{"id":6036,"date":"2004-03-15T22:57:08","date_gmt":"2004-03-15T22:57:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.earthwidemoth.com\/blog\/2004\/03\/15\/on-ramps-fences\/"},"modified":"2004-03-15T22:57:08","modified_gmt":"2004-03-15T22:57:08","slug":"on-ramps-fences","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.earthwidemoth.com\/blog\/2004\/03\/15\/on-ramps-fences\/","title":{"rendered":"On Ramps, Fences and Proctors"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">\u23f3 Approximate reading time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> 3<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">mins<\/span><\/span><p>Heavy eyes and not a lot of time to post tonight.&nbsp; So here are<br \/>\na few things I&#8217;m reading alongside each other to round out (balloonishly round!)<br \/>\nmy prep for tomorrow morning&#8217;s EN106 class session:<\/p>\n<p>Mark Federman&#8217;s essay, &quot;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.mcluhan.utoronto.ca\/CulturalParadoxOfTheGlobalVillage.pdf\" >The<br \/>\nCultural Paradox of the Global Village<\/a>&quot; (PDF) from the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mcluhan.utoronto.ca\/blogger\/blogger.html\" >McLuhan<br \/>\nStudies<\/a> program at Toronto.&nbsp; I want to talk about the wheelbarrow<br \/>\nanecdote as a like conveyance of Postman&#8217;s &quot;Invisible Technologies&quot; pitch in c. 8 of <i>Technopoly<\/i>.&nbsp; Postman&#8217;s chapter is all about the bent information of statistics and poll data.&nbsp; I&#8217;m mildly concerned that I&#8217;ll have to jitterbug through the end section on management and systematized technique&#8211;as Postman calls it.&nbsp; It&#8217;s a tough concept, and even though I&#8217;m rerereading it, it&#8217;s more of a puzzler than some of the other stuff.&nbsp; Perhaps that&#8217;s precisely where we should begin.&nbsp; Here&#8217;s a snippet of the wheelbarrow story from Federman:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>There&#8217;s a cute story about a man who, during wartime, would come to the<br \/>\n  country&#8217;s border with a wheelbarrow full of dirt. The border guard looked at<br \/>\n  the man&#8217;s papers and all was in order for him to cross. But the guard was<br \/>\n  certain the man was smuggling some sort of contraband in the wheelbarrow. So   the guard took a shovel, poked around in the dirt, but found nothing. The man   was allowed to cross.<\/p>\n<p>  The next week, the man once again comes to the border with a wheelbarrow full   of dirt. Again, the border guard found that the papers were in order and dug   through the dirt, but still found nothing. And again, the man was allowed to<br \/>\n  cross. Week after week, it was the same story: Man approaches the border with   wheelbarrow full of dirt. Guard finds nothing of interest and the man crosses.<br \/>\n  At the end of the war, the guard sees the man and asks him: &#8220;Look, I know<br \/>\n  you were smuggling something across the border, but I could never find a thing<br \/>\n  hidden in the dirt. What were you smuggling all those years?&#8221; The man<br \/>\n  answered: &#8220;Wheelbarrows.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>And then (like so many fence posts thinly wired and roughly in a row) this<br \/>\nfrom CNN via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.scripting.com\/\" >Scripting News<\/a>:<br \/>\n&quot;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2004\/TECH\/03\/15\/new.web\/index.html\" >Welcome<br \/>\nto the &#8216;new&#8217; Web, same as the &#8216;old&#8217; Web<\/a>.&quot;&nbsp; We&#8217;re going to use it<br \/>\nas a way to talk about web quests and exploratory exertion.&nbsp; Is RSS spoiling<br \/>\nus?&nbsp; Complacency, so on.&nbsp; The CNN article returns to the info<br \/>\nsuperhighway model to suggest that RSS feeds will serve as a different kind of<br \/>\n&quot;on-ramp.&quot;&nbsp; But I know when I lived in Detroit I generally had to<br \/>\naccelerate on the on-ramp, despite the caution signs, because my survival in<br \/>\nthat context of pace and flow (I-696 W from Gratiot, 7 a.m. Monday morning)<br \/>\ndepended on it.&nbsp; Conversely, in KC, yield signs are, well, like stop<br \/>\nsigns.&nbsp; They actually mediate the traffic; in fact, it&#8217;s quite common to<br \/>\nsee someone stopped on the on-ramp.&nbsp; In brief, there&#8217;s plenty of variation<br \/>\nin on-ramping; probably always will be.&nbsp; Not to mention the contraption<br \/>\nwhose pedal you&#8217;re mashing: Yugo or Caddy, dial-up or Ether, on-ramping might<br \/>\nhave less to do with the ambitions of the driver than the technical machinery<br \/>\nmaking it possible.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking of fence posts, <a href=\"http:\/\/news.nationalgeographic.com\/news\/2004\/03\/0311_040311_biofence.html\" >this<br \/>\nbit<\/a> from National Geographic News explains what Max, our ancient Yorkshire<br \/>\nTerrier, has been failing to do on his trips to the yard for all these<br \/>\nyears.&nbsp; Why a failure?&nbsp; Well, for one, we still have the Christmas<br \/>\nblack cat hanging around the back porch.&nbsp; My only question for Max, which<br \/>\nhe won&#8217;t hear because he tends to be tonally numb or, at the very least,<br \/>\nindifferent, is: fencing in or fencing out?<\/p>\n<p>And I have a student this term&#8211;the online term that started today&#8211;in HU211 who is on assignment in Uzbekistan.&nbsp;<br \/>\nShe slid me an email today asking who she should use for a proctor (on the final<br \/>\nexam) <i>in<\/i> Uzbekistan.&nbsp; It&#8217;s an intro to humanities course.&nbsp; Can&#8217;t <i>anyone<\/i><br \/>\nproctor the exam?&nbsp; *Looking at the ceiling*&nbsp; I replied that I&#8217;d think<br \/>\nabout it, then flicked up a red flag in Outlook so I don&#8217;t forget.&nbsp; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">\u23f3 Approximate reading time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> 3<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">mins<\/span><\/span>Heavy eyes and not a lot of time to post tonight.&nbsp; So here are a few things I&#8217;m reading alongside each other to round out (balloonishly round!) my prep for tomorrow morning&#8217;s EN106 class session: Mark Federman&#8217;s essay, &quot;The Cultural Paradox of the Global Village&quot; (PDF) from the McLuhan Studies program at Toronto.&nbsp; I want&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[163],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6036","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dry_ogre_chalking"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.1 - 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