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Monday, January 12, 2009

100 skills i have

  1. synthesing information from disparate sources
  2. internalizing contradatictions
  3. constructing narratives from a wide variety of sources
  4. maintaining diversity
  5. finding historical precedents
  6. shocking out of complacency
  7. finding patterns in other peoples works, patterns they have not seen
  8. finding the linguistic and substructural underpinnings of quotidian existence.
  9. pattern recognition
  10. visual skills
  11. pointing out injustice and hypocrisy
  12. self direction
  13. working long and hard
  14. general, misasmic passion
  15. using large words in their proper context
  16. colour matching
  17. close reading using a variety of formal systems
  18. deconstructing
  19. using the LoC system
  20. using the dewey decimal system
  21. knowing how to retrieve information from non-standard sources
  22. a variety of archival sources including universities, newspaper morgues, family history centres, and others
  23. doing a personal interview
  24. knowing how to find info in perodicals on paper, and on line, including the deep web, such as jstor or project muse.
  25. conducting formal personal interviews
  26. knowing who the proper resource person is in any situation
  27. knowing how to go up the ladder
  28. knowing how to use LaTex, the academic system
  29. knowing how to use a semi colon
  30. not taking no for an answer
  31. knowing how to construct a phone tree
  32. knowing how to do emts, online transactions, credit cards over the phone, and the like
  33. knowing how to change the film in a canon a-70
  34. knowing how to change the polaroid in a X70, 600, joycamera, and others.
  35. knowing how to make a cyanotype
  36. a basic knowledge of archival needs for paintings, works on paper, and photography
  37. knowing how to castrate a bull
  38. knowing how to birth a calf
  39. knowing how to judge a bull ride
  40. knowing most of the judging criteria for major rodeo events
  41. knowing how to place contempary country music into it's proper historical context
  42. knowing the uses and abuses of copyright, and the varities of creative commons liscenses.
  43. an intimate knowledge of most of the liturgical systems of western christianity
  44. knowing how to use drop io
  45. knowing how to use word press, and blogger, and other blogging software
  46. encouraging and fostering mentored relationships
  47. point and shoot photos
  48. list making
  49. a general instinctual understanding of taxonomic systems
  50. how to create a media contact list, and go thru it in a systematic way
  51. meet deadlines
  52. write basic grants
  53. write artist statements
  54. write essays for the web
  55. write first person essays for newspapers
  56. write academic papers for publication
  57. write long form magazine peices
  58. format a paper with biblography in APA, Chicago, and MLA styles
  59. crop and correct colour in digital photos using digikam and iphoto
  60. flickr (i am flickr master)
  61. use google mail, google documents, google calendar, picasa, google book search, and google video, in all of their forms, and find information on the web quickly and thoroughly
  62. identify mid century modernist buildings, fashion, furniture, and design
  63. speak in public
  64. internalize art history
  65. trouble shoot a problem
  66. i am good at finding everything that is wrong, worst case scenrioing something, knowing what the fatal flaw is in people and orginazations plans are
  67. analyse thick theoritcal texts
  68. network, at least when it comes to the art and the writing.
  69. curate (ie finding work, following up on where work went, developing a variety of frameworks to see the work)
  70. ace a media interview, performing
  71. answering phones, using multi phone systems
  72. professional protocal on phones
  73. gaining access using non traditional credentials
  74. conducting meetings using robert's rules of order
  75. conducting meetings using non eurocentric/phallocentric consensus modelling
  76. finding a wide and diverse collection of people to sit on boards
  77. making sure that everyone is heard on boards
  78. playing devil's advocate, making sure that everyone's voice is absorbed
  79. big sky/big picture thinking
  80. telling interesting anecdotes, and using those anecdotes to illustrate larger points
  81. presentations
  82. pretending to be interested in other people's children
  83. Interac
  84. Credit Cards (non phone/non internet)
  85. Push A Mop/Broom
  86. WHIMIS
  87. Prompt
  88. Can naviagate a transit system (have done so for New York, London, Toronto, San Fransisco, Calgary, Edmonton, and Vancouver)
  89. Readily find my way around immediately in strange cities and towns
  90. know which kinds of stem ware goes with which beverages
  91. know which kinds of flatware goes with which dishes
  92. know how to mix the basic cocktails
  93. know which wines go with which meals
  94. can stock and track inventory
  95. loss prevention training
  96. innovate a broad variety of funding sources
  97. can craft and analyse misison statements
  98. can craft and alayse bylaws, making sure they correspond to official government guidlines
  99. can write formal correspondance, both personally and professionally
  100. large and effective vocab
  101. fellatio

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