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@lzg yes!

God is in the house
And no one’s left in doubt
God is in the house
Oh I wish He would come out

Nick Cave released this song in 2001.

you can't actually design good "user experience" if your way of being in the world doesn't account for users' experience
part of the problem with that name is how it others users
if we were to develop a "human experience design" we could not do so within many default systems of modernity
it would have to start with a larger restructuring
that would probably not result in designers and developers making rent

@superball this was wonderful, thanks for sharing it

Dallas folk: We are looking for instructors for our 10th year of Minecraft U summer camps, part of Summer at Hockaday. Here are the types of people we've found make great Minecraft camp instructors:

- A college-aged person who likes gaming. Minecraft experience is not required, just the ability to pick it up quick and be enthusiastic about it
- A teacher looking for a low-key summer gig that doesn't take up the entire summer

"You see now how some people make it to midlife and implode. You think the discipline will add up to something but what if it doesn’t. And what if it adds up to the wrong thing. What if one day you have the house and the boy and the baby and the book and you realize it’s no solace in the face of your own mortality...

"There are no more first days of school for you. But inconvenient revelations are a lifelong thing.

"So you’re still learning."

avabear.xyz/p/back-to-school

OH: "I'm not sure I'm going to be around much longer, I hope I am. I'm still looking for Bigfoot, so I need to get going on that."

-- Anon

I actually remember who said this, but they will remain anonymous, if-you-know-what-I-mean, even though socially they are essentially anonymous. They have in fact had serious health troubles in the year since they said this. Seeing this in my notes from 2023-04-05 hit.

"Nothing kills an idea quicker than putting it into practice."

todepond.com/wikiblogarden/my-wikiblogarden/no-more-ideas/

Never Post! is my new favorite podcast. The segment on megadungeons in this one is particularly interesting.

neverpo.st/oo-h-m-go/

Becoming obsessed with

davidramirez.bandcamp.com/album/my-love-is-a-hurricane

About a month ago, I passed on an opportunity to see him at an old theater in Garland, TX, of all places, and I regret