Question 232 of 365: Where is aspen, colorado?
I’m pretty sure its on another planet. Yep. Pretty sure. Posted via email from The Throughput
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Question 231 of 365: What are the technologies that never die?
The 8 track tape is dead. No one has produced new music on one for a number of decades now. The UHF radio station is dead. Everything over the airwaves is digital. The bbs is dead. The web made sure of that. And yet… The record is alive and well. …
Question 229 of 365: Who started it?
Image via Wikipedia Sometimes the best ideas are not our own. Definitely not mine, anyway. Sometimes when we check into our communities, we realize that they have gone on without us. They have brilliant ideas about what should come next and they don’t require us for much of anything. The …
Question 225 of 365: Are you pumped?
I have heard this phrase a number of times in the last day. I’m pumped about that. I think we are in hopeful moments when the thing we feel is pumped. We are balloons, flying. We are satiated and full. We are bolstered and unhinged in a wonderful way. New …
Question 224 of 365: Why do we go and go and go?
Because we must and must and must. Posted via email from The Throughput
Question 223 of 365: What forces your hand?
Image via Wikipedia My wife got into nursing school today. She took prerequisites, applied, interviewed and was offered a spot in nursing school. She didn’t know that was what she wanted until quite recently, but here we are, staring directly at changes to our life’s as we know them. The …
Questions 222 of 365: How gullible are we?
Image by IpUrBeLtZ via Flickr Gullibility is an ironic joke to those who are young. We tell each other that the word isn’t in the dictionary or that it is written on the ceiling. We prove ourselves gullible nearly every chance we get because we get so excited about the …
Question 221 of 365: Who are we before we have done anything (and who are we after)?
Image by SOCIALisBETTER via Flickr I am lucky enough to have kept copies of my earliest resumes. As an assignment in my 11th grade English course, we were required to write up our resume in an astoundingly boring format. Here are the highlights (leaving out some of the more personal …
Question 220 of 365: Who do we ask to watch our stuff?
Image by The Library of Congress via Flickr I don’t regret leaving my laptop, cell phone, iPad, and portable wifi hotspot on the table. I don’t regret leaving it behind in the keep of a few teenage boys. They looked after if just fine for the few minutes that I …
Question 219 of 365: When do we need to invent places to be?
Image by DanieVDM via Flickr The most creative virtual worlds are those that are in our heads. They are the ones that we create out of pure necessity. We need them in order to put things into their place. We constantly reinvent our past so that it meshes with our …