Working on the Shade Structure, Mark II
Sunday yesterday, Brian, Yazz, Amy, Christine, and I all hauled the expanded and modified shade structure over to Volunteer Park and did another practice build. I worked out much better this time.
What I did today. Burning Man Practice Build
Brian and I went to Volunteer Park today to do a practice build of our shade structure. There were lots of lessons learned. We will try again next week.
Why is "All Things Considered" spending airtime announcing and reannouncing Michael Jackson's death?
I kind of expect higher standards for the news articles run by NPR.
Why I want regexp based killfiles for Twitter clients
A number of people I follow on Twitter are now retweeting #iranelection stuff.
And while it's important and interesting and all that, I am not interested in realtime interruption for it, and the duplication as multiple people retweet the same stuff is annoying.
Dream Notes, from last night
Rose kept turning up, but she was always in a hurry going someplace else
I was climbing down a flight of stairs while thinking "if this was a dream, i would be losing track of weight, and would just float down there, that would make this so much easier"
there was an old ruined bank building where my family used to go to church back in NC, but a organic food co-op had been built next to it
i was in a toystore looking at a book and this big beefy guy comes right up, starts talking about how neat the book looked, and started trying to pull it from my hands so he could see it, and then he looked really embarrassed, muttered an apology, and rushed off
there were a couple of people, women, who i knew i knew, but on waking, i cant remember who they are, that i was going someplace to meet
i was changing clothes in a back room, and a bunch of people come in just as im nude and about to start to redress, and i was a bit annoyed at them
Most of the time, I was wearing my heavy duster and a heavy wool blanket over it as well, and I could always feel the weight of it, and it rubbing against sensitive and touch hungry skin
Walked into a room, but couldnt at first see the person in it because she was wearing all bright red, with touches of white. She looked great in it, once I was able to see her.
Adrienne, in a Beehive Hairdo
Adrienne has dressed up as an old-school school teacher for a drama class presentation as part of her ASL courses. Thus, the hairspray based beehive hairdo.
Thoughts on Attachment, and thoughts on avoiding it
While I was in Hawaii, I was reading about and practicing meditation.
One of the texts described a technique about attachment.
When you have something you like very much, be it an item, an experience, or a relationship, you should always already remember that it is already broken, lost, ended, or over. So that when it does become so, well, it always was so in your mind.
This seems sad to me, especially about relationships.
Even though it was expressed as "then you will have all the more joy when its there, because it is then a double gift".
Such a lack of attachment, especially in relationships, seems beside the point of a relationship. Unless it's one of just pure mutual use of each other.
It turns being with someone into little more than a longer term form of being in a group line or country dance: "Move to your next partner in the circle, take her hands, and do the steps again."
Am I just being obstinent, "unenlightened", or just entirely missing the point?
Syndicated 2009-06-10 22:38:11 (Updated 2009-06-11 00:27:50) from Mark Atwood
I remember this ad
I remember seeing this ad while I was in SF for JavaOne last week.
Walking downtown
I am walking down to 6th & Pine to watch Up
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