1) I am employed
2) I am employed at a job I really like
3) I am employed at a job I really like where I got to spend my morning here:
I'm a lucky bastard.
Friday, February 6, 2009
Employment
Any time I start complaining about anything to do with life, someone please remind me that:
1) I am employed
2) I am employed at a job I really like
3) I am employed at a job I really like where I got to spend my morning here:
I'm a lucky bastard.
1) I am employed
2) I am employed at a job I really like
3) I am employed at a job I really like where I got to spend my morning here:
I'm a lucky bastard.
Wednesday, February 4, 2009
Blogs I Love, Vol 2
Dooce.com is also celebrating a birthday today: Heather Armstrong's daughter has turned 5.
Reading that entry and watching the video, I started thinking about the next generation of children and how they will react to technology.
People in my age group are old enough where we remember the "time before the computer," but young enough where it's kind of a distant memory. We have adapted pretty quickly, embracing new technology and new ways of communicating with each other. I was in college when Napster blew up, and spent a lot of my time IMing with friends.
The next generation of kids, the ones who are being born now, are growing up not only knowing technology, but being in it. Some are having their lives documented as part of a blog. Their growth, their changing faces, and bodies, and vocabularies.
What will it be like for them, how will the approach technology when they are old enough to interact with it?
Reading that entry and watching the video, I started thinking about the next generation of children and how they will react to technology.
People in my age group are old enough where we remember the "time before the computer," but young enough where it's kind of a distant memory. We have adapted pretty quickly, embracing new technology and new ways of communicating with each other. I was in college when Napster blew up, and spent a lot of my time IMing with friends.
The next generation of kids, the ones who are being born now, are growing up not only knowing technology, but being in it. Some are having their lives documented as part of a blog. Their growth, their changing faces, and bodies, and vocabularies.
What will it be like for them, how will the approach technology when they are old enough to interact with it?
Hard decisions to make:
Blogs I Love, Vol 1
Happy Blogiversary, Brooklyn Arden!
Cheryl Klein has been blogging for 4 years now, along with being a guiding force behind the Harry Potter books. As an editor at Arthur Levine (an imprint of Scholastic), she has one of the only other jobs I want beside my own.
Congratulations on both the longevity of the blog, as well as the ALA kudos for A Curse as Dark as Gold.
Cheryl Klein has been blogging for 4 years now, along with being a guiding force behind the Harry Potter books. As an editor at Arthur Levine (an imprint of Scholastic), she has one of the only other jobs I want beside my own.
Congratulations on both the longevity of the blog, as well as the ALA kudos for A Curse as Dark as Gold.
Tuesday, February 3, 2009
A thought...
Could Obama please pick someone for his cabinet who knows how to fill out a 1040?
It'd be cool if the people running our government -- you know, spending our tax dollars -- knew how to actually pay their own taxes.
It'd be cool if the people running our government -- you know, spending our tax dollars -- knew how to actually pay their own taxes.
Monday, February 2, 2009
Fracture
Some movies feel like the writer or creator had a single idea and then built a move around it, instead of fleshing out a full plot.
In Fracture's case (SPOILER!), it is the idea that attempted murder turns into murder if the victim dies after the trial, and those are two different charges, negating double jeopardy.
Take that idea, cast Anthony Hopkins as a smart-as-hell bad guy, pit him against Ryan Gosling, and bam! Movie. But when Hopkins's character is built up as an incredibly meticulous man who has thought of everything, it's hard to believe that the flaw in his plan was his failure to realize that attempted murder and murder are two different charges, which seems quite an obvious thing to me. And I've never meticulously plotted anything.
In Fracture's case (SPOILER!), it is the idea that attempted murder turns into murder if the victim dies after the trial, and those are two different charges, negating double jeopardy.
Take that idea, cast Anthony Hopkins as a smart-as-hell bad guy, pit him against Ryan Gosling, and bam! Movie. But when Hopkins's character is built up as an incredibly meticulous man who has thought of everything, it's hard to believe that the flaw in his plan was his failure to realize that attempted murder and murder are two different charges, which seems quite an obvious thing to me. And I've never meticulously plotted anything.
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