Thursday, January 12, 2006
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Today went at about the same pace as yesterday (even though I had a bit more sleep). Only able to work half as much, though, because we had to pay a visit to Stella’s school (the Australian International School of Malaysia) for paperwork, introductions, and uniform fitting. The school is north of here in City of Mines, about a half hour drive away. Fortunately we’re familiar with the area, because due to construction (much of this area is in a state of construction) the roads are congested, chock full of U-turns, etc., and if we hadn’t stayed near there during our first week here we would have been very lost. Since that project ate up half the afternoon, we took advantage of our location to visit the Mines “Shopping Fair” (i.e., Mall), where I got my haircut, bought some academically acceptable threads, and ate Thai food for dinner…
In the morning got some work done in the office, nothing particularly progressive, mostly writing a few more letters related to permissions, faxing out a few requests that had to be faxed (including one to Reichardt), emailing friends for favors (i.e., scanning pages of books I need in order to proofread excerpts of poems), etc. Posted some image files to the web so that they could be reviewed by artists involved with the book. Problem solved previously discussed citation issues with the help of R. Kendall and Davida, the saint-like librarian I mentioned yesterday (both solved!). One day soon, all such tasks will be a thing of the past, and a little dance will be done. This book project, already 10+ years in the making, almost seems like it will never end. & since I’m planning to eventually launch an online database of prehistoric digital poetry, perhaps it never will. But a book is a book, and this one needs to be out the door, according to the contract, in 19 days.
Speaking of databases, today I’ve also been ironing out the details of getting my “mysql” account going at NJIT, which I need in order to revive “MOBY-DICK” (George T. is supposed to be here tomorrow) and to prepare/present the multimedia work I want to engage with here. This may involve a total renovation of my web server space at NJIT, which may not be the worst thing to have happen. The university’s new computing ID system insists that all of my accounts are managed using one ID. At this point, the IDs I currently have for WWW (cfunk) and for email (funkhouser) differ from my official computing ID (funkhous), so in order to get the mysql account it is possible that all of the ~cfunk web pages may have to be scrapped. Maybe not, we’ll see. Such a reconstruction could be fortuitous – it’s good to clean house once in awhile – but it’ll take a good bit of time to rebuild…
Glad to see Pierre Joris’ Nomadics Blog is going again, and also tickled to learn that Nicole Peyrafitte, Pierre’s partner, was voted #1 performance artist in NY’s capital district this year. No doubt about that!
Tonight sat at our wooden table in Cyberjaya and wrote/typed the entry about Pangkor for our travel blog, but don’t have the stamina to post it this evening so it’ll have to wait til tomorrow.
Til tomorrow, that’s it, CF
Today went at about the same pace as yesterday (even though I had a bit more sleep). Only able to work half as much, though, because we had to pay a visit to Stella’s school (the Australian International School of Malaysia) for paperwork, introductions, and uniform fitting. The school is north of here in City of Mines, about a half hour drive away. Fortunately we’re familiar with the area, because due to construction (much of this area is in a state of construction) the roads are congested, chock full of U-turns, etc., and if we hadn’t stayed near there during our first week here we would have been very lost. Since that project ate up half the afternoon, we took advantage of our location to visit the Mines “Shopping Fair” (i.e., Mall), where I got my haircut, bought some academically acceptable threads, and ate Thai food for dinner…
In the morning got some work done in the office, nothing particularly progressive, mostly writing a few more letters related to permissions, faxing out a few requests that had to be faxed (including one to Reichardt), emailing friends for favors (i.e., scanning pages of books I need in order to proofread excerpts of poems), etc. Posted some image files to the web so that they could be reviewed by artists involved with the book. Problem solved previously discussed citation issues with the help of R. Kendall and Davida, the saint-like librarian I mentioned yesterday (both solved!). One day soon, all such tasks will be a thing of the past, and a little dance will be done. This book project, already 10+ years in the making, almost seems like it will never end. & since I’m planning to eventually launch an online database of prehistoric digital poetry, perhaps it never will. But a book is a book, and this one needs to be out the door, according to the contract, in 19 days.
Speaking of databases, today I’ve also been ironing out the details of getting my “mysql” account going at NJIT, which I need in order to revive “MOBY-DICK” (George T. is supposed to be here tomorrow) and to prepare/present the multimedia work I want to engage with here. This may involve a total renovation of my web server space at NJIT, which may not be the worst thing to have happen. The university’s new computing ID system insists that all of my accounts are managed using one ID. At this point, the IDs I currently have for WWW (cfunk) and for email (funkhouser) differ from my official computing ID (funkhous), so in order to get the mysql account it is possible that all of the ~cfunk web pages may have to be scrapped. Maybe not, we’ll see. Such a reconstruction could be fortuitous – it’s good to clean house once in awhile – but it’ll take a good bit of time to rebuild…
Glad to see Pierre Joris’ Nomadics Blog is going again, and also tickled to learn that Nicole Peyrafitte, Pierre’s partner, was voted #1 performance artist in NY’s capital district this year. No doubt about that!
Tonight sat at our wooden table in Cyberjaya and wrote/typed the entry about Pangkor for our travel blog, but don’t have the stamina to post it this evening so it’ll have to wait til tomorrow.
Til tomorrow, that’s it, CF
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