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FEBRUARY 8, 2007 @ 11:28 AM

I am sooooo the rad. Last night I went to the Students Day of Action afterparty - which was also a fundraiser for a conference called Feminism(s): Strengthening the Ties. I was really tired after a day of work, a bit too much red wine, and a rousing collective meeting, but I drank myself some cranberry juice and the sugar gave me the boost I needed to... enter a DANCE competition!

I made it into the finals - which was pretty cool I think, considering how blasted tired I was. The girl who won - well I think I fell in love with her a little bit - but frankly I'm falling in love all over the place lately. Girls, girls, girls... so many beautiful, captivating, magnetic girls out there.

It was actually pretty awesome because it was just like in Grease, where the judges walk through the crowd and if they tap you on the shoulder you're out. When I was finally tapped, the judge said, "I'm sorry!" but I didn't mind, I was tired and sweaty and losing my dance mojo anyway.

So to return to a topic I briefly mentioned above - the collective meeting - we're starting a collective and fingers crossed, if we can get enough funding, a worker-run organic cafe. I'm really excited, I'm going to do everything I can to make this happen. Guess this finally makes me a real anarchist, huh?

Linds and I reflected in a mirror before a shoot...

OPINIONS: is "Technowledge" a dumb word or a rad word? Is its meaning immediately obvious? Does it sound and look the way it should? Does it need the "k" to make sense?

Edit: Technowledge has now been added to the Glossoreigh, which has also received a few other updates. If you're interested in new words or perhaps a glimpse into my head, check it out.

sixsixty

Oakland, CA

OLD SKOOL

FEB 08, 2007 11:55 AM

technowledge sounds fine, but looks wrong to me. and techknowledge looks worse.

Lavonne

SUICIDEGIRL

Alberta, Canada

FEB 08, 2007 11:57 AM

I hope the organic cafe thing works out. That would be pretty awesome. I think I heard the Haymarket people say they only make like 25 cents an hour though. Alberta is different though for sure.

legocupcake

Hewlett, NY

August 2005

FEB 08, 2007 12:01 PM

Technowledge is definitely rad, and I so want to steal it. It doesn't need the K to make sense.

AceT

Portland, OR

April 2004

FEB 08, 2007 01:09 PM

You realize you now have to record yourself performing your best spaz dance, right? This isn't an option, it's a requirement.

Anarchists have meetings?

Technowledge sounds like a clever word, until you have to explain to people how clever it is, at which point it ceases to retain its cleverosity. This happens to me all the time (explaining to people how clever I am).

Lavonne

SUICIDEGIRL

Alberta, Canada

FEB 08, 2007 01:21 PM

That would be pretty awesome. I wish more places like that were around.

legman

Portland, OR

February 2006

FEB 08, 2007 01:53 PM

revolutionary!!!

AceT

Portland, OR

April 2004

FEB 08, 2007 02:03 PM

Haha, that's ok, it's probably better left to my imagination anyway. We're dancing the next time I come up though. Pulp Fiction style.

Feel free to use cleverosity with my blessing. Rin has already adopted "rinvasion"

I love the Glossoreigh! I remember seeing it way back when and I'm glad it's still around and updated to new editions.

DDOM

Katy, TX

November 2005

FEB 08, 2007 02:25 PM

"Technowledge" is fine and I think its meaning is obvious. In your example I think just "knowledge" conveys the same idea.

Saffron

SUICIDEGIRL

USA

FEB 08, 2007 04:52 PM

Yeah Saff, did you know that your profile set preview is used as the example for Photoshoppers? Now if that's not fame I don't know what is.

haha seriously? that's pretty damn cool. even though the set in itself was way low quality, i totally dug the preview picture myself. i thought they did a cool job with that

zgrat

Los Angeles, CA

September 2003

FEB 08, 2007 04:52 PM

Technowledge seems like it's the kind of word only geeks would use. i swear, it's like geekish is becoming it's own dialect

elgrandragon

Vancouver, BC

March 2003

FEB 08, 2007 07:29 PM

it sounds geeky to me too but i guess that's the point so it's fine for that purpose... mm i tried to think what do i say instead of that.. technical expertise? damn... now i can find the practical side

hey why don't you take out the recycle the night before!? are there many raccoons and skunks in your street?

and that party sounds like fun! but some of us have a productive life that keeps this world running on Thursdays you know! (i guess im being jealous)

Philosophocles

USA

December 2005

FEB 08, 2007 09:06 PM

i don't like Technowledge. I'm not totally sure what it means but it is immediately apparent to me that it's technology and knowledge in one word. but i dunno. seems too... lettery. and i don't like it.

but who knows. good luck with the cafe. sounds fuckin rad

Dot

SUICIDEGIRL

California, USA

FEB 09, 2007 07:24 AM

thanks honeybear!

corsair

Greer, SC

July 2004

FEB 09, 2007 11:33 AM

You ARE Rad!

I only wish I could have seen the dacing! I'll bet you had a blast!

I would have gone with Tecknowledge . . . but heigh, its your word!

Can't blame you for falling in love with all the cute young girls . . . . could there be anything better?

Have a great weekend!

mat8drb

United Kingdom

October 2004

FEB 10, 2007 12:17 AM

Technowledge sounds better than Technofear as a word, but looks worse.

Huh.

I didn't think the competitions with shoulder tapping still happened. That sounds like a brilliant thing to have done.

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