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Friday, March 22, 2013
Tuesday, March 19, 2013
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.
Friend With You or Fuck With You?
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?
Thursday, March 14, 2013
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).
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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Wednesday, March 6, 2013
Wednesday, February 27, 2013
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 |