Tolkien
The History of 'The Hobbit', Part 2, chapter on 'The 1960 Hobbit' (John D. Rateliff's exposition of the draft history of The Hobbit)
Lays of Beleriand (History of Middle-earth v.3 of 12)
Legendarium Appreciation Project
Diachronic development (follow each version of each Silmarillion chapter from BoLT to LQS II (i.e., from '10s to '70s)
Frame stories, plotlines, characters, families, groups.
Evolution of narrative structure
"West Side/East Side Story"
3 proto-stories
Post-written mythic backstory
Proto-stories gradually interwoven w/backstory, each other, through cross-references, family ties
Smith of Wootton Major (Flieger's afterword & Tolkien's essay)
Nonfiction
Tolkien
LAP
The Evolution of Tolkien's Mythology
Interrupted Music
The J.R.R. Tolkien Companion and Guide: Chronology (of T.'s life) and (encyclopedic)Reader's Guide
Tolkien Studies, v.7 (2010)
Astronomy
Guy Ottewell
Astronomical Calendar 2011, The Astronomical Companion
Visualize 4 planes of reference (see Walking), have sense of where on the ecliptic "ferris wheel" we're at, which stars visible from that position (galactic plane perspective).
Philosophy and the historical understanding
WALKING...
...is on hold! Posterior Tibial tendonitis +! tarsal tunnel syndrome. Have to "avoid unnecessary exercise" for 6-8 weeks. >:(!
GUITAR
Fretboard
Chromatic structure
"Guitarcentric" tonality, 4-fret, 5-fret 1-2/2-1 modal series finger patterns, meet-up w/CAGED system.
Notebook (superimpose Ionian mode finger pattern on fretboard notename charts; diff. modes at first 5?)
Extract/abstract diatonic 333/21/12 patterns from 4-finger chromatic steps over 2 octaves.
My pieces
Harmonic structure description
What it does, what it says.
POWERS OF 10 NOTEBOOK
43 powers of 10 from quarks to quasars.
Subdivide into sets of 3 powers of 10 of a meter (sandgrain, marble, softball, box)
Micro, macro, mega levels (3 "floors", 5 sets of "meter" (3-powers-of-10) groups each.
Midlevel types (organelles (10e-7), Earth (10e7), Local Group (10e22).
4 powers of a million above, 2.5 below.
Kilometer (neighborhood), megameter (c.600 miles, state), gigameter (sun), terameter (solar system), petameter (light year), exameter (Kly (1000-light year) bubble), zettameter (galaxy), yottameter (local supercluster), universe.
PBR
Theaphilia, 1st excursion. (see Table of Completion)
TV
Netflix: Eugene Onegin (Kirov Opera),Eugene Onegin (Glyndebourne Opera), Kissing Jessica Stein, Watchmen,
How I met your mother
Terms of engagement
Big bang theory
2 1/2 Men
Mad love
Simpsons
American Dad
Family Guy
Masterpiece Theatre
McLaughlin Group
BBC World News
Nova
IDEA
Emergent properties
Theme song: From A Distance
We see emergent properties because of the distance (in their specific units (i.e., nano-, micrometers) we are "above" them.
Why does consciousness occur at the "altitude" it does?
Question: What *isn't* an emergent property?
"The processes from which emergent properties result may occur in either the observed or observing system..."
Emergence @ Wikipedia