While doing some household chores, I managed to whack my head on the laundry room door jamb pretty good. Didn’t loose consciousness, but I’m going to have a pretty serious lump.
Month: June 2020
Directed by Bill Johnson. President Bartlett talks to the White House Counsel about the concealment of his MS. An enraged Toby has CJ grill the West Wing staff to find a leaker. Josh and Donna spar over a financial bailout of Mexico.
Directed by Brooke Kennedy. Blum is out for revenge when he represents a group of Reddick, Boseman & Lockhart's ex-clients who claim the firm overcharged them. When Lucca finds out she's a candidate for an open partner position, she begins to question her reputation within the firm. Meanwhile, Diane helps Kurt with a work project.
Directed by Brooke Kennedy. Reddick, Boseman and Lockhart is asked by ChumHum to bring on a specialist, lawyer Brenda DeCarlo, to investigate any remaining misconduct or cultural issues within the firm. Diane begins to question the resistance group's tactics while Blum approaches Maia with an intriguing job offer.
An unsolved conjecture, and a clever topological solution to a weaker version of the question.
I would love to get away from Amazon if I could and keep to the more IndieWeb methods of documenting reading, for instance, but it doesn't seem possible. In particular if they keep pulling books about current events.
— Katherine Moss (@Cambridgeport90) June 6, 2020
There’s a proposed session (IndieWeb GoodReads) to discuss just this at IndieWebCamp West 2020. If you have other ideas for sessions, feel free to brainstorm something or propose it in the etherpad.
Kevin Marks (epeus.blogspot.com)Bob Garfield's de haut en bas attack on web commenters upset two very skilled conversational catalysts, Ira Glass, and Derek Powazek. The false dichotomy of 'we choose who you get to hear' and 'total anarchic mob noise' was dismissed by Jack Lail too. At the same time, Ben Laurie explained how the IETF's open-to-all mailing lists can be hijacked by time-rich fools, talking about the Open Web Foundation.
In the last few months I came across Derek’s side of the story and so I dug back into archives (literally archive.org) to find the original show and catch the blog post conversation around this controversy. I particularly recall Ira and Jeff Jarvis’ conversations. Somehow I didn’t see Kevin’s portion of the conversation in the comments sections of the others, but I’m glad to have it pop up just a few weeks later to complete the circle.
Of the group, Kevin, as usual, provides some of the best analysis, but he also adds in a huge amount of additional context by way of links.
Society seems to have ripped itself open recently and I can’t help but think that we’re going to need some strong tummelers and heavy work to allow everyone to speak, be heard, and create some change. Kevin’s piece here may be a good starting point.
Perhaps this is the piece some of our mainstream media have been missing from a journalistic perspective? For too long they’ve acted as aggregators and filters, but perhaps they should be spending a larger portion of their time doing some tummeling work on our behalf?
Cathie LeBlanc (Desert of My Real Life)I was challenged on Facebook to post 10 books in 10 days that have had an influence on me. Not surprisingly, it was really challenging to narrow this down to just 10. But it was also kind of fun to…
I’ve got a good bit of overlap here, but also some new ones I should add to my list or even reread. My copy of Piercy’s He, She and It is pretty beat up, but I’ve not read Gone to Soldiers before. Thanks for sharing!
Events and audio tour developed as part of the Songlines: Tracking the Seven Sisters exhibition.
I want to come back and listen to all these audio files.
In a highly entertaining performance, beatboxer Tom Thum slings beats, comedy and a mouthful of instrumental impersonations into 11 minutes of creativity and fun that will make you smile.
This talk was presented to a local audience at TEDxSydney, an independent event. TED's editors chose to feature it for you.
Pretty cool to see a internal view of a beatboxer with a laryngoscope through the nose.
The best beatbox you'll ever hear
Directed by Tate Taylor. With Emma Stone, Viola Davis, Octavia Spencer, Bryce Dallas Howard. An aspiring author during the civil rights movement of the 1960s decides to write a book detailing the African American maids' point of view on the white families for which they work, and the hardships they go through on a daily basis.
Review: ★★★½
Directed by Tate Taylor. With Emma Stone, Viola Davis, Octavia Spencer, Bryce Dallas Howard. An aspiring author during the civil rights movement of the 1960s decides to write a book detailing the African American maids' point of view on the white families for which they work, and the hardships they go through on a daily basis.
I can’t help but think that it would be interesting to have a white person’s commentary (in the vein of a traditional director’s commentary, but highlighting different cultural points) to underline some of the unspoken privilege hiding in many of the scenes here. Some of the small and really painful injustices are thrown away in small pieces and then the big emotional moments in the film are left to the end for the white people instead of where they belong.
Songlines: Tracking the Seven Sisters was an Aboriginal-led exhibition that took visitors on a journey along the epic Seven Sisters Dreaming tracks, through art, Indigenous voices and innovative multimedia and other immersive displays.
Previously on show at the National Museum of Australia, 15 September 2017 to 28 February 2018
I would liked to have seen this exhibition. Hopefully it will travel.
The last 5 months have been flat-chat working on a new book at the invitation of Margo Neale who is the Head of Centre for Indigenous Knowledges and Senior Indigenous Curator & Advisor to the D…
Can’t wait to read this. Created a stub version of it on Goodreads.com to remind me when it comes out.