Neat lecture which i cannot attend tonight.

7 p.m. - 8:30 p.m., March 27th, 2007

Rose McGuire Lecture - Conjuring Spirits: Ritual Magic and the Early Scientific Revolution
Posted by: Angela Sumegi
Event Location: Paterson Hall, Room 303 (Humanities Lecture Theatre)
Department: College of the Humanities
Details:
In 1568, Sir Humphrey Gilbert, educational reformer, early explorer of the
Northwest Passage, and half-brother to Walter Raleigh, and John Davis, the
navigator, technical innovator, and namesake for the Davis Straight, conjured
demons and talked with the spirits of various saints and history's greatest
magi. Frank Klaassen tells the story of their conjuring operations and
describes the medieval ritual magic traditions upon which they drew. He
explores the relationship of these activities to the early scientific
revolution and current assumptions about science and magic.

Reception to follow the lecture.

Intellectual visit to Everest

Good god, i am having the greatest intellectual high of my university career and likely my life entire.   Wow...  Brain working 1000% and i am in the delightful state of understanding.

If this was Ascension i would have gotten another arete, would have completed a milestone in Promethean.  Wow.

It all boils down to systems theory in biological systems.   Hierarchical systems are in place, over countless scales in biology and filled with complex interactions between biological, socialogical, economic and abiotic conditions which merge into a mass of fluxuating  temporary connections out of possibility.  The biochemical components of single enzyme interact with the abiotic environment to affect a cell, affecting an organism, affecting a species which changes an ecosystem the change the abiotic environment of that single enzyme.

Sorry, but wowsa.  Next post is about a specific project i need to complete one specific link between myself and the study of those systems in a rich manner.

Assistance needed from a programmer (Thinking of zenten)

I have a need for a computer program to be written and am willing to pay a moderate sum of money for such a program. I have knowledge of programming myself (Pascal, C, minor bits of Java) so i have some conception of what i am asking for. Specifically this program would be primarily composed of a flowchart like system linked to text files in a hierarchical method.

Program would ideally be written in C of some brand in linux (i would love Fedora core , though i am would easily accept any reasonable language and/or a windows program. I cannot imagine how this could take more then a weekend worth of work, with the most optimistic estimates of programming time in the 2-3 hour range at the fastest. I would offer either 100$ Canadian, or teaching the fundamentals of arcmap or other assistance/services within reason. It would be desired within a year's time, though the sooner, the better. I offer to explain in detail all of the requirements/desires, including being more then willing to explain the biological underpinnings and values of this should it be desired.

Any takers? Please? I could try it on my own but i don't currently have or expect to have the 100 hours or so necessary for me to refresh my programming skills, improve them to the minimum necessary and learn how to use them in a linux environment. Especially not with full time standing in university + 2 games + hopefully working full time over the summer.

Huzzah for an interview

Job interview for my 2nd fswep job offer, this time being a lab monkey for the bug boys at Agriculture Canada. This shall result in an interview next monday or tuesday for me to screw up with the minimal chance of actual employment.

Well hey, if it works i will have a chance in a nice research environment requiring english only.