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2012 notes, Year 5
This is one of those back-dated posts. :-)
I will bring what I find on my site and out in the wild of the internet, from various years, and date them the end of July. Follow-up. Souvenirs.
Someone had asked in the Mothering magazine forum what was with Learn Nothing Day—was it serious? A joke? She didn't know what to think about it.
On July 24, 2012, "mary3mama" posted this response:
The original discussion: Can someone explain -Learn Nothing Day- to me?
I will bring what I find on my site and out in the wild of the internet, from various years, and date them the end of July. Follow-up. Souvenirs.
Someone had asked in the Mothering magazine forum what was with Learn Nothing Day—was it serious? A joke? She didn't know what to think about it.
On July 24, 2012, "mary3mama" posted this response:
Coincidentally, I just blogged about Learn Nothing Day.Nice blog post.
Here's my post: Oops
Here's the page on Sandra Dodd's site about the day.
IMHO the day serves to highlight that learning is a natural human function. The idea that we could truly spend a day 'learning nothing' is humorous. Which is what my own blog post is about.
So while I don't see it as a joke (and certainly not a criticism) it is light-hearted and joyful.
The original discussion: Can someone explain -Learn Nothing Day- to me?
Year 5
This was published July 24, 2012 as Learn Nothing Day, year 5,and there were comments there, too.
Five years and people STILL can't succeed.
Someone (whose name I didn't save and who should remain anonymous) wrote
In the comments there was a link to a blog post: Epic Fail
Five years and people STILL can't succeed.
Well, hell. (That rhymes aurally and visually both, though well mell would be prettier visual; bummer it doesn't mean anything. Maybe in Wales they could do something with well llew...)
It's still morning in the U.S. and people are giving up already left and right. I will add to this reportage as the day goes on, which should be fine, because unschoolers should be staying away from the internet if they don't want to learn something today anyway.
Sarah Dickinson made a cake while attempting not to learn:
Kelly Haldorson made a graphic image that was shared around Facebook. I looked at some of those.
Is that like smoke-a-cigar day or cut-yourself-on-purpose day? Why chose to damage yourself? Thanks alot Google, we have one more evidence that you are NOT looking out for our interests, rather herding us like sheep being stolen from the shepherd.In order to blame Google, she would have to NOT READ that I made it up and Holly did the art.
There was a little discussion on Facebook where I said it was like a game, and you join in by showing you know how it works. In response to a question, then, about whether it's a holiday or a game, I wrote:
Well... it's a holiday when people demonstrate what they've learned about learning by attempting not to learn, which is kind of a science experiment and kind of a festival and sort of a game.It's like a set of Thinking Sticks. It's a game, it's a tool, it's a toy. :-) More than one thing is happening.
In the comments there was a link to a blog post: Epic Fail
Comments on Gift Opening
Cleaning up here and there, in 2022, I didn't want to lose these comments, which were on my page on facebook in 2010. I'm backdating the post, so it will show in 2010.
Meryl Lynn
Meryl Lynn
Learn Nothing Day has started here in NY and my 7yo son couldn't wait to learn nothing. In the last 11 minutes, he keeps acknowledging all the things he's learning even in our dark bedroom. He just said he's having so much fun!Sandra Dodd
Wait… shouldn't you sleep? This is LND-EVE. Maybe he should try again in the morning. 🙂 Should a holiday start at midnight, or morning? Maybe it depends whether it's a holiday created before clocks or AFTER (digital and electronic midnight-bearing date-changing) clocks.Blanche Melamed
holiday's start at sundown the night before here in Israel. I kinda like that. happy LND!Sandra Dodd
Good point, Blanche. Well, people can open their Learn Nothing Day gifts whenever they want to. 🙂Meryl Lynn
He woke up and he noticed that he started learning right away 🙂
3rd Learn Nothing Day (imported report)
The original is on my personal blog as 3rd Learn Nothing Day winding down There are a couple of comments there, but I've brought the code from the other blogpost to reside here, and backdated it here to that same date, July 24, 2010. (It's actually being added here on June 23, 2014.)
This was very cute, on facebook. I came across a discussion of people all using the same "profile image" I had (more or less):
And now that I've been informed that a package I sent to Adam Daniel in the U.K. has arrived, I can show this image of Holly, in an ACE Festival shirt, yesterday:
My birthday gift was a lot of help to clean up the library and rearrange things so that when our new couch [well, not really "couch," but set of modular couchish-to-guest-bed(s) thing] arrives on Tuesday there will be a good space for it. Found some things I had lost, and gathered up some books to give away. Kirby called to wish me a happy birthday, and talked to me and Marty about things we can send back to Austin with him when he visits, and IT RAINED! Real, hard rain with thunder and lightning. Beautiful. We opened up doors and windows. After the rain, Marty and Ashlee went and got food from Golden Pride—smoked chicken and carne adovada burritos. Holly's friend Tony was here. He played piano downstairs and we got to hear. He's the keyboardist for Holly's favorite local band. Very nice birthday.
This was very cute, on facebook. I came across a discussion of people all using the same "profile image" I had (more or less):
And now that I've been informed that a package I sent to Adam Daniel in the U.K. has arrived, I can show this image of Holly, in an ACE Festival shirt, yesterday:
 And one of me in a paisley scarf I received in the mail from Deb Lewis in Montana (along with some other cool birthday goodies). Real woven paisley, in shades of brown. BEAUTIFUL. she suggested I might be able to blend in some in India next winter with this! |
My birthday gift was a lot of help to clean up the library and rearrange things so that when our new couch [well, not really "couch," but set of modular couchish-to-guest-bed(s) thing] arrives on Tuesday there will be a good space for it. Found some things I had lost, and gathered up some books to give away. Kirby called to wish me a happy birthday, and talked to me and Marty about things we can send back to Austin with him when he visits, and IT RAINED! Real, hard rain with thunder and lightning. Beautiful. We opened up doors and windows. After the rain, Marty and Ashlee went and got food from Golden Pride—smoked chicken and carne adovada burritos. Holly's friend Tony was here. He played piano downstairs and we got to hear. He's the keyboardist for Holly's favorite local band. Very nice birthday.
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