Notices by Allison Parrish (aparrish@mastodon.social), page 4

I've seen things you people wouldn't believe. Attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion. I watched C-beams glitter in the dark near the Tannhäuser Gate.

"How doth the little srurbumbered improve his shining pearple and pour the borbirpers of the mrilmer on every golden sprarple"

(adding bilabial and rhotacization features to sounds of *just the nouns* when decoding from phonetics to spelling)

@darius @migurski @dphiffer i have long since resigned myself to setting aside an afternoon whenever i want to install some software, no matter how trivial the software, just in case; and to the knowledge that any given piece of software will stop working five minutes after i install it, if i so much as exhale or look at it funny

from Goldberg, Natalie. Writing down the Bones: Freeing the Writer Within. Shambala, 1986, p. 8. (_Writing Down the Bones_, according to Wikipedia, "sold over a million copies and is considered an influential work on the craft of writing." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Natalie_Goldberg if "free writing" was put forth as a method in any of your creative writing classes from elementary school to college, chances are your teacher got the idea from this book)

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@ultimape not just a talk, a whole two-week workshop with classes and everything. if I had the time and even the slightest license to spend that kind of cash right now I would apply in a heartbeat

SPEAKING OF tech/arts things in NYC, this session at the School for Poetic Computation in feb looks amazing http://sfpc.io/codepaper/

"When we fold, we imbue an inert material with pattern, structure, animation, function, and interface; a crease in paper is a re-programming of the material’s memory. Folded structures give us a means to touch and manipulate difficult problems.... With an increased knowledge of folding mechanisms can we build more sustainable, ecologically-aware technology?"

Todd Anderson runs a talk/presentation/performance series in NYC called WordHack for people "working at the intersection of language and technology"—it's consistently excellent and a very important community for me. anyway, he's doing an open call for presenters in 2019: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfz0K0Ma6pz0Pp-pgZ08f2H0GKqhkY80KTtw1rDNte5ix_KRQ/viewform if you're in NYC (or plan to be on any of the listed dates) and you think your work fits the bill, you should sign up!

listen. I read many books a year. MANY. I don't have time for socialism or tenure

the two kinds of amazon reviews of out-of-print academic monographs (from https://www.amazon.com/Structure-Complex-Words-W-Empson/dp/0472061259)

(in general I think people really underestimate the cats' ability to be happy and excited in an emotive way? or maybe I am just blessed with two very emotive kitties.)

the other cat, shumai (who has been benefiting from your generosity on her chemotherapy gofundme, thank you again everyone!) gave me nose-boop kisses but didn't even want skritches for a while. I think she was mad at me. oh well. here they are btw

I just wanted to talk about how excited my cat Althea was to see me when I got home from my ~3 week stint of travel yesterday. usually Althea is really standoffish after a long absence—the first time I was away for a long time, it felt like it took her a few days to even remember who I was. but yesterday she saw me, immediately gave me nose-boop kisses and flopped over onto her back in her kitteny way and wouldn't let me stop petting her for like thirty minutes. it was good and adorable