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4) Immersive mystery events. A long term interest of mine, to create and facilitate magical experiences in various forms. Bringing together immersive theater, escape rooms, flash mobs, story telling, transmedia, alternate reality games, and the internet of things, in the service of creating liminal spaces where change is likely to happen. There are many pieces to that.

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3) Enlightenment. Non-dual Shaiva Tantra, mainly according to ancient Indian traditions. Abhinavagupta, ~1000CE. Specifically, the Krama lineage, the original Left Hand Path tradition, the most transgressive of all the Tantra lineages, in part because of its feminist orientation. Camatkāra: The experience of aesthetic rapture and amazement at the raw and vivid beauty of embodied existence.

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2) Enaction. It's a growing trend in cognitive science, psychology, evolution, and other fields. The Enactivist view gets rid of the idea that you're some kind of black box homunculus inside your head, trying to figure out the pre-given objective universe. Rather, life creates the world in interaction with its environment. Creating the path by walking it. 4E: Embodied, Embedded, Enacted, Extended. This applies to AI too, btw.

#currentinterests Might be a good time to do a little haphazard inventory of things I'm interested in, studying, or working on.

1) Cloud infrastructure, containerization of applications, micro services. Google Cloud, Docker, Kubernetes. Even though development is my day job, my technical knowledge is rather dated by now. My own servers and websites have been gathering cobwebs for years for the same reason. Time to catch up and get things updated.

How could I forget reading! #Reading is definitely one of those "always" interests, but what I read changes over time. Most of my reading these days is #SFF. I also usually have one non-fiction book on the go (often reading it only at bedtime, because it's more easily interrupted than fiction, for me). I'm in a #sapphFic book club. I also have a fondness for #CozyMysteries but don't read them as often (but I do read every Louise Penny that comes out)

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I watch a lot of sports. Teams I've cheered for the longest: #TorontoBlueJays, #OttawaSenators.

Other teams:
CFL: #OttawaREDBLACKS
Premier League: #NottinghamForest #TottenhamHotspur
Division II college football: West Florida
Division I college football & basketball: ODU, Virginia Tech, Navy

Other sports: #Formula1 #curling #NCAABasketballTournament

I will watch most sports if I have the time, but I think those cover the ones I follow.

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#Crosswords - I recently bought a book of New York Times Monday puzzles to try to get into crosswords (I've never been as good at them as I've thought I should be.) And I've done really well at them. In fact, the last two weeks, I've solved the day's #NYTCrossword Monday through Wednesday puzzles. I tried a Thursday that defeated me, and solved a Sunday. I think I'll stick with Mon-Wed & Sun for now, and try a Thurs again in about a month.

#CurrentInterests These are things that reflect me in November 2022…

#FountainPens - I bought my first non-disposable fountain pen in early summer. I now own six or seven. (One is technically not disposable, but is close enough that I tend to think of it that way.) I have paid no more than $33 for any of my pens, though my most recent pen was a more expensive gift. Almost all are extra-fine nibs or stubs. Two TWSBIs, two Pilots, a Sailor, and a Nahvalur.