
Mihi by Dixon Ticonderoga
April 16th, 2010 10:47 PM7 vote(s)
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While I have enjoyed reading completions of this task before, it was only in cases where I was curious to know more about the author already. Artmouse's completion is great, but I doubt I would've cared if she wasn't already inside my monkeysphere. Sadly, I agree largely with Lowtek's thought on these tasks.
This completion is different though. The idea behind mihi is taken advantage of in a way that makes me think "praxis" rather than "diary". So definitely welcome to the game, I like the way you think Dixon "Hellaskeletons" Ticonderoga (which, for the record, makes me think of awesome pencil skeletons). Let us know if you have any questions about how to make your completions more fun to do, or more fun to read, or what have you.
Sorry to derail the discussion of a fine task completion, Dixon. (Because comments cause tasks to get noticed, even irrelevant comments are probably a good thing; hence, I'm not too sorry.)
Waldo, I think you're the first person except me that I've ever heard use the monkeysphere in conversation, aside from Trickster Tao who introduced me to the idea and pointed me to Robin Dunbar's work. There's a lot to dislike about the word - it doesn't follow the usual something-sphere construction, and the relationship to monkeys is tenuous. But, I'm convinced the phenomenon it describes is genuine, important, and needs an short and pop-psychology friendly name of some kind. ("Individuals within your neocortex-size-determined cognitive group" doesn't quite have the same ring to it.)
Welcome.