Category Archives: technology
Lightning Arrested
Computer cables have entangled me for almost a half-century, forcing me to twist recalcitrant asymmetrical connectors, twirl painful little thumb screws, and regularly trawl through junk drawers and boxes for various specialized cables or adapters. Not too long ago, I … Continue reading
Simplifying Our Home Theater
A lightning strike prompted me to simplify our home theater. The bolt early one morning struck quite close to our house, disrupting our next door neighbor’s telephone landline wiring and one of its attached telephones. I had to reboot both … Continue reading
Leisure Time
For over twenty years, researchers have collected data on how, where, and with whom our countrymen spend their time via over a quarter-million interviews. I find it interesting to compare my habits to the “average American”, especially since in less … Continue reading
New Journalism is now quite old
I found on my Kindle a sample I had downloaded long ago of Joan Didion’s first essay collection, Slouching Toward Bethlehem. The first essay in the collection, Some Dreamers of the Golden Dream, was fantastic. Here’s the opening paragraph: THIS IS A … Continue reading
The Aging Smart Home
Planned obsolescence dates back a century to when lightbulb manufacturers in much of North America and Europe formed the Phoebus Cartel in Geneva to deliberately reduce the lifespan of their lightbulbs from 2500 hours to 1000 hours while increasing prices. … Continue reading
