Once again unto the breach” — Henry V<\/p>\n
Another program\/event for reskilling and reusing at the Portland area library:\u00a0 Held August 30th at 6pm in the main multipurpose room.\u00a0 Open to the public.\u00a0\u00a0 Lots to be discussed as usual.\u00a0 Joining in person and joining via listening to the podcast represent the idea of “being present”.\u00a0 Do so.<\/p>\n
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Some things can’t be helped…Like hosting\/attending\/ ==========<\/p>\n Unfortunately, the sound file was either corrupted or incorrectly saved, or both–leading to the horrible situation of having no sound file available.\u00a0 Not even in Recycle Bin.\u00a0 Luckily, I found DiskDigger freeware which dug some of the deleted files out of the hard drive.\u00a0 The recovered audio file is in 6 second increments, per the Audacity program manner of saving, and the filenames are not chronological.\u00a0 The audio file is in filename order, however, which makes for a popcorn effect which is impossible to make sense of.\u00a0 Furthermore, the stereo files are separated, so there are many repeated 6 second snippets.\u00a0 Maybe someday I’ll reorder the 6-second files into chronological order and remove redundancies, but I’m not holding my breath since it is only encompassing the last 10 minutes of a 90 minute reskilling\/reusing session\/event.\u00a0 Here’s the wonders of modern technology:<\/p>\n http:\/\/metageny.com\/reskill\/audio\/snippets%20of%20august%20reskilling%202016.mp3<\/a><\/p>\n <\/p>\n If you want to know what we talked about, here’s the notes from the meeting which we only got to about half the contents:<\/p>\n AUGUST 2016 RESKILLING AND REUSING EVENT PROGRAM<\/p>\n Novelty in agenda: PSYCHOLOGICAL SOCIOLOGICAL CULTURAL\/TABOO\/DEEP ISSUES ANNOUNCEMENTS BOOK REVIEW: LAUGHTER YOGA:\u00a0 we all can see and hear… we all can speak English fluently… we all got here on wheels… we will all live to be 120…\u00a0 we can run a mile… we are all quite clever…we have all laughed at bill cosby’s jokes… we allow Wall Street to play with our mortgage… Fracking keeps our gas prices super low… The new normal is obsolete by supper time… we have conscious awareness of here and now…\u00a0 Laughing helps, I guess… We can stop now…<\/p>\n SEANCE:\u00a0 Subtle knife:\u00a0 close eyes, find a spot, open your heart to whimsy\/fullness\/glee\/surprise, then take infiitely sharp knife and slice open and peel away into a new universe — ponder where you are with intuition and perhaps hallucinations, then zip up again.\u00a0 Your secret.<\/p>\n WRAP UP: Podcast posted to website.\u00a0 Please publicize the meeting.\u00a0 This Land is Your Land<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Once again unto the breach” — Henry V Another program\/event for reskilling and reusing at the Portland area library:\u00a0 Held August 30th at 6pm in the main multipurpose room.\u00a0 Open to the public.\u00a0\u00a0 Lots to be discussed as usual.\u00a0 Joining … Continue reading
\nIntro: Why reskill and why reuse?\u00a0 Why meet in person? Why record for podcast? Fireside chat — anything on topic.
\nPhysical, then Psychological, then Sociological, then culture\/taboo\/deep issues\/spiritual\/elephants in the room
\nBOOK REVIEW
\nAnnouncements
\nLaughter yoga
\nSEANCE–give it a try
\nWrap Up
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\nPHYSICAL
\nMade a wood shed from found wood and pallets.
\nReUse: Grabbing tree trunk sections instead of sending to land fill.\u00a0 Use for stove.\u00a0 Learn to clean chimney pipe of creosote.\u00a0 Learning how to split big tree trunk sections:\u00a0 Sharpen axes and bring in the wedge.\u00a0 Find sledge hammer.
\nReUse old metal grate for use as gate for chain link fence.\u00a0 Make hinge from eye bolts, but force analysis needed to keep robust and in place.\u00a0 Take picture of lower hinge of gate and fix it by reversing the hinge and elongating the eyebolt.
\nReUse and Reskilling:\u00a0 Spent grain can be quite tasty. lots of the starches have been removed, leaving the protein and fiber.\u00a0 Brewers should never throw this stuff away…and they shouldn’t give it to cows\/chickens unless humans say they don’t want it.\u00a0 Yeast is not a problem with spent grain for compost.
\nSpent grain at breweries.\u00a0 Drying the grain in a solar oven?\u00a0 Beer takes up lots of grain, so it’s just a luxury item…or a transition item. http:\/\/www.metacookbook.com\/tag\/spent-grain\/\u00a0 Start using breadmaker with spent grains.\u00a0 Find a way to grind the dried spent grains.
\nEmerson Garden shed — don’t destroy.\u00a0 Store used tiller.\u00a0 Existing built environment is thrifty, but “new” is safer so insurance\/risk\/liability is in play.
\nFood:\u00a0 harvest, compost, replant for fall.\u00a0 Monetize your meat:\u00a0 Transition from dollar bill sized meat portions to the size of a quarter.
\nPlant food in your front yard…even though it might get stolen.
\nCuttings for Grapevines should be given out every Sunday after church.
\nHumans ate kelp while migrating from alaska to chile.\u00a0 We are ignoring submerged plant eating…e.g. drum in back yard.
\nDIY pipe shotgn with hot pads.\u00a0 $1. Over-population isn’t even being written about, let along thought\/talked about.
\nFolding saw is so convenient:\u00a0 Can keep in purse.
\nInvest in harness for roof work and tie around chimney.\u00a0 Also don’t forget knee pads (Bargain Supply)
\nScavenged mesh from trampolines and using above my driveway to partially block sunlight.
\nBrother gave bag from Trader joes:\u00a0 If this bag is framed after use, is it recycling or reusing?
\nalso from brother:
\nI scrounged some sod pallets some time ago. Waiting for a use for them.
\nMy chicken coop is made significantly from reused wood stock.
\nHow about making something last a long time? Dad liked aluminum paint as a rust resister, and he made a lot of his own tools for outdoor building maintenance and yardwork!
\nMy garden shed needed replacing when we moved into our home 12 years ago, but by patching all the micro-holes in the tin roof with roofing tar (from the inside on a sunny day), and by applying Rust-Oleum primer on the outside roof, and by modest paint touch-up and repair, it is still going!
\nThe shed is good cover for my gardening tools, of which the metal I sharpen and oil, and the wooden handles I rub with boiled linseed oil, at least annually.
\nWhen the boys were young, I noticed a previously-used, wooden play structure in my neighbor’s yard. I made an offer on it, they accepted, I dismantled it, modified it slightly, and erected it in our yard.
\nI keep a large outdoor storage area of stones, pavers, old cement blocks, lumber, deck replacement boards, fencing, all behind a stacked firewood visual screen for my neighbor’s sake.
\nMuch more…<\/p>\n
\nTake time for fantasy and utopia, since daily grind can get rough if weather or health or finances aren’t perfect.
\nHave a 5 year plan, but not a 10 year plan.
\nUse outdoor assets.
\nGet out and do things in early mornings when it’s cooler.
\nLearn what it is to be hungry.<\/p>\n
\nUse city info\/staff:\u00a0 News sources update. I like Metro 25 in the background.
\nReskilling:\u00a0 short vignette plays and mimes and speaking of self in 3rd person– to convey meaning in a world of words that are meant to obfuscate\/derail with great facility.
\nLouieLab and the CNET Urban Smart Home are expected to launch in September.
\nnew offices for the city\u2019s Office of Performance Improvement and Innovation.\u00a0 5th floor of 745 Main st\u00a0 <https:\/\/louisvilleky.gov\/news\/louisville-opening-louielab-collaborative-civic-innovation-performance-improvement>
\nReskill:\u00a0 Learn to find people to play tennis.\u00a0 Alternative: play solo at Shawnee Park has a tennis backstop for practice.
\nGood soap opera drama:\u00a0 Look at satellite images of actic ice.\u00a0 Scarier than any apocolytic zombie walk.\u00a0 Find good debates where both sides make good points:\u00a0 debate clubs and law schools —\u00a0 not the media.\u00a0 Better yet, find case law and listen to computer reading of text: Use Google Scholar.\u00a0 Get familiar with legal system — lifelong learning: Words in laws\/policies are our freedom or our prison cell bars, so get to know them.
\nPolice are using NextDoor to interact with neighborhood, but it can get abusive.\u00a0 BBB gives it a D-.
\nFamily and clan are 700,000 years old (fire) but city is 6,000…and hive mind is only 20 years.\u00a0 We really need to step carefully as a species on the planet.<\/p>\n
\nLow lying fruit that you can bite into:
\nKnowing when you are being mind-controlled isn’t enough — you must eschew…close eyes and block ears.
\nCynical Understanding:\u00a0 cynicism like cinammon has no bounds, and is spot on and adds to the spice of life– but is only helpful in moderation, like cinammon.
\nTrump virus: asking taboo questions.\u00a0 e.g. Trash: pass laws to bring backhoe and bury your garbage in your backyard if you don’t clean it up and then bill you — so that you will lose your home soon to foreclosure.
\nReskill:\u00a0 Get good at cartoons since they can convey ideas to legislators that they otherwise obfuscate by words.\u00a0 Make them view images for a set number of minutes by videoing their eyes while they watch a slideshow on mountaintop removal or something.
\nCartoons example does this:\u00a0 Start doing things radically different within the system, using something called (to animals) the Immune System — it self-corrects without revolution, but sometimes the inflammation can hurt while healing takes place; it’s just nerves firing — you’ll live.
\nReUse\/reskilling purpose: to show that if we adopt a Victory Garden\/WWII mobilization across the world\/nation and focus research on carbon sequestration, we can still survive as a species.\u00a0 Solar panels and windmills are all massively heat generating to make the materials, so it’s not a win without massive effort and sacrifice. Why no one talks about over population?\u00a0 Nothing more important than future laborers…that’s why rowe v wade is so important, b\/cs TPTB want control over their future laborers…and they won’t let women thumb their noses to their plans for ever cheap labor.
\n‘trust gap’ — e.g. where do we go to find the real deal? Myths:\u00a0 MUSHROOMS or ENKIDU.\u00a0 Maybe truth needs to be like a mushroom, e.g. hidden underground and then pops up all over the place when the time is right.\u00a0 Traditional news\/info isn’t working, so the new model is mushroom info.\u00a0 Like a tsunami\/earthquake: shocking and unstoppable…and (most importantly) untaintable.\u00a0 or ENKIDU who is the wildman who shocks the all powerful king after ENKIDU dies, e.g. not standing for the National Anthem.\u00a0 (Portland Anchor)<\/p>\n
\nReskilling:\u00a0 Announce on FB.\u00a0 Gather together thoughts from this last month.
\nSolid Waste Mtg being held at same time as reskilling\/reusing, but one is mega, and one is micro.
\nNeed help at Portland History Festival on October 10th:\u00a0 Kids can screw together an amoeba with screw gun. Someone needs to be at the table to oversee the screw gun and hand out bandaids.\u00a0 Also overseeing its painting, blindfolded.
\nShawnee area has Math and Science Center spontaneously generating.<\/p>\n
\nThe Useful Book:\u00a0 too many recipes and procedures.\u00a0 For reference only.
\nGreen Living:\u00a0 Thoughtful and wise — and practical in ways that are broad, but even the expert can learn from a reading.
\nGraphic Novels — take your mind off things.
\nThe Golden Compass: His Dark Materials — 3rd popular after Lord of rings, Harry Potter.\u00a0 Gave idea for seance.
\nSummary:\u00a0 Overwhelmingly Humbling.\u00a0 Mourning loss of free time to read.<\/p>\n