Saw more African Americans at a Stanford pre-Journalism conference talk yesterday evening by Amy Goodman of Democracy Now than I have at many academic talks in decades. Amy seems to be giving a voice to progressive media that's effective, and means something to people who want social change.
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Scott:
Stanford is a flower and a piece of architectural music, thanks to Olmsted :)
Friend:
Glad to see I'm not the only Freddy fan! @Scott: If Stanford is a piece of music, Central Park is a symphony - I'm envious!!
Scott:
So is Stanford Bach cello suites? Hmmmm ? It's not Berlioz's Symphonie Fantastique ... A Mozartian design with Spanish song? ... It's neither a Grateful Dead jam, nor a raga played by Ravi Shankar ... What form of music is Stanford? :)
(http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2010/04/jasper-ridge-grasses-african-americans.html- April 30, 2010)
Friday, April 30, 2010
Thursday, April 29, 2010
Wild Mint: 'Pragmatism's Gift' is new Philosophy subject at World Univ, FREE personal financial management software, Energy Technologies Subjects
'Pragmatism's Gift' - http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/03/15/pragmatisms-gift - (New York Times, March 15, 2010) is a far-reaching and insightful essay characterizing pragmatism as philosopphy. I've created a new subject at World University and School (worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Subjects) called Pragmatism, - worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Pragmatism - where I've added 'Pragmatism's Gift,' for future reference. (I'll turn my focus vis-à-vis pragmatism to making World University and School grow financially, as well, I hope).
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added FREE Mint.com - personal financial management software - to worlduniversity.wikia.com's "Finance-Personal" subj & "Educational Software" - Here worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Finance_-_Personal and here - worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Educational_Software#Personal_Finance
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added "Wind Energy" subject to World University
- worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Wind_Energy as well as "Energy
Technologies" subject - worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Energy_Technologies
(http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2010/04/wild-mint-pragmatisms-gift-is-new.html - April 29, 2010)
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added FREE Mint.com - personal financial management software - to worlduniversity.wikia.com's "Finance-Personal" subj & "Educational Software" - Here worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Finance_-_Personal and here - worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Educational_Software#Personal_Finance
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added "Wind Energy" subject to World University
- worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Wind_Energy as well as "Energy
Technologies" subject - worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Energy_Technologies
(http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2010/04/wild-mint-pragmatisms-gift-is-new.html - April 29, 2010)
Tigers Playing: Notwithstanding the histories of virtual worlds thus far inscribing a range of terms in the anthropological literature abt virtuality
Harbin ethnography:
... further conversation among anthropologists.
Notwithstanding the histories of virtual worlds thus far, that inscribe a range of terms in the anthropological literature about virtual worlds, creating a terminology of virtual worlds vis-a-vis actual and virtual Harbin, the vision of the 1960s which informs Harbin, its situatedness in northern California, the effects of geothermally heated waters which flow into many of the Harbin pools on the fabric of life at Harbin, have complementary effects both actually and virtually. It's both actual and virtual Harbin's distinctiveness, as place, which distinguishes the terms of discussion here, from a generalized discussion of virtual worlds as a whole, e.g. the metaverse. It is ethnographic representation and interpretation (Cerwonka and Malkki, 2007) which I'll use to engage the uniquenesses of actual and virtual Harbin vis-a-vis the growing literature of virtual worlds in anthropology to contribute to the conversation.
In this book I examine the actual and virtual Harbin in the context of virtual worlds, which Castronova defines as …
(http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2010/04/tigers-playing-notwithstanding.html - April 29, 2010)
... further conversation among anthropologists.
Notwithstanding the histories of virtual worlds thus far, that inscribe a range of terms in the anthropological literature about virtual worlds, creating a terminology of virtual worlds vis-a-vis actual and virtual Harbin, the vision of the 1960s which informs Harbin, its situatedness in northern California, the effects of geothermally heated waters which flow into many of the Harbin pools on the fabric of life at Harbin, have complementary effects both actually and virtually. It's both actual and virtual Harbin's distinctiveness, as place, which distinguishes the terms of discussion here, from a generalized discussion of virtual worlds as a whole, e.g. the metaverse. It is ethnographic representation and interpretation (Cerwonka and Malkki, 2007) which I'll use to engage the uniquenesses of actual and virtual Harbin vis-a-vis the growing literature of virtual worlds in anthropology to contribute to the conversation.
In this book I examine the actual and virtual Harbin in the context of virtual worlds, which Castronova defines as …
(http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2010/04/tigers-playing-notwithstanding.html - April 29, 2010)
Dolphin planing: Harbin is a lot about play ... simply playing and having fun ... Hippies did this a lot in the context of modernity
Harbin is a lot about play ... simply playing and having fun ...
Hippies did this a lot in the context of modernity, too ... :)
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Last night at Harbin after soaking in the pools, I enjoyed the film "It's Complicated." When Meryl Streep goes to bliss while dancing with her ex-husband at their son's graduation in New York City, far from Santa Barbara where they all live, .... I went to bliss, too {viz scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2010/04/happy-baby-primates-role-of-acting-or.html} :)
(http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2010/04/dolphin-planing-harbin-is-lot-about.html - April 29, 2010)
Hippies did this a lot in the context of modernity, too ... :)
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Last night at Harbin after soaking in the pools, I enjoyed the film "It's Complicated." When Meryl Streep goes to bliss while dancing with her ex-husband at their son's graduation in New York City, far from Santa Barbara where they all live, .... I went to bliss, too {viz scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2010/04/happy-baby-primates-role-of-acting-or.html} :)
(http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2010/04/dolphin-planing-harbin-is-lot-about.html - April 29, 2010)
Wednesday, April 28, 2010
Bridalveil Falls, Yosemite: Terms of Discussion - Virtual Worlds, Actual, Virtual, 1960s/Counterculture, Imagination
Harbin ethnography:
... into my arms and begin to float her.
Terms of Discussion
This characterization of life in the milieus of actual and virtual Harbin Hot Springs, and what's possible now with digital technologies and virtual worlds, like Second Life, in realizing and generating imaginative narratives, interactively, reflect Ursula K. Le Guin's (the daughter of UC Berkeley Anthropologist Kroeber, after whom the Cal Anthropology building is named) California fiction and imaginary creation in her ethnographic science fiction “Always Coming Home” (1985 - which included an audio cassette of Kesh music, composed by Todd Barton) This actual/virtual Harbin ethnography also comes into conversation with Le Guin's focus on appropriate use of technologies. Four hundred years in the future, the Kesh people, who live in the valley of Na – which reflects Le Guin's childhood growing up in summers in California's Napa Valley, a world where Le Guin would “most like to live; but that's partly because I did live there, all the summers of my childhood” [The Guardian, February 9, 2004, Chronicles of Earthsea - http://books.guardian.co.uk/departments/sciencefiction/story/0,6000,1144428,00.html] – limit and choose their technologies carefully and live in a very beautiful and imagined real world. People have done so many fascinating and colorful things at actual Harbin since 1972, when Ish bought the Harbin Hot Springs property, as this book and ongoing fieldwork will show. On virtual Harbin, an island in the Open Simulator virtual world program begun in 2008, and which was subsequently stolen with my laptop computer in 2009, as well as in Second Life, ethnographic characterizations of virtual Harbin highlight the significance of creativity in representation as well as Harbin's culture/fabric of life, centered around the pools, with their harmonizing effects leading to a kind of oneness for some, and hippie informed freedom for a time for others. At actual Harbin people, both residents and visitors, have found great freedom, in the pools, away from the city, and in exploring their visions of living informed by the 1960s, counterculturally, as part of a tribe. At virtual Harbin and in Second Life, avatars have created hot springs, have participated in gatherings and festivals, like Burning Man, and Second Life and Open Simulator generate carnivalesque representations and possibilities, at times, in their potential for creativity, the liminality which occurs there, and their digital representations, explorations and instantiations of the imagination. At actual and virtual Harbin, people take off their clothes, get naked, soak in the pools, cuddle together, harmonize, make love, come to polyamory workshops, get married, play together, find oneness, explore the moment, and are creative. At actual Harbin, the physical valley and waters themselves create and enhance these explorations. At virtual Harbin, avatars do all this, and they also can create more ongoing, generative representations through interactive digital technologies, including writing new scripts to animate avatars in new ways, and create new builds on virtual islands, informed by their visions. In both places, people put on colorful clothing, or take off their clothing, and often find freedom to shine and be happy in these liberating milieus of retreat, with possibilities for intimacy, creativity and regeneration. But such remarkable new forms of living require very clear terms of discussion to understand their anthropological significance as well as what's at stake. Engaging Boellstorff's (2007) in “Coming of Age” and building on these, will make an understanding of 'virtual worlds' and representational generativity open to further conversation among anthropologists.
Notwithstanding the histories of virtual worlds thus far ...
(http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2010/04/bridalveil-falls-yosemite-terms-of.html - April 28, 2010)
... into my arms and begin to float her.
Terms of Discussion
This characterization of life in the milieus of actual and virtual Harbin Hot Springs, and what's possible now with digital technologies and virtual worlds, like Second Life, in realizing and generating imaginative narratives, interactively, reflect Ursula K. Le Guin's (the daughter of UC Berkeley Anthropologist Kroeber, after whom the Cal Anthropology building is named) California fiction and imaginary creation in her ethnographic science fiction “Always Coming Home” (1985 - which included an audio cassette of Kesh music, composed by Todd Barton) This actual/virtual Harbin ethnography also comes into conversation with Le Guin's focus on appropriate use of technologies. Four hundred years in the future, the Kesh people, who live in the valley of Na – which reflects Le Guin's childhood growing up in summers in California's Napa Valley, a world where Le Guin would “most like to live; but that's partly because I did live there, all the summers of my childhood” [The Guardian, February 9, 2004, Chronicles of Earthsea - http://books.guardian.co.uk/departments/sciencefiction/story/0,6000,1144428,00.html] – limit and choose their technologies carefully and live in a very beautiful and imagined real world. People have done so many fascinating and colorful things at actual Harbin since 1972, when Ish bought the Harbin Hot Springs property, as this book and ongoing fieldwork will show. On virtual Harbin, an island in the Open Simulator virtual world program begun in 2008, and which was subsequently stolen with my laptop computer in 2009, as well as in Second Life, ethnographic characterizations of virtual Harbin highlight the significance of creativity in representation as well as Harbin's culture/fabric of life, centered around the pools, with their harmonizing effects leading to a kind of oneness for some, and hippie informed freedom for a time for others. At actual Harbin people, both residents and visitors, have found great freedom, in the pools, away from the city, and in exploring their visions of living informed by the 1960s, counterculturally, as part of a tribe. At virtual Harbin and in Second Life, avatars have created hot springs, have participated in gatherings and festivals, like Burning Man, and Second Life and Open Simulator generate carnivalesque representations and possibilities, at times, in their potential for creativity, the liminality which occurs there, and their digital representations, explorations and instantiations of the imagination. At actual and virtual Harbin, people take off their clothes, get naked, soak in the pools, cuddle together, harmonize, make love, come to polyamory workshops, get married, play together, find oneness, explore the moment, and are creative. At actual Harbin, the physical valley and waters themselves create and enhance these explorations. At virtual Harbin, avatars do all this, and they also can create more ongoing, generative representations through interactive digital technologies, including writing new scripts to animate avatars in new ways, and create new builds on virtual islands, informed by their visions. In both places, people put on colorful clothing, or take off their clothing, and often find freedom to shine and be happy in these liberating milieus of retreat, with possibilities for intimacy, creativity and regeneration. But such remarkable new forms of living require very clear terms of discussion to understand their anthropological significance as well as what's at stake. Engaging Boellstorff's (2007) in “Coming of Age” and building on these, will make an understanding of 'virtual worlds' and representational generativity open to further conversation among anthropologists.
Notwithstanding the histories of virtual worlds thus far ...
(http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2010/04/bridalveil-falls-yosemite-terms-of.html - April 28, 2010)
Ocean winds: Conversing about wind energy in Massachusetts, - just not near Cuttyhunk, please
Hi, Cuttyhunkers interested in Massachusett's wind energy plans and the possible windmills close to Cuttyhunk,
Thanks to all for engaging this conversation.
I'm so glad D has helped to create this forum for Cuttyhunkers to share ideas, and especially that people are and have been speaking. Thank you, D!
I agree with the importance of both local and knowledgeable people giving voice to Cuttyhunk concerns about the merits and demerits of situating windmills close to Cuttyhunk.
I worry about the costs to the Town of Gosnold, and especially Cuttyhunk, of this Massachusett's statewide, developing, windmill plan. (Personally, I'm also in favor of wind energy development in Massachusetts, just not close to Cuttyhunk, or in ways that makes life worse for people anywhere in Massachusetts, or anywhere for that matter). I also worry about the long term costs of nonrenewable energy like oil, and the cost of carbon output leading to global warming.
As an historical note, the Town of Gosnold chose not to pay for the hookup to the windmill which Twig Spaulding built at his own expense in the mid 70s, - and there the Cuttyhunk windmill stood for around 2 decades, unused, perhaps due to a lack of conversation between Alan 'Twig' Spaulding Jr. and Cuttyhunk.
And I see the costs of energy going up in terms of state taxation due to this statewide windmill project, with no financial benefits, legally contracted, accruing to Cuttyhunk from Cape Wind Inc. (The NY Times estimated this project at both 1 billion and 10 billion US dollars with payback coming after 25 years).
I hope it's conversations like these which will lead to the best plans and outcomes for Cuttyhunk vis-a-vis the State of Massachusetts' energy plans. And I hope we can find more voices from Cuttyhunk in this process!
I've added these two most recent New York Times' articles (April 26 and 28, 2010) for reference to the open World University and School: worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Wind_Energy. What other references have people seen in this forum which we might add here?
Sincerely,
Scott
http://scottmacleod.com
(http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2010/04/ocean-winds-conversing-about-wind.html - April 28, 2010)
Thanks to all for engaging this conversation.
I'm so glad D has helped to create this forum for Cuttyhunkers to share ideas, and especially that people are and have been speaking. Thank you, D!
I agree with the importance of both local and knowledgeable people giving voice to Cuttyhunk concerns about the merits and demerits of situating windmills close to Cuttyhunk.
I worry about the costs to the Town of Gosnold, and especially Cuttyhunk, of this Massachusett's statewide, developing, windmill plan. (Personally, I'm also in favor of wind energy development in Massachusetts, just not close to Cuttyhunk, or in ways that makes life worse for people anywhere in Massachusetts, or anywhere for that matter). I also worry about the long term costs of nonrenewable energy like oil, and the cost of carbon output leading to global warming.
As an historical note, the Town of Gosnold chose not to pay for the hookup to the windmill which Twig Spaulding built at his own expense in the mid 70s, - and there the Cuttyhunk windmill stood for around 2 decades, unused, perhaps due to a lack of conversation between Alan 'Twig' Spaulding Jr. and Cuttyhunk.
And I see the costs of energy going up in terms of state taxation due to this statewide windmill project, with no financial benefits, legally contracted, accruing to Cuttyhunk from Cape Wind Inc. (The NY Times estimated this project at both 1 billion and 10 billion US dollars with payback coming after 25 years).
I hope it's conversations like these which will lead to the best plans and outcomes for Cuttyhunk vis-a-vis the State of Massachusetts' energy plans. And I hope we can find more voices from Cuttyhunk in this process!
I've added these two most recent New York Times' articles (April 26 and 28, 2010) for reference to the open World University and School: worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Wind_Energy. What other references have people seen in this forum which we might add here?
Sincerely,
Scott
http://scottmacleod.com
(http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2010/04/ocean-winds-conversing-about-wind.html - April 28, 2010)
Tuesday, April 27, 2010
Himalayan balsam: Bright sun, quiet day on the ridge in Canyon
Yesterday in Canyon:
bright sun, quiet day on the ridge in Canyon. Redwoods to west are soaking in the sun, mountains to east too bright ... bluegrass listening (to Del McCoury), tenor singing :)
Day's brightening grows ... with the Grateful Dead playing ... 'Dark Star' .... March 30 1968 :)
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Today it's rainy, cool, beautiful and California wintery ...
(http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2010/04/himalayan-balsam-bright-sun-quiet-day.html - April 27, 2010)
bright sun, quiet day on the ridge in Canyon. Redwoods to west are soaking in the sun, mountains to east too bright ... bluegrass listening (to Del McCoury), tenor singing :)
Day's brightening grows ... with the Grateful Dead playing ... 'Dark Star' .... March 30 1968 :)
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Today it's rainy, cool, beautiful and California wintery ...
(http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2010/04/himalayan-balsam-bright-sun-quiet-day.html - April 27, 2010)
Monday, April 26, 2010
Barren Land: In World University and School's need for funding, WUaS is thinking about offering a home schooling certificate for $25
In World University and School's need for funding, WUaS is thinking about offering a home schooling certificate for $25.
World Univ & Sch needs financial resources.
worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Master_Plan
(http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2010/04/barren-land-in-world-university-and.html - April 26, 2010)
World Univ & Sch needs financial resources.
worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Master_Plan
(http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2010/04/barren-land-in-world-university-and.html - April 26, 2010)
Oyster Reef: The pools are beautiful,” Rose says - “Can we go into the warm pool for more Watsu"
Harbin ethnography:
... if their actual parents help them with the adult grid, or they are in the teen grid.
“The pools are beautiful,” Rose says. “Can we go into the warm pool for more Watsu?” A flush comes over her pretty, virtual face, by the Heart-shaped pool. As we walk there, nude like so many other Harbin avatars in the pool area, – nakedness is so normal at Harbin - I say to her “I often explore the relaxation response in the warm pool by myself, and it often brings me to a kind of experience of oneness, and that this sometimes opens the possibility for the neurophysiology of bliss to bubble up.” When this bubbles up, I often both release and welcome this on and and on, in all its fine inner 'weather.' She nods with understanding, but says she hasn't spent very much time in the pools. I tell her, that I haven't ever explored in the pools, a kind of duet of bliss, of Watsu bliss, with this neurophysiology happening, and that I'm interested in exploring this, in some depth. As we walk up along the side of the warm pool, she says she's interested. So we step over the edge and walk down the steps. There are about 10 avatars in the warm pool, and as we immerse ourselves our virtual faces ease and smile, and I receive her into my arms and begin to float her.
Terms of Discussion ...
(http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2010/04/oyster-reef-pools-are-beautiful-rose.html - April 26, 2010)
... if their actual parents help them with the adult grid, or they are in the teen grid.
“The pools are beautiful,” Rose says. “Can we go into the warm pool for more Watsu?” A flush comes over her pretty, virtual face, by the Heart-shaped pool. As we walk there, nude like so many other Harbin avatars in the pool area, – nakedness is so normal at Harbin - I say to her “I often explore the relaxation response in the warm pool by myself, and it often brings me to a kind of experience of oneness, and that this sometimes opens the possibility for the neurophysiology of bliss to bubble up.” When this bubbles up, I often both release and welcome this on and and on, in all its fine inner 'weather.' She nods with understanding, but says she hasn't spent very much time in the pools. I tell her, that I haven't ever explored in the pools, a kind of duet of bliss, of Watsu bliss, with this neurophysiology happening, and that I'm interested in exploring this, in some depth. As we walk up along the side of the warm pool, she says she's interested. So we step over the edge and walk down the steps. There are about 10 avatars in the warm pool, and as we immerse ourselves our virtual faces ease and smile, and I receive her into my arms and begin to float her.
Terms of Discussion ...
(http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2010/04/oyster-reef-pools-are-beautiful-rose.html - April 26, 2010)
School of Fish: Dental School, Agriculture, Accounting
New World University Schools:
Dental School:
worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/World_University_Dental_School
I've added the University of Michigan's extensive youtube Dentistry video lectures here.
Agriculture School:
worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/World_University_Agriculture_School
World University's internet Agriculture School focuses on sustainable and organic agriculture, both small and large scale, and its interaction with cities. What are the best academic research, arguments, cost analyses, and plans for moving to organic and sustainable agriculture world wide, especially vis-a-vis cities?
Accounting School:
http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/World_University_Accounting_School
(http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2010/04/school-of-fish-dental-school.html - April 26, 2010)
Dental School:
worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/World_University_Dental_School
I've added the University of Michigan's extensive youtube Dentistry video lectures here.
Agriculture School:
worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/World_University_Agriculture_School
World University's internet Agriculture School focuses on sustainable and organic agriculture, both small and large scale, and its interaction with cities. What are the best academic research, arguments, cost analyses, and plans for moving to organic and sustainable agriculture world wide, especially vis-a-vis cities?
Accounting School:
http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/World_University_Accounting_School
(http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2010/04/school-of-fish-dental-school.html - April 26, 2010)
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