I’ve been under assault from screens lately. Funny to say that here on a blog, but it’s the truth. This past week has left me feeling unsettled and stupid, and in part I’ve been drugging myself with online entertainment, attention atomizing, info buffet grazing bullshit. It’s all bingeing and purging one might say, a loss… Continue Reading
Tag Archives: online life
The view from the bucks
Hey, look over there, it’s The Big Gay Ice Cream Truck.I can see it here from my seat in Starbucks, where I am consuming, once again. Fourth cup of coffee today. At least it’s a decaf. It was a rough day throughout, unwelcome news about a screw-up from my bank and then work was tense… Continue Reading
In the pipeline?
I’m being a little optimistic here, in that I’m hoping that the presence of these two trucks parked two blocks away from my house for the past few days means that my neighborhood is getting prepped for Verizon’s Fios service. It’s no secret that I feel confined by the speed of my current DSL line,… Continue Reading
Changing the workflow…
Yesterday was Friday the 13th, which of course meant that I spent most of the day queued up to get a new tattoo at Daredevil down on Ludlow Street (why am I saying down when geographically it’s “up” from where I am right now?). They’ve definitely refined the process from the first times I went… Continue Reading
Arrested
You get out what you put in. Garbage in Garbage out. Read enough junk and you’ll write junk. Truisms, but there you have ‘em. I’ve been scrolling and scanning through pages of articles and websites online and most of the writing is thrown together with one eye on the clock and one eye on Google… Continue Reading
Rip rig and panic
SIIGS means Self Induced Information Gluttony Syndrome. I just made that acronym up. And the syndrome too. But I’ve been living it for a while, dosing myself with nuggets of mostly distracting information via my phone and computers. My concentration has been slipping and after a few hours in the torrent of news snippets, I… Continue Reading
On the ground, or why this post doesn’t have a snappy title…
More time mucking about with the Nikon. I’m beginning to warm to it, although I hate using the view finder. It irritates me always having the camera lens identified with the eye. I’ve just finished Jaron Lanier’s You are Not a Gadget, a driven critique of online life and current trends in computing. Jaron was… Continue Reading
Flashing some Fur, and Big Link Friday….
ig link Friday is my sorry attempt at #followfriday as well as a fulfillment of my promise to make this blog more of a resource. Also I’m impressed with the way that people like Thor make their ljs about so much more than the repeated tracks of their obsessions. So here’s some of the stuff… Continue Reading
What does it mean?
Post about crushes received 5 responses Post about stale cake received 13 responses Post that ended with the words “depressed and freaked out” received 0 responses Tags: lj, online life… Continue Reading
By the Light …
Still on a LJ honeymoon. Is it the agreeable sensation of wasting time at work? Or the feeling of being at a party where you get to talk to folks for exactly as long as you want? As a person who takes a long time to feel comfortable and warm up in unstructured situations, I… Continue Reading