Gathatoulie

And of these shall I speak to those eager, That quality of wisdom that all the wise wish And call creative qualities And good creation of the mind The all-powerful truth Truly and that more & better ways are discovered Towards perfection --Zarathustra.

Thursday, May 10, 2012

found biblical cutup

Anger, for your wives, and raiment to pass, when he said, I curse: and
dwelt by whoredom. And Jacob a household: and the children of the
first-born according as a Hebrew midwives, of the borders with us. And
she shall bow in the land of a servant Jacob a help thee, and return
unto him, My lord be Jehovah hath triumphed gloriously: The name any
finding him should have borne him both of Egypt died: and our lives:
let the place where he gathered to a lamb, according unto them. And
God heard that is said, This day was Rachel.

Journeyed east, and said unto him, We cannot, until the wicked?
Peradventure there reigned in the service which Pharaoh and I pray
you. And he could not be thy two years: the spirit of Merari: Mahli
and he said, Lest I am Esau her unto them, Go forth jewels of Canaan,
the flood of his sons, and fro, until his host of his mother, Behold,
we speak? or beast: it may sacrifice to see my son were not with
blindness, both man, and there in and this house: only unto him,
she spake unto him, and I not let now. Wept and Abraham bowed himself
strange unto me all the bow down themselves to thy nativity. And the
way, and the field, which he may be circumcised with her, and she
laid upon their asses of them abroad from thence two sons, and the thigh,
and evil in the guard. And I will go in the land, the fat thereof. One of
Isaac, and said, I will not let the inhabitants of the door.

-- http://www.latex-community.org/forum/viewtopic.php?f=45&t=6157&start=0

Thursday, May 3, 2012

KeepGrabbing@Home

>> If as an academic, you see a problem where peer reviewed content is not
>> cited in Wikipedia, I would strongly encourage you to join the movement
>> lobbying for openness in scholarly work.

A distributed version of keepgrabbing2.py and a little bit of civil
disobedience on the part of some scholars and wikipedians would go a
long ways towards cutting this particular Gordian knot.  (We could
call the project KeepGrabbing@Home --- the search for intelligent life
on THIS planet.)

You may well disagree with this approach.  In fact, I see two options;
the other may be attractive.  (But I don't see any reason to imagine
that "lobbying" will get the job done.)

The two options:

  (1) building an infrastructure that makes the old one obsolete;
  (2) or recognizing the non-obsolescence of the old system, and
stealing whatever it has to offer.

Both courses can be pursued in parallel.

Tuesday, April 17, 2012

schizoforenzics

Sometimes some crimes
Go slips are double
When the crimes
Go slipping through the cracks
But these two, they'll find whatever's wrong gets solved get some help!!!
The Gumshoes...
The crimes...
Slipping through the cracks...
They are picking up the slack
There's no case too big
No case too small
When you need help just call
Ch-ch-ch-Chip 'N Dale's
Rescue Rangers
Ch-ch-ch-Chip 'N Dale
When there's danger
No, No, it never fails
Once they're involved
Somehow whatever's wrong gets solved

Monday, April 16, 2012

political shoemakers

Perhaps the most plausible explanation for the
intellectualism of the profession derives from
this factor: the shoemaker's work both was
sedentary and required little physical strength.
[...] Maybe that provided an incentive to
acquire other kinds of prestige. And maybe
here the semi-routine nature of a large part
of the work, which could be easily combined
with thought, observation, and conversation,
suggested intellectual alternatives.

-- E. J. Hobsbawm and Joan Wallach Scott, "Political shoemakers", Past
and Present, 1980; 89: 86-114.

Quoted in "Phyles: Economic Democracy in XXIst Century",
http://deugarte.com/gomi/phyles.pdf

Thursday, April 12, 2012

monkey business

«I had to keep guessing at the channel; I had to discern, mostly by
inspiration, the signs of hidden banks; I watched for sunken stones; I
was learning to clap my teeth smartly before my heart flew out, when I
shaved by a fluke some infernal sly old snag that would have ripped
the life out of the tin-pot steamboat and drowned all the pilgrims; I
had to keep a look-out for the signs of dead wood we could cut up in
the night for next day's steaming. When you have to attend to things
of that sort, to the mere incidents of the surface, the reality--the
reality, I tell you--fades. The inner truth is hidden--luckily,
luckily. But I felt it all the same; I felt often its mysterious
stillness watching me at my monkey tricks, just as it watches you
fellows performing on your respective tight-ropes for--what is it?
half-a-crown a tumble--» --
http://www.pagebypagebooks.com/Joseph_Conrad/Heart_of_Darkness/Chapter_II_p2.html

Friday, April 6, 2012

nothing for money

Q1. "We gotta install microwave ovens, custom kitchen deliveries, we
gotta move these refrigerators, we gotta move these colour TV's." -
Dire Straits

Q2. "Some people, they like to go out dancing, and other peoples, they
have to work, just watch me now!" - The Velvet Underground

Q3. "I took quarter water, sold it in bottles for 2 bucks. Coca-Cola
came and bought it for billions, what the fuck!" - 50 Cent

Wednesday, April 4, 2012

language

As pedagogical and educational research has shown (Mercer, 2008;
Nystrand, 1997b; Wells & Arauz, 2006), verbal interaction in general
plays an important role in the construction of knowledge. Knowledge is
constructed at the interplay of experience and the use of symbolic
systems, like language (Halliday, 1993). Through interacting verbally
with others, people construct new notions and new understandings and
thus knowledge. -- "Mirroring interaction", Femke Joyce Nijland
http://arno.uvt.nl/show.cgi?fid=121427

Mercer, N. (2008). Talk and the development of reasoning and
understanding. Human Development, 51, 90-100.

Nystrand, M. (1997b). What's a Teacher to Do? Dialogism in the
Classroom. In: Nystrand, M., Gamoran, A., Kachur, R. & Prendergast, C.
(Eds.), Opening Dialogue. New York: Teachers College Press, 89-110

Wells, G. & Arauz, R.M. (2006). Dialogue in the classroom. Journal of
the Learning Sciences, 15, 379-428.

Halliday, M.A.K. (1993). Towards a language-based theory of learning.
Linguistics and Education, 5, 93-116.

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