Four Themes in New Education and Ivan Illich Was Right

Universal education through schooling is not feasible. It would be no more feasible if it were attempted by means of alternative institutions built on the style of present schools. Neither new attitudes of teachers toward their pupils nor the proliferation of educational hardware or software (in classroom or bedroom), nor finally the attempt to expand the pedagogue's responsibility until it engulfs his pupils' lifetimes will deliver universal education. The current search for new educational funnels must be reversed into the search for their institutional inverse: educational webs which heighten the opportunity for each one to transform each moment of his living into one of learning, sharing, and caring. We hope to contribute concepts needed by those who conduct such counterfoil research on education--and also to those who seek alternatives to other established service industries.—Ivan Illich, Deschooling Society, 1971

NEA - a venture capital firm (New Enterprise Associates and not the National Education Association) just released a short analysis of key trends in education written by Joe Sakoda, a partner of the firm.

US K-12 students consistently lag behind their peers internationally. There is a debt of $1 trillion carried by higher ed graduates in the US. Networks and falling delivery costs for devices (pads and tablets) coupled with rising expectations for education worldwide have shifted the market for education.

The NEA paper suggests a significant market opportunity and new (or emphasized) mandates for brick and mortar institutions. Four key trends identified are:

1. Disappearing classroom walls via networked and mobile media move education delivery from a broadcast to an interactive model.
2. Democratizing Educational Content high quality educational elements from organizations like Khan Academy http://www.khanacademy.org/ and others.
3. Learning from Big Data Analytics gives schools an ability to see "what's really going on" using the tools of Internet commerce. "Using platforms such as Desire2Learn, administrators can aggregate learning analytics at the school district, state, or even national level, enabling best practices and insights to be shared among stakeholders. The State of Tennessee recently demonstrated the power of Desire2Learn’s statewide predictive analytics, lowering their annual dropout rate by 25% across 45 university campuses by looking at historical student data and identifying opportunities for faculty and administrators to intervene. "
4. Transforming Local Campuses to Global Institutions "Chinese citizens spend 3.5 times more of their disposable income on education than Americans on a percentage basis. The U.S., particularly in higher education, is home to the most respected learning institutions on the planet, and the emerging markets have seemingly insatiable demand to access it. More than one million students have registered for free for online classes through Coursera, which partners with more than 30 leading institutions like Stanford, Penn, and Michigan." The vast majority of these students are from outside the US.

Worth consideration. Read the full article: A Crisis in Education is a Terrible Thing to Waste

Note: Ivan Illich developed very similar principles back in the 1960s and 70s. Mike Glodo (the writer here) had this take back in 2007, Thank You Ivan Illich , and an earlier piece Convivial Systems: Broadband, Ivan Illich, and Architecture from 2005. In my opinion, if you are not aware of Ivan Illich's work, especially Deschooling Society  you're not hip education-wise.

Quick note on "80 Essential Blogs for the Modern-Day Marketing Student | Online Colleges"

80 Essential Blogs for the Modern-Day Marketing Student | Online Colleges

Ok. 80? Let's say 20 of these are high value, and it's chunked into B2B, General, etc.categories.

Talk amongst yourselves.

Guy Kawasaki #win, but no Seth Godin.... de gustibus.


Been a tad busy driving forward with my friend Tommy Sower's campaign for Congress. The hubris of the failing insurance lobbyist Incumbent is ineffective, but amuses my 83 year old mother. Me? I take the high ground. As Tommy says, "Home is worth fighting for".


But, back to marketing and online social media. Which the Sowers campaign groks most excellently.


Above is an example of asocial media. Christabel chewing on Dumplin on top of Good Dog Red.

Beyond PowerPoint: Prezi

Imagine my amusement when I see my old company "PA Consulting" at the bottom of the amazingly complicated slide.

De-Spaghettization of a PPT slide on Prezi

Discussion and Reception w/ Paul Polak on Poverty | NYU Stern School of Business

A Discussion and Reception w/ Paul Polak on Poverty | NYU Stern School of Business

Thoughtful, pragmatic, effective views on successful design for the world. Market driven = sustainable.

More about Paul Polak's work at http://www.paulpolak.com/

Small Scale Fresh Food Prototyping With Rusty Bookcase + Ladybug

Good Bugs and Good Eats

But fresh, even small scale, makes the winter days brighter.

Got started late this year and have only anemic prototypes of growing tomatoes, but have achieved proof of principle.

I use a rusted out metal bookcase in a south window. That works too. It's been a safe house for the many ladybugs that pop out during the warmer days here. They've been munching some kind of pests on the plants and it seems a fair deal. (Introducing exotic species generally a very poor idea. Finally starting to see native lady bugs again).

So the bookshelf's not really a bona fide prototype, but I bought a bunch of end of season seed geraniums for a dime on the dollar which faded, then came back and made me smile throughout the winter.

Even had success with some cherry tomatoes that I started in September. They're horribly abused but I have a few green ones now. Brandywines started at same time about a foot high, and wintered over not much the worse for wear. Nice early start for spring (if something doesn't eat 'em when transplanted from the pots).

Urban food, local food, good eats. We'll get there.

More urban farming at Will Allen's www.growingpower.org/

Heartland Papers - policy wonking on rural development

Heartland Papers

Excellent papers on rural economy development (stop chasing smokestacks) and Mexican immigration in the Midwest (3rd rail, but data are data.....)

Read at least the executive summary of "Transforming the Rural Economy in the Midwest". 

Very consistent with good practices/emerging wonking on building sustainable local economies.

The USDA has started a new series of reports on Micropolitan areas (above) link at http://www.ers.usda.gov/Briefing/Rurality/MicropolitanAreas/ and also analysis reflecting the influence of Urban areas, notable "no town no center" for the SE corner of the bootheel, for example. Link at http://www.ers.usda.gov/Briefing/Rurality/UrbanInf/

How Do You Make A Yugo Cool? Turn It Into A Book. : NPR

How Do You Make A Yugo Cool? Turn It Into A Book. : NPR

Nice update to http://techneblog.blogspot.com/2009/10/1969-trabant-was-fur-ein-sues-fahren.html for the Trabant.

Great Overview of Health Care from KUOW

Worth a listen: how we're getting messed around with status quo and insiders.

T.R. Reid: Health Care Explained, Simply

www.kuow.org

KUOW Puget Sound Public Radio: NPR News and Information

Environmental Restoration in Texas from All Things Considered

Wonderful interview long on practical stewardship.

Texas Rancher An Unlikely Environmentalist: NPR

"David Bamberger converted 5,500 acres of some of the most badly damaged and overgrazed hill country in Texas into a showpiece of environmental restoration. Bamberger has been hailed by the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department, and has won the state's top voluntary land stewardship award.

A visit to Bamberger Ranch is like a trip back in time. Instead of cedar brush and barren limestone breaking the soil's surface, large hardwood trees surround grassy meadows. Wild turkey and deer wander in the open, and bobcats lurk in the hollows hunting game"

In-Situ Ville, 3D Printer Update

As often, boingboing.net provides beautiful images of 3D printer projects in a first post by Lisa Katayama

SIU Innovative Systems Conference SIUIS4 First Light

A very quick look at some photographs from the Southern Illinois University Innovative Systems conference, SIUIS4.

Flyover Country No More!!!

Tight security involved gas powered weaponry capable good for three to five rounds of T-shirt bombardment in this backpack-mounted platform. I'm sure 2.0 will be good for ectoplasm.

I'm all for elegant code, but there's something about cannon that just says one *really* cares about the project.

See also http://www.punkinchunkin.com/ for more insights into the Sport of Geeks. Now *that* is art.

No Good Deed Goes Unpunished

Anil Mehta, sweating the small stuff to make a good conference even better.

The weather's been outstandingly North Sea here in the Carbondale Illinois area, but I say that will make the Seattle area visitors feel right at home.

There was a nice level of enthusiastic chaos amongst the student volunteers pulling together services for the conference, and a pretty comfortable, smiling group of people moving through the event.

Like a said in another post: World View, Intimate Venue. Nice, bright folks pumped about what they're doing and the potential of it all.

Cheeze Pizza Cheese Pizza Cheese Pizza

The "Green Room" loaded with Pizza, coffee, and volunteers. (And hungry people like me sneaking pizza.)

Logistics were a little shaky, but this is the kind of conference where a few more bucks would really make it sing. Parking permit in advance would have been nice, 'frinstance.

I want to see another conference here in six months, oh please.

Low cost, low hype, high content, real people. Sahweet mercy what a refreshing spin on tech. All here in Southern Illinois.

Robots? Got 'em. UAVs? Sure.

These guys had just torn down a 4H robotics demo from the night before and bless their cotton sox were back putting it together for this conference. The group's also working on some interesting UAV concepts and I hope DARPA, et.al, pick up on the potential.

All for now. Two more good days of the SIUIS4.

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Chamber of Commerce Membership

Just took a look at the .doc application. Somewhere, there's got to be an abused MS Word application support group.

The writer exercised all possible font collections.

But wait. There's more.

$175 could get me, among other things, "INCLUDED IN CHAMBER BUSINESS DIRECTORY ON WEBSITE. FREE LINK TO YOUR WEBSITE."

So how much to keep them from linking to my website?

World View, Intimate Venue: SIU Innovative Systems Conference October 29-31

Thursday, October 29 through Saturday October 31, the SIU Innovative Systems Conference will afford a world view in an intimate venue.

If you are a coolhunter, this little event will, I am confident, amaze you.

Go To The Conference

If the conference were in New York, Mumbai, Melbourne, Santa Cruz, Seattle, Toronto, Beijing, Moscow, etc., you would want to go. Don't assume because it's here that it will not be amazing.

It's in Carbondale, Illinois and I am glad that I will not have to fly to it.

Innovation isn't a new-fangled thing here. We had R. Buckminster Fuller and Anne Fuller right here, and there's even one of his surviving domes in town just a short hop from the conference. (The local non-profit taking care of restoring the dome could use some bucks so cough some, please at http://www.buckysdome.org/)

Thought Leadership from Leading and Emergent Technology Companies

Speakers represent, generally, technology leaders from senior positions in companies with a heavier emphasis upon network systems and electronics. Topics include exploration of new algorithms for network design in wireless communications, panel sessions on the economy, dynamics of networked information, a MATLAB tutorial, and topics which I would characterize as growing Social Entrepreneurship.

Companies: Cisco, LSI, Mathworks, Motorola, The Danda Group, Teradata, Calit2, Colorado Timberline, Avaya Labs, New Blankets Inc., Cadence Design Systems, Synopsis, Columbia University, Joule Labs, Equitech International LLC, The Element, Medergy, Bell Laboratories, Z.S. Associates and others.

This small conference has assembled truly impressive slate of presenters from the thought leadership of global technology:

Amar Nath Ray
Amit Sethi
Bonnie Horner
Brian Savin
Dewayne Hendricks
Dinesh Hiripityage
Flavio Bonomi
George Vanecek
Giampiero Campa
James Debelina
John Waclawsky
Joseph Deken
Nathan Nobbe
P. Krishnan
Paul Fleming
Qi Wang
Rich Goldman
Terry Galloway
Vijay Gurbani
Viswanath Annampedu

Das Blinkenlights! This kit rocks.

Based upon what I saw at the recent SIU Technology and Innovation Expo (TIE 2009), the serendipitous, intelligent, and enthusiastic demonstrations of student project demos will be the hidden gem of the conference.

Wind and water power, new interactive and immersive display technology, prototypes and "almost ready for prime time exhibits" are well worth the time. Many of these innovations need comparatively little funding (say, from a few thousand up to $500,000 to get product out the door, if even that much.) I've been calling it the milli-loan emergent market to contrast with the wee and wonderful micro-loans.

Rapt Musing: Human Beings At Conference! Hooray!

This is real. This is not synthesized by a soulless corporate puke (and I have been a corporate puke, albeit soulful). Yes! The guys with the pocket protectors who if I did not see during a due diligence meeting or a "strategic partnership discussion" with a somethingdotcom I'd move along fast to the next conversation. At the TIE 2009 last month, someone was having a problem with a demo (it was only batteries) but that is a wonderful experience. Real stuff. Maybe some blue sparks and flames. Something that does not represent distillation into a mega media sound byte.

Friends.

Some of the SIU student work evokes the efforts of organizations like Stanford University's Social Innovation Entrepreneurial Design for Extreme Affordability and very much reflects a growing maker culture (DIY, but I extend maker philosophy to manufacture of artifacts of all sorts, including code, hence techne in the name of this blog.)

In short: local (to me), smart, inspiring, and making me get "all hope up" which my great grandma Keneipp always warned against over in Saline County here.

The conference, now in its fourth year, owes its beginnings to the efforts of Anil Mehta, here also pictured in an article on the First SIU Intelligent Systems Exposition in 2007.

conference schedule is provided here at the main website.

PS: Fall Colors all over the place down here.

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Mama Don't Take My Kodachrome Away

When I first got seriously into photography as a spoiled an only child, my first serious camera was a Canon FT-QL with a 50mm f1.4 lens. It was my eighth grade graduation present. I still have it.


In the meanwhile, Kodak has 86d Kodachrome.

There's a stack of slides circa 1968 with a lot of experimentation using Kodachrome. Long night exposures of backyard flowers using a small aperture and a flashlight, intentional oversaturation, some blurs on purpose.....

I want a drop in 35mm gizmo to allow me the benefit of the old, comfortable optics, but that may be a while. Of course, I might need a caddy to carry the damn thing around.

But, I did find an Adobe plug-in in a quick search at DxO FilmPack that might do the trick with my wee digital camera. All sorts of simulated films (about 50). For Open Source, GIMP offers Silicosaur PhotoFX

Memo: Ephemeralization. All kit is a lathe.

PS: A nice article at Wired on the The Cheap Russian Camera That Could: Lomo Turns 25 also contains some nice tweaks of lens and film effects.

The New of the New

If one looks at the real and virtual "stuff" we produce and consume, one of the big state changes comes from new economies of scale mediated by networked information.

Adoption rates for all sorts of things begin more and more to look like vertical lines (e.g., faster broadband versus slower) and better product architectures afford no small degree of modularity and component based systems.

What used to be called information float has become, to a great extent, less of a factor because federations of "smart friends and strangers" can rapidly vet vapor and mojo.

This new "component based and interoperable" lot of hardware, software, bio, and info means that the friction of creation and status quo form less of a barrier than before. This is the kind of environment that welcomes punctuated equalibria (evolution by jerks, as they say!) and disintermediation.

Removing (or mitigating) other frictional issues such as health care in turn improves the formation of new, and I assert, generally smaller organizations. From personal experience, I can say that the 1990s recession spawned a good number of high quality companies and think tanks.

With the provisioning of fractional services (payroll, HR, storage, webservers...) that reflect almost atomistic (and often "free") marginal costs compared to the big box running at 1% capacity, the formula for the production function begins to take rational, versus whole number or integer, steps. Again, with health care, the exploitation of the quaint statistic of large numbers in a common pool.... well, you do the math.

Trust in God but lock your car... I do believe that opportunities will be exploited if only from the fatigue of status quo and the inertia of the known.

Disaster. Recovery. Invention.

In most of this last year's pieces here at the land of SANNAS (a fine team of wonks and also a fantastic snack with a good lager) the theme often centered upon increasing demands of distributed ephemeral data and the challenge of managing the process of custody and validation.
This article's being typed into a 1Gb stick; about 2Mb of that stick contains an encryption program; acceptable overhead IMHO for the promise of securing the Next Great Novel and Sudoku downloads, as well as the launch codes for the Acme ® ‘Lil Armageddon family of products, my sonnets to Paris Hilton and other juicy bits.

I do not, as they say, keep a tidy desk. My brain stays healthy by understanding my own LIFO filing system and an ability to understand the strata and the high probability parts of the piles wherein nestles the Airline Magazine or the clipping of a local paper's crank I wanted to riff upon at leisure. This represents an elegant strategy promoting mental health albeit with a risk of structural collapse of the entropy-friendly piles of the arcane lore.

Somewhere, someone must be working on a desktop computing metaphor that allows for significant standing loads. Bearing walls. Like that. At the very least, maybe something like "The Clapper" to find that 1Gb slice of memory...

So, here's the thing: data all over the place, connected and unconnected with the not so subtle growth of metadata to describe the context and provenance of information along with the burden of incremental data to manage the data and thereby the added processing cycles for data management itself. Extremely bright designers have delivered high value tool infrastructures, and I, for one, am not worthy of holding their pocket protectors in the area of difficult code and algorithm implementation, and generally customer focused implementations.

But in the realm of Disaster Recovery mechanisms and services, preemptive trumps reactive. Some scenarios of the mode of disaster, use cases, deliver an example.

Pandemic Flu, Weather, Earthquake, Toxic Spill, extended outages of power, water, other broken infrastructure should be the object of sandtable exercises, at a minimum, to game through what (might likely) work in these scenarios.

Rather makes removable media a bit of a problem during times of "saw fan, engaged same", not to mention getting to the unnetworked unautomated and unavailable mélange of annotated manuals and Post It notes which, don't you know, are the keys to the kingdom, whether one acknowledges that or not.

The adhocracy of portable data (iPhone, et.al.)seems to drive the industry towards some sort of nexus, wherein the overall practice and form of storage management and optimization will trend toward something that looks very much like Open Source toolkits and standards. For some this will be the defining disaster; however, other mature technology (e.g., MVS et seq) informs us that the core functionality and benefits of the "mature" technology do not by any means always disappear, but become the subject of new core businesses and invention. Ye Olde Virtual Machine has shown a tenacity in meeting the market need, albeit in quite new forms.
So, vis a vis Disaster Recovery, the pressure is on for shifts that make for highly interoperable and fungible networked storage resources (think Googleplex) with arbitrarily attached processing and storage tools. A lot of the "math" to predict the future comes from the good works of people like Gene Amdahl and Jim Gray (of Microsoft fame) in that a feasibility test can be accomplished with relative ease; with new cost factors and performance factors in hand, the maxim of "in the long run, all costs are variable" will again prove in with new invention. Of particular interest will be the results of open standards initiatives (akin to Web 3.0 posited mechanisms)where ontology will bloom like kudzu in Dixie.

And that, as the young lady informs us, is "hot".

Disk Payload Management

Transfer of data has an upper bound of the speed of light and a lower bound of amount of a budget, excluding strange action at a distance and physics not yet known. It's all fun and games until something divides by zero.

In a delightful teaser article, Neil J. Gunther's "The Guerrilla Manual" delivers a bolus of refreshing views on capacity planning and performance management with a cleansing amount of terse common sense.

In particular, he notes, "You never remove the bottleneck, you just shuffle the deck."

Network Effects and Blinkenlights

Back in the mid 1980s, at least one large financial institution allocated IT budgets using a simple ratio of numbers of customer accounts by type, with appropriate finagle factors. At least it was a model that, assuming a lot of linearity, had simplicity and apparent transparency going for it.
Of course, these were the times of data centers with big boxes, and the occasional minicomputer. The unit costs of processing, networks, and storage were significant vis a vis cycles or bits or bytes per dollar and cycles per watt.

Of course, also, the use cases for the technology moved rather slowly, with occasional punctuation with growing online inquiry from, say, customer service agents or the addition of Automatic Teller Machines to the CICS olio of the big iron code.

More gadgets and new approaches to programming by the end users (unclean!!!) resulted in rather surprising effects upon infrastructure through rampant flaming queries (what did he say?) and even complete suites of large scale computing systems dedicated to new types of models. In the case of financial services, one big dude jammed with APL for determination of fixed income dynamics. APL, for those who don't recall, was developed for passive aggressive savants who didn't want management looking into what they'd written. But, with letting the punishment fit the crime, APL rocked for matrix operations and was a darling of the early generation of quants, including those laugh a minute actuaries.

Somewhere, someplace, someone is hacking FPGAs to stick into the Beowulf cluster of X Boxes. I gotta feeling.

So where were we... Oh, so the point is that the common factor around these early instances of "end user" computing involved moderate and increasing network effects. Transactional data could be used as feeds to these user managed systems, and network effects with emphasis upon storage and I/O tuning became significant as a means of moving the bottleneck back to the cpu. Now pick another card.

The disk to disk discussion comprises several use cases, ranging from performance optimization (e.g, put the top 10 movies on the edge of the network) to business continuance to the meta issue of secure transfer and "lockup" of the data. Problem is, how does one deal with this mess which embraces Service Oriented Architectures and Halo dynamism?

Intelligent Payloads?

This problem of placing data and copies of data in "good enough" sites on the network seems encumbered by how these data are tagged in such a way as to inform the "system" itself on the history of the atomic piece of interest as it transits other systems and networks. Perhaps something that appends usage information to the information itself, rather like appending travel stickers to an old steamer trunk tracing its owner's tours of Alice Springs, Kenosha, and Banff.
And no, I'm not advocating still another inband system monitor... more MIBs than MIPS and all of that problem.

This could, I believe, be a fertile area for new types of automation that begin to apply optimization (satisficing, most likely, in the sense of "good enough" strategies, see Herbert Simon for more G2) thereby, maybe (he qualifies again!) to reduce the amount of time and money spent upon forensics and weird extraction of information needed to govern surprisingly fluid dynamic systems.

Zipf's Law (think top 10 lists, 80/20 rule, The Long Tail issues, etc.) and other power law behaviors will still apply to the end product of such analysis, but perhaps the informed payloads will ease the analysts' management of these turbulent parcels. (Some insights to the framing of the problem of getting top level insight into systems structures and how they express emergent behaviors can be found at the Santa Fe Institute and their many papers on "Small World" problems.)

So, the bounds on this problem of course reduces to time and money. That topic also is taken up by Gunther, with emphasis upon what some of my old gang at the Wall Street joint referred to as "the giggle test" for feasibility.

This is a brief piece about an intriguing problem where more insight can be gained from Operations Research methodologies than from Information Technology praxis per se.
It nets out to (sorry) not only if it is not measured, it isn't managed, but add to that the cautionary insight of "if it isn't modeled, it isn't managed."

Book List / Recommendations

I've read all of these (maybe not *too* recently) and found them quite useful (by degree). Some are for skimming (like the subtle issues of 501 corporations....) but others have good staying power.


This list was first prepared by me as volunteer staff work for a "Main Street" community in May 2006.

To describe work with them as informing me of the issues in change management and organizational development... that experience rather resembles finding gravel in the salad.

Gresham's Law of Organizations as Restated by Me: Bad management drives out good.

Ok. Totally useless opinion but I'm feeling better now.

Clicking any of the links will take you to Amazon.com where you can read 3rd party reviews.

Executive, Board, and Administrative

Starting & Building A Nonprofit: A Practical Guide by Peri Pakroo
Very good basic information in the formation and management of non profits. I found the pieces discussing roles and responsibilities(e.g, what board members do, legal complications, common sense) quite applicable.

Peopleware : Productive Projects and Teams, 2nd Ed. by Tom Demarco and Timothy Lister
While written for engineering (software) projects, this has universal application in managing and creating effective teams.

The One Minute Manager Anniversary Ed : The World's Most Popular Management Method by Kenneth H. Blanchard and Spencer Johnson
I trained with one of Blanchard's disciples in the mid-80s. Good common sense on communications and leadership skills.


Development and Historic Preservation


The Death and Life of Great American Cities (Modern Library Series) by Jane Jacobs (Marion Library System has)

The Experience of Place : A New Way of Looking at and Dealing With our Radically Changing Cities and Countryside (Vintage) by Tony Hiss

Geography of Nowhere: The Rise and Decline of America's Man-Made Landscape by James Howard Kunstler (Paperback - Jul 26, 1994)

Edge City : Life on the New Frontier by Joel Garreau

Boomtown USA: The 7-1/2 Keys to Big Success in Small Towns by John M. Schultz

A Pattern Language : Towns, Buildings, Construction (Center for Environmental Structure Series) -- by Christopher Alexander (One of my personal favorites; I used it for training new hires in how to think about design and planning).

Design for the Real World

A new show at Cooper-Hewitt examines solutions for "the rest of the world" from the design perspective of "what does the person need".

Unfortunately, that sounds like a novel idea.

Design for the Developing World is an audio piece from theworld.org.
"A new exhibit at the Cooper-Hewitt Museum in New York highlightssimple technology and design concepts that can be used to improve thelives of poor people in the developing world. "

The Cooper-Hewitt site "Design for the other 90%" has several examples of how these programs have been implemented. I'm disappointed that communications(tele) does not have its own focus area.

"Why are designers so focused on designing for the wealthiest 10%?" is covered at livemint.com.

These pieces are evocative of the foundation work done by people like Victor Papanek's reality-based thinking in Design for the Real World, Buckminster Fuller's spaceship earth canonical "design for everything" principles out of his book Critical Path, and other good practices in understanding what the Spice Girls were at with the "tell me what you want what you really really want".

This might be a good day to shift to decaf. Or not.

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