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Welcome to Arts and Ideas in the Air, under the scut, well under the basement,
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by the fire, and around Baltimore, your daily podcast briefing of all the goings
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ons, ins and rounds, Arts and Ideas, Sunday School. This was another late Tuesday
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for me. It is now about 8 p.m. and I'm recording this. I am feeling very
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committed to making sure I do this every day, even if it has to be after I'm done
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with school. So here I am, in my basement, recording. I have this lovely basement
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now. I didn't have a basement at the beginning of the year, now I have a basement.
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That's really wonderful. Today we had, well it was a cold day, windy, a little bit
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rainy at some point, and we had JC, just one case, bought a locked door. In case
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anyone doesn't know this, we have rules against locking doors, except for
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bathroom doors. Also involved some space exclusion, which we also have a rule
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against excluding people from spaces. We are a very accepting bunch and we care
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about that. So, you know, that case went fairly well, fairly quickly. Some
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longtime students who were just doing something with, you know, just having fun
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and forgetting or not knowing about those rules. And so, you know, they were
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very forthcoming with what happened and we had a good discussion about the rules
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and, you know, the case was resolved fairly quickly. So that was nice. And then we
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had school meeting, one, and both of these things are out in the parking lot and it
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was cold. School meeting, I think we went through like five or six items in about
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20 minutes, so that was good. We have a new virtual reality
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corporation that will take charge of the Oculus Rift that should be coming later
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this week. So that's exciting. We have a more thorough, nuanced workshop policy
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certification that was approved and a little bit of discussion about using the
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video room or portion of the video room for the virtual reality headset because
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they need some room to maneuver. I got an amendment to a rule to prohibit being
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around the kitchen exhaust stuff. It was already prohibited from people touching
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it, but there's like this little area around it and, yeah, some people were
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eating there to take shelter from the wind, which I can very much appreciate in
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these COVID times, but I also don't want people anywhere near things with
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exposed gas pipes, which I guess this has. I mean, you know, solidly welded and all
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that stuff, but still. So that's now officially off-limits. I actually thought
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it had been for years and I've been telling people, but today was the first
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time that I said that and somebody said, "That's not actually in the rules," and I
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was like, "Oh yeah, it's not in the rules." Well, it's in the rules now. Well, it will be in
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the rules. I haven't actually added it to the rule book, but it has been
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approved and, oh yeah, and I think we will also have some kind of virtual free zoo
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mobile thing for Zoom, for people online and in person to see cute little animals
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from the Baltimore Zoo. So stay tuned for that at some point. That should be
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exciting. And then, yeah, so that was the cool day. You know, while people were not
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terribly happy at being outside for school meeting today, there were plenty
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of people outside doing other things. So apparently it can be outside and having
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fun and not cold, but school meeting where you're just sitting around
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listening to stuff, cold's all you got. So, yeah, there was that. Anyway, oh yeah, so
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that's I think pretty much it. I did do a Talk About Tuesday recording, basically
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just a little theory of mine, well idea of mine I suppose, from listening to a
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podcast about criminal justice system and, you know, changing it from this like
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severe punitive thing to kind of just more swift and certain action, really
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swift, you know, not much in the way of punitiveness for a variety of things, not
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everything of course, as a way of, you know, changing people's behavior to be in
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line with what we want to see. And so I was kind of making a comparison to that,
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of that to JC and how I see it because JC isn't punitive at all. In fact, some of
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even the consequences can be fun. And so, yeah, but it's just about, you know, swift
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and certain. And so, yeah, I went on at length at that, but maybe it was just rambling.
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It is late for me, I apologize for late podcasts, I generally seem to lose focus,
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but hey, I'm here, I'm showing up, I love showing up to school and for the
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podcast and I hope you all have a good one and I will see you when I see you.