“But for finding the value of a 1971 Camaro or a recipe for home-made creme fraiche, ain’ nothing like it”. Love it!
Jen, you have NAILED it, as usual.
Umhmm… Late last year I did some quick calculations and discovered that I had spent 3.5 years (or thereabouts) online in the last 19+ years. I got my first in-home modem line in the Spring of 1993. When I saw those figures, I vowed to take a break, and lo! the break took me. By early March I was disconnecting my service, and have not had access in my home (except for a few weeks of very iffy broadband) for almost 4 months.
I hate it. Really. This internet thingy is a gift from the gods, and living without it sucks the hindtit of a boar. Now, it does *not* –as my son believes– hold the sumtotal of human knowledge, since –as PattiT pointed out– 5 billion or so of us have never seen a computer screen. And those 5bil have got to know *something* we-the-wired don’t. (Goddess loves redundancy, but She puts a little different music in each of us).
But for finding the value of a 1971 Camaro or a recipe for home-made creme fraiche, ain’ nothing like it.
Now ‘cost/benefit’ is a whole other discussion. Can we use this gift more intelligently? Well, sure.
Let’s see about that. Moisturing the net with microbytes of data, maybe not so much. Go Big or go home, as they say…
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Waaay too realistic. Bossbot needs to resemble Big brother and be a little more forceful: “Double-plus ungood!You are shirking your responsibility, you haven’t updated anything for a minute now! Status Update ordered: what are you thinking?”
We are the Ministry of Truth.
too good and true this one. and i’m not even an app’er. my modem went down and am waiting for a replacement, hence having to venture out of my home for access. when i got to the café this morning and pulled out the ‘puter i actually felt a rush, not excited, more anxious. definitely not a good sign. there was a story on npr awhile back about a dial-up café where you know it’s going to take you time to be online, and how people would go just for the unwind. someone did a study and found that those who were purposefully doing this, their heart rate/mental state was akin to yoga/meditation – in comparison to the high anxiety of those of us with the constant (dis)connect wondering why it takes 3 minutes to download a 1 minute song. instant (de)gratification.
jen is hilarious. but this comic is so true, it makes me a little sad!
Yes! This is wonderful.
Activity pie!!? I think I will stick to chocolate cream pie instead.
“In a survey of US working adults sponsored by Good Technology, more than 80 percent of people continue working when they have left the office – for an average of seven extra hours each week – almost another full day of work. That’s a total of close to 30 hours a month or 365 extra hours every year. They’re also using their cell phones to mix work and their personal life in ways never seen before.” – Good Technology
That is, of course, to remain competitive, without receiving pay for those extra hours.
Or how about the group that goes out to dinner and everyone piles their devices in the center of the table. The first person that answers or uses their phone, pays the entire check.
“But for finding the value of a 1971 Camaro or a recipe for home-made creme fraiche, ain’ nothing like it”. Love it!
Jen, you have NAILED it, as usual.
Umhmm… Late last year I did some quick calculations and discovered that I had spent 3.5 years (or thereabouts) online in the last 19+ years. I got my first in-home modem line in the Spring of 1993. When I saw those figures, I vowed to take a break, and lo! the break took me. By early March I was disconnecting my service, and have not had access in my home (except for a few weeks of very iffy broadband) for almost 4 months.
I hate it. Really. This internet thingy is a gift from the gods, and living without it sucks the hindtit of a boar. Now, it does *not* –as my son believes– hold the sumtotal of human knowledge, since –as PattiT pointed out– 5 billion or so of us have never seen a computer screen. And those 5bil have got to know *something* we-the-wired don’t. (Goddess loves redundancy, but She puts a little different music in each of us).
But for finding the value of a 1971 Camaro or a recipe for home-made creme fraiche, ain’ nothing like it.
Now ‘cost/benefit’ is a whole other discussion. Can we use this gift more intelligently? Well, sure.
Let’s see about that. Moisturing the net with microbytes of data, maybe not so much. Go Big or go home, as they say…
***
**
*
Waaay too realistic. Bossbot needs to resemble Big brother and be a little more forceful: “Double-plus ungood!You are shirking your responsibility, you haven’t updated anything for a minute now! Status Update ordered: what are you thinking?”
We are the Ministry of Truth.
too good and true this one. and i’m not even an app’er. my modem went down and am waiting for a replacement, hence having to venture out of my home for access. when i got to the café this morning and pulled out the ‘puter i actually felt a rush, not excited, more anxious. definitely not a good sign. there was a story on npr awhile back about a dial-up café where you know it’s going to take you time to be online, and how people would go just for the unwind. someone did a study and found that those who were purposefully doing this, their heart rate/mental state was akin to yoga/meditation – in comparison to the high anxiety of those of us with the constant (dis)connect wondering why it takes 3 minutes to download a 1 minute song. instant (de)gratification.
jen is hilarious. but this comic is so true, it makes me a little sad!
Yes! This is wonderful.
Activity pie!!? I think I will stick to chocolate cream pie instead.
“In a survey of US working adults sponsored by Good Technology, more than 80 percent of people continue working when they have left the office – for an average of seven extra hours each week – almost another full day of work. That’s a total of close to 30 hours a month or 365 extra hours every year. They’re also using their cell phones to mix work and their personal life in ways never seen before.” – Good Technology
That is, of course, to remain competitive, without receiving pay for those extra hours.
Or how about the group that goes out to dinner and everyone piles their devices in the center of the table. The first person that answers or uses their phone, pays the entire check.