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diff --git a/falalalalanguage.org b/falalalalanguage.org new file mode 100644 index 0000000..2a39a9d --- /dev/null +++ b/falalalalanguage.org @@ -0,0 +1,64 @@ +#+TITLE: Falalalalanguage +#+SUBTITLE: Or, efficient discourse. +#+DATE: 2023-06-13 + +Summary: falalalalanguage is a language shorthand for playing out discussions without actually having to consider arguments or opinions. by embracing the concept of "degrees of tangentiality" we can develop a significant conversation wholly in the realm of potentiality. this has significant implications for philosophical investigation as a whole, as whole fields of study can be simulated by a single person in the comfort of eir favourite armchair. + +* What is a conversation? + +Throughout this paper i will be using several everyday words in a particular fashion. a conversation will refer to a set of discourses which can be charted back to a particular utterance. if the topic of conversation changes due to an event external to anything internal to any of the set of discourses of which it is made up, the current conversation ends and a new one is begun. a conversation then can have a dramatically varied array of topics, provided each discourse is derived in some way from a previous discourse. + +As an example, i may be having a conversation with a friend on the subject of whether jam is called jelly or jam. as part of this conversation, i may mention apricot jam, which will lead to us talking about atlantis, the mythical underwater city, by way of atlanta, georgia, the peach state, because i frequently get muddled up between peaches and apricots. while the topic has entirely diverged, the divergence can be entirely measured in single steps of discourse. + +If, on the other hand, the radio was playing in the background during our conversation and i overheard talk of an oil spill in the atlantic ocean, and then started talking about atlantis, the mythical underwater city, this would be an external means of conversational continuance and therefore would signal the start of a new conversation, whenever a discourse was in reference to that excerpt of radio. + +* What is a discourse? + +I have by now mentioned discourse frequently; it is after all central to my theory. a discourse is a pair of utterances, the second in response to the first. typically, these utterances would be from two distinct individuals, however there is no reason why one could not engage in discourse with emself. + +The second utterance in a discourse must be in response to the first, but this does not mean it has to follow on from the first. the human brain works in mysterious ways, and as long as the consensus among those party to the discourse is that the utterance follows, there is no reason to doubt that. we have already touched on the topic of external influence in conversation, and that should be considered here also; when an utterance does not appear to follow on, and can be attributed to a relevant external factor, it should perhaps be considered not constituent of a discourse. + +Discourses are interleaved; each second utterance is the first utterance of the next. this should be an intuitive concept to anyone who has ever engaged in conversation, as the alternative would be much more akin to a shoddy stand-up routine, in which a tired comedian regales us with one-liner after one-liner. but even in that case, there may be discourses to be discovered. as previously established, it is perfectly feasible for one to engage in discourse with emself, and now i propose that not only is it feasible, it is also common. for a conversation is rarely made up of discourses wherein each participant takes a turn; rather, each participant will take several discourses. this allows each individual to develop what ey are saying, provide nuance, or provide a punchline. + +* What is the degree of tangentiality? + +It can be difficult to measure that fine line between nuance and punchline. that is why i propose five degrees of tangentiality which, when used as a manner of speech in themselves as i will describe shortly, i call "falalalalanguage". but first, allow me to explain falalalalanguage as a method of distinguishing different secondary utterances in a discourse. + +The first degree is of course assertion of the utterance. absolute agreement, or repetition, and that is denoted "fa". assuming, as above, that we were conversing about jam and jelly, and i said "jam is a better term than jelly", you might endorse my view with the utterance "jam /is/ a better term than jelly". taking my initial utterance as "fa", your secondary utterance would be written "fa" also. + +The second degree is positive direct continuation. directly continuing with our example, were you to respond to my assertion "jam is a better term than jelly because it allows the distinction between jelly eaten with ice cream and jam eaten on toast", my initial utterance would be denoted "fa", and your secondary utterance as "fala". + +The third degree through the fifth degree are also positive continuations, each successively less direct than the last. were we to denote your secondary utterance as "falala", that is, the third degree, you may perhaps have said "absolutely. what's your favourite flavour of jam?". it is obvious how this continues the thread of utterances through the discourses, but it is not such a wholehearted endorsement of the point i was making. were we to denote your secondary utterance as "falalalala", that is, fifth and final degree, you might merely have acknowledged my claim with a slight chin-tilt, before asking how my mother was, because you recall us once walking through a market selling marrows and me remarking on how my mother once made marrow and ginger jam. for further discussion of these later degrees of tangentiality, see "internal and external conversation" below. + +* But what about dissent? + +For each degree, there is also the possibility of dissent. if for example you were wrong, you might respond to my initial utterance "jam is a better term than jelly" with "no, jam is not a better term than jelly", a dissertion of the utterance. this would be expressed in falalalalanguage as "ga", the negative continuation particle. + +This logically follows through the following four degrees, from "gala", "jam is not a better term than jelly because they have different histories and refer to subtley different things, and if you actually cared that much about jam you'd appreciate that jams and jellies were different and why have you actually not mentioned conserves at all in this conversation?", to "galalalala", "no i don't think so; what do you reckon the best colour of t-shirt is?". + +It should be obvious at this point the value of being able to distill such discussions down to descriptions of each discourse's degree of tangentiality from the previous, leading back to a simple definition of the initial utterance of the form "fa:n(initial utterance)", where n is the number of members of the conversation. an example conversation could therefore look as follows: + +#+BEGIN_SRC +fa:2(jam is a better term than jelly) +fa +fala +falala +fa +fa +fala +fala +falalala +ga +gala +falalalala +fala +fala +fa +fa +#+END_SRC + +A notable part of this conversation is the repeated "fa" on lines five and six; the former is an assertion of the previous utterance "falala", but then the utterer of that "falala" chooses to also assert "fa", meaning nothing got said in a cycle of discourse. this highlights some significant inefficiences in our methods of conversation, and we would do well to further explore the necessity of such. + +* Internal and external conversation + +I mentioned above a larger degree of tangentiality could be the result of a wandering train of thought. i also mentioned above that discourses could, and certainly do, happen with one individual. it makes sense, following this line of reasoning, to be able to recursively represent falalalalanguage models then, so that higher degrees of tangentiality brought about by internal discourse of lower degrees of tangentiality (that is, all of them), can be represented in the schema. diff --git a/lang.org b/lang.org new file mode 100644 index 0000000..96c174e --- /dev/null +++ b/lang.org @@ -0,0 +1,108 @@ +#+TITLE: Lang: smalltalk for introverts +#+DATE: 2024-05-01 + +Lang is a vapourware [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Retrofuturism][future-retro]] computing environment and my research vessel for exploring interface and system design. It is a [[https://malleable.systems/][malleable]] graphical environment designed with personal computing in mind; i describe it as a *[[https://cuis.st/][smalltalk]] for introverts*. + +[[file:wp-content/lang-screenshot-cropped.jpg]] + +* History + +It should be clear that half the fun is careful consideration, and actual implementation comes second. This is not a huge issue, as the act of designing is in itself a hobby, and one which a working environment would not be able to replace. There is no time limit on the project. + +** A brief timeline + +I've been playing around with ideas for operating systems and computer interfaces for over a decade now, and some of the opinions i developed in that time are still visible in the current concept. + +The current monochrome, [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Classic_Mac_OS][classic mac os]]-inspired interface design first started to take shape in the summer of 2022. + +* Window system + +See [[https://hack.org/mc/texts/gosling-wsd.pdf][Gosling on window system design]] and [[https://9p.io/magic/man2html/1/rio][Plan 9's rio]]. + +Window and programs should be considered separate, with the windowing system serving two purposes: first, allowing programs to draw pixels to a buffer; second, drawing this buffer to the screen if it's necessary. Programs are not responsible for their decorations, and also should be written with the window system in mind, which can be responsible for tabbing. Having tabs managed by a window manager is a feature i first discovered in [[https://www.haiku-os.org/][haiku]], and then enjoyed in [[http://fluxbox.org/][fluxbox]]. However the best tabbing implementation i have seen is that in [[https://www.google.com/intl/en_uk/chromebook/chrome-os/][chromeos]], which doesn't work quite as universally, but by moving as much as possible into the browser comes quite close to the desired behaviour. This style of tabbing was replicated in [[https://nakst.gitlab.io/essence][essence os]]. + +Because windows are just an area that belongs to a program, every window must have a program running in it. In this system, that default program is the shell. This should not be confused with a [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unix_shell][unix shell]], as although the system shell is text-oriented, it is not text-limited. The shell is described in more detail in its own section. + +* Shell + +See: + +- [[https://acko.net/blog/on-termkit/)][termkit]] +- [[https://github.com/withoutboats/notty)][notty]] +- [[https://www.destroyallsoftware.com/talks/a-whole-new-world][a whole new world]] +- [[https://tilde.town/~dzwdz/blog/tui.html)][on tuis]] + +* Brain speed + +Human perception gives us three time limits to work with when designing interaction feedback: anything that is faster than 0.1 seconds will be perceived as an immediate reaction from the system; anything less than 1 second will not feel like a direct interaction, but will not interrupt the user's train of thought; and anything less than ten seconds will feel slow, but will be fast enough that they will be willing to wait for the action to complete. we suggest that two different kinds of acknowledgement from the system are necessary for these different lengths: the cursor should show it is "busy" up to one second; for tasks that would take longer, progress dialgoue should be shown. the progress dialogue should have a progress bar, and text which explains what is currently being done. for actions should not need to care about waiting for, the system should as far as possible try and act as if the action is instantaneous. for example, moving a large directory. + +** Faster isn't better + +eris on the issues of faster hardware, from the perspective of the end user: https://side-effects.neocities.org/anticapitalism/hardware.html + +** A timeline-oriented undo system + +2023-06-13 + +there are two kinds of undo system in common use. both have problems. + +the first and most frequently used is the stack-based undo, where changes are pushed to a stack and undoing pops the last change from the stack. making a new change after undoing discards all popped items and adds to the stack from where the user had undone to. this is usually fine until it isn't, and then it's really frustrating. + +imagine a user undoes some changes, starts making new edits and then regrets the decision. they can't revert to the state past the undo. + +imagine a user is undoing and then accidentally makes a change. they've unintentionally lost access to the forward part of their undo history. + +web browser history is the same principle. it's common to search something and then look in and out of web pages. it's also common to then be frustrated that you cannot see the actual path you took through results, because every time you back out to the results and click a new link, the page you backed out from is removed and you have to head to the browser history page, which is inevitably (though not necessarily) terribly designed. + +this because both undo and browser history are really trees, not stacks, which has been noticed by various people and implemented in various programs, usually those designed for "advanced users". + +that leads us to the issue with the tree: especially in the case of undo, it's usually clumsy to navigate. especially when you factor in the fact that advanced users like keyboard shortcuts, suddenly there a bunch more that are necessary. + +there are also questions that arise: where to go when a user tries to redo at a final node when there were more changes further down the line in a different branch? surely there must be a good way to corroborate the changes (or maybe not). + +both of these solutions violate the harrison human interface guidelines, either by not treating user input and discarding it without explicit consent (which is also something that should be avoided), or by being too complicated. + +my proposed solution is a riff on the emacs way. emacs treats the act of undoing as a reversible editor action just like anything else which manipulates buffer text. so to redo, you actually undo the undo. this is powerful but unintuitive, which is why janky tree view solutions have been built on top of it. + +actually emacs has the right idea, but like a lot of emacs the exposed interface is terrible. + +i propose that instead, we keep the linear system, but make it time-oriented. here's how it works: + +1. the user is always at the end of the timeline after manipulating a buffer. +2. to undo, they move backwards along the timeline, change by change. this is identical to how standard undo works. +3. from any point on the timeline, they can move forward again, as redo would allow. +4. if they manipulate a buffer, that must become the end of the timeline. instead of discarding anything further along, every change between the current point and the end is duplicated, its order reversed, and the new manipulation added. + +time is linear, so keep the history linear. that's a guiding principle i just came up with. if we're calling it an undo history, a browser history, it should respect time first and foremost. + +but won't clicking undo will get tiresome if my history keeps getting duplicated like that? probably. i discovered recently that the mechanical keyboard community were getting quite into rotary encoders (that's twisty knobs in everyday language). that article mentioned scrolling as one use case. i thought that was pretty cool actually, and since i want documents in celeste to only be scrollable in one dimension (up and down) seemed like a good use case. most documents are quite flexible in that regard. well, how amazing would it be to be able to scroll through space as well as time? extremely cool i thought. + +(note: i just noticed that "history scrubbing" is listed on that page already. guess i need to improve my reading comprehension). + +seeing as this proposal is probably not going to get picked up in the mainstream, i may as well propose an alterate reality (celeste) where things were different. one of those things is that scrolling through time with a handy knob is established functionality. + + +* Development tools + +- [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=72y2EC5fkcE][Tomorrow corporation tech demo]] + +** Applications for creating and consuming + +2023-10-08 + +I would like to see more applications that let me easily switch between creating and consuming. That is, the same application can be used to easily view some media, and to modify it. + +Ironically, the best examples of this tend to be on mobile platforms. For example, the gallery app usually allows me to view images and videos, and also to annotate and modify them. + +This doesn't have to entail complex creation mechanics, for which more heavyweight tools are often required, and will make the act of opening a file to view it take too long. Although perhaps this is a problem with the current state of computers rather than the concept itself. While i am not keen on the way Mac OS distinguishes between windows and running programs, you can much more pleasantly use a full graphic manipulation program as an image viewer when it is always running in the background. + +When i use Windows, i always set images to open in Paint by default. It loads fast, and lets me annotate the images i am looking at. + +There are a large number of markdown editors available that show the source and the content in two panes. I would like to further expand this concept and be able to write html in the browser itself. The mainstream browsers all have two methods of viewing the source code of a page: the inspector, and the *view source* button. Neither of these does what i want: the inspector doesn't make modification as easy as it could be, as it is more for inspecting than modifying; the *view source* button provides me with an entirely static page. + +If we continue to have distinct applications for creating and consuming, as i think we probably will, i would like to see two buttons in file managers. One to edit, and one to view. As far as i can remember, every file manager i have used has a default application to use for opening any particular file. But i always have the trouble of often wanting to open for example a html page first in a browser, and then in an editor. These two distinct tasks share a button, leading to an experience where i am frequently surprised by which application the file opens in. + +* Philosophy + +See Norma's [[https://normadesign.it/en/log/designing-in-black-and-white/][black and white]]. + diff --git a/media.org b/media.org new file mode 100644 index 0000000..ce8217c --- /dev/null +++ b/media.org @@ -0,0 +1,434 @@ +#+TITLE: Media diary +#+DATE: 2024-06-07 + +This is a non-exhaustive list of every piece of media i have engaged with. I also try to record the author, director, or artist, the year of its release, and a rating on a scale from one to five stars. + +In general, the rating is accurate by virtue of being so imprecise. But the categories are quite broad, and things are much more likely to get three or four stars than one or five. + +Engaged with is quite vague, but generally it means to have read, watched, or listened to in full. + +* 2024 + +| 书 | The diary of Lena Mukhina | | | ★★★ | +| 影 | Under paris | | | ★★★ | +| 影 | Parasite | | | ★★★★★ | +| 影 | Billy Elliot | | | ★★★★★ | +| 书 | Hello, stranger | | Will Buckingham | ★★★★★ | +| 影 | Rush hour | 1998 | Brett Ratner | ★★★★ | +| 书 | Camel xiangzi | | Lao She | ★★★★★ | +| 影 | Men in black | | | ★★★ | +| 书 | 活得优雅 | | 刘志雄 | ★★★ | +| 影 | Yellow submarine | | | ★★ | +| 影 | Dr. Strangelove or: how i learned to stop worrying and love the bomb | | | ★★★ | +| 影 | Danny Bhoy live at the Sydney Opera house | 2007 | | ★★★★★ | +| 影 | Before sunrise | | | ★★★★ | +| 影 | 8 Mile | | | ★★★★★ | +| 书 | Tao te ching | | Lao Tsu (tr. D.C. Lau) | ★★★★ | +| 影 | The super mario bros movie | | | ★★★ | +| 书 | Dark spring | | Unica Zurn | ★★★★ | +| 影 | Borat | | | ★★★ | +| 书 | Piranesi | | | ★★★★ | +| 影 | The beanie bubble | 2023 | | ★★★★ | +| 影 | Baby driver | | | ★★★★★ | +| 影 | Flora and son | | | ★★★ | +| 书 | Tomorrow, and tomorrow, and tomorrow | | Gabrielle Zevin | ★★★ | +| 影 | Logorama | 2009 | | ★★★ | +| 影 | The velocipastor | 2018 | | ★★★ | +| 影 | 神女 | 1934 | | ★★★★ | +| 书 | Shanghai baby | | Wei Hui | ★★★★★ | +| 书 | Lord horror | | David Britton | ★ | +| 书 | The dispossessed | | Ursula K Leguin | ★★★★★ | +| 书 | Blood on the siberian snow | | C J Farrington | ★★★ | +| 影 | Wonka | 2023 | | ★★★ | +| 书 | The premonitions bureau | | Sam Knight | ★★★★ | +| 影 | Tetris | 2023 | | ★★★★★ | +| 影 | 9 to 5 | 1980 | | ★★★★ | + +* 2023 + +| 书 | Takeaway | | Angela Hui | ★★★ | +| 影 | 封神 | 2023 | | ★★★ | +| 影 | Barbie | 2023 | Greta Gerwig | ★★★★ | +| 影 | 大鱼海棠 | 2016 | | ★★ | +| 影 | Spider-man: across the spider-verse | 2023 | Joaquim Dos Santos, Kemp Powers, Justin K. Thompson | ★★★ | +| 书 | Ishmael | 1992 | Daniel Quinn | ★★★★★ | +| 书 | Rememberings | | Sinéad O'Connor | ★★★★ | +| 书 | Harlem shuffle | | Colson Whitehead | ★★ | + +* 2022 + +| 剧 | 最亲爱的你 | 2018 | | ★★★★★ | +| 乐 | We can play | | Century Egg | ★★★ | +| 乐 | Echoes of japan | | Minyo Crusaders | ★★★ | +| 乐 | Everything goes numb | | Streetlight Manifesto | ★★★★★ | +| 乐 | Electra heart | | Marina and the Diamonds | ★★★★★ | +| 乐 | The black parade | 2006 | My Chemical Romance | ★★★★★ | +| 乐 | The first glass beach album | | Glass Beach | ★★★★ | +| 书 | A psalm for the wild-build | | Becky Chambers | ★★★★ | +| 乐 | Jubilee | | Japanese Breakfast | ★★★★ | +| 书 | Slaughterhouse-five | | Kurt Vonnegut | ★★★ | +| 乐 | 丑奴人 | | 草东没有排队 | ★★★★★ | +| 乐 | Deception bay | | Milk and Bone | ★★★★★ | +| 乐 | Baby formula | | Baby Formula | ★★★★ | +| 乐 | Showering timing | | Showering Timing | ★★★ | +| 书 | The philosophy of hebrew scripture | | Yoram Hazony | ★★★★★ | +| 书 | The art of biblical narrative | | Robert Alter | ★★★★★ | +| 乐 | Celeste ost | | Lena Raine | ★★★★★ | + +* 2021 + +| 乐 | Oil of every pearl's un-insides | | sophie | ★★★★★ | +| 乐 | Solar power | | lorde | ★★★★ | +| 乐 | Boom | | walker hayes | ★★★★ | +| 乐 | Destituent | | sole | ★★★★ | +| 乐 | 1000 gecs | | 100 gecs | ★★★★★ | +| 乐 | Hey king | | hey king | ★★★★ | +| 乐 | Mbfx | | sole | ★★★★ | +| 书 | random acts of senseless violence | | jack womack | | +| 书 | gilead | | marilynne robinson | | +| 书 | the liar's dictionary | | eley williams | | +| 书 | the way home | | mark boyle | | +| 书 | fütchi perf | | kevin czap | | +| 书 | the master and margarita | | mikhail bulgakov | | +| 书 | linguistics for beginners | | w. terrence gordon | | +| 书 | why i'm no longer talker to white people about race | | reni eddo-lodge | | +| 书 | a history of the world in 10½ chapters | | julian barnes | | +| 书 | ella minnow pea | | mark dunn | | +| 书 | in the miso soup | | ryu murakami | | +| 书 | if on a winter's night a traveller | | italo calvino | | +| 书 | the little prince | | antoine de saint-exupéry | | +| 书 | On the road | | Jack Kerouac | ★ | +| 书 | writing systems | | geoffrey sampson | | +| 影 | pool of london | | | | +| 影 | a quiet place | | | | +| 影 | Princess Mononoke | 1997 | | ★★★★★ | +| 影 | Inside | | Bo Burnham | | +| 影 | Laputa: Castle in the Sky | 1986 | | ★★★ | +| 影 | Tales from Earthsea | 2006 | | ★★ | +| 影 | Ponyo | 2008 | | ★★★ | +| 影 | The Wind Rises | 2013 | | ★★★ | +| 影 | The Tale of the Princess Kaguya | 2013 | | ★★★★ | +| 影 | Ocean Waves | 1993 | | ★★★ | +| 影 | When Marnie Was There | 2014 | | ★★★ | +| 影 | Pom Poko | 1994 | | ★★★★ | +| 影 | Arrietty | 2010 | | ★★★ | +| 影 | pure as snow | | | | +| 影 | the duff | | | | +| 影 | From Up on Poppy Hill | 2011 | | ★★★ | +| 影 | Only Yesterday | 1991 | | ★★★ | +| 影 | eurovision song contest: the story of fire saga | | | | +| 影 | baywatch | | | | +| 影 | bill and ted's excellent adventure | | | | +| 影 | rams | | | | +| 影 | the dictator | | | | +| 影 | une fille facile | | | | +| 影 | the to-do list | | | | +| 影 | the feels | | | | +| 影 | fight club | | | | +| 影 | moxie | | | | +| 影 | Porco Rosso | 1992 | | ★★★ | +| 影 | duck butter | | | | +| 影 | My Neighbours the Yamadas | 1999 | | ★★ | +| 影 | Kiki’s Delivery Service | 1989 | | ★★★★ | +| 影 | Whisper of the Heart | 1995 | | ★★★ | +| 影 | The Cat Returns | 2002 | | ★★★ | +| 影 | monty python and the holy grail | | | | +| 影 | scott pilgrim vs the world | | | | +| 影 | enola holmes | | | | +| 影 | american beauty | | | | +| 影 | Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind | 1984 | | ★★★★ | +| 影 | educating rita | | | | +| 影 | mean girls | | | | +| 影 | the curious case of benjamin button | | | | +| 影 | the truman show | | | | +| 影 | wild child | | | | +| 影 | blended | | | | +| 影 | yes, god, yes | | | | +| 影 | calamity jane | | | | + +* 2020 + +| 乐 | Born to die: the paradise edition by lana del rey | | | ★★★★ | +| 影 | Spirited Away | 2001 | | ★★★ | +| 影 | My Neighbour Totoro | 1988 | | ★★★★ | +| 书 | Dubliners by James Joyce | | | ★★★★★ | +| 书 | The lord of the rings by J R R Tolkien | | | ★★★★ | +| 书 | The left hand of darkness by Ursula K Leguin | | | ★★★ | +| 书 | Sense and sensibility by Jane Austen | | | ★★★ | +| 书 | Pride and prejudice by Jane Austen | | | ★★★★ | +| 书 | Mansfield park by Jane Austen | | | ★★ | +| 书 | Emma by Jane Austen | | | ★★★★ | +| 书 | Northanger abbey by Jane Austen | | | ★★★★★ | +| 书 | Persuasion by Jane Austen | | | ★★★ | +| 乐 | Cigarettes after sex by cigarettes after sex | | | ★★★★★ | +| 乐 | Closing hour at the cat cafe by catbeats | | | ★★★★ | +| 书 | birdsong by sebastian faulks | | | | +| 书 | Confessions | | St. Augustine | ★★ | +| 书 | the god experiment | | russell stannard | | +| 书 | kolymsky heights | | lionel davidson | | +| 书 | animal liberation | | peter singer | | +| 书 | hello world | | hannah fry | | +| 书 | reasons to stay alive | | matt haig | | +| 书 | sophie's world | | jostein gaarder | | +| 书 | d is for digital | | brian w. kernighan | | +| 书 | if only it were true | | marc levy | | +| 书 | the phantom tollbooth | | norton juster | | +| 书 | the jesus i never knew | | philip yancey | | +| 书 | animals strike curious poses | | elena passarello | | +| 书 | the colour of magic | | terry pratchett | | +| 书 | the five people you meet in heaven | | mitch albom | | +| 乐 | miles of aisles | | joni mitchell | | +| 书 | how to be right in a world gone wrong | | james o'brien | | +| 书 | educated | | tara westover | | +| 书 | walden | | henry david thoreau | | +| 书 | the moral state we're in | | | | +| 书 | Cyberpunk: outlaws and hackers on the computer frontier | | Katie Hafner and John Markoff | | +| 书 | scoundrels volume one by duncan crowe and james peak | | | | +| 书 | dubliners by james joyce | | | | +| 书 | blood river by tim butcher | | | | +| 书 | lord of the rings | | | | +| 书 | catch-22 | | | | +| 书 | the house of the spirits | | | | +| 书 | anne of green gables | | | | +| 书 | a clockwork orange | | | | +| 书 | normal people | | | | +| 书 | in the land of invented languages by arika okrent | | | | +| 书 | uglies by scott westerfeld | | | | +| 书 | so you've been publicly shamed by jon ronson | | | | +| 书 | the outsider by albert camus | | | | +| 书 | the communist manifesto by karl marx and friedrich engels | | | | +| 书 | brave new world by aldous huxley | | | | +| 书 | teacher man by frank mccourt | | | | +| 书 | the weather factor | | | | +| 书 | emma | | Jane Austen | | +| 书 | northanger abbey | | Jane Austen | | +| 书 | persuasion | | Jane Austen | | +| 书 | sense and sensibility | | Jane Austen | | +| 书 | The life-changing magic of tidying up | | Marie Kondo | | +| 书 | The guernsey literary and potato peel pie society | | Mary Ann Shaffer and Annie Barrows | | +| 书 | girl, woman, other | | Bernadine Evaristo | | +| 书 | mansfield park | | Jane Austen | | +| 书 | what does it all mean? | | Thomas Nagel | | +| 书 | diversify | | June Sarpong | | +| 书 | 50 ideas you really need to know: philosophy | | Ben Dupré | | +| 书 | free as in freedom | | Sam Williams | | +| 书 | the problems of philosophy | | Bertrand Russel | | +| 书 | the life-saving manga of tidying up | | | | +| 书 | the man who saw everything | | Deborah Levy | | +| 书 | cyberiad | | Stanislaw Lem | | +| 书 | a nearly infallible history of christianity | | Nick Page | | +| 书 | common people | | | | +| 书 | the midnight library | | Matt Haig | | +| 影 | Howl’s Moving Castle | 2004 | | ★★★ | +| 影 | peter rabbit | | | | +| 影 | home alone 3 | | | | +| 影 | meet me in st louis | | | | +| 影 | the santa clause | | | | +| 影 | fifty shades of grey | | | | +| 影 | sorry to bother you | | | | +| 影 | v for vendetta | | | | +| 影 | going in style | | | | +| 影 | Spider-man: into the spider-verse | | | | +| 影 | kung fu panda | | | | +| 影 | the lorax | | | | +| 影 | rango | | | | +| 影 | the lorax | | | | +| 影 | the babysitter | 2017 | | | +| 影 | arrival | | | | +| 影 | sunshine on leith | | | | +| 影 | spirited away | | | | +| 影 | the shawshank redemption | | | | +| 影 | howl's moving castle | | | | +| 影 | the aeronauts | | | | +| 影 | guys and dolls | | | | +| 影 | birdsong | | | | +| 影 | The hundred year old man who climbed out of the window and disappeared | | | | +| 影 | the spy next door | | | | +| 影 | my spy | | | | +| 影 | a town like alice | | | | +| 影 | the upside | | | | +| 影 | my neighbour totoro | | | | +| 影 | legally blonde | | | | +| 影 | fisherman's friends | | | | +| 影 | 1917 | | | | + +* 2019 + +| 书 | Random acts of heroic love | | | ★★★★ | +| 书 | Metamorphosis | 1915 | Franz Kafka | ★★★★★ | +| 书 | Good omens | | Terry Pratchett & Neil Gaiman | ★★★★★ | +| 书 | Dirk gently's holistic detective agency | | Douglas Adams | ★★★★ | +| 书 | The picture of dorian gray | | Oscar Wilde | ★★★★ | +| 书 | A gentleman in moscow | | | | +| 书 | The river king | | Alice Hoffman | | +| 书 | The happy prince and other tales | | Oscar Wilde | | +| 书 | East of croyden | | Sue Perkins | | +| 书 | The hound of the baskervilles | | Arthur Conan Doyle | | +| 书 | The great gatsby | | | | +| 书 | Transcription | | | | +| 书 | Crooked heart | | | | +| 书 | Ethics in the real world | | | | +| 书 | Pride and prejudice | | | | +| 书 | Do androids dream of electric sheep? | | Philip K. Dick | | +| 书 | Jeeves in the offing | | | | +| 书 | Digital minimalism | | | | +| 影 | Last christmas | | | | +| 影 | Little women | | | | +| 影 | Karate kid | | | | +| 影 | Jurassic park | | | | +| 影 | Anne of green gables | | L.M. Montgomery | ★★ | +| 影 | Emma | | | | +| 影 | Rebecca | | | | +| 影 | Some like it hot | | | | +| 影 | Brief encounter | | | | +| 影 | This is spinal tap | | | | +| 影 | Chariots of fire | | | | +| 影 | Driving miss daisy | | | | +| 影 | The karate kid | | | | +| 影 | Neverending story | | | | +| 影 | Lady and the tramp | | | | +| 影 | The house with a clock in its walls | | | | +| 影 | Descendants 2 | | | | +| 影 | Descendants | | | | +| 影 | The parent trap | | | | + +* 2018 + +| 书 | the abc murders | | Agatha Christie | | +| 书 | dead man's folly | | Agatha Christie | | +| 书 | at bertram's hotel | | Agatha Christie | | +| 书 | the thirteen problems | | Agatha Christie | | +| 书 | the hound of death | 1933 | Agatha Christie | | +| 书 | the music shop | | Rachel Joyce | ★★★★★ | +| 影 | the incredibles 2 | | | | +| 影 | mary poppins returns | | | | +| 影 | a monster calls | | | | +| 影 | murder on the orient express | | Agatha Christie | | +| 影 | sister act live choir | | | | +| 影 | the incredibles | | | | +| 影 | the greatest showman | | | | + +* 2017 + +| 书 | fahrenheit 451 | 1953 | Ray Bradbury | ★★★ | +| 书 | the unlikely pilgrimage of harold fry | | Rachel Joyce | ★★★★★ | +| 书 | the love song of miss queenie hennessy | 2014 | Rachel Joyce | ★★★★★ | + +* 2016 + +| 书 | macbeth | | | | +| 书 | the time traveller's wife | | | | +| 书 | an inspector calls | 1945 | J.B. Priestley | ★★★★ | +| 书 | sherlock holmes | | Arthur Conan Doyle | ★★★★ | +| 书 | the murder at the vicarage | | Agatha Christie | | +| 书 | murder on the orient express | | Agatha Christie | | +| 书 | death on the nile | | Agatha Christie | | +| 书 | parker pyne investigates | | Agatha Christie | | +| 书 | the pavilion on the links | | Robert Louis Stevenson | | +| 书 | and then there were none | | Agatha Christie | | +| 书 | n or m? | | Agatha Christie | | +| 书 | the adventure of the christmas pudding | | Agatha Christie | | +| 书 | crooked house | | Agatha Christie | | +| 书 | finding dory | | | | +| 影 | jumanji: welcome to the jungle | | | | +| 影 | elf | | | | +| 影 | et | | | | +| 影 | miracle on 34th street | | | | +| 影 | it's a wonderful life | | | | +| 影 | matilda | | | | +| 影 | the great gatsby | | | | +| 影 | lego batman | | | | +| 影 | singin' in the rain | | | | +| 影 | chicken run | | | | +| 影 | wallace and gromit - curse of the werebunny | | | | +| 影 | mrs doubtfire | | | | +| 影 | harry potter x7 | | | | +| 影 | interstellar | | | | +| 影 | finding nemo | | | | +| 影 | little rascals | | | | +| 影 | johnny english | | | | +| 影 | toy story | | | | +| 影 | stand by me | | | | +| 影 | slumdog millionaire | | | | +| 影 | west side story | | | | +| 影 | fantastic mr fox | | | | +| 影 | the goonies | | | | +| 影 | the princess bride | | | | +| 影 | willy wonka's chocolate factory | | | | +| 影 | peewee's big adventure | | | | +| 影 | gnomeo and juliet | | | | +| 影 | big hero 6 | | | | +| 影 | the sense of an ending | | | | +| 影 | zootropolis (zootopia) | | | | +| 影 | rock dog | | | | +| 影 | pride and prejudice and zombies | | | | +| 影 | flushed away | | | | + +* 2015 + +| 书 | The tempest | | William Shakespeare | | +| 书 | Of mice and men | 1937 | John Steinbeck | ★★★★ | +| 书 | Dune | | Frank Herbert | | +| 书 | What if | | Randall Munroe | ★★★★ | +| 书 | The book of lost things | | | | +| 影 | School of rock | | | | +| 影 | The hitchhiker's guide to the galaxy | | Douglas Adams | ★★★ | +| 影 | The tempest | | | | +| 影 | Castaway | | | | + +* 2014 + +| 乐 | Stay gold | 2014 | First Aid Kit | ★★★★★ | +| 书 | The strange case of doctor jekyll and mr hyde | | Robert Louis Stevenson | ★★★★ | +| 书 | Animal farm | | George Orwell | ★★★★ | +| 书 | Romeo and juliet | | | | +| 书 | More than this | | | | +| 书 | Holes | | Louis Sachar | ★★★★★ | +| 书 | Ting tang tommy | | | | +| 书 | A murder is announced | | Agatha Christie | | +| 影 | Shrek | | | | +| 影 | Annie | 2014 | | | +| 影 | Holes | | | ★★★ | +| 影 | Romeo and juliet | | | | +| 影 | Big | | | | + +* 2013 + +| 书 | The hitchhiker's guide to the galaxy | | Douglas Adams | ★★★★ | +| 书 | The fault in our stars | | | | +| 书 | Coraline | | | | +| 书 | The curious incident of the dog in the nighttime | | Mark Haddon | ★★★★★ | +| 书 | Little women | | | | +| 影 | Raiders of the lost ark | | | | +| 影 | Cool runnings | | | | +| 影 | Up | | | | +| 影 | Jumanji | | | | + +* 2012 + +| 书 | Alone on a wide wide sea | | Michael Morpurgo | ★★★ | +| 影 | Stormbreaker | | | ★★★ | +| 影 | Hairspray | | | ★★★ | + +* 2011 + +| 书 | there's a boy in the girls' bathroom | | +| 书 | stig of the dump | | +| 书 | kensuke's kingdom | | + +* 2010 + +| 书 | Skeleton key | | Anthony Horowitz | ★★★ | +| 书 | Stormbreaker | | Anthony Horowitz | ★★★ | +| 书 | The hundred and one dalmations | | | ★★★★ | +| 书 | The boy in the striped pyjamas | | | ★★★★ | +| 书 | Harry and the treasure of eddie carver | 2004 | Alan Temperly | ★★★★ | + +* 2009 + +| 书 | The nine lives of montezuma | | Michael Morpurgo | ★★ | + +* 2008 + +| 书 | the wind in the willows | 1908 | Kenneth Grahame | ★★★★ | + diff --git a/tanklobsters.org b/tanklobsters.org new file mode 100644 index 0000000..e6d7ca0 --- /dev/null +++ b/tanklobsters.org @@ -0,0 +1,60 @@ +#+TITLE: Tank lobsters +#+DATE: 2020-11-20 + +they tell me i can be what i want to be when i grow up, anything in the world my child, imagine it and you will make it, think it and you will be it, touch it and you will hold it so i tell them that i want to be a tank lobster + +a tank lobster, those glorious glorious creatures some kind of an alien that is real and here right here at the back of the upmarket supermarket no my child we don’t shop in there when this one is just as good and half the price but, one child from school tells me that the upmarket supermarket is where the tank lobsters tend to be so i walk in after school one day, hands behind my back because i am sophisticated, chin up because i am sophisticated, down the aisles down and there at the back is the tank the lobster tank with the tank lobsters in + +my child, they say, you can be anything, set your mind to it and you will but you cannot be a lobster not a tank lobster, that is not something you will ever be, a lobster in a tank + +sweet sweet lobster with your claws in front, snap snap, watch vacant, vacant smile, the colour of love, the colour of heat, the colour of memories, slowly moving, one tank lobster two tank lobsters three cramped lobsters tucked up in the upmarket supermarket back where little me hands behind back chin up went to see and stand and watch, tank lobsters + +tank lobsters like the sea lobsters, flooring along in the sea lobsters, swimming and flicking claws in front, free lobsters, vacant smile, smile freely, pots down, freedom out, dance in, one pot lobster parloured up, two pot lobsters parloured up, three pot lobsters well, well done my friends you know how it goes, pot lobsters potting good ready to be tanked up + +look my child at these buoys, these coloured balloons across the sea so sweet aren’t they sweet my child? imagine how peaceful how beautiful it would be to be a buoy on the sweet sweet sea, peaceful peaceful, a utility, a thing, a buoy is something you will never be, a marker of the pots the lobster pots, show the lobster catchers where the caves of death on the sea floor are, mark the way and let them wait to come and take and tank the potted free sea lobsters, keep them store them tank them, tank lobsters now, tank lobsters in the store, the upmarket supermarket, at the back hands behind back chin up go see them squeezed in, the colour of love, sweet sweet smile vacant click click snap snap, no room squeezed in forgive me please oh love me yes, love me, please + +my child, + +my child + +imagine, lobster free free lobster swimming crawling lobstering along in the free sea on the free sea floor when the lobster free lobster sees meat yes please food, food to eat good food love food eat food can’t go did the lobster know, free lobster know, that this food would be the last free food who knows, who knows, next time it ate would only be flakes, shared flakes sprinkle sprinked in the tank from a can by a man working underpaid overtime in a bit too small branded apron at the upmarket supermarket standing at the back by the tank, thank you smile and wave, have a nice day, there’s a tank with a stack of tank lobsters slowly smiling, smiling vacant claws out snap snap red like love, like heat like heat like + +do you remember my child, the songs we used to sing, you would sit on my knee and smile and speak a language no one knew except for you, the words were words of need and joy and not much more, inarticulate and yet articulate articulate, i’d bounce you bounce bounce you and clap the words and you would clap back clap clap back to me and smile i love you i love you love you + +lobsters clap tank lobsters don’t clap free, sea lobsters free are free to clap as they crawl in the sea their claws go snap snap clap what i would give, + +what i would give + +my child + +would i give my child, would i give you to have you back, to have it be how it used to be, would i give would i give, give you, where am i know where are you, me, i’m here, where + +clap + +clap clap + +they say they say that lobsters love for life that lobsters are not unfaithful creatures free loving freely on the sea floor roaming, lobsters love one lobster each and that lob loves right back a pair of lobsters each the colour of love, the colour of heat, if we could be those lobsters would we, i would love for you to be a lobster, anything you want to be know you can be, loved like a lobster + +tank lobster, love too do they love the lobsters they are tanked with do they break their lobster love pledge and give up, start again when tanked or do they wait and stay faithful in case one day they find their love again, perhaps they ,now that tank lobsters never meet their love again and simply lay stacked snap snapping sad and snatched from what makes life worth living, cramped lobster two lobsters, tank lobsters red, the colour of love but no love there they’re all just tanked instead + +there i stand in the upmarket supermarket chin up hands behind back walk back to the back click clack only silence and the man underpaid overworking overtime in a bit too small apron stopped over the tank, my tank their tank, spilling flakes they’re nothing on the meat of the cages where the tank lobsters last were free only wanted to eat, now they’re lobster meat tanked, waiting waiting for an up chinned hand backed buyer to come in, do they know, do they know the slow warm comforting killing coming to them + +but + +no, tank lobsters are only lying stacked cramped tanked click clack snip snap claws out vacant smiles memories of love forever red the colour of love the colour of heat but not hot they are cold, like me + +my child, what are you saying + +underpaid overworked man understands stoops back to the back staff place in the upmarket supermarket, tip toes me up try for tank reach i reach in, the clammy tank lobsters touch my hands pull out writhe can’t be hard, zip my coat a comfort hand hide my work, like i’m pregnant, wet floor dripping drip also feel the lobster kicking don’t worry + +untanked lobster you aren’t tanked any more tank lobster free, free sea lobster i will take you to the sea, i will let you wander free and find forever love once more + +they tell me i can be what i want to be, be who i want to be, i don’t know what i want to be, the tank lobster freed by me floated quietly on the sea when i gently placed them to go free, i killed a family, me, and a family is the only thing i don’t know if i know i want to need, to be, + +a family maybe i should be + +my child, know that you have me who loves loves you and cares for you is there for you, + +i don’t know you, a narrative, you are so many and so few so full of empty words you judge my worth on words and what you’ve heard and show me love to move you up, you use me as a ladder climbing up a stack of tank lobsters to feed yourself to find the meat that dangles hangs in front the cage you don’t realise the cage is caging you inside you’re stuck, i’m not your child i’m just your toy your way you throw away, been thrown away so much that i won’t judge the way you act i know that what you strive for is a trap + +in a way we’re all tank lobsters already, and maybe it’s a sorry dream but that’s the way it tends to be diff --git a/tj.org b/tj.org new file mode 100644 index 0000000..c864686 --- /dev/null +++ b/tj.org @@ -0,0 +1,60 @@ +#+TITLE: 太极拳和西方古典音乐 +#+DATE: 2023-06-21 + +我会拉大提琴很久了。虽然我拉的比较好，我的水平每天都在越来越高，但我肯定称不上是个音乐家。我自从来到中国后，都没听过，也没拉过西方的古典乐。最近是我来到中国之后第一次去约会，并听了柴可夫斯基的音乐会，我开始觉得太极拳和古典乐有很多相似性。我在这篇文章里要告诉你为什么我这样认为。 + +* 太极拳的历史与古典乐历史的对比 + +太极拳的历史充满了故事和矛盾，很难理解。相比之下，西方古典音乐的历史更容易理解。西方音乐传统、西方乐器和记谱法都来自己录怎么唱祈祷文的基督教僧侣。 + +大部分西方古典音乐的历史是由基督教主导的。这一时期的很多著名作曲家，例如巴赫，都受到上帝的幻觉，或者圣经段落，或者有一个教会要求他写作圣歌。 + +就像太极拳有几个不同的式，西方古典音乐也有四个时代：首先是文艺复兴时期，然后是巴洛克时期，再然后是古典时期，最后是浪漫主义的时期。我们把由它们组成的时期称为西方古典音乐。每个时期都有共同和独特的特征。虽然浪漫主义音乐比其他音乐更新，但是人们也喜欢表演比较旧的音乐，成喜欢听见比较旧的音乐，并且每个时期有一些作曲家更喜欢写作旧风格的音乐。现在，最好的音乐家通常只专注一种风格。太极拳也是一样的。太极师傅通常只是一种式的师傅。 + +在文艺复兴时期里人们首先开始真正地尝试不同的节奏，以及发展音节与和谐的理论。这个是其正式化了以后那个时期的标准特征。歌通常同时有很多不同的旋律，并且这些不同的旋律都有很像的特征，所以音乐听起来非常厚重。 + +在巴洛克时期，音乐理论进一步发展了。作曲家开始用特定的调子写作音乐，开始用标准循环的和弦。由于和弦不断地发展，机型创作变得更普通，所以音乐家不仅要了解怎么把他们的乐器玩得很好，而且要了解这些音乐方法一起协同。人们想要创造更丰富的声音，不仅要加更多的旋律线，而且要加更多的乐器。从此作曲家开始为现代管弦乐队写作音乐。 + +在古典时期里人们整理了巴洛克时期的概念，然后专注音乐的基础概念。通常音乐只有一段伴有和弦或者固定音型的旋律线，没有真正的对位。作曲家的目标不是丰富和有力的声音，而是他们希望创造很精致和优美的声音。因为乐谱开始用音量和发音说明，所以表演音乐家不再对他们演奏的内容有那么多的控制。表演期间的即兴创作也就消失了。 + +浪漫主义音乐是十九世纪浪漫主义艺术运动的一部分。音乐的背景现在超越声音，代表情感或者故事。虽然这种方法在巴洛克时期相当常见，但是在浪漫主义时期并不常见。很多音乐的灵感来自自然，从自然的声音、自然的形状找到灵感。技术变得非常重要：尤其是喧闹和安静的部分之间的对比。 + +这些是四种主要的风格，但是在二十世纪很多人尝试了不同的风格。其他风格的音乐越来越受欢迎，然后作曲家用它们的特点写作很有意思的新音乐。例如经常用萨克斯管和其他爵士乐器。现代太极拳式有时候用不同武术的方法，这两个方法是一样的。 + +* 传说 + +太极拳历史有很多传说，从她的起源故事到师傅的故事。虽然西方古典音乐的起源更容易追溯，但是它也有它自己夸张的传说。 + +神通的想法在西方古典音乐的历史很重要。莫扎特是最有名的例子，他从小表现非凡的音乐天赋。贝多芬开始表演的时候，因为他比莫扎特大一点，所以他的父亲在广告中谎报他的年龄。中年贝多芬失聪了，这是他现代声誉的重要方面。虽然他听不到自己写的音乐，但是他能感觉到乐器乐器的振动，他对音乐概念的了解非常深厚，所以他在没有听觉的情况下还能写作一些他最受好评的音乐。 + +在浪漫主义时期里，孤独是一种愿望。埃尔加就是一个典型的例子。虽然她写了一些这个时期最有名的音乐，但是他并不认为他自己是一个社区的一员。太极拳并不完全相同但是个人师傅一边致力于提高自己的技术，一边发现新技术的想法是一个共同的愿望。 + +在浪漫主义时期里，作曲家创作音乐的灵感也来自他们来自文化的重要文化部分。他们发展了现有的神话，用这些故事创作新的故事，还有讲述对他们自己国家的热爱。西贝柳斯的《芬兰》发展了一个新的芬兰身份概念。当时，芬兰还在被俄国控制。 + +* 实践 + +阴阳关系在太极拳中很重要。虽然能量平衡是不平等的，但是这种不平等创造了太极拳的力量和美丽。古典音乐表演在表演者和听众之间也存在不平衡。表演者一边演奏，听众一边听见。表演员是主动的，而听众是被动的。表演者应该努力感动听众。他们不用自己身体的力量，而是用演奏的情感。 + +太极拳是一种内功。重点不仅在于身体，而且在于体内动作的能量。同样，西方古典音乐也不能只用演奏的技术。表演者应该感受到音乐中的情感，并且跟音乐建立关系。但是为了在情感上而不是技术上进行演奏，音乐的规则应该完全内化。就像太极拳有不多的中心动作，可以通过多种方式组合，音乐也是一样的。 + +最中心的部分是音阶，八个音符跨越一个八度。不同种的音阶，例如大音阶或者小音阶，在听众中产生不同的感情。 + +琶音是音阶中的选定音符，通常是第一、第三、第五和八度。这些音符可以作为和弦一起演奏，也可以顺序地演奏。通过不同的顺序演奏琶音中的音符，我们能认识很多最有名的古典音乐作品。 + +我们开始学习演奏古典乐器的时候，我们首先学习音阶和琶音。就像在台集权中一样，我们在两个方向上一遍又一遍的演奏这些音符，直到他们听起来很热爱。当我们能感受到我们演奏的所有音乐的模式的时候，我们不是一个音符一个音符地演奏音乐，而是对一个个想法进行演奏。 + +实际上，我认为不能一个音符一个音符的演奏音乐。音乐由小节中的音符，乐句中的小节，整个作品中的乐句组成。但是这些小节只能作为导航辅助工具，它们在实际的演奏很少有用。相反我们应该考虑乐句，听起来像一系列的动作。乐句通常能以不同的顺序一遍又一遍地演奏，以便练习特定部分，也许几百次。我经常会慢慢地演奏一个新乐句，然后逐步提高一点速度，直到我能完全流利地演奏。弹奏最后一个乐句然后移动来开始学习也是常见的做法。这样我们对音乐的结尾有了最熟悉的了解，我们演奏音乐的时候就可以变得越来越舒服。 + +有作曲家在其他音乐作品上写变奏曲的传统。他们保持和弦进行或者中心的主题，但是改变顺序或者节奏，以这种方式写作听起来又熟悉又新的音乐。 + +这些在西方古典音乐中的方法和太极拳的方法都有一样的目的：个体的动作应该是无意识的，这样我们能真的欣赏真实的动作。 + +* 当代器乐 + +技术让人们用唱片存储音乐，又让人们用电脑发出声音之后，这些方法也成为西方古典音乐传统的一部分。二十世纪音乐的重要人是约翰·凯奇（John Cage）。他的灵感来自易经还有音乐怎么融入随机性。虽然我已经说过因为表演者通常只用乐谱作为执导，所以演奏古典音乐没有严格的办法，但是 凯约翰还是认为音乐有太多顺序。即使每个音乐者会以不同的方式演奏，但是一般的旋律和顺序还是一样的。他希望每次音乐演奏的时候都听起来不一样。他的作品叫4’33’’是这个时代最有名的作品，真的发展了这个概念。弹起来需要四分三十三秒，但是音乐者沉默了。虽然没有乐器发出声音，但是这件作品也不是沉默的，因为世界也不是沉默的。听众应该听风声、其他人声、鸟鸣声之类的。世界声总在变化。我认为这和太极拳比较一样，因为表演者对环境反应，而不仅仅是遵守乐谱。 + +* 结语 + +我不认为传统太极拳和西方古典音乐是完全相同的，因为它们的发展方式非常不一样。但是我考虑这个话题的时候我很惊喜地发现它们这么多共同的特点。我找不到关于这些学科之间关系的先前研究，但是我希望这个学科有进一步的研究成果。 + +周千舒校对 diff --git a/urls.org b/urls.org new file mode 100644 index 0000000..d989a7a --- /dev/null +++ b/urls.org @@ -0,0 +1,90 @@ +#+TITLE: Ultimate resource locators + +This is my contribution to resolving the website discoverability crisis. + +* Friends + +- [[https://www.acdw.net/][acdw]] +- [[https://m455.casa/][m455]] +- [[http://tilde.town/~dzwdz/][dzwdz]] +- [[https://bx.wtf/][bx]] +- [[http://tilde.town/~opfez/][opfez]] +- [[https://feliver.se/][feli]] + +* Blogroll + +The sites that i get delivered to my inbox every morning. + +- [[http://xkcd.com/rss.xml][XKCD]] +- [[https://zenhabits.net/feed/][zen habits]] +- [[https://www.raptitude.com/feed/][Raptitude.com]] +- [[https://www.lexaloffle.com/bbs/feed.php?uid=1][zep [Lexaloffle Blog Feed]]] +- [[https://www.kickscondor.com/rss.xml][Kicks Condor]] +- [[https://wrathofgnon.substack.com/feed][WrathOfGnon's Newsletter]] +- [[https://vitalyparnas.com/feeds/lifestyle.rss.xml][Vitaly Parnas - Lifestyle category]] +- [[https://tilde.town/~dzwdz/blog/feed.atom][dzwdz]] +- [[https://tilde.town/~kindrobot/index.xml][kindrobot]] +- [[https://tilde.town/blog.xml][tilde.town blog]] +- [[https://text.causal.agency/feed.atom][Causal Agency]] +- [[https://regularflolloping.com/atom.xml][Regular Flolloping]] +- [[https://m455.casa/feed.rss][m455's blog posts]] +- [[https://linkbudz.m455.casa/feed.rss][linkbudz rss feed]] +- [[https://journal.miso.town/atom?url=https://tilde.town/~rose/journal.html][rose's tea journal]] +- [[https://malleable.systems/blog/index.xml][Malleable Systems Collective]] +- [[https://grimgrains.com/links/rss.xml][Grimgrains]] +- [[https://existingunironically.wordpress.com/feed/atom/][existing unironically]] +- [[https://esoteric.codes/rss][esoteric.codes]] +- [[https://forum.merveilles.town/rss.xml][Merveilles Forum]] +- [[https://elly.town/feed.xml][elly.town]] +- [[https://solar.lowtechmagazine.com/index.xml][LOW-TECH MAGAZINE English]] +- [[https://citrons.xyz/a/journal/rss.xml][citronz.xyz - journal]] +- [[https://amodernist.com/all.atom][Philip KALUDERCIC's Web Syndication (all)]] +- [[https://bpev.me/rss][bpev.me]] +- [[https://minutestomidnight.co.uk/feed.xml][Minutes to Midnight]] +- [[https://silviamaggidesign.com/feed.xml][Silvia Maggi]] +- [[https://ayu.land/atom.zh.xml][Sweetfish Ayu]] +- [[https://www.javis.me/feed/][javis]] +- [[https://para.bearblog.dev/feed][parathink]] +- [[https://kusai.bearblog.dev/feed/][kusai]] +- [[https://skywt.cn/rss.xml][SkyWT]] +- [[https://neutrino7.top/atom.xml][JollyLight]] +- [[https://blog.yazawaniko.com/index.php/feed][Kiritake Kumi]] +- [[https://tianxianzi.me/atom.xml][tianxianzi]] +- [[https://inklings.bearblog.dev/feed/][inklings]] +- [[https://cpdd.at/?feed=rss2][ba]] +- [[https://with.fish/atom.xml][with fish]] +- [[https://tilde.town/~vilmibm/blog/feed.xml][vilmibm]] +- [[https://www.zhangjingna.com/blog-home?format=rss][Jingna Zhang]] +- [[https://blog.rurichan.work/feed/atom][Ruri's Blog]] +- [[https://neutrino7.top/atom.xml][JollyLight]] +- [[https://blog.yazawaniko.com/index.php/feed][Kiritake Kumi]] +- [[https://tianxianzi.me/atom.xml][tianxianzi]] +- [[https://inklings.bearblog.dev/feed/][inklings]] +- [[https://yukiha.live/?feed=rss2][yukiha]] +- [[https://jasonlannel.github.io/atom.xml][JasonL's Blog]] +- [[https://tofuball.moe/feed/][Tofu Ball]] +- [[https://sauri.ca/index.xml][sauri]] + +* Interesting pages + +Sorted by topic. + +** Computers + +- [[https://gitlab.com/nakst/essence][Essence OS]], a homebrew operating system. +- [[https://github.com/joshiemoore/snakeware][Snakeware]], a linux distro with a python-based graphical userspace that doesn't use x or wayland. +- [[https://castle-engine.io/][Castle engine]], an integrated pascal game engine. +- [[http://anvil-editor.net/ +][Anvil editor]], a text editor inspired by acme + +** Small programming languages + +- [[https://neat-lang.github.io/][Neat]] +- [[https://berry-lang.github.io/][Berry]] +- [[https://wy-lang.org/][Wenyan]], programming in ancient chinese + + +** Music + +- [[https://strudel.cc/][Strudel]], dynamic music coding in the browser. +- [[https://helio.fm/][Helio]], a music sequencer. diff --git a/uses.org b/uses.org new file mode 100644 index 0000000..b57a443 --- /dev/null +++ b/uses.org @@ -0,0 +1,108 @@ +#+TITLE: Things i use + +On this page i document the things i use every day. I think it is important not become governed by things, but also it's nice to see how different people approach the same problems, and to acknowledge what things are important to the way that i live. + +As much as possible, i try to make sure that everything fits within one bag, and everything listed here does fit in my rucksack. However, i haven't listed all the books i own, which would obviously not be practical to travel with. + +* Hardware + +I've split this list into the things i wear on an everyday basis, the things i pack into my everyday bag, and the things i pack in my rucksack. + +** Wearing + +| Trenchcoat | | Huge, heavy, leather coat. I found it in a charity shop. | +| Shirt | 288 | A simple button up shirt, made of wool. | +| Vest | 104 | Made of wool. | +| Underwear | | Made of synthetic material. | +| Jeans | 508 | Bought very cheaply in china. They are falling apart but while they still work, i'm not going to replace them. | +| Boots | 644 | Falling apart. Good shoes are hard to find. | +| Watch | 62 | | +| *Total:* | 1606 | | +#+TBLFM: @>$2=vsum(@1..@-1) + +** Every day bag + +| Sling | 176 | Very useful for carrying things on a daily basis without having to rely on my pockets. I also have another bag my sister made for me (128g). | +| Phone | 213 | The battery life is atrocious these days, but it still does what it needs to do. I also have a smaller phone (126g) | +| Headphones | 30 | In ear monitors with a third party bluetooth cable. | +| Power bank | 210 | Can't be charged with a c to c cable, which is really annoying. | +| Ear plugs | 6 | Silicon. These are a knockoff brand and still work well. | +| Sleeping mask | 21 | The last place i lived didn't have curtains. It's also useful for sleeping well on transport. | +| Wallet | 109 | The listed weight includes some cash and cards. I wanted something small which also had room for coins, which seems to be a hard ask. | +| Face mask | 7 | | +| Notebook and pen | | | +| *Total:* | 772 | | +#+TBLFM: @>$2=vsum(@1..@-1) + +** Rucksack + +| Rucksack | 521 | ~20l capacity. Has almost no internal organisation and a suitcase zip. [[https://old.reddit.com/r/onebag/comments/1c83nqf/a_couple_of_days_in_colorado_ll_bean_22l/][You don't need a specialist bag to travel]]. | +| Packing cube | 64 | Keep my clothes protect and separate from whatever else i dump in the bag. | +| Shirt | 356 | A simple button up shirt, made of wool. | +| Vest | 104 | Made of wool. | +| Thermal top | 169 | For extra warmth in the winter. Made of synthetic material which makes my skin itch. | +| Thermal bottoms | 176 | For extra warmth in the winter. A little uncomfortable to wear because the jeans are too thin. | +| Underwear | | Made of synthetic material. | +| Bucket hat | 90 | To stay fashionable in the summer. | +| Winter hat | 51 | To stay warm in the winter. Actually this hat is not really that warm. | +| Winter gloves | 81 | I don't want to lose my fingers. | +| Laptop | 789 | One of the lightest and smallest i could find at a reasonable price. Now that phones and tablets are a thing, it seems that this is prioritised less. | +| Wall brick | 73 | Being a uk plug, it is much bulkier than it could be. It has a usb-c port and serves forty-five watts. | +| Charging cable | 61 | Six foot long and quite sturdy. | +| Pencil case | 38 | Opens into a tray when unzipped. I use it to carry my toiletries, an idea i got from [[https://jeremymaluf.com/onebag/][here]]. | +| Scissors | | These come in useful frequently, for opening packages and cutting my nails. | +| Deodorant | 53 | It's a crystal. It's lasted me much longer than the packaging said it would. | +| Toothbrush | 14 | Just a run of the mill toothbrush. I also have an electric toothbrush (111g) that charges via usb c. | +| Toothpaste | 25 | Whatever toothpaste i can find. | +| Dental floss | 8 | | +| Safety razor | 70 | This is inconvenient to travel with, as it is quite heavy and the blades can't be taken on planes and sometimes are hard to find easily. | +| Soap | | A block of aleppo soap. | +| Hairbrush | 49 | The bristles are moulded from the plastic, so it doesn't break in my thick hair within a week. Discovered this brand from [[https://loganletsgo.substack.com/p/my-travel-gear][this blog post]]. | +| Towel | 60 | A small towel. Bigger towels are more cosy, but a lot heavier. This one is made of linen and dries fast without smelling bad. | +| Water bottle | 178 | Despite the weight, i carry a flask, because i like hot water. | +| Cutlery | 46 | Chopsticks and a spoon. They come in handy quite frequently. Made of wood. | +| Passport | 36 | | +| Skipping rope | 151 | | +| Book | 281 | I replace it once i've read it. | +| *Total:* | 3544 | | +#+TBLFM: @>$2=vsum(@1..@-1) + +I put the clothes in the packing cube, the toiletries in the pencil case, some everyday items in the sling, and everything in the rucksack. + +This table layout is inspired by [[https://cedricwaldburger.com/list/][Cédric Waldburger's list]]. + +* Software + +On my computer: + +- *Operating system:* debian +- *Desktop environment:* kde +- *Web browser:* firefox + ublock origin +- *Password manager:* bitwarden +- *Mail service:* fastmail +- *Web hosting:* fastmail +- *Mail client:* mu4e +- *Feed reader:* feed2imap-go +- *Contacts:* fastmail +- *Notes:* org-mode + +On my phone: + +- Android + kiss launcher +- Wechat +- Pleco +- Transistor internet radio + +* Dream setup + +I would like a computer that is like my surface go, but is actually a laptop, and has proper linux support. The surface go and ipad pro lines have led to significant advances in small keyboards since the netbook era, where although the keys have been shrunk, the traditional layout is preserved and typing at a fast and consistent rate is much easier and more comfortable. Unfortunately all the netbook style computers available today haven't paid much attention to these designs and the keyboards are still unpleasant to use. Sometimes using the surface go as a tablet is nice, but i rarely do that as for most tasks a laptop is simply more productive. + +I value small size and long battery life much more than power, so i would like to see a small and light computer with an all day battery life released. Hopefully the recent rise in popularity of arm systems mean this is less of a pipe dream than it might have seemed a few years ago. + +* Other people's lists + +- [[https://www.tierney.tv/everything][Everything I Own]] +- [[https://jeremymaluf.com/onebag/][Indefinite Backpack Travel]] +- [[https://www.burgerabroad.com/40/][The 40 Things I Own]] +- [[https://old.reddit.com/r/onebag/comments/aivylk/yet_another_permanent_onebag_setup/][Yet another permanent onebag setup]] +- [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i6SQBh-_SQM][Minimalist Packs 17 Liters for 1 Month of Travel]] diff --git a/zhongwen.org b/zhongwen.org new file mode 100644 index 0000000..4e29825 --- /dev/null +++ b/zhongwen.org @@ -0,0 +1,14 @@ +#+TITLE: A roadmap for actually learning chinese +#+DATE: 2024-05-21 + +There are two main aspects of studying a language: listening and reading. These are the two ways that you can consume content. Production by way of speaking and writing also takes practice, but is easier to do well once you have a strong grasp of listening and reading. + +* Reading + +In general, i don't recommend graded readers. I used grading reading resources for a while and found them beneficial for helping me realise that actually i could read and understand chinese texts. But as i got more used to them, i started thinking that they were less useful. One of the big issues is that they often try to keep the vocabulary at a particular level. That's what graded means. But as my ability improved, i begin noticing strange turns of phrase that occurred because the writer didn't think the more native phrasing would be a good fit for the target audience. I tried at higher levels, and didn't notice so much of this, but the concern was still in the back of my mind. What if i was just not a level yet that i realised how strange these sentences sound? + +So now i think that it is better to start on native content as soon as possible. Children's books are good. In some ways, they are similar to graded readers. In others, they are different. One of the big differences is that graded readers serve to gradually introduce new vocabulary to students of the language, whereas children's literature serves to help native speakers, who already have quite a large vocabulary, solidify their connection between the written and spoken forms of the language. Lots of children's books have vocabulary that are relatively rare, like names of animals. + +I recommend using a learning with texts type program to read. These are applications which will highlight words in different colours depending on how well you know the word. I find it very motivating to open a new text and see that most of it has a white background, suggesting with some effort i should be able to read and understand it. + +The program i use is called languagecrush. It costs five dollars per month, and i think it's worth it. A free program which is also nice is vocabtracker. I prefer languagecrush because it has nice functionality for splitting and joining characters, which is very useful as often the morphemiser doesn't work so well in chinese. diff --git a/乐团用语中英翻译对照.org b/乐团用语中英翻译对照.org new file mode 100644 index 0000000..f56486c --- /dev/null +++ b/乐团用语中英翻译对照.org @@ -0,0 +1,28 @@ +| 对音/调音 | Tuning | +| 前奏 | Overture | +| 速度 | Tempo | +| 旋律 | Melody | +| 节奏 | Rhythm | +| 乐句 | Phrase | +| 乐段 | Section | +| 乐章 | Movement | +| 力度 | Dynamics | +| 配器 | Instrumentation | +| 声部 | Part | +| 连音/连弓/连奏 | Legato | +| 断奏 | Staccato | +| 重音 | Accent | +| 独奏 | Solo | +| 齐奏 | Tutti | +| 强 | Forte | +| 弱 | Piano | +| 快 | Fast | +| 慢 | Slow | +| 渐强 | Crescendo | +| 渐弱 | Diminuendo | +| 渐快 | Accelerando | +| 渐慢 | Rallentando / ritardando | +| 突弱 | Fortepiano | +| 突强 | Sforzando | + + |