Haikus: February 2014

HAIKUS: February 2014

By Peter Y. Chou
WisdomPortal.com

These haikus were written as exercises in mindfulness—
an attempt to catch the fleeting moment in my daily walks,
while reading, listening to music, and pondering about life.
(Underlined words are not for emphasis but to web links.)
This web page best viewed with Times font size 14.

Saturday, February 1, 2014, 9:00 am-3:00 pm
Los Altos Hills, Foothill Krause Center, Room 4002
Kyle Brumbaugh's "Google Sites" (LINC070A01)
Jack picked me up at 8:20 am for drive to class;
32 students in class, mostly high school teachers

First experience with
borrowed laptop, without mouse
hard for me to find cursor and type. Saturday, February 1, 2014, 9:00 am-3:00 pm
Los Altos Hills, Foothill Krause Center, Room 4002
Kyle Brumbaugh's "Google Sites" (LINC070A01)
Rudy: "RipeGrapes"; Jack: "Bay Area Railways";
I composed "PYCPoetry" page

Inspire insights & illumination,
experience enlightenment,
feel wonders of daily life.

Sunday, February 2, 2014, 3:00-3:45 pm
Mountain View: Friend takes me shopping
at Safeway (1750 Miramonte Avenue)

Swiss cheese, peach yogurt,
pizza, potato salad, creamer,
shrimp scampi, spinach, garlic.

Today is Groundhog Day
and also Candlemas—
Presentation of Jesus at the Temple. Sunday, February 2, 2014, 8:00-10:02 pm
Stanford Flicks, Cubberley Auditorium;
Joshua Michael Stern directs "Jobs" (2013)
with Ashton Kutcher, Dermot Mulroney, Josh Gad,
Lukas Haas, J. K. Simmons, Lesley Ann Warren,
Ron Eldard, Ahna O'Reilly, John Getz, James Woods, Matthew Modine, Kevin Dunn, Abby Brammell;
(YouTube: 1, 2, 3); (Reviews: 1, 2, 3, 4)

Bio-drama of Steve Jobs
building Apple Computers
and his demanding work ethics.

Monday, February 3, 2014, 1:04-6:30 pm
Palo Alto: Foothill Middlefield Computer Lab
Formatted 8 photos of bare trees & plum blossom;
1/30 photos of Elaine Pagels at Stanford (1, 2)

Bear Cloud (Phyllis Ave),
Bare Trees (Ortega Ave),
and One Plum Blossom.

Email from Stanford Buddhist Studies on tonight's lecture; Convinced Rudy to go. Monday, February 3, 2014, 7:10-8:30 pm
Stanford Wallenberg Hall, Bldg 160, Room 124
Florence Caplow & Susan Moon lecture on
"Bringing Forth Buddhism's Invisible Women"
Book: "The Hidden Lamp: Stories from 25 Centuries of Awakened Women"; Grace Schireson tells us:

The wind doesn't move.
The banner doesn't move.
The mind doesn't move.
It's what moves me!

Tuesday, February 4, 2014, 12:31-6:05 pm
Palo Alto: Foothill Middlefield Computer Lab
Format 10 photos taken today of "animal clouds"
(Phyllis Ave, Mtn View & Palo Alto Middlefield Rd.)

"White Whale Cloud",
"Firebird Cloud",
"Swordfish Cloud". Tuesday, February 4, 2014, 8:00-9:00 pm
Stanford CEMEX Auditorium, Zambrano Hall
Louise Glück's Poetry Reading from new collection: "Faithful & Virtuous Night"; "Melancholy Assistant"

What can you do?— "I can weep"
he said. Then you can weep for me
as Christ wept for mankind.

Wednesday, February 5, 2014, 12:39-9:30 pm
Palo Alto: Foothill Middlefield Computer Lab
Registered for free Jack Kornfield Workshop: "Mindfulness & Compassion: A Gracious & Wise Heart", May 17, 2014, 9:30 am-12:30 pm; Books:

Bringing Home the Dharma,
A Path with Heart,
The Wise Heart. Wednesday, February 5, 2014, 12:39-9:30 pm
Palo Alto: Foothill Middlefield Computer Lab
Composed web page "Cloud Photos: Winter 2014"
with 19 photos and links to 14 Cloud Photos pages;
Emails to friends to register for Kornfield Workshop

"Eye Cloud at Rancho",
"Two Lambda Clouds",
"Chinese Day Cloud".

Thursday, February 6, 2014, 1:02-6:30 pm
Palo Alto: Foothill Middlefield Computer Lab
Feb. 5 email: Jonathan King enjoyed my "Number 27" and tells me about his 27 web site with sources

Platonic Lambda & Tree of Life,
Platonic Solids & World Soul,
Platonic Lambda & Dante's Inferno. Thursday, February 6, 2014, 1:02-6:30 pm
Palo Alto: Foothill Middlefield Computer Lab
Composed poem "Carpe Diem"
inspired by "Chinese Day Cloud"

Rectangular cloud like
Chinese word for "day"
dashing quickly away.

Thursday, February 6, 2014, 7:30-9:35 pm
Stanford Theatre: Jack came to see Frank Capra's
"State of the Union" (1948), starring Spencer Tracy, Katharine Hepburn, Van Johnson, Angela Lansbury, Adolphe Menjou, Lewis Stone, Howard Smith; (YouTube: 1, 2, 3, 4); (Reviews: 1, 2, 3, 4);
Capra is quoting 1944 Preston Sturges film—

Tracy confessing he's a phony,
sounds like Eddie Bracken in
"Hail the Conquering Hero". Thursday, February 6, 2014, 9:45-11:45 pm
Stanford Theatre: Jack came to see Frank Capra's
"The Younger Generation" (1929), starring
Jean Hersholt, Lina Basquette, Ricardo Cortez,
Rex Lease, Rosa Rosanova, Syd Crossley, Martha Franklin; (Film Reviews: 1, 2, 3; (Saw this silent film with sound track & some dialogue on Dec. 4, 2007)

Morris Goldfish cared
more about money than
love for his family.

Friday, February 7, 2014, 7:40-8:35 pm
Palo Alto: Friends' House, 957 Colorado Ave,
Waverley Writers Open Poetry Reading

Read "Blossoming Blessings"
and "Carpe Diem" tonight
at Waverley Writers. Friday, February 7, 2014, 9:40-10:04 pm
Mountain View: After Valerie K. drove me home,
shopped at Walgreens (121 East El Camino Real)

Roasted cashews, mixed nuts,
chicken broth, eggs,
and Manzanilla olives.

Saturday, February 8, 2014, 12:36-5:00 pm
Los Altos Hills, Foothill Krause Center of Innovation
"Link confirmed between salmon migration, magnetic field" by Nathan Putnam & David Noakes, Oregon State University (Press Release, February 6, 2014)
(By Rachel Tepper, Yahoo! News, 2-7-2014)

Salmon possess a "map sense"
of where they are and which way to swim
based on magnetic fields they encounter. Saturday, February 8, 2014, 12:36-5:00 pm
Los Altos Hills, Foothill Krause Center of Innovation
"BOOKS: Maxine Kumin, Pulitzer-Winning Poet With a Naturalist's Precision, Dies at 88" (Kumin's finest poems were those that trained their focus close to home.) (By Margalit Fox, NY Times, 2-8-2014)

Loved reading Maxine Kumin's
book of essays To Make a Prairie
based on Emily's Poem 1755.

Sunday, February 9, 2014, 3:25-5:30 pm
Stanford Theatre: Frank Capra directs
"You Can't Take It With You" (1938), starring Jean Arthur, Lionel Barrymore, James Stewart, Edward Arnold, Mischa Auer, Ann Miller, Spring Byington, Samuel S. Hinds, Donald Meek, H. B. Warner, Mary Forbes; (YouTube: 1, 2, 3, 4); (Reviews: 1, 2, 3, 4)

Grandpa Vanderhoff tells
banker Kirby that life is for
making friends & not money. Sunday, February 9, 2014, 5:40-7:20 pm
Stanford Theatre: Frank Capra directs
"Ladies of Leisure" (1930), starring
Barbara Stanwyck, Ralph Graves, Lowell Sherman,
Marie Prevost, Nance O'Neil, George Fawcett,
Juliette Compton, Johnnie Walker;
(YouTube: 1, 2, 3, 4); (Film Reviews: 1, 2, 3, 4)

Rich young artist
hires party girl to be
his model as "Hope".

Sunday, February 9, 2014, 1:15-1:45 pm
Mountain View: Friend takes me shopping
at Safeway (1750 Miramonte Avenue)

Pepperidge Farms cookies,
potato tots, dairy creamer,
corn, milk, orange juice.

Caught 2:34 pm Bus #522 at Showers Drive
& El Camino Real to Palo Alto Train Depot; Walk to Stanford Theatre for 3:25 film; Walk
down Palm Dr. (7:25 pm) to 8:00 pm Flicks. Sunday, February 9, 2014, 8:00-10:12 pm
Stanford Flicks, Cubberley Auditorium; Rudy came
to see Lee Daniels' film "The Butler" (2013) with
Forest Whitaker, Oprah Winfrey, David Oyelowo,
Elijah Kelley, Terrence Howard, Adriane Lenox,
Yaya DaCosta, Cuba Gooding, Jr., Lenny Kravitz, Colman Domingo, Jane Fonda, Robin Williams, James Marsden, John Cusack, Alan Rickman;
(YouTube: 1, 2, 3); (Reviews: 1, 2, 3, 4)

White House butler recounts
his 34-year service from
President Eisenhower to Reagan.

Monday, February 10, 2014, 11:40 am-6:30 pm
Palo Alto: Foothill Middlefield Computer Lab
Formatted 18 photos of bare trees & plum blossom
on Ortega Ave for "Plum Trees: February 2014"

Nature waits for no one
as bare trees proliferate
to hundred plum blossoms. Monday, February 10, 2014, 7:30-9:00 pm
Stanford Cubberley Auditorium: Prof. Robert Dunbar
"Earth Matters: Antarctic Mysteries— Icy Clues to Earth's Past, Present, and Future"; Dunbar's Gallery

Photos and video
bringing Antarctica
studies vividly to life.

Monday, February 10, 2014, 11 pm-2:00 am
KKSF 910 AM: Coast-to-CoastAM, George Noory interviews Richard Bach (Bio, web) "Spiritual Journey"; Books: Illusions II: The Adventures of a Reluctant Student, Travels with Puff: A Gentle Game of Life and Death, Jonathan Livingston Seagull, Illusions: The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah

Love is beyond space & time—
Perfect love sees us,
knows us, and guides us. Monday, February 10, 2014, 11 pm-2:00 am
KKSF 910 AM: Coast-to-CoastAM, George Noory interviews Richard Bach (Bio, web) "Spiritual Journey": One of the meanings behind "Jonathan Livingston Seagull" is that "we are creatures of enormous powers... if we want to, we can learn anything"; Video clip: Bach on his writing process.

Power of imagination—
we're attracted by ideas
that will change our life.

Tuesday, February 11, 2014, 11:37 am-9:30 pm
Palo Alto: Foothill Middlefield Computer Lab
"Shirley Temple Black, Screen Darling, Dies at 85"
(By Aljean Harmetz, New York Times, 2-12-2014)
YouTube: Little Miss Marker; Baby Take a Bow

Shirley Temple sings & dance—
What timing! What poise!
Just sensational! Tuesday, February 11, 2014, 11:37 am-9:30 pm
Palo Alto: Wonderful memories— Took Dad & Mom to Stanford's Books Inc: Shirley Temple's "Child Star" 1988 book signing; Snapped photo of Mom & Shirley together arm-in-arm as she stepped out of her limo.

Shirley signed her book
twice while Dad told about
sitting across from her at the U.N.

Tuesday, February 11, 2014, 11:37 am-9:30 pm
Palo Alto: Foothill Middlefield Computer Lab
Photos from "Plum Trees: February 2014"
inspired this haiku poem "One Plum Blossom"

Nature waits for no one—
the plum blossom is not alone
as hundreds more had bloomed. Tuesday, February 11, 2014, 11:37 am-9:30 pm
Palo Alto: Foothill Middlefield Computer Lab
Opinionator: THE STONE— Is Atheism Irrational?
(Gary Gutting, NY Times, 2-9-2014); Alvin Plantinga:

62% of philosophers are atheists.
Belief in God is grounded in experience
or in sensus divinitatis.

Wednesday, February 12, 2014, 11:58 am-9:30 pm
Palo Alto: Foothill Middlefield Computer Lab
Completed "Catching a Poem" inspired by photos
taken on Mozart's 258th birthday (January 27, 2014)

Mozart talks to me from
Austria's Coat of Arms
on top of the pine tree. Wednesday, February 12, 2014, 11:58 am-9:30 pm
Palo Alto: Foothill Middlefield Computer Lab
While writing Notes to "Catching a Poem", found
Steve Jobs in mudra pose like Mozart at the Piano

Wisdom mudra inspires
creativity in Mozart
and Steve Jobs.

Thursday, February 13, 2014, 11:54 am-9:30 pm
Palo Alto: Foothill Middlefield Computer Lab
Turin Shroud may have been created by earthquake from time of Jesus (Jerusalem earthquake in AD 33)
(By Sarah Knapton, The Telegraph, UK, 2-11-2014)

Atomic reaction created
Turin Shroud and skewed
radiocarbon dating results.
Thursday, February 13, 2014, 11:54 am-9:30 pm
Palo Alto: Foothill Middlefield Computer Lab
Completed Notes to "Catching a Poem" with
poem title inspired by Ruth Stone's "Poems"
(Reduced size of photos to print out in 3 pages)

Ruth Stone would feel and hear
a poem coming over the hill
thundering through her.

Thursday, February 13, 2014, 11:54 am-9:30 pm
Palo Alto: Foothill Middlefield Computer Lab
Patrick McDonnell's Mutts Comics (2-13-2014)

Byron Katie: "Your true
nature is love. There's nothing
you can do about it." Friday, February 14, 2014, 2:05-4:45 pm
Mountain View Senior Center Technology Room
Patrick McDonnell's Mutts (2-14-2014); Goethe:

"I am so glad that you are here...
It helps me realize how
beautiful my world is."

Friday, February 14, 2014, 6:00-7:20 pm
Stanford Theatre: Frank Capra directs
"American Madness" (1932), starring
Walter Huston, Pat O'Brien, Kay Johnson,
Constance Cummings, Gavin Gordon, Arthur Hoyt, Robert Emmett O'Connor, Sterling Holloway; (YouTube: 1, 2, 3); (Film Reviews: 1, 2, 3, 4)

Mob scene energy
of bank run is prelude
to It's a Wonderful Life. Friday, February 14, 2014, 7:30-9:40 pm
Stanford Theatre: Frank Capra directs
"Mr. Smith Goes to Washington" (1939), starring
James Stewart, Jean Arthur, Claude Rains, Edward Arnold, Guy Kibbee, Thomas Mitchell, Eugene Pallette, Beulah Bondi, Harry Carey, H. B. Warner;
(YouTube: 1, 2, 3, 4); (Film Reviews: 1, 2, 3, 4)

Junior Senator Smith
unveils moral corruption
in U.S. Congress.

Saturday, February 15, 2014, 2:14-5:35 pm
Los Altos Library: Jennifer Abhernethy,
"Complete Idiot's Guide to Social Media Marketing" (2012) 658.872Abernet

Social Media Marketing
with Facebook, Twitter,
LinkedIn to be successful. Saturday, February 15, 2014, 2:14-5:35 pm
Los Altos Library: Clara Shih, "The Facebook Era: Tapping Online Social Networks to Market, Sell, and Innovate" (2nd Ed., 2010)

Case studies of top
Facebook & Twitter sites
with to do lists to follow.

Saturday, February 15, 2014, 2:14-5:35 pm
Los Altos Library: Howard Gardner, "The Disciplined Mind: What All Students Should Understand" (1999); ($25 for $1); 370.1Gardner

K-12 education should
enhance students' understanding
of beauty, truth, and goodness. Saturday, February 15, 2014, 2:14-5:35 pm
Los Altos Library: Randi Zuckerberg, "Dot Complicated" (2013); 302.231Zuckerb (Reviewer:
"30% of book was all me me me!!! Brag, brag brag.")

Mark Zuckerberg's sister
tells her experience at Facebook
and using tech to improve lives.

Saturday, February 15, 2014, 2:14-5:35 pm
Los Altos Library: Checked out Stephen Cope,
"The Great Work of Your Life: A Guide for the Journey to Your True Calling" (2012); 294.544Cope

Bhagavad Gita teaches
us to find our dharma
and fulfill the goal of our life. Saturday, February 15, 2014, 2:14-5:35 pm
Los Altos Library: Checked out Shozan Jack Haubner, "Zen Confidential: Confessions of a Wayward Monk" (2013); 294.3927Haubner

Honest and humorous
confession of his life
as a Zen Buddhist monk.

Sunday, February 16, 2014, 1:45-3:05 pm
Stanford Theatre: Allan Dwan directs
"Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm" (1938), starring Shirley Temple, Randolph Scott, William Demarest, Helen Westley, Gloria Stuart, Bill "Bojangles" Robinson, Slim Summerville, Jack Haley, Phyllis Brooks, Franklin Pangborn, Alan Dinehart; (YouTube: 1, 2, 3); (Film Reviews: 1, 2, 3, 4)

Shirley's singing Emerson—
I'm never nervous.
I'm self-reliant! Sunday, February 16, 2014, 3:15-4:25 pm
Stanford Theatre: Irving Cummings directs
"Little Miss Broadway" (1938), starring
Shirley Temple, George Murphy, Jimmy Durante,
Phyllis Brooks, Edna May Oliver, Edward Ellis,
Donald Meek, Jane Darwell, Patricia Wilder, George Barbier, El Brendel, George Brasno, Olive Brasno;
(YouTube: 1, 2, 3, 4); (Film Reviews: 1, 2, 3, 4)

Suave and sensational—
Shirley & George Murphy
dancing up a storm!

Sunday, February 16, 2014, 4:35-5:50 pm
Stanford Theatre: Irving Cummings directs
"Curly Top" (1935), starring Shirley Temple,
John Boles, Rochelle Hudson, Esther Dale,
Arthur Treacher, Jane Darwell, Rafaela Ottiano, Etienne Girardot, Maurice Murphy;
(YouTube: 1, 2, 3); (Film Reviews: 1, 2, 3, 4)

She sings "Animal Crackers Soup"
eating big bad wolf
to a million bits. Sunday, February 16, 2014, 6:00-7:20 pm
Stanford Theatre: Irving Cummings directs
"Poor Little Rich Girl" (1936), with Shirley Temple, Alice Faye, Jack Haley, Michael Whalen, Gloria Stuart, Claude Gillingwater, Sara Haden, Jane Darwell, Arthur Hoyt, Henry Armetta, Tony Martin;
(YouTube: 1, 2, 3); (Film Reviews: 1, 2, 3, 4)

Tap dancing with Alice Faye
and Jack Haley— Shirley
shines like a star.

Sunday, February 16, 2014, 7:30-8:50 pm
Stanford Theatre: David Butler directs
"The Little Colonel" (1935), starring Shirley Temple, Lionel Barrymore, Evelyn Venable, John Davis Lodge, Bill "Bojangles" Robinson, Hattie McDaniel, Sidney Blackmer, Stephen Chase, William Burress, Avonne Jackson, Geneva Williams, Robert Warwick; (YouTube: 1, 2, 3, 4); (Film Reviews: 1, 2, 3, 4)

She tap dances up and down
the stairs with Bojangles
and again in the barn. Sunday, February 16, 2014, 9:00-10:30 pm
Stanford Theatre: Irving Reis directs
"The Bachelor and the Bobby-Soxer" (1947),
starring Shirley Temple, Cary Grant, Myrna Loy, Rudy Vallée, Ray Collins, Harry Davenport, Johnny Sands, Don Beddoe, Lillian Randolph, Veda Ann Borg, Dan Tobin; Screenplay by Sidney Sheldon;
(YouTube: 1, 2, 3, 4); (Film Reviews: 1, 2, 3, 4)

She has a crush on Cary Grant
who falls in love with her
older sister Myrna Loy.

Monday, February 17, 2014, 2:46-3:36 pm
Mountain View: Friend takes me shopping
at Milk Pail Dairy (2585 California Street)
& Sprouts Market (630 San Antonio Rd.);
Helped her get Arrowhead water at Safeway

Murcotte tangerines,
blackberries, tomatoes.
Asparagus, Brussels sprouts,
red bell peppers, walnuts, wheat germ. Monday, February 17, 2014, 5:00-5:25 pm
Mountain View: Friend takes me shopping
at Safeway (1750 Miramonte Avenue); Later went
to 99 Ranch Market (1350 Grant Rd) 6:30-7:00 pm

Muesli, almond granola,
frozen blueberries, blackberries,
raspberries, potato egg salad, milk.
Red globe grapes, bean sprouts,
tofu, coconut milk, vegetable buns.

Tuesday, February 18, 2014, 12:40-9:30 pm
Palo Alto: Foothill Middlefield Computer Lab
"Jikoji, founded by Steve Jobs' Zen mentor, offers meditation in the midst of nature" (Priest Joe Hall: "Meditation is not about finding the off switch.")
(By Aaron Kinney, SJ Mercury News, Feb. 18, 2014)

"Meditation develops
skills, focus, attention
to the present moment." Tuesday, February 18-19, 2014, 12:00-1:00 am
KKSF 910 AM: Coast-to-CoastAM:
George Noory interviews James Swagger
(Bio, Web: 1, 2) "Megalithic Monuments" BOOKS: The Mystery of Ancient Cartography, The Mysterious Origins of Metallurgy. The Newgrange Sirius Mystery

Newgrange megalith in
Ireland is before Stonehenge
and aligned to the star Sirius.

Wednesday, February 19, 2014, 3:00-5:00 pm
Mountain View: MidPen Housing Paulson Park
(111 Montebello Ave); Tamara tells me that
first floor one-bed room apt (600 sq. ft)
is available at $1050/month with utilities;
waited six months for low-income housing

With rent fees skyrocketing,
will save $550+/month in rent
and can move in by March 19. Wednesday, February 19, 2014, 5:30-9:30 pm
Palo Alto: Foothill Middlefield Computer Lab
Wrote 6 haikus with links for Shirley Temple films
at 2/16 Stanford Theatre festival; Favorite video is
Shirley dancing with George Murphy (20:12-23:05) and singing a love song to him (28:00-29:20)

If all the world were paper
and all the seas were ink,
I say I love you dearly...

Thursday, February 20, 2014, 3:00-4:00 pm
Mountain View: MidPen Housing Paulson Park
(111 Montebello Ave); Scott co-signed papers for
my low-income housing application with Tamara

Paid 50¢ fee for $30 money order
at Western Union-Central Liquors
at 106 N. Rengstorff Avenue.
Thursday, February 20, 2014, 4:30-9:30 pm
Palo Alto: Foothill Middlefield Computer Lab
"GRAY MATTER: Is the Universe a Simulation?"
(By Edward Frenkel, NY Times, 2-16-2014)

Physicists outlined method
for detecting that our world is
actually a computer simulation.

Friday, February 21, 2014, 3:28-4:45 pm
Mountain View Senior Center: Scott sent video of
Primatologist Frans de Waal's 2011 TED Talk
"Equal Pay for Monkeys"; Nature (2003)

Monkey who got cucumbers
instead of grapes as reward
protested on equal pay for work. Friday, February 21, 2014, 3:28-4:45 pm
Mountain View Senior Center Technology Room
10 Words in Mysterious Voynich Manuscript Decoded
(By Megan Gannon, Yahoo! News, 2-21-2014); (Web)

Linguistics Professor Stephen Bax
deciphered 14 characters
in unreadable medieval text.

Monday, February 24, 2014, 1:17-2:30 pm
Mountain View: Social Security Administration
Suite 350, 700 East El Camino Real; Ms. K wrote
letter on my getting new SS Card in two weeks

Thirty people were ahead
of me, I waited only an hour
before they interviewed me. Monday, February 24, 2014, 3:39-9:30 pm
Palo Alto: Foothill Middlefield Computer Lab
Wrote email to friend on poetry, meditation, dance,
film, & satsang (learned from Chinmayananda)

PB satsang on "Self-realized cow",
Knowledge satsang with Emily,
Trees satsang with Peter Robinson.

Tuesday, February 25, 2014, 3:41-6:30 pm
Palo Alto: Foothill Middlefield Computer Lab
Famous tech acquisitions, cost per user
(Brightside Chart; Famous Acquisitions)

Facebook acquired WhatsApp for $16 billion,
Cost per user $35.56 was comparable
to Google's YouTube acquisition $48.53. Tuesday, February 25, 2014, 3:41-6:30 pm
Palo Alto: Foothill Middlefield Computer Lab
SCIENCE: THE MAPMAKERS— The Brain's Inner Language (By James Gorman, NY Times, 2-25-2014)

Decoding the mind requires
learning what the neurons
are saying to one another.