Signs Taken for Wonders

Currently a tech writer. 1972. Music, Photography, Theory, Literature, Pedagogy, Linux, Open Source, Open Education, Critical Pedagogy..."You're one microscopic cog in his catastrophic plan / Designed and directed by his red right hand"

[cosmonautroger]

The Flinststones

[bmxpotato]

[jwm3rd]

Bikini Kill backstage at the Paramount in Seattle Halloween 1991

[a-quiet-green-agreement]

After dark that night, some observed that the invasives shed a slight phosphorescence against the pall of night. "Their quivering bodies as they foraged at dusk appeared like luminous smudges of ghost."

– Jeff VanderMeer, Southern Reach: Absolution

[planetsedge]

McKinley Technology High School from the DC Metro (Northeast dc)

[jerkeline]

One way to get tasks done in the day is to make yourself a Chekhov's List. Put all of the things you have to do on a list, and now that they've been revealed they'll need to be completed by the afternoon (third act) and when you've completed something you can Chekov that task from the list

[planetsedge]

Social isolation, remote work

The ability to read tone / intent from voice sounds (or from faces when cameras are on) during (zoom, whatever) meetings seems to have faded.

This is likely happening to others.

[calcazars]

let it be known that i touch grass frequently and I’m still like this.

[planetsedge]

1977’s Directions in Technical Wroting And Communication: Using Claude Shannon to address the teaching of tech communications. I believe this is from the editor of the compilation, at the department of English at MIT:

“technical report as communication”

[volition2]

fucked up adn cruel....

[planetsedge]

Weigh in, Eve. I know you’re listening.

[molly-bl00m]

A Grin Without a Cat

'All right,' said the Cat; and this time it vanished quite slowly, beginning with the end of the tail, and ending with the grin, which remained some time after the rest of it had gone.

'Well! I've often seen a cat without a grin,' thought Alice; `but a grin without a cat! It's the most curious thing I ever saw in my life!'

Lewis Carroll. Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass. Penguin Classics, 2009.

[apersonalspace14]

The role of the artist is exactly the same role, I think, as the role of the lover. If I love you, I have to make you conscious of the things you don't see. I will not see without you, and vice versa, you will not see without me. You have to be driven to see what you see. The only way you can get through it is to accept that two-way street which I call love. You can call it a poem, you can call it whatever you like. That's how people grow up. An artist is here not to give you answers but to ask you questions." The Black Scholar Interviews JamesBaldwin

[wordpimp]

Frank O'Hara

[1five1two]

There is a law written in the darkest of the Books of Life, and it is this: If you look at a thing nine hundred and ninety-nine times, you are perfectly safe; if you look at it the thousandth time, you are in frightful danger of seeing it for the first time.

G. K. Chesterton

[planetsedge]

Freecycle and computer people and educators who like dirty labs:

Please tell me how to get this stuff into the hands of someone who can use it and perhaps do good things with it (bad trouble)

Lot Inventory

[planetsedge]

Day 1 of Wildfire haze, 2026, Ocean City

[planetsedge]

Wildfire smoke on eastern shore Maryland