Gemini* and Gopher

• Personal/Opinions

  • circle of eight spread

    the full moon prompted me to try a tarot spread. i rarely read for myself unless i have an actual problem to solve, but you can only do so many practice readings before you get bored! so i'm trying this non-positional spread i found on Mary K. Greer's blog. it's originally attributed to Charles San and he uses majors only, but i'm going to use the full deck. the interesting part is the selection of the cards. for the central significator count out six cards and deal the seventh one out. count out two and deal the third one for the seven circling cards.

  • Two spreads

    Lately I've been in a "blogging mood", meaning I have a lot in my mind and the best way I have to cope with this is to write about it everywhere I can speak my mind on the sites that I frequent. Today I was reading Rachel Pollack's book "A walk through the fores of souls", and I decided to do a Tarot reading to ask the big issue that's been on my mind the last few days. From the book I got the idea of making a custom spread with a number of questions meant to poke the issue from different angles. The individual cards did a somewhat good job in answering the questions addressed to the specific positions where they showed up, though some of them were less than clear, and in fact one of them, in central position, seemed to give me an answer diametrically opposite to what seems to be the reality. Altogether, the spread as a whole seemed to lack unity.

  • Displacement Equals Zero

    When I was in high school and my friends and I were learning kinematics for the first time, I remember we had this joke that if you died in the same hospital you were born, then the displacement of your entire life would equal zero. This isn't a joke so much as an observation, because it is true within a rounding error: displacement is characteristically a relative way of thinking about movement from a point. If you were to hike a 2km circuit trail, the distance you would have travelled would be 2km, but your displacement over the course of the journey is ultimately zero, as you end exactly where you started.

  • Working For Two Anuses

    My mother is known for not being able to say certain words; one of them is 'sheet'. I've tried to help many times and the conversation goes like this: "okay Mom let's try it, 'sh e e e eet'''... "shhhhh it".

    Maybe it's genetic?

• Technology and Free Software

  • Up by its own bootstraps 🎮

    Ordinarily you write Thumby code on your computer, test in the emulator, then transfer over USB. After making a text editor and a shell, it occurred to me that I could now write an app from scratch on my Thumby itself.

  • A Rediscovery Through Legacy: The Allure of Vinyl

    Music has always been a soundtrack to my life, but lately, the melody has taken a delightful detour. Inheriting a treasure trove of vinyl records – original Beatles and Rolling Stones nestled amongst other classics – from my wife's father sparked a forgotten passion. These weren't just albums; they were tangible pieces of history, whispering tales of a bygone era.