asking questions and discovering how little I know
From the monthly archives:
When you don’t do something you free yourself up to do something else. This is the essence of Seth’s post today, The TV Dividend. But his post wasn’t the only one I saw today on the same theme. My brother had a brief post on the value of not driving. He hasn’t driven for twenty-five [...]
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From my thin notebook (paper kind): (Cross-posted on Crazy Ass Planet.) Listen
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Pessimism, like movie car chases, gets old real fast. I’m with Andrew Keen on this one. Unfortunately, people like to bitch and moan (I’m no exception). But I repeat: it gets tedious quickly. And it’s seldom correct. In this case, the end of America rants that Keen refers to, it confuses change with an end. [...]
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I saw the headline, “Is Google Making Us Stupid?” and I thought, “Geez, I hope not. We’re stupid enough already.” As evidence, we can look at some of the responses to the article. People seem to have their shorts in knots, on both sides, about our digital world. It’s either the great salvation of human [...]
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I’m really glad I took my laptop to the bar today, what with my brain being in neutral and having nothing worthwhile to write or say. Except for this: I hate the latest MS Office 2008 which appears to have been designed with the sole intention of screwing up everything. Since Vista and the latest [...]
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Many people suffer from physical and/or psychological problems because of work. These problems occur because they worry about work. It’s understandable. No work? No payday. No payday? No home. No recreational drugs. No betting on NFL games. You can see why people might worry. It’s important to work in order to keep the daily steamboat [...]
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From his book Timequake, Kurt Vonnegut on books: At the time of their invention, books were devices as crassly practical for storing or transmitting language, albeit fabricated from scarcely modified substances found in forest and field and animals, as the latest Silicon Valley miracles. But by accident, not by cunning calculation, books, because of their [...]
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I'm Bill Wren, a writer-editor, social media enthusiast in Fredericton, New Brunswick. And that would be my dog, Molly Bloom, as a logo in the header.
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