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The week’s tweets

February 6, 2011 By Chris Corrigan Notes

  • An incredible moon rise this morning. A wizened old moon cleared Eagle Ridge beneath shimmering Venus. Purest light in the dark predawn sky. #
  • "You don't hold space with a point…you hold it with a triangle or a circle." – Ginny Beiden-Charles on a call today. #
  • RT @thuddz: Expecting one last shock before 11pm, any suggestions?? <– Who do U want playing in front of you thuddz? #
  • Wondering if 'Arry is drafting up a contract or a press release explanation. Hoping for the former, fearing the latter. #coys #
  • Bet Harry and Levy were surprised by the market. Couldn't find an 8mill striker to spend their 30mill on. #coys #
  • RT @Lewismccullagh: #COYS looking forward to the Blackburn game now:) <– my fear now is that we will be forever looking foward to Blackburn #
  • RT @DustinRivers: The Squamish Nation has released a new dictionary http://amzn.to/hzpFiF <– #Bowenisland tweeps! Learn the local tongue! #
  • RT @ajkeen: Liverpool get Carroll & Suarez and we get nobody. Sixth? #COYS @greensandbox nice pickups for you. Here's fourth place back Tx. #
  • First redwing http://post.ly/1Yutr #
  • Sand Heierbacher's Best-of-the-Best dialogue and deliberation resources – http://ncdd.org/rc/best-of-the-best-resources #
  • RT @thotstr:New guide: Beyond Civility. From Public Engagement to Problem Solving http://bit.ly/dENY42 via @steve4good #bowegov #
  • Storms in central Canada and eastern Australia pummelling friends. Clear sailing here in Vancouver for a flight to Kelowna this morning. #
  • http://yfrog.com/h2is2tuj my commute this morning over the Cascade mountains of southern BC glowing in the first light of day. #
  • Wet warm morning on Bowen. Grey clouds light sky, heavy rain, no wind. Typical for early spring! #
  • Crossing Howe Sound http://yfrog.com/gzc3vurj #
  • My gorgeous partner Caitlin Frost has a number of workshops coming up in BC and AB using The Work of Byron Katie: http://t.co/3Rv92PO Go! #
  • Sitting in the woods at dusk. The first mosquito of the year lands on my forehead. Blood drawn. #
  • Terminal Creek http://post.ly/1a37D #
  • The incredible thing I witnessed today: http://m.flickr.com/#/photos/chriscorrigan/5419598363/ #

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A little wildness in us

February 1, 2011 By Chris Corrigan Being, Flow One Comment

I see it all the time, where cultivated and well-raised people stumble in the wild land of chaos and open space. Whether it is the tourist in the forest who complains against the mud or the leader in an organization, community or country (like Egypt) who clings to the illusion of confidence and control and who cannot make friends with the wild and the chaotic.

Thoreau:

I would not have every man nor every part of a man cultivated, any more than I would have every acre of earth cultivated: part will be tillage, but the greater part will be meadow and forest, not only serving an immediate use, but preparing a mould against a distant future, by the annual decay of the vegetation which it supports.

Are you friends with the wild within you? Do you cultivate that characteristic as a mould against the uncertain future? How do you prepare to welcome surprises of all kinds?

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200 Countries, 200 Years, 4 Minutes

January 31, 2011 By Chris Corrigan Uncategorized


200 Countries, 200 Years, 4 Minutes via  JordonCooper.com.

While this is a cool data visulaization, it strikes me as remarkable how hard it is for sub-Saharan Africa to catch the rest of the world. Stephen Lewis can tell you why.

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Kevin Kelly’s provocative idea

January 30, 2011 By Chris Corrigan BC, Emergence, Organization

From Kelly’s excellent new book “What Technology Wants”:

“The technium contains 170 quadrillion computer chips up into one mega-scale computing platform. The total number of transistors in this global network is now approximately the same number of neurons in you brain. And the number of links among files in this network (think of all the links among all the web pages of the world) is about equal to the number of synapse links in your brain. Thus, this growing planetary electronic membrane is already comparable to the complexity of a human brain. It has three billion artificial eyes (phone and webcams) plugged in, it processes keyword searches at the humming rate of 14 kilohertz (a barely audible high-pitched whine), and it is so large a contraption that it now consumes 5 percent of the world’s electricity. When computer scientists dissect the massive rivers of traffic flowing through it, they cannot account for the source of all the bits. Every now and then a bit is transmitted incorrectly, and while most of those mutations can be attributed to identifiable causes such as hacking, machine error, or line damage, the researchers are left with a few percent that somehow changed themselves. In other words, a small fraction of what the technium communicates originates not from any of its known human-made nodes but from the system at large. The technium is whispering to itself.”

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The week’s tweets

January 30, 2011 By Chris Corrigan Notes

  • A still foggy morning full of birdsong after yesterdays deluge of rain. #
  • Life and death http://post.ly/1X6VJ #
  • Coming into Snug Cove on the Bowen Queen http://post.ly/1X6VL #
  • RT @ProstSoccer: Ultimatum Makes Robbie Keen on Vancouver http://bit.ly/ehMidN #whitecapsfc would love this as a Van based Spurs fan #coys #
  • Can you sense the spring in the air? The weak signals that tell me bones that winter is over. Birdsong, silver light and mist. #
  • Willie Tolliver: Systems will be changed only by people for whom they are designed to serve, not those who are embedded within them. #
  • RT @cjmuzyka: Can we keep Empire instead of moving to BC Place? #MLS #WhitecapsFC http://twitpic.com/3tmgek <– YESSS! #
  • RT @TheSportMarket: Budweiser pouring rights @ new #BCPlace with #WhitecapsFC <– pouring rights r not drinking obligations. Bud = yuck! #
  • The sound if the boats in the bay: a gamelan of stays and masts. #
  • New buds on the salmonberries http://post.ly/1XO6i #
  • It's still night at 5am when I set out to get the ferry. The forest is silent except everywhere the sound if flowing water. #
  • The art of giving instructions: 7 practices for facilitators. And please add your own to the list! http://bit.ly/hn2U2o #
  • RT @jamesglave: Sun sets on the Salish Sea http://yfrog.com/gyni9dsj <– yes folks that was an AMAZING sunset tonight. #
  • Stormy…rain and wind coming in on a grey and yellow sky and a churning sea. A day for making bread and working by the fire. #
  • Dolphins in the sound http://post.ly/1XrDa #
  • RT @berkanainst: "From Hero to Host: A Story of Citizenship in Columbus, OH" http://bit.ly/dGcTkL Pls RT! #
  • Winter colours in the meadow http://post.ly/1XvgG #
  • Tasty dinner at Blue Eyed Marys http://post.ly/1XzVW #

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