Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy; A Love note to Douglas Adams (dates not precise) About 1984, my father bought an IBM XT with a 10MB hard drive and 3.5 floppy, with a Hayes 1200 baud modem. Â It was (more…)
Violation in the 21st Century – even a transparency advocate can feel like his privacy is at risk.
Tiburon and I guess the whole world is going to have to start making airspace rules. I don’t care if you have a quadropter. I don’t care that you have an HD mounted camera on a gimble. I don’t even (more…)
Moving Away From Technology That Uses Us.
Here are some reasons to ponder whether staring at our phone all the time is a smart move? For your new year’s resolutions & consideration: 1) Studying attention & memory as it (more…)
Christmas, Easter, Holidays, and continual theft of ancient oral culture.
So basically, it’s like this: The Babylonian and Sumerian Department stores went out of business. The Christians bought the stores for DIRT CHEAP. Then, they basically relabeled everything, and threw (more…)
Rand Paul… don’t sue anyone on my account.
From here:Â http://mashable.com/2014/02/12/rand-paul-obama-lawsuit/ Uhh.. from the American people, Rand… chill out. Everyone likes this, because privacy only exists when it serves *your* (more…)
We’re nothing but products or commodities. Humanity is dead. Long live humanity!
A friend of mine nailed why I have been depressed lately, about the nature of friends, relationships, business, and how they all coalesce in social media: I feel like a huge walking $ Dollar sign. And (more…)
Was the Nest buy overvalued? Google’s Internet for Things for Things.
No. Internet of Things. “An internet for things”. This is about google’s hardware struggles. Nest has some great designers (people heard of the ipod?), but it’s not about that. It’s about the other internet, (more…)
Shakespeare invented more words than you could possibly believe
Words that Shakespeare invented (or popularized): academe accused addiction advertising amazement arouse assassination backing bandit bedroom beached besmirch birthplace blanket bloodstained barefaced blushing bet bump buzzer caked cater champion circumstantial cold-blooded compromise courtship countless critic dauntless dawn deafening discontent dishearten drugged dwindle epileptic equivocal elbow excitement exposure eyeball fashionable fixture flawed frugal generous gloomy gossip…
Meaning & Purpose in a Godless Universe
This is a more succinct summation of what I have previously opined on in regards to meaning, purpose, and the intent of Melville’s novel: Have you read Moby Dick? Searching for Meaning and Purpose (more…)
14 Tech Trends for 2014 from FastCo that aren’t uninspired, derivative “It’s the year of mobile” nonsense.
http://www.fastcodesign.com/3024464/15-tech-trends-that-will-define-2014-selected-by-frog  Anonymity, Disconnecting, Facebook unseated by Chinese, THE CONSUMER OWNING AND CONTROLLING THEIR DATA… (more…)