The Universal Question
Did you ever need a generic URL usable to ask your friendship network a question? This URL may be referred to whenever the body of a question requires a neutral URL vehicle for its transmission. Think of “The Universal Question” as the header of the body of the real question at hand.
http://digg.com/educational/The_Universal_Question
digg: http://digg.com/design/DNA_Culture_Full_Moon
Saturday, December 13, 2008
111E DNA + Culture + Full Moon
The moon this morning is beautiful. I find a setting moon to be soothing. Looking backward to Adam and forward to Adam’s immortality, meaning the survival of the human species, I suspect these soothing feelings have always been there and always will be. The feelings elicited by commonplace heavenly phenomena serve as markers of our common selves. The self insofar as the body is concerned can simply confirm by conversation: “isn’t that a beautiful moon” one body asks. Another answers and the bodies’ sense of selves’ common experience are, both, very small and hugely big. Such things comprise our DNA plus culture.
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There exists a multi-layered information meta-universe of meaning and truth. Yet the closer the detail of truth itself be known, the further away is the simple, unspoken DNA experiential truth.
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111C Oliver R. Sullivan
January 20, 2008 by Lyno Sullivan
The words “honor thy father” are important to me. This blog entry is devoted to the memory and the honor of my father, who passed away one year ago last Friday. I shall toast his 93rd birthday which occurs this coming Sunday, January 25th. Please read my letter if you wish but be sure to view the pictures and read the newspaper clipping at the end, which begins my father’s story.
I hand wrote the following letter. I have edited in additional information concerning my recent work presenting his ideas on coal to oil, science, technology, mathematics, politics, economics, and so on and so forth.
My dearest father,
Well, you died one year ago, on January 16, 2008 at the age of 91, nine days before your 92nd birthday. Next Sunday I plan to celebrate your 93rd birthday. I cannot give you a traditional birthday present but I thought to create a blog entry, so that my friends can get to know you by way of this written story.
In the year since your last birthday I wrote a blog post explaining most of what you taught me concerning coal to oil science and its economics. I advertised that blog entry at digg.com and received compliments for the usefulness of what I had written. I called the article “Coal to Liquid Fuel, Plastics, and Concrete”
http://peaceengine.com/blog/2009/01/16/1127-coal-to-liquid-fuel-plastics-and-concrete/and I posted it at digg
http://digg.com/general_sciences/Coal_to_Liquid_Fuel_Plastics_and_ConcreteI wrote that story and now I want to tell the backstory because it is far more important than what I wrote. I remember you telling the coal to oil story beginning perhaps twenty years ago. Over the years until your stroke in May of 2007 you taught me everything I incorporated into that article. I got almost everything you had explained into that one article, except your work on using biological systems to harvest rare-earth metals from mine tailings.
To do that writing I must study your notebooks because you had your stroke partway through your Internet research. (Yep! Using wikipedia at the age of 91–my father was a marvel of clean living). Fortunately, you explained how you were working your way through the periodic table, studying your biochemistry books, and seeking the specific bacteria or algae with an affinity for each common and rare-earth metals. I can replicate your research pattern and quickly produce results suitable for a survey of the field biochemical and biological solution for all mining slurrys. I recently wondered about using variations of these systems to remove earth metals from the flyash byproduct of the coal to liquid fuel process.
I published the survey of field and now I am writing this letter to append to the work so that all readers might know that your work over the last twenty years has been my inspiration. I will soon begin the next phase of the publication of your stories, ideas, and your journals of discovery.
In these days of turmoil and fear, your visions, of the future of USA, will be a voice of calming. You were ever the optimist; people need more optimism.
It was difficult to watch a man of your stature grow old and transition through your mind loss caused by your massive stroke. I spoke to you by phone a few hours before you died and explained to you that that you were not able to return to your former mental abilities and that, as we had agreed, I was to see you through to a merciful end. I told you as your daughter held her phone to your ear, that you could go when you were ready and a few hours later you did as I had said.
“Dad,” I said, “you said that you did not want to live without your mind intact. I believe your mind is gone and is not coming back. You can die when you are ready. I love you. And I will love you until the day I die.”
In memory of a great man:
This blog entry contains photographs and clippings from the life of Oliver R. Sullivan. of Laurel, Montana.
Oliver with his brothers and a friend
Oliver with father and brothers
Oliver 1942 Williams Field as Aviation Cadet
Oliver with friend Eddie La Prath 1943
Oliver R. Sullivan
Switchman Files For Legislature
Seeks Nomination On G.O.P. Ticket
Oliver R. Sullivan, a switchman at Billings for the Northern Pacific railway, filed his petition Saturday with the clerk and recorder for one of the six Republican nominations for representative in the state legislature.
Sullivan, who lives at Laurel, said that this is the first time he has sought public office. He is a veteran of the Second World war with four years’ service in the army as a meteorologist and weather observer, a year of his service being in North Africa.
The candidate is a native Montanan. He was born at Whitehall, Jan. 25, 1916, a son of Mr. and Mrs. Ira Sullivan, and a few years later moved to Laurel with his parents. He graduated from Laurel high school in 1933, and is a formet student in engineering at Montana State college, and in mathematics and physics at California Institute of Technology. He also attended Stanford university last summer.
After two years at the state college, Sullivan entered the employment of the Montana Power company at Laurel and worked for the company in 1936 and 1937. He was an engineer for the Montana conservation board rural electrification branch in 1939 and 1940. When he entered the army in 1942 he had been with the Northern Pacific at Billings for two years. He is a member of the Billings lodge of the Brotherhood or Railway Trainmen.
Sullivan resides with his mother at Laurel. His father died of a heart attack two months ago.
Oliver runs for political office
To be continued . . .
PAGE: http://digg.com/design/Useful_digger_Analysis_Process
The now present blog entry presents an analysis of one personal experience in the digg.com website. This document seeks to honor and elevate the digg™ community as a fun and useful adjunct to a time rich life.
STEP: Create digg™ Item
http://digg.com/odd_stuff/Unusual_Mixture_of_Hand_Writing_and_Computer_Writing
This digg™ (their trademark not PEA™) post is intended to promote the idea of blog pages comprised of a mixture of hand written pages and computer written pages.
The blog is reported in the category of “Odd Stuff” which seems most appropriate given the nature of both what is being done in digg™ as well as what is being done in http://blog.peaceengine.com. The title is clear and the entire entry is truthful.
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STEP: View digg™ item in context of the local blog directories.
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STEP: Witness that neighbors get votes.
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STEP: Witness traffic at peaceengine.com
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STEP: One hour later with only 1 digg
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STEP: Add first fan as first friend.
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STEP: Add hand written page demonstrating universal PEA™ property mark (a digit 1 inside of digit zero and a letter I inside of a letter O and a line segment inside of a circle)
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Saturday, November 22, 2008
Remembrance
He awoke early, upon a Saturday morning. In truth, his body merely thought it had to get up and go to work. As he lay in bed he told himself that it was Saturday because yesterday had been Friday. Acting accordingly, he made his way to the garage and took up station in his smoking chair. It was the place he sat while he did his best work, often while smoking a cigar or a pipe.
The garage had been cold because the outside temperature was a few degrees below freezing. The temperature in the garage in winter is always somewhere between the inside house temperature and the outside house temperature.
As he sat in his smoking chair he surfed hither and yon, inside his computer and upon the Internet. He came to a point of pause in his working to reflect upon why he was in such a frenetic hurry to find something to do with his time.
He thought about writing; he thought about writing about one’s self from a lofty place in the third person. Should he gather pen and journal for a hand writing and drawing experience or should he use his computer and maybe blog a writing for the day. Blog it was. And then he stopped. The inspiration for the writing had disappeared.
November 22, 1963 had been a school day, Friday. As he stood in line waiting to put lunch on his tray, the loud speaker had carried the announcement that John Kennedy had been shot. He remembered his feeling of shock and disbelief. His body shuddered for a brief moment as the memory reclaimed him. When he closed his eyes he could almost become that thirteen year old boy again. In those days he had first experienced death. First John Kennedy had been killed and then his beloved grandmother had died.
He had only known his grandmother for a few years and now she was gone. He witnessed the family grief. He had wept and clung to his father for support. His mother had sat with her brothers and sisters because it was their mother who had died. The seven children, Art, Alice, Ruth, Helen, Irene, Phylis, and John sat together. The boy stood with his father and his father’s brothers.
During times of body feeling remembrance, those who had died live again, inside of him. It is as if his body played host to a soul drop of a departed soul.
Whether one believes in God or not is quite beside the point of human life. To the young one must speak as if God exists or be silent. The point of God existence in human life is to create a way of the soul feeling separated from self and elevated unto the divine. The imaginary belief in God serves a necessary purpose in everyday human soul life. To live life as if God exists is better than to thinking, speaking, or doing as if God did not exist.
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Writing is about simply opening the body and letting the words flow from the fingertips. That’s where the problems arise. Nobody can write everything perfectly unless they are copying some pre-written work. The writing process involves correcting mistakes. One difference between writing on the computer and writing with a pen is that the computer permits quick editing. Writers speak of the personified muse giving rise to the upwelling of information from deep in the subconscious. The subconscious tends to operate of its own accord. The key to raw writing is to let the pen flow wherever it wills. The same can be done upon the computer.
Being unable to touch type is a handicap for a writer. It is important to be able to read what one has written in order to construct a proper sentence. having to look at the keyboard cause one to have to write the sentence as best remembered. Being able to look at the screen while typing helps in sentence construction.
While it may be true that hand writing is slower that touch typing into a computer, hand writing forces the writer to pay attention to proper sentence construction. Computer writing permits easy editing and writing error repair. The best trick to computer writing ever invented, is the dual opening of the final document and an associated outtakes file. This technique permits the writer a quick emotional release by allowing them to cut poorly written material out of the final document and drop it into the outtakes. The alternative is to invest additional time editing material that may even be off topic
Let me contrast the above two hours computer time with the twenty minutes handwriting below. Of the time invested thus far, which is of better service to humanity.
1) the above computer writing
2) the below handwriting
3) the artful blending of 1) and 2)
4) the patent rights claimed in the name of Peace Engine™ Automata (PEA™) License
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November 11, 2008 (20081111_Internet_Journey)
Dear Bill,
I will begin to take you on a whirlwind tour of places to visit on the Internet. First, I must do some experimentation concerning the blog tool I am using for this writing. Therefore, I shall begin by showing you a series of places to visit. You need merely read the few words I write and then click on the URL presented in the body of the text.
Let’s practice a bit by researching one of our favorite discourse topics: coal to liquid fuel and plastics. One aspect of the overall material and energy flow system of turning eastern Montana lignite coal into liquid fuel is the coal gasification and production of syngas. Please study the following diagram and take note of the syngas flow.
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/96/IGCC_diagram.svg
Now take note of the picture in its true context. Be sure to explore a few URLs on the following page and use the back button to come back to here (http://blog.peaceengine.com/). If your browser is correctly setup you will notice that the URL links are changed as you click on them.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Integrated_Gasification_Combined_Cycle
Now study the following picture by clicking on the thumbnail image below.
Saturday, November 15, 2008
In the http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/96/IGCC_diagram.svg
flow diagram notice the system which removes oxygen from the air. That oxygen is fed into the gasifier ensuring clean combustion of the coal.
Nitrogen is a by product of the oxygen separation from air. Nitrogen has its uses, in fertilizer, for example, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fertilizer
The primary goal is oxygen. Another alternative source of oxygen is the electrolysis of water, for example, by means of electricity from wind turbines and the direct current power grid.
Hydrogen is a far more useful by product because it can be bonded with carbon, forming polymers used in the plastics industry. Given recent concern about releasing carbon into the atmosphere, bonding the carbon with hydrogen in plastics makes more sense that bonding it with oxygen and releasing the carbon as carbon dioxide.
In terms of balanced science, one must accept the truth that plants breathe in carbon-dioxide and breathe out oxygen, as part of photosynthesis http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Photosynthesis
Therefore, it makes sense that during times of global earth warmth, when more of the earth’s surface is covered with plants, a carbon-dioxide rich atmosphere is conducive to the quick expansion of plant life.
Gasification is a thermo-chemical process in which carbonaceous (carbon-rich) feedstocks such as coal, petro-coke or biomass are converted into a gas consisting of hydrogen and carbon monoxide (and lesser amounts of carbon dioxide and other trace gases) under oxygen depleted, high pressure, high-heat and/or steam conditions. The resulting gaseous compound is called Syngas. http://fossil.energy.gov/programs/powersystems/gasification/howgasificationworks.html
In the case of eastern Montana lignite coal, its high water content means that the coal slurry supply needs less outside water coming into the rod mill. Raw sewage and agricultural bio-mass can be mixed with the coal feed stock. Such a system affords a community a full spectrum recycling solution for its carbon supply.
Syngas can be directly converted to DME using the Liquid Phase Dimethyl Ether Synthesis (LP-DME) process developed at the University of Akron in conjunction with Electric Power Research Institute. This direct one-step conversion of syngas-to-DME can then be an ideal front end for further conversion to diesel. http://www.netl.doe.gov/publications/proceedings/97/97cl/peng.pdf
It is fun to experiment with WordPress, which is the blogging software utilized for blog.peaceengine.com. It is interesting to mix words and 
pictures together to see the effect. It is interesting to observe how the browser presents the picture differently.
It is fun to click on the thumbnail and see the picture of the handwriting showing up more visibly. I wonder how the software would react to a second thumbnail thrown into the middle of this paragraph. 
Well, the results are in.
I am not sure that anything grand has been discovered thus far, other than the need for some text flow directive concerning how the text is supposed to flow, with respect to its adjacent picture.
