Dear Sinisters I´ve been spinning all around some European countries lately, mostly because my institution is quite prone to send me to away towards partners and play around with the other people machine. I´m suspecting they are quite happy, indeed, when I´m not around walking like a peasant through the corridors and eventually eating yellow pencils. I´m also suspecting their real aim is to use me as a secret weapon to undermine the ongoing other group super secret research: just placing a nightmare of a half-a-mess and half-a-theoretician element, what an awful blend, in someone else´s instrument rooms...mhmmh... I shall start considering this option more seriously and try to find a way to escape my next supposed-to-be-destructive expedition, which might eventually be directed towards Germany. Considering previous journeys that make it quite a round trip along an almost closed ring through, Italy, France, Holland, Great Britain and finally Germany, which can eventually provide the chance for a full electronic delocalisation over the continent. At the recent St. James factor picnic, in between the Chickfactor gigs, while having a roasted chicken [what else for the chickfactor... of couse vegetarians were dispensed and could have quite an amount of apples&plums] someone, I can´t remember with which intent, mentioned the Heisenberg´s indetermination principle* and the "cat in the box". I actually think it is Liz fault, but that eventually triggered me to give a kind of explanation, which is a vain effort, firstly because I am all but good in explaining things, in general, secondly because actually none really bothered to know what the hell and indetermination principle could actually be. I think the cat in the box is still the better approximation to an intuitive understanding. Nonetheless this principle can be actually be made rather trivial as it says that you can´t know the energy of a particle if you know it position and viceversa , if the particle mall enough. Considering I am probably not small enough to be considered a particle, classical Newtonian mechanic can be more readily applied and hence related energy and position being rather predictable, on the basis of {increasing} weight and {decreasing} strength applied to by what used to be a muscle- skeleton system. O the other hand if I put an eye back on the calendar it turns out that the position is not actually that predictable as it was supposed to be, therefore giving some support to the idea that the statistical approach should probably work a bit better. In turn it means that, considering geographical delocalisation, with a certain probability I can find myself located wherever in the beforehand mentioned countries, suspiciously including the British Channel. I think that is gonna be eventually a bit more problematic, but still, I fear, in principle a well-defined probability. That makes me wonder where is my house Take care Stefano PS: riding on city buses on a tube strike is sad. Here's a prediction: when you have stories to tell, you'll tell them. D.G. +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ Brought to you by the Sinister mailing list +---+ To send to the list mail sinister@missprint.org. To unsubscribe send "unsubscribe sinister" or "unsubscribe sinister-digest" to majordomo@missprint.org. WWW: http://www.missprint.org/sinister +-+ "sinsietr is a bit freaky" - stuart david, looper +-+ +-+ "legion of bedroom saddo devotees" "peculiarly deranged fanbase" +-+ +-+ "pasty-faced vegan geeks... and we LOST!" - NME April 2000 +-+ +-+ "frighteningly named Sinister List organisation" - NME May 2000 +-+ +-+ "sick posse of f**ked in the head psycho-fans" - NME June 2001 +-+ +-+ Nee, nee mun pish, chan pai dee kwa +-+ +-+ Snipp snapp snut, sa var sagan slut! +-+ +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+