The F-Scale

October 7, 2003

Well, I think my inner fascist hauled out and grabbed me by the throat these past 2 days. I’ve been too busy. My vision is blurred as I type. Since I was spending part of my evening at the UVic library, I planned to break my serendipity quest by returning to last week’s book on […]

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Work does not make you free

October 6, 2003

Or: why I think “laziness” is a good thing, via AlterNet‘s Time to Act by Paul Loeb: The increase of work hours complements a more general politics of the whip. Whatever our jobs, most of us now work harder than we used to, do more in less time, and worry more about being downsized. This […]

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Thanks!

October 6, 2003

Yesterday Jeneane Sessum wrote about me on her blog. Today I’m blogging about that. Is this recursive? Inversive? Perversive? Who knows? All I know is that she wrote this really generous post about me (me??), and I want to thank her for it. I’m constantly on the brink of shutting this blog down, and feedback […]

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“An elephant sat on you…”

October 4, 2003

Because of BloggerCon (which I’m not attending), I found AKMA’s link to Jeneane Sessum‘s post about school blues. I wrote this long comment, only to find out that her comment box has a size limit — which I exceeded times 3. Oh well, my verbose bad. I posted an abbreviated version on her site, but […]

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Habeas corpus

October 2, 2003

…too many actually, littering the place up. Am’nt feeling too well, no more blogging. Later, gator.

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The mare, the Nightmare, the word MR

October 1, 2003

Last night I had another chance to spend 90 minutes in the UVic libraries. Two weeks ago my random find was pigeons. This time I found Ernest Jones‘s treatise, On the Nightmare. He wrote this book between 1909-10, but it wasn’t published in English until 1931. Jones’s main thesis, worked out in great and damning […]

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Rules on links I don’t understand

September 30, 2003

Dave Winer has posted an essay, The Rule of Links, where he states that linking is “one of the fundamental ideas of the Web.” I understand that, and I also understand his analogy to footnotes or endnotes, and that links are an incredible improvement over both. But I don’t understand why links shouldn’t open in […]

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Weather report

September 30, 2003

It’s official: according to today’s paper, Victoria and Nanaimo (both on Vancouver Island) “are at the top of the heap in the only weather category that counts — most comfortable climate” — they’re tied in first place. This from a new Environment Canada analysis “developed from 30 years of weather data for the country’s 100 […]

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Culture, economy, legacies

September 29, 2003

I’ve mentioned before, in a comment I think, that my son is currently taking this First Nations Studies course through S.I.D.E.S.. It’s not an undemanding course; here’s something that came up today: Exercise 3.4: The following two passages show two different attitudes toward the natural world. The first describes a ritual of the Kwakwaka’wakw people. […]

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Faites vos jeux, mesdames et messieurs

September 27, 2003

I have not paid much — any? — attention to California’s recall debacle. It seems so distant, even though California is part of the West Coast Ecotopia zone. California, Oregon, Washington, British Columbia, southern Alaska: it’s a natural grouping, like a sibling cohort. Terrain and vegetation are somehow similar, and it’s clear to anyone with […]

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