One more reason to MOO is indicated by a study of what students are looking at on the Internet.
Comments (0)I was reading Salmon's squish and she posted something someone said about the deep spiritual nature of 'running'. There was a wise reply from someone hwo sort of bushwacks on foot at high speed, which is very cool. But somehow I felt moved to say something about running:
I've always thought of runners as those denying the self. Running is that most binary of operations that forgets that there is more than the going forward.Comments (0)
With running there is no lateral, no vertical, no internal, and no going back. Just a steady corporatist run of arms, legs, breath, heart.
I love to go rock climbing with runners. They get stuck. They can only go up. And climbing is ever so not just about going up.
I bought my own domain today!!!!
jasonnolan.net
Life is good.
Also, from a GTA blogger http://www.transit.toronto.on.ca.
Finally... regarding my firewire harddrive enclosure, I got this nice email from Nancy @ macally:
Dear Jason,
Thank you for considering Macally your product. Unfortunately, we just ran
our of the sticker. Can you email me again sometime next month to remind me
and I will be happy to mail you a sticker. =) Once again, thank you for
being supportive and choosing our product.
Best Regards,
Nancy
--
Nancy Lam
Macally Peripherals
15861 Tapia St.
Irwindale, California 91706
Tel: 626-338-8787
Fax: 626-338-3585
Blogging Christian Soldiers.
This is a good day.
Went to Pages on Queen, as is our wont and got a copy of Essential McLuhan, edited by Eric McLuhan and Frank Zingrone (two of Arun's old profs). Anyway, I needed a McLuhan around the house, especially to finish up my book chapter "The Technology of Difference" that's due Wednesday. Going into Peter Trifonas' The Pedagogy of Difference to be published by Routledge next year. I've sent it out for reads. And Kat likes it. And if can pass the mustard of a frosh, it is good.
NEXT... I got a CD I've been after for a while... It is the sound track to Jim Jarmusch's Dead Man... music by Neil Young. Just one guitar, and lots of distortion. Great movie... johnny depp and gary farmer. And it includes... Crispin Glover, Iggy Pop, Billy Bob Thorton, John Hurt and Robert Mitchum. Serious bloody movie. One of my favourites.
Tonight I'm taking my draft of "Death Night Blood" a chapbook I'm editing for the Toronto Dark Writer's Group. From conception to presentation in 2 weeks. I'll post it as a PDF as soon as I get the final approval from "the board".
Comments (0)I think that today has been a red letter day. What cool things did I do, let me count the ways:
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1) moved wine from primary to secondary fermenter. It is my first brewing event since dave moved to England. Strangely enough, I've never made wine with dave, but always with him living down the hall. He and I made beer together.
2) I got home in time to clean the kitchen and wash the rice (not easy), before my Achieve meeting, letting Yuka do the rest.
3) I rearranged the kitchen installing new Ikea stuff, and ending up with more shelves and more useable space in the process.
Ya, and I made some apache mods at Emma's direction so Achieve could display wmv files (stupid format) allowing us to show Miao's baby pictures. Does that count too?
I just got and put together my macAlly 2.5" FireWire HDD Enclosure to hold a 4 gig IDE drive I was nicely given.
. A happy day.
I'm listening to old Smashing Pumpkins on my PowerCD which was the cooooolest thing Apple every made. It is a funky CD player. Right?
I have the Newton, eMate and Apple Adjustable Keyboard listed on the site too. Comments (0)
Jason's URLS is an OLD cgi script that I resurrected. I think leigh helped me with most of it. Anyway, it allows me to have my own personal annotatable web list. Cool, eh?
Comments (0)Mean is kicking someone when they're down.
Caustic and nasty is kicking someone when they're up.
Oh, and ben has a blog... ben77.blogspot.com. Any connection?
Comments (0)Remember: God Shops American.
What does it mean when the best thing you can do against terrorism is to shop, go to a movie, buy and fly, keep the economy moving. Participation by consuming.
It makes you wonder if there is not much difference between the people we see on CNN who are discounted in the discourse because they've been 'trucked in for the media' and the shoppers interviewed doing their patriotic duty to consume.
Damn. Discursus is taken. But monad.net is available, I think. I'm working on a book chapter called "The Technology of Difference." And Salmon has given me my necessary first pat on the head of approval. So I can continue. As I'm checking some references, I came across a great quote in Baudrillard's article "Consumer Society" that really cracked me up:
lighting being the least rare commodity, without which merchandise would merely be what it is
Nothing left to say about much of anything after that, is there? Comments (0)
[of course blogger ate my post] so here is an abbreviation.
I'm working on a book chapter entitled "The Technology of Difference" and I got "thumbs up" from Salmon, so I'm feeling comfortable about it now. Until then, I had no idea if I was on the right track or not. And she knows the track. While cruzing through some references, I found the following quote in Baurillard's selected writings in a chapter called "Consumer Society" that stopped me cold:
lighting being the least rare commodity, without which merchandise would merely be what it is
Not much more to say after that, is there? Comments (0)
How about www.discursus.net, Medieval Latin, from Latin, a running about, as a domain name for me. Other suggestions?
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Anthrax: The end of email? This has a lot to say about how we teach educators to teach students. Computers, much as I want to decry their use among kids when they should be out running in fields and playing in the mud and just poking about in reality, are becoming tools for communication that cannot be put aside as long as I'd like. The hyperprotectionist parenting that never allows children to move unescorted, to join organizations without background checks on the adults, surf the net without special protection software, and now won't allow them to open mail, is getting rather sick. But the only way for an educator to counter this is to become proficient in constructing online learning environments herself so that our kids, as they get online, see adults modelling online activity that is proactive, creative, and constructive. Not merely the click and gaze/glaze of surfing the net. Hmmmm.... BLOG!
Comments (0)I found diplomacy so very offensive. I think it is because I hate the stupid camp song Kumbaya. But the cartooning is good.
Comments (0)I just heard a very interesting interview on CNN. Interviewing a B1 bomber pilot who has been bombing Afganistan. She's one of the few female B1 pilots, and a lot was made about the point of the irony of the Taliban being bombed by women.
Comments (0)It is a long story.
I got this email and forwarded it about...
Whether you're from city or farm, there is no other charm like the good
> old El Mocambo."
>
> Please read this and sign if you want to help - distribute to friends and
> helpers . If you're the 25th person to sign, send to:
> DANBURKE4@excite.com
>
> One of the world's most enduring and historic rock and roll
> clubs,Toronto's El Mocambo, has been told this week it will have to shut
> down November 1 by the new landlord of the club. The new landlord, who on
> Sept. 16 purchased the building where the El Mocambo is located, plans to
> operate a "dance studio" in the building, along with a "spiritual
outreach
> centre." The landlord's dance studio needs a new space because it
recently
> went bankrupt and lost it lease at its current location.
>
> The El Mocambo has been presenting rock acts since 1972, including The
> Rolling Stones, U2, Stevie Ray Vaughn, Elvis Costello, The New York
Dolls,
> Patti Smith, and Lou Reed, to name just a few. More importantly, in the
> past three years the El Mocambo has re-emerged as one of the world's most
> cutting-edge live clubs introducing Toronto to artists like Sum 41,
> Japan's The Zoobombs, Germany's Chicks on Speed, NYC's The Toilet Boys,
> Chicago's The Chamber Strings, Toronto's Peaches, Danko Jones, The Deadly
> Snakes and so on. The club is thriving.
>
> The current booking agent/programme manager of the club, Dan Burke, is
> seeking public support to defend against this planned violation of the
> club's historical vocation, which is presentation of live rock shows. He
> is seeking letters of opposition to this assault on Canada's Rock and
Roll
> Landmark.
Then I got this one
From: "Burst" burst@burstworld.com>
To: burstfans@burstworld.com>
Subject: All Good Things...
Date: Mon, 8 Oct 2001 23:05:29 -0400
As many of you already know the legendary El Mocambo, the historic venue that has hosted such performers as; U2, The Stones, Stevie Ray Vaughan, The Ramones, Duran Duran, Elvis Costello, Billy Idol and many more, will be permanently closing its doors on November 1st. The building was recently purchased and the new owners intend to use the building as a dance studio.
In Wednesday October 10th @ 9:45 pm Burst will be performing at the El Mocambo for the last time.
Be sure to stop by and show your support for this legendary rock venue. The Elmo is located at 464 Spadina Avenue (at College)
You can also show your support by visiting www.elmocambo.com
Cheers,
Burst
Then I visited the site
And filled out a form.
>>> jason.nolan@utoronto.ca 10/10/01 10:49am >>> I've never played the elmo, but I miss the QCT and Larry's Hideaway and the SpadinaRoom where I did. And the great 80s band "The CoatHangers" played at the Elmo. I'm sure that Blair Packham of the Jitters remembersthem well. My best memory was carrying cable cases up and down the back stairs, I think, for Goddo. Perhaps it was when they opened for the Coathangers. Such a cool place. Figures it can be a dance studio now, and that our Mayor, Mr North York, isn't offering to help.
Jason Nolan
then I got this one!
.Date: Wed, 10 Oct 2001 13:50:21 -0400
From: "Mayor Lastman" mayor_lastman@city.toronto.on.ca
To: jason.nolan@utoronto.ca
Cc: "Rita Davies" rdavies@city.toronto.on.ca
Subject: Re: Please Help Us Mel!
Thank you for your e-mail regarding the El Mocambo.
The Mayor has noted your comments. I have taken the liberty of forwarding your e-mail to Ms. Rita Davies, Managing Director of Culture for the City of Toronto.
I trust that either she or her staff will be in touch with you shortly.
Cordially,
Rui Manuel Estevao
Mayor Lastman's Office
WOW
Comments (0)From: Alex Nishri
Subject: new UTORweb service
Comments: To: NW-ADMINS
UT-ADMINS
To: UTWEB-L@LISTSERV.UTORONTO.CA
This message is being sent to computer support staff, webmasters, and
others who will be helping customers wishing to use UTORweb.
I would like to draw your attention to the new UTORweb service launched
earlier this week. It provides space on a web server for individual
students, faculty, and staff for use in their roles within the University.
This can be used to share documents with others. Or it can be used to give
the owner a convenient way to save and access documents from any networked
computer.
Some examples of use:
- Student stores Excel spreadsheet for later access from another
campus or home PC
- Faculty member puts up web page containing material for course
- Staff member puts up a word document for discussion by
a University committee
- University member puts up personal home page listing academic interest,
job position, committees/groups/clubs associated with, ...
UTORweb is for individual use only; groups and entities must use other Web
servers. All shared content must say it is the work and views of the
individual, not the University. The UTORweb Conditions of Use must be
agreed to.
FTP is used to transfer files to the UTORweb server. Private retrieval of
files from the UTORweb server by the owner is also by FTP. The URL is
ftp://utorid@individual.utoronto.ca, where the UTORid is the same userid
used for services such as UTORmail, my.utoronto.ca, and UTORschedule.
Public sharing is by browsing http://individual.utoronto.ca/token, where
one gets to select the "token". e.g. if I upload a file named
readthis.txt, others can browse it at
http://individual.utoronto.ca/nishri/readthis.txt
Private files can be placed in the provided "private" folder. These files
are not available for public viewing via http.
Applications such as Microsoft Office (including Word, Excel, and
Powerpoint) and Sun StarOffice permit saving documents directly to the
UTORweb server using "Save As ..." menu item and retrieving documents
using the "Open" menu item by specifying the ftp://... URL. Files can
also be transfered to the UTORweb server using applications such as
Windows Internet Explorer Graphical FTP Helper, Windows WS_FTP, or
Macintosh Fetch programs.
There are limited resources for assistance and support:
- RCAT staff provide help to faculty, graduates, and staff for accessing
UTORweb from a variety of programs, although resources are limited. Also
the RCAT offers courses in such web technologies as HTML.
- The Human Resources Staff Development Centre offers training for staff
in Netscape Composer, Macromedia Dreamweaver, web page design and HTML.
- The Information Commons Help Desk offers help using the Windows Ws_ftp and
Macintosh Fetch programs to upload files to UTORweb, and help using a
browser to view UTORweb files The Help Desk does not support
Windows NT/2000 or Mac OS X; if WS_FTP or Fetch is running on
those platforms and is correctly configured but still does not work,
further help may not be available. There is no assistance with other
programs, with web technologies such as HTML, or with putting together
content.
- Members of the University of Toronto at Mississauga can get assistance
from the UTM Help Desk with UTORweb, including its use with
Microsoft Frontpage.
More details are under the "[help]" tab in the UTORweb documentation.
For more information please see the UTORweb documentation at,
http://www.utoronto.ca/ns/utorweb
To modify your UTORid to enable the UTORweb service please see,
http://www.utorid.utoronto.ca
Comments (0)[+][beam] Jason bought two books today... with yuka's permission
[+][beam] Jason says, "CyborgCitizen:Politics in the PostHuman Age, and The World Wide Web and Contemporary Cultural Theory."
[+][beam] Jason says, "I plan to use them as examples of why people who do theory don't understand the net."
[Of course, it is not that what they're saying isn't cool and important. But that they're looking at the surface content of the net. And for me, when you're dealing with content, you're already dealing with a very complex sea of bias, privilege, and linguistic hegemony even before someone logs in. And every time a line of code is written, a file permission set, and a new bit of shareware gets uploaded, the net has been located in a domain/discourse that contaminates everything that comes after.]
[+][beam] Hildegarde [to Sarah]: I'm about to launch on a speech about that
[+][beam] Hildegarde [to Sarah]: I really am
[+][beam] Sarah says, "On...."
[+][beam] Sarah asks, "What exactly?"
[+][beam] Hildegarde ahems.
[+][beam] Hildegarde says, "wait wait, my calf is asleep"
[+][beam] Hildegarde says, "I can't lauch on a speech while my calf is asleep"