Perhaps you could rename it airmail.
I got to do this one fast. I'm a storyteller. There are number of ways to categorize my
storytelling. One way is to call it the ABC 123 type of story. This is pretty
much a straight up story that's very factual and can be verified. This would be
somewhat like that type of story with a few caveats.
The main caveat is I'm taking the advice of a writing coach
I respect.
A little bit about myself. I'm in my early 50s and I live in
a part of the United States called the red River Valley. This ground separates
Texas and Oklahoma along the red River. I spend a great deal of time in both
states.
Presently, I appear to be unemployed, factually however,
this is the busiest time I have ever experienced in my entire life. Some people
may live their life never realizing what they're calling is. Mine is to be an
artist and a teacher.
I was once a college professor, it was one of the greatest
experiences of my entire life.
Now, let's imagine you walked into the environment I live in
right now. It would appear to be utter chaos. By the way that's code.
My environment right now is anything but chaos. I am
imagining myself teaching an online college course to the world. One it's
basically free to anyone that's interested. Not that anyone is interested.
I have several motives. One is to keep my mind engaged and
active and another one would be to have baseball recognized as an Olympics
port. As an Olympic sport. You'll have to excuse my dictation.
Anyway, this is a type of language class, that is to say the
course I'm preparing to teach online for free. That's why my environment
appears to be so chaotic. In truth I have probably 10 or 20 still life's spread
out over my house all having a purpose and meaning in terms of language.
You see when I teach a class I use a lot of audiovisual
aids.
One of my favorite things to do when I teach is to build a
sense of team spirit and unity within the class. I've done this on a number of
occasions. I always start out slow and simple giving individual assignments and
then gradually introduce the class to teamwork.
I carefully structure of the class so that by the time
teamwork happens all of the students are hooked into the idea of the material
I'm teaching.
Now when I give a grade on a teams assignment is for the
entire team not just the individuals. This means that if one team member works
really hard and another team member doesn't work at all they both get the same
great at the end. That's how life works so that's how I teach.
Now in this language class I'm actually trying to teach team
spirit and unity. To teach the students in the class to have a common goal and
direction in their coursework acquiring the skills of this unusual language.
I'm in a rush today because much of the day was spent at the
funeral of a friend.
This language I'm teaching was done collectively. One of the
elements that helped me create the language passed away. Earlier in the week I
heard news that this person or element was in distress but I was so busy I
could not address the issue and I must confess at that time I didn't let it
bother me. Today I heard the news, the element had passed away and now I have
some regrets.
The final image in today's post is of the tombstone and my recollections
of this element. Let me add this, this element was a true benefit to the
language, I can't say that this element truly added knowledge and voice to the
language but I can say that this element did add substance to the language.
This element had many brothers and sisters that helped in
the development of this unusual language that I'm trying to teach online. I'm
not going to address any of the original creators of the language but I will
say this concerning this specific element, the one that passed away.
You had unique properties and you were truly a benefit to
the cause of the greater good. I used you as a role model. On one occasion I
used one of your brothers or sisters to reach out and recruit another comrade
into the language. I remember discussing with the recruit the choice of optics.
In which optic would be right for their quest concerning alternative language
skills.
I'll need to discuss this more later. I hope this recruit
still has that brother and sister because within that brother and sister is a
type of cipher used in the language.
After she left my class she graduated and moved to a place I
call the capital city. I did a little online looking and found her with her
dog. She looked happy and I hope she is, I truly hope she remembers all of the
things we discussed.
One time this recruit came into my office distressed about
rent or some other aspect of life. In a true act of love and kindness I got up
from my desk and embrace the student. This embrace was for support. At the time
I was being Ms. interpreted at the University I was teaching at. As I embraced
her in my bearhug I felt the muscles in her body tense and in usual way. I
realized she might have thought that this embrace was something other than one
for support. I'll say it now as I said it in the archive, I was showing you
support. Nothing more than that.
Now, I need to talk a lot more but don't have the time. In
this class I'm going to teach fieldwork. I'm also about to do something within
the language called a jump shift. I've never done a job shift online in all of
my teaching. I have alluded to it but I've never actually physically done it.
Now I'm going to physically do it. This means farewell to
the ABC 123 style. This is going to make it very difficult for students.
So for those of you thinking about the online class I've
arranged for bonus points.
I haven't assigned any values for the bonus elements, check
back with me at the end of semester.
There is one exception.
1st pet perspective students. That 1st thing was a
malfunction.
You have to excuse me there are a lot of distractions here.
Anyway, one element has massive bonus points. Ask any student that is ever had
me for professor and they should tell you that I'm a very hard professor and a
stickler for details. It's very difficult to make an a in my class. I draw the
line at 90. Anything that is 90 or above is in a. It's very difficult to get an
a in any class I teach.
This online class is quite different.
One of the elements not pictured has been cut up into 5
pieces. Originally he was going to be cut into 4 pieces to pieces going to
Texas into pieces to Oklahoma. The pieces would be given a bonus points. But if
the 4 people or the 4 parties united and took a photograph of this element reassembled
and posted it on an online website for the world to see, saying to the effect
that we are united for the development and implementation of the language, I
was going to give 50 bonus points away. I was going to allow the group to divvy
up the 50 points as they saw fit between themselves.
If they gave 50 points to one person that persons halfway to
an a, well if you think about it there more than halfway to an a if all you
need is 90 points.
This is a very large incentive. Let's say that it was divided
into 4 pieces and not 5 as I originally intended. 2 people were doing very well
in the class one having a 92 and the other having an 89 1 having an 80 and 1
having a 77. You could divide the 50 points to bring everyone into the arena of
a letter grade of A.
Anyway it's not for pieces it's 5. To go to Oklahoma and to
go to Texas as originally planned. But the final 5th piece has to go to some
other part of the world. I don't know how to do this. But this 5th piece has to
leave this area and go to another part of the world. And somehow the 5 pieces
must be reunited as I stated before for the 5 people to be awarded the 50 bonus
points. It's not 50 bonus points for each person it's 50 bonus points total.
Anyway that's one element that's not pictured. There is an
element that is pictured, it's a power supply for Dell Computer. I'm going to
tell you flat out, this is going to be a drop site delivery to somewhere in
Texas. I'm saying this because it needs to be retrieved quickly.
There are multiple motives for this story, unfortunately I
can't give you all of the motives right now.
Now Oklahoma you're going to get a drop today as well.
There are a bunch of plastic damaged boxes. One of your
unique boxes is going to be put in a dumpster at the OU biological Station.
I'm telling you what the object is and where it's located.
All you have to do is go retrieve it, welcome to the world of dumpster diving.
I'm choosing this site for a reason which will be discussed
later.
Remember this is an online alternative language course.
Believe it or not everything I'm doing in this field work has meaning.
The thing I'm trying to teach the students of this class is
that objects have more meaning than their face value.
Imagine that your primitive person and you have in your line
of sight and unusually shaped mountain. You might come up with some to describe
the shape of the mountain. You're adding symbolism to the thing you're looking
at.
This unique language does the same things with everyday
objects. Much like the French artist Marcel Duchamp did with his ready-made's.
Now his ready-made's were somewhat humorous, I on the other hand took that
concept and threw it into what is called the scientific method.
Once it was in the scientific method we were able to build a
catalog and a language.
Hopefully I'll be able to talk more about that later.
Anyway, if any of you want to do this scavenger hunt for
lost treasure feel free. Just remember, the items you're retrieving have
meaning which will be revealed later.
I would reveal some of it now but I fear that some of you
may be a little gun shy.
Without any explanations you have nothing to fear. Once I
define the objects in what they mean you might want to go to the add drop
office.
What I'm saying is, people are watching and I'm trying to
teach you how to become invisible as you work with this language. I'm also
trying to get baseball inducted into the next Olympics.
That's all I can do for now.
I said that and I need to do one other thing. In the batch
of images I'm going to post I'm starting out with a unique lens that is coded
in this language. I took this image before I knew anything was damaged in the
great crash on Wall Street.
I've been so busy lately that the crash on Wall Street could
not trouble me. Eventually I needed something from the wall so to the wall I
went. That's when I discovered the 63 mm night core lens F2 .8. One of the most
symbolic of all of the coated optics.
I have this vision, it's much like a dream, where I
photographed a rating on a road. Lo and behold there was a variation of that
very dreamlike ring atop the night course 63 mm F2 .8.
You see this language actually does communicate.
Prospective students, this language is about talking with
people in visibly invisibly.
I think in the next lecture I'm going to talk about problems
you have with certain earthly creatures called goons. I'm going to teach you
some tricks when working in what I call a GUI asked world. A world full of
goons. By the way that was gooey ass.
This is a trick I learned several years back. If I can get
all of my still ice together you might be surprised. You see I found something.
This something directly relates to dinosaurs.
This directly relates to the jump shift in my storytelling.
Remember it's all for the greater good.
By the way, every day this week has had a unique soundtrack,
basically one simple to which is then altered with code.
As I was preparing for the field work today I was trying to
choose the right soundtrack.
That's when I realized there's only one soundtrack for this
course.
You see I taught this course at the University of Texas at
Dallas in the fall of 2003. I was trying to teach the students how to
transition from one art form to another. How to say something from a given
piece of artwork in a different way in another art form.
That's one of the elements involved in this language.
I listen to the CD today and realized there was no other
choice, this has to be the soundtrack for this course.
Now reviewing the CD there are some alterations in the
timeline. Let me go to my lecture notes and I'll explain.
Here they are, now I don't have time to list out all of the
tracks on this CD. And I've been so busy today and the funeral and everything,
that I couldn't listen to the entire CD. But I did get this much information
down in my lecture notes.
For this online class completely disregard track number 12.
Track number 12 is about problems looking at things too closely. This class is
about looking at things very closely. Underneath this I have written down in
for size the zip line. This means that some tracks are more powerful than
others. The 1st track listed underneath the zip line is track number 4. As I
recall this is a folk song and it is very important in this online class.
Beneath that I have written track number 2 and track number 3.
I'm going to have to get back to this because I haven't had
time to listen to the entire CD.
Right now I have to dispose of the Dell laptop computer
power supply.
As I recall this power supply was given to me by my brother.
I have not altered this power supply in any way whatsoever. It's just a Dell
laptop power supply. When I start telling you the jump shift story it becomes
something entirely different. We'll just have to wait.
You see, if you acquire the skill set of this language and
object can become an icon and an icon can become iconography.
I try to explain it to someone wants, I wasn't successful,
and the cashier at target wanted me to collect my items and leave.
Using this skill set within the invisible language I went to
this man's office and looked directly into his eyes. I've already told that
story in the archive. So if you enroll in this class please get your library
cards in order.
This is a much larger posts than I realized. I've got close
to 100 miles to travel to accomplish today's task.
The plastic box to the OU dumpster and the Dell power supply
to the old-school indicator that a game is afoot.
Good luck and good fishing.
Over and out.
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