that thing you do
Jun. 26th, 2002 05:41 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
gurdonarkDear Computer Mouse:
I don't know why sometimes when I'm on line, you suddenly begin to function only on the margins of my computer page, so that I must depress you, and hold you down, as if I were a bully, to get you to skate over my LJ page. I am glad, though, that you are not like my wife's computer mouse, which will sometimes go on strike, without telling me, just after I have written a 3,999 character post, so that I cannot post it, cut it, paste it, or do anything but utilize words and phrases that are no mellifluous when issuing from my lips. Thanks for listening, and if I've helped you think about any life changes you wish to make, call me.
Sincerely,
Gurdonark
I'm stealing a last moment pre-raisin-bran and pre-running (into the office to gather a few things for my business trip today) before my flight. I am eager for this trip to go well, but mostly I'm eager to get all the things I need to do today notwithstanding travelling done.
When I kept wild guppies, I loved the way different generations of guppies showed "themes" of colors. I notice that journals show themes, too. My friendgregwest98 posted his left hand, which is roughly the third or fourth left hand I've seen posted lately. None of them look like hands of darkness. Heat and summer jobs as the twin destroyers of all happiness also are a bit theme.
Two threads on the problem of art exchanges have popped up simultaneously--one thread on the frustrating nature of dealing with people who don't do their part, and another exchange on the frustrating nature of people who get really frustrated with people who, for understandable reasons, don't do their part.
Note to self: take both positions simultaneously, finish the one exchange in your hand, try not to kvetch (hate that word) too much about the lmao that NEVER arrived though it was supposedly mailed months ago, and try to seek out horizons in which NOBODY to whom one SENDS ANYTHING has ANY obligation to oneself WHATSOEVER, save arguably the obligation to not feel guilty about any failure at all.
I am very sympathetic to the other side of this one, though.
What's the point of making an agreement if people can't keep agreements? I want my hobbies to be reasonably free of contracts, but I do believe in the "sanctity" of contracts. If one promises to do something in return for a consideration, then one should do it. So I "get" where both sides are coming from. I guess I just want to avoid contract altogether. But people "ought" to live up to their agreements barring extreme circumstances. It's just the right thing to do. The key? Make few agreements.
A similar problem I see discussed is what I call the My Little Pony dilemma. I feel peculiarly qualified to discuss this topic because I am undoubtedly the least talented artist on LJ, nervousness, or postcardx. The phrase "My Little Pony", to me, symbolizes a certain sort of cuteness that is not my own personal way of living my life. On the one hand, I want a world which is safe for cute people. I have been cute in bursts of five to ten minutes at a time. On the other hand, I sympathize with folks who want more from their "art intake" than glitter glued to a postcard with a quote by Richard Bach or a "collage" of TV cartoon material played without irony. I guess I come down on the "send me anything you want, just anything, just let me send to you" camp, but I completely get the position that wants time spent and thought exchanged. It's a problem, and as always, I see both sides.
I read one postcardx'er comment months ago "Hey, folks, not everything is worth a 21 cent stamp", but I must admit that I am happy to get most things. I merely live in trepidation that my own offerings are 19 cents short of 21 cents worth. At the same time, I totally get the people who don't want yet another cycle of Kinko's copies sent to them, with simple block lines and no thought.
I guess this is one more issue on which I fervently take both sides and believe every word I say for either position.
So I guess when it comes to cuteness (of which I can rarely but sometimes be guilty) and talentlessness (of which I am always guilty), I see both sides of this issue--gee,I must have a JD degree.
For some reason, the verse alteration comes to me:
"If we had but world enough, and time,
the delay in exchange would be no crime",
but that seems a little obvious, not to mention unduly suggestive (not that suggestive is always bad) and perhaps
I should focus on altering the Donne poem to
point out that the flea which bit both of us
completed an exchange which the whim of artists, the press of business and the postal service never seem to manage.
There is a limitless set of possibilities to parody mail art issues using romantic English poetry. Too bad I have to travel, before I can work out how Dover Beach is like nervousness.org.
I need to go read that articlekenmora e mailed me about how the mimetic whole is the organism, and we are all merely cells. I am worried I am stuck in the appendix someplace or some similarly ambiguous organ.
I don't know why sometimes when I'm on line, you suddenly begin to function only on the margins of my computer page, so that I must depress you, and hold you down, as if I were a bully, to get you to skate over my LJ page. I am glad, though, that you are not like my wife's computer mouse, which will sometimes go on strike, without telling me, just after I have written a 3,999 character post, so that I cannot post it, cut it, paste it, or do anything but utilize words and phrases that are no mellifluous when issuing from my lips. Thanks for listening, and if I've helped you think about any life changes you wish to make, call me.
Sincerely,
Gurdonark
I'm stealing a last moment pre-raisin-bran and pre-running (into the office to gather a few things for my business trip today) before my flight. I am eager for this trip to go well, but mostly I'm eager to get all the things I need to do today notwithstanding travelling done.
When I kept wild guppies, I loved the way different generations of guppies showed "themes" of colors. I notice that journals show themes, too. My friend
gregwest98 posted his left hand, which is roughly the third or fourth left hand I've seen posted lately. None of them look like hands of darkness. Heat and summer jobs as the twin destroyers of all happiness also are a bit theme. Two threads on the problem of art exchanges have popped up simultaneously--one thread on the frustrating nature of dealing with people who don't do their part, and another exchange on the frustrating nature of people who get really frustrated with people who, for understandable reasons, don't do their part.
Note to self: take both positions simultaneously, finish the one exchange in your hand, try not to kvetch (hate that word) too much about the lmao that NEVER arrived though it was supposedly mailed months ago, and try to seek out horizons in which NOBODY to whom one SENDS ANYTHING has ANY obligation to oneself WHATSOEVER, save arguably the obligation to not feel guilty about any failure at all.
I am very sympathetic to the other side of this one, though.
What's the point of making an agreement if people can't keep agreements? I want my hobbies to be reasonably free of contracts, but I do believe in the "sanctity" of contracts. If one promises to do something in return for a consideration, then one should do it. So I "get" where both sides are coming from. I guess I just want to avoid contract altogether. But people "ought" to live up to their agreements barring extreme circumstances. It's just the right thing to do. The key? Make few agreements.
A similar problem I see discussed is what I call the My Little Pony dilemma. I feel peculiarly qualified to discuss this topic because I am undoubtedly the least talented artist on LJ, nervousness, or postcardx. The phrase "My Little Pony", to me, symbolizes a certain sort of cuteness that is not my own personal way of living my life. On the one hand, I want a world which is safe for cute people. I have been cute in bursts of five to ten minutes at a time. On the other hand, I sympathize with folks who want more from their "art intake" than glitter glued to a postcard with a quote by Richard Bach or a "collage" of TV cartoon material played without irony. I guess I come down on the "send me anything you want, just anything, just let me send to you" camp, but I completely get the position that wants time spent and thought exchanged. It's a problem, and as always, I see both sides.
I read one postcardx'er comment months ago "Hey, folks, not everything is worth a 21 cent stamp", but I must admit that I am happy to get most things. I merely live in trepidation that my own offerings are 19 cents short of 21 cents worth. At the same time, I totally get the people who don't want yet another cycle of Kinko's copies sent to them, with simple block lines and no thought.
I guess this is one more issue on which I fervently take both sides and believe every word I say for either position.
So I guess when it comes to cuteness (of which I can rarely but sometimes be guilty) and talentlessness (of which I am always guilty), I see both sides of this issue--gee,I must have a JD degree.
For some reason, the verse alteration comes to me:
"If we had but world enough, and time,
the delay in exchange would be no crime",
but that seems a little obvious, not to mention unduly suggestive (not that suggestive is always bad) and perhaps
I should focus on altering the Donne poem to
point out that the flea which bit both of us
completed an exchange which the whim of artists, the press of business and the postal service never seem to manage.
There is a limitless set of possibilities to parody mail art issues using romantic English poetry. Too bad I have to travel, before I can work out how Dover Beach is like nervousness.org.
I need to go read that article
kenmora e mailed me about how the mimetic whole is the organism, and we are all merely cells. I am worried I am stuck in the appendix someplace or some similarly ambiguous organ.
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Date: 2002-06-26 04:55 am (UTC)Ahem, everyone should clean their mouse occasionally!
Mimetics and Mice
Date: 2002-06-26 06:07 am (UTC)By the way G, forget cleaning, buy an optical mouse, I've used the one at work for nearly two years now and have changed all Heidi's at home and work to optical. No muss no fuss. I can buy one from work at a discount if you're interested, and you can pick it up when you get here.
eeek a mouse
Date: 2002-06-26 06:14 am (UTC)Re: Mimetics and Mice
Date: 2002-06-26 06:15 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2002-06-26 07:21 am (UTC)Re: Mimetics and Mice
Date: 2002-06-26 07:23 am (UTC)no subject
Re: Mimetics and Mice
Date: 2002-06-26 10:28 am (UTC)This meme has now behaved like a living organism, using you to propogate itself (now there are two believers in Boo Boo, or at least two hosts capable of passing on the meme of Boo Boo).
My observation is that the more similar (and absolute, or exclusive) memes are, the more antagonistic they must be.
Re: Mimetics and Mice
Date: 2002-06-26 11:01 am (UTC)Re: Mimetics and Mice
Date: 2002-06-26 11:10 am (UTC)no subject
Or at least that's what I tell myself. I think of LMAOs as being irresponsibility teachers for the teens and college kids of America. But I don't know all that much about it.
Judge Wapner
Date: 2002-06-26 12:46 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2002-06-26 05:54 pm (UTC)it is also one of my favorite films
i am having success with my first lmao out there and have been too afraid to jinx it
i have sweated over some of the delays already
learning to trust more and more
Re: Mimetics and Mice
Date: 2002-06-26 07:07 pm (UTC);-)
Re: Mimetics and Mice
Date: 2002-06-26 07:45 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2002-06-27 05:02 am (UTC)