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Conversational account. For work follow @ribbonfarm, @breaking_smart, @artofgig. Tweets are 90% vacuous views, apathetically held. Mediocritopian. IKEA builder.

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    1. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr Aug 16
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      Crap, this means poetry needs to go on the list Poetry is way too much work

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    2. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr Aug 16
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      I think these themes are on my mind because world is in reboot mode. The hypervisor is going to ask us to choose an OS soon.

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    3. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr Aug 16
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      I’m tending towards a phenomenological but borderline impractical theme. Some mix of kintsugi, chindogu, design fiction, Rube Goldberg machines... but not on the elaborate and campy end. Fix/repair/build stuff to embody appreciative views. Like the materiality equivalent of 2x2s.

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    4. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr Aug 16
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      I know what I *don’t* want to do or write/think about - Maker subculture - Arts and crafts - soulful shopcraft doer-waldenponding - actual home improvement handyman stuff - stunts/clever hacks/prowess - blue collar larping - “critical practice in materiality”

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    5. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr Aug 16
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      The wooden pendulum clock I’m building now out of a laser cut kit is a good example of the energy that attracts me right now. I’d like my next project to have a the time theme maybe, but I wouldn’t necessarily get deeper into laser cutting or build other mechanical things.

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    6. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr Aug 16
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      Maybe fix a broken digital bedside clock? Retire a clock to run on Mars time? 🤔 I did order a lens to make my own telescope out of some scavenged cardboard tubes. It’s mainly about using the tubes but also I’m curious about telescope building.

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    7. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr Aug 16
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      Inspired a bit by @niftynei moon clock project https://moon.supply/about.html  That has the right theme energy too

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    8. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr Aug 16
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      Here are details of the moon clock https://basicbitch.software/posts/2018-01-02-Moon-Clock:-The-First-Lunar-Timepiece.html …

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    9. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr Aug 16
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      Venkatesh Rao Retweeted JS Ng

      Ok this take has turned me off kintsugi as an element in the mix. https://twitter.com/kureshii_/status/1295212753116782592?s=21 …https://twitter.com/kureshii_/status/1295212753116782592 …

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      I bought a kintsugi kit from Tokyu Hands in Tokyo and I want to say it’s overrated. The craft, not the attitude. I’m probably missing something nuanced here but it’s just epoxy joinery, followed by very elaborate gold-dusting.
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    10. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr Aug 16
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      I think if @niftynei and I turned @scorpioseasontv into a sort of junkyard makers show (which we’ve talked about a bit) it would be a bit like the fictional show Tool Time within the old Tim Allen sitcom, Home Improvement. I’d be Tim, Lisa would be Al. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Home_Improvement_(TV_series)#Tool_Time …

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      Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr Aug 17
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      Like Tim, I’d be the blowhard who talks a big game but screws up every project he attempts. Lisa would be like Al. Actually knows what she’s doing and makes stuff which works.

      12:01 AM - 17 Aug 2020
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        1. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr Aug 17
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          The risk with this theme is it could easily get very expensive. Will have to set a careful budget.

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