Completely Enhanced Storage Concept (Big Box!)

I dreamt this one up some time ago. I'd like to secure some pretty substantial capital and go big, and international. I'm pretty fuzzy on how to do that.

It's storage that provides a lot of additional services, which can be characterized as support.

It's storage that treats storage as an activity, not as sort of the end or a break from something, not as a kind of lack of vibrancy (a desperate measure to handle a problem), but as an actual kind of vibrancy.

Asside from the occasional legitimate purpose (while away on an extended mission), what is storage? It's no secret it's a way to try to handle clutter. Also, people try to do some work in their storage units.

The problem with storing clutter is it remains a problem. Throwing it away is not entirely satisfactory, either: it's a kind of defeat. (I mean that in all seriousness.) The real solution to clutter is doing something with it. That's what I want my Big Box to actively support.

Recycling Plastics At Home

Reason: so lots of little plastic bits and scraps, and, worst of all, bags, don't end up ... in the sea.

You may send your plastics somewhere for recycling, but who knows what actually happens to them.

One nice thing would be to know. I do want to build a tool for documenting that. What's a tool? Maybe it's an organization. How would one go about that? People who know how to answer that could leave suggestion in the comment area of this post, or at my e-mail.

But, if the scraps and bags never leave our houses, so much the better. My idea is to make them into solid blocks that will only come apart as their surfaces crumble ... they'll never come apart into scraps and bits again. This is a chemistry problem and a mechanical engineering problem. It would be interesting to document the chemistry of plastics, here. As far as the mechanical issues go, I suppose we're talking about a pressure vessel and a controlled method for heating it, and then the resulting block of polymer needs to be broken out of it, so a releasing agent is needed, and so on.

Special topic: styrofoam! At present, no one is even taking it for recycling. Processing it ourselves is as close to a viable option as anything!!!

Final note: the real answer is developing alternatives for, especially, food packaging.

Mission Features

Integrating More Farming Into City Life.
Experiment: Building Prototype Public, Landscape, Industrial, and Agricultural Environments in Skyscraper Scale Structures
Recycling Plastics At Home

Page Following (computing function)

The idea: if I set my system up to follow a site, it checks the page, at intervals, for changes, and creates a record of the page's history.

Using Page Miniaturization, I can view different versions from the history side by side to see changes at a glance.

Is there existing software that performs Page Following (with or without site miniaturization).

My project: create an extremely easy to use networked cad which anyone can use to explore urbanistic concepts of all degrees of scale and complexity.


I am tracking my several projects at http://bloggerslogatanurbanistslogs.blogspot.com/.

Initial Project: a web site where people can publish their geographical observation, within a rational framework.

My Questions:

Is there some sort of standard practice for developing projects of this type?

While I call myself an urbanist, I am operating completely outside of the native environment for urbanists: academia and business. Maybe I need to learn more about urbanism as it is being practiced in those environments.

An answer to the question "what's happening" could be structured as follows:
There are players.
The players work on projects.
Describe the projects.
To learn about the projects, ask the players.
The place to find players is at schools.

In this medium, blogs, I can build a catalog of urbanistic projects.
A player may have inactive or nascent projects.
The goal would be to activate such a project.
Information about active projects would be the resource to help players activate new ideas.

It is important that any display of information be fully comprehensible at a glance.
Thus, possibly, a list of active projects. A separate list of nascent and inactive projects.
Each entry links to a description of the project.

Internal Arts Recovery Exercises

In connection with links on silk reeling exercises, I just posted a comment about being careful and taking time to recover after practice, and how beginners should start with just a little practice.

Actually, here's a story.

I learned Tai Chi from a book. I practiced one move for a week, then added another, and so on, as recommended (except there were long periods when I didn't practice - lapses in motivation - so it took me almost twenty years to learn the whole Yang Style Tai Chi). I perhaps ought to add that I felt I had a good understanding of movement and posture from some other martial arts studies, plus hiking and climbing, and yoga.

Still, some time around my second week of practice, I experienced a very sharp pain in the area of my waist. It went away immediately, but I didn't want to experience it again, so I proceeded very carefully, after that. By proceeding carefully, I mean keeping tabs on how it feels in the body, and responding to that information, if something tells me to be gentle, or to stretch in some way, for example.

The root of strength, in this regard, seems to be thrusting the hips forward. The torso can then arch back, giving an elongation to the abdominal cavity, and aligning and massaging all the organs. Again, its something you feel your way through. Also, any turning originates in the hips. It's not that there isn't twisting in the abdomen and back ... it just originates and is rooted in the hips.

Come to think of it, I also experienced an excruciating pain in my waist area one day while I wasn't practicing. For some reason I never associated it with the tai chi until today. Anyway, I healed it, much to my amazement, by holding a colorful painting over the area. I was studying color healing, at the time, which is where I got the idea, but the effect was quite miraculous, and I had thought I was a goner.

So, about processing through the sensations that follow this kind of exercise, which are felt deep in the abdominal organs, for example. (Sometimes also in the joints, perhaps, as well as other areas.) Waiting, and staying loose, are the basic methods. Here are some others:

• stretching, such as yoga sitting toe touch with normal breathing, and also cobra
• sumo style stomping (which is really a gentle action, so don't hurt yourself trying to make a hole in the floor ... it's the rearing back that produces the stretch, as much as the stomp)
• making funny noises, such as raspberries, hoots, screeches, wawawa, hmmmm, and so on
• palm healing, where you simply hold the palm softly over the affected area, allowing a field of life energy to massage it
• walking
• easy jogging
• drinking tea
• incense
• energy visualization, for example, a vortex of sparkling energy gently turning around you
• zazen sitting, which, if practiced for some minutes, really teaches physical alignment
• scholarship - reading and writing

I have a story about another internal art, PaQua, too. Twice, right after experimenting with it (again, from a book), I got an intense sore throat. Both times, I quit practice. Each time, the sore throat stayed with me for two weeks. Both times, I just laid of the PaQua, and carried on normally, pretending I was fine ... maybe being a little easy on myself. Both times, after about two weeks, the symptom receded.

Later, I tried PaQua again, with great care (as described above), and didn't have a repeat of the incident. (I've misplaced my PaQua book, and haven't practiced it very much.)

The Anurbanist Fundraiser

At this time all I can do is ask for donations ... and advice.

My policy announcement: I will keep 10% of all donated funds for my personal use.

Note: this is not a non-profit. There is no non-profit related tax deduction (as far as I know, because I don't know anything).

I do seek a legitimate way to make my projects into an investment vehicle. At this time, I have no way to offer that. Your advice on that subject, readers, could be e-mailed to me, or posted in one of the comments sections, such as the comments for this post/article.

A Proposal: I will undertake to document all donations. I will undertake to keep donors identities private. I will undertake to publish this anonymous record of donations so that you, as donors on an ongoing basis, can see the Fundraiser results. I will undertake to thoroughly document disbursement of all funds (except my private 10%).

I will undertake to document certain plans for Fundraiser proceeds.

Readers can make repeat contributions if they are satisfied with the resulting documentation.

(This is also how I would want to run an investment vehicle. I suspect it is, in some regards, standard practice.)

Perhaps better planning can be achieved by involving everyone.

Everyone means anyone.
Everyone means lots of people.

This is in lieu of planning being done by a few people.

Planning is done by a few people because it involves special methods.


The core method of planning is rendering.
Rendering translates, transfers, or transmits information from one medium to another.

As it regards rendering, the special methods used by planners are procedures.
Today, we are using computers to perform these procedures.
Traditionally, the way to master rendering procedures involved extended rigorous training.
Today it may be possible for people without that training to use the procedures.

It is not that the procedures are so difficult to understand. Rather, they are somewhat intricate, and performing them efficiently enough to do extensive manual rendering is what is hard.

CAD software packages rendering procedures into relatively accessible instructions.
For whatever reasons, the quest for a high level of utility in CAD has been interpreted as requiring great intricacy in the software. This highly capable software is then sold at considerable cost, making it inaccessible to my target audience, everyone.
Some simpler CAD products are offered at modest prices (i.e., free of charge).
My research, however, shows that they are not easy to understand. This makes them, in turn, inaccessible to my audience, and unsuitable to my purpose.

I hypothesize that simple CAD is hard to understand and limited in power for one simple reason: it fails to clearly separate information about what is to be rendered from the rendering tools. Advanced CAD products do treat the underlying data separately, preserving it, to ensure full utility. Whether they are easy to understand is not my concern, here.

My goal is to build an easy to understand CAD by treating the underlying data separately.