Flying Shortbread

Be like water. Powerful. Gentle. Adaptable. Ever-changing. Being static in a dynamic world – like the one you and I inhabit – is a recipe for disaster. If you can’t adapt, you can’t succeed. Our practical, three dimensional reality, and everything in it, is in a constant state of transition, while some of us are in a constant state of “same”. Statues don’t succeed, they just get crapped on. Watch out for the pigeons. Source: Lifehack

set a goal that is not 'get the other to admit they are wrong' LOVE - Listen, Observe body language, Verify their point, Empathise even if you don't agree find common ground take a break before you argue agree on small points, defer the bigger points compliment the other acknowledge that the other is allowed to feel what they feel don't raise your voice "What is it about you are feeling that I don't understand" if you are wrong you can't afford to lose your temper, if you are right, you can discuss, don't argue agree to disagree, we don't have to agree just because you are quiet doesn't mean you are peaceful in an emotional argument, hug the person and reassure "I don't want to fight. (NOT BUT) I need to tell you something that's concerning me" it's better to be happy than right don't keep score of past arguments

April 2009: Media Conference MIT6 (transcription) Jessica Clark Time based media - durable stable Space based - ephemeral How can old media participate? Allow publics to form without corporate interference Paradigm shifts Broadcast to network Consumption to conversation Situated to ubiquitous Library to Cloud Citizen is the platform Choice, 24/7, curating media, creating media, collaboration with each other and traditional media Hyperprojects for profit and not for profit Each project has multiple outlets - network of producers Futureofpublicmedia.net Ellen Hume Old media is dying, the old media didn’t ask for action, new media gives phone number, website, facebook group Writing was done for a few officials, and journos crossed their fingers that those officials would be embarrassed enough to do something Publics decide to take up issues, SeeClickFix , the public finds out here and takes it up as an issue. Citizen engagement tool for establishing priorities for...

Excerpt from: Human Nature, learning from the Michael Jackson cacophony The article wasn't really about this, but this struck me: "I may be off in my interpretation of his physical transformation as racial subversion, but trust me when I tell you that, if this were merely aspiration to whiteness, something I might add that many Americans work hard at - regardless of their racial background - so why are we angry at MJ's attempts, most of us wouldn't have a problem with his embodied performance. Otherwise, where is the outrage when a Beyoncé or Lil' Kim shows up on stage looking like a Barbie Doll? Where's the outrage when any public woman - regardless of race - shows up with fake breasts and hair? Some interesting gender and racial issues are on display here in terms of whose bodies should change and whose shouldn't." Source: Diary of an anxious black woman via Toni Kruger

I am teaching Scientologists at the moment and they want to learn in a specific way and have asked me to learn how to teach them. Why not? So, here are the notes I am making while learning how to teach a Scientologist. Basics of Scientology • Religious philosophy • practical methods to better • knowing about knowing Basics of Study Technology • study technology used to learn • willingness to know • focus on how can I apply this • student must be an empty cup , not feel they know everything First barrier of study: Absence of mass • must have the thing you are studying in front of you • it must be real and tangible, practical • pictures and words are not enough • demonstration kit full of objects • clay demonstration - a kind of visualisation Second barrier of study: Too steep a gradient • babysteps • go back to find where the track was lost Third barrier of study: The misunderstood word • not understood or wrongly understood word • unable to take in the info di...

One of these days we will sit down with a wyntjie, don't you worry. I have hooked up with friends that I haven't seen in 20 years and had a wyntjie and been amazed that my heart still responds to the cadences of their voices. Isn't that amazing! Like, AMAZING! Just the same way memories come back from scents in the air, so our hearts always respond to the voices of people we care about. That's a gift.

Keith Olbermann interviews Dan Savage and says: Obama is "Goddamned Wrong" on Don't Ask, Don't Tell Policy Fetsiboomsticks: Can I say it AGAIN. Dan Savage's verbal acuity blows my braincells apart. "Obama is the president, he doesn't have to blink out distress signals, he can issue orders" and "How many more retrograde bigots do we have to wait to get up to speed for" and "(Obama) needs to stop pandering to religious conservatives, not all religious people oppose rights for gays and lesbians" and "There's tremendous symbolic value to (the president raising the issue of abolishing Don't Ask, Don't Tell"). :) Still blown away. Source: YouTub e via Facebook