It's not like my phone suddenly starts ringing off the hook when DC (The District) suddenly goes crazy.
The District has always been crazy, ever since I was born, right around the time of the Kennedy assassination, and it's been downhill from there. I dodged the draft in that window after the American War in Southeast Asia (with people now egging on another one) plus as a Quaker I'd have fought for my right to not participate in such "organized" madness (i.e. chaos).
All of which is to say, I'm paying attention, but really have no active short term role in Atlanticist affairs.
With my eye on the longer term, I've continued to be productive on Synergeo, going ahead with how I'd think MHCC (a local community college) would wanna look at it: as a how best to teach teachers, who in turn take it to the frontline.
By "it" I mean "whatever" but in this case I'm also speaking more specifically about Quadray Coordinates, an aspect of Cascadian Synergetics I've been sharing through my Philosophy Talk blog lately, among other places.
I'm continuing to hammer on some sharable color scheme, thanks to earlier meetups with Germany and Mexico, using those nation names as shorthand mnemonics for some individuals on the call. I'm in Portland, as we all know (PDX in Oregon, Cascadia, Pacwest or whatever... PNW).
I call it "landing the spaceship" i.e. coming in from Zero G in a tumbling tetrahedron, where we wanna no longer postpone or equivocate as to "which side is down", time to choose, with the most logical thing being, with a caltrop, to put three legs on the ground, in tripod formation, with the fourth spoke straight up.
Now that the ship has landed (up ahead of us) let's establish a color code that also locks in an angle of view vs-a-vs some "my left" (blue) and "my right" (red), with yellow in back (3rd leg) and green up top. I might be a human on foot, I might be a drone about head high. The apparatus ahead is like a radio antenna with a blinking green light at the top.
The point (one of them) is to well-establish the mathematical (and computer scientific) notion of "mapping" e.g. of
A to Red
B to Green
C to Blue
D to Yellow.
If that all seems arbitrary, it is.
In Python we'd go: {A: 'Red', B: 'Green', C: 'Blue', D: 'Yellow'}. That my A, B, C, D have no quotes around them means they're names of objects in the namespace.
That's right: they're the names of IVM vectors, instances of the Qvector class (quadray class) in my Python framework, all free online at the School of Tomorrow.
