I could easily live in a commune. One with or without great costumed regalia. One with our without a tyrannical dictator who names us all Q names. I like chickens, I like to cook huge piles of gumbo.
This type of life is very natural to me.
I would like to impress upon you a concept of general communal goodness - the fifteen minutes of kind (aka work on something that needs to be improved for fifteen minutes every-time you are in a space that is out of the ordinary). So basically see something - do something to make it better. As in - this is gross, it need not be that gross and I could de-gross it. This looks strange I could make it look better.
I know many of you do this but if we ALL did thisâŚdangâŚwe would have time to sit around a (3D printed) fire and fake roast marshmallows.
Last night Bailey Fath (the best person you havenât met yet) was like âdang that handwriting on tape is just not pleasing to look atâŚI could make it betterâ and bam she made it better WHAAAAAA
and she was like âthis area needs a good scrubâŚand she was like I could scrub it while Iâm sitting herâ and so she did.
WHAAAAAA
I organized a desk but I have no evidence of this happening. I dare you to start doing things and hashtagging them. I double dog dare you. #DMSfifteenminutesofkind#dallasmakerspace
I love the idea, at least without having to live in a commune⌠But I would suggest one change. Instead of hashtagging whenever YOU do something, which sounds too much like patting oneself on the back, I suggest doing so when you see another member doing so. That way we encourage others to participate and donât seem like we are congratulating ourselves.
As a old man, what is hashtagging and how does one do it?
Itâs good to note that DMS is a shared workspace, it will only be as great as everyone makes it, someone posting a sign somewhere asking âwhat have you done to improve DMS today?â would be good to remind everyone of the need to pitch in. Even just emptying a trashcan into the dumpster out back when you see it is full would be a great help, there is no cleaning crew that cleans the workshop, members have to do it.
Ha, just last night at the laser training session I was looking at the marker painters tape and thinking thereâs probably a nicer way of doing that. Thereâs something to be said for simplicity and efficiency but form is nice too when possible.
hashtags are basically baby googles for things like Facebook and instagram. For me they have a life meaning I choose to describe something in an obnoxious hashtag. They have grown to obxious means for just about everyone thus:
⌠Now I am feeling really old. Not only do I not understand, I didnât know who they wereâŚ
I am really feeling more sympathetic to my parents when they âdidnât get itâ. But I will take a lesson from them and treat this hashtagging like programming the clock on the VCR⌠something I will never learnâŚ
#Rubbish and #Poppycock
Without watching the jimmy Fallon/Justin Timberfake video, Iâll go ahead and put this into words which I hope are helpful to anyone in my or Walterâs shoes.
Hashtag - a neologism assigned to the symbol known by many names such as, most correctly, octothorp, or in the USA as ânumber signâ (as in #2 pencil) or âpound signâ (as in 5# of beef). This new phrasing was chosen when services such as Twitter began using the symbol to precurse categories of posts on their streaming social media services. That is to say, when one âtweetsâ on Twitter, one adds one or more categories to assist searchers and/or âfollowersâ in finding the content. These categories are indicated for both human and computer by using the octothorp as the first character.
Thus, as I did on the first line, if one wanted to âfollowâ my posts where I categorized them as âRubbishâ, they could search for or follow #Rubbish . Same idea for #Poppycock .
Thus, if all my posts are âtaggedâ, or âhashtaggedâ, or âcategoriesedâ as #Rubbish and/or #Poppycock, one could search for and/or follow these to find them all.
Itâs not perfect, since you canât stop someone from jumping into your hashtag stream, but it does work after a fashion. Go ahead. Try it. Use the magnifying glass in the top right of your screen to search this talk page. Search for #Rubbish and #Poppycock .
Oh, and be sure you use the phrase âhashtagâ so the kids think youâre cool. And if anyone asks what that is, giggle and deny that you know anything. It takes practice.
