… is what I’m doing this week. Or maybe call it Repurposing. Ten years ago I knitted a jumper for a different climate. Then decided I’d rather have had a cardigan… which resulted in the famous “steek” experiment. Link to follow later.
Then I moved to Brisbane. Didn’t wear it. Too warm. So this winter, six years down the track, took the sleeves off and made it into a vest.
Was already wearing it for a while when I thought a button about mid chest would be good for early mornings.
Crocheted tab and loop, sewed on the two buttons. The one on the tab purely for balance, I thought.
Looks pretty good. Then … the tab flapping about when I wear it loose … huh? Why not just button it back?
Pacing is what I’ve been doing. Not much else, than reading and a bit of painting. Because I’ve been going mad due to psoriasis in my ears, all over my scalp and now also on my face. Mad with itch. It’s another auto-immune disorder. Add it to the two or three I already have and you get why I need the pacing.
I’ve been trying to get out into the sun more because that used to fix the psoriasis. Though that means using extra energy, and that means more pacing. Letting stuff go. One Life Lived Well describes pacing beautifully. Give her a read and you’ll know all about it.
I loved reading this article right now when my cortex and lizard brain have been at odds with one another and I made the wrong decision about getting medical help for a cat scratch. And AI would’ve been no use whatever.
Am I mimetic or a stubborn fool? Anyway more on my adventures another time. There are such good ideas in here, I’ll be journalling them when I get home (from hospital).
Because the future is here already and when we have kids and grandkids we need to be able model these very important concepts.
An essay about agentic vs mimetic people, using your lizard brain, and why outsourcing your judgment to AI is a values problem before it’s a …
I’m pretty happy with this image, another cut from a ceramic puzzle I once made. The original 30 centimeter tile broke across during storage, a risk associated with green-ware. IE not yet kilned. I took the pieces home over the Christmas holidays to decide what I was going to do with it.
Ended up breaking them into 13 pieces to try a different experiment on each piece. In this photo are four of the pieces representing a creek. As well as incising them, and painting them with ceramic slips, I searched one of the local bottle dumps and found fragments of old blue and old white glass to crush. Kilning the glassy fragments made the foamy creek water featured on these pieces. Below them the pieces that were inscribed with creek bank vegetation and fungi.
OMG, do you see what I see? Just noticed the smiley faces on the studs of the base plate … they’re not Lego, of course. But we knew that, right? It’s the Hardware Store Build and that base-plate is on notice.
This installment is now live here, on Story-ing Bricks … couldn’t change a few things, like the file name, and there being no author name, as if the installment appeared out of the ether … these items are part of the set-in-concrete nature of MSWord. Hopefully those will be fixed from now on.
Didn’t change the upside down order of posts. They should be easier to find with the blog-post re-titling. That’s a WordPress thing.
So I’m wondering whether if I organize a ‘cloud’ that’ll help with find-ability. Can but try, as the saying goes.
Having a bit of trouble rejigging the Page above called Brick Stories … if you click on that you’ll come to a page that says … Oops, can’t find it. I put it back in draft mode to figure out what happened to Bosley’s Builders, parts 1 and 2.
There’s a new page called Story-ing Bricks … which is where I will re-post the whole of Bosley’s Builders, beginning at the beginning, with today just the first installment.
I can’t believe the trouble I’m still having due to getting rid of Microsoft Word, the word processor that seems to think it owns the whole word processing world, and that was at least six months ago.
At the moment Bosley’s Builders seems to start at parts 3 or 4, depending on who is trying to access part 1. I thought to fix that and at the same time invert the order … you know start with Part 1 and go on from there, instead of starting with the latest and working back.
There has to be a better way to set that up.
But, not so fast, says Word. You need to pay us first if you want to shift this Word document from A to B. It turned out that Parts 1 and 2 were still in Word. There is a labor-intensive way to circumvent that, so that’s what I’m doing, one installment at the time.
Read Bosley’s Builders, Part 1, if you haven’t or haven’t for a while here on my new page Story-ing Bricks
If you are wondering why on earth “Story-ing Bricks?“
I googled the various possibilities and came up with this as a not yet hugely populated title. Can you imagine there is even a Lego store called Brick Island? And it is in Brisbane? (Brick Island was my first choice.)
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