355. Cartoon and Supplemental Documents for "First Job as Objective Notetaker for Fisheries Stakeholder Meetings"

Who's Fishing Who? Cartoon Vic made as a Pleasant Start for her Notetaker Position for Fisheries Stakeholders. Vic likes to dream about other organism's perception of humans, obviously! Or "putting humans back into the ecosystem" type of jokes. I was going to venture into a BEERS bash on the Marine Science deck and I felt like that since I did not accomplish much during the week, the least I can do for Halloween is show up with a few copies of a cartoon to life people's spirits up. I gave my friend Becca a cartoon and I gave a copy of the cartoon to Kyle, my housematey, who just went 30 earth-orbits-around-the-sun on Halloween. It's called a Non-Traditional Birthday Card!

Who's Fishing Who? Gray Version. A successful experiment in "Color Framing."

In the Name of Cuteness! Kelp Forest Representation by http://www.bluebison.net!

Page 1 of Vic's Adjusted Resume for the Notetaker Position in the Fisheries Stakeholder Meetings during this upcoming year. PDF file below.

Page 2 of Vic's Adjusted Resume for the Notetaker Position in the Fisheries Stakeholder Meetings during this upcoming year. PDF file below.

Page 3 of Vic's Adjusted Resume for the Notetaker Position in the Fisheries Stakeholder Meetings during this upcoming year. PDF file for the Resume/Statement of Purpose. Current sketch statement of purpose was creamed by a professor who claims that psychology and the environment cannot be connected... though environmental problems are interdisciplinary. I have very mixed feelings but I have an academic community from various disciplines and departments who are supportive and very open to my ideas of fusing artistic "cognitive mapping" techniques into stakeholder analysis. I suppose support is wonderful when you have it in the masses, even though there may exist a few naysayers to everything you do: http://stokastika2.googlepages.com/4vminnichresumesopFICMLPA.pdf.

Vic's First Attempt at a Statement of Purpose. Wrote before the first sushi meeting with Drs. Richards, Culver, and Diane Pleschner Steele (never turned in, can disregard) http://stokastika2.googlepages.com/5.victoriaminnichsop.pdf.

Overview of the Grant Proposal to the Resources Legacy Fund Foundation, which I believe is associated with Hewlett Packard and a couple of other companies. Teamed up with California Government with resources management.
http://stokastika2.googlepages.com/6.fisheriestakeholdersmeetings.pdf.

Sometimes you look at such a proposal and you think "What a great idea!" But the other thought that comes to mind is that I wished I could rewind the clock and have a conversation with Honorable Theodore Roosevelt, and ask him to swing his big stick a few more times, and parcel up and save some ocean while you're at this whole National-Parking-of-the-West business. You didn't need 1000 scientists crawling all over Yosemite like leaf cutter ants in a gopher mound just to convince the President to make this Initial Child's Visual Aesthetic as a National Park! Sometimes first impressions and visualized instinct can make good decisions. And sometimes... it won't.

The complexity of the environmental problem is ultimately determined by the number of humans who are impacted (and still alive) and the number of humans who are involved It's all a human perception and human-definition-of-problem issue. So then, you come up with a complex grant proposal to conduct this elaborate, dicy dance among dozens of hundreds of stakeholders to inform and appease and solve problems... that might take years to shift and implement change.

But what do you do? In an Era of Too Many Humans and Not Enough Space? What do you do? Enjoy the show, I suppose. And relish in your Plan B to Post-Human Earth. It's one of those moments where you wonder "What's the Point"?

Fisheries Recorder Contract with all the specks and Fine Print:
http://stokastika2.googlepages.com/7.FISHINGrecordercontract.pdf.

Just signed (again) and sent off through FedEx (again).

129. Blue Horizons Continued: Second Blog of the Summer, June 27, 2007

The pdf file for my second blog of the summer is below, here:

http://stokastika2.googlepages.com/blog2june27ish2007.pdf

List of Key Words ** being in debt ** apartment full of distractions ** "Welcome to being in debt, just like the rest of America." ** numericism, numbers and pins ** numerical identity in the Matrix ** one day planet Earth itself will have its own zip code? ** credit card companies ** have fun, buy now, suffer later ** manufactured emotions ** EEMB 94 ** Ben Halpern ** Meg ** yellow mongoose bike (stolen) ** UCSB is not a university, it's a playground so adults can stay kids ** return to UCSB on a new baseline ** cycling out old graduate students and TAs, dissolving old authoritative relationships ** Bruce Tiffney asked me what I thought CCS was ** Bruce Tiffney helped Victoria a couple of times in undergrad ** the protocol is students are to chase professors, not professors chasing after students ** large human bureaucracy and the jeopardy of human psychology ** large human bureaucracies destroying individual human psychology ** "At this moment, let's just say I really am intellectually bulimic" ** from intellectual consumption to intellectual production ** intellectual barfing ** joke location comparing Los Angeles, Davis, Riverside, and Santa Barbara ** joke Riverside global warming kicked in, real estate goes up ** THE INDIVIDUAL HABITABILITY INDEX OF LOCALITIES ** description of the classroom ** stiff and cold, initial molecular tension ** Ben Halpern ** Bob Warner, shifting baselines ** multi-scale multi-media research ** "Science is the individua's personal choice of scale of a system, personal choice of defining a system, and personal choice of level of precision on how to measure and twaek and collect data about a system." ** degree of order, degree of chaos in every system, and I accept all of it! ** Maria de Oca ** university "outreach" is just an idealistic illusion in professors' minds ** benefits of massive bureacracies: return policies ** Dave Panitz ** evolution primality "just shut up" ** over time, become desensitized ** mathematical golden-rule perspective of biological aesthetics ** thank evolution, thank your parents ** "living works of art" ** "Image is beside the point. It is the story beind the surface that matters." ** Logan, CCS biology ** Nicole, left-handed aquatic bio major ** "creatively stunted" by biology education ** the class is well-balanced: 5 guys, 5 girls, film, environment, and political science degrees ** little kids aggregate based on self-similarity in size ** Theodore Roosevelt swings his big stick, science and policy ** Please be kind, do rewind ** "Our education system does not promote the study of a student's individual Truth and Reality, but a grade in a course is only the measure of how well the student can psycho-analyze the mind of the professor, whether the professor's mind actually equates to any degree of universal human Reality... or not." ** Blue Horizons guinea pig experiment ** hesitant to return to school ** www.ratemyprofessors.com ** Milton Love ** "Thanks for the first amendment, babe" ** "We get paid to think, so you don't have to!" ** "Commited to good science and self aggrandizement." ** "So you want to be a marine biologist: the revenge." ** "you can go to small colleges where you are treated like a long-lost child, you can go to huge universities where professors spit on your for fun" ** that is the CCS/UCSB dichotomy right there! ** story with Dr. Steve Gaines ** made up, all is good! ** Steve Gaines and Richard Minnich on the same boat ** PISCO ** Dr. Brian Gaylord ** "What's the point of science?" practical or knowledge for the sake of knowledge? ** purpose, survival ** university as a form of mental warfare, battle of ideas, battle of words "war of the words" ** guarding intellectual territory ** the "Sustainability Experiment" ** "it's not a matter of "saving" the earth, it's a matter of how to optimally manage it" ** collective mental, physical, biological, technological, ecological metabolism ** shifting baseline understanding of science ** lag time effect ** THE THREE QUESTIONS YOU NEVER ASK A PROFESSOR OR GRAD STUDENT, OTHERWISE YOU WILL PISS THEM OFF (YOU WILL PISS OFF PROFESSORS, MAKE GRAD STUDENTS MORE LIKELY DEPRESSED) ** looking up scientific articles on web of science is like looking up the "science gossip circle" oh, what's armand been up to lately? ** national enquirer undercover investigations of science gossip ** hippocampus, overstimulated emotional center ** felt like a failure ** beat-up Shiloh beagle ** in the end, scientific research is all about trial and error ** COMPASS ** Time buries memories very well. Especially memories that are very trivial in others' minds which are hyper-exaggerated in mine, mental taphonomy shall work to my advantage ** 7 years since my time of idiocy and naivety ** THE ONLY STUPID QUESTION IS THE QUESTION NOT ASKED ** stupidity is inevitable ** science reporting (1) playing devils advocate--critiquing and challenging (2) informing people of circus ivory towers entertaining intellectualism ** hate when my ideas keep repeating ** broken record ** learning how to throw things away again ** mental management ** environ-mental management ** your mind is as clean as your room, your office, your environment...