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vlionlife in bellingham (north of Seattle) is nice. its raining tremendous amounts here now. fall and so forth. we're still unpacking books. we have lots of books.
I wish I had more interesting things to say that didn't come in "super long form". I think more and more, if its worth saying much about, it's worth saying in depth, with detail, and with citations and bibliography. I've become quite convinced that long form writing and long form thought are really and truely the best way to work out thoughts. This may correlate with book ownership, but - also I think it comes of reading many tweets and many forum posts over the years that are short and ill-thought out.
I'm debating working up a homeschool computer science curriculum.
I'm debating working up an (un)systematic theology of my beliefs and understanding of Christianity - loosely, they ought to be considered antinomian/antihierarchical and mystical. these are not popular trends and have never been.
I've started to learn Hebrew a bit. Slow going.
I've been involved in some of the PNW tech activism relating to the NSA. I don't believe it's going to be fruitful except as a stop-gap - the internet of things is coming and a body of law, culture, and thought need to come into existence about it before nasty little nazi-minded tyrants take advantage of the opening. This is a good example of a start: http://www.nytimes.com/2013/09/29/magazine/dave-eggers-fiction.html?_r=0 this needs to be a conversation in the US and an understanding of what is acceptable. The NYT in the conversation really helps the conversation exist outside of my FSF/functional programming world.
I want to drop out of the activism. I think my life has too much in it and activism is best left to those who have a heart for it. I am in it because I think it genuinely has a potential to threaten the ability of a church to freely speak - chilling of discourse sort of thing.
Visiting with some of the DW people in the area has been nice. if you ever have the yen to go out for coffee with a vlion, let me know. if you come in from far away I might be able to drift down Seattle way.
I wish I had more interesting things to say that didn't come in "super long form". I think more and more, if its worth saying much about, it's worth saying in depth, with detail, and with citations and bibliography. I've become quite convinced that long form writing and long form thought are really and truely the best way to work out thoughts. This may correlate with book ownership, but - also I think it comes of reading many tweets and many forum posts over the years that are short and ill-thought out.
I'm debating working up a homeschool computer science curriculum.
I'm debating working up an (un)systematic theology of my beliefs and understanding of Christianity - loosely, they ought to be considered antinomian/antihierarchical and mystical. these are not popular trends and have never been.
I've started to learn Hebrew a bit. Slow going.
I've been involved in some of the PNW tech activism relating to the NSA. I don't believe it's going to be fruitful except as a stop-gap - the internet of things is coming and a body of law, culture, and thought need to come into existence about it before nasty little nazi-minded tyrants take advantage of the opening. This is a good example of a start: http://www.nytimes.com/2013/09/29/magazine/dave-eggers-fiction.html?_r=0 this needs to be a conversation in the US and an understanding of what is acceptable. The NYT in the conversation really helps the conversation exist outside of my FSF/functional programming world.
I want to drop out of the activism. I think my life has too much in it and activism is best left to those who have a heart for it. I am in it because I think it genuinely has a potential to threaten the ability of a church to freely speak - chilling of discourse sort of thing.
Visiting with some of the DW people in the area has been nice. if you ever have the yen to go out for coffee with a vlion, let me know. if you come in from far away I might be able to drift down Seattle way.
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Date: 2013-09-30 01:05 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2013-09-30 01:39 am (UTC)I may take you up on that in some time. I need to master the alephbet first, and have some passing acquaintance with vocab and grammar.
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Date: 2013-09-30 01:41 am (UTC)Any resources in particular that you're using?
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Date: 2013-09-30 12:54 pm (UTC)That said, I hope your power hasn't gone out so far this weekend and stays on today. :)
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Date: 2013-10-02 01:22 am (UTC)