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SA: sales managers

ME: So what brought you to our institute today.

SM: I am trying to meet a few people and see if I can sell some things. - What do you do?

ME: Molecular Biophysics.

SM: I don't know this method. What do you need? [starts dropping random catalogues on my table]

ME: So what is the measuring volume of this instrument?

SM: I don't know. It's in the catalogue.

ME: We already have an instrument of the other company in our core facilities.

SM: Apparently there is a problem with this instruments. They don't like it.

ME: What is the problem?

SM: I don't know.

SM: The other company does not have customer support here. We have customer support.

ME: Where is he based?

SM: In Belgium.

ME: That is more than 5000 miles away, on a different continent.

SM: Yes, but he comes here regularly. And I only live 1 hour away. I can come too, and help.

MS: But you don't know the instrument.

SM: no sir.

ME: I thought this SPR method was patented. How did your company deal with it?

SM: I don't know.

ME: I don't think SPR is a useful method. I never had any good results with Biacore. What is the difference between your company and biacore?

SM: It's better.

ME: why is it better?

SM: I don't know. My company says so. 

ME: ...?

SM: I can put you in contact with our application specialist. He will call you.

ME: No, please just give me his contact details, and I will contact him if I need to.

SM: He will call you in the next few days.

ME: I do not need to be called. I will call if I need to.

Next day I received a stream of email messages, including:

Dear Dr. Massimo:

Day before yesterday myself and Mr.Ashar  met Prof Bernhard and we had a discussion about NanO ITC and, he wants to have a comparison statement on our Nano ITC with Microcal.

Secondly he has to clarify some more points with Application and so we recommend that you will call him as a courtesy.

Is it possible to call him? He is ready for a Skype Call also. Below is his contact info.

[...]

and:

Dear Dr. Bernhard:

Our Senior Application Specialist sent a mail as below.

She wants to talk to you.

Please let me know by return mail , whether this time is OK for a call?

Please let me know your convenient time

Regards

SA: at night at the shore

At night, the lights on the sea performed a ballet for the stars.

characters

both knowing that the other knows that I am not at ease, but both trying. getting cretidits for trying
writing sms on iPohne on cloth-covered bocx with agonising mice.
oscillating left right in elevator

Deborah at work

characters

Choel:
you know..
I don't know....

good music

SEX BOMB -- teasing the Korean

my word

compile preferred passaged from bible translations, add rumi and quran and others
either from chaos, or start from silence and end in passage that manifests how initial thoughts have been perverted.

Fat Guys in Golf Carts

FGGC could be a book title and/or a favourite TV show for characters;
Each week you just view a fat bloke driving around in his golf cart on a golf course. Seeing this should make you happy.

Characters

Man in bar how speaks like Rumi
(potential girl) friend who speaks like Jae in miniscule police 9 or so.

Anoikis

Greek for homelessness

Name for a book? Name of a character?

Welcome to the Anthropocene

title for book / inspiration?

Events

A mini cyclone in a scientific research building corridor.
disrupting 2 fighting scientists (or scientist and admin).

Rumi - field

Out beyond ideas of wrong doing and right doing
there is a field.
I'll meet you there.

Rumi - silence

In the silence of our longing
We are together as one
But as soon as we start talking
We separate back into two
So be silent
There is honor in silence
For you and me


What would happen if you
Gave up thought for one moment,
Plunged into our sea like a fish,
And swallowed the waves there?

a tempting offer...

nouvella

Search for someone, something.

silence and god

Be still, and know that I am God.
(from Psalm 46:10)
Be still, and know that I AM.
(would this make a wider sense?)

Richard Miller & Spirituality

Think about what spirituality is: It's a deeper experience of life, where you transcendent the concept of a 'little' identity and gain the understanding that you're part of something bigger than yourself.

FUTURES

Futures is the award-winning science-fiction section of Nature. Contributions are usually commissioned, but unsolicited articles are welcome. Each Future should be an entirely fictional, self-contained story between 850-950 words in length, and the genre should, broadly speaking, be 'hard' (that is, 'scientific' SF) rather than, say, outright fantasy, slipstream or horror. Each item should be sent as a Word (.doc) attachment to futures@nature.com, including full contact details and a 30-word autobiographical note to be appended to the story if published. (Please do not send presubmission enquiries, but send the whole story.) Unsolicited artwork is not considered. Before submitting, prospective authors are advised to read earlier Futures columns in Nature and Nature Physics; selected examples are available free at http://www.concatenation.org/futuresindex.html.

Waves, harmonics, eigenfrequencies

A wave theory of god and the universe: "God is the sound of Om"; take it lieterally.
Samayama on things, persons: resonate harmonically
Samayama on own body: reduce non-harmonical frequencies.
Sayings: we're on the same wavelength.
Stable Ecosystems: decompose in harmonical (=stable) wave patterns
Origin or religion: memory of tuned-in state. Religious figures: harmonical composition? Do fourier transforms on venus willendorf, stonehenge etc.
Quantum mechanics: every particle is a wave.
Wave is energy;
Meditation: eliminating all non-harmonical wavelengths.

Deconstruction, reconstruction: the fiction

Use method to
1) reconstruct lost memories
2) enhance details of pictures
3) induce other's memories & sensations in one's own mind
get your own library of personal thoughts
extract and enhance memories of dying, comatosed etc crime victims for purpose of tracking down the murderer.
commissar haunted by images, shift of perception, personality, reality.
own wife victim: same method, but unexpected revelation?
or restoring one's own memories: strange details about own life?
or misleading information purpusfully induced in last victime through same method?

4) induce other memories for recreational purposes; spot crime:
say: bundgeejumping perception disk recorded on persons that know they will die - to obtain higher sensations.
danger of having publicity introduced.

Deconstruction, reconstruction: the science

sparse coding, histogram of wavelet filter output.
Used to analyse paintings;
use it the other way: to reconstruct, or higher the resolution of photos, nature, thoughts, dreams, memories.
a dictionary of spatial features;
the dictionary is trained on an ensemble of images. Minimum amount of elements from dictionary encode / build up a given region.
Detects spatial patterns that occur in images with higher frequency than chance, providing a snapshot of the structure contained in the data.
Neuroscientists have shown that such dictionaries, when trained on a large ensemble of natural scenes, match the receptive-field characteristics of neurons in the primary visual cortex of mammals. Sparse coding may be used by neurons for sensory representation in the cortex.

Intriguingly, all of these models are generative - that is can be used to synthesise images matching the statistics captured by the model.
Computers might be able to generate images that convincingly emulate the style of a particular artist.

Amma Sri Karunamayi

arriving early morn in extremely cold wind. Ladies direct, looking like from a refugee camp, with their layers and layers of unmatching cloths, torn away by the wind.
We struggle towards the tent like in a movie about biblical plagues.
Inside, vision like a camp for catastrophy surviors with an imminent cholera outbreak. Tent torn by the wind. Wear white was the directive, but people now where what they can get hold off, including fluffy lilac kid's scarfs and dog's plankets.
Fires are lit; with the wind they produce quickly unbearable smoke that makes our eyes burn.
Amma arrives, nonchalant, simple, with a completely yellow face.
Talks about how not to wear black, or receive black things, or eat cucumbers and what chant protects against premature boldness, toothache and bad digestion.
Lady in black gets dark looks from disciple.
Elderly lady plays tambourine, as if she publicly has to clean up doogpoo. Sometimes tries to blow a huge shell, mostly fails but inexorably goes pink-red from the effort. Indian 3D musician looks like she's ready to perform human sacrifice (Amma? herself? everyone?) and plays flute.
Other lady looks like a psychodelic witch, nose blocked with large paperstrips, huge dark sunglasses, cape over wild black hair.
Solkem oscillates like a cobra in front of the piper.
Amma burns enough food for an African village.
thinly dressed man next to fire puts frenetically wood in fireplace, resulting in much smoke that visibly causes extreme pain in the eyes of the lady who is on top charged to poor smoke-provoking oil into the fire.
Amma asks to chant incredibly complex syllables.
grey followers is extatically telling everyone the great things Amma did (poring milk over a statue, entering, walking, etc).
Solkem makes everyone sing mantras in search of HERS.

great novel says

The great novel says: 'hey, you could prevent this'.
David Brin

storyline

A contagious disease leads to human extinction, but it's a disease transmitted not by a pathogen or prion, but by behaviour only.
Aliens collecting DNA of particular Humans (human traits), to see which cause our extinction.
Alien spaceship lands in Poland and aliens speak fluent polish.

Characters

X likes to get his foot's imprints into fresh concrete, so that he'll leaves his traces in history.

Procrastination

Procrastination refers to the deferment of actions or tasks to a later time. Psychologists often cite such behavior as a mechanism for coping with the anxiety associated with starting and/or completing any task or decision.[1] There are three criteria for a behavior to be classified as procrastination: it must be counterproductive, needless, and delaying.[2]
Procrastination may result in stress, a sense of guilt and crisis, severe loss of personal productivity, as well as disapproval by others for not meeting responsibilities or commitments. These feelings combined may promote further procrastination. While it is regarded as normal for people to procrastinate to some degree, it becomes a problem when it impedes normal functioning. Chronic procrastination may be a sign of an underlying psychological disorder.

characters

Loren's friend always carried a huge spoon.
after having had only bad prophecies from Chinese biscuits, which realised themselves!, Guillaume refused to open them. However as he did so after a few years, he had not one prophecy, but a whole lot of them, in one biscuit.

storylines?

maybe a skewed version of the Houston chronicles?

Saw a friendly 40-something woman with light blue trousers and a lightblue polycoloured boopland top.
Saw a sheik coming out from the elevator. A genuine sheik with all necessary attributes, except for that his tunic was colored in a psychedelic mix yellow orange and blue;
K looked charming with her platinum-blond hair and orange make-up;

Got a car insurance bill over 1,300 $ to be paid before beginning of last week.