So maybe we don't have to dissect gossamer, but we should investigate it!

One does not dissect Gossamer?

In the ziggy seinfeld episode, elaine questions a comic. she asks the editor of the New Yorker why the comic is funny and the editor tells her "it's like gossamer and one does not dissect gossamer." It turns out the editor just liked the cartoon kitty and the comic itself was not funny.

I felt like I have been the editor.

I avoided looking deeper into things using the "one doesn't dissect gossamer excuse"

IE, by breaking down things into parts, you will miss the parts as a whole. 

Or looking at it another way you can take all organs that are healthy and working and put them together and there will be no life.

Or there are ideas, crucial pieces that can't be dissected, put into words and they are the lifeforce or more integral to the process or concept than the identifiable parts.

IE what kids should be learning in math class has led to an insane amount of standards and kids who really don't understand math principals all that much.   (Years ago, I heard that the hardest question a michigan test for high schoolers was a simple question about the distance a person traveled if they.  All they had to do was use the old pythagorean theory, which they knew was a2 + b2 = c2 because they answered that question correctly, but they couldn't apply it to this situation)
However, I am not as skeptical of dissecting these ideas.

I think dissecting with a superficial scratching is the problem

IE asking lame, boring questions that you don't really care about finding the answers

IE coming up with plans that aren't potentially amazing

But when you dissect and plan in a deliberate, challenging, focused way it can be awesome (don't even get me started about the awesomeness that is the Math Lab at U of M, talk about a way to engage kids in math, challenge their brains and get them to talk about mathematical processes in a way I still cant)

I also think there are too many things where we can do sooooooooo much better.

Schools
Work
Relationships with other individuals, countries...

We have all this human brain power, we have got to come up with a way to mine it better, because right now it is haphazard and people are being wasted.

There are some people who, but so many people do not

Deliberate egineered workplaces and schools that but it is not an engineered, deliberate process.


New way of thinking by being at a company where things are not left to chance.  They have the phrase engineered to amaze.


Got me thinking how yeah we can leave things to chance but how dangerous is that?

Deliberate focus and make it interesting.

Engagement, asking interesting questions and collecting interesting data and....

then we are but for designing
And when you shift your attitude to avoiding work, can start seeing how work is what we should be doing work is fun and interesting


ARRRGGG TIMES LIKE THIS WHEN I GET VERY FRUSTRATED WITH WORDS NOT BEING ENOUGH, wish I could take pictuers and put to words, and make cohesive all the ideas that are swirling around in my head.


What/who the heck is Gossamer?

I assumed it was hotsy totsy poet. 

460 × 276 - guardian.co.uk

It turns out it is a beer, a song by the Smashing Pumpkins as well as very fine spider silk (likely what the editor was referrring to).

600 × 398 - clydesdaleproject.blogspot.com

Swamps of sadness principle, ooohh already sad, maybe this wasn't a good idea

 Karen's Swamps of Sadness Principle:  Negative will bring more negative. Even if you start out strong and positive, if you are surrounded by misery/negative thinking (Artax, Im looking at you) it is hard not to be submerged into it.

I feel this is what happened in Detroit. An uncontrolled spiral. 

Now what is the reverse?   We need a principle (better than the J curve and preferably based on an awesome movie or real life event) for when one things sparks and the chain of events, and momentum brings. 

Geopopper Vision

Gepopper is updated so it should be working better for all of those who installed the first version.

I am going to be creating arenas like crazy in Detroit.  All my facebook friends will be able to play them.

So if you are not friends with me on facebook and want to cool arenas, friend me, but let me know it is a geopopper related request.  Also if you are making cool arenas, please friend me, because I would love to play them.

Eventually arenas will have descriptions and ideas for making them even more fun.  IE play this one at night.  Play this one on a boat...

Some serious logic, no faulty assumptions here

I am going to make an argument in this blog that seems so logical to me. and so different than what we are doing for the most part. 

To give some credibility to what I’m about to say, I received an A in Logic 101 and I am able to complete quite a few logic puzzles from easy logic puzzles for beginners. I totally get the

To clarify my credibility: I can answer the riddle: there's these two guards, one for each door. One leads to a room with a tiger... armed with a gun. The other leads to the wonderful Diamond City, a city full of diamonds, where the walls are diamonds, the doors are diamonds, the water is diamonds and the air is diamonds.

But, I have a heck of a time explaining it with my words.

and don't even get me started on all thumbs are fingers, therefore all fingers are thumbs faulty assumptions and the like 

Okkkkayyy, before I go on another tangent let’s get down to biness or bizness  (saying/writing biness and bizness is not getting old to me so my apologies go out to everyone else who I’m pretty sure it is old to)

So Playcadia has one game out there and it has the potential to be really fun.  It could even have potential to be exercise inducing and spatial awareness inducing as well.

However, that is not my vision of what Playcadia and of what other companies have the potential to do with the Playvolution.

I am picturing games for more than just amusement and distraction.  I am picturing jobs that are designed like a game.

But I have just a thin wispy glimmer of what I mean by that. 

Because it takes time and energy to design jobs that are like games.  It takes research and manpower and money and it might be all based on an invalid theory that people are more productive at play than at work (but I really, really don’t think that is true!  I’d be willing to bet my blogging earnings on that with anyone who challenges me and can come up with a way to test it).

But my argument is this (and there definitely might be some circular reasonings, fallacies... some all fingers are thumbs if you will):

PREMISES

It takes energy and resources to design jobs that are like games.

It is essentially a job to design jobs that are like games.

If people played instead of worked they would be infinitely more productive and value producing.

A huge problem is that there aren’t enough jobs and people are overqualified for their jobs.

Machines are taking over perfunctory tasks.

If machines perform more and more perfunctory tasks, people can work on producing more value.

Turning jobs into games would cause production/value to increase as well as bring more value to people's life.

The cost of employing these gamemakers is nothing compared to the increased value from the playforce.

THEREFORE
Gammmmmeeee on!!!!!

FYI I plan on reading this (maybe I should have done in a second to get my logic back to its tiptop college day shape

http://www.theskepticsguide.org/resources/logicalfallacies.aspx

Hangover Three= Hilarious + Geopopper = being downloaded

Hangover 3, hilarious.
First things first: I was not planning on seeing Hangover 3.  I didn't see Hangover 2.
But I did and I laughed out loud several times and was pleasantly surprised.

(How are you like a giraffe? I'm majestic, pensive, tall...)

Geopopper making its way
So Geopopper is in the app store and people are downloading it!

If there are any readers who have downloaded, stand by because important updates are being made and will be available soon. 

A future post will have more details about how to play, how to get the most out of the game, a the vision of what it can be.

Also a youtube video is coming soon.

Next game?
CStax/Cdogg gave the go ahead for the next game, so I am diligentlyish working on that, and I think it is going to be something else, Cluesque app that will be exciting and a little scary.

Also thinking of Cobra Triangle.  Remember that board where you had guys to protect and those horrible boats kept stealing them.  If I die at a younger age than I should, I blame that early death on all the stress induced from that game.
I'm Mario Party 5 where players had a backpack and you had to grab them, shake them to get their coins. Who knows what game will come from those ideas, but I think it is going to be awwwesssome +

Big news!!! As the 4th grade teacher I used to student teach for said, WHOAH WHOAH WHOA and is that Ryan Gosling I see? Nope, no it's not:(

3 Exciting things happened yesterday

1. At one point in the day I checked my phone and I had over 20 text messages.  I felt sooooooo popular.  Hold your horses before thinking I am the big man on campus, I was part of a group text and it was a lot of jibber jabber.

2. Ryan Gosling was hanging out in downtown Detroit.   It turns out it was not RG but a radio station pulling a prank with one handsome imposter.

3.  THE MOST EXCITING



GEOPOPPER or Geo Popper (for those of us who don't like change) is in the App Store!!!!!


CAUTION: The version on the app store is in the process of being updated.

 

 

 

 

CStax has already submitted an update that will provide a much better user experience with improvements on the way aimed at helping anyone on cellular networks, but it will take a few days while we await apple's approval.

 

 

Note this version of Geopopper is an MVP, minimum viable product. 

 

But it will not be an MVP forever.  Sooooooo many exciting updates, soooooo much polish to be occuring.

 

We want feedback to make it more fun and provide value to users.  We will be constantly working on making it as spectacular as possible.

 

Spoiler alert: Orangatang arms, cloaks of invisibility, avatars...

 

 

 

 



Let the playvolution begin!!!

Zorros corner:

Okay at the way you just do your little blogs about you

Regional at eight

The above may seem like jibberish, which it is. but it is also my attempt to get zorro to write a blog. He was going on about something and it wasnt as funny as the time he was saying he had thought of the ipad years ago, but it was pretty close. It failed today because he got suspicious when i held my phone close to him (the only way i see getting him to write a blog is using voice recognition) but I will be more cunning in future attempts.

The real k. Peterman
I was going through boxes of old pictures and the like and i have some great stories
And would consider selling them to a worthy j. Peterman


Recess in Detroit! Awwwwesome!!!:

Geopopper Hits Detroit as well as XGames, Hunger Games (If I have my way) Sand Volleyball Courts... All we could have hoped for and more!

 

Ahhhh it was a moment that makes you feel clairvoyent.

I was playing Geopopper at Campus Martius and was picturing balloons in the air.

Just yesterday, I saw this sight.  Beautiful!!!

It was just like I pictured it.

Detroit: A Pheonix

For years Detroit has been a symbol of decay.

But just like the rock I mentioned in ,

That was just one of its many layers of paint that adds to its story and complexity.

Sometimes when a place has reached a trough, the depths of despair, that allows its revival to become all the more fabulous.

I have a feeling Detroit is on its way to becoming even greater than it was in its heyday. 

I'm sensing a next Renassaince.

Of course there is a long way to go and of course there are naysayers

But it is just the start and what a heck of a start it is.

There is momentum and energy.  There are people in the streets.

The XGames are coming.

If just one person gives their energy and time, a lot can be accomplished.

What if thousands, millions give focused time and energy to making DTown amazing, watcccchhhhh out!!!

 

My bell tolls for thee CDogg

Some good news and bad news

1. Bad news:(

 



2.  Good news is that:
Cdogg made changes that will ensure we will not see that screen anymore.

He added a guest mode so you don't

I wish he had done that sooner because just yesterday I received a facebook message from my dad who only got a facebook account so he could play.  I responded but did not want to set any precedent of wall posts, messages...

So while I was looking at the changes I saw something that made me want to call in sick Monday because some other serious bizness came up (I did not call in sick because I actually adore my job, what's that???  I found a job I like? Yep, it's true there are fabulous jobs out there, more to come on that in future blogs, but I digress). So I saw liked arenas...that cdogg (or Cstax as he calls himself) has a time of 7 at Cranbrook good.



A strong urge to beat that time welled up in me, and all I can say is my bell tolls for thee CDogg!

Game On!!!