Sprint/2023/Notes Jhoward

Arriving
Arriving in the Timelab with an exercise of looking intensively at one thing [link] brings associations of reading fibers, stillness, and the distributed brain of the octopus. This was followed by 3 straightforward, but not easy to answer questions: Where are you coming from? / What are you bringing? / What are your expectations? Sharing answers to these questions led to a cloud of topics, and framed new questions for structuring ideas going into the coming days.

A wiki-session from Z.

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Access to Tools Session
The session refers to the subtitle of the Whole Earth Catalog. In this case, the tools to be accessed are specifically the ones that allow things to function outside standard accepted frameworks.

For 30 minutes, we look to elements of the building: tools, infrastructure, furniture as a way to re-understand the space and relate to the terms and questions circulating around the idea of the sprint and sprinter group.

Production in the Desert
cross the way the mountains rear up 10,000 feet above the valley floor. It's two hours from here to a telephone, 70 miles. The only pass into the valley has been snow, ice, and mud, a different climate from here, but so far it's remained passable for Bud's occasional errands to civilization.

What's here that brings us here, of course, is a hot springs. Clear drinkable water in hot gushing volume, 106⁰ this winter, just right. Our four trucks are grouped around the nice stone-and-mortar pool built by previous connoisseurs. This is public land--Bureau of Land Management--but not a park. The springs are not regulated by any particular agency. They are cared for by the several hundred people who know about them. Our contribution has been hauling out a truckload of cans and bottles that had gradually accumulated.

We're also here to get out of the tedium of production in the same old place and the ever-more-enthusiastic distractions of being a California success. Naturally we imagine ourselves helping to liberate other publications, schools, projects, all you wall-bound souls, kindly staying home so this place is empty enough for us to brag.

Coming here cost about $2400 extra from usual Supplement production, 20% more. Portability we owe to the IBM Selectric Composer, the Polaroid MP-3 Camera, other light accoutrements, and a big brutal 15 kilowatt generator (that big to drive the blowers on the Ant Farm 40-foot pillow). We're light on the land, but we have consumed some 150 gallons of diesel fuel, 250 gallons of gasoline, 30 gallons of propane. I don't know if that's more or less than our consumption in Menlo Park. Maybe all us businesses should list our energy consumption in our financial reports.

There are winder desert stars here at night, working on us. Add that to the report.