ENTRY # 58 One of those recursive discussions. In <style Me, the introvert – socially ept being in training – broadcasts thoughts free from constraints of necessary introductions, the getting know you, and tests as to whether or not the click clicked. Free from call and response in an asynchronous monolog or dialog ballyhoo (halloooo….echo echo echo…) But we end up here- distilled, somewhat filtered by wordsmithery, but unmasked. Nude …
ENTRY # 57 How does one measure time? til the end of summer. in jobs, projects and deadlines. in quarters, terms, semesters. … And time repeats. in how a body sways. … And time slows beautifully. in baby teeth, motor skills (pincer grip graduates to hold a cup). Bites give way to kisses. as Aidan reads cereal boxes aloud. (Mom! We can get a free toy and this is good …
ENTRY # 56 Two inexplicable things that taste great as one! Matthew Baldwins Schroedinger’s Iraq.
ENTRY # 55 It seems, shortly after human beings figured out the here and now was not always the greatest place to be, they devised ways to make believe they were elsewhere. Before the holodeck, before DVD, before movies (but after books) there was the stereopticon. The stereopticon was one of the first stabs at a virtual 3D world. A simple device really. It works with the basic understanding that …
ENTRY # 54 Lurking, in common usage does not connote good things. It brings to mind visions of monsters in the shadows waiting to leap out at you. Maybe that’s just me, but those are my issues. Still, there is a place where it is a good thing to lurk. Nay, even encouraged. Within the context of an online chat’these are sort of virtual meeting spaces where people can shoot …
ENTRY # 53 In 1984, William Gibson published a book called “Neuromancer”. In which he created cyberspace. It was A new universe, a parallel universe created and sustained by the worlds computers and communication lines . . . The tablet become a page become a screen become a world, a virtual world . . . A common mental geography, built, in turn, by consensus and revolution, canon and experiment . …
ENTRY # 52 Ping Pong + Matrix + Crazy Japanese dudes = Funny as hell from Dan Skwara comments fivecats, fivecat@nc.rr.com, http://www.livejournal.com/users/fivecats, , 157.98.71.16, 1057949869, 2004-05-16 20:41:17, Very, very funny. Im sure its already sucking up bandwidth where I work from all of the people Ive forwarded the link to. Where/how did you find it? … Elouise, ero@it.rit.edu, 24.24.41.238, 1057959513, 2004-05-16 20:41:17, Was the away message from one of my …
ENTRY # 51 Liz Lawley just come back from SuperNova. When I asked her about meeting her blogger friends IRL she said it was overwhelming. To which I replied, “Kinda like meeting someone you drew nude at a church social.” Yeah. Just like that. So as a prequel to her post, let me explain the metaphor. It aint. It happened. I’m at a Mormon church social under duress with my …
ENTRY # 50 We’ve got plenty of robotical archetypes from which to choose– from Robbie, to Data, to Arnold (who, by the way, is back). Sci fi aside, we’ve got robots now and they’ve been around for a while. A robot can be defined as a programmable, self-controlled device consisting of electronic, electrical, or mechanical units. More generally, it is a machine that functions in place of a living agent” …
ENTRY # 49 At Alas a Blog, Bean writes counterpoint to Joan Ryans Attack of the Girly-Girls in which she says that young women today have lousy role models, and is concerned that this generation is ending up vacuous (although nicely but scantily dressed). I HAVE BEEN WORRIED lately about the possibility that todays young women are not taking themselves seriously enough. I base this on extensive, first-hand examinations of …
