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Watching Log: Back to the Future
[Last Updated: 2024.08.12]
[Originally Posted: 2024.08.11]
I watched Back to the Future (1985). 🎥
Will and I watched Back to the Future tonight. Literally dated film, but it’s still great.
Will and I watched Back to the Future tonight. Literally dated film, but it’s still great.
This was my suggestion. I’ve decided to try to be a little more pro-active about sharing different kinds of films and music and food and stuff with my kids, rather than just always sitting back and letting them watch whatever they’re used to.
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I Can Do Whatever I Want Here
[Last Updated: 2024.08.11]
[Originally Posted: 2024.03.10]
I can
do
whatever
I
want
here
Last December I opened a fresh notebook and started with this entry. It is kind of my current thesis statement for having a website, being on the internet, trying to make stuff, etc. I haven’t followed through with these ideas so far, but I feel like putting it up on the website is a start.
I can
do
whatever
I
want
here
Last December I opened a fresh notebook and started with this entry. It is kind of my current thesis statement for having a website, being on the internet, trying to make stuff, etc. I haven’t followed through with these ideas so far, but I feel like putting it up on the website is a start.
(A text transcription follows the notebook scan images.)
I can
do
whatever
I
want
here
[sketch1 - self-portrait of sorts, though no beard]
I should probably remember or remind myself that I met Gin2 because I wrote a blog about random stuff I was interested in
I’ve been so jaded but creating and sharing stuff on the internet is maybe probably still a worthwhile endeavor
notice I didn’t say “social media”
but I kind of mean social media but also not
media that can be social?
media that can build connection, understanding, community?
isn’t that all good media? digital or analog? art? do I mean art?
I think maybe what I really mean
by all of this
is
art?Going to let that sit here and see how it feels in the coming days
creating things and sharing things
to
express myself
have fun / play around with
words
ink
pixels
code
images
video
sounds
connect with other people
make and do interesting things
learn stuff
make the world better somehow? (too much to ask)
“generalist”art basically
or being human
in a good way
“the humanities”[it is well]
[the evening and the morning
were the first day]
[light] [salt]
[life] [death]
[growth] [decay]
[seeds] [trees]
[air] [breath] [vacuum]
[nebula] [supernova]
[creation through destruction]34
2023-12-17 after 11:30pm
Notes
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Never in my life since probably kindergarten have I drawn or sketched anything that I didn’t absolutely have to (like for a math assignment or a game or something) - I decided early on that drawing or any visual “art” wasn’t my thing, wasn’t in my skillset, wasn’t for me to attempt to do. But in this notebook and in my 40s I’ve decided I can let myself try to occasionally sketch things, that there is nothing to lose and nothing to prove, that I don’t care about sharing it and I’m actually kind of happy about it. ↩︎
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Gin is my spouse of almost 16 years now. In 2007 I wrote a post on my random blog about going to an art exhibit. Gin was searching for information about paintings in that exhibit and my blog post came up in her search results; she started commenting on my blog and blogstalking me. We got married in 2008. ↩︎
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I guess my brain still sometimes thinks in scripture and poetry when I let it ↩︎
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Markdown might be a problem for trying to space out poems and word collections like I want to - maybe there is a way to do it in Markdown like a typewriter and respect the manual spacing? Need to research this, but not before getting this posted so I don’t lose my nerves. ↩︎
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Murky Shimmer | Picture Not Taken
[Last Updated: 2024.08.11]
[Originally Posted: 2024.08.11]
I saw several fish swimming in the creek1 this morning, as many as eight to twelve. A grey ghostly shadowed slow shimmering of fins and scales in a protected pocket of murky water beneath the rough old rock wall, across on the neighbor’s side.2 I didn’t think I could capture them sufficiently in a photograph or video, especially at that distance.
I saw several fish swimming in the creek1 this morning, as many as eight to twelve. A grey ghostly shadowed slow shimmering of fins and scales in a protected pocket of murky water beneath the rough old rock wall, across on the neighbor’s side.2 I didn’t think I could capture them sufficiently in a photograph or video, especially at that distance.
They looked a little sickly or diseased to me, but perhaps I am projecting that onto them because the creek smells foul these days, and I understand it to be somewhat polluted, both from readings (see link in1 below) and past personal observations3. In actuality I guess these fish are flourishing? I’ll check on them again soon.
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My backyard abuts a suburban/urban creek, Big Cottonwood Creek ↩︎
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I’m aware this sentence is extra but I can do whatever I want here; I can cherish and protect all my darlings. ↩︎
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One firsthand example: based on strong auditory evidence followed by visual confirmation of black plastic casing debris floating downstream, I have reason to believe that on a certain afternoon a couple of years ago my neighbors a few houses upstream disposed of at least one television set (a 1990s-era CRT/“box”-style model) by heaving or toppling it into the creek. ↩︎
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You Have New Memories
[Last Updated: 2024.08.11]
[Originally Posted: 2024.08.11]
‘You have new memories of your relatives’ [Email Notification]
‘See memories’ [Action]
Not sure how this actually works, but I’m curious and a bit creeped out on the concept of receiving “new memories” and being notified about them via an email message.
‘You have new memories of your relatives’ [Email Notification]
‘See memories’ [Action]
Not sure how this actually works, but I’m curious and a bit creeped out on the concept of receiving “new memories” and being notified about them via an email message.
Personal revelation? Phone as urim and thummim? The whisperings of the holy spirit via a neural interface?
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Watching Log: Dune (2021)
[Last Updated: 2024.08.08]
[Originally Posted: 2024.08.03]
I watched Dune (2021). 🎥
Finally got around to this one, and Will watched it with me. Should have tried harder to see this in the theater, it deserves as big of a screen as it can get.
Finally got around to this one, and Will watched it with me. Should have tried harder to see this in the theater, it deserves as big of a screen as it can get.
On the other hand Will wouldn’t have been ready for this any time before now..
Also have Part 2, need to watch it this week.
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joshuawxyz changelog 20240808
[Last Updated: 2024.08.08]
[Originally Posted: 2024.08.08]
Framework and templates for the Watching Log are now live, including display on the now page and enabling “log entries as status updates” custom messages for watches.
Framework and templates for the Watching Log are now live, including display on the now page and enabling “log entries as status updates” custom messages for watches.
However, the watching log itself is not yet populated with the films I"ve actually watched this year, just one of them as a placeholder.
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Reading Log: Falling Back in Love with Being Human: Letters to Lost Souls
[Last Updated: 2024.08.04]
[Originally Posted: 2024.01.13]
I read Falling Back in Love with Being Human: Letters to Lost Souls by Kai Cheng Thom. 📚
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Reading Log: I Love Information
[Last Updated: 2024.08.04]
[Originally Posted: 2024.01.15]
I read I Love Information by Courtney Bush. 📚
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Reading Log: Elf Dog and Owl Head
[Last Updated: 2024.08.04]
[Originally Posted: 2024.01.23]
I read Elf Dog and Owl Head by M.T. Anderson. 📚
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Reading Log: Alebrijes
[Last Updated: 2024.08.04]
[Originally Posted: 2024.01.29]
I read Alebrijes by Donna Barba Higuera. 📚
Wrote and published a review of this at Granite Media - Alebrijes – Granite Media
Wrote and published a review of this at Granite Media - Alebrijes – Granite Media