.296 a few times. I think, all told, that's about 1126.457 seconds of my life I probably want back ;-)

On the restless front: Matt Bowen's wiki page begins with a very interesting assertion: "Everything in a computer is represented and re-represented multiple times." at least it did when I accessed it today *smile*

I think there two formulations there that relate to the textron/scripton terminology and raise, for me, questions about a layered perspective on the relation between textrona and scripton:

1) "in" the computer raises for me the question of peripheral devices; also raises the question of the possible mappings of interior/exterior on textron/scripton (and a code-cracking view of text)
2) "multiple times" raises for me the question of whether there are many representations or representation at multiple points in time; it relates to identity issues in the the processing of textual objects -- are observers dealing with a set of varied signifiers pointing to a common representation or to put it another way can one scripton refer to multiple textrons?

BTW Katherine Hayles also invokes the "layered" approach to Aarseth's terminology.
See
http://www.iath.virginia.edu/pmc/text-only/issue.100/10.2hayles.txt

Her discussion of textron/scripton is "indebted to Robert Essex for this example, proposed in a discussion of William Blake's strong dislike of stipple engraving and his preference (which for Blake amounted to an ethical issue) for printing technologies that were analogue rather than digital."

I am not entirely sure that textrons can appear. There seems to be some occularcentrism at work that is not present in Aarseth's exposition of the terms. Part of that reserve may stem from a conviction that human perception operates on a mode of digital processing. And that there is a phenomenological dimension as well as an empirical dimension to consider.

Looking forward to reading more tales of the restlessness.

Since your trackbacks don't show up in the comments section, I'll just leave this here as a marker:

http://misc.wordherders.net/archives/003755.html

My reply to Jason will appear on his blog as soon as I actually write it. Francois, you bring up two excellent points that have been troubling me. One: How does one define perhipheral even? Are cards on the PCI bus? And in what relation to the user's machine does the server stand? These are things that I do not know and currently have no good answers for when working within this framework. Two: The temporal nature is interesting. Certainly everything does take time when happening, and different states of the text exist at different times (e.g. the text is packetized at an early stage then lives in RAM for a bit longer). So now time subscripts need to be added perhaps? I am not by any means done being restless.