AUM Shiva

Dance lord,

dance upon the ignorants

they refuse to learn.

Seekers, form a circle

looking away from the center.

Teachers encircle them

stepping to the left!

Each new pair may exchange a meme

or not

then take another step.

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Stainless Steel Droppings and the SF experience.
Lovely combination of chess and role playing games.
Miss you, blog, but life demands focus of energy on academics.
Soon...

Metacognition and Jim Kelly

Who is the voice in your head?
I mean the one heard while reading a book or a blogpost to yourself.
Is it mine? If you know my voice, do you hear it

or your concept of it
or your own voice?
Are you even 'hearing'?

It is a question which comes up in Lit class. Usually framed as,
'What does the reader bring to the meaning of a story?'
Author Jim Kelly adds to the issue by reading his own stories aloud for us.

I like the one about the proof of God.
Click the link and scroll down to 5JUNE2006.

Metacognition and Justine Larbalestier

I found a metacognitive blogger who has been
thinking about thinking
about the same ideas I ponder.
The same genre, even the same era.
I imagine her sitting in the last outpost, beyond the frontier town furthest out in the direction I want to travel, at the bar. She's returned from another trip not so much tired as revisiting. Just to report back and remind herself why she does what she does. Take a look at her blog http://justinelarbalestier.com/blog/
and she's down there in the blogs I follow.

Flip

Lazy.
I am in the throes of a summertime lull.
The spin-down and freedom has become a quiet drift.
I would pick a direction but for one consideration: is anyone else going with me?
So it is more like a contemplation of the kind of future I want to see. I will finish my M.A. if just for the money. I will write more for myself. I will continue to work hard if only to firm up. I will hit the campus running and ready to motivate 13 year-olds.

There, that feels better. Those all have attainability...
...and anybody may join in.

Escape Pod

I have been diagnosed with an auditory processing deficiency.
By my wife.
So it is serious.
I am a visually stimulated person, usually.
So when my favorite brother -in-law once told me about Esacpe Pod--I did not hear him.
Until he told me once more.
A site where they read SF stories... why not read them yourself?
I need the words of a story to go in to my eyes more than my ears.
But now I hear very nice stuff while I drive to work. Very cool.

All their stuff is produced professionally. You download it all for free.
Honestly, some are better than others, but I have never abandoned one midway.
They offer famous and first-time authors. Steve Eley reads a lot of them and others appear from time to time. Some very unique voices.
If you are not an SF person then use their links to other stuff.
Horror, fantasy, weird, I am sure you will find something to download. Get started by clicking Escape Pod above.

Music Explosions

So what is more Metacognitive than music?
May one quantify Metacognition?
New music mushrooms my mind.
Here is a list:
Daikaiju
Johnathan Coulton
Fluke
Muse
Delerium