Thursday, October 16, 2014

Star Brought By Wind

by Ana Blandiana

From the begining you've been brought by wind
Like a seed.
I've even been jocking. "Who ever saw
A star brought by wind?"
Only later,
When you stood on my forehead
And started germinating
I realized that you are a seed.
Greedy, stuck wildly in my brain,
With coarse rays figuring roots,
You're a seed. Too bad
Cause the plant which,
Like light from light, you are growing
Cannot be seen
Until after i'm darkened.

Thursday, October 9, 2014

Tehnoton

The English meaning of Romanian name of the High School Tehnoton in Iaşi is Technotone.

În jur de anul nou 2013 dacă nu greșesc am primit de la fostul meu coleg de liceu "Mihai Manolea" din Focșani tot felul de poze de prin liceu, inclusiv liste cu numere de telefon şi adrese. În toată perioada liceului mai puțin primele și ultimele luni (1975-1979) secretar la Iași a fost Ion Iliescu aka Iles Gyorgy. În septembrie 2015 cam cu câteva zile înainte de a muri Oana Ioachim și Vadim Tudor am primit un email aparent de la blogger-ul Tolontan de care nu auzisem până atunci care mi-a cerut să scot această postare de pe blog.

Majoritatea star-urilor numite mai jos pe atunci erau cunoscuți dar încă nu erau în vârful carierei sau faimei. De exemplu filmele Saturday Night Fever și Grease cu John Travolta și Olivia Newton John au avut premiera în 1977 și 1978 probabil după vacanțele de vară.

Probabil toată acțiunea a avut loc sub coordonarea lui Estee Lauder și Ronald Lauder care au fost prezenți în Iași. Colegul Florin Aramă, care avea porecla Aramis, seamănă mult cu Ronald Lauder, deși atunci ar fi avut în jur de 30 de ani. Estee Lauder deține o firmă Aramis. Eu personal am constatat că toate starurile și oamenii bogați și bine întreținuți par întotdeauna mai tineri decât sunt în realitate.

https://www.elcompanies.com/our-brands/aramis

https://www.google.com/search?q=saturday+night+fever
https://www.google.com/search?q=grease

Cine cred eu că sunt unii dintre aceştia:

Florin Aramă - Ronald Lauder
Radu Botezatu - Art Garfunkel - István Szeibert
Olguţa Cazacu - Nana Mouskuri
Croitoru Liliana - Olivia Newton John - Csilla Ötvös
Valentin Gheorghiţă - Dan Bitman
Mihai Lăzărescu - Van Morisson
Mihai Manolea - Freddie Mercury - Árpád Visky
Timotei Mitrofan - John Travolta
Ioana Neica - Joan Jett
Dan Pricope - Patrick Duffy
Gabriel Ringhilescu - András Simonffy
Iulian Tescu - Joe Dassin
Adrian Hristov - Demis Roussos
Neica Veronica - Yvonne Elliman
Turodița Bohotineanu - Daniela Tarnovschi
Mariana Aiordăchioaie - Monica Bellucci
Cristian Gheorghiu - Gheorghe Gheorghiu
Monoreanu Marcel - Gábor G Kovács
Pr.Gheorghe Postolache - Hervé Cristiani
Pr.dir.Carmen Ionică - Marina Krilovici - Gabriela Zsigmond
Pr.Adam Corilov (Koriloff) - William Shatner - Frigyes Bárány
Pr.Rodica Naum - Jane Fonda - Judit Tóth
Pr.Ion Manea - Sir Elton John - Joseph Alfidi

Florin Sandu seamănă cu Ilarion Ciobanu, care conform biografiei pe atunci avea 43-47 de ani. He was always speaking very softly. With most of them i spoke very rarely.

(Bine rog pe cei care citesc să nu se agite, fiindcă am o listă mult mai mişto din fac. dar numai în anul I şi II care îl include pe John Lennon, Michael Creţu cu tot cu Sandra şi din nou pe Van the Man cu alt nume, altă persona, Mihai Ursache, pe care după un an de armată (obligatorie) pur şi simplu nu l-am recunoscut ca Mihai Lăzărescu din liceu. Unul din motivele pentru care (a trebuit) să rămân repetent, pentru că în anul II 2 am avut alţi colegi, mai domestici, din care unul Liviu Apostol, etc. Proful responsabil, Constantin Titi Pasnicu, posibil Paul Ioachim).

The technique used in this picture is presenting one's butt forward on a relative low focal length (wide angle camera with deep focus) not from far away. Thus all faces look smaller and everybody or especially those interested more child-looking.

Timotei Mitrofan?, Adrian Hristov, Constantin Iordăchescu, Gheorghe Chervasie, Mirel Mareş, Radu Botezatu (care stă pe catedră), Marcel Monoreanu, Grişa Constantin Florea, Ilie Gimanca, ,  ,Dan Pricope, Valentin Gheorghiţă?
Stânga sus: Lidia Simion, Ioana Neica, Georgeta Sbângu, pr.Viorica Cazan, Olguţa, nu se vede bine, Mihai Vasiliu, Liliana Croitoru, Marcel Monoreanu, pr.Gheorghe Postolache, Mariana Ţurcanu, Mariana (Monica) Aiordăchioaie, Adrian Hristov, Tudoriţa Bohotineanu, Florin Aramă, Dan Pricope, eu, Aurelian Nicolae Marin, Iulian Tescu; Stânga, jos: Mihai Lăzărescu, Ioan Barcan, Florin Sandu, Paul Marinescu, Florin Sandu , Gabriel Ringhilescu, Mihai Manolea, Valentin Gheorghiţă, Cristian Gheorghiu, Constantin Iordăchescu.
Stânga sus: Timotei Mitrofan, Grişa Constantin Florea?, Olguţa Cazacu, Tudoriţa Bohotineanu, Mariana Rotaru, Liliana Croitoru, pr.(cu florile) Rodica Naum, Mariana (Monica) Aiordăchioaie,Veronica Neica, Georgeta Sbângu, Mirel Mareş, Lidia Simion, ,Adrian Hristov, (mai sus) Florin Sandu) Jos: Ioan Barcan, Valentin Gheorghiţă, Vasile Pintilie, Radu Botezatu, Iulian Tescu, Cristian Gheorghiu, Gabriel Ringhilescu, Marcel Monoreanu, Mihai Manolea, Mihai Lăzărescu

În spate, Mariana Rotaru. Stânga sus: Ioan Barcan, probabil Florin Aramă cu capul întors, Ioana Neica, ,Veronica Neica, Marcel Monoreanu, Adrian Hristov, Vasiliu Mihai, Liliana Croitoru, pr.Viorica Cazan, Nicoleta LUngu, Georgea Sbângu, Mariana Ţurcan, Tudoriţa Bohotineanu, Florin Sandu, Dan Pricope, Aurel Marian, eu, Grişa Constantin Florea. Stânga jos: Mihai Lăzărescu, Paul Marinescu, Mihai Manolea, Gabriel Ringhilescu, Valentin Gheorghiţă, Iulian Tescu, , Constantin Iordăchescu
Înâlnire 2004; Stânga: Mirel Mareş, ,Chervasie Gheorghe (care semăna cu Ceauşescu LOL) Olguţa Cazacu, Dan Pricope, Mihai Manolea, ,Veronica Neica, pr.Adam Corilov (cravata roşie), dir.pr.Carmen Ionică, Tudoriţa Bohotineanu-Ringhilescu, pr.Rodica Naum, sus, Adrian Hristov, Gabriel Ringhilescu, Simion Lidia, Valentin Gheorghiţă










Monday, October 6, 2014

64

Don't know if i still can (retrieve those ideas). Yesterday i was trying to write a mini-essay about the nr.64. Got stuck in an online dictionary that it seems now somebody was playing with. I'm gonna try again. After all, the word essaie in French means try.

But before i start i have to say what this number meant to me until today. Early home computers' (later called PCs) memories and memory unit allocation on many early mainframes and minis had a size of 64 koctets. Octets from the latin word octo, opt in Romanian, that means eight in English, an octet being 8 bits (bit = smallest memory size) later baptized, i don't know why, byte. (Maybe from the four incisive teeth on each jaw a human use to byte with, i don't know LOL). No, it's a logical extension of the word bit, a byte being comprised by eight bits. Ok LOL again, not that logical. (Who did it?).

2 to the power of 16 is 65536. Not exactly 64 Kbytes, but in a way, yes, because 65536 = 1024 * 64.

I have no idea why. Maybe the early computer manufacturers new about http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Masonic_manuscripts#Halliwell_Manuscript.2C_or_Regius_Poem

Truth is it was enough to write some programs, for other you had to segment the programs so each segment can be loaded in a memory page of 64K.

Soon it grew to 128 (i had a Sinclair Spectrum at work with memory of that size but i'm not sure anymore) and the first IMB "compatible" PCs came with 386 then extended to 1024 or one meg. One meg (megabyte - literally mega byte) was huge compared to 64 that many mainframes used for years but today we are measuring memory sizes in Gigs, that is thousand of megs and God knows what's next. Terra bytes for hard drives. Always symbolic.

But this is just the beginning of my mini-essay. Cause i've also encountered the number 64 in Hindu mythology.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kal%C4%81

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kali

I am not that good in Sanskrit to establish a connection between the two words.

After reading this article http://www.libertatea.ro/detalii/articol/secretele-initierii-masonice-509411.html i found out about the masonic (ritual) death. Think i heard about before.

So if we connect all these can we make a link?

Don't know, in the 64 kalas or arts of Krishna there is no reference to Euclid nor geometry. Euclid was much younger, historically speaking . "Puranic sources mention[12] Krishna's disappearance marks the end of Dvapara Yuga and the start of Kali Yuga (present age), which is dated to February 17/18, 3102 BCE" http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Krishna

There is something here "In pleading, begging, railing, desperate lines, the Bengali Ramprasad Sen explores the depth of love and despair that is the love of the dark Mother Kali. The Saundarya Lahari (often attributed to Adi Shankara) details the magnificent, radiant form of the Devi as queen of the universe, and reveals the esoteric meaning of her form as the Sri Yantra, the geometric pattern of energies that describes the inner workings of the universe." http://www.infinityfoundation.com/mandala/i_es/i_es_caldw_goddess_frameset.htm

But the idea i was following was different. I know Regius Poem was dated ca. 1425-50. But now i read "The document relates how the craft of masonry was brought to England during the reign of King Athelstan (924–939)".

I know it comes from Egypt. (Everybody knows that i think).

Fewer know though about Mamluks. There was simultaneously a Mamluk kingdom in Egypt and one in Delhi before that manuscript was written. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mamluk Proably linked to each other, bringing also a possible explanation of the existence in Europe of slaves from India, especially after the wars and conquest by the the ottomans of the Mamluk kigndom, with the escape of their Indian slaves in Europe. I wrote more about this here http://georgesblogforfriends.blogspot.com/2013/07/mini-eseu-despre-tigani-completabil.html I was thinking. What if the craft is not coming from Ancient Egypt but from India, especially from the cult of goddess Kali via the Mamluks? Or maybe it only partially comes from their, the rest being inherited and mixed by the Mamluks from whatever was still preserved from the heritage of ancient Egypt, maybe the worshiping of the Sun God during their kingdom (sultanate).