because, once wasn’t enough, here’s another stuff on my lol cat…

One of the Project.ioni.st folk keeps posting things that are right up my alley:

“No two languages are ever sufficiently similar to be considered as representing the same social reality.”

-- Edward Saphir

these are the days that I want to be an anthropologist.

So I was totally going to do a little more pre-blogging for today, despite the fact that I had a little counting error last night, but instead I wrote this response for TealArt. It need to happen so it’s a good thing that I wrote that. You do read TealArt, don’t you?

For your tychoish does I’ll point you to read what I wrote and also the essay that I responded to. “Viewing American class divisions through Facebook and MySpace.” It’s worth your time.

I think this probably requires more treatment that I can give it now, but here’s a paragraph from an email I wrote last night, but here it is anyway.

While I wouldn’t turn down the option of a book deal that would let me take a year of school/work to write a couple of novels, I don’t think I’m as keen on “becoming a published writer” as I used to be. I just want people to read my stuff, and at the moment, the best way for that to happen, as I figure it, is to be a blogger, someday, I might look back to books as a way of doing that, but for right now…

I’ve always been somewhat distraught by the fact that I’m, well down right terrible at working in a wiki mode. Every so often I try and use some wiki-based solution, often VoodooPad, and it works really well, until I realize that what I’m really doing is using it as an inefficient file-system like binder. I just dump things in, one or two layers deep and it often means that I just have a slightly more complicated way of looking at my files. With some help from DevonTHINK, I have a system that works pretty well for me.¹

For Station Keeping I’m trying to keep some sort of documentation, which contains a lot of unreleased and brainstorming material that’s helpful (and necessary) to maintain for the group of writers. Problem is that I don’t think in a wiki sort of way. Which means that this document is a pain in the rear to navigate, and given the way I want the software to work: a pain in the rear to code. I’ve tried PMWiki, and most recently Plain Text Wiki, and really neither of these solutions really work for what I’m doing.

Ultimately this returns to a theme that I’ve been struggling from the very beginning of TealArt, back in 2002, where I talked about my struggle for good notebooks. With Moleskine’s these days, I’ve basically found the analog solution, but I need something that will work digitally, particularly for the Station Keeping documentation, but for my day to day purposes as well.

I suppose to get the conclusion that I’ve come to you need to first know how my paper notebooks are laid out and my method of finding things. Basically I start a new page for each new chunk: each list, outline, note, and set of directions and so forth. I usually write some sort of identifying title at the top for what’s contained inside, which I underline. Because it’s paper, and it’s all bound together, and I have a pretty good contextual memory for the associations between what I write and when I write it, so the chronological aspect helps a lot.

What does this sound like? Yeah, I know: a weblog². Why didn’t someone pass me this memo earlier, it would have been helpful. What does this mean? Time to set up additional blogs to take care of these needs, because clearly thats what by brain seems to need/want. Maybe some of it will be interesting to you, but somehow I doubt this.

in conclusion, today was a good day.

the new job, is pretty cool. my inspiration holds steady. projects are looking up. we need, even more time in the day though….

as always, though.

because I can’t come up with my own witty conversations all day, I bring you other folks'…

Have you paid the parking yet?:

Her: Have you paid the parking yet? Him: You have my glasses. Her: You can’t pay without your glasses? Him: I can’t see without my glasses.

(from The Northwest Passage.)

too true!

Or, Yet another reason I’m glad I didn’t go to Antioch:

Adjunctification of Antioch:

Antioch College faculty members have noted these patterns with some dismay, and their allies fear that the university%u2019s board is intentionally trying to remove tenure. Officially, Antioch College could be reborn in some new form in 2012, after shutting down in 2008, and that four-year gap has people speculating about an underlying opposition to tenure. Under AAUP guidelines, an institution that eliminates tenured positions after declaring financial exigency has an obligation to offer any new jobs back to tenured professors who lost positions %u2014 but that obligation lasts for only three years.

(from IHE.)

I can hear the trustee’s/admins now “i’m in your antoches scruwin' over your faculties, you hippie student luzzors”