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Yet Another Day...
Oct. 20th, 2010 09:50 am...I wake feeling like the devil's haircut, and not just in my mind, as I just Twitter/Facebook-ed. A cheap Beck reference that serves to remind me just how little Beck I've listened to over the last few years, considering that he used to be a real aural comfort-food staple: Stuff like "Satan Gave Me a Taco" still pops into my mind intermittently, along with various random samples from Yellow Gold ("How ya like me now?" "Pretty good...goin' on, keepin' strong..."). Like Johnny Cash covering "Rowboat", though, all that seems to have pretty much fallen by the wayside now.
Otherwise, yesterday was all about getting the iPad up and running, and wow--that's a fine piece of technology right there, for sure.;) It's also really interesting to me how everything these days increasingly spins on using the Internet/WiFi to get stuff from one place to another, in much the same way that I haven't really missed never having gotten the extender I'd need in order to hook up my printer thus far. But then again, one of the reasons I'm such a pseudo-Luddite is that I've gone through five to seven truly startling media shifts just during my own lifetime: Gotta understand, kids, I literally didn't have a PC 'til I was 20. I didn't have email 'til I was 25, and didn't really start using the Internet regularly for social stuff 'til six months later. There are whole sections of my basic Mac package I've never yet learned how to use, like PhotoShop. Put it on the Bucket List, like all that appointment TV.
Other topics of interest filtering around in my brain include Does The Social Network qualify as RPF? and What the hell is the point of AMC doing a Friday the 13th movies marathon, when they can't show aaaaanything?, plus this latest F&SF inclusion-equals-quotas BS (Amended to add: Is it just me, or is Internet discourse increasingly starting to resemble a global game of Human Centipede?). But I am still on deadline, sadly, and have no time to really concentrate on much beyond word-metrics. Gotta get those vegetable-zombies to--and through--the door.
So: Those of you fighting the good fight, carry on. I expect to emerge from underneath this rock in roughly a week and counting.
P.S., for those keeping score: "[Anasazi]" was sent off to its (fingers crossed) proper destination, and has been received. Here's hoping they turn out to like it, 'cause I'm damned if I know where else I could send it.;))
Otherwise, yesterday was all about getting the iPad up and running, and wow--that's a fine piece of technology right there, for sure.;) It's also really interesting to me how everything these days increasingly spins on using the Internet/WiFi to get stuff from one place to another, in much the same way that I haven't really missed never having gotten the extender I'd need in order to hook up my printer thus far. But then again, one of the reasons I'm such a pseudo-Luddite is that I've gone through five to seven truly startling media shifts just during my own lifetime: Gotta understand, kids, I literally didn't have a PC 'til I was 20. I didn't have email 'til I was 25, and didn't really start using the Internet regularly for social stuff 'til six months later. There are whole sections of my basic Mac package I've never yet learned how to use, like PhotoShop. Put it on the Bucket List, like all that appointment TV.
Other topics of interest filtering around in my brain include Does The Social Network qualify as RPF? and What the hell is the point of AMC doing a Friday the 13th movies marathon, when they can't show aaaaanything?, plus this latest F&SF inclusion-equals-quotas BS (Amended to add: Is it just me, or is Internet discourse increasingly starting to resemble a global game of Human Centipede?). But I am still on deadline, sadly, and have no time to really concentrate on much beyond word-metrics. Gotta get those vegetable-zombies to--and through--the door.
So: Those of you fighting the good fight, carry on. I expect to emerge from underneath this rock in roughly a week and counting.
P.S., for those keeping score: "[Anasazi]" was sent off to its (fingers crossed) proper destination, and has been received. Here's hoping they turn out to like it, 'cause I'm damned if I know where else I could send it.;))
