Assignments: recap

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All of this is over at the page, but it would be nice to pull together some comments about our various blunderings this year.

(An explanation of my hyperlinking here: the link from the descriptive phrase takes you to the original Assignment.  A link from an Assignment number takes you to a category search, pulling up all the posts about that Assignment and the results.)

Several Assignments never went anywhere.  The very first one (L.08.1), the one about the toxic waste site, got a lot of discussion but no real results.

Likewise, there were two unnumbered , both by Mike, I think, that never produced anything.

Marc’s bogus email chain (L.08.7) never got any takers, either, along with my “time travel” suggestion (L.08.11).

Two assignments that got no responses are actually still percolating, I think: Turff’s film festival (L.08.10) and my labyrinth lighting fixture (L.08.9).  I know that one of my goals today is to put together my new drill press, finally, and one reason I even bought the thing was to create lighting fixtures.  So maybe by the end of the year…

We did have many Assignments that produced results, starting with the George Lichtenberg film project (L.08.2).  We did work on that a bit, and the general feeling at the Annual Meeting was that we wanted to continue, perhaps as the subject of the still-unproposed Podcast Project.  That’s over at BaseCamp.

The self-exposé Assignment (L.08.3) was very entertaining, as was the critical response/review one (L.08.5).  I think they showed us off our best sides: as poseurs.

The album cover Assignment (L.08.6) produced a lot of fun work.  A quick, easy one, the best kind for this group, as was the self-portrait Assignment (L.08.8).

There was the Frog Song effort (L.08.4), which was very successful, although I think now we would shunt that over to Lacuna Group for actual performance.

And of course, still ongoing and I think the most successful, the non-Assignment of Symmetrical Hand Arrangment.

Remember, it’s never too late to finish what you’ve procrastinated all year!

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Preparations

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I was looking back through my blog, all the way back to these posts:

Reread them. You may find them interesting in preparation for our second 70-453 Annual Meeting.

Also, the usual dicta apply: I will have absinthe and Laphroaig scotch for general toasting purposes, and some snacks (including nacho cheese and chips).  Bring anything else you’d like to consume.

Also also, I think it should be part of our ritual/agenda 70-462 to burn the coals from last year’s fire and replace them with new ones.  So bring your chalice and coal.

Anything else?

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L.08.9: quick materials post

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You may recall a couple of posts ago I offered, essentially, rubble as raw materials for creating a lighting fixture for the labyrinth.  I had occasion this last week as I finished up to play with some of that, and this is the result:

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UPDATE:

Another playing, with the smaller rubble bits:

You could drill a hole in the pieces and thread them on a piece of rebar.  Remember I have a drill press.

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Apropos of nothing

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This is really a post for my blog, but I always hesitate to draw attention to the Lichtenbergian enclave from there.

I came across GenderAnalyzer.com a while ago but was reminded of it yesterday while catching up at Jesus’ General’s blog.  I ran all three blogs through it and was astonished to find that…

  • We think http://lichtenbergian.org is written by a man (61%).
  • We think http://lacunagroup.org/blog is written by a man (80%).
  • We think http://dalelyles.com/blog is written by a man (82%).

The results are pretty clear, I’m afraid: you guys are diluting my manliness.  Quite some.

Posted in: Lichtenbergianism, Musings

The call to the annual meeting

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As Chair of the Lichtenbergian Society, I hereby enjoin our membership to attend the Annual Meeting, set according to the Charter for December 20, being on or before the Hibernal Solstice, to begin at or around 7:00 p.m. 1Z0-403 exams

Herewith is the Order of Business:

  1. Roll Call, including confirmation of new members
  2. Toast to GCL
  3. Acclamation of the Officers
  4. Corroboration of the Validity of our Claims
  5. Consignment of the Corroborative Evidence to the Flames

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  6. Engrossment of the Year’s Efforts
  7. Meditation on the Year’s Efforts, followed by a Silent Toast
  8. Engrossment of the Proposed Efforts for the Next Year
  9. Toast to the Proposed Efforts
  10. Agenda: “God and Man?”

The floor is now open for discussion of the Order of Business.

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L.08.9: more materials

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In case anyone was beginning to think about actually creating a lighting fixture for the labyrinth, here are some raw materials that you may certainly avail yourself of:

These are the pieces left over from my shaping the paving stones in the arcs of the labyrinth.  There will be lots and lots of them if you want to figure out a way to use them.

These are the broken bits of the same pieces.  I don’t know what you could do with these, but there will be a lot to play with if it inspires you.  (I keep thinking I’ll use them in a fountain or something.)

An assortment of 2x4s and 2x6s, all about four feet tall.  I’m going to use some for my “tubes of light,” but the rest are available.

Two largish pieces of 1/2″ plywood, about 48″ x 40″, and one smallish piece of treated 1/2″, about 24″ x 24″.  Think standing sculpture.  I keep thinking I want to do something large that hangs in the trees, something untoward and intriguing thereby.

Unpictured are eight 8-foot lengths of 2″ round, i.e., staffs.  We probably want to hang on to those for future Lacuna ventures, but if you’re inspired, use them.

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SHA: The historical evidence

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One of the sources often cited by Dale Lyles as moral and aesthetic 70-445 foundation for his transgressive inclusivist SHAs was Ernst Dortenschein’s Eine Stichprobenerhebung von der paläolithische Symmetrischehandgestaltungen (1887), specifically Dortenschein’s examination of the infamous rock carving 1Z0-456 exams from Pontevedra, Spain.

The Pontevedra carving

The Pontevedra carving

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Thought to be around 15,000 years old, dating from the Lower Magdalenean period, the carving was one of several found in the rush of 1813-14 discoveries during the Napoleonic era in Spain. Long suppressed by previous scholars due to its heretical nature, the carving had never been reproduced before Dortenschein’s massive study of the origins of SHA in Europe.

Dortenschein himself refused to propose a precise meaning for the carving, and though his description of the drawing emphasized the possibility of “eine deformierte Salatgurke eingeschloßen,” he never jeopardized his standing within the international SHA community by being more specific than that.

Some proponents of SHA inclusivism claim that there was other evidence in Dortenschein’s papers of what they call “SHA’s original intent,” evidence that his university forbade him to publish, but research into that proposition—though not extensive—has failed to reveal further supporting data.

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