The Pragmatic Rapture
Let me begin by saying that the intent of this article is not to find common and well-treaded paths of cliche’ regarding the named subject. Bear with me for a little background, and hear my...
View ArticleHark! The (Auto)pen is mightier than the Sword of Liberty! (or has apathy...
9-11-01 I remember that day. It all happened while I sat in traffic on the Long Island Expressway, on my way to work. Then came the calls and the emails. The shutting down of the airlines. Friends...
View ArticleRain from The Cloud doesn’t fall in this desert
I am working on a piece about “The Cloud.” I have some initial feelings about this new phase in computing, but those feelings are merely gut reactions… I have not come to an informed decision. For any...
View ArticleOn this patch of land … (or: Organic growth still requires intervention)
I spent the majority of the day working on my garden. And yes, for my area (and for many) it is a little late to be planting — the truth is, another power did the “planting” for me this year, for the...
View ArticleThe socialite, the social network and the outcast
I am not the first person to think (or write) things such as what follows, but feel the need to express them here anyway: There seems to be a fundamental disconnect between social behavior, and social...
View ArticleThis, children, is something that we used to call “a book”
The Grandson(Fred Savage): A book? Grandpa(Peter Falk): That’s right. When I was your age, television was called books. And this is a special book. It was the book my father used to read to me when I...
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