Archive for November, 2008
Being Human In the Age of the Electronic Mob
“Has the Internet seduced us into thinking that we can in fact live in a world without other flesh and blood people, we can just deal with screen people.” Paul Comrie-Thomson The other day I was talking with a friend who commented on how the use of the Internet has made people so impersonal that [...]
In: Computers, Just Thinking, Social Networking, Technology · Tagged with: Computers, Email, Human, Social Disorders, Technology, Text Messaging
Oh, Sense Less One
One thing I dislike about daylight savings time is having to drive home from work in the dark. Reason being: I can’t see. I can’t count the number of times I have driven on the curb thinking it was a driveway or completely missing my turn altogether because I could not find the driveway.1 If [...]
In: Disabilities, Life, Music, Senses · Tagged with: Darkness, Deaf, driving, Hearing, Senses, Sight, Vision
Finger Clicking Good’gaud That Hurts!
A little over a week ago I started feeling a nagging pain in my right index finger, especially around the joint area. The pain went away and then a few days later it returned. I thought it was kind of weird for only one of my fingers to be hurting, but okay. Then I thought, [...]
