March 17, 2006 – 12:00 am
“Icthanatos ichor hemophile.â€
Those were the first words spoken to Ramona Schwartz by her neuron. They sounded just as ridiculous the first time as they do now, but because they came from inside her head, Ramona found them less humorous than others might.
Ramona does not have a psychological pathology. The voice that comes from inside her [...]
February 26, 2006 – 11:13 pm
You don’t know me. This is my first year here. We might have a friend in common though. Do you remember Carl? He was the man around here for a quite a while. A public safety officer. He died a couple of years back. Just a really interesting guy. I met him last summer while [...]
February 3, 2006 – 09:59 pm
Every week (for at least two weeks in a row now), I write up a list of all the things I’ve learned over the past week. This is a special little treat that I like to file under Gobbledygook. But enough of the explanatory note. On with the show.
Here’s what I learned this week…
…from moving [...]
By Kyle
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Posted in Gobbledygook
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Also tagged Apple, Books, bush, design, ethics, experience, Gobbledygook, gui, housewife, interfaces, internet, internet_explorer, levinas, Macintosh, monitor, montesquieu, morality, postmodernism, transitions, writing
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January 31, 2006 – 12:36 am
Naked and crying, somewhere on the other side of the river, Anthony Mcgwin sat on his knees in the muddy, leaf-stained snow, his shoulders hunching with every intake of wet breath. His curly gray hair contrasted starkly with his pale young skin. Small twigs stuck to his back. Snow and mud covered his elbows. The [...]
January 26, 2006 – 03:49 am
“You’re kidding me, right?†whispered Adium, my instant messenger application, over the ice bucket that my mom put on top of the washing machine in the back hall, where we both stood, me making a vodka and tonic, and him just having a root beer, “Those guys are huge! I’m not going to say anything [...]
By Kyle
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Posted in Deep Imagination
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Also tagged fiction, firefox, ilife, internet_explorer, iphoto, itunes, microsoft-office, office, quicktime, relationships, safari
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January 17, 2006 – 03:50 pm
Sean Coon, over at connecting*the*dots, has an interesting article, entitled, “Writing 2.0,” where he talks about some people out there - Chris Anderson of “The Long Tail” fame, David Weinberger of “The Cluetrain Manifesto” fame being two of them - who are actively writing their books with help of the blogosphere.
Sean writes:
Now, this approach is [...]
January 17, 2006 – 06:27 am
Justin Kinney, a freshman at Green Mountain College, didn’t expect to have a very busy Tuesday evening, and as he lay in bed, he decided that everything seemed to go just as expected. The pizza in the cafeteria was too soggy; he had previously seen that particular episode of The Simpsons; and he didn’t even [...]
January 3, 2006 – 06:16 pm
Did I ever tell you the one about those kids over on Cowpunch Ave? It seems there were these four kids, sitting in that little white apartment back up on the hill, the one with the warm orange light coming out of it, the whitish drapes in the windows, the rug down on the floor, [...]
October 3, 2005 – 05:46 pm
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December 15, 2004 – 03:52 pm
In 1984, a small group of people in Cupertino, California introduced the world to the computer for the rest of us. They told us that it was “a computer so personable it can practically shake hands.” They told us its name was Macintosh, and that it was just as powerful as all those other [...]
By Kyle
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Posted in Apple
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Also tagged coding, Economics, equal_rights, evolution, gui, ilife, interfaces, linguistics, metaphor, operating_system, postmodernism
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