Humanize the Earth!

for John Abbe

I came across a really cool idea about the Local Commons Surveys Project. I saved the link in my delicious account and then noticed someone else had already saved it. Which got me thinking about other pages I’d bookmarked and who was also saving them. So I clicked on my link to the Walnut Street Coop and the other person that’s saved that page also has a tag called forJohnAbbe. I know John Abbe! He was in the wikivan from Oakland to San Diego in October and we stayed at his place in Oakland both going and coming. Amazing! So I figured I’d use that same tag on this post and see if John answers, just from that. :-) forJohnAbbe

edit: I just found this: http://del.icio.us/help/for. Maybe that’s what that person was trying to do when the forJohnAbbe tag was created. Hmm.
edit: so if you want to leave a link for me in delicious, tag it “for:tedernst”

new linking policy

As of today, I have more than 60 links in the sidebar. These are either to friends or people I read regularly or organizations I find important. The list is a bit unwieldy. So over the next year or so, I’m going to semi-regularly highlight those site, alone or in groups, and put those posts in the new “links” category. As I do that, I’ll remove those sites from the sidebar. Eventually, the links category will have everything that’s over there now. The big advantage for you is you’ll have more than just the link; you’ll have the short post about that link as well. Hope this will be helpful.

Portland Conference - Recent Changes Camp

Recent Changes Camp news: I got a phone call today from Socialtext offering $2000 sponsorship! Woo Hoo! This is going to be an amazing event. I’m really looking forward to it.

scarcity

Found a great post from mousemusings where Cyndy reminds us that Fear feeds into the scarcity mentality. At the very bottom of the post, Cyndy links to Yes magazine’s alternative money resources. Excellent! Thanks to Mark Dilley for the email about this post.

high speed rail in Michigan

Excellent news from the Chicago Tribune via Rick Harnish at the Midwest High Speed Rail Association:

The Midwest’s first high-speed passenger trains are nipping along at speeds of almost 100 miles per hour on Amtrak’s Wolverine service in Michigan, while technology hang-ups are sidetracking progress on similar efforts in Illinois.

Michigan got a five-year jump on Illinois. It partnered in 1995 with the federal government and the railroad industry to develop a train-control system that assures safety at up to 110 m.p.h., which is how fast Amtrak trains will operate in part of Michigan beginning in 2006. Since the fall, the top speed is 95 m.p.h.

circle of friends

I know this invitation doesn’t apply to very many of you, but I’m excited about this event that I’m helping to create, so I thought I’d share it anyway.

TantraNova Circle of Friends

In January we will be starting a new tradition: A monthly meeting for people who have done work with TantraNova, i.e., who have completed a minimum of beginner level private sessions or workshops or much more! The idea of a monthly gathering was conceived by one of our advanced students, Simone, to build and support the community of TantraNova students. It will provide a place where you can come to share what’s going on with you, request help, listen and be listened to and meet others who are in the inquiry of creating wholeness, love and passion within themselves and in their relationships.

Simone is partnering with Ted, also an advanced student, for the purpose of guiding us in our first TN Circle of Friends meeting on: (email for details)

geeky fun (have no fear!)

There are all kinds of geeks in this world. This from the University of Chicago:

PHYSICAL CONSTANT CHEER

Gimme the speed of light ……C
Gimme Planck’s constant………H
Gimme root negative one……….I
Gimme carbon………………….C
Gimme the Bohr radius…………..A
Gimme the gravitational constant….G
Gimme the additive identity of a non-trivial group…O
What’s that spell? ……………CHICAGO!

seek and you will find

I just discovered that I can see what phrases people were searching for when they came to my site from a search engine. They only gave me 30 of 99. Here they are:

• ted ernst
• humanize the earth
• humanize
• tedernst
• free geek chicago
• kameron hurley
• maaskva nashimi glazami
• ted ernst bicycle
• wplicense
• coastal starlight
• maj gabel
• johnny payphone
• adrienne arsenault
• the wooden camera
• earth man and life a meeting point
• miranda mcosker
• simpleinside.com
• president elect george w bush assured the nation in a televised address tuesday
• coastal starlight late
• opendistro
• failure
• blog rose vines
• sidebar restructured text css
• gabel weblog army
• adrienne arsenault email
• wordpress problems
• a gamma secretase independent mechanism of signal transduction
• girl throws three touchdowns
• wiki miranda mcosker
• how old is adrienne arsenault?

I find the list itself interesting. If I think of it, I’ll come back and report on what I find out about the ones that I don’t recognize at all. Feel free to ask about any that interest you and I’ll link to my post(s) that could’ve caught a search engine.

DNS (geeky post alert)

I just sent this email to Michael Herman. Anyone else want to take a crack at it?

Do you know how DNS works? I’ve been using free service at zoneedit.com for a few years for situations when I want to forward a domain name somewhere, like right now with chicagohumanist.org going to humanistcenterofcultures.org/wiki

They only allow a certain number for free, however, so I’m trying to figure out if any of my hosting packages allow for this type of thing.

tedernst.com is hosted with go-daddy and registered elsewhere - what’s it going to take to have chicagocoop.info pointed to tedernst.com?

Edit: Michael rightly pointed out that my registrar should have a free forwarding service. So I’m all set now. Thanks!
edit to add links: Chicago Coop Chicago Coop Chicago Coop

Happy New Year

Half the year, each day as less sunlight than the day before. As of yesterday, we’re in the other half in the Northern hemisphere! On the train on the way to work yesterday, I was watching the sun ascend, from very low in the sky, and I felt a tremedous sense of rebirth, of possibility. Hope you’re feeling it too.

Happy New Year!