VII · The Logbook
A running log, kept one page at a time.
The chapters of this book stand still. The Logbook does not: here Vincenzo Lambiase sets the work down while it is still in progress, on medicine, on machines, on the films, and on the coast that keeps explaining all three. Entries are added as the voyage continues, and none is removed.
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entry vii
Caffeine’s half-life, drawn as a clock
Five hours for caffeine, nine minutes for esmolol, twenty-two days for an antibody. Counted in half-lives they are one curve, and a dial that turns once per half-life draws it. -
entry vi
What Lead II is actually looking at
Not the heart: a direction. Six leads are six shadows of one moving arrow, and an instrument that lets you turn it. -
entry v
How this site is set
Thirty leaves, six small presses, an Italian edition struck from a dictionary, and nothing on any page that calls out to anyone. The workshop, opened. -
entry iv
The room that was open for eight minutes
I built a room for this site, published it, and pulled it down the same morning. What actually broke, why my own bench could not see it, and the two rules it cost me. -
entry iii
Why this site pretends it is 1800
The site is set like a treatise from 1800: a set of constraints, and this is the working reasoning behind each one. -
entry ii
The body is the original machine
Why a medical student spends his nights building software, and what the slowest discipline I know is teaching the fastest one. -
entry i
The logbook begins
A book has chapters; a voyage has a log. Starting a place to write the work down as it happens, in plain sight.
You can also follow the log by RSS, or read the finished chapters from the Frontispiece.
Fig. VII