Preparations at the geocave in progress:
– Zen seance with Jeff Buckley (viz. Grace, Mystery White Boy, Sketches and great headphones)
– Mental inventory of alternate navigation routes through the City of New Orleans on account of giant tourist goat-rodeo headed in the direction of Jazzfest
– Acquisition of Uthgardt Holy Shield and Delver’s Armor for same
– Chanting: “Don’t take trusty steed anywhere in the vicinity of French Quarter and City Park. Lather, rinse, repeat.”
– Sustenance through Super Fresh Cheese Curds
Had some dill and pepper cheese curds on our trip back last weekend. YUM-my.
Wow! Do they ship those curds to Spain? My mouth is watering, I haven’t had good Wisconsin cheese curds in years! Looking forward to loading up in a few months, though…
No, no, not at all. This is why I walked to meet you, instead of driving, a severe exercise in futility during NO tourist season.
It was a pleasure to meet and talk with you – I really had a great time! Unfortunate that we couldn’t meet up on Saturday, but I was kinda out of it and Jazzfest was the last place I wanted to be.
The movie is Koyaanisqatsi. A very mediocre synopsis of the movie is available at IMDB.
The books I was talking about are by Neal Stephenson:
1) Snowcrash
2) The Diamond Age (my most favorite book ever, if you can imagine someone crying with empathy for the main characters and loving the thrill of the book’s moment at the same time)
3) Zodiac (an earlier eco-thriller set in Boston)
The first two are what got his career in “cyberfiction” to take off and he hasn’t looked back since, except for his most current stint into historical fiction, loosely based on concepts he got started in a book called Cryptonomicon. Basically, all of his works revolve around knowledge transmissibility (max information to max people, as I like to put it) and the nature of thought/logic/computation, etc.
Of course, like most western ubergeeks who like to dabble in the realm where the physical meets the metaphysical, he summarily ignores Indian culture, especially our Hindu philosophy of non-duality and the two types of knowledge, Sruti and Smriti. I can talk for eons about this, so I will just stop now and let you read the books and get back to me with your opinions.
On second thought, I will just email you all of the above information and more, so we can talk about this.
well I hope that ‘Chanting’ had nothing to do with meeting me on Thurs at the Royal Blend :-).
When you get a chance give me the names of that Navajo-themed movie + the books you recommended…………