December 2010
The Hazards of Nerd Supremacy: The Case of... →
I actually take seriously the idea that the Internet can make non-traditional techie actors powerful. Therefore, I am less sympathetic to hackers when they use their newfound power arrogantly and non-constructively. This is an interesting difference in perception. How can you tell when you are the underdog versus when you are powerful? When you get that perception wrong, you can behave quite...
Procrastination
To avoid doing my paper I’ve compiled a list of the things I used to waste time.
Taking a picture of my phone with Super Mario Bros. on the screen.
Editing said picture.
Facebook
Tumblr
Online window shopping
Working out
AIM
Baking cookies
Taking pictures of cookies and hot chocolate
Texting
Tweeting
Writing this list.
Note to Self
Must shoot every day of winter break.
B.C
I think the decision to view time as either B.C and A.D or B.C.E is incredibly stupid. It is completely bias towards Christianity and the attempts at non-Christian people to use B.C.E is stupid too. It may seem like a trivial point but using a calendar like that assumes that the coming of Jesus was the most amazing thing in the entire world. The world didn’t stop when Jesus was born, it kept...
Time
Time’s weird. I always want more of it, but when I get it I can’t seem to figure out what to do with it and always waste it.
