Meetings

Previous night, had a dream of a hand held device with slide pots (potentiometers) where the fingers are to server as computerised input device. First woken thought was, that's no good, better if it was just a squeezable tube that pushed its contents out the base when squeezed - thus triggering a pressure (e.g. weight) sensor, proportional to the input.

This is a bit easier to implement than the (earlier) "hopping" then "running" robot dream which is simple two knee jointed "legs" that can bound and land (and balance with appropriate negative feedback devices). Realised on waking this would be easier to implement with a telescoping leg. Find out later (from work friend) that the original robots were pogo sticks as they were easiest to implement - damn.

Anyway, that was not what I wanted to recall: this is:

Last night had a (lucid) dream, woke up and got out of bed looked out the back window and realised there were houses built everywhere. This is quite annoying, had to go back to bed and try and wake up for real (actually didn't for some time and slept in).

Work friend had a (reoccurring) dream that I (like Dilbert in his cartoon) was working on a php coding problem that I could not solve, and (similar to Dilbert taking it too the supergenius janitor) - I took it to MC Hammer (who in his dream is an extremely smart and competent php coder) - All he had to say after looking at it was : "Can't touch this."





I made him draw a cartoon of it...
(Actually, I asked for an animated cartoon, I shall wait...)


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I'm no good at finding Fs in a sentence (missed half of them), so did the work friend. (From one of those emails doing the rounds).

Also, Meetings bring together two thoughts for me:

1. It reminds me how much life force I must have had in me originally. Almost every meeting I emerge from seems to have sucked the life force out of me, yet I still emerge, in time to re-submerge into the next, and have done this many, many times. That is a LOT of life force.
2. With every meeting I feel a little bit more confused, a little bit more disillusioned, and less sure of the future, despite the fact the meeting seemed quite informative and useful if taken in isolation. It is only when taken in the context of all the previous history of meetings and my previous knowledge that the result of the meeting is a net loss of knowledge in my brain (and in the universe).
   

The meeting that removed both life force and the chance of enlightenment from me is not a total loss though. With the inevitable post meeting discussions, with others pointing out confusing misunderstandings that might cause us future problems; I said with a (knowing) smile and patting my notebook, "Don't worry guys, remember I'm writing the minutes for today's meeting"... Pat, pat, smile, smile. - (Progress will be made despite the meeting)

Only one thing worse: The Committee Meeting - there is a reason there are so many M's and E's and T's in those words. Or more exactly, no reason whatsoever.

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Anyway, two previous dreams involved a friend from a very long time ago, a re-occurring dream - two nights in a row. Our families were meeting up at their place, it was good, but on time to leave, I couldn't but knew I had too, it was very painful. I could not stop hugging her. It was actually more painful to leave, than not having met up ever again.