I Dream Awake

IMG_0311

kende — Sun, 10 May 2009 04:06:47 +0000

IMG_0311, originally uploaded by jakedobkin.

Damn. I want that on a shirt.

katsu1

kende — Sun, 10 May 2009 03:46:26 +0000

katsu1, originally uploaded by jakedobkin.

Amazing shot.

Sticker Vent

kende — Thu, 23 Apr 2009 06:01:09 +0000

Sticker Vent, originally uploaded by Atomische • Tom Giebel.

Love it.

Signal Patterns

kende — Thu, 05 Mar 2009 07:58:49 +0000

The Demands of Mathematical Creativity

kende — Sun, 01 Mar 2009 06:07:17 +0000

It was from Alonzo Church that many years ago I took a course in mathematical logic for which I was unprepared — unprepared, that is, for the discipline of mathematics, unprepared for the demands of argument, and unprepared for Church’s glacial and remote style. Church was an enormously distinguished mathematician. The material was very difficult, so difficult that someone had occasion once to complain about the complexity of a proof.
Church rotated his large torso away from the blackboard and toward the ten or so of us in the lecture room. “Any idiot,” he said calmly but with immense conviction, “can learn anything in mathematics. It requires only patience.” He seemed curiously moved; a film came over his eyes. “Now to create something,” he said, “that is another matter.” In that queer moment of insight occasionally vouchsafed the very young, I understood instantly that Church was not reveling in his own accomplishments, but, with his own eyes fixed on the unattained goals to which he had aspired, was confessing obliquely to us, an audience of impossibly callow young men, that when it cam to mathematics he, too, belonged in the company of humanity’s idiots.
As do we all.

~ David Berlinski, A Tour of the Calculus p.281

Vacaciones en el mar!

kende — Thu, 08 Jan 2009 10:07:42 +0000

Vacaciones en el mar!, originally uploaded by Rötör.

Whew…

Deadly embrace

kende — Mon, 05 Jan 2009 09:37:35 +0000

Deadly embrace, originally uploaded by hvhe1.

Ice Hydrant

kende — Sun, 04 Jan 2009 10:37:17 +0000

Ice Hydrant, originally uploaded by valvados.

A Winter Sermon

kende — Sun, 04 Jan 2009 09:53:31 +0000

If by god we speak the impetus and function of life, then — nothing more. Why do you say “Do you believe…”? You are alive. How can it be so, to believe or not in what you are? Do you do yourself well by your doubt? If you hate it so, then why is it chosen? And why the shock when self-contempt breeds contempt, more, again?

I do not believe because I see no question. I am alive. It is plain and self-evidently so. Let me not hesitate to live, or through worship of some other power, concept, or persuasive show, be less so. Blessed if I can be, dedicated to this life itself, in all of its forms, and nothing more.

And there it is: Life, self, existence, and that drive which makes us as we make ourselves.

What is this god you insist upon? And what need of this word for your thoughts?

So you feel life within your living, so you examine and are mindful, so you rise with vigor and inspiration, so you call them divine, so you recognize such a thing as value, so you see as nothing stops the living from claiming significance for it, so you have known abundance and scarcity and the seasons of the world, and know yet still that there is forever more beyond your own experience thus far…. so why do you beseech: “Oh, God!”?

What, you ask, do I have against this expression of yours? Sloppy vocabulary.

In self, as in life,

	...and that is enough.

happy new year

kende — Sun, 04 Jan 2009 08:28:36 +0000

happy new year , originally uploaded by cherri wood.