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SLIDE MEDLEY
2007-03-10 20:42:00 Here’s twenty minutes of pedal steel love (160vbr - mp3) from Mr. Emmons, Susan Alcorn, and from Demola Adepoju, out of Nigeria. The photo is of a Sho-Bud Maverick. I have no idea why they’ve kept their value over the years but I do know why I sold mine some three decades ago. I wrestled it ... More About: Slide , Medley
WHAT ASSURANCE HAVE WE?
2007-02-26 19:25:00 Since a wise man can be mistaken, and a hundred men, and many nations, yes, and human nature is mistaken for many centuries about this or that, what assurance have we that sometimes it stops being mistaken, and in this century it is not making a mistake? –Montaigne More About: What , Hat , Have
A BRIDGE TOO FAR
2007-02-17 16:58:08 Wow! An underling of Georgia state legislator Ben Bridge s writes a memo tagging a Jewish Pharisee conspiracy as the cause of “secular evolution science”. Then, after lying about it in the aftermath of the memo’s stirring the pot, State rep. Bridges admits, courtesy of talkingpointsmemo: Asked if he agreed with the Kaballah evolution conspiracy theory and the earth’s lack of motion, he told the Atlanta Journal Constitution, ?I agree with it more than I would the Big Bang Theory or the Darwin Theory. I am convinced that rather than risk teaching a lie why teach anything?? If this kind of thing interests you, by all means follow links back to the memo, and media hullabaloo in Georgia. Rep. Bridges had help and it all leads back to fixedearth.com. Consider: WHAT IF - the Bible teaches a stationary earth (just like everyone agreed it did until Copernican and finally Newtonian “mathematics” scared the churches into thinking ... More About: Ridge
SNOWED
2007-02-17 16:58:08 My Honda Civic is good in the snow once it gets moving but it needs to be moving. Today a foot of snow has captured my car, Coltrane, in the driveway. The local news channels have switched to “Winter Storm 2007″ coverage and proven that there are few subjects made more fatuous in the mouths of local talking heads than lousy weather. Today’s storm is small beans compared to what upstate New York has been subjected to. I don;t know how you exit your house after twelve feet has fallen as it did in Oswego County, New York the week of January 5. More About: Snow
DR. ROSS, I HAVE A QUESTION
2007-02-17 16:58:08 Interesting article about a scientist and creationist. New York Times: Believing Scripture But Playing By Science’s Rules But Dr. Ross is hardly a conventional paleontologist. He is a ?young earth creationist? ? he believes that the Bible is a literally true account of the creation of the universe, and that the earth is at most 10,000 years old. For him, Dr. Ross said, the methods and theories of paleontology are one ?paradigm? for studying the past, and Scripture is another. In the paleontological paradigm, he said, the dates in his dissertation are entirely appropriate. The fact that as a young earth creationist he has a different view just means, he said, ?that I am separating the different paradigms.? He likened his situation to that of a socialist studying economics in a department with a supply-side bent. ?People hold all sorts of opinions different from the department in which they graduate,? he said. ?What?s that to anybody else?? If I were a colleague of Dr. Ross, I w... More About: Question , Have , Quest
SEA WORLD
2007-02-17 16:58:08 Several captures from the old web site. Subject: organizational oceanography! Weick and Mintzberg are two of my main guys. Specifically, I would suggest that the effective organization is garrulous, clumsy, superstitious, hypocritical, monstrous, octopoid, wandering, and grouchy. Karl Weick On Re-Punctuating the Problem in New Perspectives on Organizational Effectiveness; Jossey-Bass 1977 In fact, the real cause of this so-called turbulence may be planning itself, which by imposing formalized procedures on organizations has desensitized them and made them vulnerable to unexpected changes. — Put it more boldly, if your organization has formal plans but no vision, and if you then try to control your future so rigidly that you cannot adapt en route, then every unpredicted change you will encounter will make you feel as if the sky is falling. Henry Mintzberg That’s Not Turbulence, Chicken Little, It’s Really Opportunity Planning Review; Nov-Dec.1994 Planning concerns m... More About: World
WHAT DID YOU JUST SAY?
2007-02-17 16:58:08 This month’s teaching cartoon is a version of a story from the canon of Nasruddin. Ha! I mean cannon. More About: Just , What , Hat
CULTURE IS NOT YOUR FRIEND
2007-02-17 16:58:08 (Terence McKenna clip) To this I would add: Cult ure programs you and deprograms the Four Noble Truths. More About: Your , Friend
AMBIENT HIGHWAY
2007-02-17 16:58:08 A sound design experiment recorded on a Zoom H4 while driving on the freeway. Then the sound file was smacked around in the shaman’s sound shop. Mother May I Drive [mp3 9mb] No, it’s not music, it’s sound. More About: High , Ambient , Highway
NOVEL IMAGES
2007-02-17 16:58:08 If an organization is narrow in the images that it directs toward its own actions, then when it examines what it has said, it will see only bland displays. This means in turn that the organization won’t be able to make much interesting sense of what’s going on or of its place in it. That’s not a trivial outcome, because the kind of sense that an organization makes of its thoughts and of itself has an effect on its ability to deal with change. An organization that continually sees itself in novel images, images that are permeated with diverse skills and sensitivities, thereby is equipped to deal with altered surroundings when they appear. Karl Weick The Social Psychology of Organizing, 2nd ed., McGraw-Hill 1979 More About: Images , Novel , Image , Ages
NOVEL IMAGES
2007-02-16 14:30:00 If an organization is narrow in the images that it directs toward its own actions, then when it examines what it has said, it will see only bland displays. This means in turn that the organization won’t be able to make much interesting sense of what’s going on or of its place in it. That’s ... More About: Images , Novel , Image , Ages
A BRIDGE TOO FAR
2007-02-15 19:29:00 Wow! An underling of Georgia state legislator Ben Bridge s writes a memo tagging a Jewish Pharisee conspiracy as the cause of “secular evolution science”. Then, after lying about it in the aftermath of the memo’s stirring the pot, State rep. Bridges admits, courtesy of talkingpointsmemo: Asked if he agreed with the Kaballah evolution conspiracy theory and the ... More About: Ridge
SNOWED
2007-02-14 16:38:00 My Honda Civic is good in the snow once it gets moving but it needs to be moving. Today a foot of snow has captured my car, Coltrane, in the driveway. The local news channels have switched to “Winter Storm 2007″ coverage and proven that there are few subjects made more fatuous in the mouths ... More About: Snow
DR. ROSS, I HAVE A QUESTION
2007-02-13 17:01:00 Interesting article about a scientist and creationist. New York Times: Believing Scripture But Playing By Science’s Rules But Dr. Ross is hardly a conventional paleontologist. He is a ?young earth creationist? ? he believes that the Bible is a literally true account of the creation of the universe, and that the earth is at most 10,000 ... More About: Question , Have , Quest
SEA WORLD
2007-02-11 14:23:00 Several captures from the old web site. Subject: organizational oceanography! Weick and Mintzberg are two of my main guys. Specifically, I would suggest that the effective organization is garrulous, clumsy, superstitious, hypocritical, monstrous, octopoid, wandering, and grouchy. Karl Weick On Re-Punctuating the Problem in New Perspectives on Organizational Effectiveness; Jossey-Bass 1977 In fact, the real cause of this so-called turbulence ... More About: World
WHAT DID YOU JUST SAY?
2007-02-01 13:32:00 This month’s teaching cartoon is a version of a story from the canon of Nasruddin. Ha! I mean cannon. More About: Just , What , Hat
AMBIENT HIGHWAY
2007-01-31 14:57:00 A sound design experiment recorded on a Zoom H4 while driving on the freeway. Then the sound file was smacked around in the shaman’s sound shop. Mother May I Drive [mp3 9mb] No, it’s not music, it’s sound. More About: High , Ambient , Highway
SOUND THE SAME
2007-01-25 13:14:00 This diagram is based upon a hermeneutic theory of action. From /Background Framework/ one of the programmed tutorials on informal learning provided at ottosurf. The hermeneutic threw me. The reference is to Alexander Jarczyk. Who is? I did some detective work and soon found myself wading around the interesting offshoot I term geek andragogy. Programmers! They don’t ... More About: Sound , Same
COME ON JOE
2007-01-23 12:50:00 (I’m data hopping.} From a December 20 post at Matt Murrah’s Leadership blog. We are moving towards a dictatorship of relativism which does not recognize anything as for certain and which has as its highest goal one?s own ego and one?s own desires. - Joseph Ratzinger (Benedict, XVI) Later, Murrah admits, If relativism is to be ‘enforced’, then ... More About: Come
CONSTRUCTIVE CREATIVITY
2007-01-20 11:49:00 “It has been found that when the individual is “open” to all his experience, then his behavior will be creative, and his creativity may be trusted to be essentially constructive.”- Carl Rogers (Courtesy of Mikko Ahonen, from a post in October on his blog Beyond Creativity .) More About: Const , Cons
SNEAKY
2007-01-17 02:01:00 For a very brief and very deluded time in my late teens, I thought I’d like to be cool and for me the height of cool was pedal steel master Sneaky Pete Kleinow. (Think Wild Horses by the stones, but his rep was made with The Flying Burrito Brothers. I was so into the “steel” ...
ALICE & BOB
2007-01-15 13:01:00 Swamini Turiyasangitananda Alice Coltrane passed January 14. She was one of the deeply beautiful human beings. ?In these kinds of times we live in now, with war, floods and fires, it is not unusual because they have been occurring throughout the ages. However, they are occurring now very evidently for us where we see and ...
ALL AT ONCE I.
2007-01-10 18:42:00 These videos are so funny that I’ll post several. They unwittingly prove a number of points. One: circular arguments can be humorous. Two: should we learn there is an intelligent designer, said designer has a big sense of humor, proved by the design of guileless pseudo-logicians and tautologists who serve as spokespersons for winking intelligent ... More About: Once
OLDEST SCHOOL
More articles from this author:2007-01-04 02:07:00 My grandmother wanted me to have an education, so she kept me out of school. – Margaret Mead The best education consists in immunizing people against systematic attempts at education. – Paul Feyerabend Hat tip to: afewlinesmore.blogspot.com, not active but still around. More About: School 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 |
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