I've been so burnt out from chronic migraines that I haven't been able to keep up with my #hobonichi like I hoped. If I had I am certain that most entries would be the same, complaining if pain and ending most days early because it hurts too much to function.

I'm turning one into a #commonplace book, so I can transfer tidbits of information. I feel like there is going to be a time when there won't be an internet archive anymore and AI will slop all over the internet even worse than it is doing now. Perhaps this little archive of random bits of info is my connection with humanity, it's something that the bots can't index because it's offline and I can hold it in my hand.

I have a messy common place with a broken index that I can take with me on the go in my regular sized traveller's notebook at the moment however this hobonichi cousin is chonky and has many pages for archiving random info. I look forward to transfering that info into a book which is much less scruffy.

Part of me thinks about it being lost in a fire or water damaged but for now, it's a nice little project and what will be will be. Some concepts resonate with me so I capture them.

I don't know what to do with my other unwritten hobos, perhaps I will sell them or keep them for the nice paper. I guess we'll see later...

Hawaiian Word of the Day: April 3rd

Our Hawaiian word for today is mea maʻa mau, meaning a common thing. Be sure to sound the glottal stop or ʻokina when you say maʻa.

HAWAII
look at the stars/look how they shine for you
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#iphonography #commonplace #architecture #raleigh #northcarolina

A quotation from Montaigne

Men have seemed miraculous to the world, in whom their wives and valets have never seen anything even worth noticing. Few men have been admired by their own households.
 
[Tel a esté miraculeux au monde, auquel sa femme & son valet n’ont rien veu seulement de remerquable. Peu d’hommes ont esté admirez par leurs domestiques.]

Michel de Montaigne (1533-1592) French essayist
Essays, Book 3, ch. 2 “Of Repentance [Du repentir]” (1586) (3.2) (1595) [tr. Frame (1943)]

Sourcing, notes, alternate translations: wist.info/montaigne-michel-de/…

#quote #quotes #quotation #attendants #commonplace #contempt #domesticity #familiarity #family #household #perspective #proximity #servant #valet

A quotation from Nicolas Chamfort

Men’s ideas are like card-playing or any other game. Ideas which in the past I’ve seen considered reckless have since become commonplace, almost trivial, and adopted by men unworthy of sharing them. Ideas which now seem extraordinary will be regarded feeble and perfectly ordinary by our descendants.
 
[Les idées des hommes sont comme les cartes et autres jeux. Des idées que j’ai vu autrefois regarder comme dangereuses et trop hardies, sont depuis devenues communes, et presque triviales, et ont descendu jusqu’à des hommes peu dignes d’elles. Quelques-unes de celles à qui nous donnons le nom d’audacieuses seront vues comme faibles et communes par nos descendans.]

Nicolas Chamfort (1741-1794) French writer, epigrammist (b. Nicolas-Sébastien Roch)
Products of Perfected Civilization [Produits de la Civilisation Perfectionée], Part 1 “Maxims and Thoughts [Maximes et Pensées],” ch. 2, ¶ 145 (1795) [tr. Parmée (2003), ¶ 115]

Sourcing, notes, alternate translations: wist.info/chamfort-nicolas/742…

#quote #quotes #quotation #commonplace #concepts #convention #danger #expectations #ideas #normalcy #novelty #ordinary #passageoftime #revolution #statusquo #triviality

Products of Perfected Civilization [Produits de la Civilisation Perfectionée], Part 1 "Maxims and Thoughts [Maximes et Pensées]," ch. 2, ¶ 145 (1795) [tr. Parmée (2003), ¶ 115] - Chamfort, Nicolas | WIST Quotations

Men's ideas are like card-playing or any other game. Ideas which in the past I've seen considered reckless have since become commonplace, almost trivial, and adopted by men unworthy of sharing them. Ideas which now seem extraordinary will be regarded feeble and perfectly ordinary by our descendants.   [Les idées…

WIST Quotations

#commonplace : an idea or expression wanting originality or interest

- French: cliché

- German: der Gemeinplatz

- Italian: topico

- Portuguese: trivial / lugar-comum

- Spanish: tópico

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A quotation from Alfred Hitchcock

Making a film means, first of all, to tell a story. That story can be an improbable one, but it should never be banal. It must be dramatic and human. What is drama, after all, but life with the dull bits cut out.

Alfred Hitchcock (1899-1980) English film director
In François Truffaut, Hitchcock: A Definitive Study [Le Cinéma Selon Hitchcock], ch. 4 (1966) [tr. Truffaut (1967)]

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#quote #quotes #quotation #abridged #banal #boredom #commonplace #drama #dullparts #dullness #film #life #movie #mundane #story #storytelling

В Перми открылась новая независимая библиотека

В #Пермь открылась независимая #БиблиотекаДонКихота. В её каталоге есть книги либертарных издательств #DirectioLibera, #ЧёрныйКвадрат, #CommonPlace и др.
Адрес: улица Максима Горького, дом 64/1, ​цокольный этаж. Работает каждый день с 16 до 20 (кроме воскресенья).

https://avtonom.org/news/v-permi-otkrylas-novaya-nezavisimaya-biblioteka
#анархизм #АвтономноеДействие

В Перми открылась новая независимая библиотека

В Перми открылась независимая Библиотека Дон Кихота. В её каталоге есть книги либертарных издательств Directio Libera, Чёрный квадрат, Common Place и др. Адрес: улица Максима Горького, дом 64/1, ​цокольный этаж. Работает каждый день с 16 до 20 (кроме воскресенья). Поддержать работу Автономного Действия

Автономное Действие
Reading "The Notebook: A History of Thinking on Paper" by Roland Allen. Such a good book and curiously resonant with the modern digital age.
#zilbadone #commonplace
https://www.historyofinformation.com/detail.php?id=2786
My calendar tells me that on this day in 1763, Charles Mason & Jeremiah Dixon began to survey their famous line. I am directing you to this #Commonplace piece on the line and more by Ed Gray. Ed tragically passed away last year just after completing this piece. #history #histodons https://commonplace.online/article/mason-dixon-lines/
Mason-Dixon Lines - Commonplace

The boundary lines preceding Mason and Dixon, everybody knows, were a sham. What’s to follow, despite the weighty authority of astronomical science, will be no better. 

Commonplace