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Re: Oh, Li'l Bro.....
Of course it gets an interesting reaction to join in the conversation... to start contributing your two cents to the person yammering away as if they are in private.
Suddenly, the table turns, and they feel invaded!
posted by
Ciel
on August 12, 2010 at 11:44 AM
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Oh, Li'l Bro.....
My blood pressure will spike if I get too deeply into the subject......
breathe.....so, I'll just simply say I soooooo agree with everything you say and it's a wonder I haven't been arrested for walking up to someone and ripping a cell phone out of their hands and thrashing them with it......I have asked them to refrain from sharing their business with my attempt to enjoy a nice meal....everyone seems to think we're all interested in listening to their crap....speaking of which, I can't even take a peaceful one because some woman in the next stall is yakking away on her cell because these freaks think they have to multi-task every friggin' thing in their lives.....
breathe...which means that not a single frickin' thing gets done right anymore since the expectation now is that nothing deserves any kind of concentration, it's all snap, snap....text, abbreviate, don't discuss, don't connect.....
breathe......make it fast, do it quick.....social networking my ass! There's nothing social about any of it, it's all just narcissistic avoidance that provides a place for advertisements......
breathe.....okay, I'm about to hyperventilate so I'd better shut up.....great post, Sweetie!
posted by
Krisles
on August 10, 2010 at 8:24 PM
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I hear you on the gadgets! I don't have a camera phone and I can't get pictures so I have to go to my carriers site to retrieve them! I say, state one's business then get off the phone! This was a very entertaining post! sam
posted by
sam444
on August 10, 2010 at 11:12 AM
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Super funny!
and, although not much younger than forty...I still got the pop culture jokes....lol!
posted by
aceblade
on August 10, 2010 at 8:33 AM
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Start
LOL, hilarious as always. My LSW has one of those rotary phones, but you know what? It doesn't rotate - you gotta push the buttons! Which is always utterly confusing to anyone else using it, although she likes it just fine...
posted by
Nautikos
on August 9, 2010 at 8:57 PM
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Strat
I agree, totally banal and a great post.
posted by
WileyJohn
on August 9, 2010 at 8:09 PM
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Yes, yes, amen, Guy!
And I don't know how much younger I am, if at all, but we are in the same brain pan, nonetheless!
posted by
strat
on August 9, 2010 at 6:13 PM
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Strat I know that you remember this blog I wrote. You're YOUNGER than I am.
This was posted the day before Valentine's day, of this year. Those of us with great minds, (Or was that WEAK minds?) appear to think alike. Aside from this reminder, all that I can add to your blog is, AMEN Brother!
We have met the enemy, and learned that the enemy is indeed, OURSELVES!
A part of me already knows that keeping up with new innovations and the language used to describe them, is absolutely futile! Still it seems vital to try to stay current, because today’s snowballing computing technology, communication, information storage, space-based global positioning technology, optical ranging, and ground-penetrating radar-scanning abilities, are benefiting mankind in interlocking and unpredictable ways, but it seems to be compressing and speeding up time itself. I feel as though I’m quickly getting lost in everybody else’s dust, but damn it all, I’m already running just as fast as I CAN!
I have no idea what most of these things mean: Blue Tooth, Blue Ray, plasma, LCD, LED, ISP, CAT scans, PET scans, ultra sound, Hyper-links, Hot Spots, Internet cafes, free wireless-internet, Cyber-viruses, Spybots, worms, parasitic robotic Spam generators, secure connections, DVDs, CDs, URLs, 3Gs , 4Gs, Intel2s, Intel3s, Intel4s, and Cisco Systems, etc. or what they DO better than their predecessors did, or WHY I should even bother to waste my time, learning about them, as it is likely that in only another few months, it’ll all be old, obsolete tech, like steam-power and gas-lighting became, after the arrival of the new era of electricity.
Only about as long ago, as the turn of the millennium, I heard that prognosticators had confidently predicted that from that point forward, human knowledge would DOUBLE every decade, forever. The sum total of THOUSANDS of generations of accumulated human knowledge, increasing exponentially, is mind-numbing enough, to try wrapping one’s head around, but yesterday, I heard these figures, and learned the resulting, informed and updated, prediction:
In 1996, email communications SURPASSED the number of Postal Service mail, and telephone communications, COMBINED! Taking into consideration the observed, increasing speed of IT gains, (I think it stands for “Information Technology”) by the year 2013, (!) the sum total of accumulated human knowledge, will double again, every 11 HOURS!
At least I won’t be the only living dinosaur, when all of you kids are thrown into the same recycling bin, with me. The human memory-storage reservoir isn’t remotely capable of absorbing or storing even a tiny fraction of that large a number of “pixels of thought,” to coin a new phrase.
Soon, the only ones able to understand and operate new generations of, new wonders, of new technology, will be newborn babies, who will be born with this ability, because WE their parents, will have enhanced the next generation of children’s brain processors, and memory storage, by utilizing breakthroughs in genetic manipulation and recombinant DNA, thereby making each un-enhanced human, obsolete.
In the future, will our children eat the dead bodies of their own parents, like a salmon smolt? If that day comes, with any kind of luck, I won’t be around to see it. I don’t want to become a “SOYLENT GREEN” wafer, in some soldier’s MRE! If that were to actually happen, I sure hope that I will taste really, really, bad!
Guy
posted by
northsage_45
on August 9, 2010 at 2:49 PM
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At least we know what they are, Ciel, although
I'm not sure if anyone uses them any more, either.
Nonetheless, I like seeing them waving here! As always great to see ya and thanks for dropping by!
posted by
strat
on August 9, 2010 at 12:15 PM
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As is often the case, I am right here in your cheering section
Pompoms waving... Wait, who still uses pompoms...? Let me google that...
posted by
Ciel
on August 9, 2010 at 10:07 AM
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Idiocracy is one of my all time favorite movies, CD!
In fact, the first time I saw it, I thought it was a documentary.
posted by
strat
on August 9, 2010 at 6:36 AM
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Twitter and texting.......
Blahhhhh! I absolutely refuse....call me or at least e-mail. We're witnessing the dumbing down of America....If you haven't seen it, I highly recommend you watch the movie "Idiocracy"......
Narrator: The years passed, mankind became stupider at a frightening rate. Some had high hopes the genetic engineering would correct this trend in evolution, but sadly the greatest minds and resources where focused on conquering hair loss and prolonging erections.
posted by
Corbin_Dallas
on August 9, 2010 at 5:00 AM
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That's right, Rae!
I really dislike anything that tries to make absurd shortcuts out of language. That makes it, well, banal.
posted by
strat
on August 9, 2010 at 3:26 AM
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Ah, dsm, Sue is the latest mistress for
every whiner in North America. She provides a second income for many, actually...
posted by
strat
on August 9, 2010 at 3:25 AM
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That's it, Shobana!
posted by
strat
on August 9, 2010 at 3:24 AM
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LOL, Strat..pig latin describes texting perfectly..
And yes, banal indeed. I remember a relative buying a v.c.r. when they first hit the market; nearly a thousand bucks, down to hundreds less a few months later. We all gathered round for that first movie (fishbowl screened t.v., of course) and were so impressed. And those first cell phones, big and bulky as a homegrown cucumber, hehe..ah, the high techie memories. Great post!
posted by
Katray2
on August 8, 2010 at 9:26 PM
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strat, i of course grew up with rotary, have seen all the depressing 80's movies unto nausea, had a 2500-00 Mac laptop that was obsolete the moment I fell off the truck with it; i know Kelly LaBrock 9iintimately you might say), but who is this sue?
posted by
dsm_tchr
on August 8, 2010 at 9:11 PM
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I know, I don't twitter, facebook or whatever myself and really get lost with the latest technology - possibly because I simply cannot compute or understand them.
posted by
shobana
on August 8, 2010 at 8:42 PM
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