Primate sociality: The Middletown, CA, High School abt 4 miles from Harbin Hot Springs * * * Reed College Jan Mieszkowski "Here Come the Prose Police Why academic writing gets a bad rap" and ethno-wiki-virtual-world-graphy * * * A kind of 'communitas' in society-cultural processes ... :) ... So what's the 'culture' idea here in contemporary and understandable words ? ... something about a kind of vision for a better world that for me emerges out of the 1960s and '70s (may be in aspects of unprogrammed Friends as well for me) ... and which even significantly changed the course or law and legal history in this country and around the world * * * Stanford Prof. Scotty McLennan sitting behind Steve Jobs here, as well as John Hennessy (and Donald Kennedy, I think) in this INCREDIBLE Stanford commencement speech * * * Just added World Univ & Sch "Google My Business" with 2 photos (of Middletown, CA, high school as WUaS builds out here

World University & School on #Google https://local.google.com/place?id=13580134555851014887&use=posts&lpsid=3663487703871734617 … Here's the beginning of the World University and School High School in English - planning online high school IB Diplomas - https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/WUaS_International_Baccalaureate_Diploma_and_Programme … - in many countries https://ocw.mit.edu/high-school/more/for-students/ … - https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/The_College_at_World_University_and_School … ~

World University & School on #Googlehttps://t.co/vNolxbYGM4 Here's the beginning of the World University and School High School in English - planning online high school IB Diplomas - https://t.co/rgqbYDsnar - in many countries https://t.co/wFD5c1s2SO - https://t.co/kIntwUgV5E ~

— WorldUnivandSch (@WorldUnivAndSch) October 15, 2019

https://twitter.com/WorldUnivAndSch/status/1184209377198104576

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The Middletown, CA, High School abt 4 miles from Harbin Hot Springs -
https://twitter.com/WorldUnivAndSch/status/1184209377198104576 ~ @WorldUnivAndSch on #Google https://local.google.com/place?id=13580134555851014887&use=posts&lpsid=3663487703871734617 Here are the beginnings in English of https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/WUaS_International_Baccalaureate_Diploma_and_Programme in many countries based on https://ocw.mit.edu/high-school/more/for-students/ & https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/The_College_at_World_University_and_School ~

https://twitter.com/HarbinBook/status/1184272295541399552
https://twitter.com/scottmacleod/status/1184273389000646658



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https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2019/10/pinus-strobus-near-water-great-to-see.html




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Here Come the Prose Police
Why academic writing
gets a bad rap.


Nick Ogonosky for The Chronicle

October 11, 2019

By JAN MIESZKOWSKI
Reed College Professor of German



philosophy of writing?

ethno-wiki-virtual-world-graphy
https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/search/label/ethno-wiki-virtual-world-graphy

and the visual

The visual ?

metaphorically as writing with new approaches to a visual syntax? ...


The implicit message of a well-written sentence is not “this is the form an insightful claim must take,” but “this is a form that an insightful claim might take, although hardly the only one, much less necessarily the best one.” ... poetry?

https://www.chronicle.com/interactives/20191011-In-Praise-of-Bad-Academic-Writing?key=mi0Bff1vaLHL09_no2Emg6es9ZrpEChRT6BlZQTadkx9lnP_FvLJP5rRQvwxuV2LMnljMlA4N1NmVVd1OER0cERILTBlZWVuYVpUcmNpUWcxcjZVZ3pLSmo2TQ&fbclid=IwAR2CEfSjexA18PJ0UyeVvIh73Jgw-buFgwT8AF3WWo-gPDFSenI-heYFGVs





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Hi Ma, Ed and David,

Never thought about it this way, but re "tying the knot," perhaps the bowline knot is a good example, and re how David and I used to teach this even in the CYC even: "the rabbit goes up the hole, around the tree, and back down the hole again" ... but didn't think about it in new ways until just now. And Ma, I just found that Stanford Professor Scotty MacLennan, who is also a UU minister, and of Doonesbury fame, where he's the minister the Rev Scott Sloan, and I'm guessing that McLennan and the MacLeods overlapped in New Haven / Hamden CT as well - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scotty_McLennan - and who is also a lawyer, ... and is a Unitarian Universalist Christian (see the article), - the meaning of which may have changed since the 1970s in California - and is still teaching at Stanford. Had never heard of UU Christians before reading this. Have you?


You can see Stanford Prof. Scotty McLennan sitting behind Steve Jobs here -
Steve Jobs's Top 10 Rules For Success

https://youtu.be/eHzAtxW3TzY - as well as John Hennessy (and Donald Kennedy, I think, too, also a former Stanford president, across the aisle from McLennan, later in Steve Jobs' 2005 speech) in this INCREDIBLE Stanford commencement speech in its entirety at the end of this video. It's a fascinating video too for ideas for me for World Univ & Sch and also mentions Reed College. A lot of Steve Jobs' thinking emerges from the 1960s (and he looks like a hippy in a couple of the items above) ... and Jobs closes this speech by mentioning The Whole Earth Catalog, which I had just emailed you about yesterday (and posted here - https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2019/10/pinus-longaeva-bristlecone-pine-world.html) in my blog post from yesterday (including my mentioning of whistle-blowing at Stanford).  There's something questionable in my mind about how Jobs died, and it's interesting to see no one sitting next to John Hennessy on the Stanford graduation podium in the beginning of this speech possibly in these regards as well. Am glad I'm over here in Canyon in some ways re all this Silicon Valley history; am curious if he might even have been a kind of casualty of SV struggles within the 3 monotheistic backgrounds, since Jobs' father was Syrian. Would indeed be sad, tragic even ... and yet further open inter-cultural communications even between these 3 traditions, 15 years after Jobs' death, and 50 years or so after the 1960s.


I also just posted my weekly World Univ & Sch "Google My Business" with 2 photos (of Middletown, CA, high school, and it looks like possibly in 2016 with smoke in the air, although it may be before this during another fire - am not sure how to do the digital archaeology to find the date provenance of these photos, which probably exists) and writeup:

https://posts.gle/BgwjR

https://local.google.com/place?id=13580134555851014887&use=posts&lpsid=3663487703871734617

"Here's the beginning of the World University and School High School in English - planning online high school IB Diplomas - https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/WUaS_International_Baccalaureate_Diploma_and_Programme - in many countries and languages, based on MIT OCW - https://ocw.mit.edu/high-school/more/for-students/ - since 2007! ... and which will feed into The College at World Univ & Sch ... https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/The_College_at_World_University_and_School ..."

I went ahead then to repost this on Twitter, and then unusually to FB, also messaging Reedie friend Candace Schaffer Lieber with this WUaS high school and college post, - and soon thereafter my computer shut down! Interesting to see what can be done remotely. I pressed the restart button, booted up again, and am making another new backup, having made a backup yesterday, and not needed it. Why and how? I don't know, but possibly hypothetically, because FB is watching its Google competition, ... (where WUaS is developing ... and re where WUaS too is planning to explore facilitating a single cryptocurrency in some number of ~200 countries and backed by their central banks - each a Wikidata Q-item where WUaS donated itself to Wikidata for co-development in 2015, planning for all 7.5 billion people on the planet, and distributed via Universal Basic Income experiments; FB is holding an event it appears in Stanford Law, the opening event of Stanford Law Silicon Valley Directors' Exchange, about which I texted you yesterday evening; see below ...).


Here's my text message from last night, M 14 Oct '19:
"Am reminded again, Ma, of the Scots' song "I'll take the high road and you take the low road and I'll be in Scotland afore ye" .. and just as an invitation from Stamford Law Silicon Valley Directors' Exchange arrived on my smartphone high up on beautiful Skyline Drive minutes ago. I probably won't go to this at this point - there may be some low goings ons at Stanford re this -  but it's one of the places where I first met Alphabet chairman and former Stanford President John Hennessy, in September 2018. Nice tune:) how are you? :) "

But I may register for this nevertheless ... since I met Hennessy at a panel where Stanford Law Prof. Joe Grundfest was speaking, and he's doing this first panel of the season again this year as well ... (https://www.svdx.org/calendar/2019/11/7/november-morning-session) ...

Could Scotty McLennan, with his many Boston roots, be the minister who might even marry me on Cuttyhunk? Could be worth exploring if and when I meet a partner / spouse / mom-to-be ... Steve Jobs' speed is interesting in these regards too. Am an appreciator of John Hennessy who has great knowledge and perspective on all of these SV and Stanford history, and its successes as well, knowing the cast of decision-makers probably pretty well, since he's been at Stanford since around 1977. Laureen Powell Jobs is beautiful :) ... but am interested in cultural flourishings, (in addition to entrepreneurial flourishings which Silicon Valley and Stanford have so remarkably created).

Warm regards, Scott