但是太阳，他每时每刻都是夕阳也都是旭日。当他熄灭着走下山去收尽苍凉残照之际，正是他在另一面燃烧着爬上山巅布散烈烈朝辉之时。那一天，我也将沉静着走下山去，扶着我的拐杖。有一天，在某一处山洼里，势必会跑上来一个欢蹦的孩子，抱着他的玩具。 当然，那不是我。 但是，那不是我吗？ 宇宙以其不息的欲望将一个歌舞炼为永恒。这欲望有怎样一个人间的姓名，大可忽略不计。 史铁生 《我与地坛》，1991FW translation to follow. But the sun is rising and setting at all times. The moment it sinks behind a mountain, extinguishing and retracting its desolate afterglow, is the same moment it rises to the top of another mountain, scattering its brilliant morning rays. One day, I too will descend … Continue reading [fwd.] The Last paragraphs of “The Temple of Earth and Me”
Year: 2023
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A Dream
I jot down my dreams in the waking hours, not always, and even less so share them -- random recipients of limerence too distant to be told "hey I dreamt of you", surreal space designs, and for a Hot Wheels collector I dream about shoplifting quite a lot (never actually). In all I write about … Continue reading A Dream
RAINY ROAD FOUND POEM – 09
A Night Out – A Student Photographer’s First Field Guide to Wide-field Astrophotography
I prepared this for distribution to the participants of our second Astrophotography workshop later this week. And maybe with more research and refinement this might become an actual pop-publication one day. Get a PDF copy of this guide (v1, 10/10/2023)COMING SOON
High Dimensions Navigator
Content Statement: this essay contains human-supervised embellishment by ChatGPT. I am in a hurry after all. To be fair though, it didn't get my point and only supplied minor prose elements. As I found myself running away from loud FaceTiming businessmen in the Air NZ VIP lounge, a place of free import beers and buffets, … Continue reading High Dimensions Navigator
e342 – The Zeeman Effect (Experimental Design Review)
The following attachment is a review presentation that I prepared as part of my application to lead the Auckland Advanced Physics Lab next year, for which I am unsuccessful. The inability to tell beginnings and pinnacles apart is an ever-relevant phenomenon of the human condition. References to internal and other previliged material have been removed.