Thursday, January 17, 2008
Jazz vs. Nuggets
Nothing much to say about the Jazz loss to the Nuggets. That's sad.Sad, I say.
Sad.
Not their loss or the game, but the fact that I have nothing to say about it.
Sad.
Well maybe that really isn't all that sad because all I would have said was the Jazz still show their early potential, but fail to deliver. It doesn't look like the promising season I predicted way back in November. But that's just negatorino talk, neighborino (think Flanders*).
Shit, I said something about the game.
Now that's just even sadder.
*Why did the Simpsons Movie make Ned Flanders a rather sympathetic character? I rather like it, in all, given that he has been portrayed as a crazy zealot with a very complicated past in the TV show. He is probably the most developed character in the Simpsons oeuvre, in fact. Then again, all extraneous characters on the Simpsons have been show in various lights, save the Bumble Bee guy. I'm sure for season 20 they're working on him.
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Miasma
I wrote this the other night, but didn't post it, as I was certain the malaise I was feeling was temporary:
After 6 years in this bloggy medium, I've pretty much lost interest. Do we count the 7 years of non-Web2, Web1 stuff too? that makes 13 years. Thirteen. There is, to add on top of that the 6 ambiguous years of whatever the hell that was. 19 years. 1988. And even then, even, 1987 I was toying with what was to become the Internet. 20 years.
20.
And, by god, all the other shit that came before. Oh my.
My recent break from the Internet left me cold. I suddenly realized that I had left the Internet far behind, and I liked it. I could also say that the Internet left me far behind, but I still I liked it. Perhaps we're all just hitchhikers on the way to nowhere.
1987. Do you remember 1987? I do. I loved fucking around with various pre-Internet gizmos but very much connected programs. I liked the idea. I liked the connectedness.
Now? Now?
I need a break. I need something else.
It is what it is.
To paraphrase LCD Soundsystem, "Internet I love you but you're bringing me down."
So what does this mean?
It means I need to think.
It means I need to understand.
It means I need to let go.
Mysterious, eh?
Labels: bored, lost, not-quiting, pointless, quiting
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Monday, January 14, 2008
WTF?
Star Trek (2008)?Kahn!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! ¶ 10:04 PM 1 comments
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Sunday, January 13, 2008
Simple answers of looming dread
Hightouchmegastore writes:1. Is there someone who's planning to take my Christmas tree down for me, or help me decide what to do about the poinsettias, or who plans to enfold my shiny little Christmas objets in tissue paper? Because I could use some help with that.To which I respond:
2. When will there be a movie (preferably a comedy) that I can watch without effort and still feel happy at the end of it?
3. Is Bruiser lonely? He seems lonely.
4. Am I missing something, or have I eaten at all the restaurants in SLC and now they seem stale and unimaginative?
5. Is the world more full of incompetent people than it was just a couple of weeks ago? Or is it that all the systems they have for doing practically everything have taken a turn and become really, really bad?
6. Why is it just pasta polenta rice polenta pasta around here?
7. Why did the people at Wild Oats let me leave without the butter, the cheese, and the mushrooms that I paid for?
8. Is it just me? Because it seems like maybe it's just me.
1) Trust me, you don't want my help, unless you like a house full of needs and many broken shiny Christmas things.
2) Such movies have been banned.
3) All dogs seem lonely to me. I think it is in their DNA. Perhaps it is just in our DNA.
4) SLC Restaurants are dull and unimaginative. There is a mediocrity here that is completely unacceptable, especially for the prices that they charge. Ask lis, I'm sure she agrees with me.
5) Yes.
6) Sounds kind of a tasty routine, if you ask me. It could be worse: you could be on the pre-packaged diet that many people seem to be on these days.
7) See 5 above.
8) No, it is not just you.
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Saturday, January 05, 2008
India traffic cam
This is just hypnotic. (And you think your traffic is bad, where ever you are.)
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Friday, January 04, 2008
Best use of space
I think I've written about this song before, but the video makes the best use of the spaces (empty) we inhabit. The dog just adds to the tension. PoMo melodrama for sure.
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Wednesday, January 02, 2008
Learn Dutch Fast
Now how's that for a return to the Internet for you?
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Well that was interesting
I can't say I learned much from not accessing the Internet for 20 days other than that email stresses me out far more than I knew. After day 2 I had totally forgotten about it and, in fact, t hat I have a job.Accomplishments while being unplugged:
Books read: 5
Movies watched: 10 (!)
Songs listened to: over 1,000
Podcasts listened to: 0
I'm sure there's more to report, but I can't be bothered to think about it nor do am I compelled to Google anything.
Ah, vacation: now it is done. I have over 200 in work emails alone. Joy.
I'll probably keep the Unplugged website and post things to it on the off chance. I never really got into the swing of it.
Labels: blogging, journal, meta, return, vacation
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