Cool Water...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ew3YCU9Jrg
(for Joe Sr. RIP)
11/4/10
Word of the Day: technorealist
Technically speaking...
technorealist n. a person who has a balanced and realistic view of technology.
Example Citation: "In response to these views, the dissidents wrote a manifesto calling for "techno-realism" and calling themselves techno-realists. This manifesto, instantly given it's own website at http://www.technorealism.org - rejects the 'louder voices at the extremes' in favor of a more balanced consensus, a 'fertile middle ground between techno-utopianism and neo-Luddism.'"
-Edward Rothstein, "A rather benign declaration on the internet is treated as a revolutionary manifesto." New York Times
Paul McFedries
Word Spy
technorealist n. a person who has a balanced and realistic view of technology.
Example Citation: "In response to these views, the dissidents wrote a manifesto calling for "techno-realism" and calling themselves techno-realists. This manifesto, instantly given it's own website at http://www.technorealism.org - rejects the 'louder voices at the extremes' in favor of a more balanced consensus, a 'fertile middle ground between techno-utopianism and neo-Luddism.'"
-Edward Rothstein, "A rather benign declaration on the internet is treated as a revolutionary manifesto." New York Times
Paul McFedries
Word Spy
Quality
All the technology in the world...
doesn't always make routine tasks simpler.
Sometimes the best way to operate a process is classically understated by leaving digital technology out. They are best handled by pen or pencil, quad paper and printouts, clipboards and checkmarks, looking at a clock to monitor the time.
They are usually the most basic duties that need to be done, in an environment that heavily relies on computers and technology. Although surrounded by technology, these small tasks are unnecessarily complicated by technology and much more easily tracked by office practices used since the beginning of the Industrial Age.
An example is running a computer based lab with 35 people taking various courses or tests with different starting and ending times. It's more efficient to keep a list, with columns and check boxes, aided by a printout, neatly held together on a clipboard .
doesn't always make routine tasks simpler.
Sometimes the best way to operate a process is classically understated by leaving digital technology out. They are best handled by pen or pencil, quad paper and printouts, clipboards and checkmarks, looking at a clock to monitor the time.
They are usually the most basic duties that need to be done, in an environment that heavily relies on computers and technology. Although surrounded by technology, these small tasks are unnecessarily complicated by technology and much more easily tracked by office practices used since the beginning of the Industrial Age.
An example is running a computer based lab with 35 people taking various courses or tests with different starting and ending times. It's more efficient to keep a list, with columns and check boxes, aided by a printout, neatly held together on a clipboard .
10/29/10
Quote of the Day: Don Bolles
Last Words...
"They finally got me. The Mafia. Emprise. Find John (Harvey Adamson)."
Don Bolles
Investigative Reporter, The Arizona Republic
June 2, 1976
1928-1976
"They finally got me. The Mafia. Emprise. Find John (Harvey Adamson)."
Don Bolles
Investigative Reporter, The Arizona Republic
June 2, 1976
10/28/10
Word of the Day: Tagging
Tagging...
2. Much like, but not to be confused with graffiti. Tagging is signing your name or other representation of yourself on anywhere public. (walls, bus-stops, alleyways, paved streets, etc.)
Unlike graffiti, tagging usually takes less time and skill as it is done in one color with a single can of spray paint or thick marker.
Man there is some nice graffiti down on the alleyways on queen street west, I just wish those idiots would stop tagging them over them. They gots no talent!
Tagging
Urban Dictionary
2. Much like, but not to be confused with graffiti. Tagging is signing your name or other representation of yourself on anywhere public. (walls, bus-stops, alleyways, paved streets, etc.)
Unlike graffiti, tagging usually takes less time and skill as it is done in one color with a single can of spray paint or thick marker.
Man there is some nice graffiti down on the alleyways on queen street west, I just wish those idiots would stop tagging them over them. They gots no talent!
Tagging
Urban Dictionary
Arizona Landscape
Hinkley's Lighting Factory...
One way to combat graffiti and tagging
Grand Canal and Central Avenue
One way to combat graffiti and tagging
Grand Canal and Central Avenue
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