Girls: So... do you have any hobbies?
Me: Mostly, I just make sure that the internet doesn't get lonely. It's not so much a hobby as a calling.
Posters: It's The Great Pumpkin
7 years ago
Friday, July 31, 2015
Wednesday, July 29, 2015
Rant
If I ever climb up a building and begin shooting people, it will have far more to do with Ray Bradbury's "And the Moon Be Still as Bright" than any video game.
Monday, July 27, 2015
Rant
Nineties Kids make the saddest adults.
Having witnessed the transition from the Industrial Age to the Information Age first-hand, we've become a generation mired in nostalgia for technologies that have been rendered obsolete.
We grew up playing with action figures and board games, only to graduate to Speak-n-Spells, Simon Memory Games, and Nintendos. We've marveled as huge corded telephones have shrunk down to wafer thin computers carried in our pockets. We've watched as our television offerings expanded from three fuzzy channels on a day with clear weather to five hundred channels of cinema-quality definition. And we've reveled in the growing freedom afforded to us by global data networks that have evolved from BBS chat boards into realtime streaming video that carries the world into our home.
As a result of that rapid technological development, we've been left yearning for a childhood that seems to us to have been both simpler and far further in the past than reality. For most of us "ten years ago" still means 1995, not 2005. Cursive feels like an old friend, and each book sitting on our shelves is a treasured trophy of a journey through foreign lands to our eyes.
We understand the technologies our parents are still uncomfortable with, but we still remain capable of seeing the technologies our children take for granted as the miracles they are.
Torn between the two generation, we stand apart, the saddest adults.
Having witnessed the transition from the Industrial Age to the Information Age first-hand, we've become a generation mired in nostalgia for technologies that have been rendered obsolete.
We grew up playing with action figures and board games, only to graduate to Speak-n-Spells, Simon Memory Games, and Nintendos. We've marveled as huge corded telephones have shrunk down to wafer thin computers carried in our pockets. We've watched as our television offerings expanded from three fuzzy channels on a day with clear weather to five hundred channels of cinema-quality definition. And we've reveled in the growing freedom afforded to us by global data networks that have evolved from BBS chat boards into realtime streaming video that carries the world into our home.
As a result of that rapid technological development, we've been left yearning for a childhood that seems to us to have been both simpler and far further in the past than reality. For most of us "ten years ago" still means 1995, not 2005. Cursive feels like an old friend, and each book sitting on our shelves is a treasured trophy of a journey through foreign lands to our eyes.
We understand the technologies our parents are still uncomfortable with, but we still remain capable of seeing the technologies our children take for granted as the miracles they are.
Torn between the two generation, we stand apart, the saddest adults.
Friday, July 24, 2015
Rant
Ladies, want to look five years younger? Nothing makes you look like a broke ass college kid faster than an iPhone with a cracked screen.
Wednesday, July 22, 2015
80.) The smarter your technology is, the less control you have over it.
While hardware defines what a technology can do, it's software defines what it will do. Slowly but surely, that software is being designed to resist our wishes in favor of the best interests of corporations (such is the case with DRM), and it won't be long before it is designed to resist competing technologies, too. As we enter the age of the Internet of Things, we run the risk of transforming our households into either technological battlefields or fiefdoms.
While hardware defines what a technology can do, it's software defines what it will do. Slowly but surely, that software is being designed to resist our wishes in favor of the best interests of corporations (such is the case with DRM), and it won't be long before it is designed to resist competing technologies, too. As we enter the age of the Internet of Things, we run the risk of transforming our households into either technological battlefields or fiefdoms.
Rant
Sorry, but your password must contain an uppercase letter, a number, a haiku, a hieroglyph, and the blood of a virgin.
Subscribe to:
Posts (Atom)
