Author Archives: wrenchinthegears

Well, our house sold, and it looks like my next journey is about to begin. I decided to leave town and let the realtor do his thing. On April Fool’s Day we had multiple offers. Who knew that vintage charm held such sway in a world where the incessant drum beat of emerging tech tries […]

For about a week every spring the sugar ants and I have a stand off. With the house going on the market next week, my heart sank to see a few of them wandering around on the counter. While a nuisance, I can see we are cut from the same cloth – foragers, lone seekers. […]

Arrive at the appointed place and time. Swim the waters. Intuit the rules even as you recognize their fluidity. We are agents, of which Conway would approve. Choose and choose again. Those around you choose. From choices trees unfurl. Expansive arbors lick at the horizon. Pixels, neighbors, nodes blink off and on. Life as pattern […]

I woke up with piles of boxes filling one end of my living room. They’d been there since last weekend when I hauled them up from the basement and down from the third floor. Given our recent investigations into fascia, the psyche, and computation, perhaps the physicality of my cardboard wrangling was a subconscious tactic […]

I am sharing the following exchange by text upon the request of the other party involved. This is someone I became acquainted with on education issues and over the past year around how their state fits into the topics I research. I did a livestream following this exchange, relating aspects of my experience to recent […]

As I have come to see it, the world consists of mounds of information, much of it digital. Our days are spent encountering, reacting, and sifting through it. Our conscious genius pulls together threads from which are crafted uplifting, foreboding, humorous, and tragic stories. We live inside these stories alone or with like-minded people. Most […]

This two-hour talk provides additional context for Washington Sean’s guest post, here, about his experience of the Santa Paula Mountains and Thomas Aquinas College as an energetic gatekeeper. In it I walk through a map I made about a year ago that links Vanguard Corporation and Burroughs Research Lab in Paoli, PA to the Deveraux […]

This open letter and touching memoir was written by my friend Washington Sean after listening to my recent ramblings about Trichotomy and anticipated territorial skirmishes over an imagined inter-dimensional bridge where piles of soul bound tokens might be held in the future, inert digital golems awaiting the spirits of inbound travelers. My birthday is later […]

I did an impromptu live today trying to sort through issues around communication of complex ideas, navigating information streams, and collective thought fields. It’s a bit late, so I don’t have the wherewithall to summarize at the moment, but here are the papers referenced if you want to explore them. My testimony at the Philadelphia […]

Tomorrow (well today, since I’m ten minutes late in getting this posted) is Thanksgiving in the United States. I’ve had mixed feelings about it since the February 2017 raid on Standing Rock where Regina Brave made her treaty stand. After watching MRAPs coming down a muddy, snowy hill to confront a Lakota grandmother and Navy […]