mardi, mai 09, 2006

 
Jack Luminous

posted by poligraf @ 13:38

Activités des dernières heures :

Observation de tulipes :



Identification d'une bonne partie des idées musicales sauvegardées avec le DVR :


Traitement des récentes soumissions :


Un peu de comptabilité :


Éducation intensive de ma main droite qui doit gagner en fluidité pour les fins de "Between Worlds" et de son désormais célèbre arpège :


Scones aux pommes :


Quelques versions "pleine grandeur" sont disponibles sur Flickr.

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Unrivaled quality! Radiant packaging. Speedy delivery. Exceptionally pleased. A++

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Quality of item was splendorous. Notable packaging. Delivery was resplendent. A++

Top-notch quality. Swift to send. Exceptionally ideal packaging. Recommended. A++

Item was of the most incomparable quality! Choicest delivery. Ace packaging. A+++

Sculptures d'objets mathématiques en blocs Lego :


[via digg]

NGC 7635: Bubble in a Cosmic Sea :

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lundi, mai 08, 2006

 
Kandula

posted by poligraf @ 11:19

Pour la postérité, le thème estival :

Sherpa a reçu une greffe de mémoire : Kandula, un disque dur de 80 Go qui attendait patiemment le moment de son entrée en fonction. J'avais accumulé tellement de matériel audio et vidéo qui traînait un peu partout qu'après l'avoir rassemblé sur ce nouveau support, déjà 75 % de sa capacité est utilisée. Mais tout se retrouve enfin à sa place, et les autres ordis de la maison se sentent sûrement plus légers.

Dans la catégorie intéressant mais pas très utile : Google Maps en ASCII :


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À entendre sur Coverville : "Bohemian Polka", une reprise de "Bohemian Rhapsody" par Weird Al Yankovic. L'épisode propose aussi 3 versions d'"Imagine", dont celle de A Perfect Circle.

Star Clouds over Arizona :

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dimanche, mai 07, 2006

 
Regaining Paradise

posted by poligraf @ 11:58

Paradise – Paradise Lost – Paradise Regained.

Paradise is our natural condition. This is the good news.
Our condition is unnatural. This is the bad news.

Love cannot bear that even one soul be denied its place in paradise. This is even better news.
But, we cannot bear love. This is terrible news.

Paradise is always available. This is more good news.
But, we are not always available to paradise. This is more bad news.

Firstly, we are in paradise.
Secondly, we fall from paradise.
Thirdly, we recognise that we have fallen from paradise.
Fourthly, we acknowledge our fall.
Fifthly, we address the journey that is our returning to Paradise, our becoming more fully who & what we are, which enables us to bear the world of the Real.

There is more good news: help is waiting for us. Actually, help has always been with us, but we were not able to accept Help. This is a condition of the Fall.

Paradise regained, for those prepared to persist in reclaiming what is (in a proper world) a natural state, is to know Paradise as if for the first time.

And, when we find ourselves once more in Paradise, we may find Paradise itself only a beginning.

- Robert Fripp

A Dust Cloud in NGC 281 :

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