Glad to hear you are enjoying. I read Bleeding Edge when it came out, but was underwhelmed. It is characteristically Pynchon, but did not enchant me in the same way as did Inherent Vice some years earlier. Still, his…
Not exactly related, a friend recently told me that calling someone a "spaz" who acts absurdly or with an excess of enthusiasm, is no longer (/ was never ?) appropriate. My boss and other boomer (ok technically gen-xer)…
An uncle of mine loaned me his abridged Vonnegut shelf, including Galapagos. Sirens of Titan also is good. Very strange. For people who do not read much but are desirous of learning more, I'm unsure of the best…
It is tough. I feel you. Your hands suddenly, are very large; where do they go, or what do they do? But turn the music off. Take a breath. No one is talking about you, nor do you even exist; except as another human body…
"With the inevitable advancement of our civilization" unless advancement is understood as necessarily attendant upon linear time unspooling, it is no ways inevitable
Amen. One easy step anyone can take towards this direction of intentful filtering is to refrain from pulling the phone out of the pocket when standing in line. Just stand there. Look around. Watch other people. Think.…
I just got my first iphone. A 3rd gen(?) SE. I love the device. I'm not a big computers guy, but have used two different mac book pros and most recently a household imac for personal since 2008. On mobile, after…
Great literature -- not airport bestsellers, of course. How could a deep, intimate window into another part of our shared human condition _not_ change you? Mostly for the better.
Something well made, the function and form of which has proven the test of time. Buy your kid a baseball, not an apple watch. In another time and space, we used to say, style trumps fashion.
As a fellow WoWer, I always opted for aesthetics, writ large, over optimization. I get that folks seek out competition, either vs environment or other players. But adhering to a personal aesthetic Code is another…
See also, David Foster Wallace's character David Cusk in 'The Pale King'. A wonderful portrayal of how attending to ANTs (Automatic Negative Thoughts) catalyzes this feedback loop.
Plus one for 'as long as it's not down the middle'. Or, nothing by half measures. Gas station coffee is a Rite. I am not a maniac, I use a burr grinder for locally & lightly roasted beans, and a v60. With an electric…
Interesting reading of the meteor incident, had not considered in that light. Do we know how Heinlein treats the episode, if at all?
Patsis's blog contains a post from 2014 and a post from 2018. Yet its "Pearls Books" page has been kept slightly more up to date. There is something comically sad about a recently active blog with only two posts over a…
Glad to hear you are enjoying. I read Bleeding Edge when it came out, but was underwhelmed. It is characteristically Pynchon, but did not enchant me in the same way as did Inherent Vice some years earlier. Still, his…
Not exactly related, a friend recently told me that calling someone a "spaz" who acts absurdly or with an excess of enthusiasm, is no longer (/ was never ?) appropriate. My boss and other boomer (ok technically gen-xer)…
An uncle of mine loaned me his abridged Vonnegut shelf, including Galapagos. Sirens of Titan also is good. Very strange. For people who do not read much but are desirous of learning more, I'm unsure of the best…
It is tough. I feel you. Your hands suddenly, are very large; where do they go, or what do they do? But turn the music off. Take a breath. No one is talking about you, nor do you even exist; except as another human body…
"With the inevitable advancement of our civilization" unless advancement is understood as necessarily attendant upon linear time unspooling, it is no ways inevitable
Amen. One easy step anyone can take towards this direction of intentful filtering is to refrain from pulling the phone out of the pocket when standing in line. Just stand there. Look around. Watch other people. Think.…
I just got my first iphone. A 3rd gen(?) SE. I love the device. I'm not a big computers guy, but have used two different mac book pros and most recently a household imac for personal since 2008. On mobile, after…
Great literature -- not airport bestsellers, of course. How could a deep, intimate window into another part of our shared human condition _not_ change you? Mostly for the better.
Something well made, the function and form of which has proven the test of time. Buy your kid a baseball, not an apple watch. In another time and space, we used to say, style trumps fashion.
As a fellow WoWer, I always opted for aesthetics, writ large, over optimization. I get that folks seek out competition, either vs environment or other players. But adhering to a personal aesthetic Code is another…
See also, David Foster Wallace's character David Cusk in 'The Pale King'. A wonderful portrayal of how attending to ANTs (Automatic Negative Thoughts) catalyzes this feedback loop.
Plus one for 'as long as it's not down the middle'. Or, nothing by half measures. Gas station coffee is a Rite. I am not a maniac, I use a burr grinder for locally & lightly roasted beans, and a v60. With an electric…
Interesting reading of the meteor incident, had not considered in that light. Do we know how Heinlein treats the episode, if at all?
Patsis's blog contains a post from 2014 and a post from 2018. Yet its "Pearls Books" page has been kept slightly more up to date. There is something comically sad about a recently active blog with only two posts over a…