’til the Sun Comes Up…
A few weeks ago my girlfriend was shocked to learn that I had the capacity to play from sundown to sunup. Clearly she’d never played Civilization (though being a student of Political Science and a compulsive organizer, she might want to avoid it).
As penance, I thought that it might be “fun” to work on my book ’til the sun comes up.
It’s not.
On a serious note, I apologize for not posting more. Right now I’m working on the “media experience” part of the book, also known as, “How the Hell did I just spend 3 hours browsing the internet?” It’s how games, TV, books, and other media turn our gray matter into yay matter. Why does it suck us in? I’d be happy to tell you. Later. Once it’s written.
And since it’s coming along nicely… I’m going to get back to it. The rest of this post will concern itself with quotes and kitten massage.
“Quitting smoking is easy, I’ve done it hundreds of times.â€
“Most truly interesting works of creation are products of procrastination.” (Neuropsychologists somehow stand out as some of the best writers that the world has to offer — it’s uncanny)
From a Boston Newspaper of 1865, written 11 years before Bell’s telephone (I got this from RL Gregory’s book ‘Even Odder Perceptions’)
“A man about 46 years of age giving the name of Joshua Coppersmith, has been arrested in New York for attempting to extort funds from ignorant and superstitious people by exhibiting a device which he says will convey the human voice any distance over metallic wires so that it will be heard by the listener at the other end. He calls the instrument a ‘telephone’ which is obviously intended to imitate the word ‘telegraph’ and win the confidence of those who know the success of the latter instrument without understanding the principles on which it is based. Well-informed people know that it is impossible to transmit the human voice over wires as may be done with dots and dashes of Morse code, and that, were it possible to do so, the thing would be of no practical value.
The Authorities who apprehended this criminal are to be congratulated and it is to be hoped that his punishment will be prompt and fitting, that it may serve as an example to other conscienceless schemers who enrich themselves at the expense of their fellow creatures.
Neils Clark :: Mar.24.2007 :: General ::
