Fred Rogers dedicated his life to understanding childhood. He took that knowledge to the medium of television with his groundbreaking PBS series, “Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood.”
Over more than 30 years Mister Rogers created a relationship with millions of children, each of whom felt like they were visiting with a trusted friend. Mister Rogers looked directly into the camera and sang and talked to each child watching. His radical kindness, acceptance, and empathy created a place that as TV Guide described: “… makes us, young and old alike, feel safe, cared for and valued… Wherever Mister Rogers is, so is sanctuary.”
Each “visit” starts with the donning of the sweater and sneakers signaling the transformation from Fred Rogers to Mister Rogers. That seemingly simple routine is part of a larger message and an invitation. The message: I care about you, no matter who you are and no matter what you can or cannot do. The invitation: Let’s spend this time together. We’ll build a relationship and talk and imagine and sing about things that matter to you.
Don’t be fooled by what appears on the surface to be a simple television show. There‘s a reason for everything Mister Rogers does, from taking off his jacket and putting on a sweater to using the Neighborhood Trolley to travel to Make-Believe.
Hello visitors! Present punk is the idea that we are either currently living in a cyberpunk dystopia, or that we are transitioning into one.
The first purpose of this blog is to curate a collection of all the news stories today that prove this idea, from the latest corporate takeovers to the newest tech innovations.
The second purpose is to reckon with dystopia becoming true, and probe more deeply into the why’s and the what-can-we-do’s.
I don’t know about you, but I absolutely love dogs. I can’t pass a dog on the street without giving a generous amount of head scratches and asking, “Who’s a good boy?”
However, when it comes to service dogs, I keep my doggy love in check. And for good reason. Service dogs are doing a job. Because of this, you cannot treat a service dog like any other puppy you pass on the street.
Today, I’m going to tell you how to properly behave around service dogs.
The Human Library® is a library of people. We host events where readers can borrow human beings serving as open books and have conversations.
A collection of things for cabin living.
The project is an exploration of ideas. Always follow appropriate safety procedures, consult local laws and ordinances regarding safety and construction, and never assume anything is safe until verified. The author is not responsible for any damage to property, injuries, or worse, which may be caused by using any of the information presented here.
The idea for Loose Ends came about when the founders, Jennifer Simonic and Masey Kaplan, both avid knitters, realized that they had a shared experience: Friends would often ask them to finish blankets, sweaters, or other projects left undone by deceased loved ones. They always do so enthusiastically, understanding what it feels like to wear something a loved one has made.
When Loose Ends receives a project submission, we look through our database of finishers to find a good match. With an eye toward geography, skill level, and druthers, we will identify a good fit based on the information volunteer finishers submitted in their profiles. The next step is running this by the finishers themselves to find out if they’re feeling it too.
Once a finisher says yes to a project, we make the connection by introducing the finisher and project holder in an email. Then… we step away and let the project evolve within this new connection. We are always here to troubleshoot, advise or reassign if needed.
This repo contains code for CircuitPython implementation of the famous 'Conway's Game of Life'. It uses Adafruit's adafruit_st7735r library to draw the game on a 128x160 pixel color TFT LCD. This has been tested on Raspberry Pi Pico.
Seems like a good PoC implementation of the Game of Life to learn how it works.
This is the Game of Life written in Python 3.10. It uses tkinter for the GUI; in fact I wrote it as an exercise in using tkinter as it's been a couple years since I last played with it.
Each cell of the game is a canvas rectangle. The id of each rectangle is stored in an matrix, shifted left by two. The bottom two bits of each shifted id are used to store the current state of the cell and the next state of the cell.
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Dealing with death in a digital age. This is a community-based, distributed way of contributing your corpus and corpse to larger society at the time of your death.
This is a collection of material to learn autarky 99 (economic self-reliance / self-supply) for individuals, households and villages. All materials relevant for that can be included here, as long as they are more comprehensive than the ubiquitous article format. Only material that is free to download is of interest here (with a few exceptions). Here is what we found so far, and you’re welcome to extend it (just edit away, this is a wiki).
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