To My MCN Colleagues in search of a reading diversion today, especially those
snowbound in the U.S. northeast…
If you are of a certain generation and cultural experience, #WHENIM64 is an
obvious time for personal reflection thanks to the soundtrack and permanent
#TODO etched in our brains thanks to The Beatles. The two pieces I want to
share with you were among the things I was pleased to reflect upon as I
experienced this uniquely Beatles Generation Rite of Passage on Sunday. The
fact that these pieces were written, and the activity they reflect, are all
part of the first year of my post-cancer battle Bonus Round activity made my
Sunday night reflections all the sweeter (#NOTYETREAPER):
* FactMiners and The Softalk Apple Project starring in…'Where Facts Live':
Exploring the Metamodel Subgraph of a FactMiners Fact Cloud -
http://goo.gl/gS2FJk. This is the GraphGist Edition (kind of like a
Director's cut) of my #MCN2014 presentation. An enhanced version of the MCN
talking slide video is wrapped in a Neo4j-based graph database live
document (AKA a GraphGist) to let you play with the metamodel subgraph
described in my talk. No software is installed on your computer. You only need
a browser and curiosity to delve into this one. This one is definitely museum
tech stuff.
* Owed to Odell - Lexington Virginia, the 70's, Old-Time Music — How Lil’
Dobson Got to Swim with The Duhks - http://goo.gl/m4Lzfh. This is my first
Medium.com publication and the first non-technical/non-computer creative
writing that I have done since I can't remember when. To give this a museum
informatics context so you can justify reading it on the job, I'll describe
this piece in #cidocCRM terms as a gripping tale written as E10 Transfer of
Custody provenance data about a delightful E24 Physical Man-Made Thing -- Lil'
Dobson, a rare 1880's banjo -- and its travels through E2 Temporal Entities of
E5 Events and E7 Activities during an E4 Period in my life before the E63
Beginning of Existence of my E4 Period career in computers. (If you even
chuckled at this last bit, please see http://goo.gl/vynP3J as visual #cidocCRM
humor is in relatively short supply.)
I especially will appreciate your reading my Medium.com piece as its writing
has emboldened my inner Storytelling Self. I plan to let him out on parole from
his locked closet in the basement during year two of my Bonus Round activities.
I have a corker of a short tale brewing, Mata and the Methodist -- Moonshine,
Psychedelics, and Banjos: How I Learned the Awesome Power of Alka-Seltzer at an
Old-Time Fiddlers' Convention. If you follow me on Medium.com, you'll be sure
to know when that one hits a browser or app near you! :-)
And I would be remiss to not offer a big Thank you! to Robert Stein and all
the talented contributors to CODE|WORDS whose brilliant writing introduced me
to the potential of Medium.com as a possible venue on which to unleash my
Storytelling parolee.
Regardless of your need for reading material, a belated Happy New Year! And,
again, a heartfelt “Thank you!” to MCN -- and to my scholarship's corporate
sponsor PICTION -- for the Emerging Professional scholarship that made it
possible for me and my soulmate/wife Timlynn Babitsky to attend #MCN2014. We
look forward to growing our new Kindred Spirit network through our involvement
in MCN.
Happy-Healthy Vibes,
-: Jim :- and Timlynn, too
Jim Salmons and Timlynn Babitsky
Twitter: @Jim_Salmons, @TimlynnBabitsky, @FactMiners, @Softalk_Apple
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