yeah…
Don’t expect much from me here. I’m really sorry. I still feel like I haven’t had enough time to really decompress and reflect on my year in Germany. I will say that I never expected that coming back from living abroad would be harder than actually being there. This year was probably the most difficult I’ve ever experienced, for reasons more that culture shock. I have had a lot of positive things happen too, no doubt. A lot of love, ideas, and growth. I have a lot of material–from recordings to notes taken–that has accumulated over the last two years. Let this be an ice breaker that gets me sharing some of that again.
Michael
mi shi wrote:
10/6/2006 5:32 PM
LSDNA talk by Richard Doyle this Monday PM!
Lecture/Lecture Series
Computer and Information Technology Institute
Humanities Research Center
Office of the Vice Provost and University Librarian
Speaker: Richard Doyle
Pennsylvania State University
Technology, Cognition and Culture Lecture Series:
Just say yes to the Noösphere: Psychedelics and the Evolution of Information Technologies
Monday, October 9, 2006
4:00 PM to 5:00 PM
McMurtry Auditorium Duncan Hall
Rice University
6100 Main St
Houston, Texas, USA
Abstract:
Before its possession became a criminal offense in the United States, the psychedelic compound LSD-25 was given to engineers and designers to break “creative logjams” and promote innovation in the Cold War United States. In the late 1950’s and early 1960’s, for example, the Ampex Corporation(inventor of the Video Tape Recorder) studied the effects of LSD on their engineers, and the result was a growing body of literature and data on psychedelic regimens and their effects on technical innovation.
http://cohesion.rice.edu/services/events/index.cfm?eventrecord=6696
http://webcast.rice.edu/index.php?action=details&event=698
Posted on 06-Oct-06 at 5:39 pm | Permalink
Michael wrote:
Thanks Mi Shi, I am surprised to get this comment in response to my short and bleak post. In fact, I still am not sure if is in fact an odd piece of spam. “A gift from the networked conglam-a-gobble of information on the internet”, says Ashby. In any case Richard Doyle has some fascinating work, and I will try to watch the webcast on Monday.
Posted on 06-Oct-06 at 6:57 pm | Permalink
ashby wrote:
Maybe this is a Martin bug? Kudos Michael for publishing some confusion and crankiness. You’re cool enough to be honest, and boring and repetitive. I honor that greatly. You’re not a slave to the notion that being “fine” and smiling into the fog is a normality. Once you open up all your baggage from Germany, lay it out on the floor, and perhaps burn it all in the fire, may you have some good news out of all that darkness. Thank you millions for the update!
Posted on 10-Oct-06 at 4:23 pm | Permalink
martin wrote:
ashby, what is a martin bug ?????
Posted on 15-Oct-06 at 10:04 am | Permalink
martin wrote:
wiggy -miggy, it was your own fault
that is was such a difficult year
because you were incapable of taking
any advice from german students because you didnt listen
and you didnt understand what studying germanistics means especially in germany
because you did not look
because you did hot want nor to listen
nor to look
and this did not change
and everyday until oct 15, 2006 you still
do not take any advice
mouse olaf would say :
\” WIGGY MIGGY IS MOUSE MICKEY ,
BECAUSE THE DEFINITION OF A BEING A MOUSE IS BEING SOMEONE WHO ALWAYS KNOWS
E V E R Y T H I N G BETTER
WITHOUT KNOWING MUCH OR A N Y T H I N G \”
didnt understand
Posted on 15-Oct-06 at 10:10 am | Permalink