop/start. An algorithm calculates the outcome of each movement. If you roll your ball over a small object, you pick it up. If you roll your ball over one that is too big, you collide with it, throwing off a few things you have already gathered. Analog spirit becomes digital code (see Fig. D).But in Katamari Damacy, things are different. Rather than the rolling of the ball being entirely useless, now it is entirely purposeful. Time, like space, no longer harbors indifference. Brenda Laurel:”…even the smallest fragments of your idle time have been colonized…”. As you roll your ball around, making it bigger and bigger, an icon in the corner of the screen shows your progress. The icon shows your ball as a circle inside a larger one, which is the size it must grow to if you are to win this level. It grows, gradually, incrementally, but at some point — a decision. Big enough! An analog progression stops at the digital threshold.*katamari
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https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=F7pZfLUoHJIC&pg=PA279&lpg=PA279&dq=Shepherds%27+crowns,+fairy+loaves+and+thunderstones:+the+mythology+of+fossil+echinoids+in+England&source=bl&ots=vOaKkqEfKL&sig=KgjEwynw9hh9u6PilNtvGn7tzPg&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0CDAQ6AEwAmoVChMIu_6DvM-DxgIVg0bbCh26kACs#v=onepage&q&f=false
Llhuyd informs us that "the Cornish retain a variety of charms, and have still towards the Land's-End, the amulets of Maen-Magal and Glain-neider, which latter they call Melprer, and have a charm for the snake to make it, when they find one asleep, and stick a hazel wand in the centre of her spirae," or coils. The rings thus generated are called Gleiner-nadroeth, or snake-stones.
Where is Sisyphus now? Using the analog sticks on the game controller, you move a little character who rolls a ball called a Katamari. The game is called Katamari Damacy.* The name translates roughly as ‘clump spirit’, which might in turn translate as ‘analog’. As the Katamari ball rolls, things stick to it. At first it is small things that stick, household items picked up off the living room floor. The ball gets bigger as things stick, and so it can pick up bigger things. Once your ball is big enough, you move out of the house and into the world. To move the ball, you twizzle the little analog joysticks. Push the sticks forward, and the character rolls the ball forward. Pull the sticks back and the character rolls the ball back. Turn left, turn right — it feels as though the variable pressure on the sticks translates into variable movements. This is analog — a relation of continuous variation. Only it isn’t really. It is a digital game. The game converts the continuous movement of your thumbs on the sticks into a digital code. It turns movements into decisions — back/forwards, left/right, stop/start. An algorithm calculates the outcome of each movement. If you roll your ball over a small object, you pick it up. If you roll your ball over one that is too big, you collide with it, throwing off a few things you have already gathered. Analog spirit becomes digital code (see Fig. D).But in Katamari Damacy, things are different. Rather than the rolling of the ball being entirely useless, now it is entirely purposeful. Time, like space, no longer harbors indifference. Brenda Laurel:”…even the smallest fragments of your idle time have been colonized…”. As you roll your ball around, making it bigger and bigger, an icon in the corner of the screen shows your progress. The icon shows your ball as a circle inside a larger one, which is the size it must grow to if you are to win this level. It grows, gradually, incrementally, but at some point — a decision. Big enough! An analog progression stops at the digital threshold.*katamari
https://echinoids.wordpress.com/https://echinoids.wordpress.com/
Monday, 15 April 2013
Sunday, 20 January 2013
characteristics of dumb cake
measuring of the ingredients in thimbles or egg-shells
made and baked by a group in silence
salt
intitials are scratched onto the cake
other initials appear left by a doppelganger
An egg-shell-full of salt,
An egg-shell-full of wheat meal.
An egg-shell-full of barley-meal.
Water.
garnish the lower edge with English walnuts and autumn leaves.
sometimes objects are included: a ring, a button, a coin
eaten in silence
made and baked by a group in silence
salt
intitials are scratched onto the cake
other initials appear left by a doppelganger
An egg-shell-full of salt,
An egg-shell-full of wheat meal.
An egg-shell-full of barley-meal.
Water.
garnish the lower edge with English walnuts and autumn leaves.
sometimes objects are included: a ring, a button, a coin
eaten in silence
Sunday, 11 March 2012
elective affinites/ magritte / 1933
One night, I woke up in a room in which a cage with a bird sleeping in it had been placed. A magnificent error caused me to see an egg in the cage, instead of the vanished bird. I then grasped a new and astonishing poetic secret, for the shock which I experienced had been provoked precisely by the affinity of two objects -- the cage and the egg -- to each other, whereas previously this shock had been caused by my bringing together two objects that were unrelated
Tuesday, 22 November 2011
the veiled image at Saïs
the veiled image at Saïs
turn at the statue of Champollion, says the guide
Lacan / ecrits/ 160
Apocalypse:
late 14c., "revelation, disclosure," from Church L. apocalypsis "revelation," from Gk. apokalyptein "uncover, disclose, reveal," from apo- "from" (see apo-) + kalyptein "to cover, conceal"
Calypso
Sheet of paper has gone missing must look for it at home. It contained:
1. The discussion of the concept of “system” and the doctrine of the extinguishing of intention in the truth, explained in terms of the veiled image of Sais.
2. Discussion of the concept of “essence” as the mark of truth.’
WB 1913-1926 /272
M. Champollion paid a visit, in his way, to the ruins of Sais, ... That part of the enclosure might well have contained great temple of Neith, the chief goddess of Sais, and we drove away, by our musket-shots, some owls, ...
The Asiatic journal and monthly register for British and foreign India, China and Australasia Vol 27
Novalis Die Lehrlinge zu Sais 1799
I. The Pupil. — Men travel in manifold paths: whoso traces and compares these, will find strange Figures come to light; Figures which seem as if they belonged to that great Cipher-writing which one meets with everywhere, on wings of birds, shells of eggs, in clouds, in the snow, in crystals, in forms of rocks, in freezing waters, in the interior and exterior of mountains, of plants, animals, men, in the lights of the sky, in plates of glass and pitch when touched and struck on, in the filings round the magnet, and the singular conjunctures of Chance. In such Figures one anticipates the key to that wondrous Writing, the grammar of it; but this Anticipation will not fix itself into shape, and appears as if, after all, it would not become such a key for us. An Alcahest seems poured out over the senses of men. Only for a moment will their wishes, their thoughts thicken into form. Thus do their Anticipations arise; but after short whiles, all is again swimming vaguely before them, even as it did.
TO ENVISION ✴ 39 Flusser / technical image
And so it looks as though our historical development in the West has reached a final stage that does not look significantly different from a Buddhist worldview: a veil of Maya surrounds the yawning nothingness of nirvana. From this standpoint, the powerful stream of Western history is about to empty into the ocean of the timeless Orient.
There is considerable evidence that such a suicidal view of Western society is justified. And yet this view largely overlooks what is significant in the current cultural revolution. That is, the visionary power that we are beginning to use and that we owe to technical images makes us capable of calculating and computing the whirring nothingness around us. Therefore our illusions are not things we should abandon to fall into nirvana but rather are quite the opposite, our answer to the yawing nothingness that threatens us. The veil of technical images that surrounds us, as similar as it may appear to an Oriental veil, challenges us to an engagement neatly opposed to the Oriental. Our veil is not to be torn but rather woven more and more closely. The following chapters are dedicated to looking at this increasingly dense mesh.
turn at the statue of Champollion, says the guide
Lacan / ecrits/ 160
Apocalypse:
late 14c., "revelation, disclosure," from Church L. apocalypsis "revelation," from Gk. apokalyptein "uncover, disclose, reveal," from apo- "from" (see apo-) + kalyptein "to cover, conceal"
Calypso
Sheet of paper has gone missing must look for it at home. It contained:
1. The discussion of the concept of “system” and the doctrine of the extinguishing of intention in the truth, explained in terms of the veiled image of Sais.
2. Discussion of the concept of “essence” as the mark of truth.’
WB 1913-1926 /272
M. Champollion paid a visit, in his way, to the ruins of Sais, ... That part of the enclosure might well have contained great temple of Neith, the chief goddess of Sais, and we drove away, by our musket-shots, some owls, ...
The Asiatic journal and monthly register for British and foreign India, China and Australasia Vol 27
Novalis Die Lehrlinge zu Sais 1799
I. The Pupil. — Men travel in manifold paths: whoso traces and compares these, will find strange Figures come to light; Figures which seem as if they belonged to that great Cipher-writing which one meets with everywhere, on wings of birds, shells of eggs, in clouds, in the snow, in crystals, in forms of rocks, in freezing waters, in the interior and exterior of mountains, of plants, animals, men, in the lights of the sky, in plates of glass and pitch when touched and struck on, in the filings round the magnet, and the singular conjunctures of Chance. In such Figures one anticipates the key to that wondrous Writing, the grammar of it; but this Anticipation will not fix itself into shape, and appears as if, after all, it would not become such a key for us. An Alcahest seems poured out over the senses of men. Only for a moment will their wishes, their thoughts thicken into form. Thus do their Anticipations arise; but after short whiles, all is again swimming vaguely before them, even as it did.
TO ENVISION ✴ 39 Flusser / technical image
And so it looks as though our historical development in the West has reached a final stage that does not look significantly different from a Buddhist worldview: a veil of Maya surrounds the yawning nothingness of nirvana. From this standpoint, the powerful stream of Western history is about to empty into the ocean of the timeless Orient.
There is considerable evidence that such a suicidal view of Western society is justified. And yet this view largely overlooks what is significant in the current cultural revolution. That is, the visionary power that we are beginning to use and that we owe to technical images makes us capable of calculating and computing the whirring nothingness around us. Therefore our illusions are not things we should abandon to fall into nirvana but rather are quite the opposite, our answer to the yawing nothingness that threatens us. The veil of technical images that surrounds us, as similar as it may appear to an Oriental veil, challenges us to an engagement neatly opposed to the Oriental. Our veil is not to be torn but rather woven more and more closely. The following chapters are dedicated to looking at this increasingly dense mesh.
Sunday, 10 April 2011
Zeeuwse mossel'
Tout est oeufs. Le monde est oeufs. Le monde est né du grand jaune, le soleil. Notre mère, la lune, est écailleuse. En écailles d'œuf pilées, la lune. Poussières d'œufs, les étoiles. Tout, oeufs morts et perdus. En dépit des gardes, ce monde-soleil, cette lune, étoiles de trains entiers. Vides. D'oeufs vides.
The eggs are laid by radioactive reptiles that inhabit the coldest regions of the planet in an area of total darkness. The eggs glow with soft blue fire…
burroughs / the place of dead roads
The eggs are laid by radioactive reptiles that inhabit the coldest regions of the planet in an area of total darkness. The eggs glow with soft blue fire…
burroughs / the place of dead roads
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