Epiphyllum oxypetalum: So comic it'll bring tears of mirth to your eyes? "THE HISTORY OF TOM JONES, A FOUNDLING" (1749) * * * "Five horses just ran down from the top of the massif - first time I had seen them that high - across a beautiful golden hillside, and came up to me" * Dr. Ann, what are electronic medical records for veterinary animals like in Oregon, and how do these compare to electronic medical records for people in Oregon (in the EPIC system for example, and possibly newly in something emerging from Project Baseline), I wonder? (And can I start this simply with a video from my smartphone and even into Google Poly, a library of virtual objects, for eventual tele-robotic surgery, - skipping the Oregon veterinary doctor flying in by helicopter :) ?) * Cuttyhunk Island, MA, and Canyon, CA 94516 #AvatarBotElectronicMedicalRecords ? * * * Head of Sri Lanka WUaS - "Sri Lanka WUaS will postpone enrollments to the next intake as the Open edX platform is not ready yet and the National High School Exams have been postponed due to Covid-19" * Hopefully WUaS can get further IT structure going from English, Sinhala and Hindi (and German and Quechua) translations soon * Malaysia World University and School * MIGRATION OF Best STEM CC-4 OCW in ECONOMICS to upcoming WUaS Open edX platform? * * PS Have explored the Scottish Small Pipes''beam me up' idea in these blog posts too * * * Poland World Univ & Sch * * * And I explore at some length in the WUaS News yesterday genetic testing (for mutating viruses even) into the Google-Apple Coronavirus tracing App into electronic medical records ... for all 7.5 billion people even, brainstorming-wise ...

Scott MacLeod
Thu, Aug 6, 1:21 PM (5 days ago)
to Janie, David

So comic it'll bring tears of mirth to your eyes?

Do either of you know
THE HISTORY OF TOM JONES, A FOUNDLING (1749)
By Henry Fielding -
 https://www.gutenberg.org/files/6593/6593-h/6593-h.htm ?


It's so very funny, and is considered the first great English novel - and about 100 years before "Far from the Madding Crowd."

If Henry Fielding sets the 'program' in motion (the English novel), what does this entail, I wonder? And what's the 'comic program' about - engaging literary criticism metaphors adapted from the Information Technology age, and way beyond the significance of the 'city' in the Victorian novel - re psychology (Madding Crowd:) ?

How best also to extrapolate from "Tom Jones" to the 'comic' - in life, our lives even? :))) New book group is begun :))

Fondly,
Scott





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Year 1749 - https://www.gutenberg.org/files/6593/6593-h/6593-h.htm ~ :)  Pen names: "Captain Hercules Vinegar", "H. Scriblerus Secundus" (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Fielding :)


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Ma, David,

I looked up 'funniest parts of Tom Jones foundling' - and this lit crit writes that it's pretty funny too - https://philoonbooks.wordpress.com/2018/12/26/tom-jones-by-henry-fielding/.

And I just saw there's a 1963 Tom Jones' film - to extend this email book group into an email Tom Jones' film group too! (By someone named Finney - from Finland way back ? :) .. but while this isn't yet free on Youtube (with many full movies ' blocked in country' USA), the novel is free

THE HISTORY OF TOM JONES, A FOUNDLING (1749)
By Henry Fielding -
 https://www.gutenberg.org/files/6593/6593-h/6593-h.htm

On another note, am wowed by this video of a Bishopton, Scotland, dog, which someone wiki-added to Google Street View in my blog - https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2020/08/malabar-parakeet-bishopton-scotland-dog.html - and its potential for conversion even into a 3D interactive realistic virtual earth, and into Google Poly (a library of virtual objects) too, regarding making the single realistic virtual earth even more interactive (than a Second Life virtual world for ex.) ... and even, for example, for veterinary telerobotics' surgery eventually :)

And in this blog post - https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2020/08/saussurea-obvallata-brahma-kamal-flower.html - you'll find George Church's 2016 video again (which I just emailed to David) also exploring aging reversal (in new ways, for me); Also, regarding my vision for my upcoming Scottish Small Pipes' album, 'Honey in the Bag,' I think I found the compact disc's cover photo here ... and regarding vision further, I'd like to kind of 'beam down' teleport in such Scottish alien kilted garb - like in Star Trek ("beam me up, Scotty" ?:) - and then teleport my listeners with my ray gun Scottish small pipes to another world. :) (and also on the A, D and B flat chanters, with middle 'baritone' drone playing a fifth on some tunes).

So are we moving ahead with one of the most COMIC and greatest novels ever written, 'Tom Jones'? :) ... at least on Youtube video ... in our online booky-filmy-internety book group (since it all began with the pen on paper - and from Fielding's mind!)? :)

Fondly, Scott


(PS
Have explored the Scottish Small Pipes''beam me up' idea in both of these blog posts too:
- https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2020/04/red-trillium-cow-and-calf-what-is-cow.html

- https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2020/06/white-tailed-tropicbird-bagpiping-honey.html :)



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Tom Jones tumbles across the opportunity for --- a tumble

https://youtu.be/L4HWiTmm1H4

Tom Jones Official Trailer #1 - Albert Finney Movie (1963) HD

https://youtu.be/C0DDuzX2bjM

Tom Jones 1963 Movie

https://youtu.be/Gwz7fCAhAZA

Tony Richardson: "Tom Jones", 1963. The Hunting Scene

https://youtu.be/qqTNqHy2w60






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Ma, Ann,

Five horses just ran down from the top of the massif - first time I had seen them that high - across a beautiful golden hillside, and came up to me. The foal was first, and she and 3 others let me stroke their heads and necks. We're friends. The blond one is standoffish however. Then they started walking down the road, and I was behind them, and it was a bit like we were all going for a walk together, me way behind. But they're very responsive and friendly, but act as a herd. I'm learning from all the little things, and Youtube videos as well, about horse psychology, and wanna have some treats the next time I see them, but I don't see them every time. Time to get some horse cookies or similar! :) It's a beautiful sight to see them run together, and they're also beautiful creatures, but not as picture perfect horses as the ones I saw on Saturday, and blogged about in passing here - https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2020/08/point-reyes-national-seashore-orange.html.

Do you have horses at the ranch, Annie, these days? How are you both? I hope this finds you well!

Love, Scott

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Jane MacLeod
Mon, Aug 10, 7:10 PM (16 hours ago)
to me

Hi Scott,

That was a lovely account of your walk with the horses.  Sounds like you all have bonded, even while, as wild animals, they need to keep their distance.

I’m off to bed.  Love, Ma (It was 92 today — another hot one but it’s cooling off now.

Love, Ma



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Sri Lanka WUaS
Mon, Aug 10, 10:14 AM (1 day ago)
to me, WUaS, Rohit, india, Rohit, Scott, Nidahas, nidahasvidyalaya, livestream, Peter, mazumdarp, Marisol, Hostsave, Scott

Hi !

Sri Lanka WUaS will postpone enrollments to the next intake as the Open edX platform is not ready yet and the National High School Exams have been postponed due to Covid-19.

Regards,

Rifai




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Scott MacLeod
Sun, Aug 9, 8:15 AM (2 days ago)
to Larry, Govind

Dear Govind (and Larry),

Thank you for your email of resignation from the World University and School Board (which is the first I've heard of this). I've removed your name and this information from - https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/World_University_Foundation :

Govindan ("Govind") Nair (USA, Australia; English, French, Spanish, Standard Malay, Bahasa Malaysia/Indonesia): http://www.linkedin.com/in/govindnair99

(As you may have read in the July 18, 2020 email I sent to a Reed College group email, including you, regarding my 'whistle-blowing' about concerns with Reed and the illegal drug trade and the illegal sex trade - in a time when some universities have been seeming to dig themselves out of these deep morasses (eg MIT) - I'm interested for World University and School and its Board to be 'squeaky clean' models of a vision of the law-abidance, and the spirit of the law even, and internationally, in these regards).

And as you may have been reading, Sri Lanka World Univ & Sch in the Sinhala language is developing, and the head of Sri Lanka WUaS has recently become the first  of about 200 chancellors at WUaS - https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2020/08/legges-hawk-eagle-minutes-for-sat-jul.html (and search on Sri Lanka WUaS and similar) in order to be able to talk with the Sri Lankan minister of education, and the minister of finance and similar.

Regarding Malaysia WUaS I'm hoping something similar will emerge with time - https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Malaysia - and WUaS newly in the WUaS Open edX platform is seeking English-speaking Malaysian students to begin matriculating at WUaS even as early as September 1, 2020, so please let Malaysian 18 year olds know of this free-to-student's best STEM CC-4 OCW Bachelor degree opportunity.

And, Govind, please let me know if / when WUaS, by way of thanks, can re-add your name to the WUaS Board Emeriti here - https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/World_University_Foundation.

I'll leave you on the WUaS Monthly Business Meeting email list until I hear otherwise.

Best wishes, Scott




July 18, 2020

Hi Amy, Govind, Konrad, All,

Can you please remove me from this email list? (My thinking for this is below). Other reasons include, Amy, besides the concern I shared with you in June 2019 at the Reed Alumni gathering in the Performing Arts' Center, I think, about Reed Alumni databases and possibly the illegal sex trade, internationally too, am also concerned regarding the email that came from Dave Brauer yesterday, about the possible illicit drug trade re Reed Alumni databases and communications (simply as I glance through the list). Am seeking to get CC-4 OCW best STEM-centric World Univ & Sch off the ground on good ethical footing. Thank you!

Friendly greetings, Scott


Hi Dave, (Govind, Konrad) and All,

Can you please remove me from this email list? (My thinking for this is below). Thank you!

Friendly greetings, Scott

CC-4 best STEM OCW wiki World University & School's open monthly business meeting Agenda for June 20, 2020:

- https://worlduniversityandschool.blogspot.com/2020/06/june-20-2020-agenda-news-for-world-univ.html
- https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2020/06/lotus-corniculatus-agenda-news-for.html




Hi Amy,

Thanks for your email clarification. Reed sometimes seeks to negate networking when seeking to facilitate it at the same time.

I think I'm going to cancel my registration for the Reed meeting this Saturday because of this.

As you probably know, not only has the big free-to-students' educational project I'm developing not become financially operational yet (and WUaS became a non-profit in 2010, and a parallel for-profit in 2017) - so WUaS is very impoverished, but WUaS has posted every time on our open WUaS Monthly Business Meeting Agenda & News as well as Minutes the following:


"World University and School is sending you this because of your interest in free, online, higher education. If you don't want to receive these, please reply with 'unsubscribe' in the body of the email, leaving the subject line intact. Thank you."

And a number of FAR participants have asked to be unsubscribed, for example; I'm an appreciator of individual choice in these matters, especially when they could be interested in getting information about such a product, and even benefit from it significantly too (like an online free-to-students' Oregon Law School at WUaS, which Reed graduates could also matriculate at and graduate from, - and help create innovations-wise).

Also, WUaS is planning to code for matriculating students in all ~200 countries' official languages, native speakers in all 7,117 known living languages as WUaS wiki teachers and learners, and then for all 7.5 billion people on the planet - potentially for UBI experiments (in ~200 countries' languages, which our WUaS Law School would teach to) too, and significantly to potentially alleviate poverty, The Coronavirus tracing app, which Germans downloaded 6.5 million times in the 1st 24 hours - https://twitter.com/StanfordCDH/status/1273342209371197440?s=20 - may become a precursor to this. (WUaS, brainstorming-wise, is planning to code for 7.5 billion people for these 5 reasons - https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2019/12/wild-pomegranate-burchellia-bubalina.html - and entrepreneurially too).

Some of the above could be considered entrepreneurially 'Reedpreneurs in the Pandemic Era' opportunities, but I'm somehow not feeling an opening toward connecting and networking with Reedies somehow in these regards. Alas. Thanks for your help, and I won't attend the meeting on Saturday.

Best wishes, Scott
Here are some brainstorming emails today and yesterday to mostly good Reedie friends from the first half of the 1980s - https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2020/06/woodland-gilias-saltugilia-splendens.html - ending with the email I included you on (re WUaS's 2 wings), and re my letting my Reedie friends know about this upcoming 'Reedpreneurs in the Pandemic Era' meeting. Thanks again.


Amy, Re the UBI experiments idea: ... so a listserv wouldn't work well re planning for matriculating students in all ~200 countries' languages, and speakers of all 7,117 and wiki Universitians.  Best wishes, Scott



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Govind Nair
Sun, Aug 9, 10:56 AM (2 days ago)
to me, Larry

Thanks Scott. You can leave me on the emeritus.list as you wish.

Best wishes,

G




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Scott MacLeod
Aug 10, 2020, 4:35 PM (19 hours ago)
to Govind, Larry

Thanks, Govind,

Just re-added you here -
https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/World_University_Foundation

Best wishes, Scott

Here's today's WUaS News Q & A Livestream https://youtu.be/qbggnTOjlQA

and the August 5, 2020
Minutes for July 18, 2020 Minutes for 1) World Univ & Sch's Monthly Business Meeting, & 2) the WUaS Corp:

- https://worlduniversityandschool.blogspot.com/2020/08/minutes-for-sat-jul-18-2020-world-univ.html

- https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2020/08/legges-hawk-eagle-minutes-for-sat-jul.html


And here's the beginnings of our first WUaS Open edX course from MIT OCW - https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2020/08/saxifraga-cernua-wuas-002-circuits-and.html !

Let's stay in touch particularly about Malaysia WUaS - If WUaS is fortunate, and as our free starter kit with MOOCit France ends around August 14th, on an emerging WUaS Open edX platform, I hope some folks at Open edX beyond MOOCit France (MIT graduate students of Anant and Wyn???) will help migrate a few CC-4 MIT OCW courses, cutting them in half too, for up to 50 WUaS students (per MOOCit France's terms) to begin studying at WUaS online in English. I think WUaS will be much further along for Malaysia World University and School students later in the year, or for the 1st of January, 2021, but if you happen to hear of anyone looking to matriculate before then (like Shahbaz Sanjer in India has in enrolling in the WUaS English major for 9/1/20 - and he wanted to matriculate in January of 2019), please let me know.

Am curious too how MIT OCW economics' courses will migrate to WUaS Open edX - https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/economics/ ...





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Booky-groupy, filmy-groupy afficianados, David, Jane,