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dsgood - September 20th, 2009
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08:05 pm
[Link] | Sunday September 13, 2009 Minnesota Speculative Fiction Writers Meetup at the Uptown Lunds. Smaller than most MnSpec Meetups; the date had been chosen late and therefore announced late.
There were a couple of newcomers.
Agenda: readings by members. As usual, the problems writers were concerned about and the problems listeners saw didn't always coincide.
***Afterwards, I went to the Uptown Rainbow supermarket and picked up this week's flyers.
Took the #21 bus to East Lake Library. Took out Denis J. Hauptly, _Something Really New: Three simple steps to creating truly innovative products_. Worth reading just for the horrible examples. My favorite: a cell phone for the blind and low-sighted which included a camera.
Then to Cub Supermarket.
Leaving Cub, I found myself more aware of my surroundings than usual. Took me a few seconds to figure out why. There was a woman whose high heels clicked audibly, and I was "seeing" with echolocation.
Stopped in at Target to pick up their weekly flyer, and then home.
Current Location: Minneapolis, Baja Manitoba
Current Music: Mighty Nell, the Eskimo
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10:04 pm
[Link] | Monday September 14, 2009 Radio: interview with the new president of Minneapolis College of Art and Design. At least while I was listening, two of his assumptions weren't questioned by the interviewer or by people who called or emailed in.
First: Design is best taught under a system developed for teaching people who don't work with their hands -- or, in most cases, with their eyes.
Second: Designers are visual thinkers. It's one of those obvious things which might not be true. There are professional photographers who don't think visually.
***To Southwest Senior Center, to access Internet.
***In the evening, my neighborhood organization (SENA) had its annual meeting at Lake Hiawatha Park Rec Center.
On the way there, I stopped in at Sibley Park and picked up the South Central parks schedule.
I passed a former hardware store which is becoming Angry Catfish Bicycle and Coffee Bar. Offhand, I'd class that business name as "twee punk."
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Current Location: Minneapolis, Alta Iowa
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