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"by the age of 27 she realised she can already fly through paris with sparks flying from her hair..."
with love from the strange guy that lurked claiming to be simultaneously eris, arthur, and alice's father - her once and future friend.
PS i haven't actually joined a gymn yet but have managed to maintain both long walks and reasonable hours in preparation - lost 15kg so far.
sanity now officially confirmed and risk of becoming a politician proved negligible even while more itinerant than i had bargained for and while abstaining from internet.
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Film by Anna Broinowki about Norma Khouri is amazingly worth watching (ignore any reviews suggesting otherwise).
If anyone can get hold of a copy of her book I'd love to read it. (Borders confirmed its out of print, as explained in film - withdrawn by publishers - but might be found browsing second hand bookshops).
Also saw The Jammed which was also well worth watching though not as amazing.Current Music: InfiniteClassical.com - msng |
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A Lifelong Journey: Staying Well With Manic Depression/bipolar Disorder (Paperback) by Dr Sarah Russell
ISBN 9780855723576
Publisher's Blurb (and link to order)
RRP $19.95 AUD
Many people with manic depression, also known as bipolar disorder, are living happy and fulfilling lives. How do they manage to stay well? Contributors to this book discuss many different ways to stay well. It is rarely just about seeing a psychiatrist and taking prescribed medication. It is often about so much more.
People who contributed to this collection are working as social workers, engineers, lawyers, stock brokers, nurses, builders, general practitioners, factory workers and so on. Many are parents. Each contributor speaks about manic depression in a personal and unique way. Together, they provide evidence that people with manic depression can, and do, stay well.
Although there is not a one-fix-fixes-all approach, there are some common strategies that people with manic depression use to stay well. With insight, education, experience and time, people with manic depression learn what works for them, and what does not work. Contributors to the book use their own life experiences and circumstances to create individual stay well plans. Their examples will help others with manic depression to create their own stay well plans. This book will provide hope for people with manic depression, their families and friends. By providing a wellness view of manic depression, this book may also provide important new insights for health care professionals.
Email To Order mapubl@bigpond.net.au Current Mood:  quixotic Current Music: InfiniteClassical.com - msng |
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yesterday (Sunday 2007-09-09) wandered more or less accidentally past a bookshop and decided to drop in and order my own copy of a book my local GP had loaned me with strong recommendation to read.
could only remember author's first name and words from sub-title, not last name or title but asked bookshop to look those up on the off chance. naturally unsuccessful lookup so told to browse the self-help section.
then remembered i had noted it in diary so looked that up and went back to counter and gave them full author name.
some confusion as to whether another person standing at the counter was first in line.
turned out she was the author and assumed i was saying hello to her!
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some bullshit is so bad i normally cannot even be bothered responding to it.
below however is a truly classic audio and text presentation of overt government propaganda for acceptance of tighter surveillance propagated by people claiming to be opposed to that. it is really worth listening and reading right through the original to try and understand just how this mindlessness works. (not that i claim to have figured it out, but i think its a good example to work on).
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for people who already have diet/e/exercise under control and social networks, some key factors seem to be most important for avoiding episodes that require professional support, medication etc, including:
1. adequate sleep
2. manageable levels of stress at both work and play
3. insight into triggers
4. awareness of warning signs
5. interventions to deal with warning signs
there is some link between creativity and hypomania which can be positive and is neither a strong correlation nor ignorable but can be be optimized by not ignoring it and can result in more negative problems if not understood.
the commentary from Chaitin in Dangerous Ideas from BBC4 (2007) (via dr bunsen) makes the whole 90 minutes on Cantor, Boltzmann, Godel and Turing well worth watching. even though the title, introduction, and very BBCishly doom laden music, visuals and voice over are quite irritating (as is the focus in the textual description at the blog hosting the video).
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Sep. 6th, 2007 @ 01:11 pm
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simply use an ordinary link to a separate ordinary website where you upload maths as an html marked up page. most modern browsers will read it easily.
MathML tools are probably best for creating those pages (including tools that will convert from LaTeX but also others that offer far more).
PS of course if you don't want identifies linked via routine whois lookup of full name, address and email from domain name you need to get a friend (or stranger) to register the domain and website for themselves using their own credit card and separate email address and just handover passwords etc. for all 3.
PPS that of course only protects from routine automatic lookup by knowledgeable general public.
PPPS US domain name registrars like pair.com are much cheaper than mebourneit.com.au et al.
Sep. 5th, 2007 @ 12:03 am
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the stoics were fatalists who feared the gods and epicureans were not. all other issues between them pale into insignificance. that is also why hostile descriptions of epicureanism prevail.
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Sep. 4th, 2007 @ 11:20 pm
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ok i can't resist. this reminds me of working stoically together on attempts to design a preferential voting system that wasn't mathematically absurd by trial and error using spreadsheets.
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Sep. 3rd, 2007 @ 01:51 am
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i've often been struck by the point raised in "Why Geeks will save the earth" (via dr bunsen) - see for example one of my first posts here.
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Sep. 2nd, 2007 @ 11:17 pm
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one can usually find a transient current URL for quotable works that OUGHT to be easily available for cut and paste through permanent online libraries by googling for a couple of phrases like:
"I seem to be having tremendous difficulty with my lifestyle" "study the complex interplay of cause and effect in the history"
this example produces links for Chapter 31 or the full text of Hitchiker's Guide to the Galaxy as a single file.
I've also seen .pdf versions that are nicer for all 5 volumes of the trilogy.
the nature of the internet and of copyright law cannot possibly be grokked to its fullest without a basic familiarity with HHGG which also sheds light on such features of modern society as pointless activities like unnecessary typing taken for granted by all sane well adjusted people without pausing to reflect on the effort and ingenuity that is continually expended both to enforce such things and to get around them and the critical role that both play in the maintenance of social order and prevention of inter-galactic war.
PS yes, please reschedule the duck soon. Not Monday evenings and preferably not Saturday or Sunday evenings (though only Monday actually excluded for me). Cannot offer transport until fully recuperated and i may tend to just say things like "I don't understand" and "Where's the tea", but properly understood in their precise context such remarks may have deep significance.
Aug. 31st, 2007 @ 02:11 pm
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i'm still recovering generally and catching up with fascinating journal entries.
in case it's mildly comforting i do read it all and find much of it so thought provoking as to not know how to even begin responding.
"unhelpful thoughts" happened to strike a particular chord with me (as well as including the PS ping for response):
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Aug. 28th, 2007 @ 11:41 am
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yes i'm fine for Wednesday 1800 Old Kingdom Smith Street and looking forward to meeting Cheshire there as well but absolutely no idea whether either of you has actually confirmed time and place with her or will.
i hope somebody does. given that nobody rung me i assume nobody has rung her and that she may not have noticed posts as not responded to that announcement..
i interpret moomlyn's post hat none of her phones are working as implying she expects that sevjun has or will do it. (or equally likely doesn't think about such things). obviously i can't since don't have phone number.
so I hope sevjun does do it despite bing moomlyn's invitgation list and therefore would normally be her rsponsibility to follow up (subject to ambiguities arising from sevjun offering to do the booking which might imply signing off with each on the time and place) and subject to both moomlyn's phones not working which almost guarantees a stuff up if sevjun does not have number. sevjun cold also try posting to cheshire's journal.
i can offer to transport to any of you if needed and cheshire is also given my number which i hereny authorize so she can call to arrange.
Aug. 12th, 2007 @ 12:49 am
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yes, would love to meet cheshire and am currently still at your beck and call with or without whoever, wherever.
any time except monday or sunday evnings. if not before this sunday evening i may be offline and may need a phone call with full 24hrs notice lest absence/silence be seen as odd or a gesture like this
ps found your icon on p173 of Pronoia and was walking distractedly in Edinborough Gardens shortly before being chered by invitation.
Aug. 9th, 2007 @ 12:19 am
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that suggestion of emacs plus AUCTeX sounds good and if you ask around supervisors, maths departments, mailing lists, web sites etc there are bound to be other tips and packages closely related or inspirational to your exact requirements.
attending those grad student seminars might also produce pointers.
also there are symbolic algebra packages that do lots of the actual calculation.
trying out differnt versions of your own notation and needing to translate between them might make the time invested in learning and setting up this stuff more useful than the usual function of providing at least a more mathematically related distraction when needing to break.
i would have thought that ususally the problem is having the maths to write down manually rather than fingers getting sore transcribing it so it sounds like you must be making great progress.
never having got to the point of actually writing any serious maths i wouldn't know.
do recall a recurring plan to set myself up with proper environment for large bibliographies and keeping track of things generally before starting "serious" theoretical writing and then confining myself entirely to informal writing until i've done that.
this plan goes back decades, but i am going to actually start writing seriously and will do it. just won't start until i do start after resuming life generally.
btw on physical keyboards, you could also ask those who know how to plug in two keyboards simultaneously, either or both with lots of extra keys like those sold cheaply for multi-media.
also each key press and key release emits a code independently prior to being turned into keystroke characters by drivers so you can find utilities that enable use of keyboards in chorded mode (already used for combinations like shift for capital letters, control, command, ctl-alt-del reboot etc).
perhaps also useful for poetry and novels in multidimensional languages ;-)
Aug. 7th, 2007 @ 12:31 pm
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seems obvious that alice will have an interesting and fruitful life whatever directions she takes.
even true of both an honest failure after trying really hard to write a thesis or a dishonest failure due to wanting to fail and sabotaging self with "what ifs".
given the number of directions alice is likely to go in simultaneously and/or in rapid rotation, it also seems obvious that success in gaining institutional approval and a suitably solemn academic title first would facilitate rather than hinder subsequent explorations, if only by providing a suitable disguise when needed.
nor would it in any way preclude some more spectacular and impressive act of either honest failure or self-sabotage in the future than the standard grad student failure to do a thesis until too late.
as for "expectations" as a barrier to alice being whoever she wants to be, wherever she wants to be it - that would be most unexpected.
btw i've found my thoughts going round in circles less while actually reading "Pronoia" (long term effects not yet observed).
Aug. 7th, 2007 @ 12:40 am
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they have got me down but i am cheered by the thought that Pronoia was the consort of Prometheus and closely identified with Athena, goddess of wisdom.
also somewhat cheered by confirming that somebody in Australian politics can actually think - not only that, but think independently and even dialectically.
Noel Pearson is so far ahead, or at least others are so far behind, in that regard, its simultaneously upsetting as well as cheering.
Aug. 6th, 2007 @ 01:55 am
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only read to p6 (plus all front and back matter) while returning from purchase on train.
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Aug. 4th, 2007 @ 02:30 pm
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after lots of reflection i really, really, really like the divine idealistic spirit of Liberate Your Imagination - so I'm heading off to get a copy of Rob Brezsny's:
PRONOIA IS THE ANTIDOTE FOR PARANOIA: How the Whole World Is Conspiring to Shower You with Blessings
especially like this passage:
Even many of the smartest among us seem to have lost their vision. Cynicism has become a supreme sign of intelligence. Compulsive skepticism masquerades as perceptiveness. Mean-spirited irony is chic. Beautiful truths are suspect and ugly truths are popular.
also like the concept of "war on the imagination" taken from Diane di Prima's Rant
i'm comfortable with words like spirit. less so with divine, idealistic and imagination, but on reflection that distinction in my reactions to words is irrational. both the language and content remind me of this:
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Aug. 3rd, 2007 @ 03:49 pm
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i seem to have lost 1.5kg in the week since i stopped having a maximally extravegently unhealthy breakfast every day and committed to at least achieving the minimum level of daily physical movement so that it would actually be possible to eventually do gymn type things if i ever found myself locked up with nothing else to do.
i'm now quite enjoying muesli and looking forward to an extravagent love life when i'm 64.
Aug. 2nd, 2007 @ 12:35 pm
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