Best fan service ever!
27-Oct-09
Castle: “Space Cowboy” (Firefly/Serenity)
Via cappsize.
Workers of the World, Exfoliate!
20-Oct-09
Via Workers of the World, Exfoliate!
Much attention has been paid of late to whether the United States is trending toward socialism. Alleviating socioeconomic differences through the federal government’s active intervention in the economy is a common aim of all socialist movements. Nonetheless, most champions of the less privileged have never made a practical effort to mitigate the social differences caused by the inequitable distribution of what, nowadays, is a factor with an enormous socioeconomic impact: beauty.
Declan MuCullagh wrote a a new article on CBS news regarding the Ephemerisle event, in which I’m quoted.
“The consensus is that next year we’ll do it again in the delta,” says Rasch, who helped to build the floating platform. “Some people, like me, were attracted to the political aspects. Other people were attracted because they like building things on the water, or solving technical challenges. There’s virtue in the camaraderie you get when you build an art project or a platform. The platforms we’re building aren’t appropriate for the open ocean, but the friendships will survive.”
Note that my role in the build was pretty small–I helped with the final build steps on Saturday, but the vast majority of the work was done by Chicken John, James Hogan, and their crew in the weeks leading up to Ephemerisle (and afterward).
First mainstream coverage of Ephemerisle, via patrissimo:
Floating innovative ideas in a sea of creativity
This is Ephemerisle, the latest defiant undermining of the stereotype that California’s tech grotto has no artistic or real-world skills to call its own. The idea, when hatched, was as wobbly as the ferry: hold a festival on water, built and then dismantled by its attendees in the course of a weekend. But then, this is the same intersection of communities that grew Burning Man, a festival that now hosts more than 40,000 attendees in the middle of a barren desert.
Some of the figures involved in that event are here today.
He Said/She Said: A Perfect Pickup and Both Sides of the Story
A new kind of field report. His story and her story.
If you want to get the girl AND make her happy, you need to know what she thinks, and what she feels. You need to know HER story.
I met my girlfriend one sunny afternoon in the city. I was in the middle of teaching Art of Rapport I didn’t know her, and she didn’t know me, but after 10 minutes, we felt like we were supposed to know each other.
This is the story of how it happened.
Both sides of the story. Mine and hers.
Ephemerisle ’09
08-Oct-09
I was pretty busy trying to keep the houseboat flotilla from floating away (Friday) and building the platform (Saturday), so I didn’t take many pictures until the Saturday feast. For many more pictures, video, and blog posts, see the Ephemerisle coverage page.
Patri’s crew on the pirate pyramid
