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June 21, 2005
Bits are Cheap
I recently bought a very large (250GB) hard drive for my Linux machine so I would have a place to keep my pictures and mp3s. I now have every song I own and every (digital) picture I've ever taken (this adds up--I have a 4-month-old), along with thumbnails. All this takes up 9% of the space. If only the world were so spacious.
Posted by james at 10:22 PM | Comments (2)
June 06, 2005
Utility
Do you suppose that my grandchildren will some day realize in horror that I grew up in a house without Internet in the same way I once realized my grandfather grew up in a house without a toilet?
If so, does that make Internet the toilet of our age?
Posted by james at 10:09 PM | Comments (1)
June 05, 2005
The Revolting Enemy
Jarrad once wrote an essay called something like "I Have Become the Enemy." In it he lamented about catching himself in a Starbucks, alone, wearing a leather jacket and overpriced sunglasses, and typing on a laptop. He was the enemy--the early twenties version, at any rate--but the new enemy, the late twenties/early thirties version, is me.
Today I found myself strolling through suburbia on a beautiful spring day. With my wife. And my dogs. Any my infant daughter--in a jogging stroller. After dining at Red Lobster and before enjoying (yes, enjoying) a frappuccino.
But am I the enemy? Maybe not, but if I met the me of '93, he'd probably think so.
Along with all this evil, though, has come some learning and some humor.
Example 1. Learning. (I still haven't figured this one out yet).
Recently, while sitting in my wife's lap, my daughter managed to discharge her colon in such a way that the offending discharge was deflected up and out of the diaper (without actually touching touching her) between my wife's legs (without actually touching her either) and onto the beautiful, white carpet.
Example 2. Humor.
Baby shit stains.
Posted by james at 07:12 PM | Comments (1)