Don't touch that Dial

"An 1883 article in the weekly medical journal the Sanitarian argued that schools "exhaust the children's brains and nervous systems with complex and multiple studies, and ruin their bodies by protracted imprisonment." Meanwhile, excessive study was considered a leading cause of madness by the medical community." -- My kids would agree totally. Each new generation has new fears, just like the article said.

Deja Google

Why not keep reinventing the "wheel?" Eventually a better "wheel" will come.

A Glimpse of the Glamorous Life of a Stay At Home Mom - A Typical Morning

Digital Technical Primer Reading

This was very interesting and enlightening. I always hear the terms bits, bytes, etc., but was unclear to their meaning. I got a little lost when it came to the calculations from decimal to binary digits though.

Reading: Is the Web Helping Us Evolve?

This was another not-so-easy-to-read reading, but I got through it. The same debate, just perhaps a different point-of-view. Of course the Web is helping us to evolve. That's what we do - EVOLVE. Is it scary? For some of us , yes; others, not so much - probably more exciting. For me, I don't take to change very well, it takes me awhile. I'm still resisting getting an I-Phone (I use that term loosely, much like the term Q-tip). I really don't feel the need to be available to everyone all of the time; its good to be unavailable sometimes. Anyway, back to the subject, like before, I can see and agree with both sides of the argument. There are pros and cons to EVERYTHING. Most things that were invented/discovered, were discovered through many trials and errors (i.e. the light bulb). There have been great advances in the world, but I think the more important question is: Is evolution always a good thing? Perhaps those who believe that we've evolved from monkeys, I guess that would be a big Y E S. I believe time will tell . . .

The Medium Is The Message

The light as medium reminds me of color. Without light there is no color. To the average person, color is color; whether there is light or not never crosses their mind.

If you're anything like me, I had to look a few things up: Somnambulism - sleepwalking; Narcissus - Greek Mythology, known for having fallen in love with his own reflection . . . "What you seek is nowhere; but turn yourself away, and the object of your love will be no more. That which you behold is but the shadow of a reflected form and has no substance of its own. With you it comes, with you it gostays, and it will go with you . . ." (Ovid, Metamorphoses 3.433)

Also, not quite sure I'm understanding the whole "lack of sequence" regarding the electric light. Sure there's a sequence or causality - just quicker. You have to turn a switch on or plug the cord into an outlet that will make something come on. I dunno, could be I've missed the whole point.

from page 12:

"That one thing follows another accounts for nothing. Nothing follows from the following, except change." --- can it get anymore confusing???

"If it works, it's obsolete." HUH????

from page 16:

"Accelerated media change as a kind of massacre of the innocents." --- I agree.

I'm very new at blogging, so if I wrote too much - sorry. :P