Sunday, September 23rd, 2007
When the CIA released around five percent of the records from the collected projects now known as the STAR GATE program, I bought a program that ripped the multi-page TIF files into web-viewable GIFs, did this in detail, then I resized them all, and uploaded them to the web (at dojopsi.info).
Unfortunately, the index was a disaster. The filename in the index, if you went to that filename, it wasn’t that record. The file itself, the image, would have a different file number stamped on it. I really wracked my brain about it for awhile, but finally had to conclude there was no way to automate a scripting (such as if all the filenames were offset in the same way).
Depressed, given how much time I spent on it, I left the files just sitting there but without a clickable index.
Meanwhile, it turns out Tamra Temple spent about a bazillion hours (we’re talking months. This is an INSANE amount of work!) going through EVERY SINGLE FILE and renumbering them simply and making a detailed index with notes on content. She put it all in excel so it could be searched, sorted, and you can edit the notes and stuff for your own references.
After that much work on it, she well deserves a little compensation for the effort, and it’s not a bad price for this kind of thing. There’s more info and detail at the new website for it: http://stargate-interactive.com, check it out!
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Sunday, September 23rd, 2007
I know. Only I could get cosmic about a magazine ad.
The great thing about digital cameras is that you can point and click any time, multiple times till you get it right, and transfer those files to the web, to friends’ cell phones, etc. Almost perfect.
The only thing is, you gotta go home or somewhere else, plug it in, transfer the image, then you have to be plugged into a printer, and then you have to have all the ink cartridges and the right kind of paper and so on, in order to print the photo.
I have too many cats, so floating fur and dust (and dander; how they love sitting on anything, in direct proportion to the likelihood doing so will destroy it) tends to wipe out affordable printers fast. I can clean them, sure, but the always-insufficient feeder-rollers give up far too soon, in a very efficient means of designed obsolescence.
Kinda makes me long for the days of Polaroid snapshots. Polaroid thought so too:
The perfect camera for live-feedback photos for the record, though it’s probably going to change technology on a far greater scale than that of course.
What’s innovative about this isn’t just that somehow they got a printer into something the size of a phone. It’s that their partnership with ZINK (for “Zero Ink”) is focusing on the paper. Their PR puts it this way:
Dye crystals are embedded in the ZINK paper and are activated by heat from a ZINK printer. The crystals then colorize, producing high quality, long-lasting, durable, and affordable images.
In other words, instead of putting something on the paper, it simply uses paper where every pixel of it contains the innate ability/probability to be any color, and then the ‘printer’ (so-called) using heat for communication, tells every pixel of the paper what color to become.
How cool.
I totally grok this as a metaphor for the holographic universe, and every person containing such inside them.
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So there’s a psychic analogy here. My mental model about how viewing works is a bit different than the standard I guess… too much Jane Roberts as Seth I suppose. To me it’s not only “As above, so below” but for viewing, it’s “As outside, so inside”.
In this analogy, you could consider the old 1970’s “Signal Line Theory” to be akin to the ordinary printer technology. The assumption is that there is information over there (aka ‘the matrix’), which uses ink to move it over here (to the viewer) to the paper.
But in my viewing model, it’s nearly the opposite. To me it’s more like the session scan process is finding the components inside me, and bringing out the unique quality of all of them within me. 
I usually use the analogy of a color-blind test. Imagine the viewer as “the whole circle.” The dots inside are all the aspects of them. These are all ‘information’, which is “reflected in their outer reality, but sourced from inside.”
Say the target was the number 29, or 70, for this image. The viewer would “look inside themselves,” and would “find that pattern”.
(The inside and the outside are not actually separate, in my model, but perceptually we definitely experience them as if they were.)
I guess another way of putting this might be, “The Matrix is YOU. The Truth Is In Here.”
I often think that technology, especially computers, are man’s attempt to project what is within him into external reality so he can better understand himself. This one works pretty well for that also.
PJ
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