Month: November 2004
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ugh…
This dialectic between living with my parents again and living in Spokane and all it’s rich potentiality is becoming strained, it’s been four days. First off, Spokane is definitely on the rise, not on the decline as everyone keeps saying. There are good things happening all over town. They are growing organically and doing well.…
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what Google could do…
okay… so Google has all this stuff that they have bought up – Orkut, Blogger, Babelfish, the desktop apps Keyhole and Picasa, the desktop search engine, gmail… lots of stuff. (David Allen’s stuff definition: “anything that doesn’t belong where it is, but for which you haven’t yet determined the desired outcome and the next action…
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I hate moving
…I hate having to peel the scabs of life just so that I get the privilege of breaking my back to load the U-haul, then drive the damn land barge across five states listening to country-western music and extremist Christian Neo-conservative fascist rhetorical diatribe and the call ins from the morons who think that morality…
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i hate air travel
I really hate getting around by air. I have a hard time finding something that seems more universally unenjoyable yet maintains such a unyielding grip on the average person. There has to be a better way. There has to be a way to be comfortable in airports, to be comfortable on airplanes, not feel dehumanized…
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security through absurdity
Will someone please explain to me how “unattended luggage may present a security threat” when that luggage has already been screened at the security checkpoint and when all access to the passenger terminals is controlled, monitored, and tallied so that no “untrusted persons” have the ability to circumvent the security checkpoint? Will someone please explain…
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still not sleeping
Decisions… Writing is all about making decisions and living with them down the page. So is life. We forget this, I think, too easily. We live in a world of artifice that is intentionally designed to offer everything, reducing the necessity to make profound decisions or live with their consequences. It is the consumer culture…