M E M E X D O T C L O U D

Aaron is our wonderful friend and neighbor.

This was an amazing Rice Lager that Andrea made.

I’m typing this in 2024 on a 2011 Lenovo Thinkpad x220 named Screb, and it’s pretty fun.

My dad made this!

My friend Jayne’s dad gave her, unsolicited, a set of three remote-operated outlets when she was living in a studio apartment where it might have been possible to reach all of her light switches at once.

Abe made this dope thing recently: I want a Striso 2023 Update: I have a Striso

I got this at Tip Top Vintage.

Martha got this for me at Memory Den for Christmas.

8.17.23 I was visiting Michigan, and a buddy of mine (who shall remain anonymous for this story) has been working for the University of Michigan in a capacity that overlaps with the Natural History Museum.

[[ Delphine ]] makes excellent clothing, including conversational sweaters.

My dear and amazing friend [[ Vee ]] sent me a wadded-up, 1/3-full bag of Magic Masala flavor Lays.

In January of 2024 I had a dream in which my dear friend Gina was known to always be carrying, and snacking from, a basket of Dorians.

Buckmanite, or Buckman Slate, is a metamorphic substance endemic to many urban environments, but first identified in the Buckman neighborhood of Portland, Oregon.

This is the home page for my webring.

“Memex” is a portmanteau of “memory” and “index,” coined by Vannevar Bush in his essay As We May Think.

Brain Mulch and Mind Things If only to be less confusing when I ramble about digital gardens and memexes and so on to Martha, I’ve been trying to figure out a clear difference between the two ideas, or at least how I’m approaching them.

Work 🪵 Sept - Oct cleaned up a lot of content added a lot of content added support for video and audio assets in media lots of style nits refined auto-tagging refined gallery creation made collections templates improved, expanded feeds launched!

Built in Jekyll.

MMMX., pronounced “mem ex dot cloud” is my semi-public memex.

Hi Dad!

In no particular order Art Lovers New York Fruitmarket Rhizome BmoreArt Contemporary Art Daily Tropics of Meta – historiography for the masses [Home Just Paint](https://justpaint.org/) e-flux [Painters’ Table Contemporary Art Magazine](https://www.painter…

Back in art school, I had a dream where I was trying to explain to my friend Greg a tension I was feeling with my studies.

When multiple people are interested in a project or an idea or an activity, and no one has a plan or has actually taken action, but in talking to each other they end up with a plan accidentally.

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This is the Conceptual Labor book that I wrote.

The first in a series of self-published zines meant to stoke the imaginations of tabletop role players, Forking Paths #1: Guidebook to the Viridian Maw has given me and my friends literally hundreds of hours of engaged, high-fantasy imagination time.

I’m still curating this list but these are some of my favorites from Weird Web October.

Walking up to Martha’s recent art show at Mother Foucault’s, I saw Patterns of Intention in the window.

Lucy wrote about a Real Mind Thing of hers, The Eggs, for a very cool project called the Personal Canons Cookbook.

This is a post following up a story I posted on Instagram volunteering to help anyone interested to get off Instagram and onto something more open, with the hopes we could get a little crew together to seed a small network that could be fun enough to keep…

Many of you may remember when Gina volunteered with Young Audiences, an organization that made the world of music more accessable to high schoolers.

Brain Meth is distinct from Brain Crack because it is productive.

In 2006, Zefrank forwarded the concept of Brain Crack, and I have been using it ever since.

Brain Coffee is put forward as a framework to guide one’s use of LLMs and “AI” to keep it from turning into Brain Meth.

I had a really vivid dream last night involving my late friend Corby.

As of Oct 23, 2024, the following orgs will triple any donations you send World Central Kitchen Doctors Without Borders

This essay was very influential on the [[ Digital Gardens ]] movement, and on the creation of this memex.

The story of what happened when Pinboard asked Archive of Our Own “what do you want out of tags.”

While that definition—software for group interaction—cuts across existing categories, I think it is the right one, because it recognizes the fundamentally social nature of the problem.

Because of Octothorpes, I saw that Nik posted about Design and Crime, so I’d like to post about The Burglar’s Guide to The City, another great book about architecture and crime that my friend Stephanie turned me on to.

This came to me in a dream about cats.

Last time Martha and I visited our dear friends Phil and Ellen and got to see Phil’s amazing collection of books, an unusual item stuck out.

Carl is a man of many talents and neologisms.

Discussing Bread Times is how Martha and I acknowledged the existence and importance of times.

Welcome to my Memex!

Children of her type contrive the purest philosophies.

Ok, so maybe the old, small web has some juice left in it.

A Mind Thing is something you reach for in your mind as part of how you understand the world.

This is a retronym made necessary by the growing expectation that information and culture can be perfect transmitted – that the result on one end will be identical to the thing transmitted.