Uncovering remarkable beauty…
the moment of a lifetime…
…right out of dreams.
“youse didn’t expect that, did you? did you? no!”
…right out of dreams.
“youse didn’t expect that, did you? did you? no!”
If you didn’t come to take your pants off today,
you’re in the wrong spot!
Participatory culture in action.
Oh, bay-bay…. stand clear of the closing doors, please.
Oh, bay-bay…. stand clear of the closing doors, please.
Dancing for all time…
After a late night arrival in Orlando last Monday, Tuesday was almost a jet-lag wasted day – we had no energy for going out to tackle the demands that brought me here in the first place. Heck, we didn’t even get up until noon.
While drinking my coffee, I made myself busy bringing my mom’s computer up-to-date. It was still very much as I had left it the last time I was here. While fussing and mucking about, my son carried in his laptop and said, “Dad, you have to see this…”
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While drinking my coffee, I made myself busy bringing my mom’s computer up-to-date. It was still very much as I had left it the last time I was here. While fussing and mucking about, my son carried in his laptop and said, “Dad, you have to see this…”
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Heidi, from coast to coast.
I thought I might share a couple of pictures of my faithful companion, Heidi. She’s ten now, and we have been all over together.
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MBTI – INTP
As an avowed INTP, I thought I might share some other perspectives on the type:
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Conceptualizing Group Cohesion
In response to a current thread running on the mailing list regarding individual and group identity, one member offers this comment:
For several months now I have been considering the characteristics, properties and implications of Bose-Einstein condensate behavior as they relate to Dualism (as it is understood in the philosophy of science) and Nondualism in social construction.
The presentation made by Daniel Kleppner, co-director of the MIT-Harvard Center for Ultracold Atoms for the PBS television Nova show Absolute Zero explains:
what intrigued me were two observations he made, First, his statement,
My inquiry concerns whether this statement regarding human experience is true, whether this phenomenon has simply not been adequately described, and whether this description of behavior informs the field of social construction.
And second, his statement.
echoes the concerns of research into “anomie” taking place at the Digital Ethnography Working Group, and further by graduate student Kevin Champion.
“Feel for” sounds to me like “internal representation.” One model of groups is that they exist to the extent that members have such internal representations of each other. (We might consider this “extent” variable to be “cohesion” or something else, like “density.” This is not yet thoroughly conceptualized in the literature.)
For several months now I have been considering the characteristics, properties and implications of Bose-Einstein condensate behavior as they relate to Dualism (as it is understood in the philosophy of science) and Nondualism in social construction.
The presentation made by Daniel Kleppner, co-director of the MIT-Harvard Center for Ultracold Atoms for the PBS television Nova show Absolute Zero explains:
(slider indicates index of presentation)
what intrigued me were two observations he made, First, his statement,
There’s nothing else like that in physics and certainly not in human experience.
My inquiry concerns whether this statement regarding human experience is true, whether this phenomenon has simply not been adequately described, and whether this description of behavior informs the field of social construction.
And second, his statement.
in the Bose condensate, I’m everywhere at once. I’ve lost my identity. I don’t know who I am anymore.
echoes the concerns of research into “anomie” taking place at the Digital Ethnography Working Group, and further by graduate student Kevin Champion.
“So just to think about this causes me wonder and confusion.”
The Collaborative Environment – Pt 2
There has been some confusion about the domain.
What is it exactly? Who owns it? How do we use it? Where? When? Why? All of these questions have been explored over the last week on-list (and on the site), and some resolution is beginning to come into focus. Read the rest of this entry »
netdynam.org
What is it exactly? Who owns it? How do we use it? Where? When? Why? All of these questions have been explored over the last week on-list (and on the site), and some resolution is beginning to come into focus. Read the rest of this entry »
