"Now the meddling sky and my snowy eye see a different night." (20 Vicodin)

[greygirlbeast]

Every day it seems I have less and less patience with, and less and less interest in, the internet. It overwhelms. It's built to overwhelm. It distracts. It's built to distract. However my mind works, it isn't compatible with the internet as it exists today. And aside from issues of cognitive dissonance, I'm increasingly uncomfortable with various

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1984

[ext_1285666]

It's ironic that 1984 is not at all like Orwell's depiction of it. He should have named the book 2015.

[starshoegazer]

Siamese cats are the best cats! I had one named Loki for years and then moved, left him with ex, now when I call my ex years later, Loki still remembers my voice. Clever kitties!

[thimbleofrain]

That's exactly the way that I feel about the Internet - though I'm a few years younger than you are. Other than a handful of blogs, I learn nearly all of my Internet-based information from people who read about and relay it to me. A couple of decades ago, I stopped watching live network television for the same reasons.

When I started writing, I did it on a portable word processor. I moved to a computer a year or so after that, then got home Internet access a couple years later. Nowadays, like you, I work with computers for a living.

I remember when I first experienced streaming radio, thinking about all of the “potential” for information to be sent and received online. I was so excited about it. (I was living out in the woods with a woman and a couple of cats and not many neighbors.) When I spoke about it with people, they didn’t get it.

Now I’m the one who doesn’t get it.

[greygirlbeast]

Now I’m the one who doesn’t get it.

It's a strange, strange feeling.

[greygirlbeast]

The honeymoon is over and the breakup is looming,

Yes. And you're welcome.

[everville340]

Safe traveling to you and Kathryn on your trek to Providence and back. Hope you enjoy the concert.