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When you set out
to build a tower to the heavens,
people will hold you,
to your declared intentions,
even if you didn’t ask for their input
on the plans.
There’s nothing wrong with hubris.
Just be aware that the gawking crowd
will hold you to the standard
of the particulars and designs
you’ve declared
in your building permit.
And one day, when your tower falls,
struck down [...]
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I hate politics. No, no. Hate is really too strong of a word. Mostly, I’m just supremely indifferent to politics.
I know next to absolutely nothing about Republican Presidential candidate Mike Huckabee (other than the fact that his name reminds me of the movie I Heart Huckabees — which would in no possible [...]
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I have it on good authority. YouTube tells me so.
(Workday Warning: Video link has sound and inappropriate language. But it *is* funny.)
D.
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Because it has at least a slight bearing on our topic of discussion here, and because you can’t really escape the (largely self-generated) buzz on it, I wanted to pass along a couple of quick thoughts on the new Kindle e-reader reader that Amazon is pushing.
I love the e-ink. I think it’s a beautifully [...]
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As promised, we’re going to take a quick look at the blognovel plan b today and analyze some of Diego Doval’s narrative choices that I think were ingredients in his success with this experiment.
One quick caveat: When I think of blognovels, I’m specifically referring to narratives that clearly represent themselves as stories rather [...]
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<– Chapter 7 / Chapter 9 –>
The event that at some point in the night came to be called Operation Boogey Man (alternately, Operation Booger Man, Booty Man, Boogie Down Man) does not begin as smoothly as Ray would have liked. In the morning, with the three of them still scrubbing sleep out of [...]
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It’s Dracula blogged. Nice updating of the epistolary form for a new tech.
D.
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So we’re back from our extended Thanksgiving holiday, and I want to pick up where I left off thinking about some of the insights I’m drawing (or at least attempting to draw) from Erik Davis’s outstanding work, Techgnosis.
Last time, I left you with a quote from Davis in which he posited the notion that technology [...]
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<– Chapter 6 / Chapter 8 –>
So here’s this motherfucker, Bobby Diggs. He’s a wiry, thin-as-a-stick black man with an immense afro and eyes so wide and white they must glow in the dark. Ray keeps looking at him and thinking that there’s no way he can have been a Marine at any time in [...]
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After viewing this video of a Utah highway patrolman using a taser on a motorist, I had a couple of competing thoughts.
1. You act like a dick with the cops at your own peril.2. If your boyfriend is getting tased by the cops, and you don’t stay in the vehicle, you probably deserve to get [...]
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