tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-80686351266926297442024-03-08T12:16:09.735-07:00MARKITONICcraniachttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17581351884044064053noreply@blogger.comBlogger2475125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8068635126692629744.post-23337562323066345342023-06-17T12:26:00.000-06:002023-06-17T12:26:55.944-06:00the C2 wiki.I feel like I keep returning to the same types of projects. Right now I'm collecting, editing and publishing historical rhetoric texts on a wiki so they can be used to create ebooks and can be edited and annotated by future classes. In a perfect world, a wiki is a sustainable ecosystem that is portable, accessible and accessible. I'm using Dokuwiki. Students could, if they wanted, download the entire site as a folder with html files or as an epub that would fit on their phone. It uses flat files rather than a backend database. I found my page on the C2 wiki which was created by Ward Cunningham, one of the very first Wiki's and have revisited it over the years, but it appears to have been taken down. This is sad, because I would update the page every few years, i.e. "I graduated!". My son and his friend posted on the page when he was about 10 years old and Googled my name. Rest in peace, C2 Wiki.<br />
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craniachttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17581351884044064053noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8068635126692629744.post-42700826264242343412023-06-17T12:20:00.002-06:002023-06-17T12:20:37.970-06:00Kirk Rasmussen <p> </p>
<iframe allow="autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; picture-in-picture; web-share" allowfullscreen="true" frameborder="0" height="688" scrolling="no" src="https://www.facebook.com/plugins/post.php?href=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.facebook.com%2Fheiditotten%2Fposts%2Fpfbid0vNjJ22W5UQnyrkakRzsPqoEwR5HfcjvispPfXJbP56zfRRVJduFxaDTep2Ebei8yl&show_text=true&width=500" style="border: none; overflow: hidden;" width="500"></iframe>craniachttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17581351884044064053noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8068635126692629744.post-71858364382896284012023-06-15T13:18:00.006-06:002023-06-15T13:18:42.755-06:00I'm Not Scared to Reenter Society. I'm Just Not Sure I Want To. - The Atlantic<p>After a year in isolation, I, at least, have gotten acclimated to a
different existence—quieter, calmer, and almost entirely devoid of
bullpoop. If you'd told me in March 2020 that quarantine would last more
than a year, I would have been appalled; I can't imagine how I would've
reacted if you'd told me, once it ended, I would miss it.</p><p><a href="https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2021/05/post-pandemic-dont-want-to-reenter-society/619045/">The Atlantic</a>: <br /></p>craniachttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17581351884044064053noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8068635126692629744.post-61293746749668423832023-06-02T07:30:00.003-06:002023-06-02T09:03:42.334-06:00Antelope island and the bird refuge.<p> I'm writing this here because Gmail does not want me to include any images in my email. It keeps telling me that a 15mb image is too huge, and that the world will come to an end if I try to include it.</p><p>A friend recently wrote:</p><p style="margin-left: 40px; text-align: left;"><b>Are we all living essentially the same life, thanks to the homogenizing effects of steamrollering cultural capitalism?</b> -- </p><p style="margin-left: 40px; text-align: left;"><i>This is a repeat of my answer above, but yes. Absolutely! I recently heard Jon Stewart say that one of the biggest changes he has seen in his career is that there used to be 7-8 positions and dozens of hot takes about any given cultural or political issue, and now there are two. Always two. What's weird about this is that we all feel like we're having our own thoughts, but we're clearly not. It's like fashion: We feel like we independently think bell bottoms look cool at the exact moment in history when they are in fashion. Clearly, we're wrong. That aesthetic is being fed to us somehow without us even knowing it. Politics are now like that. We don't have our own thoughts, clearly. We believe what some unnamable force tells us to believe. And our intellectual prison is impossible to escape from because we don't even know we're in it!</i></p><p style="text-align: left;">It has been a week since you wrote this, and the general tone makes me wonder if you have started experimenting with weed gummies, because it's that sort of conversation. Part of that time I was sick with a cold, and it was unsettling how tired and immobile I was, even though it wasn't Covid. As soon as I got better Christine took us on her previously cancelled road trip to Antelope Island, in our camping van:</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgRwHBqEyg1dv1ifvK13-zGU1K7wLKp-DQIDPA6U-d2pPnmPlk62Rjmxq8IVxBKrQ9mv_EYkQvEIaVeOi23B9C7KQnSsZ5l9zowF8sGSPFvZ4BrWgTYj5iBFQJL48wnJKQ7O1Ds0M8efXGyNER1mQMMv7cWEWeqcYzXIcRj66w9nswFQ2qyhiiJVUCaDw/s3020/our%20van%20on%20antelope%20island.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3020" data-original-width="2215" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgRwHBqEyg1dv1ifvK13-zGU1K7wLKp-DQIDPA6U-d2pPnmPlk62Rjmxq8IVxBKrQ9mv_EYkQvEIaVeOi23B9C7KQnSsZ5l9zowF8sGSPFvZ4BrWgTYj5iBFQJL48wnJKQ7O1Ds0M8efXGyNER1mQMMv7cWEWeqcYzXIcRj66w9nswFQ2qyhiiJVUCaDw/s320/our%20van%20on%20antelope%20island.jpg" width="235" /></a></div><br /><p style="text-align: left;">The new bison calves were out:</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg-H4e3IwvPoY6aYSNeraV7MkVRbCqBboPTnY_4rv7e2v-JqinEpLhsnbkKl9eacbbCLNZoa57aylVEWjWeQZnzBZXn63pDIXeN3IN4yVaQKHLjVR_Y11icwrZipauiS85j_8RPd6JuWf49BU2SUVw7a5dtGqPooI-nIOdfLoBQnoxvWiRx4ughpR0KZw/s2000/bison%20babies.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1502" data-original-width="2000" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg-H4e3IwvPoY6aYSNeraV7MkVRbCqBboPTnY_4rv7e2v-JqinEpLhsnbkKl9eacbbCLNZoa57aylVEWjWeQZnzBZXn63pDIXeN3IN4yVaQKHLjVR_Y11icwrZipauiS85j_8RPd6JuWf49BU2SUVw7a5dtGqPooI-nIOdfLoBQnoxvWiRx4ughpR0KZw/s320/bison%20babies.JPG" width="320" /></a></div><br /><p style="text-align: left;">Later, at the Bear River Bird refuge we saw a bird eat a live snake.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiUDpAc9389oc5JMOPktq6psyK_u5hjPdcuoUnfbp7k3JRwvv3VbkOtulRrVt_ZmVcP_6ltPRnzZeuZ6n6MgYAObm_x_9y84DuRPdNx0Ix7NS1I8kYtxxApMxw9_D5PmF1jQeOBuQY2K9P1V6q7vPrqNGYVi6ey9G4pd5uYEBZmvNnVBjF4qDgqBLgZPg/s800/bird%20snake%20smaller.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="601" data-original-width="800" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiUDpAc9389oc5JMOPktq6psyK_u5hjPdcuoUnfbp7k3JRwvv3VbkOtulRrVt_ZmVcP_6ltPRnzZeuZ6n6MgYAObm_x_9y84DuRPdNx0Ix7NS1I8kYtxxApMxw9_D5PmF1jQeOBuQY2K9P1V6q7vPrqNGYVi6ey9G4pd5uYEBZmvNnVBjF4qDgqBLgZPg/s320/bird%20snake%20smaller.JPG" width="320" /></a></div><p style="text-align: left;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhayrr8On0DRwmB9uDp-9y_yFmUAxQtYNZ88AYpZWPY5Y8zkYH6DKwDZErhBl1HqzownKbIWUWCb7YLutm709Qrp-VaX1RFojAzcEkvRu4WOJCIhMqrE1zggjzRjmu_VtyPjG5mo4X0P24wsYT_Zp2ridXXk7dCJxgL3SBxUALsx5QDTWMd8tdJqpLKTA/s4592/P1190141.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3448" data-original-width="4592" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhayrr8On0DRwmB9uDp-9y_yFmUAxQtYNZ88AYpZWPY5Y8zkYH6DKwDZErhBl1HqzownKbIWUWCb7YLutm709Qrp-VaX1RFojAzcEkvRu4WOJCIhMqrE1zggjzRjmu_VtyPjG5mo4X0P24wsYT_Zp2ridXXk7dCJxgL3SBxUALsx5QDTWMd8tdJqpLKTA/s320/P1190141.JPG" width="320" /></a></div><br /> <p></p><p style="text-align: left;">We also stopped by Willard bay, named after my relative, Willard Richards. It's essentially a square-ish parking lot filled with water, but they made an artificial beach:</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjoEd5MogWTNxfog4_n3stNJTzqNdKoQpXgYnCzbyOOwpBCmTfRggYS62lD73yyT6nRtzgdYBujkaRmbzhnAgjmBKfFM28u__PRozwLSBQLh7JddY2OMPsgVV3JP0-58MkZ3lpif5lGitbOpCDIEVdqrfnSsWADxO6KvI5H_MHVMS1y1DrzH3Wz7GNwgw/s4032/willard%20bay%20beach.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2268" data-original-width="4032" height="180" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjoEd5MogWTNxfog4_n3stNJTzqNdKoQpXgYnCzbyOOwpBCmTfRggYS62lD73yyT6nRtzgdYBujkaRmbzhnAgjmBKfFM28u__PRozwLSBQLh7JddY2OMPsgVV3JP0-58MkZ3lpif5lGitbOpCDIEVdqrfnSsWADxO6KvI5H_MHVMS1y1DrzH3Wz7GNwgw/s320/willard%20bay%20beach.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><p style="text-align: left;">Here's a random canyon you could see from this spot:</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh5-K0-Y1cNvKEHXhJqtpLP0SlGpumcFuAUWUK9GALbY-uMS4czHbugF-5LRzoS8GGK8bfQjPEE708UQem_02nTbIadKI7UQsGYVcQIR0IejQHCfi1hPEhzipiHkIXZiVviAWfsI7HQSnklnBMW_1RahTBHHY02tndh4FlSUzZARTqQJ9wvQMT3fDmT1A/s4592/willard%20bay%20canyon.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3448" data-original-width="4592" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh5-K0-Y1cNvKEHXhJqtpLP0SlGpumcFuAUWUK9GALbY-uMS4czHbugF-5LRzoS8GGK8bfQjPEE708UQem_02nTbIadKI7UQsGYVcQIR0IejQHCfi1hPEhzipiHkIXZiVviAWfsI7HQSnklnBMW_1RahTBHHY02tndh4FlSUzZARTqQJ9wvQMT3fDmT1A/s320/willard%20bay%20canyon.JPG" width="320" /></a></div><br /><p style="text-align: left;">I'm struck by how many amazing sites are within three hours of our house. We can travel north to see this stuff, or be at Capitol Reef, surrounded by Californians. Even Rock canyon, a few minutes away, is impressive. We're actually a five hour drive from Yellowstone, and ten hours from Rushmore.</p><p style="text-align: left;"><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhNxwR3K3Cl50q46ekl9Cn4--aXtLSQ0VmtB0PQvNkJHk9wGItRCEl9Bpgabu47m8LzZPSxS8gAgFy2etRpkaxXAbSOn6prftmupu7MlOV7evrhF2XPkZDZm9UGKyYQCfR6OgW4HWhgZha5qIhPTxbL_ZGCF76R329v9392YV2TH8E3XpbvDFDKuBwpew/s1968/lehi%20rushmore.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1446" data-original-width="1968" height="235" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhNxwR3K3Cl50q46ekl9Cn4--aXtLSQ0VmtB0PQvNkJHk9wGItRCEl9Bpgabu47m8LzZPSxS8gAgFy2etRpkaxXAbSOn6prftmupu7MlOV7evrhF2XPkZDZm9UGKyYQCfR6OgW4HWhgZha5qIhPTxbL_ZGCF76R329v9392YV2TH8E3XpbvDFDKuBwpew/s320/lehi%20rushmore.jpeg" width="320" /></a></div><p style="text-align: left;"><br /></p><p style="text-align: left;"><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjv7opQx-c2s1BsqjT1UFizFm2ochWAjptSVWZrmDdJJQyb_uzZXMvPyTbGkDrHSfaBisbLorcy74hcwkeKbfDt7KkApHMg0rqDi8sDS1f_uqmDPlGb6o4FyMAfc3MUQxzPT52I6zRZClpVwD6XYymgqXBPFTjrT9kFKZfkjLNtGmDWaWq6LzpMOrLPSA/s4592/P1020374.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3448" data-original-width="4592" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjv7opQx-c2s1BsqjT1UFizFm2ochWAjptSVWZrmDdJJQyb_uzZXMvPyTbGkDrHSfaBisbLorcy74hcwkeKbfDt7KkApHMg0rqDi8sDS1f_uqmDPlGb6o4FyMAfc3MUQxzPT52I6zRZClpVwD6XYymgqXBPFTjrT9kFKZfkjLNtGmDWaWq6LzpMOrLPSA/s320/P1020374.JPG" width="320" /></a></div><p></p><p>I just chose the first Rock Canyon picture in Google photos. That was December, 2020 and I'm sort of startled by the lack of snow.</p><p>Ok, just to continue the boring travelogue, we stopped by this giant rural supply store called Smith and Edwards that was started by my Great Uncle, and used to have tons of military surplus, but now that the young people run it, it is a lot less weird. He created a business from his hoarding, which makes him my hero. There are still a few remnants of its strange past:</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhCcMo7j9ux-p5ZSNG4L3MzSvKhashWIYiBj897BzmwUU518iyEyLaUVKZA1KAAjt7mrHAWmJ4nSmvNT1Sg9LjGPy9C0sNLDuwKMGso7d2ZuCIUPX_0F8aLhT3iR770oqF4eRGadVAlPPqm-FsvWMgeWtuuidcWgyKq-dRuXFbZnyU4ZfbIh7KLtrwQoA/s4592/P1190212.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3448" data-original-width="4592" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhCcMo7j9ux-p5ZSNG4L3MzSvKhashWIYiBj897BzmwUU518iyEyLaUVKZA1KAAjt7mrHAWmJ4nSmvNT1Sg9LjGPy9C0sNLDuwKMGso7d2ZuCIUPX_0F8aLhT3iR770oqF4eRGadVAlPPqm-FsvWMgeWtuuidcWgyKq-dRuXFbZnyU4ZfbIh7KLtrwQoA/s320/P1190212.JPG" width="320" /></a></div><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgcPJz41H5yslsHsDdvqJUhVOjRBZHDUXRLOy_hS9Z2cAx3St5ERB17ddkT0iBDo7oZIyrHVbMd1W3r-W21tW0t4X0aTvH6S9OgS0GE6SUQ4X8tvJ_vjGXfDFgc6rKBlLnK_o6gLSfZLYPrEsIXZF7d81rxYJE5OdHUDSnv2RXvZaeHhRHQSzRqgRSzjA/s4592/P1190209.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3448" data-original-width="4592" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgcPJz41H5yslsHsDdvqJUhVOjRBZHDUXRLOy_hS9Z2cAx3St5ERB17ddkT0iBDo7oZIyrHVbMd1W3r-W21tW0t4X0aTvH6S9OgS0GE6SUQ4X8tvJ_vjGXfDFgc6rKBlLnK_o6gLSfZLYPrEsIXZF7d81rxYJE5OdHUDSnv2RXvZaeHhRHQSzRqgRSzjA/s320/P1190209.JPG" width="320" /></a></div><br /><p></p><p>Eventually we made it home, after visiting my brother in Ogden who is fifty and just had both of his knees replaced. </p><p>As I was unloading the van, I saw this young, newly married couple from our ward who probably attend BYU, pushing their new baby around our cul de sac, and I thought "Oh, I'll say hi and introduce myself to them when they approach. I'm sure they'll be happy to talk to a ward member, impressive person that I am. How kind of me to give them this special experience." but as they got closer they pushed their stroller off of my sidewalk, out into the street to avoid any possible interaction. </p><p>"Whoa, that was odd, why on earth would they do that?" </p><p>Then I took a selfie so I could see myself as they saw me:</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhNJ45K0x-Y2jEkrd7QMQJ-AkZ7fsYvlRpTVadNsM0HoOM4nA_h63yfbNfWQpXiJWYecmgCh6WdcX-ftZD9fbV1l1UZkJb7Uwnu_ugUzrM89XHe_AaiWrcuPfAMPPCaLDgepwZjcymrkR-G-VmGNfyZ9eiLPbKpOWOgb6JmVePa7KAUllLC0bzEl10f7g/s3264/PXL_20230601_235914974.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3264" data-original-width="1836" height="594" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhNJ45K0x-Y2jEkrd7QMQJ-AkZ7fsYvlRpTVadNsM0HoOM4nA_h63yfbNfWQpXiJWYecmgCh6WdcX-ftZD9fbV1l1UZkJb7Uwnu_ugUzrM89XHe_AaiWrcuPfAMPPCaLDgepwZjcymrkR-G-VmGNfyZ9eiLPbKpOWOgb6JmVePa7KAUllLC0bzEl10f7g/w334-h594/PXL_20230601_235914974.jpg" width="334" /></a></div><p></p><p>This is largely how I viewed the older ward members when we moved here in 2005, and I was only 39, a relative child. They were all so kind, and eager to talk to the young, new couple. To be fair, BYU students are probably especially uncomfortable around any signs of low income or anyone that might distract them from their chosen path to a life of managing UVU students.<br /></p><p>The next day I was driving up to our house and another BYU student who looked like a male model or a professional golfer, standing on our porch, all teeth, tan and polo shirt, in the process of selling alarm systems or solar cells, looking at his clipboard. Nobody was home but when I drove by his eyes locked on mine and behind that friendly smile I could see the gaze of a predator. It was like he knew that I lived there.<br /></p><p>I kept driving, like a coward, turned around at the end of the cul de sac, and went to Deseret Industries and bought a book of "micro fiction," or really short stories. When I returned home I could see him prowling the neighborhood like a handsome serial killer. I just didn't have it in me to deal with all of that self-confidence, sublimated bullying and canned privilege. Our neighborhood has a lot of middle class retired people and I've learned with my aging mother that they are a primary target for sales operations. She has no ability to detect scams, whatsoever and will regularly ask me if she should get her ducts cleaned, or buy a warranty for her car.<br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhOLGRoh1QvfJ_O6hmsw33rerbDGoWHeEuqGiyOQxVJ-mc562-x9M7xFKfun20OkblJ5p2vkU3EoETU_C1zLVRkpVRkF5S3OHjkSNRG8WBXGskqWm23F_6mj2R7_CshtFqQJCt9O6xy6V0XDMbQhBCJ1HyndVz5-Rp-xnh6T-YzpPuruJz1ORTxMcruSA/s4592/P1180929.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"></a><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhOLGRoh1QvfJ_O6hmsw33rerbDGoWHeEuqGiyOQxVJ-mc562-x9M7xFKfun20OkblJ5p2vkU3EoETU_C1zLVRkpVRkF5S3OHjkSNRG8WBXGskqWm23F_6mj2R7_CshtFqQJCt9O6xy6V0XDMbQhBCJ1HyndVz5-Rp-xnh6T-YzpPuruJz1ORTxMcruSA/s4592/P1180929.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; 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border: 0px solid rgb(217, 217, 227); box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(55, 65, 81); color: #374151; font-family: Söhne, ui-sans-serif, system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, "Helvetica Neue", Arial, "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol", "Noto Color Emoji"; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px 0px 1.25em; white-space: pre-wrap;">He sought and received permission for rangers to ride around on snowmobiles armed with cased shotguns that could propel rubber bullets, bean bags, and cracker shells at the Wapiti wolves. They were instructed to fire on the lobos only during "teachable moments," when they'd associate the pain with their nearness to humankind. On a Monday in mid-February, such an opportunity presented itself.</p><p style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; border: 0px solid rgb(217, 217, 227); box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(55, 65, 81); color: #374151; font-family: Söhne, ui-sans-serif, system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, "Helvetica Neue", Arial, "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol", "Noto Color Emoji"; font-size: 16px; margin: 1.25em 0px 0px; white-space: pre-wrap;">"One of my guys hit him with paintballs," Smith said.</p></div>craniachttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17581351884044064053noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8068635126692629744.post-62578426232183683692019-08-11T23:02:00.001-06:002019-08-11T23:02:15.475-06:00I feel like I keep returning to the same types of projects. Right now I'm collecting, editing and publishing historical rhetoric texts on a wiki so they can be used to create ebooks and can be edited and annotated by future classes. In a perfect world, a wiki is a sustainable ecosystem that is portable, accessible and accessible. I'm using Dokuwiki. Students could, if they wanted, download the entire site as a folder with html files or as an epub that would fit on their phone. It uses flat files rather than a backend database. I found my page on the C2 wiki which was created by Ward Cunningham, one of the very first Wiki's and have revisited it over the years, but it appears to have been taken down. This is sad, because I would update the page every few years, i.e. "I graduated!". My son and his friend posted on the page when he was about 10 years old and Googled my name. Rest in peace, C2 Wiki.<br />
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<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20190522144801/https://wiki.c2.com/?MarkCrane">https://web.archive.org/web/20190522144801/https://wiki.c2.com/?MarkCrane</a><br />
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June 20, 2019: Update: it appears to be back online!<br />
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craniachttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17581351884044064053noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8068635126692629744.post-8420756082570557992019-03-10T13:08:00.002-06:002019-03-10T13:09:47.458-06:00Duncan CarterOne of my early mentors passed away from prostate cancer in 2016, and I just found out.<br />
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<a href="https://www.pdx.edu/english/news/professor-emeritus-duncan-carter-passes-away">https://www.pdx.edu/english/news/professor-emeritus-duncan-carter-passes-away</a><br />
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Duncan Carter, along with Sherrie Gradin, introduced me to Rhetoric and Composition as a Master's student at Portland State University from 1993-1996. There are three Duncan stories I tell all the time:<br />
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1. One of his professors who spent an hour arguing whether a window was a door or a window. At the end of the hour he walked out the window.<br />
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2. Duncan once fell asleep in a hotel with the shower running, so he could clear out his lungs. He woke up 12 hours later, his lungs clear, and left, the walls dripping with water.<br />
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3. Duncan once made fun of people who outline their papers in advance, so I quit outlining my papers. It took me a while to realize that I wasn't outlining, but reverse outlining, and I eventually learned how to write again.<br />
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<br />craniachttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17581351884044064053noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8068635126692629744.post-74797804266092119722019-02-25T16:46:00.001-07:002019-02-25T16:46:49.785-07:00Twitter, Quietness and RageWhat a great title, and surprising to see something this religious in the Washington Post. I recently switched to a dumb phone because my smart phone was starting to feel like one of those potatoes you carry around in Parenting class in high school. I already have a job, and managing social media accounts, with the phone serving as a prisoner monitoring bracelet, was wearing me out. It's ok to be unloved and anonymous. It might even create opportunities for listening.
<a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/i-took-a-break-from-twitter-it-was-like-taking-a-break-from-anthrax/2019/02/07/2aa5653e-2b17-11e9-b011-d8500644dc98_story.html?utm_term=.98df90e37760">I took a break from twitter and it was like taking a break from anthrax</a>
<em>As you go through the Book of Kings, you reach Chapter 19 and learn again why the Bible remains in the sacred-text big leagues. “And behold, the Lord passed by, and a great and strong wind tore the mountains and broke in pieces the rocks before the Lord, but the Lord was not in the wind. And after the wind an earthquake, but the Lord was not in the earthquake. And after the earthquake a fire, but the Lord was not in the fire. And after the fire the sound of a low whisper.”
This is the greatest possibility of our quiet hours — that when we are alone with our thoughts, we are not truly alone. That one of the voices we hear in our heads — the one calling us beloved — may be more than the echo of our own desires.</em>craniachttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17581351884044064053noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8068635126692629744.post-6671564677142715152019-02-25T09:51:00.002-07:002019-02-25T09:57:04.818-07:00So I've set up Org Mode to sync across three devices:<br />
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An old Kindle Fire<br />
Ipad 9.6" amateur, using the Beorg app<br />
Macbook pro, using EmacsforOSX<br />
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I used to read about the battles surrounding <a href="https://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/JamieZawinski" target="_blank">Xemacs</a>, but apparently it is no longer maintained. Nothing lasts.<br />
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If you want to know why I'm using Org Mode, it's because I hate myself.<br />
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For further insights, read <a href="http://www.aj.cz/celeb/sm3/sm3.htm" target="_blank">The Cruel Shoes</a>.<br />
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<br />craniachttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17581351884044064053noreply@blogger.com0725 E University Pkwy, Orem, UT 84097, USA40.27355 -111.6784190000000215.728924 -152.98701300000002 64.818176 -70.36982500000002tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8068635126692629744.post-30823443529323059152019-02-25T09:32:00.000-07:002019-02-25T09:48:42.070-07:00So I had some trouble installing Mediawiki because our server is really old and has an old version of PHP. I installed Dokuwiki because it doesn't use a database, has lots of support and plugins, and installs easily on our old server.<br />
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It is using the <a href="http://rhetoricus.org/ebook/doku.php?id=start&do=admin&page=extension&tab=plugins" target="_blank">following plugins</a>:<br />
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Some of the more interesting plugins I've installed are<br />
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<a href="https://www.dokuwiki.org/plugin:poem" target="_blank">Poem</a><br />
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<a href="https://www.dokuwiki.org/plugin:mdpage" target="_blank">Markdown Page</a><br />
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<a href="https://www.dokuwiki.org/plugin:plaintext" target="_blank">PlainText</a><br />
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I'm wondering if <a href="https://pandoc.org/" target="_blank">Pandoc</a> will create output that is compatible with the above Markdown plugin.<br />
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Today I'm going to test some Pandoc conversions and start importing texts to the wiki.<br />
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I also need to install a <a href="https://www.thisoldhouse.com/how-to/how-to-upgrade-outlets-to-gfci" target="_blank">GFCI</a> outlet in our bathroom and finish the drywall this evening.<br />
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So working two jobs at once. Sabbatical!<br />
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<br />craniachttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17581351884044064053noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8068635126692629744.post-73122813240979682092019-01-31T14:05:00.001-07:002019-03-10T21:53:07.922-06:00Goodbye some social mediaI just deleted my Facebook, Twitter and Instagram accounts when I realized that most of the people I followed weren't following me, and that most of the people who followed me were people trying to get rich using social media. I was manually unfollowing people and decided it would just be simpler to nuke the account and perhaps start over one day. <br />
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As a result, all the Instagram pictures that I had piped to this blog using IFTTT are now broken. Hand curating those entries seems really tedious. Maybe I need to erase this and start over.<br />
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Note: I will probably rejoin Instagram at some point.<br />
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<br />craniachttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17581351884044064053noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8068635126692629744.post-70154147871062223592019-01-24T22:22:00.001-07:002019-01-24T22:22:29.921-07:00The 'Busy' Trap - The New York TimesI read <i>Deep Work</i> in its entirety, and although there is some good stuff in there, the sources Cal Newport draws on are even more interesting, like this article by Tim Kreider, who is kind of delightful.<br />
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<a href="https://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/06/30/the-busy-trap/">The 'Busy' Trap - The New York Times</a>: <i>Busyness serves as a kind of existential reassurance, a hedge against emptiness; obviously your life cannot possibly be silly or trivial or meaningless if you are so busy, completely booked, in demand every hour of the day.</i>craniachttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17581351884044064053noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8068635126692629744.post-57792832973647282762019-01-24T13:16:00.001-07:002019-01-24T14:01:20.217-07:00Failproof Instant Pot Rice - Green Healthy CookingI managed to make perfect Instant Pot rice today. Here is what worked for me, a resident of the desert community of Orem, Utah, at 5,000 feet.<br />
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Four cups white, long grain rice<br />
5 1/2 cups water<br />
Two tablespoons of unrefined coconut oil, because it is supposed to magically reduce calories after it cools, due to some sort of molecular Sri Lankan magic.<br />
1/2 teaspoon of salt.<br />
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Set to manual pressure for five minutes. Forget about it while you book a hotel in downtown San Francisco. Check it later and start scheming about how to convince your wife to use the instant pot so you can toss the budget rice cooker (and slow cooker).<br />
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<a href="https://www.lowes.com/pd/BELLA-8-Quart-Programmable-Electric-Pressure-Cooker/1000604247?fbclid=IwAR0eYnQNjlQMTKavLta_s_sQd-63J0-ZO-JhNS_z4zDH9XGUMcUYIeLhs18" target="_blank">Right now Lowe's has an eight quart pressure cooker for $42.</a><br />
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Here's someone else's link that I Googled. It's either an amazing recipe or they have amazing search engine optimization. I couldn't figure out why so many of these blog posts ramble so much, then realized that it's probably SEO.<br />
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<a href="https://greenhealthycooking.com/instant-pot-rice/">Failproof Instant Pot Rice - Green Healthy Cooking</a>craniachttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17581351884044064053noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8068635126692629744.post-66759075987952629502019-01-24T13:11:00.001-07:002019-01-24T13:11:27.521-07:00Emacs – The Best Python Editor? – Real PythonHa ha. I love the enthusiasm of Emacs cultists. I'm currently, for like the fifth time, trying to learn some Python before my brain completely shrinks as I age.<br />
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<a href="https://realpython.com/emacs-the-best-python-editor/">Emacs – The Best Python Editor? – Real Python</a>: While it’s an indisputable fact that Emacs is the best editor, we’ll (try to) keep an open mind and present Emacs objectively, from a fresh installation to a complete Python IDE so that you can make an informed decision when choosing your go-to Python IDE.craniachttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17581351884044064053noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8068635126692629744.post-7464039517927187512019-01-23T15:04:00.001-07:002019-01-23T15:04:00.197-07:00Tesla layoffs: Elon Musk's memo asks employees to "advance the cause" — Quartz at Work<a href="https://qz.com/work/1528263/the-risk-of-thinking-of-your-job-as-a-higher-calling/">Tesla layoffs: Elon Musk's memo asks employees to "advance the cause" — Quartz at Work</a>:<br />
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<i>People who work in social-sector jobs that serve a moral purpose, such as protecting children from abuse or serving the elderly, are typically under-resourced and overworked, mainly, Ballard says, because of the myth that people who heed a higher calling—including teaching or nursing—can somehow be satisfied with the knowledge that they’re improving the world. This idealized view that connects our noblest work to poverty “comes from the priesthood,” she says, “and can be used as a way to get people to downplay practical needs and concerns,” like sleeping and eating.</i><br />
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A lot of academics can fall into this trap as well. I picked up the graphic novel version of Paul Coelho's <i>The Alchemist</i> today, in part because it was so popular with the kids I taught in Qatar. The underlying theme (so far) seems to be that if you don't align yourself with the universe and pursue your true calling, you'll live an empty, depressing life devoid of meaning. I wonder how many academics buy into this essentially Coelhoian world view.craniachttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17581351884044064053noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8068635126692629744.post-78552416941016357752018-02-22T14:27:00.001-07:002018-02-22T14:27:15.343-07:00The Other State of Emergencyhttp://ift.tt/2FnP5dT<br />
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As it turns out – and this should come as no surprise – the two challenges are actually very closely linked. I'm not referring here to the tenuous, or at least too oblique, connection between climate change in the Middle East and the crisis in Syria. Nor am I talking about the horror of the refugees hounded out by the terrorists, by the wholesale destruction of their country, or about the way we have reacted to the matter. Rather, I'm referring to that hideous attraction whereby suicide bombers prefer death and the afterlife to an earthly existence in the now.<br />
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Overheard on the radio: What we need to ask is why are so many people desperate to believe in conspiracies and fake news?<br />
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craniachttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17581351884044064053noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8068635126692629744.post-9488972904858322012018-02-22T14:07:00.001-07:002018-02-22T14:07:19.086-07:00Agency and Autonomous Monsters in the Age of Fake Newshttp://ift.tt/2sOqImY<br />
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Abstract: This poster session will analyze the uses and abuses of digital rhetorics by the "alt-right," and explore the question of whether we are preparing our students for a treacherous and unstable reality, or providing aid and comfort to the enemy. Proposal: This poster session will explore one of the deep and abiding fears of teachers of rhetoric: that our methodologies, datasets, theories and instruction may be put to use in the service of powerful institutions and organizations that may not share our most deeply-held values. As a discipline, we both crave and fear the validation that the use and abuse of our rhetorical products entails. Hart-Davidson and Ridolfo, in their intriguing #rhetops project (RSA 2016) describe the abuses of rhetoric in asymmetrical conflicts, citing as examples the outsourcing of social media propaganda by Daesh (ISIL/ISIS), the rise of fake news bots and their influence on U.S. politics, the looming threat of autonomous writing technologies, and the fragmentation of authorship. I will trace some of the historical antecedents of these legitimate anxieties, and add to the list another potential threat, that of the misappropriation of digital, rhetorical tools and theories by what has come to be known collectively as the “alt-right.” The line between a tool and a weapon is often tentatively determined by ideology. This poster session will analyze that line and the ethics and problems associated with arming or empowering our students with powerful digital tools. Tags: rhetops digitalrhetoric rhetoric altright fakenews<br />
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craniachttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17581351884044064053noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8068635126692629744.post-29823723712585266172018-02-22T12:12:00.001-07:002018-02-22T12:12:21.470-07:00A Modern Greek Tragedy | by Adam Tooze | The New York Review of Bookshttp://ift.tt/2FpED5G<br />
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A Modern Greek Tragedy via Instapaper http://ift.tt/2FpED5G<br />
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craniachttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17581351884044064053noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8068635126692629744.post-26122546902164186532018-02-22T09:32:00.001-07:002018-02-22T09:32:20.589-07:00jwzhttp://ift.tt/1KTm4DE<br />
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Why? Because the TZID doesn't refer to the name of a time zone from the IANA Zoneinfo / Olson Database, which has been the gold standard historical record of such things since just about The Epoch. (This database is an absolute treasure, documenting and clarifying an ongoing global political and technical clusterfuck of nightmarish proportions. The work that went into this thing is staggering. It is a treasure of nightmares. But I digress.)<br />
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craniachttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17581351884044064053noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8068635126692629744.post-88497601460312453672018-02-22T09:22:00.011-07:002018-02-22T09:22:24.401-07:00Man removes feds’ spy cam, they demand it back, he refuses and sues | Ars Technicahttp://ift.tt/2BIFSgd<br />
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"My client is 74 years old, he's a lawyer, been practicing for almost 50 years, he has no criminal history whatsoever, law-abiding citizen, respected lawyer and senior citizen," Raul Casso, one of the attorneys representing Palacios, told Ars. "To have put him in jail would have been—forget the indecency of it—what a way to end a career." The camera now remains in Palacios' attorneys' possession while they are attempting to ask the case's judge to allow them to formally introduce it as evidence.<br />
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