tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2212115997694971585.post1447233773643029189..comments2023-04-03T08:56:28.590-07:00Comments on and this part is true: on being oya to your changomira amirashttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10372005605076355136noreply@blogger.comBlogger13125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2212115997694971585.post-81911515775897100522011-12-20T14:31:14.060-08:002011-12-20T14:31:14.060-08:00Apparently not! My house, I've been told, is ...Apparently not! My house, I've been told, is entirely in homage to Oya. The colors, the forms, and what has been called my altar to Oya. The thing being that I've never created an altar to my knowledge. I've just placed things in a spot that felt like they should go there. Teish took one look at the totality of it all and proclaimed it all to be Oya. And then Bibbo did the same regarding me. <br /><br />To tell the truth, it wasn't comforting. But it seemed right.<br /><br />Chango, as far as I could tell, was part of the 'package' of having Oya be the Orisha of one's head. Since they were equals, I was okay with that. Mostly decided not to think about it. and not to think about poor Oshun trying her damnedest to compete—by staying home and staying put. <br /><br />I think Oya protects herself from 'triangle dynamics' more than the other two do. But maybe that's 'cause she's potentially more vulnerable?mira amirashttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10372005605076355136noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2212115997694971585.post-33410284933381753572011-12-20T06:18:10.045-08:002011-12-20T06:18:10.045-08:00Very deep! So I know that Oya and Chango were in ...Very deep! So I know that Oya and Chango were in a love triangle. Was this what your decor represented?Sexy Gunzhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00409357534000733558noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2212115997694971585.post-54321353770501467482011-03-30T19:10:43.900-07:002011-03-30T19:10:43.900-07:00I do know it as well, unfortunately. And I choose ...I do know it as well, unfortunately. And I choose a) the martyr plan, or rather, it chose me. When you're a consultant, it's all about attracting and satisfying the clients. Martyr for money, that's me. Of course, b) applies also whenever my efforts help my clients do more good in the world—make more efficient solar panels, produce tires that consume less fuel, reduce the cost and waste in shampoo production, make movies and music sound better…Erin Vanghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05479433612497580296noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2212115997694971585.post-48366298919699718462011-03-30T16:29:48.784-07:002011-03-30T16:29:48.784-07:00You can't give up Windows. All you can do is ...You can't give up Windows. All you can do is try to learn it as well as you know Mac. Not exactly force it into submission (that would be rude) but decide (as the tzaddik would say) that either a) everyone has to be a martyr to someone and you have to be to W, or b) trust it, for you never know what good it might bring to the world. <br /><br />Unfortunately these gems of tzaddik wisdom have never been very helpful to me. But maybe they'll work for you. Especially, the first one.mira amirashttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10372005605076355136noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2212115997694971585.post-51740854316493631982011-03-30T16:15:42.001-07:002011-03-30T16:15:42.001-07:00Need I add that what would truly unhinge me is if ...Need I add that what would truly unhinge me is if my Macs started vexing me, too? Now that—that would be unbearable betrayal. A double betrayal, since it would also be my beloved UNIX vexing me. <br /><br />Whereas I've grown comfortable with having Windows to kick around. I've been hating Windows professionally since three-point-uh-oh, a good five years before normal people started hating Windows.Erin Vanghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05479433612497580296noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2212115997694971585.post-24468309167653321492011-03-30T06:21:59.191-07:002011-03-30T06:21:59.191-07:00I'm willing to give up Windows altogether. Can...I'm willing to give up Windows altogether. Can I give up ever having a Windows experience? Oh, but then... Right. Windows is my cross to bear, as it were; I get to let it be the thing that vexes me, so that it's not something I actually care about that vexes me?Erin Vanghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05479433612497580296noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2212115997694971585.post-4142192719624185492011-03-25T15:37:01.622-07:002011-03-25T15:37:01.622-07:00So. The question is, what are you willing to sacr...So. The question is, what are you willing to sacrifice for a better Window experience?mira amirashttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10372005605076355136noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2212115997694971585.post-10886504932560295462011-03-25T14:19:03.291-07:002011-03-25T14:19:03.291-07:00Send over that technology Orisha, would you, pleas...Send over that technology Orisha, would you, please? <br /><br />Can't get my new Windows box to do much of anything. God, I hate Windows. Somebody please remind me why I give a rip that several clients seem to think having an actual piece of Windows hardware is worthwhile even though I can do it all better, faster, and easier on my Mac (with vmware for the Windows apps).Erin Vanghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04051803883994298044noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2212115997694971585.post-59085916171836946312011-03-16T16:11:00.676-07:002011-03-16T16:11:00.676-07:00They're helpful — but not that kind of helpful...They're helpful — but not that kind of helpful! More often than not, we're the one's cleaning up after them. They sure do like to party.<br /><br />There is, however, an Orisha for technology... Should your computer crash, for example...<br /><br />As for the different time systems: I think we use all three. We pick and choose what serves us at the moment. Homo Pragmatica.mira amirashttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10372005605076355136noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2212115997694971585.post-2191237255042696022011-03-16T15:30:42.835-07:002011-03-16T15:30:42.835-07:00Regarding these time constructions:
Linear time ...Regarding these time constructions: <br /><br />Linear time gets a bad rap when people commit the <i>post hoc ergo propter hoc</i> mistake; right up there with correlation=causation to assume that sequentiality=causation. <br /><br />My beef with cyclical time is that everybody's whose ever been reincarnated started out as some exotic king or queen or knight in shining titanium; peasant midwives and cheesemakers don't seem to come back again, and for me this casts doubt on the whole enterprise. I don't want to come back if there's not going to be cheese. <br /><br />Mythical time falls short the same way all our modeling techniques do. You might follow your inner Oya but you've already acknowledged your inner Chango and Oshun and brought Ellegua into the picture too, but all these Orishae fall short of the complicated tangle of Miraness we see even just by perusing these pages. <br /><br />An alternative to linear time that nevertheless stays in the comfortingly familiar realm of abstract geometry suggests that linear time is only two of the dimensions of time—forward and backward on a line. Now consider time in three, four, five, <i>n</i> dimensions. Ever read <i>Flatland</i>? Linear time isn't the only time; it's just the part we can understand most readily. It's what keeps everything from happening at once. The other dimensions of time flit in and out of our three-dimensional awareness and confuse the bejesus out of us, but the math is all tidy and satisfying. Time can easily be infinitely dimensioned; in fact, it has to be, because any limits on its dimensionality would make everything implode and we wouldn't have space either.<br /><br />Don't ask me to provide the mathematical details, though; those classes were two many decades back on the linear time crutch I keep leaning on, and meanwhile my clients seem to think that "now" isn't too soon for me to get two weeks' worth of work done. <br /><br />So on second thought, let's give mythical time another try. Can you find me an Orisha who handles accounting, filing, and cleaning?Erin Vanghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05479433612497580296noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2212115997694971585.post-64987426584428065032011-03-15T22:58:55.174-07:002011-03-15T22:58:55.174-07:00Oshun deserves her own post. I think she'd be...Oshun deserves her own post. I think she'd be insulted to be relegated to a mere Comment. She will definitely have her say! <br /><br />We do not play just one part alone. I can be Chango to her Oshun. And I make a particularly splendid Oshun. Shocking, how well I do Oshun, to tell the truth. Just goes to show how complex we humans are. Resilient. Or wishy-washy. That we can slip between the raindrops of these roles.<br /><br />But my first obligation here was to Oya. These things must be done in order, you know...mira amirashttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10372005605076355136noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2212115997694971585.post-69461863685721813432011-03-15T22:50:10.280-07:002011-03-15T22:50:10.280-07:00So fill us in on Chango and Oshun, please? I just ...So fill us in on Chango and Oshun, please? I just can't bring myself to slog through the wikipedia on them—not after getting this kind of discussion of Oya!Erin Vanghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05479433612497580296noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2212115997694971585.post-64342454304484308602011-03-15T13:45:37.703-07:002011-03-15T13:45:37.703-07:00Hmm. Now I wondering. Maybe opera's just too...Hmm. Now I wondering. Maybe opera's just too small a stage?mira amirashttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10372005605076355136noreply@blogger.com