I was going to post something utterly different today, should I have time to post, but I've been reading these things about Technology of the Future and how the trend is toward more voice-recognition-command stuff-- you know, you tell your phone to walk your dog AND IT DOES and so forth. Now, sometimes when people talk about Technology of the ( Read more... )

I'm typing this post to stave off apathy. I'm having a terrible problem with apathy lately. Just now I was consolidating all the Best Books of 2011 lists I could find --official ones, not people's personal ones, because that would just take too long-- and I'm glazing over these titles and descriptions thinking "That sounds like something I would ( Read more... )

There are lots of things I don't like about standardized testing-- or, more accurately, the way standardized testing is used-- but at the moment I'm thinking about the aptitude test we took in high school, the one where I got back the results and as usual I'd scored in the 98th percentile or higher in all the academic subjects, a bit-- but just a ( Read more... )

Sigh. Friends-lock. Why do I even bother with you anymore? I suppose there's no other option, because that last entry was the sort of stuff not appropriate for certain people I actually am Facebook friends with. No offense to all my Facebook friends (now you're all paranoid and wondering if it was you, aren't you). That was pretty much an entry ( Read more... )

Over the weekend people on my Twitter feed kept Tweeting and Retweeting links to a blog post-- on LiveJournal, even, so you can't blame format-- someone had written on the socioeconomic downside of insisting that Print is Dead, accompanied by notes about how this was Very Important and Genius and Whatnot-- also, the original post had five pages of ( Read more... )

WARNING: I've been in the habit in recent years of Friends-locking the Depressing posts as well as the Posts-Where-I-Need-To-Protect-The-Innocent, but any more half the people who USED to read my friends-locked posts can't even log in any more and the other half just doesn't care and the three or so people who magically don't fit into either half ( Read more... )

It's an odd day because the public school is closed because downtown has been taken over by Oktoberfest.

People still insist on thinking it's weird that we have Oktoberfest in September. FOR GOSH SAKES ALREADY THAT'S NOT WEIRD, THAT'S JUST WHEN OKTOBERFEST IS. See, Wikipedia explains it, which makes everything right. What IS sort of weird is that ( Read more... )

Oooo, thunderstorm. And I am the only person on the second floor of the library. Oddly delicious ( Read more... )

I realized something mildly depressing the other day: I have no idea how to do something Completely For Fun anymore. Oh, I'm great at incorporating fun into whatever I DO do, but if something doesn't have some Practical Purpose BESIDES fun, it makes me antsy. I shouldn't be doing something without a Practical Purpose! What's the point? How can I ( Read more... )