KFTF 2025 update 1

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After 3 weeks of use, a page of links to toothsome things for January 2025 is already pretty unwieldy, but at least it’s in chronological order, with dates for my encounters, and many of the entries have blockquoted extracts of their essence. The rationale is that something linked on that page seemed portentious or exemplary in some way, and so wanted to be at least maybe retrievable at some future time. What the page shows is Serendipities, showing how far I can wander in any given day via incoming traffic from Feedly and several subscriptions. Each link could easily become part of a Project…

The January 2025 collection of YouTube videos has sprawled even more messily, the main criterion for inclusion being a sense that I might want to find the video again. The gatheration could be sorted topically (music stuff of many kinds, art stuff, talk stuff…), but for the moment I’ve resorted to splitting the stream into Part A, Part B, and Part C. I suspect I’ll need another Part before the month is done.

Curating 2024

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I’m working on the year’s-end curation for 2024, with the intention to enhance retrievability for documents I’ve collected and created in several media and various form factors.

By laying these things out for inspection via web pages, I can derive some better understanding of where I’ve been in the last year, and perhaps develop a map of the landscape of rabbit holes I’ve visited. And maybe even construct a sense of What It All Means, and whither next to wander…

Parking these links in the blog will remind me where I’ve squirreled them away. I mean to update them as they are refined: weeded, sorted, commented… Here’s the current corps de ballet:

chronological listing of book acquisitions, most via Amazon
pages for YouTube discoveries, and pages for artists/musicians I especially admire (Yamandu Costa, Jesse Welles, Fabulous Aïda, …)
txt files and pdf documents that got saved on desktop and hard drives, relevant to passing interests and meant for revisitation
indexing the yellow pads 2024 and October 24 – Jan 25 (pdf)
a link to Convivium postings
the scattering of Flickr Albums, collecting much of the year’s photographic work
Web places that I mean/meant to revisit someday (I Want to Do Right, but Not Right Now)
the problem of tracking AI as it mushrooms
something needs to be said of Substack and Medium writers I’m following
mp3 and flac files of music downloaded from various sources
a central place to locate Kindle Notebooks
(the last two are indexes, but don’t distribute the [proprietary] content)

Jesse Welles

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I discovered this remarkable artist only yesterday, which says something about how isolated I am (he’s been around for several years, but active on TicToc [of which I’m not a follower] apparently in recent years. Here’s my collection of YouTube videos, the lyrics of which speak very eloquently to these parlous times.

toward a 13th Blurb book

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I’m beginning to think seriously about another book project, to summarize the work of the last five years. It seems sensible to begin with a web page, where I can collect candidates and begin to build sequence and narration. It starts at https://oook.info/13th/ and may change quite a lot whenever I work on it… but at least this post will make it findable whenever I forget where I’ve parked it…

another KFTF

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links gathered up 22xi24 (from the preceding fortnight or so)

…which seems to be an effective means to keep track of links I grabbed and imagined I’d get back to sometime.

The November harvest from YouTube thusfar
(more will be added in the next week)

today’s revised Question

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…where we find the personal inner resources to stay balanced,
to avoid unhealthy anger and depression,
and remain engaged in the world…

My response to the problem yesterday was to write Advice du jour and send it to a few like-minded others. Today, part of my answer is to MAKE stuff, to bring things into being… which is what the last blog post was all about. So here’s something from today:

Positively jovial, jovially positive. But this one might better reflect the sensations of doomscrollers:

And one wants to collect Zeitgeisty images as they flitter by…

Quiltography is next

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I scanned an aerial image of Grand Pre dykelands from 1955:

and then it occurred to me to rotate the image 90 degrees:

And damme if Glooscap doesn’t put in an appearance, breathing Boot Island into being. YCMTSU, folks.

more KFTF

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After a week away, a lot has accumulated in the form of links sent to myself, and collecting them here seems …efficient as a means to be able to find them again:

YouTube from 1 Nov 2024

links to revisit, 7xi24 collection

I also happened upon a piece I wrote in 1993, in the early years (30+ ago) at Washington & Lee:

Writing and the New Technology for Research

Keeping Found Things Found (KFTF)

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Mindful that my Word for the Year was Curate, what can I say about how that has gone as we near the cusp of November, with prospects that are at best uncertain and fraught? While I haven’t been systematic about Curating, there have been some interesting developments on the remote edges of the mountains of things-retained, and I want to put some links where I can find them more easily. Thus:

Oxford English Dictionary exploration 1995

Philosophy of Teaching and Learning ca. 1995

Hollows and other toponymy bits 2000

Sabbatical Fall 2002

Walls in China ca. 2003

Doubtless other toothsome bits will surface. These (mere Ears of the Hippopotamus) remind me of how I was using html to keep track of and summarize projects during the Washington & Lee library years.

The photographic archives are vast and full of surprises. Consider these from a 2022 excavation, and Horton Landing bozos, 1973. Every photograph has a backstory, of course.

There will be more in this vein.