TG is an accepted moniker (token) for Thanksgiving in these parts. Xmas is likewise not controversial in my circles, not a sign of disrespect or other baggage.
“CrowTown” as a moniker for Portland, on the other hand, might be met with objections, perhaps more for the CamelCase than the confession (that we’re overrun with crows, a welcome phenom).
Would crow_town be better? Lowercase and snake_case might indeed be closer to the metal.
My TG scenario starts with wardrobe and accessories for a change, as opposed to always thinking about the food. My new Men’s Wearhouse suit is suitable, shall we say. I’m not trying to flaunt wealth with G7-G8 level skins, just blend in as another KFC Colonel in Japan.
Hah hah, that’s with reference to Japanese pop culture in 1985 Japan.
Let me quote my account from Facebook this morning:
In a generic sense, we've seen "learn the ropes" villages a million times, again and again. Every Christian camp or the like, if we're talking evangelicals, but speaking from my background as Unprogrammed Friend (that's a thing), we had them also.
Rainbow Gathering? I missed out on going, but a lot of my friends went. My influences are varied. I also lived in a trailer park, I mean mobile homes estate, in Gulf Coast Florida.
Inevitably, these camps will have a ropes course, and I'm not saying mine wouldn't necessarily (nor would), just what I mean by "ropes" is not that literal, but from the English idiom, meaning "developing the skill sets necessary" for whatever specific kinds of work.
For example, when you learn the ropes on a farm, that may involve keeping to a calendar, following workflows involving heavy equipment. If you're an airplane pilot, you might get time in a flight simulator. In geek speak, one could liken "learning the ropes" to becoming the master of some API.
Speaking of geeks, I'd liken my projected School of Tomorrow camps to computer camps in that, although outdoors, we'll have indoor experiences, including perhaps in a portable planetarium, even if the stars are clearly visible. It's not either/or when it comes to map vs territory.
I'm recycling the above 4D Solutions channel vid because of the showcase prototype villages already in operation in the eastern hemisphere. I'd be looking to assemble something similar, with a cast of prototypers willing to test out "pod life" while "learning the ropes", in the Rogue Valley area, for example.
Naturally anything so cinematically interesting would be captured to video and shared with patrons, other viewers, would-be joiners, those looking back. Self chronicling is built into the workflows, as is product placement in some cases, meaning vendor donors get critical feedback on their artifacts in action, ala the Project Renaissance model, wherein nonprofit biofirms, such as Project Earthala, have front line test piloting responsibilities.
Sometimes we're not just learning the ropes as apprentice newbies, but experimenting with developing the initial rope system, establishing templates, such as were developed at New Alchemy Institute and by John Todd and other bioengineers. Before we're ready to pass on working systems to apprentices, we need those working systems to pass on.
So will the various religious denominations be involved? Of course. Some camps will be the result of collaborations, suggesting a sophisticated secular infrastructure that keeps the various religions in productive configurations, versus butting heads.
I've always seen Quakerism as connecting with meticulous recordkeeping, including bookkeeping, whereas I associate Mormonism with a focus on mapping ancestry.
These are stereotypes to some degree, yet help predict the flavor of the apprenticeships on offer. Quaker campers might study SQL / NoSQL, while being encouraged to get into blogging (journaling already being an encouraged practice).
Some Quaker camps might feature beer making, and all the farming that goes into that.
I'm on academia dot edu. Even though many don't consider that to be a meaningful institution, I have to congratulate them on snagging that domain. For that alone, they deserve some applause.
Anyway, of the papers I share through that venue (channel), probably the one getting the most attention is Calculus with Python, which is short and pithy.
In that paper, I account as a shortcoming (to overcome) in most calculus intros that they eschew the Bell Curve, the Gaussian, the Normal Curve, because it's not easily integrable, no matter that the area under that curve is the bread and butter of a whole branch of maths: data science.
Since that paper has been in circulation, we've seen some advances in some curricula, where tackling the integration of the Bell Curve, in a relatively simple manner, is accomplished. I've seen the calculations popularized on the Numberphile channel. Textbook authors have more to go on in popular culture now.
In other words, everything I write about tends to be a moving target. However, from that it doesn't follow that I need to remove my record of "aimed and fired" i.e. the debugging I was proposing may have happened since then, so let's applaud those improvements and move on.
On top of the USG shutdown ("she's not rebooting kiptin!"), Americans woke up to a dead internet, not in such a theoretical way. Something east coast and AWS-related was being implicated, but on Garble News (aka legacy media) everything stays murky, only sometimes by design.
I'm assuming the massive outage is what's behind Flickr being down as well.
Facebook (Meta) is up and running and I'm continuing to monitor the Food Not Bombs channels for feedback on No Kings. FNB is often obstructed by DNC types who don't like the messaging around free food, no means testing.
From my Portlandia perspective, I'm not as certain as FNB seems to be that Dems really are in control of Frogtifa. It's a pretty disobedient bunch. GenZ is restless (flash on Nepal).
Dems tend to be too old and stuffy for their tastes (that's just a consequence of demographics; I'm not suggesting any deep theory).
Speaking of old and stuffy, take that so-called "pacifist" in Escapade, an insufferable jerk in a movie I'd never heard of until the other day, and made before my time (1955).
These kids are like the polar opposite of those in Lord of the Flies. Left to their own devices, rather then turn into uncivilized morons, these GenZers instead employ subterfuge to circumvent their elders, and engage in their own brand of coordinated heroics.
I’ve got my head back in ai this morning, poking around in recent British history. Oswald Mosley again. Remember Systematic Ideology? Dora Marsden.
I see Subgenius (Church of) as a kind of Hobo College, or Hull House, receptive to off-beat or simply heretical teachings. I think of Chris Hedges, trained for the church, speaks Arabic, NYT bureau chief, since turned renegade, and these days a YouTube influencer.
Therefore I shared a link to my newest sharable deck on one of the Subgenius Mastodon servers, inviting anonymous others, unknown to me, to anchor their symposium with these slides, and other decks like it. This was the deck I came up with right after this post to BizMo Diaries.
For those new to these blogs, the science fictional trope or pattern language is that the bizmo fleets get deployed and dispatched by Control Room, and are operated by the World Game players. A bizmo is like an RV but built for business, not retirement. The piloting crews might include retirement-age seniors either way. Each bizmo keeps its log or chronology, hence “BizMo Diaries”.
I’m only watching the Stephen Miller Show (not to be confused with the Tim Dillon Show) out of the corner of my eye, as I am nowhere near the infamous ICE building at the tip of Portland’s newest bevy of high rises, connected by cable car to Pill Hill. How many pills does the cable car hold I wonder?
The Stephen Miller Show was a live action cosplay encounter between his agents and the so called antifa, which I gather came along after Occupy (my cohort). We didn’t demonize police (part of the 99%) and left the OPDX campus in an orderly fashion (not everyone got the memo).
I don’t know any antifa, but then my friends tend to be in retirement homes these days. Does antifa have those? Sounds like an SNL skit.
