I was just walking along when I saw this:
my mind went to this ancestral fish from the Devonian period:
Just now I was watching a video update about a man who was arrested for being "suspicious" while reading a book in his parked car as he waited for a thunderstorm to abate. The beginning portion was just a replay of the earlier video about his original arrest, so I randomly skipped ahead a little while saying "to wait out the storm" -- and as the video resumed a guy appeared and said "to wait out the storm".
Maybe that near miss two days ago wasn't quite good enough so the universe tried again, for a perfect match this time.
Or in plain English, "Clawed Wing of Goyang".
I named it after my neck of the woods.
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It wouldn't be summer without mosquitos...
For whatever reason, mosquitos in Korea seem to have acquired a particularly spiteful reputation among the American ex-pats in Korea. I do remember, however, from back when I was a child still living in Korea, visiting my paternal grandmother in Daegu, an inland city infamous for high summer temps, and sleeping inside a mosquito net, which I had never seen before and have never needed since. And this year I was halfway convinced I was going to get through the summer without too much damage, but no...
I knew better than to scratch, but after a while I just couldn't stand it any more..., and it spread out and now it's huge.
An hour or so ago I was listening to Ace of Base singing "I Saw the Sign". I was simultaneously scrolling through my Facebook history and reminiscing about my church choir days, and just as my eyes alighted on the sentence "I saw the light", AoB sang "I saw the sign". Does that count as coincidence?
This morning I woke up directly from a dream in which a dignified older man was showing me the interior of a room that was well-appointed with impressive taste, except for two holes several inches in diameter, bored awkwardly through an angled wooden frame high above the mantle, maybe a foot and a half apart. They looked somewhat like this:
He pointed to them contemptuously and said something that sounded like "Figatzi" or Zigatza". It seemed a previous occupant of the residence had them done in order to have a light fixture installed. It was admittedly completely out of place and kitschy-looking (personally I find high, naked light sources to be harsh, much preferring intimate lighting). As it's unusual to remember words seen or heard in dreams, I tried looking it up using different permutations of the spelling. After a few unsuccessful tries, I came across "fugazi", which apparently means counterfeit/bogus, or more broadly, messed up or ruined. I guess that fits pretty well. And leaves me wondering.
AND it's a crow again. A random shot of a flying crow, but it looks for all the world like its wing is penetrating the cloud behind it. A possible "glitch in the matrix"? Maybe the matrix engineers should re-calibrate that cloud for proper density.
Probably just about everyone who surfs the web has noticed how online advertisements are tailor-made to suit their personal tastes. Watch certain types of videos or search for information on a particular matter, and moments later ads appear that address those very subjects. Well, here's something that's oddly reminiscent of that algorithmic programming, but with a twist. Minutes ago I was reading At the Edge of Uncertainty by English science writer Michael Brooks. On page 217 the name Christopher Langton is mentioned. He is an American computer scientist who coined the term "artificial life". Then I put down the book and started watching a YouTube video that had to do with glass beads found in the royal tombs of the ancient Korean kingdom of Silla. They are clearly of foreign manufacture, and an English archaeologist was introduced who was trying to track down their origin. His name was James Langton.
I had never heard this uncommon name before today, and within minutes of my first becoming aware of it, it was repeated in a different medium in a different context.
Angels (or maybe devils) are watching, algorithms in hand.
a shot taken down the street during Golden Hour (and slightly color-enhanced) -- it's just that I just love this image.
There, that's three "justs" in just one sentence.
Or five "justs" in just two... OK, infinite sequence commencing.
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Two errant disposable plastic gloves found on one afternoon's walk.
This one
and this one
After finding the second one I wondered for an instant if they were a matched pair, even though the discoveries were separated by more than half an hour's walk, but of course that's not possible -- disposable plastic gloves are chirality-neutral.
The first time, exactly a year and one week ago, was a small example of spontaneous order in nature. This time, it's looking more like a case of a time loop, but in mirror image.
I just happened to look in as I was walking past this building, and this sight gave me a start. It looked like a floating ghost...
I'll say it again, some clouds are living things. There are countless creatures filling the earth and the seas that mimic other organisms for protection; why should the air above us be bereft?
