Welcome to TiddlyWiki created by Jeremy Ruston; Copyright © 2004-2007 Jeremy Ruston, Copyright © 2007-2011 UnaMesa Association
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!!!What It's For
This blog is not regular or irregular postings of a personal diary. It's an archive of ideas, writings, and possibilities, broken into bite-size pieces. Some of the entries are fairly recent, but a lot of them were written sometime during the last decade but haven't been posted before. So basically it's a little vanity press.
Most of the [[articles|Rambles, Rants, Ruminations]] are short. Some of them are satires. Others are rants, and a few actually are serious essays
There are also [[remembrances |Journals and Jetsam]] of people and places, including autobiographical memoirs, tributes, and travel tales, including a time travel tale. These are all PDF files.
If you would like to contribute your own content, which can interlink with any of ours, we would consider doing that, but you would need to maintain your page yourself.
!!!How It Works
This page and others like it are in [[TiddlyWiki | http://tiddlywiki.com/]] format. Like a regular wiki, such as [[MediaWiki | http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki]] , a ~TiddlyWiki is an HTML page that can be edited in place. Unlike a regular wiki, a ~TiddlyWiki needs no external software to make it work -- everything it does is contained in the HTML file, powered by Javascript. However, the files on this site can only be edited by registered users; you can see the markup for entries by pressing ''View'' to their upper right, but you cannot save edits you make.
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[[The Entropy Part]] relates to to how energy is distributed, that is whether it is diffused (high entropy) or concentrated (low entropy). We believe entropy should lie somewhere in between.
Likewise, [[The Neurial Part]] relates to how information distributes itself. High-entropy information has a lot of noise but can carry much news (because a given message is hard to predict); low-entropy information lacks noise, but only refers to only one or a couple of things, which are too predictable to be newsworthy. Neither state is particularly desirable, unless you don't care what message you get or are only interested in that one thing.
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Here are some photos we took.
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//''Travel journals, family and friends memoirs, and the odd literary hack''//
[[Goodbye 2010 | http://maxentropyproductions.net/papers/farewell2010.pdf]] -- A self-immolating holiday letter (PDF, 2010)
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[[Postcards from Kemer | http://maxentropyproductions.net/papers/PostcardsFromKemer.pdf]] -- Hanging out in Turkey, which is not too Swiss (PDF, 2009)
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[[So ... You Are My Father-in-Law’s Niece’s Oldest Son? | http://maxentropyproductions.net/papers/TurkishTales.pdf]] -- Meeting My Extended Turkish Family and their Ancestral Homeland (PDF, 2007)
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[[Russian-American Episodes | http://maxentropyproductions.net/papers/Russian-American_Episodes.pdf]] -- My maternal grandmother's life journey from Imperial Russia to New York and New Jersey (PDF, 1943)
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[[Snapshots from the Album of My Life | http://maxentropyproductions.net/papers/JohnGeorgeDutton-journal.pdf]] -- My great-grandfather's story, in his own words (PDF, 1916-38)
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[[Not Bad | http://maxentropyproductions.net/papers/NotBad.pdf]] -- Fond Recollections of a Rather Unique Person (PDF, 2007)
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[[Reflections on Becoming a Geezer | http://maxentropyproductions.net/papers/ReflectionsAtSixty.pdf]] -- A Top 60 List (PDF, 2004)
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[[With Light Saber Toolbox Getting Started | http://maxentropyproductions.net/papers/lst-started_getting.pdf]] -- If Yoda Wrote Software Manuals (PDF, 12.30.5.9.6.04)
[[About This Blog]]
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[[Max Entropy Predicts 2012]]
[[Max Entropy Predicts 2010]]
[[Max Entropy Predicts 2009]]
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[[EntropyNeurial?]]
[[The Entropy Part]]
[[The Neurial Part]]
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[[Obama Inauguration]]
[[Images From The Inauguration]]
[[Journals and Jetsam]]
[[Rambles, Rants, Ruminations]]
//''2008 Retrospective and 2009 Prospective''//
!!Skip This If You Think You Know Max
Most of you learned of Max Entropy Productions from being named as material witnesses in what turned out to be a mock lawsuit, but the elaborate conceptual art pieces go far beyond that.
Do you recall the great mock funeral for the Dollar that Max & Co. staged at the Federal Reserve Bank in St. Louis in 2007, attended by 3,000 mourners recruited from all across the Internet? The site had been prepared by a stealth work crew that excavated a 3-by-six-by-three-foot pit in the street, into which a priest and pallbearers dressed in fluorescent green robes interred an empty Styrofoam take-out container, burying it under 50,000 one-dollar bills mixed into 200 gallons of epoxy resin. After the workers repaved the site, mourners inscribed their initials in the warm asphalt.
As far out as 1984, max was spamming the infant Internet with false messages of hope. Emails regularly instructed net users to dial 419-718-1510 to learn how to make money by transferring other people’s bank balances. By mysterious means, those calls were transferred to the office of Donald Regan, Ronald Reagan’s Secretary of the Treasury.
People say they know Max, but do they really? His protean cloud of entropy totally obscures his location – not unlike Dick Cheney – and also his origins, which is fine because they do not matter. You can find Max Entropy listed at the address 42 Wheel of Fortune Way in phone books in major American cities. If you call his number, you get the message “I’m home now, but sorry you’re not me. Please leave your ring tone after the denotation.” Next, a deafening explosion erupted over the line, followed by a 15-second 400-herz buzzing blooming hum, and then the line goes dead.
Every so often MEP releases an ~MEP3 of electrifying mash-ups of ring tones that callers left during the hum, and also emails the callers’ phone numbers to Christian evangelist groups after publishing them to a page on www.maxentropyproductions.net called People of the Hum. The calls mostly come from frustrated nihilists who want to make nothing out of something but don’t know how. Regardless, the traffic only serves to maximize Max’s mystique and confuse evangelical telephone campaigns.
!!Wrap-up of Max’s Predictions for 2008
~FaceBook and ~MySpace links to People of The Hum increased by 458% in 2008, up from 18,960 at the end of 2007. That was the year Max went mobile, harvesting 24% more mobile callers than land liners. The upsurge reflected a widespread and keen interest in Max’s market predictions, often called maxenomics. Here’s a random sampling from last December:
• Sell your house ASAP and buy one in mid-December.
• Invest in your mother’s boyfriend’s new business.
• Buy corn futures now and dump them all in July.
• Keep your GM stock because it’s too big to fail.
• Hire Bernard Madoff to manage your wealth.
• Wait until October to take that big vacation.
• Earn money by recycling text messages.
• Profit by ignoring this advice.
• Get rid of your derivatives.
• What, me worry?
His prescience is spooky. If you had faithfully followed Max’s advice, your portfolio would have swelled by 6% plus or minus 5% at a probability level of 0.25. Who else saw that kind of return this year? Nobody, including you, doofus. So pay attention now.
!!Max’s Predictions for 2009
As always, Max is quite clear about what will come to pass, but his prescriptions vary in potency and require creativity to fulfill. So, swim in the swift currents of his uncommon sense to your final destination. In your struggles, be creative and clear-headed. Don’t follow Woody Allen’s example of cheating on his metaphysics exam by looking into the soul of the student sitting next to him.
!!!The Stupid Economy
• This year and next you can’t go wrong investing in infrastructure construction and maintenance; Uncle Sam will be picking up the tab.
• Energy-saving and energy-making devices will be hot items; things like wind turbines for car roofs and pedal-powered computers.
• In the food area, you might invest in growth industries such as kangaroo ranching, insect-based protein supplements, and oyster cloning (think pearls).
• This year, merchants sometimes will ask for a backup card for larger purchases, so accept a credit card offer or two.
• You can profit handsomely if you discover how to turn corn silks and grass clippings into wearable fabrics.
• Consider starting a service business to franchise or for a larger company to acquire, for example an obedience school for cats.
• The Nobel Prize in economics will be awarded to Bernard Madoff for “demonstrating that Pyramid Power is not just New Age hucksterism.”
!!!World Events and Nonevents
• India will be discovered selling recently acquired American nuclear technology to Iran and Pakistan; the Indian president replies “We thought it was nuclear waste.”
• The press will reveal that French president Sarkozy has a gay lover; despite or because of a Papal excommunication, his approval ratings skyrocket.
• A Spanish court will convict Francisco Franco for war crimes and sentence him to 300 years hard labor; the Catholic Church appeals on grounds of habeas corpus.
• Substantial oil reserves will be discovered just offshore from Cuba; restored U.S. diplomatic relations and American cigar sales quickly ensue.
• In Japan, a mania for decorated facial wrinkles will erupt, based on ancestor worship and aging film stars; all major cosmetic companies declare bankruptcy.
• The Government of China will organize its netizens to issue denial-of-service attacks on media Web sites that criticize China; most zealously participate.
• ~UFOs will descend to an undisclosed location to abduct Dick Cheney, who will push a red button that causes missiles to destroy the White House.
!!!Clashes of the Uncivilized
• A phalanx of Israeli bulldozers will push Gaza City into the sea; on that landfill a strip of luxury hotels arises that will employ most Gazans, who will live in tents.
• Gaza will be renamed Palm Beach East; Gazan women riot when hotel residents bring along their Chicana and Phillippina nannies and nurses.
• Afghani warlords will syndicate and oust the Karzai government; the syndicate changes the name of Afghanistan to Fugetaboutit and sends NATO troops home.
• The Taliban will cut a deal with the syndicate for half its poppy business in return for control of schools, music stores, boutiques and barbershops.
• Christian pro-life activists will see red when pro-choice cars begin sporting bumper stickers saying The aborted are born again; they counter by plastering their auto-derrières with All liberals are satanic fags.
• Animal rights activists will commence a long, bitter, and indecisive debate on whether to oppose cloning lamb chops from adult sheep stem cells.
• Vegan activists will be thrown into disarray after an article in Nature documents that vegetables can feel pain, even long after being picked.
• Gun control advocates will make an end-run around the NRA with a great ad campaign (Guns don’t kill people; bullets kill people); but for the assassination of three representatives and one senator, it almost convinces Congress to tax the importation and sale of ammunition.
!!!Whatever
• A seasoning mix touted by celebrity chefs will sweep the nation, only to be forced underground by the DEA because it mostly contains magic mushrooms.
• After his ratings in his new time slot sag, Jay Leno transgenders to Judy Leno, who appears in drag as Jay and captures the metrosexual demographic.
• PETA will reunite splintered animal rights activists to denounce John Updike’s new novel, Die, Rabbit, Die; six editions sell out, a small price to pay.
• Jailed bankers will form gangs that subjugate other prisoners by restricting their credit; Black inmates will be their fish of choice to serve as gofers.
• ~Afro-American grandmothers will demand remittances from their sons’ prison work details or they will send the kids back to live with their mothers.
• Barack Obama will launch a Web site, www.bopeeps.gov, to solicit supporters’ fantasies of a better world; the worthier ideas it receives are sold to ad agencies.
• Right-wing talk radio will buzz the aether that Obama’s American grandfather was 1/4 Iranian; the FBI is spammed with emails to revoke Obama’s clearance.
• IDG, publisher of the …for Dummies books, will sue Max Entropy Productions for publishing Economics for Crash Dummies; IDG’s initial stock offering tanks.
• After being awarded a D.Div from Liberty University, GWB will found a new Christian sect called The Church of The Decider; his faith will be tested as he wrestles with the question of whether the aborted can be born again.
What, we weary? Don’t weary, be hoppy!
//Copyright © 2009 Max Entropy Productions. All rights reserved. All left to ponder.//
//''2009 Retrospective and 2010 Prospective''//
As far out as 1984, max was spamming the infant Internet with false messages of hope. Emails regularly instructed net users to dial 419-718-1510 to learn how to make money by transferring other people’s bank balances. By mysterious means, those calls were transferred to the office of Donald Regan, Ronald Reagan’s Secretary of the Treasury.
!!Wrap-up of Max’s Predictions for 2009
This year Max's prognostications were mostly on target, if you include those that can't be verified. Here's his amazing record (See last year's post at [[Max Entropy Predicts 2009]]):
//Predictions are scored from 1 to 10, with 1 meaning worthless and 10 meaning spot on. Predictions scoring less than 6 are --struck through--.//
!!!The Stupid Economy
• This year and next you can’t go wrong investing in infrastructure construction and maintenance; Uncle Sam will be picking up the tab.
9 -- The Obama stimulus package has done that and more
• Energy-saving and energy-making devices will be hot items; things like wind turbines for car roofs and pedal-powered computers.
6 -- solar chargers for portable devices, wind turbines everywhere but on cars, and shoe-generated electricity is on the horizon...
• --In the food area, you might invest in growth industries such as kangaroo ranching, insect-based protein supplements, and oyster cloning (think pearls).--
1 -- Not quite; as often is the case, Max looked too far into the future.
• This year, merchants sometimes will ask for a backup card for larger purchases, --so accept a credit card offer or two--.
6 -- You might have been asked for collateral for big-ticket items, but it was best to wait for new financial rules to take effect before taking on new plastic.
• --You can profit handsomely if you discover how to turn corn silks and grass clippings into wearable fabrics.--
5 -- This is still true, but nobody did it.
• Consider starting a service business to franchise or for a larger company to acquire, for example --an obedience school for cats--.
7 -- A solid recommendation with a marginal example. Max, be advised.
• --The Nobel Prize in economics will be awarded to Bernard Madoff for “demonstrating that Pyramid Power is not just New Age hucksterism.”--
1 -- OK, this was a stretch. But is it not just as plausible as the Obama Peace Prize?
//Average for category: 5.0//
!!!World Events and Nonevents
• India will be discovered selling recently acquired American nuclear technology to Iran and Pakistan; the Indian president replies “We thought it was nuclear waste.”
8 -- Yes they were, but we can't reveal the details without getting into trouble...
• --The press will reveal that French president Sarkozy has a gay lover; despite or because of a Papal excommunication, his approval ratings skyrocket.--
5 -- Our sources say this probably happened, but the French press doesn't dare tell the truth.
• --A Spanish court will convict Francisco Franco for war crimes and sentence him to 300 years hard labor--; the Catholic Church appeals on grounds of //habeas corpus//.
5 -- No court ruled about this, but the church filed suit anyway.
• --Substantial oil reserves will be discovered just offshore from Cuba; restored U.S. diplomatic relations and American cigar sales quickly ensue.--
1 -- None of Max's source can confirm this, but just wait...
• In Japan, a mania for decorated facial wrinkles will erupt, based on ancestor worship and aging film stars; --all major cosmetic companies declare bankruptcy--.
5 -- The old-san movement pcked up steam, but the cosmetics industry adaped and now offers a wide range of wrinkleliners.
• The Government of China will organize its netizens to issue denial-of-service attacks on media Web sites that criticize China; most zealously participate.
10 -- Can you prove it didn't happen?
• --~UFOs will descend to an undisclosed location to abduct Dick Cheney, who will push a red button that causes missiles to destroy the White House.--
7 -- Of course Dick's safe and the White House is still there, but he's pushing all the buttons at his disposal like crazy to flatten Obama.
//Average for category: 5.0//
!!!Clashes of the Uncivilized
• --A phalanx of Israeli bulldozers will push Gaza City into the sea; on that landfill a strip of luxury hotels arises that will employ most Gazans, who will live in tents.--
4 -- Nope. Instead, Israel decided to build luxury settlements on the West Bank. A lot of Gazans do live in tents, however.
• --Gaza will be renamed Palm Beach East; Gazan women riot when hotel residents bring along their Chicana and Phillippina nannies and nurses.--
1 -- Depressed housing prices in Florida prevented this exodus
• Afghani warlords will syndicate and oust the Karzai government; the syndicate changes the name of Afghanistan to Fugetaboutit and sends NATO troops home.
7 -- This is happening, but in a different key; it's the Taliban that is syndicating and will send NATO home, eventually.
• The Taliban will cut a deal with the syndicate for half its poppy business in return for control of schools, music stores, boutiques and barbershops.
7 -- Actually, it's whole towns and villages that the Taliban runs or holds in fealty.
• Christian pro-life activists will see red when pro-choice cars begin sporting bumper stickers saying //The aborted are born again//; they counter by plastering their auto-derrières with //All liberals are satanic fags//.
8 -- Max says he has seen even worse.
• Animal rights activists will commence a long, bitter, and indecisive debate on whether to oppose --cloning lamb chops from adult sheep stem cells.--
5 -- Almost true. Dutch scientists are starting to clone pork chops in petri dishes. Really. And PETA doesn't know what to think.
• --Vegan activists will be thrown into disarray after an article in Nature documents that vegetables can feel pain, even long after being picked.--
3 -- Not really, but it depends on how you measure pain, doesn't it?
• --Gun control advocates will make an end-run around the NRA with a great ad campaign (//Guns don’t kill people; bullets kill people//); but for the assassination of three representatives and one senator, it almost convinces Congress to tax the importation and sale of ammunition.--
1 -- No congress-critters were killed, and few of them bucked the NRA on this matter.
//Average for category: 5.14//
!!!Whatever
• A seasoning mix touted by celebrity chefs will sweep the nation, --only to be forced underground by the DEA because it mostly contains magic mushrooms--.
5 -- As should have been predicted, the FDA didn't act.
• After his ratings in his new time slot sag, Jay Leno transgenders to Judy Leno, who appears in drag as Jay and captures the metrosexual demographic.
1 -- Network TV is so clueless.
• PETA will reunite splintered animal rights activists to denounce --John Updike’s new novel, Die, Rabbit, Die; six editions sell out, a small price to pay--.
3 -- Of course, Updike had to die the day this was uttered. Had he lived, however ,,,
• Jailed bankers will form gangs that subjugate other prisoners by restricting their credit; Black inmates will be their fish of choice to serve as gofers.
4 -- The jury is still out; not enough bankers are doing time yet.
• --~Afro-American grandmothers will demand remittances from their sons’ prison work details or they will send the kids back to live with their mothers.--
1 -- //au contraire//, localities are now garnishing prisoner wages and assets to make their inmates pay for their upkeep.
• Barack Obama will launch a Web site, www.bopeeps.gov, to solicit supporters’ fantasies of a better world; the worthier ideas it receives are sold to ad agencies.
8 -- The web site has a different name, but the propgandandists are busy doing their thing.
• Right-wing talk radio will buzz the aether that Obama’s American grandfather was 1/4 Iranian; the FBI is spammed with emails to revoke Obama’s clearance.
9 -- Not exactly, but Tea Party and Birther rhetoric puts this to shame.
• --IDG, publisher of the …for Dummies books, will sue Max Entropy Productions for publishing Economics for Crash Dummies; IDG’s initial stock offering tanks.--
1 -- MEP still rules unchallenged and IDG is still private.
• --After being awarded a D.Div from Liberty University, GWB will found a new Christian sect called The Church of The Decider; his faith will be tested as he wrestles with the question of whether the aborted can be born again.--
4 -- Not yet, but then it takes a while for Dubya to decide anything.
//Average for category: 5.0//
!!! And the Score for 2009 is...
An average of 5.0, with a standard deviation of 0 -- a maximally entropic result! As always, Max is never all right or all wrong.
What, we weary? Don’t weary, be hoppy!
//Copyright © 2010 Max Entropy Productions. All rights reserved. All left to ponder.//
December 26, 2011
Sorry to say, dear reader, Max's last actual predictions came in [[2009|Max Entropy Predicts 2009]] (where does the time go?). It was a good thing that Max didn't issue predictions for 2011. He would have been blindsided by the Arab Spring/Summer/Fall /Winter and by #~OccupyWhatever. Not that Max didn't expect such events – he knew they would have to play out. But things were so funky then that expecting mass awakenings any time soon seemed like a far cry. Turned out the cries were refreshingly near.
Politically speaking, predicting 2012 is easy. Bottom line on top: Obama is easily reelected after Romney's hair falls off at their last debate. The Republicans become what might be a permanent minority. They lose //en masse// because the GOP base takes a pass in November, many believing that completing the 5,125-year cycle of the Mayan calendar on the winter solstice signals the onset of End Days. Regardless, the GOP leadership is just as happy it won't be held responsible for a system that is self-correcting itself into oblivion.
If you think that voter scenario is over the top, consider that [[over half of GOP poll respondents|http://tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com/2011/04/poll-nearly-half-of-republican-voters-think-obama-wasnt-born-in-us.php]] think President Obama is a space alien - meaning that he isn't White like them. In fact, many Republicans believe that anyone who isn't a white American Christian corporation is a space alien, an attitude their political leaders encourage.
More than rapture, we'll see rupture. The financial system will teeter on collapse, not as a result of defaulting sovereign debt, but because enough Americans will shift deposits from megabanks to closer to home and use whatever credit they can get parsimoniously. Absent of those hard depositor assets and debtor fees, the big banks can only survive at the pleasure of the Fed. At some point, its shell game falls off the table and some bank goes belly up. A chain reaction of failure ensues.
As this plays out, new hyperlocal currencies emerge. Some already exist, down to the level of individual establishments printing vouchers they exchange for labor and materials. People who can't get jobs or aren't paid very well decide to barter their talents and stuff in their communities. As scripts are needed to consummate such exchanges, boutique currencies will be consensually coined in many places and some are arbitraged on the Internet. The movement comes to be known as #~OccupyCommerce. The IRS wants to crack down but can't do much without Congress giving it more muscle, which doesn't happen.
Capital flight continues. In December, tens of thousands of corporate executives simply disappear. Finally realizing the jig is up, they cash in and then rapture themselves on private jets to fortified island retreats. Shares in most major corporations take a big hit, causing them to have trouble borrowing. It's 2008 redux, but this time it doesn't just happen in the financial sector.
Will the big corps survive? That depends on what whomever steps up to lead them does and what the government is willing and able to do. It will be dicey - a double dip or not depending on one's support system. Fortunately, that will play out in 2013, so Max doesn't have to say just yet.
Max's advice: Mind your bottom line, spend time with your family, and hoard slack because you won't have much going forward. To learn just what you need to do, sign up for Max's factoid-filled newsletter //Profit from the Apocalypse// for only $249.98 per month with a prepaid yearly charter subscription. Tell your friends too, because what good is it being able to say "I told you so" if there's no one to tell it to?
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After going back and forth about the wisdom of subjecting ourselves to a crowd of historic proportions, my family and I decide to take the plunge and drive to DC the Saturday before the Obama inauguration. Our old friend Lance tipped the balance when he called to invite us to stay with him in his Capitol Hill town house on East Third street, three blocks from the ceremony. We could even park in his back yard, an offer we couldn't refuse.
The drive went smoothly, thanks to leaving at 5 AM, and quickly, thanks to the audio book ''Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire''. On Sunday we bundled up, and forewarned not to bring any backpacks, set off on foot for the Lincoln Memorial for the People's Inauguration concert. Although we were four hours early, the closest we could get was the West slope of the Washington Monument, near the WWII Monument, with a view down the reflecting pool to the Lincoln Monument. We stationed ourselves in front of two jumbotrons and waited. Everyone was in a good mood, despite the cold, gray day.
Three Marine helicopters thudded over our heads and landed at the South Oval. Presumably it was the Obamas and the Bidens, and possibly Bush too. About 40 minutes later, introductions began at the memorial, and the first and second families made their grand entrance. The concert was great, well produced, and the outdoor sound was terrific, though the pictures were grainy. When it was over, we slogged through the crowd in which people were attempting to disperse in all directions at once. Despite the general gridlock, peoples' moods were vibrant. It was certainly the best behaved two million people I've ever met.
Monday was the Day of Service. We did not serve, though many people did. Some lined the streets holding sequences of signs like Burma Shave ads to bring awareness to the AIDS crisis in DC (1 out of 20 residents is HIV-positive, one such billsboard claimed). Others picked up trash or volunteered in shelters and soup kitchens. We joined a "slavery tour" through the Adams Morgan neighborhood, and were educated about how slavery worked in the District until Lincoln abolished it in 1862. Then we walked ten blocks up to Howard University to sit in a symposium of young black leaders discussing where to take the movement from here, what buttons needed pressing.
Inauguration day dawned cloudy and cold. My wife went out at 530 AM to reconnoiter access to the Mall, where we had decided to station ourselves. She came back an hour later describing crowd gridlock down by the blue and purple ticket entrances. We breakfasted and ventured out at 930, and encountered a coagulation of celebrants on the streets South of the Capitol. The problem was that people with tickets were being funneled through a couple of gates. Bottlenecks at intersections (as well has hundreds of parked tour buses) also kept us at bay.
Eventually we threaded our way between government agency buildings to Independence Ave, where the crowd exhaled and flowed faster. To get to our destination on the Mall, we waited for the Smithsonian to open its gates, then tunneled through the African Museum's underground galleries to reach the Mall side of the building. That piece of the Mall was well occupied, but there was room for a few more. We snaked our way to about 200 feet away from a jumbotron, with a distant view of the steps of the Capitol. By zooming in with our video camera, we could actually make out people there.
And so we stood in one place for the next three hours, again in very polite company. I have heard that there were ''[[no arrests|http://counterterrorismblog.org/2009/01/feds_zero_arrests_during_obama.php]]'' downtown that day, which is a pretty amazing statistic if you think about the potential for altercations, say from those 5,000-odd people with tickets who were forced to mill around in back streets and never got herded in. Passing through them to get back to East Third street was no picnic, but we and they were still too psyched to maintain a nasty mood.
See a sampling of our [[pictures|Images from the Inauguration]].
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//''Essays, articles, satires, and other relatively unpublished ephemera''//
[[Just Say No to Black Thursday]] -- When Gorging Your Belly Just Doesn't Satisfy
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[[God Sure Is Pretty Great]] -- The downside of trying to be ecumenical
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[[The Next Big Security Threat - In Your Local Public Library]] -- What to expect
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[[What Newt Said that the Press Didn’t Discuss]] -- Why can't news media call out obvious contradictions in party rhetoric?
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[[2011: A Facebook Odyssey of Worldwide Political Rage]] -- Relearning how to do collective actions
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[[House Member Files Bill to Ban Dirty Acronyms]] -- Thank God Republicans are guarding morality
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[[Birth of a New Social Movement - Uncut!]] -- Forcing corporations to stop freeloading on taxpayers
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[[Gabrielle Giffords’ Lousy Legislative Legacy]] -- What's a worried Congressman to do?
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[[My Twelve-Step Program for Political and Economic Reform]] -- How I learned to love the market
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[[Can Progressives Bridge the Fervor Gap?]] -- What to do when the movement for change changes polarity
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[[A Modest Medical Insurance Proposal]] -- We already //have// single-payer
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[[Afghanistan has already defeated us]] -- Why? Because we are responsible for most of the corruption there
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[[Why the Economy Sucks and What Can Replace It]] -- diagnosis and prescriptions from Douglas Rushkoff
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[[Why is it so hard to say "Goodbye, Gitmo"?]] -- It would make a dandy destination resort
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[[We have met the Wallstreet enemy and they are us]] -- Getting to Greed
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[[Put it all together...]] -- A financial crisis aid-to-memory
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[[Let's Lose Larry]] -- The Summers of our Discontent
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[[Who is to blame for the mortgage mess?]] -- An attempt at an accounting
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[[Da Fatso Head of the Republican Party]] -- Happy days are just around the corner
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[[Legalize Murder]] -- A mock government form, from a dark American future
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[[The Smirky and Snarly Show]] -- The second season of the notorious Washington D.C. sitcom
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[[Riding Saddam Darius Atilla Mao Kim Into the Sunset]] -- Neoconservative talking points during the run-up to the Iraq invasion
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[[The Airlines Will Rise Again]] -- A not so far-fetched prediction of our flying future]]
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[[Among Americans and Other Strangers]] -- How Turks differ from Americans, but perhaps not for much longer
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[[Nipping Conflict in the Buddha]] -- Pathways to Middle East Peace
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[[What Would Henry Do?|WWHD]] -- Simpler Living through Deliberation
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/***
|Name|TagCloudPlugin|
|Source|http://www.TiddlyTools.com/#TagCloudPlugin|
|Version|1.7.0|
|Author|Eric Shulman|
|Original Author|Clint Checketts|
|License|http://www.TiddlyTools.com/#LegalStatements|
|~CoreVersion|2.1|
|Type|plugin|
|Description|present a 'cloud' of tags (or links) using proportional font display|
!Usage
<<<
{{{
<<cloud type action:... limit:... tag tag tag ...>>
<<cloud type action:... limit:... +TiddlerName>>
<<cloud type action:... limit:... -TiddlerName>>
<<cloud type action:... limit:... =tagvalue>>
}}}
where:
* //type// is a keyword, one of:
** ''tags'' (default) - displays a cloud of tags, based on frequency of use
** ''links'' - displays a cloud of tiddlers, based on number of links //from// each tiddler
** ''references'' - displays a cloud of tiddlers, based on number of links //to// each tiddler
* ''action:popup'' (default) - clicking a cloud item shows a popup with links to related tiddlers<br>//or//<br> ''action:goto'' - clicking a cloud item immediately opens the tiddler corresponding to that item
* ''limit:N'' (optional) - restricts the cloud display to only show the N most popular tags/links
* ''tag tag tag...'' (or ''title title title'' if ''links''/''references'' is used)<br>shows all tags/links in the document //except// for those listed as macro parameters
* ''+TiddlerName''<br>show only tags/links read from a space-separated, bracketed list stored in a separate tiddler.
* ''-TiddlerName''<br>show all tags/links //except// those read from a space-separated, bracketed list stored in a separate tiddler.
* ''=tagvalue'' (//only if type=''tags''//)<br>shows only tags that are themselves tagged with the indicated tag value (i.e., ~TagglyTagging usage)
//note: for backward-compatibility, you can also use the macro {{{<<tagCloud ...>>}}} in place of {{{<<cloud ...>>}}}//
<<<
!Examples
<<<
//all tags excluding<<tag systemConfig>>, <<tag excludeMissing>> and <<tag script>>//
{{{<<cloud systemConfig excludeMissing script>>}}}
{{groupbox{<<cloud systemConfig excludeMissing script>>}}}
//top 10 tags excluding<<tag systemConfig>>, <<tag excludeMissing>> and <<tag script>>//
{{{<<cloud limit:10 systemConfig excludeMissing script>>}}}
{{groupbox{<<cloud limit:10 systemConfig excludeMissing script>>}}}
//tags listed in// [[FavoriteTags]]
{{{<<cloud +FavoriteTags>>}}}
{{groupbox{<<cloud +FavoriteTags>>}}}
//tags NOT listed in// [[FavoriteTags]]
{{{<<cloud -FavoriteTags>>}}}
{{groupbox{<<cloud -FavoriteTags>>}}}
//links to tiddlers tagged with 'package'//
{{{<<cloud action:goto =package>>}}}
{{groupbox{<<cloud action:goto =package>>}}}
//top 20 most referenced tiddlers//
{{{<<cloud references limit:20>>}}}
{{groupbox{<<cloud references limit:20>>}}}
//top 20 tiddlers that contain the most links//
{{{<<cloud links limit:20>>}}}
{{groupbox{<<cloud links limit:20>>}}}
<<<
!Revisions
<<<
2009.07.17 [1.7.0] added {{{-TiddlerName}}} parameter to exclude tags that are listed in the indicated tiddler
2009.02.26 [1.6.0] added {{{action:...}}} parameter to apply popup vs. goto action when clicking cloud items
2009.02.05 [1.5.0] added ability to show links or back-links (references) instead of tags and renamed macro to {{{<<cloud>>}}} to reflect more generalized usage.
2008.12.16 [1.4.2] corrected group calculation to prevent 'group=0' error
2008.12.16 [1.4.1] revised tag filtering so excluded tags don't affect calculations
2008.12.15 [1.4.0] added {{{limit:...}}} parameter to restrict the number of tags displayed to the top N most popular
2008.11.15 [1.3.0] added {{{+TiddlerName}}} parameter to include only tags that are listed in the indicated tiddler
2008.09.05 [1.2.0] added '=tagname' parameter to include only tags that are themselves tagged with the specified value (i.e., ~TagglyTagging usage)
2008.07.03 [1.1.0] added 'segments' property to macro object. Extensive code cleanup
<<<
!Code
***/
//{{{
version.extensions.TagCloudPlugin= {major: 1, minor: 7 , revision: 0, date: new Date(2009,7,17)};
//Originally created by Clint Checketts, contributions by Jonny Leroy and Eric Shulman
//Currently maintained and enhanced by Eric Shulman
//}}}
//{{{
config.macros.cloud = {
tagstip: "%1 tiddlers tagged with '%0'",
refslabel: " (%0 references)",
refstip: "%1 tiddlers have links to '%0'",
linkslabel: " (%0 links)",
linkstip: "'%0' has links to %1 other tiddlers",
groups: 9,
init: function() {
config.macros.tagCloud=config.macros.cloud; // for backward-compatibility
config.shadowTiddlers.TagCloud='<<cloud>>';
config.shadowTiddlers.StyleSheetTagCloud=
'/*{{{*/\n'
+'.tagCloud span {line-height: 3.5em; margin:3px;}\n'
+'.tagCloud1{font-size: 80%;}\n'
+'.tagCloud2{font-size: 100%;}\n'
+'.tagCloud3{font-size: 120%;}\n'
+'.tagCloud4{font-size: 140%;}\n'
+'.tagCloud5{font-size: 160%;}\n'
+'.tagCloud6{font-size: 180%;}\n'
+'.tagCloud7{font-size: 200%;}\n'
+'.tagCloud8{font-size: 220%;}\n'
+'.tagCloud9{font-size: 240%;}\n'
+'/*}}}*/\n';
setStylesheet(store.getTiddlerText('StyleSheetTagCloud'),'tagCloudsStyles');
},
getLinks: function(tiddler) { // get list of links to existing tiddlers and shadows
if (!tiddler.linksUpdated) tiddler.changed();
var list=[]; for (var i=0; i<tiddler.links.length; i++) {
var title=tiddler.links[i];
if (store.isShadowTiddler(title)||store.tiddlerExists(title))
list.push(title);
}
return list;
},
handler: function(place,macroName,params) {
// unpack params
var inc=[]; var ex=[]; var limit=0; var action='popup';
var links=(params[0]&¶ms[0].toLowerCase()=='links'); if (links) params.shift();
var refs=(params[0]&¶ms[0].toLowerCase()=='references'); if (refs) params.shift();
if (params[0]&¶ms[0].substr(0,7).toLowerCase()=='action:')
action=params.shift().substr(7).toLowerCase();
if (params[0]&¶ms[0].substr(0,6).toLowerCase()=='limit:')
limit=parseInt(params.shift().substr(6));
while (params.length) {
if (params[0].substr(0,1)=='+') { // read taglist from tiddler
inc=inc.concat(store.getTiddlerText(params[0].substr(1),'').readBracketedList());
} else if (params[0].substr(0,1)=='-') { // exclude taglist from tiddler
ex=ex.concat(store.getTiddlerText(params[0].substr(1),'').readBracketedList());
} else if (params[0].substr(0,1)=='=') { // get tag list using tagged tags
var tagged=store.getTaggedTiddlers(params[0].substr(1));
for (var t=0; t<tagged.length; t++) inc.push(tagged[t].title);
} else ex.push(params[0]); // exclude params
params.shift();
}
// get all items, include/exclude specific items
var items=[];
var list=(links||refs)?store.getTiddlers('title','excludeLists'):store.getTags();
for (var t=0; t<list.length; t++) {
var title=(links||refs)?list[t].title:list[t][0];
if (links) var count=this.getLinks(list[t]).length;
else if (refs) var count=store.getReferringTiddlers(title).length;
else var count=list[t][1];
if ((!inc.length||inc.contains(title))&&(!ex.length||!ex.contains(title)))
items.push({ title:title, count:count });
}
if(!items.length) return;
// sort by decending count, limit results (optional)
items=items.sort(function(a,b){return(a.count==b.count)?0:(a.count>b.count?-1:1);});
while (limit && items.length>limit) items.pop();
// find min/max and group size
var most=items[0].count;
var least=items[items.length-1].count;
var groupSize=(most-least+1)/this.groups;
// sort by title and draw the cloud of items
items=items.sort(function(a,b){return(a.title==b.title)?0:(a.title>b.title?1:-1);});
var cloudWrapper = createTiddlyElement(place,'div',null,'tagCloud',null);
for (var t=0; t<items.length; t++) {
cloudWrapper.appendChild(document.createTextNode(' '));
var group=Math.ceil((items[t].count-least)/groupSize)||1;
var className='tagCloudtag tagCloud'+group;
var tip=refs?this.refstip:links?this.linkstip:this.tagstip;
tip=tip.format([items[t].title,items[t].count]);
if (action=='goto') { // TAG/LINK/REFERENCES GOTO
var btn=createTiddlyLink(cloudWrapper,items[t].title,true,className);
btn.title=tip;
btn.style.fontWeight='normal';
} else if (!links&&!refs) { // TAG POPUP
var btn=createTiddlyButton(cloudWrapper,items[t].title,tip,onClickTag,className);
btn.setAttribute('tag',items[t].title);
} else { // LINK/REFERENCES POPUP
var btn=createTiddlyButton(cloudWrapper,items[t].title,tip,
function(ev) { var e=ev||window.event; var cmt=config.macros.cloud;
var popup = Popup.create(this);
var title = this.getAttribute('tiddler');
var count = this.getAttribute('count');
var refs = this.getAttribute('refs')=='T';
var links = this.getAttribute('links')=='T';
var label = (refs?cmt.refslabel:cmt.linkslabel).format([count]);
createTiddlyLink(popup,title,true);
createTiddlyText(popup,label);
createTiddlyElement(popup,'hr');
if (refs) {
popup.setAttribute('tiddler',title);
config.commands.references.handlePopup(popup,title);
}
if (links) {
var tiddler = store.fetchTiddler(title);
var links=config.macros.cloud.getLinks(tiddler);
for(var i=0;i<links.length;i++)
createTiddlyLink(createTiddlyElement(popup,'li'),
links[i],true);
}
Popup.show();
e.cancelBubble=true; if(e.stopPropagation) e.stopPropagation();
return false;
}, className);
btn.setAttribute('tiddler',items[t].title);
btn.setAttribute('count',items[t].count);
btn.setAttribute('refs',refs?'T':'F');
btn.setAttribute('links',links?'T':'F');
btn.title=tip;
}
}
}
};
//}}}
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''Entropy'' is a statistic that describes the degree of order or disorder in a system. It describes how energy or information is distributed. If entropy is high, then anything is likely to happen, but not very energetically. Low entropy indicates that the system is in a ore organized state in which fewer things are likely to happen. Take the U.S. economy for the past decade or so; in terms of income and wealth distribution, it has become more top-heavy and less equal. Despite an overall growth in wealth, the economy's entropy has decreased, because more wealthy citizens than less wealthy ones evolved. The result was a deadening of possibilities at the lower end, and upper-end wealth that ate itself out of existence.
Having more entropy translates into having more choices but less information from which to choose among them, as well as less energy to pursue them. A system with less entropy empowers fewer entities more and more entities less, but more things tend to get done. So does that mean that low entropy is good and high entropy is bad? Not really; there can be too much of a good thing.
High entropy is like being bored: nothing you can think of particularly excites you and all your options seem equally uninspiring. Low entropy is like having inspiration and the energy to follow it up; having made a choice to do something, your attention focuses, your options decrease, and your motivation increases. Nobody likes high entropy, because it represents stagnation; people want to get things done.
However ... if one stays too single-minded for too long, things can start to fall apart. By pushing entropy too low, one stops taking care of other things -- including personal mental and physical health -- due to pouring most of one's energy into one highly motivated goal. For example, a man's goal might be to build as much wealth as he can. You can imagine how such a single-minded focus could cause him to neglect his family and friends, discount potentially useful information, and ignore the consequences of his actions. Eventually, the enterprise, the actor, and his connections will suffer. So, too little as well as too much entropy can be a bad thing. Its downside just isn't as obvious.
Neurons process and store information. They organize and reorganize themselves to give creatures patterned responses to familiar and new events. The neurons of more complex and creative creatures seem to be better at reorganizing their data and adapting their thinking to cope with changing situations. They don't always respond the same way to a particular stimulus. Such creatures can handle uncertainty and doubt better than creatures who preder certainty and have more patterned responses.
Applied to information, entropy measures how much uncertainty exists for a given set of choices or possibilities. For example, If you receive only two television channels, and generally watch one more than the other, it is pretty easy to predict which channel you will be watching next time you use your TV. The information content is low and so is its entropy. If, on the other hand, you have access to 200 channels and tend to watch ten of them a lot and the rest occasionally, predicting what you will view is harder to do. For this set of choices, both the information content and its entropy are higher.
Maximum information entropy occurs when all options are equally probable. Total entropy is more when there are more possibilities than when fewer exist. Minimum entropy (zero) occurs when one possibility has a probability of 1 and the others have 0 probability. Most people prefer situations somewhere in the middle, entropy-wise, and have clear preferences that make decision-making easier.
Practice Entropyneurship
MaxEntropy
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//This ensures that the footer sticks to the bottom of the screen when there are no tiddlers open. If that is not desirable, it can be deleted.
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if (document.getElementById && document.getElementById("contentFooter") ) {
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var theTiddler = Story.prototype.refreshTiddler_footerhack.apply(this,arguments);
setFooter();
return theTiddler;}
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