editor

Here's the editor. You have to type in a file name. It has to end with .html (or .htm, or it could be other things, like .js, or .somethingelse, but we're creating a new web page, using html, and that's done with an html file).

On the page you can see what are, if you understand them properly, a number of boxes. Look where it says "Untitled". That word is inside a "title" box. The box is made of two "title" thingies. The one on the left and the one on the right are a little different.

What goes in the title box is a word, which the browser displays in the TAB. You can replace "Untitled" with any word you like. You can also display a little picture in the tab, but I don't know how it's done.

The title box is in a head box, and the head box is inside an html box. There can be more than one box in a box, so the html box has a head box and a body box in it.

These boxes are just a bunch of garbage that's left over from another day, but computers still understand them, and it's a pretty simple way to organize things that still works OK, for very simple things. In order to make more complicated pages, we'll start with the boxes, but we'll expand into other kinds of things. (I think.)

folder

Here we are inside the jsx folder. I'm going to use the HTML link to create a new file.

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files

Further down the page, beneath the folders, is files ... hundreds and hundreds of them. We probably want to avoid such a situation. We'll see how that develops. But we'll be using files. There are buttons at the top of the page that allow you to create new files: html files, other kinds of files.

In order to create web pages, and put things on them, we create files. Then people can open those files with their browsers, and the pages display. next ..

jsx

Further down the list of folders, here, is a jsx folder. Jsx stands for JavaScript Experiment.

I just used the Add Directory button to create the new folder.

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file manager

If I'm going to fix this, I had better get started right away. This is web hosting file manager. In order to get this page (with your own folders and files on it), you would have to sign up for a Yahoo! Small Business account. I don't know why you can't just get a web site, but there you have it. Or you could try any of the one billion other web hosting providers ... such as Tripod. (Not affiliate links.)

Web hosting always comes with lots of gimmicks and gizmos that you have to avoid ... or you could try them out ... web site builders, and the like. What you want, when you get an account set up, is the file manager. They all have one, I'm pretty sure.
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ridiculous jQuery

If the whole web is built like this, then it's all going to have to be built by a few people. That's ridiculous.

Another useless product from AppSumo.

But these guys are doing one thing right. We need to post a TON of slides showing how things are done. next ..

Layer 3

Here it is already! I'm starting another layer! The first layer was a list of posts. That made those posts into a group. They were about coffee making, literally and metaphorically. The second layer was some loops that take off from that list ... and return to it.

This third layer is a list of groups of posts. For now, there's only one:

coffee making

caring - update

always click the pictures
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a bit of theory

Blogging is great, but it can be sort of perplexing. For instance, it's nice to see the newest stuff at the top, but it's sort of upside down, too. It's antihistorical. Instead of emphasizing the history of something, it deemphasizes it. As I say, that's practical, in a certain sense, but I find it also problematic.

I don't know if that in itself is really going to make a difference, but, at any rate, in this post (the one in the picture, the hub), I'm listing posts from top (the earliest) to bottom (the latest) in the order I add them.

What really is important is that I'm compressing a lot of posts into one fairly small space, here. It's a simple index, but a huge breakthrough (of course, I have those all the time, and look where I am, still). Moreover, I have managed to create two layers of posts, thus compressing the collection even more. One layer is the listed posts, but some of those connect to little loops. They're kind of cool. I'm sort of stuck at two layers, and I'm not sure how I'll end up adding more, but it's a start.

The thing is, this is a web site, built in blogger. The links you use to explore this site, the links that give it its structure, are in the posts. You can completely ignore the context, the blog page, and its controls. The links in the posts give the site structure because there are only one or two in each post. You aren't randomly exploring a cloud of links, you are being guided along a path. Click any link ... well, any internal link ... and you will find yourself traveling along that path. You'll see the logic of it. But, in particular, click the links at the end of each post. Those are the ones that take you along these looping paths I described. Click several of them, and you end up back at the hub. The list of topics is the main path, and the loops take off from there, traveling along strings of end-of-post links. You are now reading a bit of theory. These end-of-post links always look like this: next ..

screenshots

Here's the sacred screenshots folder. If you click the image, you can see how I'm numbering them ... so that they always display in the order I took them. Then I can upload them to the internet (blogs, e-mail) ... the sooner the better.

Just click ctrl+prntscrn, then paste into an image editor, edit, and save. Photoshop? I use IrfanView (but be aware, it loads something - innocuous, but persistent - on your computer), and Paint for editing - but you can't save gifs and jpgs from paint, you have to copy the image (select all, copy) and paste it into IrfanView to save it. (IrfanView is free, and cool.)
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AppSumo

OK, now I'm selling. With these guys, AppSumo (that's an affiliate link), I at least have a chance to learn to code. They're stuff isn't cheap, and I'm not guaranteeing you'll get anything out of it ... well, you will ... you'll at least get a feel for web development. And they're fun. Here's a hint: keep very close records of everything you get from them. Write down your passwords, where you'll be able to find them. Use codes of your own invention to link them to a particular account, and keep track of your user names, but use codes for them, too. Collect lots of screen shots ... next ..

caring

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kiwikarpet

I'm just adding this because the ad is hilarious.

Also, it illustrates my process. Facebook is how I uploaded the coffee making photos (from my iPod).

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prezis

I guess you'll see this when you link to the Prezi. You can zoom around, but you'll have to figure that out yourself. Prezi also has the Show feature. The arrow at the bottom (circled) essentially shows the next slide, and you keep clicking it (or the back arrow) to change the slides. (The Prezi maker sets up the slides, so you can tour the Prezi just by pressing forward and back buttons.) (Prezi also has a full screen view. In full screen view - if you find yourself there - the show controls are at the lower right. next ..

apartments for artists and scholars

I'm trying to convince my friends to let me have this condo to manage as an apartment for visiting artists and scholars. I want them to leave it just as it is ... it's my historical preservation obsession ... i want to make changes, but i don't want the patina disturbed. I think it's a classic. They're skeptical.

This apartment is walking distance from the gallery district and in a nice, though somewhat strange, neighborhood. It (the neighborhood ... and the apartment) is quiet and reasonably well kept up. And it's cute. It's partly furnished. I want to work on that over time.

I want to advertise this through channels, and through media like this, and the deal I want to make with renters is they can contribute content to my media outlet ... or structure would be good too. The studio comes with a job! You can take it as far as you want ... there's a plan for that. I'm doing hospitality. I'm doing art marketing. I'm doing products for natural living. I'm doing mapping - that's far, far from all done - and modeling ... strangely, there's not enough of that being done. I'm doing how to literature - intensively. It's journalism. I'm doing hospitality, and home services, architectural services (though I'm not an architect), and planning. Strategic management, marketing, and finance, industrial development. I'm building a staff, with offices in diverse places. I'm building an international network of these studios. I have an amazing studio to use as a headquarters. I intend to hold many meetings there, and also workshops and symposia. If you have a property you want to place under this management, let me know. I intend to add properties as fast as I can.

I'm happy to correspond with you, if you want to discuss a stay, or a property. If you want to discuss a stay, think about what kind of project you might be interested in working on. Documenting a city, or a place? Documenting some kind of activity in a city or place, or some phenomenon? Constructing a proposal of some kind? I'll update about organized projects, too. This is the interview process.

This probably all sounds complicated. It's not! Don't be put off. We welcome everybody. I'm still putting the pieces together. I need to research the rental transaction. But it shouldn't be that hard. Let me know when you want to stay in a studio, and I'll discuss it with my partners. You can stay for as long or as short a time as you like. I'm committed to your comfort.

I'm mapping the neighborhood on a Prezi ... it's part of my promotional campaign. I'm sort of just getting started. I'll update progress on that here, too. next ..

life

You get to a certain point in your life, you want to be a business man. You have the experience to crank out a product and organize people around a mission. Some people have that experience when they're young.

I don't even understand how people can work a job, though I've done it for short periods of time (and just found myself doing it, like everybody else), but I rely on those people all the time. I'm going to rely on them.

These are notes about food, that I'm planning to use as the foundation for creating a deli in the Vales of Tempe. I'm looking for partners and planning it to a T. It's part of a larger plan. The next tier is hospitality ... for artists and scholars. The next tier after that is web marketing for artists and scholars. The next tier after that is web services and urbanism. next ..

cream

Heavy cream is one of the most healthful things you can possibly eat - if you are eating a well rounded diet. It's the fruit of the pasture, of the meadow, of the wildflower. It's so packed with vitamins - an infinite variety of vitamins - and fats - and sugars (caramels) - are the elements that transport vitamins.

But don't use the ultrapasteurized ones, if you're adopting this diet. Using them now and again won't kill you ... but using them all the time will ... or it would me.

Cheeses of every type ... none of them are ultrapasteurized ... but i like to buy a whole wheel, and try hard to avoid cheese wrapped in plastic ... and quality butter, on quality bread ... as much as you like.

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cream

I take cream in my coffee. I only take cream in my coffee. I always take cream in my coffee. When I can, I take heavy cream in my coffee. (When I have to, I take non-dairy creamer in my coffee.)

The stuff on the left is the real thing, and you can also get the real thing at Trader Joe's, in a paper pack pint. That's the real thing! There's no plastic involved at all. Mine comes with a stinking plastic lid. But it's a little easier to deal with. I have to think this over.

The stuff on the right is from a fancy shmancy grocery store, and it is a cute paper pack ... but it's ultra-pasturized. That was convenient for a camping trip ... but it basically sucks. Maybe a smaller pack is the solution to the issues I'm having with the Trader Joe's pack. Still ... I'm switching. It's final. Trader Joe's in a paper pack, from now on. next ..

coffee maker

My coffee maker. Look, it's all china. The pitcher is from Ikea. The filter holder I had to get in Japan. In order to import them I'd need to probably buy 1000, or something. Anyone interested in working with me on this? I'm setting up shop in Tempe, Arizona.

You can also get this kettle, or it's bigger brother (or perhaps its smaller brother), on Amazon ... or at your local Indian market! Then you keep it for ninety years. Buff it up with your kitchen sponge when it gets dusty. Learn not to forget it. You can also get certain other simple steel (maybe enamel) kettles that are good.

Yes, I use an electric stove. The macrobiotics would be horrified, but it's reality. I've used it for 30 years - all my life, even. I keep away from the electromagnetic fields as best I can. Someday I'll probably get something better.

And, yes, I make drip coffee. It's the only way to go, for me. But not in a drip machine! And with a paper filter. I've tried the alternatives, and they don't measure up.

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coffee

I buy my coffee beans in paper bags. I store them in paper bags, or in jars. In the cabinet. I'm not afraid they'll get old. They won't. They'll keep forever. All these people with their silly ideas. Dried foods are the elixir of life. They keep forever on their own. Just put them in a nice container, in a nice cabinet. They retain their full natural quality and intense nutritiousness until the day you use them.

My source is not entirely plastic free. The roasters put them in plastic bins, which is kind of dumb, but, whatever. I think they shipped in burlap sacks, on wood pallets, with no plastic involved, which is cool. It's a really direct, basic source. We think we're cut off from that kind of thing, but we aren't. And now, there's no nasty plastic pack reserved just for me, just a beautiful paper sack that later goes on the compost (or maybe I reuse it first, several times, before that). Yes, it's a little delicate. And these are organic, fair trade beans. I have to go to a fancy store or a specialty roaster to get them, but, again, what the heck. And regular groceries have bulk beans, or beans in a can. I mean, there are minimum plastic options.

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coffee grinder

Go to Amazon and search for the Umbaldo Alesi Piazza Coffee Grinder. I'd like to do this as an Amazon Associate, but it all seems too out of control. So I'm just refering people. Good Luck, Alesi. Good Luck, Amazon. I hope I sell a million of them. Good Luck to Myself! Maybe I'll be able to get a cut of the profits, even still.

Maybe someday I'll sell 10 million grinders from the Khasbah, and make a dollar on each. There are 11 million households that could appreciate the really good ways to make coffee, I'm sure of it ... The ways that make the ultimate coffee, the pure elixir of health, and do it forever and ever.

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coffee grinding

Obviously, it's meditative ... whatever that means ... time to think? But, do you know what to think about? Or is it just time to grind coffee? Just Time?

And it's work. Work is good, right? It's exercise. I don't run on a fucking treadmill - or run at all - I grind coffee. And guess who can kick who's butt?

Plus, it's a quiet and beautiful way to handle little bean gems that are sustaining the whole world. You don't think handling foods like they're precious and divine is good for your health?

(I admit, I'm pissed. People are ignoring what I'm saying.)
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coffee grinding

And then there's the grinding. You have to stand there and turn the crank ... and count ... 1234678910 ... 12345678920 ... 123456789100 ... 12345678910 ... 123456789300 ...

300 turns makes a pot of coffee.

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coffee grinding

Buying something like this, you make a commitment - not to the easy way of doing things, to the hard way ... but it's the good way. Look at the purity of it ... a brass globe, an old steel burr, wood.

These things are the key to understanding health.

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coffee grinding

Often, the beans don't feed into the burr, so I have to bang it on the counter and try to get it started. Once it starts, it goes great, but sometimes I've had to try TEN times to get it going. I've learned to bang it delicately, just so, just a tap, the right way. But that was hard. I've learned not to fill the hopper all the way. I was stubborn about it, so that was hard. next ..

coffee grinding

It's the cutest thing in the whole world, essentially hand made, and produces a beautiful grind - all my friends are impressed - and for these reasons, I've stuck with it through thick and thin. But it's been a constant trial. next ..

coffee grinding

I knew it was good because it's so classic. It's like it came straight out of the Khasbah(sp. ... better spellcheckers are needed on the internet!). Who has ever seen anything like it? next ..

coffee grinding

This is the coffee grinder I bought at a local coffee house - after thinking it over for months - for $24 - twenty or so years ago. next ..

coffee making

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coffee grinding
coffee
coffee maker
cream!
life
apartments
kiwikarpet
caring
appsuzette
a bit of theory
caring - update
Layer 3 
breaking out screenshots as a separate loop (from apsuzette)

scrubber

these look good too ...

scrubber

this kinda looks good. the idea is to get one that lasts - and that's gentle on your dishes. it'd be nice if there was no plastic involved, but that's a stretch. i currently us a plastic and foam pad - that i like a lot.

varnish ...

for grating soap

microfiber warning

my recommendation: avoid microfiber products

cotton muslin vegetable bag

soap