Oh the Irony

Wanna know a secret? I'm going on vacation in 3 days and not only won't I be online every day, I won't even sleep under a roof for most of a week while I hike Pictured Rocks in Michigan's Upper Peninsula. So from the perspective of someone who won't even be indoors, much less blogging, Twitter so intensifies the frequency of feedback as to be comical. Here's my Tweet setup http://twitter.com/VillageIdiocy. Gotta go!

Horseshoes and Hand Grenades

http://windowseat.ca/viscosity/create.php Very fun. Not as many portrait-, and way too many font-related sites, and so many generally that I began to bog down checking them out when half ended in file format incompatability or issues with finding pictures on or saving work to a shared computer. This I like though. Here's the drawing itself http://windowseat.ca/viscosity/drawing.php?id=22329

Storytelling

I could spend hours looking at all these 3rd party apps but the ones I've glommed onto -- Bubblr, Loopy, Flickeur -- are all similar. The thing that interest me is the way that sequenced images demand the construction of some narrative meaning. Technology really has human importance in proportion to its capability to tell stories, and Flickeur especially has potential for a sort of neat absurdist approach.

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.

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.

Whew!

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