Praxis (Completed Tasks)
Genuinely free, self-conscious, authentic activity as opposed to the alienated labour demanded under capitalism.
Matter cannot be destroyed. Nor energy. But information can be destroyed. Information, and legacies, and memories can be destroyed, eroded by the crashing waves of time against the unfortified foundation of physical storage and the fragile psyche of...
Generally, I don’t kiss and tell. However, for this occasion, we hired a professional photographer to document the event. I kissed a girl (and liked it) and she apparently liked it enough to still marry me afterwards!
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So a few years ago I decided I wanted to go to college. I had worked many retail jobs, and spent years as a working artist, but I became deeply interested in neuroscience and decided I wanted to pursue it as a career. Well, one thing led to another, ...
This is my youngest daughter. I kiss her every day, and we both like it.
This is a sort of "crawlspace" in the 2nd basement of the science building I do research in. It's supposed to be locked, but I think that building maintenance forgot about it long, long ago. As far as I can tell, this space was created when the build...
The top floor atrium of the science building I work in, overlooking the football field.
For me the spirit of the Twin Cities is in art, motion and travel, and people--I think this task is properly done at an intersection of the bartPA, UofA and Humanitarian Crisis groups. I selected three spots in the city, determined to go to each and ...
Eleven years since the first task I completed. I think that's long enough to qualify as a truly old dog. An extraordinary amount of water has passed under the bridge so much that the bridges themselves - burning now - have been swept a...
I decided to out my Father's pantry of all the out of date crackers, pasta, mouldy jam and such like. At the very back in the corner was a small red and yellow cardboard tube, the tin end was perforated and would twist to open a pattern of holes thro...