What I was thinking about: I've thinking about a post that provisionally 'solves' the problem of ring composition in that text.
IN PROCESS, PROGRESS MADE
What I was thinking about: What is it? I think about this from time to time. The notion that "intelligence is what intelligence tests say it is" is not as empty as it seems-I've been through this before on the five factor personality model.
What I was thinking about: I've got to keep reading and blogging my way through Mark Moffett's The Human Swarm, which takes a broad view of the nature of society. The idea is to write a formal review (for 3 Quarks Daily) when I'm done and then package the whole set as a working paper.
What I've done: I've now posted six installments and I'm not even halfway through the book. This is going to take another month and I don't know how many installments plus the review.
*Visualizing Form and Evolution in Literary History: A response to Nan Z. Da and to Moretti and Sobchuk
The first part of the article will about the cultural analog to phylogeny in biological evolution, which Moretti and Sobchuk touched on. The crucial distinction is between a tree-like structure and a network structure. [...]
What I've done: I've started working on draft material for this first part. I looks like I've got to introduce the human mind into the argument and say more about cultural evolution than I'd originally planned to. I'd like to get this done in the coming week.
What I was thinking about: I've got a bunch of posts on searching for talent that I want to gather into a working paper. I suppose I've got two notions.
What I've done: Gathered the posts into a document, and done a bit of formatting. But I still need to write the introduction in which I explain what it all means.
*Progress, painful but real
What I was thinking about: Here I just want to provide a setting for two papers by David Hays. "On the Painfulness of Progress" is in memory of his friend Raoul Naroll, who argued "that progress causes ... pain during periods of transition but alleviates this and other kinds of pain over the long term." In "Relativism and Progress" Hays examines worldwide statistics on health, wealth, and social life and includes an appendix with 32 scatter plots depicting the data.
What I've done: Nothing.
This is a photo project. I'm working toward an exhibit. when and where I don't know. Right now I'm just trying to figure out what. My theme - The Hallucinated City. The idea is to group photos into sets around that theme, with distinctly different kinds of photos in head set. Some will just be photos of cityscapes; but others will be graffiti shots, abstract patterns of light, interiors of Wayquay's junktique store, and who knows what else.
So far I've posted four (potential) sets in the series, plus some photos of Midtown Manhattan, Herald Square to the Theater District. I've got two most sets organized but not posted. I figure I need to do at least ten sets before I have some idea of what I'm up to.
