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Today's policy questions:
1. What information do you personally keep copies of?
In the chaos of information I access outside my head, I want a redundancy coupled with a polyfunctionality. For each needed function, I want several components which satisfy that function. And I want each component to satisfy multiple functions.
For example, I need to know people's phone numbers. I want the phone number to be in my phone AND somewhere(s) else, like an address book. AND I want my phone and my address book to be doing other things besides.
For now, I need to implement this layer of redundancy by making an address book. I already lost a lot of numbers when Verizon's Backup Assistant malfunctioned. But, what other function should the address book have?
I'll boil this down to the Assignment: Make an address book which includes, for each person's entry, the things they do that you try to emulate. (For example, Rafter's goofy high-voiced pleasantness in interactions with strangers.)
2. When is watching a movie or video clip acceptable?
I would like to eliminate my habit of watching things alone to 'veg out'. This includes ____, old TV episodes that I have or haven't seen, and youtube clips usually from blogs I read to 'veg out', beginning usually with feministing.com.
I already made a policy/microscore for what to do when you're subjected to, say, watching a TV at the airport which is turned up way too loud. The score is, cultivate a couch-potato-zombie-tongue-hanging-out-eyes-glazed-over face.
The policy could be that watching any of this is acceptable if in the company of another.
The policy could be to watch only things which have been recommended to me by sources who know my social desires. (I myself could be one of these sources.)
Also, there's that weird moment of showing someone a youtube clip you liked, such that you're watching the second time while they're watching it for the first time. Shall I allow that?...
1. What information do you personally keep copies of?
In the chaos of information I access outside my head, I want a redundancy coupled with a polyfunctionality. For each needed function, I want several components which satisfy that function. And I want each component to satisfy multiple functions.
For example, I need to know people's phone numbers. I want the phone number to be in my phone AND somewhere(s) else, like an address book. AND I want my phone and my address book to be doing other things besides.
For now, I need to implement this layer of redundancy by making an address book. I already lost a lot of numbers when Verizon's Backup Assistant malfunctioned. But, what other function should the address book have?
I'll boil this down to the Assignment: Make an address book which includes, for each person's entry, the things they do that you try to emulate. (For example, Rafter's goofy high-voiced pleasantness in interactions with strangers.)
2. When is watching a movie or video clip acceptable?
I would like to eliminate my habit of watching things alone to 'veg out'. This includes ____, old TV episodes that I have or haven't seen, and youtube clips usually from blogs I read to 'veg out', beginning usually with feministing.com.
I already made a policy/microscore for what to do when you're subjected to, say, watching a TV at the airport which is turned up way too loud. The score is, cultivate a couch-potato-zombie-tongue-hanging-out-eyes-glazed-over face.
The policy could be that watching any of this is acceptable if in the company of another.
The policy could be to watch only things which have been recommended to me by sources who know my social desires. (I myself could be one of these sources.)
Also, there's that weird moment of showing someone a youtube clip you liked, such that you're watching the second time while they're watching it for the first time. Shall I allow that?...