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3 things from today
Mar. 5th, 2020 12:34 am1) This morning on my drive to work someone rode by on a motorcycle wearing a Cap shield and I was legit like “Steve?!!!” Too bad they went by too quickly for me to take a photo, but it was definitely a magical moment. And like, what an inspiring thing to just do Cap cosplay while riding a motorcycle through Wed morning commute traffic!
2) Today at school a student hosted a mock caucus, which was lots of fun to participate in! We had 50 people, so each camp had to get 9 people to get viability in the first round, and 12 people in the 2nd round. Lots of interesting conversations between people, but also lots of chaos and confusion as people tried to figure out who were swayable. My school's student population being what it was, the initial alignment was Buttigieg, Warren, Yang, and Sanders.
I really enjoyed actually getting to discuss politics in a positive, civil way with a range of people -- it really helped create a sense of community. But as others pointed out in the debrief, this is not the best way to do ranked choice voting, especially considering social pressure, the viability of candidates depending on which site you went to, etc. Now that I've experienced it (or at least a facsimile of it), I feel like what I'd like is a caucus night that ends with private ranked choice voting ballots.
3) At school today I also got to see a colleague paint a Bob Ross style painting (she's apparently "Bob Ross certified"????) in about 30 minutes. It was really cool. Just seeing her work, I really came to appreciate how layered everything is. The painting just builds from the background up, like, sky, clouds, mountains, highlights on mountains, distant trees, water reflections, distant meadow, distant water's edge, distant water, foreground tree, tree highlights, foreground bushes, foreground path, foreground flowers, etc etc. Just one layer after the next, kind of like how I do my coloring, actually. Compositionally, there's also a lot of similarities to Ni Zan paintings ("in this essay I...")
2) Today at school a student hosted a mock caucus, which was lots of fun to participate in! We had 50 people, so each camp had to get 9 people to get viability in the first round, and 12 people in the 2nd round. Lots of interesting conversations between people, but also lots of chaos and confusion as people tried to figure out who were swayable. My school's student population being what it was, the initial alignment was Buttigieg, Warren, Yang, and Sanders.
I really enjoyed actually getting to discuss politics in a positive, civil way with a range of people -- it really helped create a sense of community. But as others pointed out in the debrief, this is not the best way to do ranked choice voting, especially considering social pressure, the viability of candidates depending on which site you went to, etc. Now that I've experienced it (or at least a facsimile of it), I feel like what I'd like is a caucus night that ends with private ranked choice voting ballots.
3) At school today I also got to see a colleague paint a Bob Ross style painting (she's apparently "Bob Ross certified"????) in about 30 minutes. It was really cool. Just seeing her work, I really came to appreciate how layered everything is. The painting just builds from the background up, like, sky, clouds, mountains, highlights on mountains, distant trees, water reflections, distant meadow, distant water's edge, distant water, foreground tree, tree highlights, foreground bushes, foreground path, foreground flowers, etc etc. Just one layer after the next, kind of like how I do my coloring, actually. Compositionally, there's also a lot of similarities to Ni Zan paintings ("in this essay I...")
