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Nice blurbs for my Journals <\/a>from two of my friends.<\/p>\n \u201cThe publication of Rudy Rucker’s Journals <\/em>beautifully supplements his astonishing autobiography, Nested Scrolls<\/em>. For anyone who has marveled at Rucker’s gonzo, idea-rich fiction, this behind-the-scene account of his daily inspirations, brainstorms, detours and dead ends will be essential reading. But far more than that, it shows us the essential man behind the keyboard, so to speak: father, husband, citizen of the galaxy.\u201d\u009d \u201cRucker’s Journals <\/em>are great. I fear he will be famous, long after he’s gone, for providing the best picture of late American society. Out peeps Pepys.\u201d\u009d Two days ago at midnight I learned how to use the pan function of my Fuji X100S. I like seeing my foot at ease there.<\/p>\n The next five or six photos are lo-fi iPhone 5 photos from yesterday. As they say, the best camera is the one that you have with you that day. But I do feel regret when I’m somewhere interesting with only the iPHone.<\/p>\n A passel of punk stickers on\u2026some technical object. Along Bear Creek Road between Boulder Creek and Los Gatos, where there\u2019s this one pull-out and you can look out across the big basin and see all the way to the open waters of the sea.<\/p>\n A skull in the Boulder Creek sage\/hermit cabin of Nick Herbert, a.k.a. Frank Shook.<\/p>\n Saint Nick himself. Nick wrote a brilliant popularization of quantum mechanics: Quantum Reality<\/a><\/em>. And his profound paper, \u201cHolistic Physics: An Introduction to Quantum Tantra\u201d\u009d is so important a key to my work that I keep it handily available online <\/a>on my site. <\/p>\n My novels Frek and the Elixir, Postsingular, Hylozoic <\/em>and The Big Aha <\/em> were all profoundly influenced by this epochal paper. <\/p>\n Why isn\u2019t Nick better known? Jorge Luis Borges put it in his essay on Herman Melville: \u201c’Vast populations, towering cities, erroneous and clamorous publicity have conspired to make unknown great men one of America’s traditions.\u201d\u009d<\/p>\n A superheterodyne laser collimation unit on Nick\u2019s ceiling.<\/p>\n Two nuts.<\/p>\n And now back to the Fuji x100T.<\/p>\n Me lying on the grass staring lovingly into the lens of the new toy. Like a high-school swain on his first picnic date.<\/p>\n A bottle of Tide with someone\u2019s fingers.<\/p>\n Mandatory calibration shot of Zhabotinsky geranium leaves.<\/p>\n Fuji-seen light through a towering oak.<\/p>\n The rest of the shots in today’s post are from my old Sony RX100, presently laid low by zoom-barrel jam. <\/p>\n Saw this at the Asian Art museum show \u201cSeduction\u201d\u009d in SF. Utagawa Kuniyoshi is awesome. He did about six paintings of the \u201cHell Courtesan,\u201d\u009d a legendary geisha who was converted to a higher way by a Zen monk. Here\u2019s a diffuse but interesting post <\/a>about zen monks and prostitutes. I saw a post somewhere with a giant tattoo of the monk and the courtesan, but I can\u2019t find it now.<\/p>\n Manhole mural inside the Coit Tower.<\/p>\n SF is full of nice ironwork.<\/p>\n Classic EAT sign at Gott diner at the Ferry Building in SF.<\/p>\n Children\u2019s birthday-party hats. Wee wizardry. I always love the reflections of curved surfaces.<\/p>\n Ah, the heart\u2019s nostalgic clutch at the sight of long grass and a motorcycle-tire swing.<\/p>\n
\n\u2014Paul Di Filippo, author of The Steampunk Trilogy<\/em>.<\/p>\n
\n\u2014Terry Bisson, author of Any Day Now <\/em>.<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/blog\/images5\/JournalsCover_ver9_1200.jpg\")
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