Damn it s quiet here. I ve had two giant posts in the draft folder for some time. One of my blog-heroes Tom Woodward has tagged me on a vintage Blog Questions Challenge in hopes of offering me an an easy post to write . A kind sentiment which prompts rueful laughter from me I can make any [ ]
Suppose he had espoused his opinions on AI, I reflected: they probably wouldn t have carried the weight he fervently hoped they would—significant opinions, even halfway significant opinions, even insightful opinions, being so exceedingly rare. Anyway, I decided, if there was anything the human race had a sufficiency of, a sufficiency and a surfeit, it was [ ]
Irwin DeVries passed away last week. He will be missed so much, by so many of us. His career in education spanned five decades: he was at the Open Learning Agency in the early eighties, and over the years he made immense contributions to the Justice Institute of BC, TRU Open Learning (retiring as our [ ]
TRU participates in a program called Leave for Change, which matches the needs of partners in developing countries with the skills of Canadian partner organizations to build capacity at both ends . Essentially, employees donate vacation time toward volunteer assignments managed by the World University Service of Canada (WUSC) and TRU covers additional expenses. I know [ ]
Some things I might have posted to Twitter if Twitter wasn t run by this guy. So yes. Elon Musk picked a fight with a wheelchair-using Icelandic entrepreneur with muscular distrophy on a public twitter thread, hoping to humiliate a parasitic do-nothing employee, and instead revealed the damage done as he continues to smash his $44 [ ]
People responded kindly after that last post, and otherwise been reaching out and asking about the trip south with Jim Groom, which is appreciated. One week ago, after an epic jaunt that included nine stops across California and Oregon, I returned home late at night, and woke up the next day to a full inbox [ ]
Sitting here in the quiet cozy confines of the departure lounge in the Kamloops airport, and it feels like a significant departure point in other ways as well. I m about to head off for a two week jaunt along the US west coast, much of it riding shotgun for the Bava s game repair scavenger hunt. [ ]
Preamble soundtrack: Bat Hearse, The Day Don McLean Died One of the ways I m a bad blogger is failing to post about the good stuff when it happens. Usually because the best moments are the hardest to get right, and I worry about seeming obnoxious in celebration, showing the right amount of gratitude, or trying [ ]
Today, in blog posts that probably should have been a Tweet Reading Adam Johnson s People Feel Unsafe Because Visible Poverty Is Everywhere last night hit me hard, and I haven t been able to shake it. A few key excerpts: Homelessness is used interchangeably with crime despite it not being one—beyond a social one inflicted upon [ ]
Once upon blotted-out time, the abject must have been a magnetized pole of covetousness. But the ashes of oblivion now serve as a screen and reflect aversion, repugnance. The clean and proper (in the sense of incorporated and incorporable) becomes filthy, the sought-after turns into the banished, fascination into shame. Then, forgotten time crops up [ ]