Archive for the 'entropy' Category

matter of the lungs

Sunday, February 7th, 2010

I've been willing my daughter to breathe for the last 24 days.  She came down with leukemia.   Acute, dangerous and sudden leukemia that tried very hard to kill her.  Right now she is on an oscillating ventilator, with two chest tubes, daily dialysis, and a wall of IVs you would have to see to believe.  [...]

two sticks – visual economics

Monday, October 20th, 2008

  The world goes crazy because the money stops flowing. Why? George Dyson wrote an essay on current finances in the world. In that essay, he recounts the history of “tallies”, sticks of wood carefully notched to indicate funds and dates. Money deposited in the Exchequer for the use of the king was tallied, accounted [...]

decay of structures holding data…

Thursday, August 21st, 2008

  I have photographs my grandmother had taken at a photo studio in San Francisco in 1927. I have other photographs of her dancing with a straw hat through fields in Italy taken in the late 1940′s. I don’t have the negatives, but I do have (black and white) prints, that have stood up pretty [...]

doug munsinger

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