When I drink a cup of coffee, I don’t care about it. I expect a reasonable temperature, an inoffensive taste, and a familiar aroma. That’s it. I don’t want to talk about it. I don’t want to look at it. I don’t want to take a picture of it. I don’t want to doctor a …
Sometimes I read my posts here and I think I come across as having my head up in the clouds or somewhere else. If you know me, you know that’s not me, at least not completely. But what am I to do? I’m blogging with a purpose (“Purpose Driven Blogging”). I agonize over pop culture …
To be fair, this post by Joel Mathis for Macworld is a warm, humorous, first-person, human interest anecdote on the role of social networking in his own recovery from surgery. I’m generally hesitant to apply a negative tone to someone’s account of a personal experience. I feel worried by this one, though, and, anyway, it …
In its research, its content, its writing, and its timing, Sherry Turkle’s Alone Together: Why We Expect More from Technology and Less from Each Other is impeccable. Professor Turkle brings to it her experience as a sociologist and a licensed clinical psychiatrist, three decades of teaching at MIT, four decades of observing the human relationship …
After months of playing Bejeweled 3 on my laptop during downtime at home — something to occupy my hands and time while watching TV or listening to music, because, apparently, those things aren’t enough, on their own, anymore — I became bored with it. I’d earned all the badges and accomplished everything I’d hoped to …