Today's story begins with the letter A. OUR todays, the time we live in, have a lot to do with Attention. Right now, right here, you and I are attending to our little dingers and dials of our devices. Sure, some have bigger dingers than others; some are wearing their big dingers on their faces. … Continue reading Your Tech is Overweight !
Had the pleasure of playing in waves at Magic Sands Beach the other day. Out beyond the waves, kiddo found a sleek new Apple smartwatch with an evidently less smart wristband. How smart is "smart" ? Hell if I know. Pretty sure the computational power of that watch couldn't drive me to the store to … Continue reading Magic Sands
Get on the ships ! - If one considers how an overall musical justification of one's way of living and thinking affects each individual - namely, like a Gibson, warming, blessing, impregnating, sounding especially for him; how it makes him independent of praise and blame, self-sufficient, rich, generous with happiness and good will; how it … Continue reading Now Playing: Orville and Friedrich
Look what pops out of the copious stream that is Youtube! Robben Ford and a killer band playing live in 1984 – stuff from his first solo album 'The Inside Story'. Which naturally leads me to wanting to include a backstory (coffee is natural, right?) ... https://youtu.be/TX4Bn2_7Y3w Well, me and Paul ... we played rock … Continue reading Guitars, Impalas, and Bliss
Phew! Just back from my Tinder date … Dang … things certainly have changed since … well, since the days of when the only tinder we had, were suspiciously worn copies of National Geographic magazine. It went pretty well though. In baseball parlance I suppose it was like Tug McGraw threw me a slider upon … Continue reading The Florida Fux®
"... Look Dare, it's probably time that we let you know ... this isn't just a party to celebrate your new position as the Chief Simulation Officer at MetaMate®. Honestly, we're all happy for you and your family ... about the massive amount of bread that you will be making as the chief architect for … Continue reading Intervention® now on your HeadMask®!
Fwiw, web development in 2022 comes with a lot of impressive tooling. Stuff that would surely enthuse Engineer Scott onboard StarshipEnterprise. While Uhura, and that hot green chick that Kirk was smitten with, will never be improved upon; a modern-day web nerd can set up a workstation that makes those clunky-sixties-user-interface lights on TheBridge seem … Continue reading TheBridge
Midsummer 2022 my friend from way back asked if I might answer some questions posed by Minnesota high school students attending his summer class. Here are their questions and my replies. I never received replies to my questions. Dialogistically disappointing – just farting away time – but kinda homesteady: "Do you live in a … Continue reading Summer School
Anthropologist Gregory Bateson once worked for the OSS (CIA precursor) and his recognition and elucidation of “schismogenesis” has been employed by high-powered players in the devastating (enriching for some) chess games that are proxy wars of empires and the rest. The term literally means “creation of division” (Bateson defined schismogenesis as "a process of differentiation … Continue reading Anatomy of a Wedge
In 1967, our family of six moved from North Dakota to northern Minnesota where my dad took a job as Dean of Instruction at “Hibbing State Junior College” (now branded “Hibbing Community College [HCC]”). The college began in North Hibbing in 1916 when eleven students attended the first and only course offered at “Hibbing Junior … Continue reading Hibbing History Podcast
[ The following begins a 56-part series: Elocution Opportunities in 2020 ] Elocution — the study of formal speaking in pronunciation, grammar, style, and tone as well as the idea and practice of effective speech and its forms. It stems from the idea that while communication is symbolic, sounds are final and compelling. For his … Continue reading Talking Dog
You know what class is, right? Sure you do: a social division based on social or economic status. Right? And status?: the relative social, professional, or other standing of someone. You know I’m not lying, right? Along with the rest of this preliminary stuff, let’s get clear on another thing. These distinctions don’t live in … Continue reading Dept. of Public Messaging
North Beach, San Francisco, CA One morning in November of 1983, I drove my Chevy Nova from my $150 room in a decrepit old house just off from the panhandle of Golden Gate Park, into the North Beach district on the north end of the San Francisco peninsula. As usual, the smell of fine coffee … Continue reading Minnesota And Flashing Nipples
I recall a philosophy professor starting our morning session by informing us that: "there are three reasons why someone becomes a preacher — for sex, for money, or they are stupid." Such pronouncement, while thought-provoking, may be a tad cynical. How about weird familial pressure as a reason? … maybe that just didn’t fit neatly … Continue reading Iconoclasm 101
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