{"id":371,"date":"2007-02-20T16:51:15","date_gmt":"2007-02-21T00:51:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/blog\/?p=371"},"modified":"2013-11-25T20:33:05","modified_gmt":"2013-11-26T04:33:05","slug":"family-reunion-lifebits-and-the-lifebox","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/blog\/2007\/02\/20\/family-reunion-lifebits-and-the-lifebox\/","title":{"rendered":"Family Reunion. Lifebits and the Lifebox."},"content":{"rendered":"

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Our granddaughter was visiting this weekend, also our two daughters, and our son and daughter-in-law. A great family time. We went to the beach a couple of times, once in SF and once in Cruz. The baby liked it a lot. \u201cWawa!\u201d\u009d spells \u201cMama!\u201d\u009d upside down. She was dragging some seaweed. She\u2019s quite lively. I showed her my seashell collection every morning. Especially the cone shells<\/em>!<\/p>\n

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The seaweed she was dragging is a funny kind of seaweed with little leaves just along one side of a band. Like a fancy ribbon. Hail Gaia, rich in gnarl.<\/p>\n

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Being with the family at Ocean Beach in SF, I was thinking about nature\u2019s rhythms. The wheel of life, me on the downward swing, and the baby coming up, balancing. Our heartbeats. The cycle of a pregnancy. The breath and the heartbeat. <\/p>\n

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The rhythm of the surf. The wheel of the seasons. Spring\u2019s just about here in CA.<\/p>\n

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The rhythms not quite repeating. All nesting together.<\/p>\n

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Isabel stood on a rock to see the anemones; a flock of seabirds flew by.<\/p>\n

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We visited the SF zoo as well, my first time there, I\u2019d been waiting for a grandchild to take. We saw a nice flock of Magellan penguins, circling a rock, flying beneath the water. Imagine an animal that \u201cflies\u201d\u009d through the soil. It would have very thin wings.<\/p>\n

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We walked in the hills too. The wild cucumbers are out, springing their helical tendrils. Boing<\/em>.<\/p>\n

I\u2019m grateful to be in this world.<\/p>\n

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I sometimes write about the \u201cLifebox<\/a>,\u201d\u009d this being my word for a near-future technology for recording all your experiences. Kind of like a blog with a very good search engine. There\u2019s an article by Gordon Bell and Jim Gemmell, \u201c A Digital Life <\/a>\u201d\u009d in this month\u2019s Scientific American, about Gordon Bell\u2019s Lifebits <\/a>project, see also Jim Gemmell\u2019s CARPE <\/a>page.<\/p>\n

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These notions call for a rigorous and thorough investigation via scientifictional thought experiments! As a public service\u2014and in hopes of catching the rising wave of lifebox buzz\u2014I\u2019m posting \u201cThree Stories About the Lifebox<\/a>,\u201d\u009d a PDF containing three tales of mine about the lifebox: \u201cSoft Death\u201d\u009d from 1986, a relevant excerpt from Saucer Wisdom <\/em>of 1999, and \u201cTerry\u2019s Talker\u201d\u009d from 2005.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Our granddaughter was visiting this weekend, also our two daughters, and our son and daughter-in-law. A great family time. We went to the beach a couple of times, once in SF and once in Cruz. The baby liked it a lot. \u201cWawa!\u201d\u009d spells \u201cMama!\u201d\u009d upside down. She was dragging some seaweed. She\u2019s quite lively. I […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-371","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/371","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=371"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/371\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5018,"href":"https:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/371\/revisions\/5018"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=371"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=371"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=371"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}