Attitude-laden garbage like this always makes satire redundant.
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Date: 2005-04-18, 12:37PM PDT
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Yes, moving.
The past couple weeks have seen a frenzied Craigslist search for housing, along with packing, organizing, all while still putting in full days (or worse) at the office.
I found a place just across town– a five minute drive, mercifully– and moved in this weekend. SBC is coming to hook up the phone today (hopefully– since they’re SBC it’ll probably take at least two visits and some yelling), DirecTV on Thursday. No DSL until late in the month at the earliest (sad face). I still have a bit of packing and moving –and, of course, cleaning– to do.
Hopefully back to some semblance of an ongoing series of posts soon. Maybe soon I’ll put up some photos of the new pad and the land surrounding it.
Proof (RealAudio).
Pay special attention to his remarks about John Kerry’s presidential campaign. Towards the end of the interview he made some paranoid, inarticulate comments about NPR that gave the whole thing an even creepier feel.
I have RSI/tendonits/carpal in both shoulders and both wrists. My massage budget is pretty much already shot for ’05, so I think a lot about interface alternatives for the computer. Other than getting treatment for internet addiction, that is.
I did some searching and came up with the following quote from Brian Eno from a MOJO interveiw in May 2001:
Computers are hopeless! They’re so under-evolved! Of course, they offer the promise of the future of music, but Jesus, they’re badly designed! The fact that three million years of muscular evolution should end up being translated into an index finger clicking a mouse, this is the problem. Think of any analogue instrument: playing a guitar, for instance, you’re doing six things at once. I believe musicians have shrunk to fit the pathetic nature of the interfaces.
Think of it. More and more people are spending more and more time staring at screens, tensing one arm/hand, and clicking with one finger thousands of time a day. Never using their feet, their other hand (other than typing), or any other part of their body besides their brain. I’m not looking for an aerobic workout everytime I sit down to blogsurf, but here has to be some alternative that will even things out among the other parts of the body– at least the extremities.
Christopher Hitchens brings it on home.
Hitchens guested on Dennis Miller’s otherwise-unwatchable CNBC show last Saturday and summed up the above article in his usual charismatic and uncompromising manner. Unfortunately I can’t find the clip archived anywhere online, but I’ve dumped it to VHS from TiVo if anyone’s interested in a dub.
Lamar Smith and congress have lost any sense of what’s important.
Not content to waste the public’s time and money with an appalling and interminable Schiavo-grandstanding binge, and meddling in trivia like the baseball steroid “scandal,” now they want to dictate what file formats music fans can download.
Good for Apple for boycotting this farce.
