"Whoa! It demonstrates how to do it! That's new."
"That's cool."
"The graphics aren't as good, do you see that?"
"Can anybody hear me?"
"That's weird." What does that mean? It had Y button with like an arrow down. Just do the move. huh. Oh that was cool!
"Oh wow, what was it?!"
"That's new." "That's cool!"
Both of them are a trip. Separately and together. Austin took us on the scenic route to Waid's for breakfast that just happened to take us by GameStop where the new release of DOA 4 awaited. :-) I really enjoyed watching him play last night, shifting between female and male characters and winning every single game. He explained a lot to me. Very interesting discourse involved with gaming. I asked Alec last night about whether he felt himself thinking in the ways of the games during his real life. "It doesn't make me violent, if that's what you mean." No, that wasn't where I was going. (Obviously he's aware of that interpretation.) He's articulate and concise: you don't solve problems in real-life like you do in the game. I know. What I meant was, there are parts of the games - especially the commercial elements - that are quite optimistic. They point toward possibilities. Austin acknowledged this: some things are just cool, but part of what makes them cool is that they demonstrate potential.
Jesus Evil Kachina tells me one ought to communicate only that which rises to the top.
I arrived in KC to surprise my nephews and sister-in-law. Dad had a few hours warning. :-) The youngest's eyes just about popped out of his head when I told him who I was. Yes, it's been that long. I'm getting lessons in PSP, Dance Dance Revolution Extreme 2 (Alec scored a perfect 100 tonight on Captain Jack), Halo (Gamertag SS4 Shinobi), and Dead or Alive Ultimate (Austin is in the top 100 worldwide).
I'm planning on downloading Full Metal Alchemy once I've finished this trip; got a bit of an explanation from the Jamester as I peered over his shoulder yesterday and was intrigued.
Little Brother calls during bowling (affection flows back). Blood brother suffers. Parental pathology is passed on. I dream randomly.
SEMP subjected me to the most intensive grilling I’ve yet received over the Informed Consent form for Reflexivity. :-) The beginning point was this “favorite sentence”:
The guidelines used for selecting material have to do with intrasubjectively-perceived salience in the moment,…
The individual words make sense, but what do I mean by stringing them together in this way? Most simply, what I mean is, “I decide”. Yet the consent form puts limits on this power. The different choices people make concerning their own consent establish certain conditions that I commit to operate within – each individual’s decision contributes to a structure of accountability for me. Why do I need to be accountable to others in this way? Why not just rely on my own personal integrity? Because any kind of integrity requires a supporting structure and I’ve had no other. The academic language adds (hypothetically) a precision that seeks to specify the rationale justifying the choices I make.
I’m quizzed about “public” and “private”. “There’s no such thing as privacy,” says Jesus Evil Kachina. Intersubjectivity theorists (whoever these might be, smile) agree: we all mutually co-construct each other through acts of calling (instead of/in addition to "mission", also identity: interpellation). In commonsense terms, one could say we do this through culture (norms, values, etc).
“I don’t know if I want to be a blog! “ A log? A bog? “It sounds like a glob.!” A lob?
Yeseni commented a few weeks ago about Reggaeton and his favorite, Daddy Yankee. Neat site. And I do like the mix of percussion and vocals...party music for sure!
(Yeah, me slow. Did someone say, "end of the semester?")
A friend sends another link to warn me off blogging: Bloggers Need Not Apply.
with friends like this ...!
:-)
Donna sends round a story by AARON NICODEMUS of the New Bedford (MA) Standard-Times, "Agents' visit chills UMass Dartmouth senior" about Homeland Security monitoring interlibrary loans.
politically incorrect glad tidings to all!
The Fringe City promo after it is much better. Clever sequence. "...everything here is theoretical, every motive may be ulterior....this is the undefined medium between before and after, just as far from never as forever..."
shared via email from my favorite anonymous spiritual (!) guide. :-)
If I am ever able to do the kinds of collaborative things I want to do online this tool, history flow, or something like it might be useful.
posted to the AoIR listserv in the midst of a debate about wikipedia's reliability. I agree that it's a good place to start and that multiple references are always best.
