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My hand writing in the agenda. I used a tripod and self timer for this. It actually took me many shots to make one with the correct angle.
The materials required for this experiment are simple: a stick of incense, a lump of clay, matches. Any straight, uniform incense stick of the variety consisting of a slender bamboo splint dipped in an aromatic, combustible slurry as commonly manufactured in many parts of the Orient is suitable.
The setting for the experiment is most important. The experiment shall be carried out in a small inner room without windows and free of draughts. The room shall be darkened and provided with subtle illumination such that the visual effects of the smoke will be accentuated. A small table or suitable stand shall be provided upon which the experiment will be conducted. Arrangements should be made beforehand so that the room shall not be disturbed for the duration of the experiment. In lieu of a windowless room, a room with windows and portals sufficiently occluded may be substituted.
The procedure is thusly: The lump of clay is formed into a spherical mass and carefully pressed down upon the center of the tabletop. The stick of incense is inserted into the lump of clay at a thirty-degree angle from the vertical, that is, at a two to one slope. A match is struck, the incense is ignited, and the flame extinguished leaving the incense to glow and smolder on its own.
The results are observed from a comfortable stationary position; horizontally is found to be ideal, however, a traditional lotus position is acceptable.
Once the prevailing room conditions have stabilized somewhat, it will be observed that the smoke arises essentially vertically and appearing to be a parallel streams that are fairly straight, and then changing rather abruptly into less orderly and varying patterns of flow at some distance from the burning incense. Although there appear to be two parallel streams of smoke shooting up from glowing incense end, upon closer examination this effect is illusionary for the smoke arises generally in a cylindrical fashion so that the edges as seen from the side appear to be separate parallel streams that undulate together exactly when a slight amount of air disturbance is present. Even the most gentle wisp of wind will cause the uniformity of the laminar flow to become jumbled into turbulent flow as the smoke first emerges from the incense. The cylinder of smoke move quickly up and away from the hot incense and may widen gradually into a narrow funnel of smoke before breaking up into many continually changing patterns of rippling or the cylindrical smoke may emerge directly and suddenly into swirling and rippling designs. The smoke is forever making an infinite number of changes. At times the cone or funnel of smoke seems to flatten out and undulate quickly back an forth forming smooth waves in midair before fading into the haze which is accumulating in the upper regions of the room. Sometimes the turbulent flow will be fast, confused, and dramatic; at other times it will merely roll off lazily, but at all times moves uninhibited. Traveling in the general direction of the ceiling, the flow of the smoke may occasionally lean from side to side or may slowly rotate around a vertical axis, as well as going straight up. The limitless motions the bluish smoke make freely provides visual fascination in addition to a pleasing aroma.
As the incense burns downward, ash accumulates above the point of combustion. The ash may persist undisturbed for quite some time while the glow moves gradually down the stick emitting smoke and leaving ash in its path. Then without warning the residual ash will suddenly topple and dangle precariously by fragile strands of bamboo fiber. Particles of loose ash fall to the tabletop while the bulk of the ash remains suspended. Unmolested the glow continues its journey down the incense leaving the ash to accumulate until the time it in turn tumbles and thus forming another link of this charred chain. As the burning progresses, the dangling ash grows longer and longer while the sections of ash become shorter and shorter as the links fall more frequently each time. The burning ceases when the last of the incense preparation is encountered and all that remains is the leftover piece of bamboo splint from which ashes clinging to fibers are hanging vertically, enclosing a thirty-degree angle, and a roomful of diffuse smoke.
It can be concluded that the above phenomenon will reliably occur if the splint was taken from an inter-nodal piece of bamboo and the conditions of the experiment are met. Any significance attributed to the smoke in making the various fluid designs is left entirely up to the observer's imagination.
© Phillip Hughes
21: happy birthday to my little red journal! i started writing in it 1/21/13 and it's full of scraps of dreams, quotes, to-do lists, and daily happenings.
These are my writing machines. The manual typewriter was bought by my Dad when I was a child.
The electronic typewriter was bought by my Dad when I require to use for my school course to learn typing back then. Then this is my current laptop I am using. Of course before this red colour laptop I had a different model as well. I am glad that I still keep my both vintage typewriters.:)
Details:-
Manual Typewriter model: CROWN 500
Electronic Typewriter model: Brother AX-450
Modern Laptop model: Hewlett Packard Pavilion g series.:)
A Torfaen (Eastern Valley) pit represented on the semi-circular walk.
In 1901 an explosion ripped through the Universal Colliery at Senghenydd, killing 81 men and boys; management ignored safety reports and in 1913 another, even more devastating explosion killed 439 men and boys, the worst mining disaster in British history. The subsequent inquiry found the management guilty of failure to comply with regulations, and a £24.00 fine with £10.00 costs was levied - this equated to one shilling and a penny farthing (5.5p) per dead miner. To mark the centenary of the 1913 disaster, on 14 October 2013, a memorial garden and statue were unveiled, The Welsh National and Universal Memorial Garden, commemorating all pit disasters in Wales incurring five or more casualties. Ceramic plaques are laid with the details of all colliery disasters in Wales with five or more fatalities, a plaque has also been produced with details of every miner who died in the 1901 and 1913 explosions. The youngest were 14, the oldest 65. The centrepiece is a dramatic and moving statue of a rescuer supporting one of the 18 survivors, created by Les Johnson FRBS.
This is the reverse side of the Königswinter postcard I put online yesterday. The writer placed the postage stamp (and his signature) on the front of the card, but was that unusual? I don't know.
He writes (above), "I'm right at the top at the place where the cross is. It's terribly cold and my poor dog is exhausted. What will he be like when we get down?"
I've been using whiteboards more and more frequently, and there have been some downsides to this: one downside is that I've begun to use my fingers, particularly my middle one, to quickly erase a mistake on the board. This leaves my hand full of dry erase material, which is rather lame. Also, the stuff rubs off on other materials.
I've been considering how to approach a solution to this problem. One way would be to 'wear' the eraser instead of have to walk across the room to get it, or disrupt a mental process by looking down, locating the eraser, and trying to make it erase a small part of the board.
Standard whiteboard erasers are pretty large, and mistakes are often very small. It makes little sense to have to use a large eraser on a small area. There should be two types of dry erase erasers - macro and micro.
With that said, this is my first attempt at a wearable whiteboard eraser. As you can see, it does a great job! That is, while one is erasing. It's much clunkier while one is writing, and not as ergonomic as I'd hoped. Part of it has to do with the bulkiness of the velcro and felt. The thickness makes it difficult to write, but easy to erase. Although the velcro and felt allows for adjustment and softness, a thinner elastic material would remove the need for adjustment. This could be achieved by simply taking the finger off a knitted glove and trying that. Look out for Version 2, I guess. I'm rather determined to solve this problem.
Or I could just attach felt or velco to the ends of all of my markers. It's not a permanent solution, but it could do for now.
Spotted on the sand causeway between Burgh Island and Bigbury-on-Sea. Preserved for posterity before the income tide erased it forever.