> What I miss more than anything else is having an attention span. I need to look for more examples of the art of the future. The one paragraph short story (4chan greentexts I guess), the 20 second hit single.
Old is owning a PlayTape Music Machine.
Something like that has the value of leading everyone down an interesting path while looking up something else. I'd probably just veer off by mentioning that Sissy Spacek is Rip Torn's cousin (wait! who is Rip Torn? who…
When considering deeper questions, I always think of this short story. https://www.gutenberg.org/files/33854/33854-h/33854-h.htm
> But smartphones are delivering no benefit to mankind. At all. The only compelling reason to use them is social pressure. Benefit? Probably not. Social Pressure? I'd say it's mostly the same addictive behavior that's…
That's pretty much me, except for reading a couple of websites (like this) , online banking, and pirating e-books for my Kindle. I'll fire up a machine for video or photo editing once in a while or sheet music work, but…
Looking back, I wish everyone had taken pictures of everyday life (probably with an Instamatic). Christmas pictures, awards, meh. What I really want are pictures of the halls in high school, street racing, parties with…
>There's an entire genre of these kinds of books that extrapolate generalities (life throughout the Universe) from a single data point (life on Earth), but the truth is, that's not even an educated guess. Hey, whatever…
What low income neighborhoods need is one of these: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grocery_Outlet Our local one is excellent, plus the wine deals are amazing. It's funny how many branded items here are 1/2 the price of…
You know, it's getting so big and warty that I'd be surprised if it wasn't.
It seems to me that ageism actually has some value. People never got any smarter, but the nature and details of group activity have changed over time. After a career of delivering products for boutique manufacturing…
In a world of small margins, it's just another small advantage that goes to Amazon. That all assumes that UPS drivers are honest and that Amazon 'fulfillment' employees get their daily cavity search of course.
> What I miss more than anything else is having an attention span. I need to look for more examples of the art of the future. The one paragraph short story (4chan greentexts I guess), the 20 second hit single.
Old is owning a PlayTape Music Machine.
Something like that has the value of leading everyone down an interesting path while looking up something else. I'd probably just veer off by mentioning that Sissy Spacek is Rip Torn's cousin (wait! who is Rip Torn? who…
When considering deeper questions, I always think of this short story. https://www.gutenberg.org/files/33854/33854-h/33854-h.htm
> But smartphones are delivering no benefit to mankind. At all. The only compelling reason to use them is social pressure. Benefit? Probably not. Social Pressure? I'd say it's mostly the same addictive behavior that's…
That's pretty much me, except for reading a couple of websites (like this) , online banking, and pirating e-books for my Kindle. I'll fire up a machine for video or photo editing once in a while or sheet music work, but…
Looking back, I wish everyone had taken pictures of everyday life (probably with an Instamatic). Christmas pictures, awards, meh. What I really want are pictures of the halls in high school, street racing, parties with…
>There's an entire genre of these kinds of books that extrapolate generalities (life throughout the Universe) from a single data point (life on Earth), but the truth is, that's not even an educated guess. Hey, whatever…
What low income neighborhoods need is one of these: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grocery_Outlet Our local one is excellent, plus the wine deals are amazing. It's funny how many branded items here are 1/2 the price of…
You know, it's getting so big and warty that I'd be surprised if it wasn't.
It seems to me that ageism actually has some value. People never got any smarter, but the nature and details of group activity have changed over time. After a career of delivering products for boutique manufacturing…
In a world of small margins, it's just another small advantage that goes to Amazon. That all assumes that UPS drivers are honest and that Amazon 'fulfillment' employees get their daily cavity search of course.