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Sep. 13th, 2013 18:59Thursday September 12, 2013 Achy, feeling blah. Didn't get much of anything done.
***Of course, there are limits to how differently people can think dept:
"A writer friend called me one day, wanting to know how I 'organized' my work for my research-intensive book Thief Eyes, because she was working on a research-intensive book of her own. After some hollow laughter at that word, organized, I allowed as how I don’t work that way and didn’t for Thief Eyes: I jumped in and wrote, and figured out what I needed to learn along the way. There was no up-front plan, only shaping and reshaping things once I had words on the wheel.
My friend sort of nodded understandingly, or I imagined she did through our phone connection. Then, after a moment’s silence, she said, 'So, what do you do then? Use notecards?'"
http://janni.livejournal.com/1247400.html
Something I've learned from the Synesthesia mailing list: Many synesthetes take for granted that everyone else has synesthesia till they find out differently. For some, soon after they learn to talk. For others, might be in a college psychology class -- "Why is the instructor talking about this as if it's unusual?" And there was mention of a mathematician who, till his early sixties, took for granted that his colleagues used their synesthesia in their work.
Challenge: Write down what you think the minds of all humans who are sane enough to walk around loose have in common. Show the list to people you know. Prepare to be shocked, and perhaps laughed at.
***Don Fitch replied on LiveJournal to this:
'Community Progress @CProgressNews
"#Detroit has an opportunity, 20, 30 yrs from now, to really be a leader in food production." @DETFutureCity #rvp2013
Retweeted by Next City'
"Actually Detroit could do it in five years or less. Not mass-production of food, but serving the High-Scale (& Expensive) Gourmet vegetable market. Bulldozing & removing structures, followed by building reasonably good soil could be done in four years. The hand-care & harvesting (leaf-by-leaf lettuce, &cet.) is time-consuming and at minimum-wage one worker would be hard-put to support a family, but it's [less] tedious than hard physical labor, so perhaps this deserves serious consideration."
In the Twin Cities, several businesses farm in multiple backyards rented from homeowners. Urban beekeeping is growing. There's a cooperative garden in my neighborhood which provides food to senior citizens.
In much of the urban US, there are numerous lawns which could be converted to agriculture. And vacant lots with weeds. And....
***Of course, there are limits to how differently people can think dept:
"A writer friend called me one day, wanting to know how I 'organized' my work for my research-intensive book Thief Eyes, because she was working on a research-intensive book of her own. After some hollow laughter at that word, organized, I allowed as how I don’t work that way and didn’t for Thief Eyes: I jumped in and wrote, and figured out what I needed to learn along the way. There was no up-front plan, only shaping and reshaping things once I had words on the wheel.
My friend sort of nodded understandingly, or I imagined she did through our phone connection. Then, after a moment’s silence, she said, 'So, what do you do then? Use notecards?'"
http://janni.livejournal.com/1247400.html
Something I've learned from the Synesthesia mailing list: Many synesthetes take for granted that everyone else has synesthesia till they find out differently. For some, soon after they learn to talk. For others, might be in a college psychology class -- "Why is the instructor talking about this as if it's unusual?" And there was mention of a mathematician who, till his early sixties, took for granted that his colleagues used their synesthesia in their work.
Challenge: Write down what you think the minds of all humans who are sane enough to walk around loose have in common. Show the list to people you know. Prepare to be shocked, and perhaps laughed at.
***Don Fitch replied on LiveJournal to this:
'Community Progress @CProgressNews
"#Detroit has an opportunity, 20, 30 yrs from now, to really be a leader in food production." @DETFutureCity #rvp2013
Retweeted by Next City'
"Actually Detroit could do it in five years or less. Not mass-production of food, but serving the High-Scale (& Expensive) Gourmet vegetable market. Bulldozing & removing structures, followed by building reasonably good soil could be done in four years. The hand-care & harvesting (leaf-by-leaf lettuce, &cet.) is time-consuming and at minimum-wage one worker would be hard-put to support a family, but it's [less] tedious than hard physical labor, so perhaps this deserves serious consideration."
In the Twin Cities, several businesses farm in multiple backyards rented from homeowners. Urban beekeeping is growing. There's a cooperative garden in my neighborhood which provides food to senior citizens.
In much of the urban US, there are numerous lawns which could be converted to agriculture. And vacant lots with weeds. And....