Stall

My meeting yesterday with my Thesis Committee pointed out that I've been a little off track in the past few weeks. Instead of getting into site, they suggested, I should really be looking at how microarchitectural articulations (MA's) can be formed. Big D made it clear that if I want to do bottom up design I need to start and stay small for a little while, which means no site for a while. She had some really great comments: she suggested I think about the Eames 'Powers of Ten' movie.

I had a postmortem lunch with E (who, having edited my DS is au fait with my arguments) and we discussed what my next move should be. We both think it's a good idea to go back to the small stuff and to think about what kinds of parameters are appropriate for the MA's. If I am going to argue that MA's can serve multiple purposes, I need to nail down my definition of ambiguity. D also suggested that I reread my DS to think about how I can apply it, so I'm going to spend some time today doing that and maybe I'll have a brainwave.