- teach computing
- act as a portal.
For myself, I am cultivating a list of purposes, and even lists of them.
I wrote, maybe two posts back, about off topic posts. (I'm still on that topic, as you can see.)
A topic is something relatively specific. A purpose is more general. They overlap, blend together. We'll see how that goes.
As a portal, this blog can reference, among other things, my various purposes.
Here's one: I seem to have become one of the garbage people. Actually, I've been one for a long time. I've recently become more and more focused on that, and now I'm becoming more and more aware of being one of many.
http://www.pbs.org/newshour/indepth_coverage/science/plasticoceans/index.html
http://www.pbs.org/frontlineworld/rough/2006/06/germany_heart_ocredits.html
and click through to
http://www.pbs.org/frontlineworld/rough/2006/06/germany_heart_o.html.
Wow. A "garbage poeple" gold mine. This was a search on an On Line News Hour page for "garbage people." I was looking for something about an artist someone (I think the News Hour) reported on. Most of these links are about something quite different, and, really, more serious, atl least for those involved ... and yet, there's a real connection.
http://www.pbs.org/newshour/search_results.html?q=garbage+people&x=8&y=9.
Searching on "garbage art" produces another interesting list:
http://www.pbs.org/newshour/search_results.html?q=garbage+art&x=16&y=6.
I'm having a hard time finding this guy, though. I guess I need to look at some of the links in these search results.
A search for "garbage people" at yahoo produces ... not what I had in mind, but sort of interesting. http://www.choicesforliving.com/spirit/part4/garbagepeople.htm tells an interesting story, to be sure. No way am I joining a church, but the story is really interesting. The second is also preachy, and also totally ignores the issue of garbage, and, if you ask me, it's messed up. I mean, if you don't accept garbage, who will? But, here it is. Maybe if I bought the DVD, I would get it. (And maybe not.) (Also, prepare for crappy music.) http://www.bewareofgarbagetrucks.com/home.htm.
Then there's the links to Garbage, the band. If, for some reason, you want to look them up, that's your business.
"Garbage art" returned nothing but garbage, on yahoo.
I decided to search for "garbage sculpture," but, on the way there, the "search assist" bar on the Yahoo search page started flashing a bunch of somewhat compelling words. I usually don't pay too much attention, but now I stopped and looked. For the first time, I notice it says "explore concepts." Also, the list scrolls down, so I'm looking at more than a few concepts. One of them says "garbage people trash." I click through. (You can run the same search by typing those words in the search bar.)
Lots of interesting looking links. Still not the thing I'm looking for, but, by the look of it, stuff to look at.
www.eia.doe.gov/kids/energyfacts/saving/recycling/solidwaste/primer.html
Isn't that funny?!
Cairo's Legendary Garbage People Threatened ... if you read the earlier story from the missionaries, here's something else about the same place and people.
http://news.ncmonline.com/news/view_article.html?article_id=613edfdfadaf067e8236239ff1d91f2b
Here, a garbage theme takes us to a clip-art resource, if that's of interest. (So dreary. I wonder if there's really great clip art?)
http://www.clipartof.com/details/clipart/15406.html
Goody-goody. Sort of interesting, though. Also, a professional look.
http://www.sierraclub.org/sierrasummit/coverage/r073.asp
Preachy, but with facts and links to "resources on trash and recycling" and various articles.
"What did people do with their trash and garbage in the 1830s?"
http://www.osv.org/explore_learn/document_viewer.php?Action=View&DocID=2154
Ok, now here's a garbage person of the sort I sort of was looking for ... a garbage artist. (I also had in mind the eco-warriors. In every case, the search continues. For now:)
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=89237219.
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