Zach Houston

Zach Houston — Fri, 04 May 2012 07:00:34 +0000

radiolaria mirror miracles of the deep design science in action and seawater

Zach Houston — Fri, 04 May 2012 06:51:43 +0000

onomasiology & http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Folk-etymology both are ripe with strange language factoids and special ways to turn a phrase…and the internet equivalent recursive acronym, or metacronym.

Zach Houston — Fri, 04 May 2012 06:16:51 +0000

A Standard for the Transmission of IP Datagrams on Avian Carriers
and an implementation of the joke http://www.blug.linux.no/rfc1149/

Zach Houston — Mon, 30 Apr 2012 19:17:01 +0000

“The maximum power principle can be stated: During self organization, system designs develop and prevail that maximize power intake, energy transformation, and those uses that reinforce production and efficiency.”

Zach Houston — Mon, 30 Apr 2012 05:13:12 +0000

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bookseller/Diagram_Prize_for_Oddest_Title_of_the_Year

Zach Houston — Mon, 30 Apr 2012 04:30:08 +0000

I used these values to mimic what I think my brain does when it is asked to write a poem on a particular topic using a particular poetic form Phillip M Parker. about edge poetry. he is the author of over 200,00 books.

Zach Houston — Fri, 27 Apr 2012 06:58:11 +0000

For example, neurobiological monitoring, in particular measurements of the damping of alpha waves during perceptions of abstract designs, have shown that the brain is most aroused by patterns in which there is about a 20 percent redundancy of elements or, put roughly, the amount of complexity found in a simple maze, or two turns of a logarithmic spiral, or an asymmetric cross. It may be coincidence (although I think not) that about the same degree of complexity is shared by a great deal of the art in friezes, grillwork, colophons, logographs, and flag designs. It crops up again in the glyphs of the ancient Middle East and Mesoamerica, as well in the pictographs and letters of modern Asian languages.

Zach Houston — Wed, 25 Apr 2012 07:41:49 +0000

“Originally Sagan intended for the humans holding hands, but soon realized that an extraterrestrial might perceive the figure as a single creature rather than two organisms”

boston molasses disaster

Zach Houston — Wed, 25 Apr 2012 07:20:27 +0000

boston molasses disaster london beer flood

Zach Houston — Wed, 25 Apr 2012 01:58:30 +0000

nothings better nothings worse than an empty house that isnt yours sit and standings pace and angst think alonely private strength to wallow sate to wane an appetite match moons phase gather tension then release the sequence limits the wrench the crank sabotage the link the chain monkey man computer age audience universe your birth the stage never in danger then go and get safe a place to stay some food a blanket a naked human our comfort with others existing is enough switch from solipsist to generous margin encryption a lived in wish ill considered yet still worked architecture for weather and wars i walk the nerves burdened floor bleary burn turmoil words myth empty in another since cyclical appears as if it resembles again yet actually isnt empty when i enter because now i am in here

Zach Houston — Wed, 25 Apr 2012 00:19:52 +0000

“people will often change how often they use carriage returns as in the difference between:

omg, and
o
m
g “

Zach Houston — Wed, 25 Apr 2012 00:12:04 +0000

Even today, only about 100 of the world’s 6,000 languages are written much

“Not surprisingly, then, the earliest writing was based on the way people talk, and that meant short sentences with a direct logical throughline. Researchers have found that even educated people today speak in word packets of 7 to 10 words a pop.”

Zach Houston — Tue, 24 Apr 2012 16:56:26 +0000

Fascinating as I find such experiments and the work of the artists involved, one suspects what we might call a ‘mannerist Situationism’, where the old problem of recuperation does not even apply because such art is completely co-opted by the socio-economic system which provides its life-blood. – simon critchley

Zach Houston — Wed, 18 Apr 2012 19:30:06 +0000

JP: you can make an art of daily living so that everything is “art.” There is no separation between art and life, sacred and mundane—it all depends on the awareness, attention we bring to the things we are doing—from cooking, to lovemaking, dressing, writing, walking, talking—finding the patterns that connect. It is all performance. An art to everything done well. I don’t believe in the idea of artist as creative specialist (here there are artists, at the edge of the known/unexplored world). On the other hand, there is something to this category in the sense that people who “play,” like children, and the elderly taken off the conveyor built of useful productivity, and the mentally ill are shut up, isolated, on the brink of society. Diss function, isolation terms them into artists more than the fat of creativity itself. The artist, like the shaman lives on the edge of society, near forest, city dump (soon to be so ho’d into prostition wariness) negotiating in betweens.

Zach Houston — Tue, 17 Apr 2012 05:08:24 +0000

the word for language
a cusp split of yes or no
every answer contains
the qestion therefore
the output is always
xxxxxxxxxxxxxx more than
whats inquired by design
heuristics experience
learning machine intelligence
of the tower torn down so we
can discuss how to build it
better than being able (to)
or needing to communicate

Zach Houston — Mon, 16 Apr 2012 19:35:22 +0000

The general situation is this: as the universal expansion accelerated beyond a certain rate, matter precipitated from, and is, energy that failed to stay in equilibrium. In its own haphazard search for equilibrium, matter collided and formed clumps, taking the universe even further from equilibrium. The universal response to this was to use some clumps to destroy others, and this project entrained the further evolution of complex structures all the way to living ones.

Zach Houston — Mon, 16 Apr 2012 08:12:35 +0000

That is, while we think about and distinguish similar sounding words by their meaning, we nonetheless feel at some level that there is (or ought to be) a semantic relationship between them. Alliterative slogans may suggest a link in words unrelated by meaning but related by common sounds.

Space: a /a/;
Movement: e /ɛ/;
Light: i /ɪ/;
Life: o /ɔ/;
Human: u /ʊ/;
Time: A /ä/;
Matter: E /e/;
Sound: I /i/;
Feeling: O /o/;
Spirit/Mind: U /u/;
Condition: Q /œ/;
Negation: Y /y/;
Existence: c /ʃ/;
Relation: x /x/;
Equal: j

aUI, The Language of Space,

Zach Houston — Mon, 16 Apr 2012 01:05:28 +0000

straw man
false attack
something other
than indicated
agriculture
summer of
ventura
seasonally
relocated
to slowly
north sun
settling
in little
red weird
delicious
every kind
of electron
weighs only
as much as
yes or
knowing 
the internet
isn't edible yet

Zach Houston — Mon, 16 Apr 2012 01:02:26 +0000

number was a bunch of geology before there was a word
for earth stacks quantified counted on not to mention
walked around world born of fire and emptiness doesn't 
get jealous of less subtle manifestation than carving 
infinity into the face of minerals elements what it
the world is made of sprung from if rocks were all 
that was before sprung from therefore by 
transitive property of metonymy everything 
where life came from must be living as well

Zach Houston — Mon, 16 Apr 2012 01:01:52 +0000

the eight legged beast
suffix of word for word
arms legs limbs mixed
with central trunk
portion of love
among us because
outside the body
is another body
merged bottom
half of love
is self less
preservation
la petite mort
fish with beak
tentacles suckers
born every minute
breathing both
directions fused
mermaids with
those who
love them