On Sunday I was cleaning up my apartment, and decided the two Netflix DVDs sitting on top of the stereo had been here long enough (unwatched) – so I packaged them up and on Monday dropped them in the mailbox on my way to work. I arrived home today to have two new DVDs waiting [...]
Last week I had two occurrences which made me contemplate the information revolution and how it might effect our lives in some unique ways. Sometimes the technology comes at us so fast we forget that it hasn’t been with us for very long. I can hardly imagine myself without a cell phone – but less [...]
When I was a freshman in high school I began making a lot of observations and conjectures about what was actually going on here. While most boys my age had girls on the mind – I became obsessed with the nature of reality. I had become a devout atheist in middle school, but being unsatisfied [...]
This week Apple announced their highly anticipated iPad – a revolutionary new device that creates an entirely new category someplace between the laptop and smart-phone. While the media and pundits may have been more focused on the name – my mind has been on fire the past three days thinking of nothing but the [...]
As someone who spends a good deal of his time in front of a computer (that coincidentally is next to another smaller computer) I spend a lot of my time online. While there are a whole variety of websites I might use on a semi-regular basis to manage my life, inspire my imagination, or simply [...]
Last week I decided it was time to make an appointment with the eye-doctor and freshen up the old prescription. It had been about two years and I had a suspicion my sight wasn’t as strong as it had been. Losing your sight, as I have been for over a decade now, is sort of [...]
This past weekend I decided it was time to turn my Samsung television back into an entertainment system. Having disconnected from all forms of Comcast – I had no “TV” for the past few days. In fact, for the moment, I’m actually connected to one of three open wiFi connections here in the lower SE [...]
Today it happened. I canceled my cable television.
