Although I’ll probably still call my little brother for very important decisions such as, which iPod color I should get or what to name the different partitions on my storage devices, I still think this is a cool idea for a website.
So I decided to search for a new hobby to take up, being as its been raining for about 2 months now and somewhat difficult in these extreme weather conditions (ahem, soggy sneakers.) I was surprised when it recommended swing dancing. Hm. Maybe the algorithm has been configured to represent the past rather than predict recommendations for the future. Either way, right on. I heart swing dancing!!
This was a fun little afternoon diversion. If you have a few mins free, check out these lingual booleans!
(btw, I scored 100%!!)
Listening to TED talks (again) and thought I’d post this video:
Carl Honore: Slowing Down in a World Built for Speed
I think everyone should take a moment today to do absolutely nothing.
My eyes were sore, darting from one title to the next, quickly communicating to my mind the long list of literature I’d have to come back and explore on my next trip to the bookstore. The escalator carried me higher and toward deeper thought as to why I was actually interested in all of these books. Do I really have time for all this fascination with (well, let’s face it) EVERYTHING???
Consumer versus producer. How much, like what specific percentage of my time, do I want to dedicate toward consuming things and how does that weigh in the total ratio compared to things in which I produce?
I got to the top of the floor before I finished my thought and - true to form- became distracted by yet another interesting thing that got caught in my line of vision.
Okay, so he may no longer be living, but his words are.
George Orwell’s diaries are being published online in blog format, on the same date they were written - albeit 70 years later.
Pretty cool, huh?
Monday morning. This always happens. All I want to do is go to my bed and fall back asleep.
I think we all know how important sleep is for the body. Or, we can atleast relate to the common desire to snooze the alarm clock every single morning.
But recent scientific studies - this one apparently written in the future (check the date!) - have determined that sleep not only enables the brain to be more receptive to creating memories. It also stores them in a more permanent way while you are sleeping. The way they are stored makes it less likely for newer information to overwrite the older information.
Its like an exHD! Speaking of which, I need to do another backup soon…
I took a photo yesterday of the incomplete (aka TBC) scrabble game -not the facebook version, which apparently I am obsessed with, but the “for real, physical, tangible, you can potentially destroy an entire game by knocking it over” version. Reason being, there was a high probability of it being knocked over in the time between last night and the continuation of the game (which btw did, in fact, occur.) There is precedence to this occurance in past scrabble games.
This, in turn, began a whole tangent in my head about the methods of storage, memory and documentation people use to retain data in order to compensate for the inevitable ephemeral quality of everyday life (aka the position of the letters on a game of Scrabble.)
As a whole, people have developed an increased necessity to store more things as well as the desire to instantly reverse the process. “COMMAND+Z, what would I ever do w/out you? You enabled me to avoid numerous typographic & visual catastrophes over the years!” (FYI, Command+ Z does not work for certain things, such as painting your walls.)
Transient. Temporal. Evanescent. Does these words still have meaning today or have they just gone on to another place- one of shooting stars, lightening bolts and Etch-a-Sketch?
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