My Head is in the Cloud
Dave Pell: My Head is in the Cloud.
Before heading to the emergency room, I climbed into the back of the ambulance where I asked her if she wanted me to call her boyfriend. She said she did, but she didn’t know his telephone number. It was lost along with her now obliterated cell phone, and she had never committed the number to memory.[...]
My phone tells me numbers, Facebook reminds me of birthdays, my nav system gives me directions, Google tells me how to spell, my bookmarks remind me of what I’ve read, my inbox tells me who I’m having a conversation with – my mind has been distributed across several devices and services.
My head is in the cloud.
Now, after a few years of this, I realize that when I look up from the screen I know almost nothing. And maybe that would be fine if the absent phone numbers and upcoming dates were freeing space for deeper and more introspective thought. But I sense that my addiction to the realtime stream is only making room for the consumption of a faster stream.
Via John Gruber.
I’m Showing Off Again
I’m showing yet another GSU Professor about blogging with WordPress. There are lots of educators building portfolios with WordPress. Cool!
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Slick
Atlanta and North Georgia has just enough snow/slush on the roads, and falling temps, that many schools are closed tomorrow and other places opening late. It make sense, really – it means roads will be unpredictably icy in the morning and there’s little sand/salt/gravel to make things passable.
Which means I’m sleeping in a bit tomorrow morning, and going downtown to work a little later than usual. [happy sigh]
Regarding Ideological Email From ‘Friends’
It’s rude for old ‘friends’ to include you on their ideological email blasts when they know you’re not in agreement with them. The temptation to complain, refute, or ridicule is hard to resist and eats up a lot of energy. It’s better to rant a bit here than reply one of those ways, which, as they say, only pleases the pig while getting you filthy.
Southbound at Sandy Springs
Southbound Platform, Sandy Springs MARTA Station, 8:09 a.m.
Leonard Cohen at Atlanta’s Fox Theatre
My second show in a week—last Wednesday, the Australian Pink Floyd Show, good and LOUD. Tonight, Leonard Cohen, intense and pleasurable in different ways. More than a poetry reading with a really tight band and less than a rock concert…. I can see why this tour is garnering raves. The first pic is from early in the show; the second is from “Suzanne” early in the second set.
Dragon*Con: Cardboard Star Wars
The stills are from 2008, the videos from 2009.
Snow Details in Boulder
Waiting in the snow for a table at Lucile’s, a very popular brunch spot, these small details caught my eye.
Bookstore!
Wandered in to this used bookstore, Red Letter Books, on Pearl Street, on the way back to our hotel. Wonderful. Shelves of books to explore, and songs playing by Tony Bennett, import versions of the Rolling Stones, and now the first cuts from Layla & Other Assorted Love Songs. Sweet music to these ears. I love used book stores.
