mccain
sitting with position on obama
waits for obama to make his play
biden
not hillary
what does that say
biden
what does that say
to whom is he speaking
mccain sees a tell and makes his play
palin
all-in with palin
straight talk rollin
mccain the maverick fighter
alaska woman at his side
choo choo who do you choose
obama seen and raised
action now to him
:<)
sitting silent in room 117 of the moses cone womens hospital with leila not quite asleep in the bed before me, exhausted, eyes rolling, now asleep in just the moment of writing, sebastian asleep on the couch to my left, max, 7lb 13 oz asleep in his plastic box crib, sasha, 7 lb 10 oz asleep in hers. i am on duty, watching over them. i am to wake sebastian at 6:30 to start the next feeding cycle.
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Micro Cliff Notes
via The Daily Dish | By Andrew Sullivan by Andrew Sullivan on 6/25/08
Literary classics in three lines or less. An example:
Paradise Lost
ADAM: Paradise has arbitrary dietary restrictions?
DEVIL: They’re really more like guidelines.
GOD: Incorrect.
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From: Charles Nesson
Date: Thu, Jun 26, 2008 at 7:08 AM
To: wayneandwax
fabulous
what does it mean
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To: Charles Nesson
it’s a piece in mcsweeney’s — a humorous attempt to sum up classic works in 3 lines or fewer — thought you guys would appreciate the milton one
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To: wayne marshall , Fern Nesson
yes, but what is the message:
Hmm. I think it’s mainly a joke, but if you want to get all hermeneutical — though this is probably obvious — I’d say that this gloss on “Paradise Lost” makes light of the existential/ethical question posed to Adam by the apple by couching it in the banal regulatory language of the present day (“dietary restrictions”); it distorts as it makes funny/cunning Lucifer’s intervention in the Garden; and it reduces God’s reasons for keeping humans ignorant to a laconic retort. In a sense, it seems to dismiss all of the psychodrama that makes the work so great, but then again, it manages to express some of these characters’ essential characteristics, despite the great brevity.
Or were you asking something else?
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how marvellous that i play it here tapping on keys with feedback on a screen and in the sounds my fingers make
two fat books this morning from katie salen eric zimmerman
game design
freedom this afternoon
with a class to link aristotle, jesus, kundera
Team Apotheosis
The exploration of personal freedom compels an answer to why freedom matters. We will discuss freedom as understood on a personal level, trying to understand why it is important to us. Looking at Aristotle on happiness and the Christian take on freedom, we find different reasons to value freedom. This should then open the door for a discussion of why we value freedom, and, delving deeper, how we can justify the restrictions we impose on our own freedom.
Reading List
The Bible (Gal 3:19-29, Gal 4:1-6)
Scripture gives meaning to the Christian ideas of freedom. In its broadest and most important understanding, humans were created with a free will permitting them to choose to love God at their discretion. This freedom is unqualified in its permissiveness, but not in its consequences, and this informs the writings of Paul the Apostle when he characterizes submission to God’s will as a means of attaining freedom, both in the present context of a life on Earth and for eternal implications. This tradeoff is peculiar, because it finds that freedoms can be traded, and that an absolute freedom might ultimately result in the restraints of the consequences of unfettered choice, while choosing initial limitation can grant an individual far greater agency over his or her decisions.
Nicomachean Ethics, Book I (Aristotle)
In this excerpt, Aristotle argues that the ultimate end or purpose in life is happiness. All our efforts are directed toward things that veer toward happiness because while we aspire to many ends, they are not final, but they are instead subservient to the larger purpose of happiness. When we imagine all the things we work toward, we can reasonably say that for every reasonable aspiration its hopeful conclusion will be greater happiness. But for happiness itself, we never say that we seek it in order to fulfil another desire or virtue.
But if happiness is the end in life, then freedom — its pursuit and experience — is secondary, and the essential purpose of life poses an inherent restriction on freedom; we are bound by a desire for happiness, and this provokes the question of what we will do to our freedom in order to achieve it.
The Unbearable Lightness of Being
In this film, Tomas leads a life of flitting sexual and personal freedom. He is settled by his marriage to a young woman and the Soviet invasion of Prague in Spring of 1968. The political cast of freedom is clearly present, but a deeper and fascinating question lurks at the level of the individual characters. What purpose does our freedom serve? When our relationships impose on us, does our freedom fade or does it reshape?
You may also choose to read the original text by Milan Kundera.
the spice must flow
these the words from a techno album by eon
music in my ears from long ago
the spice must flow
read flatland
watch the movie
watch reimann’s spere bounce up and down and roll around descarte’s plane
one a projection of other from another dimension observed from yet a fourth
vidence in context projects meaning to the mind and heart observing which shines through in character to intelligence in yet another dimension
OBAMA plays POKER
we want to be in the game with him
he is an avatar for people of color everywhere
he knows how to play the game
obama loves playing poker
obama’s poker face comes into play
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2007/02/10/wobama10.xml
gambling buddies: obama flush with poker prowess
http://www.cnn.com/2007/POLITICS/09/24/obama.poker.ap/index.html
obama’s poker skills highlighted
http://www.launchpoker.com/news/09252007/4940_obama-s-poker-skills-highlighted.html
clues about obama found in his poker game
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2007/09/24/politics/main3291299.shtml
right now in a full tilt tourney
fun
something for us to talk about together
the blank spot is me
🙁
what outline would you suggest for a script for me to do a youtube clip straight to camera addressing the criminalization of poker
title: is it criminal to play poker
it’s one thing if your mother tells you not to go to a casino, another to tell your sons and daughters they can’t play poker. where better to learn and play than in your home and in your school and on your computer. in a pure trajectory for poker take the poker parlors out of the casinos. teach the difference between games of skill and games of chance. stop confusing them. disaggregate association between the two. california has the right idea with poker parlors.
did you watch the 60 minutes interview with roger clemens
what would you think of a lipsynch roger arguing against the criminalization of poker
soundtrack in back
by the way, just taught A Civil Action with Jan Schlichtman as my guest and used the poker metaphor i’ve been developing with my students to frame the big negotiation scene in the four seasons as a prisoners dilemma where what jan needed to do was put out the number he needed from one of the defendants to finance his effort to go all the way against the other. andrew is in the class as observer and teaching assistant, and critic to see if i can make poker in teaching work in my own class.
how would you describe clemens move
was it fold or call or raise
what are the stakes in the poker game he’s playing
in his trial in the court of public opinion
what are the meta rules of evidence in the court of public opinion
what is the equivalent of offering and having evidend admitted
what is the burden of proof
with clemens he has the hall of fame voters as his jury in a trial that could last fifteen years
he is playing for his reputation and his legend
face authority calmly
the way you feel when you make a good decision in circumstances of uncertainty
practice playing poker
in the real world of conflict
face authority calmly to calm its fear
