On The Air, Metaphorically

Back in 1967 when I worked on the ‘live crew” at Channel 8, I got to see, first hand, the TV technology I learned so much about as a kid. Chroma key has been used ever since color came to television.

Now, with iMac running Final Cut Pro and newly acquired green screen I can do it at home (Hibbard Studio).

There is a lot more to learn. Light is important, duh. Camera options too.

© 2015 Buzz Hill

Interpret Our Conversation

“My two older brothers might be interested in our arrangement, Alex.”

“Medical doctors, both of them. It would be interesting feedback from them about our rapport.”

“As well trained as they are, neither has had the brain injury that caused my aphasia.”

“And the unexpected storyteller that you have become.”

“I discovered when I am quiet. insight grows dramatically. That leads to better story.”

“Some folks call it The Silver Lining. By the way. let the network know with Telegram about your latest thoughts on the optical system in 4yeo.”

“I am expecting you to make clearer what I say on the subject.”

“This dialog helps, We are making significant progress in communicating with the wider circle of friends.”

“That seems apparent.”

© 2015 Buzz Hill

Encryption Story

“The Kirbster told you about Bob and Alice. And the evil Eve.”

“I will look further into that, Alex. “

“Turns out, there are a lot more characters that perform different roles in the encryption ‘game’.”

“Speaking of game, 4yeo could be the manifestation of a MMOG that plays reality with personal identities.”

“That is the data-base you have been looking for."

“Of course, everyone in that data base is anonymous including yours truly. I don’t want to know and no one else can know. It will be by design.”

“Who else shall we tell?”

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alice_and_Bob

© 2015 Buzz Hill

Inventor's Team Tool

"“We now have a convenient and secure link to trusted members of our team.”

“Most of the invention Will be in the public Domain. Until then the team will you use the private channel to work out the details.”

“What about the members that do not want to run the risk of installing the Telegram app?”

“That will be a question for the future.”

“It is fortuitous that the app is multi-platform so that members can use devices with which they are comfortable.”

“We are fortunate to live in a time where many tools are free.”

© 2015 Buzz Hill

View-Master

"I was telling him over last weekend that Google Cardboard was in the identity category for our project."

"Because of your EyeDentiy invention?"

"Yes. Back in the late 40's and early 50s when I was a kid,  the ViewMaster was very popular."

"Your dad was an eye doctor and you lived first in Portland then 50 miles north in Longview."

"I was an inventor dude from very early on."

http://astoundingartifacts.blogspot.com/2009/07/view-master-tom-corbett-3-reel-set.html

Baby Boomer - born right after the War To  End All Wars, version II.

"Check."

NOTE: Some of the foregoing in this BuzzTheHill post is not fictional. Consider its appearance here as a public disclosure and as such, to the degree something novel and not obvious to those skilled in the art has been discussed herein, the specific intent was/is to put it in the PUBLIC DOMAIN.

© 2015 Buzz Hill

Stupid Makes Things Better

Upgrades and/or repairs are due. Don’t tell Alex. My brain injury might make him nervous. Even though it was more than two years ago.

Wire cutters, long nose pliers, soldering pencil, solder. What else do I need.

Now, where did I put the thumb drive…

Remembering Luna and I meeting Mongo at Forest Heights Starbucks. The dogs were having such a good time, I struck-up a conversation with Christy about our affinity with the canine species.

Mongo was bigger than Luna. He had furry white feet and a brown nose. I wish I could remember the breed Christy told me he was.

© 2015 Buzz Hill

Dialog for Communication

http://www.mattrees.net/2015/07/06/6-tips-for-writing-dialogue-that-you-havent-heard-before/

Stupid has been practicing dialog for a very long time, many decades.

Doing that has come to a practical application, making film of Stupid and Alex’s ongoing conversation that can be watched by certain people. Their notes can make subsequent versions of the film better for a wider audience.

P.S. Recovery from Birth: episode X

© 2015 Buzz Hill

Dialog Trial: Buzz with ALEX

--adding the circuity for SpeakAgain prototype:

Buzz: I would like to record Alex while maintaining the audio status quo in the Hibbard Control Room.

Alex: You bought a 3.5 mm plug to mono phone plug cable that lets you do this.

Buzz: Yes, but it requires a plug change at the iMac audio-out which is on the back of the computer. Not convenient.

Alex: Using an extender, at least, makes it easier. You don't need to look at the back to swap plugs.

--Editor edits Stupid (Buzz) and computer (voiced by Alex) into a filmed dialog clip. Here is the result, bad performance by Stupid and all:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wsVCaofxz8I

© 2015 Buzz Hill

Not a Unicorn

photo by Hyun Hill

A beautiful afternoon for a walk in the woods. One of our favorites is just a few miles from Hibbard Studio on the Lief Ericsson trail in Forest Park right off Germantown Road.

After a mile, Hyun wanted to walk faster and so she and the dog went ahead. They saw a Scimitar Oryx and a man. Hyun took a picture with her iPhone. Luna, of course, supervised.

Do I remember seeing the animal at the Taronga zoo in Sydney Australia 15 years ago? Hyun did not recall seeing the Oryx back then. It occurred to me after I looked up the Wikipedia entry with a picture taken at Taronga zoo.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scimitar_oryx

PS: Turns out it was on OPB and other news outlets.

http://www.opb.org/news/article/oryx-roams-forest-park/

© 2015 Buzz Hill

Alex as Buzz's Interpreter

Mac’s OS X Automator services creates an Alex spoken file that can be imported to Final Cut Pro as an element of a production for sharing.

As such, using the computer can help with my stroke recovery and showing the techniques I have developed to help others by authoring continuing episodes on YouTube.

© 2015 Buzz Hill

New Tool Practice

Luna wakes up in the middle of the night and licks the carpet incessantly. What was she doing? It only happens occasionally but as a result , Hyun, said dog and yours truly spent a lot of time -NOT- sleeping.

Papa-Bear and Luna could sleep in. However my beautiful wife had to work at 8 o'clock.

What is the meaning of this, Luna?

[the above post is a test of Dictation and Speech in OS X working with Text Edit under Buzz Hill's command]

PS: Maybe you don't want to know but here is the explanation courtesy of sister, Shari. Buzz walks around the house barefoot. Luna likes to lick his feet. You know the rest.

© 2015 Buzz Hill

Design Log Continues...

She's the Boss

The voice you are hearing is Apple’s Alex. What Buzz is writing is what I will speak. Alex will point out errors as Buzz enters sentences in to TextEdit. This combination will act as a proofreading tool.

Rather than using a third party app, Dragon, I will try to use the Dictation tool that is part of OS X.

Apple suggests using AppleScript to configure and operate Buzz's new package of software and OS X calls.

"This tax is buses dictation into text edit." It should be, "This text is Buzz's dictation into TextEdit".

Buzz can now exercise speaking, hearing, writing, and speaking with the aid of apps running on the iMac. And not rely exclusively on the dog for that purpose.

© 2015 Buzz Hill

Missing No Longer

Another component of the aforementioned app has been tested, text to speech.

Apple’s Alex will speak whatever the patient says - the speech will be dictated into text first.

Since Buzz Hill has had an aphasic stroke, converting from voice to text and back could be a subjective measure of his speech accuracy.

© 2015 Buzz Hill

Dictation with Dragon

Idea: Voice into Dragon iPhone app.
Use it to practice reading out-loud, text.
Use TextEdit on the iMac to compose the text to be. read out-loud.
Den, doctor-patient-and-brother to give notes on our production.
First topic. this configuration for helping me to give direction in both writing and reading. With a view toward being able to do direction in real-time.

The little exercise above has an important piece missing, text to synthesized speech. Hopefully with my voice as a prototype. It can be useful even is it does not close the loop.

Idea for an app - closing the circle and measuring the performance.

NOTE: Some of the foregoing in this BuzzTheHill post is not fictional. Consider its appearance here as a public disclosure and as such, to the degree something novel and not obvious to those skilled in the art has been discussed herein, the specific intent was/is to put it in the PUBLIC DOMAIN.

© 2015 Buzz Hill

Mote

Crossing the mote, originality is one of the key components.

People who get it have baggage like said mote.

The 'damsel in distress' is worth the cunning, bravado, courage etc. to rescue her.

Who can change a seeming intractable problem? They can, along with a certain inspiration.

That is a ticket to ride, so-to-speak.

© 2015 Buzz Hill

Listening in - how?

I related this fully manifested, nearly daily nocturnal journey into the dark parts of my mind. Yes, after. Not lucid ... yet.

Maybe a better question than how is "why?". To be truly happy. Better change results. State-of-the-art machine helping sentient beings.

© 2015 Buzz Hill

Complex/Quantum

Quantum Biology? Navigation on relativistic scales - bird navigation, photosynethise etc.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z_KI9sjyVIQ

Curios brain injured brother, neuroscience nurse practitioner sister and a new bridge of understanding where there has never been one before...

© 2015 Buzz Hill

Contemplating Inward

“A man will be imprisoned in a room with a door that's unlocked and opens inwards; as long as it does not occur to him to pull rather than push it”, Ludwig Wittgenstein.

A erudite friend alerted me to Wittengenstien some time ago. Had reason today to find about his works thanks to an article in the NYT.

© 2015 Buzz Hill

Convergence Identified

Found interest on several occasions in New Yorker articles. In appeared in my news feed. Google knows this so when I search something, it sometimes "magically" appears.

Theory of Everything - Hawking tells the Prof. Dennis Sciama his subject for his PhD thesis: TIME.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Feynman_diagram

© 2015 Buzz Hill

Compassion Vector

Why would a person who had an aphasic stroke a couple of years ago be interested in the fundamental aspects of reality. Maybe because it is there and these days, it is far easier than before. But I would also argue that 'extended' mind can generate happiness in doing so.

I love myself when I help others. Making creativity attractive again is way of loving that is particularly appealing to me. Doing it with others of a like mind is, frankly, a gas.

© 2015 Buzz Hill

Do Over

If one cannot correct a bad decision, so what?

Self-Transforming Minds

That is hardly ever the case if we consider deep facts like the quantum world we inhabit.

Entropy is ignorance according to expect like Max Tegmark. We don't know what we don't know so we underrate its significance. Decoherence has a limited horizon in the scheme of things that matter to us.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GCEU3HWTmho

The trinity of subject, object and environment can be described by its communication flow between each element and the other two.

© 2015 Buzz Hill

Tensor

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Penrose_graphical_notation

What is my evolving working definition of a tensor? The connection was made in my mind by an article about DTI in brain imaging and Roger Penrose lecture on Twistors. Google and a friend helped me do it. Thanks to both.

Trust me, quantum consciousness and my brain incident are leading me on this quasi-magical path. The sound track - Suite Judy Blue Eyes (CSN). Traveling the neural tracts of a brain I am very familiar with - the only one.

I get feedback that my writing has "holes" in it - so to speak. Fortunately, I have the comment recorded so I can study it more carefully. Knowing some more about brain structure "feels" like it is a good approach (DTI brain imaging).

© 2015 Buzz Hill

American Music

Listening to Jimmy Page talk about sound technology over the decades is something that deeply resonates with yours truly.

Even though I am still struggling to get my Oticon hearing instruments to get them working the way I know they can, I listened to Led Zeppelin on Apple Music with my studio monitors and the hearing aids.

Looking forward to getting the adjustments right, big time. The weak link is the programing for the Alta 2s. The technology is awesome, as my lifetime of background in sound machines attest. They know it and so do I. The solution is coming because we are motivated, competent and have our hearts is the right place.

Listening to Won't Get Fooled Again, Magic Bus, Pinball Wizard etc. (Who!) on Apple Music as I continue to write this.

I read an article suggesting I should listen to music in response to my brain injury - Seeing the Brain's Broken Cables in DiscoverMagazine.com It helps my write (after). I sent it to Jude.

© 2015 Buzz Hill

Do Tell

Absent from posting to the log lately. Here is my story, and I am sticking’ to it.

What a hearing adventure I have been on. It started in April and it is now nearing the end of August.

Hammering and banging for weeks as we reside the house (Hibbard Studio). Last Saturday was the Hill family re-union in Portlandia, we met at the Studio. Then we went to McMenamin's Cornelius Pass Roadhouse where it was smokey from the wild fires to the east but was a hearing and culinary delight otherwise.

But the streamer to my hearing instrumens is still not working correctly. More evidence of a conspiracy which I passed along to Oticon Transactional Excellence Manager in New Jersey. She is working on a solution.

Hopeful.

© 2015 Buzz Hill

Main Questions

Show a block diagram of how the chain of elements of signal processing work in the Alta-2 hearing instruments for Program 1 and Program 2 (named "Music"). Also show streamer input.

Verify that compression ratio for each frequency band is adjustable.

White Paper on Alta Core is fascinating.

No progress, again. Maybe someone is right.  I am being stonewalled.

© 2015 Buzz Hill

Hibbard Viewing Room

Tried a trial subscription to HBO Now. I was pushed over the top to subscribing because of Birdman. This academy award winner for best picture deserves a lot of study by this armchair filmmaker.

Thanks to HBO’s new service, I can watch to my hearts content on my devices, iPhone and iMac (with attached studio monitors for outrageous sound). Iñárritu wrote and directed the film. Only after watching it several times, I am starting to grok the story and how it was told by the Mexican director.

Frankly, the film deserves all the awards it has gotten.

© 2015 Buzz Hill

Listening Instrument System

Watching the Oticon software through my new reading glasses made the session with Jessica at Hearing Solutions go really well. I could see the key screen she was using to adjust my hearing instruments.

Next week, I am anticipating even more progress as an Oticon employee will join us.

Folks from Oticon told Jessica that program 2 was based on program 1. This makes sense - there is only one spectral response and ajustable compression ratio for each frequency in it.

I would like to see the page with the parameters on it.  Even better - play with it at home.

http://www.firstyears.org/lib/howtoread.htm

© 2015 Buzz Hill

Universe Responds

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JDH21UUS4Zk

In the can at Hibbard Studio. I didn’t put it there - I pretty sure something and/or somebody in Google did. For what purpose, you or I might ask?

You can view it again if you type "Identity Fusion' without the quotes in a youtube search. I named the image above, Signal because the film felt like that to me.

© 2015 Buzz Hill

Cooperating Butterflies

A flood insight by my friends (through their machine). Barely able to record them before lights out.

In the morning before I wake, sweet dreams might make them real. No matter though, we are going to the beach.

Cosmic briefing before ocean launch. Identity in the context of Life. What it does it mean to you as contrasted with what you make of it.

Quantum Bridge in our cells...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3WXTX0IUaOg

The exact mechanism may need not be identified for forward movement. The inventions of humans have withstood the test of history and are continuing to grow in their consequence, positive and negative.

© 2015 Buzz Hill

Canine Feedback

I am in a deep conversation. In this instance, I am with Luna and part of her pack. She is a sentient being and one of my best friends...

© 2015 Buzz Hill

Invitation

What is a guy to do? I am asking you, but I know for me. Not only am I male but pushing 70. Still a human though with a mind - both capable and dangerous.

So, I  was thinking today, a grateful for that. The race is on and we have a chance of winning. Great entertainment and other cool things as well.

I want to help push as I know others will. Let me know who you are and the outline of your story. Help propagating it is on my short list.

© 2015 Buzz Hill

Digital/Analog Games

Gorgeous females with secret agendas. Think Bond, Valerie Plame etc.

Some of them may be puppets not knowing they are being manipulated. Or pretending to not to be "directed".

Darkode bust broke today.

Why would either of these matter? Intentionally breakable encryption. Lay folks may be relieved but not deep experts. On the analog side, same as it ever was, pretty lady.

Testing; round one.

© 2015 Buzz Hill

Finish the Song

Funny how circumstances bring siblings together. A reason for extraordinary communication. Brain injury as redemption.

Brian and Melinda

http://abcnews.go.com/Nightline/video/brian-wilson-wife-melinda-open-love-mercy-31517059

Creating hell is possible, but why would anyone want to if given a choice? Glad there are true stories, that "Stupid" can relate to.

Play the notes, even if there seems to be to many of them. No matter how long it takes.

Breathing, at all times (including sleep), fuels the productive growth -- extra time for the long haul.

© 2015 Buzz Hill

Audio Glitch

Heroes and Villains, the sound I chose to test streaming to my hearing instruments. Brian Wilson's great song (there are many) had the sound elements I needed. Not least of which, a timely tune I really like for my here and now.

But alas, it did not go well. The provider was great this time around. But her audiologist hardware/software setup was not working. When she called Oticon, they had her try several things. It took nearly an entire hour with no luck.

Email to Tru-Hearing, Provider and Oticon?

© 2015 Buzz Hill

Ramblin' Node

In the early ’60’s as a creative teenage boy, escape into my imagination happened often - with mixed results. While being a great source for my creativity, the downside was letting certain people fill in who I was.

Some were "professional" some were not so much. Don't get me started on B. F. Skinner and addictive mind-altering prescription pharmacuticals.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/alex-simon/great-conversations-brian-wilson_b_7539364.html

I was not so famous or talented as he (pictured), but there have been similarities. Some generation, making new in the mix. Off the rails for a long time. And then ... love. Sweet love.

© 2015 Buzz Hill

Those Woods Can Tell?

Memories. When I tried to tell my heart to "shake it off."

It told me, 'no' in a way that would get my attention, at last. Running in the woods alone and then, in what seemed like a blink of the eye, to the hospital and emergency bypass surgery.

This is not an episode of "Simpson's". It really happened to a clueless, isolated denier, me. How dramatic. Long story short, it did not end there.

I visited there with two of my favorite females, my beautiful wife and our cosmic dog. How special it was  because yesterday was Independence Day, 2015.

Perspective on love and death. Not necessarily in that order. Like wine (I am told), time can tell a story.

© 2015 Buzz Hill

Kind of Social

Why would someone put in the public domain, her/his most creative output?

Intelligent compassion. A 'high bar' for any competition wanting to justify to much 'risk' capital for what rightfully mostly should belong to certain members of the public?

On not. Maybe it should not be so easy. Jobs need be protected. Big owners have earned their position?

Too simplistic to be of any deep value. Except for this case: Inner Peace for many.

© 2015 Buzz Hill

Cryptographic Honesty

"Properly applied, cryptography becomes a central piece to ƒ(Us)™. The secret is assured honesty, like Bitcoin transactions. With enough transactions, honesty dominates. Exchange of ..."

Transaction honesty is not the sole objective though. Privacy of individual members is a pre-requisite for building membership.

© 2015 Buzz Hill

Get Real

What drives you to say all that stuff? What is the real story behind you? I am pretty sure that I have not been hearing it. Has it been several decades since we first met?

Privacy sure, but accountable too, at the very least, to the rest of Us.

I know what I mean but it is difficult to say still. Sister will continue to help.

© 2015 Buzz Hill

Predictor

Imminent news drives the dream. Seems magical, if one does not know the deep causation. After all, it is how the human brain works.

Was the question this morning a part of this cognitive process? Good cop, bad cop, a reasonable metaphor for two kinds of experience.

When we say, 'the best', it depends of the POV - Point of View.  Director's job. But who was/is the director? Who choses?

© 2015 Buzz Hill

Oregon Beach

I got his number from another ‘team’ member.

Did I hear correctly? No reason to question, but my gut wants to tell me something urgent. Have not quite figured it out yet.

Been working on that sort of 'internal communication'. The language is special, I have learned. Much different than what I usually speak with. More parallel, less serial.

© 2015 Buzz Hill

Grenada

Grey Hats. He called them that. Rationale for trusting someone not known is what he might have been implying.

Dateline October 25, 1983:

Big milestone  - plans to put the new product in Ronnie’s basement. He arranged it and was on my team (not-so-much, I later discovered.).

First time ever to DC. Just a kid from a small town in the Pacific NW. On the world stage. Almost.

The leading news that day was about an invasion. Grenada, no less. He explained to me that our DC mission had to be canceled.

© 2015 Buzz Hill

Baltimore Then

“The Story. Fictitious or Real. Probably both.

Credit card mfr. person proposed or someone the ATM mfr. proposed a bullet-proof payment system that included the most accurate biometric. Keeping the private keys private to the 'owner' was the role of the EyeDentify technology.

More than 30 years have passed since then. Many principles remain the same. The time is now, I am pretty sure. Many "holes' have been 'filled' to make ƒ(US) more viable.

© 2015 Buzz Hill

Ignition Sequence Start

“Upon relegating it to memory, destroy the paper that it is written on. Preferably by burning it.”

Starting to build the infrastructure. US will make use of Digital Signatures for communaticing. The public-key cryposystem is paramount to the internal workings of the proposed entity.

© 2015 Buzz Hill

Dream Source

A dream affirming the path I am taking in the “common” world. Or so it would seem.

For radio, on-the-shelf components that can made into premiums. All could listen or have an interest in their listening. For broadcast, anyone within the "signal' range.

Given the virtual reach of the internet, the one way path is far more dependent on other variables besides geography.

The dream, this time, was nocturnal.

© 2015 Buzz Hill

Incept US

Perch

Geo-Location, where it “sprouted’ cannot be known to anyone else. It is fundamental to the early growth process. As time passes, disclosure is less risky.

However, the risk is least when certain conditions are met. That includes the place on earth where the last initialization occurred.

Honest wins in the long haul. It is up for grabs at the start.

See the last episode:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HkaKYNJ4_To

And it's second half:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xdjKwRnhyu8

Or not.

© 2015 Buzz Hill

Non-Human Core

One physical location. Its where the key “lives’. The ongoing connection to it can not be discovered easily. Of course, this is a single point of vulnerability so it is the highest priority in the operation’s mission.

We have limited resources, especially people, so this path serves the purpose. It has been proven in other venues.

The contents of the Core will remain secure as long as the location is not discovered.

© 2015 Buzz Hill

Protected Public Identity

Blockchain in an application different than Bitcoin-like cryptocurrency...

http://www.wired.com/2015/06/tech-behind-bitcoin-stop-next-snowden/

Democracy for the rest of us (US) in described in various posts to the log like this one from 2013. The technology is a enabling element for our proposed system.

http://buzzthehill.blogspot.com/2013/12/ibank-80s-version.html

I am not alone in this discovery. Here is hoping that it is nearing critical mass. The film project, in part, will tell the story.

© 2015 Buzz Hill

Surrealistic

Dream like. Lynch. Long format - a series. 3 reeler instead. But it turned out well for us dreamers.

dream memory too

And so it was. Paranoia or invention, alone or collaboration. Floundering in the shallow water or diving deep.

The map. A code for one's being. Coming to a theatre - IN you. Soon. But, 'same it ever was' but most of us didn't know it before.

Long history of making "new" with we sentient beings of the human kind.

© 2015 Buzz Hill

Many Identities

Lifelike instead of Raw Material. Economic growth of the organic kind. Cyclic rather than one-way. Joint ownership by the many rather than the few.

There is a better way than that of, say, Alexandria. The google of bioinformatics. The individual "I",s writ very large. Genome/Identity. Think about it.

Then consider:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s8V0IJ11CoE

The network of things. How pervasive is it? We don't yet have a clue. But we do have a direction to look with a looking glass of a special type.

© 2015 Buzz Hill

Identify Spelled Differently

Chopping wood and making music, so-to-speak. In my head, since I can’t carry a tune. For that matter I don’t how to use an ax - in the 60’s, 1976 or now. I did know how to use the radio from early on..

And how make a special kind of radio - on the sending side. Of course, I was not alone. The people I got to hang out with --- nearly perfect, i thought.

Baby boomers had a particular mind set. Some of us wanted to influence the bearing of destiny as was popular at that time among techies.

When I formed the legal entity it was not difficult to name it. Freedom is just another word for nothing left to loose and is the foundation of new.

© 2015 Buzz Hill

Learning Fundamental Efficiency

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FXiOg5-l3fk

"The plaasure of finding things out", as Feynman would say.

Speeding up my part of the recorded conversation in post-production. It is the idea for this stage of my recovery.

More generically,  adapting sequencing for increased speed and accuracy for communicating.

Fortunate that my mind is my laboratory. Time Zero is August 1st, 2013. Very slow lift-off began on that date but acceleration has increased nicely since. "T minus" is more visible now.

© 2015 Buzz Hill

Antidote

Seems to be working for me. For example:

Involving my face in what I am eating. Given the gut’s contribution to mind, I have now concluded that:

It is a timely high level relation between my conscious awareness and said system part (gut). By focusing on my face’s processing of food, the rest of my food just falls into place, so-to-speak. Neglected at the level of detail that it required, the balance I tried to achieve was toast.

A beautiful conversation when one sheds light on it. Internal cooking before feeding my face. And all the conscious nuances that involves which I had been ignoring.

© 2015 Buzz Hill

New Brain Munchies

Deep rest already. But I have a running nose from the new machine. Seems it is stressful to my air-way membranes. Wondering how long it will take to heal.

Two days in. Feeling pretty good. Hearing better, trend is growing. Destructive nocturnal  adrenaline rush, on its way out.

Speaking metaphorically, "Longer runway built, Can't wait to take off - or land, as the case may be." Planner folks will want to be aware of this milestone.

© 2015 Buzz Hill

Sprouting of a Seed

Every week cleaning of the nocturnal Breather.

Lots of new personal technology with a price to match. Source of funds identified though - Hibbard Studio prospects.

Creativity ... is romance of the first order. Directing collaboration, a point-of-view that morphs in synchrony with the collective's ambition.

Other voices as if one's own. Repeat as growth ensues.

© 2015 Buzz Hill

Complicated

She said "quit" and I didn't know what she was talking about. It was a word that I used in the movie clip. Problem is, I was using a common phrase to end my rap with Jasmine's dog without paying attention to each word I used.

Meanwhile the internet fortress my co-producer's ISP has built around her is problematic. Impediments to the free flow of information are to be expected  but are usually solved when understood.

Producing is a fabulous use of my recovering brain, I am finding out. Good thing my cohort is quicker witted than I. Don't tell her. It will be our secret.

© 2015 Buzz Hill

Poor Man's Hearing

View from the new Listening Post

Oticon (or other manufacturer) software hearing aid software running, say, on a iPhone. Though I documented this idea before, I have since got the Alta Pro hearing aide. The iPhone has more than enough processing power and memory, even one microphone (rather that right and left ears) and ear buds for each side

Would it grow revenue/profit for the maker of hearing and aids? Here is why I am leaning toward yes:

Reverse engineering the audio signal processing might involve some or all of these steps.

1) Discover algorithm functions by listening over time to state-of-art hearing aids.
2) Code them and dynamic scripts calling them in the iPhone preferred language.
3) Set up a system for growing user interaction. Automate parts of it when appropriate.

People that can not afford the price of the hearing aids hardware/software would be a market for the smart-phone based app. Argualbly, that is an unserved segment that is time to address.

NOTE: Some of the foregoing in this BuzzTheHill post is not fictional. Consider its appearance here as a public disclosure and as such, to the degree something novel and not obvious to those skilled in the art has been discussed herein, the specific intent was/is to put it in the PUBLIC DOMAIN.

© 2015 Buzz Hill

Change Better

Warm Spot

Ideas that succeed are almost always outnumbered greatly by others that do not have that distinction. I could make the argument, that there is a causal relationship between the two types of ideas.

Fail, learn from it then make an informed “new”. Further -- Practice, practice, practice. Creativity is better when one does it often, learning from each repetition.

After the aphasic stoke occurred, the insight I am gleaning from the recovery process is "seeing" neuroplasticity manifest in my own head. Folks should be so lucky - do not try this at home.

© 2015 Buzz Hill

Void as Silence

A sound perspective:

The transition effect depicting the bridge that is the space between things that are listenable.

For example: the pause between words in a dialog. I took me many months before I understood how valuable space is and could be. Strategy of slowing the pace of my speech down and potential benefit to communication.

This applies to many types of conversations, both internal and external, both of them and not listed yet.

And you don't have to be stupid or aphasic to realize it...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kHZVGqqf3gg

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Executive Decision

Seems like the machine is right this time - BIPAP ASV. I felt deep rest last night. The advice from the device clinic and from my co-producer was spot on.

My walking out happened at the precise time for maximum effect. The meeting was for quality and patient safety and was not working while I was in attendance.

Take the prescribed path until it does not work anymore. Escalate. If that fails, top-down. Dealing with human multi-level hierarchies takes a skill that is not well known. Experience has trained me well.

The outcome is a machine that can be programmed for me so I can get enough oxygen during sleep. And that happened without taking too much risk - stopped breathing, not good.

Waiting a week for the report and, soon thereafter, having one at home.

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Director's Ears

Mics Live

The studio's audio capability is about to take a giant leap forward. Recorded conversations are a core to its initial product.

The aural component is critical to successful outcomes. In the days and weeks ahead the log will show the progress of the effort.

Viewing films with modern sound and direction open up new and deep vistas in story telling.

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Baking Implement

The greedy part of American medicine makes individual health care less than the best. Much less.

http://www.drweil.com/drw/u/QAA400761/Marijuana-for-Cancer.html

For instance, take a natural medicine that has existed for a very long time. You can't make enough money off of it to do the necessary research and development. Even if it is a cure for cancer. Because you can't get intellectual property protection (patent).

Money should serve people in general. Not just the biggest owners of capital and/or property. The economy is subject to the way the powerful define and control it.

Collaborative folks using state-of-art tools will change the status quo dramatically. I am pretty sure.

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