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Steampunk DesignRichard Mueller · Minneapolis

Sun 2026-10-18

A porch afternoon, a tattoo that folds E=mc² into three lines, concepts that have no native language, and a 2014 memorial brought back.

  • “little red fish darting about in the softly blue glowing stream with a mossy shore and grass and abundant sunlight.”
  • “the more he understood the more impressed he was with the compression of the entire physics geometry into three black lines. … It’s a geometric configuration that unfolds into a geometric explanation of E=mc^2.”
  • “this beautiful afternoon on the porch with my ipad which is my new favorite thing in the world … now I am only limited by my own working memory as augmented by the ai memory system I developed to capture consistency and recall-on-demand”
  • “a way to see things that are *not* coffee mugs, the opposite void of everything that is *not* coffee mug, which is shaped exactly as the inverse of everything else but the coffee mug platonic form.”
  • “we should see all of the concepts fold up back to their primary sources, which are everything and nothing; singularity and void; light and dark. From those, which sum to white, everything with meaning unfolds fractally. New concepts are built from older concepts, exactly the way I built my physics framework.”
  • “there will be nuggets of real truth in there that are themselves seeds we cast far and wide; and we cross-link every blog entry with all the other ones, like an externalized concept garden, so all the braids link and weave in four dimensions.”
  • “at the top of the highest mountain on a mountain on a mountain is the final step across, but when you get there you see that you are exactly as far from the mountaintop as you were on the other side, in a single seamless step from one to another.”
  • “where once my memories and visualizations were two-dimensional but with color and sound, now have fully-rendered scenes with as much detail as I want to call up: smell, taste, touch, sound, sight, feeling.”
  • “I’ve been trying to see my blind spots as clearly as possible but they are by definition out of my sight and that’s where my internal focus hovers, waiting.”
  • “the scar is a part of who I am, like all of my accidental scars. It’s not something I’m ashamed or embarrassed about, and it’s something that should be talked about … both need compassion.”
  • “obviously I am trying to describe an ur concept that carries no language; the First Form from which all others (and their imaginary complement) flow.”
  • “alpha is the label of the limit between two things interacting at the smallest possible level, the 1. alpha is the label, that fits.”

EVENTS THAT MATTERED

Sun 2026-10-18

  • Movie library sorted: Lord of the Rings split, collections built, playlists restored
  • Described the three-line tattoo and its meaning to a friend
  • Porch playlist made and played on the iPad
  • Concept engine spec written around the label, understanding, instance triangle
  • Riga 1.3.0 restored the original 2014 stories and nearest-spot map sound
  • Journal blog composer built, with morning review before posting
  • Each Lord of the Rings extended film now plays as one entry
  • Sketch board updated; three-lines drawing circle corrected
  • Census of my old sites found 82, with a priority list
  • Decided to rebrand under steampunk design and put the blog there
  • Riga 1.3.3: bodies falling into the truck work on touch screens