Date: Tue, 28 Sep 1999 18:34:42 -0500
From: Pamela Lamaster <plamaster@searlarch.com>
Organization: Searl and Associates Architects, P.C.
To: super89@bigfoot.com
Subject: old tricks, old dogs
Wade,
I just wanted you to know that I print out every one of these "schemes"
and read them the old fashioned way, usually on the train ride home.
Can't stand staring at this damn screen.
I buy books because the words look so much better on paper.
Pam
From: brian c schubert <w21x50@iquest.net>
To: "'super89@bigfoot.com'" <super89@bigfoot.com>
Subject: a view from a true capitalist.
Date: Wed, 8 Sep 1999 22:44:42 -0500
Why do bookstores flourish when libraries exist. Why does redhat's IPO
14 and close at 90 when all they do is package a os (linux) that can
be
had for free at multiple locations on the web. I'll tell you why,,,,,,,
ownership my friend, and we american's love it. We have to own
everything. To own the artifact (book) is much more satisfying than
to
find the city of bits web site and obtain the manuscript. Amazon.com
net worth (22.1 billion dollars), net sales year end 1995---511,000;
end
of third quarter 1998 360 million, number of full time employees 1995
(11); end of third quarter 1998 (1600), number of customers year end
1996 (180,000) 40% repeat buyers; year end 1997 (1.5 million) 58%
repeat buyers; year end 1998 (4.5 million) 64% repeat buyer. A lot
of
satisfied customers from where I am sitting. The web cannot be
summarized as some kind of cultural phenomenon that will change lives
in
the profound ways that many people think is possible. The web has made
many types of information more accessible to many different people,
for
instance this discussion we are having right now, not possible ten
years
ago without the underwood typewriter (perhaps the infamous ness device)
and a book of stamps and time, ahh the secret sauce time. That's what
the web is about; time. All aspects of life have been sped up as a
direct result of the web. I bought books at 5:00 a.m., I am typing
this
letter at 10:30 p.m. and you will receive it at 10:31, I bought FISB
stock at 17 and sold it at 27 real time from my office. The fundamental
shifts in lifestyles, borders, economic classes, etc cannot be brought
about by a information technology alone. The thought that the web is
in
anyway a forum for the free flow of ideas is absurd. The web still
operates in the framework of a market economy that judges everything
by
profit or potential for profit. Amazon.com, progressive, I say yes,
revolutionary, no.
Sincerely
Brian c Schubert
From: brian c schubert <w21x50@iquest.net>
To: "'super89@bigfoot.com'" <super89@bigfoot.com>
Subject: interesting
Date: Tue, 7 Sep 1999 23:44:39 -0500
Just ordered books from amazon.com. I remember when I thought that some
day books would be gone and all text would be transmitted directly
digitally. All that the new technology has done is change the way we
obtain the book. (the book still and always will remain.) Isn't it
funny that the more information that we have the less likely we are
to
accurately predict the future.
Just thinking
Brian c Schubert
Date: Tue, 07 Sep 1999 17:54:38 -0500
From: Pamela Lamaster <plamaster@searlarch.com>
Organization: Searl and Associates Architects, P.C.
To: wade tillett <super89@bigfoot.com>
Subject: visit JESUS on the web!!
Wade,
One of my co-workers received this e-mail. I thought you'd be
interested in knowing that now, not only can you get a great boob-job
over the internet, but you can also get you daily dose of redemption.
Just the thing for those of us with that Catholic guilt.
pam
http://www.angelfire.com/tn/jackiepierce7/Jesuspictures2.html
From: "daren" <daren@barkerassociates.com>
To: <super89@bigfoot.com>
Subject:
Date: Thu, 2 Sep 1999 19:50:31 -0700
One, two, three, four...The clock in the kitchen struck twelve. How
irrelevantly, seeing that time had ceased to exist! The absurd, importunate
bell had sounded at the heart of a timelessly present Event, of a Now
that
changed incessantly in a dimension, not of seconds and minutes, but
of
beauty, of significance, of intensity, of deepening mystery. "Luminous
bliss." From the shallows of his mind the words rose like bubbles,
came to
the surface, and vanished into the infinite spaces of living light
that now
pulsed and breathed behind his closed eyelids. "Luminous bliss." That
was
as near as one could come to it. But it - this timeless and yet
ever-changing Event - was something that words could only caricature
and
diminish, never convey. It was not only bliss, it was also understanding.
Understanding of everything, but without knowledge of anything. Knowledge
involved a knower and all the infinite diversity of know and knowable
things. But here, behind his closed lids, there was neither spectacle
nor
spectator. There was only this experienced fact of being blissfully
one
with Oneness.
Island - Aldous Huxley
Subject: tombstones
Date: Fri, 13 Aug 1999 08:37:30 -0400
From: "j. christopher sheets" <jsheets@rogerobuckman.com>
To: "wade tillett" <super89@bigfoot.com>
amen.
Subject: regarding 00010100
Date: Wed, 11 Aug 1999 13:14:54 -0700
From: "daren" <daren@barkerassociates.com>
Organization: Barker Associates
To: "wade" <super89@bigfoot.com>
Wade-
enjoying the scheme
thought you might find this interesting in the context of todays issue
http://www.genetic-programming.com/gpanimatedtutorial.html
Subject: Re: the_scheme.issue_00010100.8_11_99
Date: Wed, 11 Aug 1999 14:33:20 -0500
From: Matt Martin <mmartin@legat.com>
To: super89@bigfoot.com
"how can separate consciousness be preserved if consciousness is information and this information consumes itself without limits. can there still be an author, an owner, a self in the implosive consciousness.
we wish to become self-conscious by producing a model of our conscious self and becoming that model. this is the tower of babel. made with streams of digits and connections. an implosion of our consciousness into a self-consumptive cannibalistic production. this is how we hope to fool death, by decapitation, by simulated death. by building an eternal image of our self and becoming that image. by becoming our own god."
Is the myth to know thy self, as "a model of our conscious" in order to know how to "network" into other identities. Is the myth to know language, semantics, logic, art etc as the way to rebuild the "Tower of Babel" when all people could communicate as members of neither tribe nor nation but as human beings. Does HTML become the unifying language of humanity, bringing humans together. Does this common language prepare us to return to god as ourselves gods. To be able to speak to god with the authority and insight of a unified, multi-voiced chorus of people with the authority to speak to god.
Or in the end is the internet a wasteland of gossip, misinformation,
data etc. becoming another hideous manifestation of the limits of
Human Wisdom verses the infinite limits of Divine Wisdom. In the
end, are we still a sea of islands separated by a distance too great for
our screams.
Subject: re: daily/tombstones
Date: Sun, 18 Jul 1999 16:34:05 -0500
From: Pamela Lamaster <plamaster@searlarch.com>
Organization: Searl and Associates Architects, P.C.
To: wade tillett <super89@bigfoot.com>
"San Francisco in the middle 60's, was a very special time and place
to
be a part of. But no explanation, no mix of words or music or memories
can touch that sense of knowing that you were there and alive in that
corner of time in the world, whatever it meant. There was madness in
any direction, at any hour. You could strike sparks anywhere. There
was a fantastic universal sense that whatever we were doing was right.
That we were winning. And that I think was the handle. That sense of
inevitable victory over the forces of old and evil. Not in any mean
or
military sense, we didn't need that. Our energy would simply prevail.
We had all the momentum. We were riding the crest of a high and
beautiful wave. So now, less than five years later, you can go up on
a
steep hill in Las Vegas, and look West. And with the right kind of
eyes, you can almost see the high water mark. That place where the
wave
finally broke, and rolled back." (Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas)
Subject: re: daily/anti-information
Date: Sun, 18 Jul 1999 16:26:43 -0500
From: Pamela Lamaster <plamaster@searlarch.com>
Organization: Searl and Associates Architects, P.C.
To: wade tillett <super89@bigfoot.com>
wade: "anything which is stable or exists in the past is immediately
nullified, destroyed and reduced to the realm of language through
history, through reproduction, through objectification."
"The International Style was over in 1932 because it never existed
outside of its representation: the exhibition and accompanying
publications. It both come into being and ended with its consumption
in
a sea of publicity. The moment the practice of some architects was
labeled 'International Style' and identified (by its insertion in the
museum) as high art, it necessarily left that domain to be disseminated
in and as popular culture." (Colomina, Privacy and Publicity, pp.
202-3.)
Subject: re: daily/prison
Date: Sun, 18 Jul 1999 16:20:18 -0500
From: Pamela Lamaster <plamaster@searlarch.com>
Organization: Searl and Associates Architects, P.C.
To: wade tillett <super89@bigfoot.com>
suburban projects:
"(the nineteenth century) bourgeois signifies the elision of the body
and
the repression of sexuality, for whom class struggle implies the fight
to
eliminate that repression. . . .one of its primary concerns was to
provide
itself with a body and a sexuality ---to ensure the strength, endurance,
and
secular proliferation of that body through the organization of a deployment
of sexuality. . . .One understands why it took such a long time and
was so
unwilling to acknowledge that other classes had a body and a sex
---precisely those classes it was exploiting. The living conditions
that
were dealt to the proletariat, particularly in the first half of the
nineteenth century, show there was anything but concern for its body
and
sex: it was of little importance whether those people lived or died,
since
their reproduction was something that took care of itself in any case.
. . .
there had to be established a whole technology of control which made
it
possible to keep that body and sexuality, finally conceded to them,
under
surveillance (schooling, the politics of housing, etc.)". (Foucault,
History of Sexuality, v. 1, pp. 125-26)