Friday, August 29, 2008

I'll take the cake, you can keep the machine


My inner Luddite thrills to this sort of image, especially when it took a ?#^!x* hour to cobble this post together. I had an Intellivision as a kid, and shied away from subsequent gaming machines as their buttons multiplied and their rapid advancement became an expensive status-driven arms race. The Wii is the first system I could see myself buying because involves physicality in a way that cuts through all that. The irony with all new technology for me is that I pick it up in such an inefficient manner it remains a time-waster for a very long time initially. A customer last week asked me as he toiled away at his resume where I learned computers, and I could've laughed or cried. Its just learning curve after learning curve if you're doing it right.

Monday, August 25, 2008

Piece of cake vs rocket science

My confidence as a learner is rocket science for me, particularly in certain contexts. I have no problem with learning in the traditional academic sense, but behavior skills that require modeling others can clash with my contrarian streak. Play on the other hand is a piece of cake. Some days I do little else.

Thursday, August 21, 2008

Whew!

Creating this profile drained all my cleverness for the day. I'll have to post again when I've reagain my strength.