tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7229875339727095184.post2936592896325658956..comments2024-03-18T15:17:26.003-05:00Comments on l'astronave: My brain is in the "puddle of glop" stage.Frescahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15323129046492056942noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7229875339727095184.post-42414216885983119132010-07-13T07:00:45.815-05:002010-07-13T07:00:45.815-05:00I hear you about Facebook, and I also understand w...I hear you about Facebook, and I also understand why you feel you have to tackle it--I'm the same way about Twitter, which I can't seem to bring myself to like, but I gamely check it now and then because I have to teach it, so I have to understand it.<br /><br />Facebook mostly has managed to expose me to EXACTLY THE PEOPLE I WAS HAPPY TO GET AWAY FROM after high school...they show up now and then to make fun of my "big words" and "reading books so much." :/ A valuable reminder of why I'm not still living where I grew up...Jenniferhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13923745480765984429noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7229875339727095184.post-15900421898340219172010-07-06T11:12:43.808-05:002010-07-06T11:12:43.808-05:00it's heartening to know you get so enmeshed up...it's heartening to know you get so enmeshed up and enveloped by the subjects you write about (hey! like a cocoon!). you hear the horror stories of the textbooks coming out of texas. and then I realize there are people like you writing them too. I just hope your books are the ones taught to my kids, not theirs.<br /><br />your like that Empath chick in Star Trek.<br /><br />may I say chick?Clowncarhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02219213001049223673noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7229875339727095184.post-47341396649810650742010-07-05T22:31:04.527-05:002010-07-05T22:31:04.527-05:00The book cover alone is ultrawhelming. Thank gGod ...The book cover alone is ultrawhelming. Thank gGod for the laundry and the leftover chicken your bastard roommate eats! <br /><br />And promising puddles.<br /><br />It's sort of spherical - you go far enough west and you end up east; you think about Civilization Crumble enough and you come 'round to laundry;<br />(an ST episode is so bad that it shores up on good). <br /><br />P.S.<br />I like your quote of moment---<br />"things don't really get solved" --- <br /><br />I am refresh.Marzhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05258262409718943594noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7229875339727095184.post-13622435482896424552010-07-05T18:57:42.485-05:002010-07-05T18:57:42.485-05:00MOMO: The o' makes "puddle o' glop&qu...MOMO: The o' makes "puddle o' glop" even better!<br />Thanks for your help with links and books.<br />I'm liking the Shirky book but there are so many OTHER perspectives to look at too. It's like a kaleidoscope.<br /><br />SPARKY: Absolutely! Rocket Man Library!Frescahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15323129046492056942noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7229875339727095184.post-19043796141200175362010-07-05T16:36:14.872-05:002010-07-05T16:36:14.872-05:00There may be a need for a library for all the book...There may be a need for a library for all the books and musical offerings by Star Trek alumni...ArtSparkerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04875996639432864367noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7229875339727095184.post-87899794235012127602010-07-05T15:00:05.273-05:002010-07-05T15:00:05.273-05:00Puddle o' glop! this is a good description of ...Puddle o' glop! this is a good description of one of those stages of existential transformation: hmmmm, why can't I get off the couch? oh, it's because I feel as if I'm in the throes of change but right now I'm in the puddle o' glop stage.<br />I have a book which will help put Shirky's stuff in a useful long perspective....momohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12149328149132703479noreply@blogger.com