Wallpaper, Formaldehyde

4x30 fairly new fluorescent lamps. Pictures are clickable to enlarge

1.WB=5500

2.WB, fluorescent
 
Here is a link to a jpeg full resolution together with ARW uncompressed file (Sony ARW). The preview showed by Google for the ARW file in the linked folder is Google's interpetation of that file. The ARW file can be accurately seen only with specialized software that has the Sony codec included. https://docs.google.com/folder/d/0B-ShIhkErMIPUDMxcG9YeVc4U0k/edit?usp=sharing

And here is the missing link. Holes have been dug around buildings for some wiring work for lamps for more than a month now. It looks like they are trying to replace the wires or look for a shortcut. This particular hole has been dug for weeks. Strains of mold and bacteria that usually live deep under ground travels through the air, gets inside and attacks the wallpaper which seems to be made of fabric with some sort of organic, maybe animal (i heard in the past they used bovine skin, hoofs and blood from slaughterhouses to make glue) material and makes it stink really bad especially in the bathroom where there is humidity after showers. It was raining for days, i don't know what effect that had on those but i assume it's not like freshly dug anymore. But it's not the stable ecosystem usually encountered in this place at the surface of the ground either.

I'm already starting not to feel anymore the pain from formatting a whole partition that included pictures from the last three months. But i recovered some half of those using photorec and testdisk (with this occasion i discovered a good method of recovering a freshly formatted and deleted partition, you can use a Linux Live CD like the ones for installing Linux and an internet connection, after booting from the CD, you download testdisk then use the command photorec) and here are a three of those included here.

2/14/2012

2/24/2012

Friend With You or Fuck With You?

News and Contra-News

It's been a long time since i thought of writing posts about weird inexplicable (at least until recently) coincidences in my life. They might be also useful to others to sort ideas and friends.

 

I hope i'm not going to step on others' right to privacy if i posted this picture. After all it's legal to photograph everything is visible on a street. Since they can film me, i think i can also photograph them. I took the shot at a detectable impulse, i wouldn't have put it here but i was struck by the coincidence. By the way, did anybody knew that there is a fashion in Oregon for mothers with strolls to wear black and red? (I think the assumption she may be a mother with a baby is correct, but it could be that she is just pushing some weighs uphill).

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03-03-2013

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हृदय सूत्र - hRdaya sUtra

This is not a translation - not yet. It is just an enunciation of the words of the mantra with links to dictionaries for each word. I used the short version from wikisource, which is slightly different from the song but i have to put the song for pronunciation. Where i could not find a word in dictionaries i chose the closest or divided the words into smaller ones until i found those. For those who don't trust http://spokensanskrit.org they can verify each word using one of the dictionaries found here http://www.sanskrit-lexicon.uni-koeln.de at nr.1 and 7 but it is my understanding that http://spokensanskrit.org includes those.

Starting with second row with Latin transliteration, Arya avalokitezvara bodhisattva... you can follow the words of the song, sort of like at karaoke... If you loose track, just hit the refresh button on the browser or F5 and start over...

The apparent difference of words in Sanskrit in the video and below is because of using of different Latin transliterations. I have used the Harvard-Kyoto, the video uses some sort of direct phonetic Latin transliteration.

The reason for this small project was i was searching easy ways to learn Sanskrit pronunciation. But i ended by actually learning quite a few Sanskrit words and many other interesting things.

For those who don't know. Beware. This is a text central to Buddhism and equivalent to maybe Lord's Prayer in Christianity. Although the song and words impose respect by their own sounding, please treat it as such!

प्राज्ञ	पारमिता	हृदय	सूत्र
prAjJA	pAramitA	hRdaya	sUtra
Wise (and)	great	mind's	plan
आर्य	अवलोकिते	बोधिसत्त्वो
Arya	avalokitezvara	bodhisattva
Wise	word from faraway
गंभीरम्	प्रज्ञापारमितायां	चर्या	चरम
gaMbhIram	prajJApAramitA	caryA	carama
नो	व्य	वल्कयति	स्म
no	vya	valkayati	sma
पञ्च	स्कन्ध	ताः	च
paJca	skandha	tAH	ca
स्वाभाव	शून्य	पश्यति	स्म
svAbhAva	zUnya	pazyati	sma
इह	शारिपुत्र	रूप
iha	zAriputra	rUpa
शून्यता	शून्यता	इव	रूप
zUnyatA	zUnyatA	iva	rUpa
रूपण	पृथक्	शून्यता
rUpaNa	pRthak	zUnyatA
शून्यता	या	न	पृथग्रूप
zUnyatA	yA	na	pRthagrUpa
यद्	रूप	सा	शून्यता
yad	rUpa	sA	zUnyatA
या	शून्यता	तद्	रूप
yA	zUnyatA	tad	rUpa
एवमेव	वेधन
evameva	vedhana
संज्ञा	संस्कार	विज्ञानना	नि
saMjJA	saMskAra	vijJAnanA	ni
इह	शारिपुत्र	सर्व	धर्म
iha	zAriputra	sarva	dharma
शून्यता	लक्षणा
zUnyatA	lakSaNA
अनुत्पन्न	अनिरुद्ध	अमल	न
anutpanna	aniruddha	amala	na
विमल	नाना	न	परिपूर्ण
vimala	nAnA	na	paripUrNa
तस्मात्	चारी	पुत्र
tasmAt	cArI	putra
शून्यता	आय	न	रूप
zUnyatA	Aya	na	rUpa
न	वेदना	न	संज्ञा
na	vedanA	na	saMjJA
न	संस्कार	न	विज्ञान
na	saMskAra	na	vijJAna
न	क्षु	श्रोत्र	घ्राणा
na	cakSu	zrotra	ghrANA
जिह्वा	काय	मना	सि
jihvA	kAya	manA	si
न	रूप	शब्द	गन्ध
na	rUpa	zabda	gandha
रस	स्प्रष्टव्य	धर्म	न
rasa	spraSTavya	dharma	na
चक्	सुर्	दातृ	यवान
cak	sur	dhAtR	yavAna
मनोविज्ञान	धातु
manovijJAna	dhAtu
न	विद्या	नविद्य
na	vidyA	navidya
न	विद्या	क्षय
na	vidyA	kSaya
यवान	जार	मारण
yavAna	jAra	mAraNa
न	जार	मारण	क्षय
na	jAra	mAraNa	kSaya
न	दुःख
na	duHkha
समुदय	नीर	धा	मार्ग
samudaya	nIra	dhA	mArga
न	ज्ञान	न	प्राप्ति
na	jJAna	na	prApti
तस्मात्	अप्राप्ति	त्वद्
tasmAt	aprApti	tvad
बोधिसत्त्व	नम्	प्रज्ञापारमिता	आश्रित्य
bodhisattva	nam	prajJApAramitA	Azritya
विहरति	चित्त	वर	न
viharati	citta	vara	na
चित्तावरण	नास्तित्व	द	त्रस्त
cittaavaraNa	nAstitva	da	trasta
विपर्यास्यति	क्रान्त	निष्ट	निर्वाण
viparyAsyati	krAnta	niSTa	nirvANa
त्र्यध	व्यवस्थित	सर्व	बुद्धाः
tryadha	vyavasthita	sarva	buddha
प्रज्ञापारमितायां	मा	स्रुत्य	नतराम्
prajJApAramitA	mA	srutya	natarAm
सम्यक्सम्बोधि	अभिसम्बुद्ध
samyaksambodhi	abhisambuddha
तस्मै	ज्ञातव्य
tasmai	jJAtavya
प्रज्ञा	पर	मित	महामन्त्र
prajJA	para	mita	mahAmantra
मह	विद्या	मन्त्र
maha	vidyA	mantra
	नतराम्	मन्त्र
a	natarAm	mantra
सम	सम	मन्त्र
sama	sama	mantra
सर्व	दुःख	प्राश	मन
sarva	duHkha	prAza	mana
सत्य	अमिथ्या	त्व
satya	amithyA	tva
प्रज्ञापारमितायां	मुक्त	मन्त्र	तद्यथा
prajJApAramitA	mukta	mantra	tadyathA
गत	गत	पारगत	परसंगत
gata	gata	pAragata	parasaMgata
बोधि	स्वाहा
bodhi	svAhA

Ioan Mladin vs Andrei Pleşu

There was a suspicion in my mind for a longtime now that the guy i lived with (near the furnace room in a 6x6 ft crammed space with only room for a bed) and my wife  worked for (and me just on occasions) in the fall of 1995 looked and especially talked like Andrei Pleşu. I wrote about this before in a separate post together with other resemblances. Today i was looking for some papers and stumbled upon a paper with Ioan Mladin's signature. Although he tried really heard to print his name not to write it, the handwriting looks a hell of a lot like Pleşu's. Can click on the image for better view. For best results open in a new tab with right or middle click.