Go Curt! By the looks of those photos, they’ve been abducted into that matrix.

Simanek, I believe a few of my sendoff words to Curt at his going away party may have been “Have fun. Good luck building a site that makes no sense.”

Of course, that was last year’s crew. Who knows what’s in store for the future?

Hate to keep chiming in here; but Mike, really, anyone who thinks that site is more than some inside jokes strewn together by amatuers made purposefully vague in a vain attempt at self-referentialism, if-you-understand-that-you-cannot-understand-it-and-by-extension-us-you-are-in-the-club piece of garbage, then you’re more than partly retarded. And I really hate the word “retarded.”

Somehow gathering the street-cred to do nothing of importance and have it revered; to in fact make something suck for only the sake of sucking, does not fill this hollow shell. It remains hollow now matter how badass it hopes itself to be. I’ve taught many a student, and I know that not all who apply to WK12 are students, but I can spot this self-admiring garbage from a mile away. It’s “look at what we can code, insert inside-joke here.” It’s a waste of a great opportunity. That’s what WK+12 is, an opportunity. Some people make the most of them, other people get caught up in their own bullshit and squander them.

I’ll leave it with a quote from Jim Lasser, Speak Up author and former WK12’er. “I was really impressed with the body of work we created. It had the most important ingredient when discussing America: a point of view. An important lesson as WK 12 gropes its way to understanding how to effectively communicate ideas.”

Groping, indeed.

I caught that it is supposed to be a ‘joke/mystery/mindfuck’. However, if I am supposed to learn and respect anything about what w+k12 is, a smart-ass inside joke is not the way to do it. Sarcasm is great while communicating with people that understand your actual perspective in advance. Outside of a particular context, sarcasm only contributes to miscommunication.