| good morning! |
[Dec. 2nd, 2004|06:22 am] |
Sh'ma Yisrael Adonai Elohaynu Adonai Echad.
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| haiku |
[Dec. 2nd, 2004|07:32 pm] |
dimmed lights -
googling my way
through clickable mind |
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| What they wrote in blogs 6000 years ago |
[Dec. 2nd, 2004|07:51 pm] |
FRIDAY. The naming goes recklessly on, in spite of anything I can do. I had a very good name for the estate, and it was musical and pretty-- GARDEN OF EDEN. Privately, I continue to call it that, but not any longer publicly. The new creature says it is all woods and rocks and scenery, and therefore has no resemblance to a garden. Says it LOOKS like a park, and does not look like anything BUT a park. Consequently, without consulting me, it has been new-named NIAGARA FALLS PARK. This is sufficiently high-handed, it seems to me. And already there is a sign up:
KEEP OFF
THE GRASS
My life is not as happy as it was.
Mark Twain. Adam's diary. |
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| good night |
[Dec. 2nd, 2004|09:57 pm] |
Sh'ma Yisrael Adonai Elohaynu Adonai Echad.
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[Dec. 2nd, 2004|09:59 pm] |
PowerPoint screws up people's brains. What can be easily explained on a piece of paper in 10 minutes takes innumerable slides and infinite discussions.
The presentation model just doesn't have the flexibility to communicate an open-ended thought process. As soon as you step off the beaten path, you are in the woods with no navigation tools. An interesting example when a tool creates an environment, wherein only certain meme-types and replication processes can survive.
I wonder if computers do the same to our ability to create and communicate information. Denied the faculty to draw squiggles in a letter, we resort to standard smileys in e-mails and megapixel pictures in blogs. Japanese complain that their youths can no longer write the hieroglyphs, only type them on the keyboard or keypad.
Probably the same thing happened to human verbal skills when paper, and then the printing press came around.
A side note: who knows, if Gorchev had the option to draw something in his blog, he would've used fewer expletives. |
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