Comments on: The Library of Babel: A Visit to Miguel Cané http://www.alongdrive.com/videoblog/the-library-of-babel-a-visit-to-miguel-cane/ From Polar Bears to Penguins - Driving North to South across the Americas Tue, 06 Apr 2010 05:35:36 -0600 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Shreesh http://www.alongdrive.com/videoblog/the-library-of-babel-a-visit-to-miguel-cane/comment-page-1/#comment-2132 Shreesh Mon, 20 Apr 2009 23:51:17 +0000 http://www.alongdrive.com/videoblog/the-library-of-babel-a-visit-to-miguel-cane/#comment-2132 @Ram Dada, I was discussing the Index of all books with a mathematician. She felt it was akin to the "Set of all sets" or the village where "The barber shaves everyone who doesn't shave himself" Unfortunately I didn't get to play much Riven since I was debugging the data handling for the DVD version! It was a fantastic game, what little I saw of it. Just as we speculate that our universe is homogeneous and isotropic, so too the library(universe) spans outwards in a hexagonal, beehive like manner. @Ram Dada,
I was discussing the Index of all books with a mathematician. She felt it was akin to the “Set of all sets” or the village where “The barber shaves everyone who doesn’t shave himself”
Unfortunately I didn’t get to play much Riven since I was debugging the data handling for the DVD version! It was a fantastic game, what little I saw of it.
Just as we speculate that our universe is homogeneous and isotropic, so too the library(universe) spans outwards in a hexagonal, beehive like manner.

]]> By: Ram dada http://www.alongdrive.com/videoblog/the-library-of-babel-a-visit-to-miguel-cane/comment-page-1/#comment-2110 Ram dada Mon, 20 Apr 2009 02:00:46 +0000 http://www.alongdrive.com/videoblog/the-library-of-babel-a-visit-to-miguel-cane/#comment-2110 Very cool! I imagine the musty odor of old books in an old library. A library that contains a book about the mother of all libraries -- awesome! Shreesh the 3D concept of the infinite library of hexagonal galleries stretching out in all three dimensions to infinity, somehow reminds me of the gripping game world: "Riven" (remember that five-CDROM computer game by you'd gifted me back in 1998) when you worked for Brøderbund Software in Novato, CA. The story began with the book of Atrus whose magical pages link to other worlds--Ages. I'd imagined machine-created worlds with infinite recursion. Very cool!
I imagine the musty odor of old books in an old library.
A library that contains a book about the mother of all libraries — awesome!

Shreesh the 3D concept of the infinite library of hexagonal galleries stretching out in all three dimensions to infinity, somehow reminds me of the gripping game world: “Riven” (remember that five-CDROM computer game by you’d gifted me back in 1998) when you worked for Brøderbund Software in Novato, CA. The story began with the book of Atrus whose magical pages link to other worlds–Ages. I’d imagined machine-created worlds with infinite recursion.

]]> By: mariano http://www.alongdrive.com/videoblog/the-library-of-babel-a-visit-to-miguel-cane/comment-page-1/#comment-2087 mariano Sun, 19 Apr 2009 04:06:31 +0000 http://www.alongdrive.com/videoblog/the-library-of-babel-a-visit-to-miguel-cane/#comment-2087 Shreesh y Neena, les escribe Mariano de la vinoteca, en sus últimos días en Buenos Aires ... después de ver la fascinante página web que desarrollaron y compartir en cierta forma el viaje que están realizando, sólo me queda felicitarlos por la excelente idea que han tenido cuando partieron desde Canadá ... y ahora entendí un poco mejor la experiencia en la biblioteca ... espero dejarles un mensaje más interesante la próxima vez, pero no quería dejar pasar la oportunidad de escribirles ahora por primera vez ... and sorry because my message isn´t in English, but as you have realized, it´s a little rusty, so I prefer writing in Spanish, at least this time ... felicitaciones una vez más !! Shreesh y Neena, les escribe Mariano de la vinoteca, en sus últimos días en Buenos Aires … después de ver la fascinante página web que desarrollaron y compartir en cierta forma el viaje que están realizando, sólo me queda felicitarlos por la excelente idea que han tenido cuando partieron desde Canadá … y ahora entendí un poco mejor la experiencia en la biblioteca … espero dejarles un mensaje más interesante la próxima vez, pero no quería dejar pasar la oportunidad de escribirles ahora por primera vez … and sorry because my message isn´t in English, but as you have realized, it´s a little rusty, so I prefer writing in Spanish, at least this time … felicitaciones una vez más !!

]]> By: Shreesh http://www.alongdrive.com/videoblog/the-library-of-babel-a-visit-to-miguel-cane/comment-page-1/#comment-2054 Shreesh Sat, 18 Apr 2009 01:23:22 +0000 http://www.alongdrive.com/videoblog/the-library-of-babel-a-visit-to-miguel-cane/#comment-2054 Fred - I think that there is something about working as a cataloger that tends to accrete erudite and eccentric fellows. If we were to sweep the corners of the world we might find thousands of near Borges, hundreds of almost identical Borges, and a few that would appear to be almost exact replicas. Ada - The library is so small, that the cataloging only can only take a few hours max. The rest of the time Borges was curled up in the upper reaches of Miguel Cané, reading Gibbon, etal. That is the image I find lovely. Fred -
I think that there is something about working as a cataloger that tends to accrete erudite and eccentric fellows. If we were to sweep the corners of the world we might find thousands of near Borges, hundreds of almost identical Borges, and a few that would appear to be almost exact replicas.

Ada -
The library is so small, that the cataloging only can only take a few hours max. The rest of the time Borges was curled up in the upper reaches of Miguel Cané, reading Gibbon, etal. That is the image I find lovely.

]]> By: ada http://www.alongdrive.com/videoblog/the-library-of-babel-a-visit-to-miguel-cane/comment-page-1/#comment-2043 ada Fri, 17 Apr 2009 18:10:11 +0000 http://www.alongdrive.com/videoblog/the-library-of-babel-a-visit-to-miguel-cane/#comment-2043 I love the story of the librarian/cataloger. What a site it would have been to have seen Borges cataloging and dusting the books. It certainly adds a new perspective on the Library of Babel. I love the story of the librarian/cataloger. What a site it would have been to have seen Borges cataloging and dusting the books. It certainly adds a new perspective on the Library of Babel.

]]> By: Fred http://www.alongdrive.com/videoblog/the-library-of-babel-a-visit-to-miguel-cane/comment-page-1/#comment-2041 Fred Fri, 17 Apr 2009 16:17:33 +0000 http://www.alongdrive.com/videoblog/the-library-of-babel-a-visit-to-miguel-cane/#comment-2041 Who is to say that Borges wasn't being channeled through the librarian. I suspect that Buenos Aires is a city in which all the magic has not yet been used up. Who is to say that Borges wasn’t being channeled through the librarian. I suspect that Buenos Aires is a city in which all the magic has not yet been used up.

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