iowa caucus
“The first-ever Iowa Book Festival in Adel on April 28, 2007 promises to be one of those rare and special events where everyone can have fun and learn something at the same time.”
We are off to Adel Iowa with Jeep and dew drop trailer for the
Iowa Book Festival. Who know what will transpire, but FotB suspects that this will be a gathering of the print, not screen, readers. Iowa has a knack for futurist selections.
04.29.07 Well, we are back and had a great time. The print world is swirling out in Adel and the square was filled with little publish-on-demand stands and corn dog venders.
other side of mirror
“Don could not get the 31 to go through a cycle. He called me and
after fifteen minutes, he had it to go. The next afternoon I called him
and told him what I dreamt about on how to press the first elevator
down as it descends the first time and it went through cycle, and he
got all excited. It just needed to be oiled a little on the V ways.
Monday, Jerry Boeddeker and I got the 348 running. We went out and
back twice. Mary heard it running, and she came over, and she and I
took it out and back after Jerry left.
The model 31 Linotype has been taking a long time to heat up, and it
started burning out the light bulbs. I put a meter on the light bulb
socket and it read 220 volts.
Checked the plugin and it was 110 on each leg. Took the plug apart,
and I had stepped on it about four weeks ago and the ground wire
came out of its leg and went over against the other leg, making 220
volts. Placed the wires back into the correct legs and the motor
starts and the heat comes up correctly.” Larry Raid
This computer presented mirror is different from sun rendered print. Another metaphor for the screen is the night sky, dots on black that require special encoded interpretation. But Ong’s Ramus “method” of deploying ideas in space is at work in both. Neither spacial depiction of ideas, print or screen, is self referencial (except by a presumptive observer). Both actually are two different methods of visualizing ideas that reference each other.