(Continue from Goddess of Frequency) It has been an awfully long time since I last wore my Goddess of Frequency costume.  It doesn't quite fit as well as it did the last time I wore it...some years back.  It's also gone out of style, but that's ok.  As long as it allows me to send... Continue Reading →

(Continued from Daemonic World) I truly have gone off my rocker.  I mean--I'm not the most normal person in this world, but I've always thought normalcy was rather over-rated.  Still, I am reaching into areas where even the crazies don't touch. Who in their right mind would become fascinated with the vague idea that a daemonic... Continue Reading →

   Nothing fires my imagination more than the idea of a daemonic world.  It conjures up images of fantastic landscapes out of the imagination of Hayao Miyazaki, completely populated with beautiful, tall, ethereal otherworldly beings of great power, able to do things that we humans cannot do. They are beautiful demi-gods who shape-shift with ease and wield... Continue Reading →

1:2 昔孟母，擇鄰處； Tích Mạnh mẫu, trạch lân xứ; The tale of young Mạnh's mother and her efforts to choose a good neighborhood for her son. In six words, we have the entire story of Tích Mạnh, an ancient philosopher and one of Confucius' famous students.  His brilliance, alas, only blossomed later in life, and only through... Continue Reading →

Chapter 1 1:1 人之初, 性本善; Nhân chi sơ, tính bổn thiện; People are born naturally good; The idea of babies being born naturally good, and then slowly devolve into monsters due solely to their environment is something that both Jean Piaget and Noam Chomsky have proposed.Their proposal, and indeed this very first sentence of the... Continue Reading →

Tam Tự Kinh A few words of disclosure before I present the Three-Word Book in the Taobabe fashion. I am not fluent in Chinese.  This translation is not from the Chinese version. My version of the Three-Word Book comes from my own personal translation of the Vietnamese Three-Word Book. This is my own work and is licensed under the Creative... Continue Reading →

In ancient times the holy sages made the Book of Changes thus: Their purpose was to follow the order of their nature and of fate.  Therefore they determined the tao of heaven and called it the dar and the light.  They determined the tao of the earth and called it the yielding and the firm.  They... Continue Reading →

6:00 am:  Half-asleep and seeing floating Mandelbrot sets. 6:15 am:  Eyes closed; that familiar bug-shaped mathematical construct still hovering. 6:30 am:  Mandelbrot bug multiplies and runs around.  Infestation. 6:45 am:  Eyes open.  Where the fudge am I? 7:00 am:  Oh yeah.  Still in bed, staring behind closed lids at a huge Mandelbrot bug on the ceiling.... Continue Reading →

I am a Destroyer of Books. Well...only books that I take a penchant to.  Those that I don't like stay in pristine condition.  Some have never been read.  But the ones I like, I DESTROY. Some have been hacked to pieces, ripped, stained, torn, written on, highlighted over, and mutilated to the point where I... Continue Reading →

(continued from DNA and the I Ching: The Connection) Here's a small peace offering--my way of a belated apology. A long, long, time ago, I had written up a very basic and simple analysis of the connection between what seemed to be two very dissimilar entities, based upon what I knew of the two, from... Continue Reading →