Some late night thoughts....
I love technology! I always want the latest and greatest gadget/computer/digicam/kitchen appliance. One reason is because the features always get better and even if I do not need them, it is great to know they are there if I ever did.
I am also a little bit of a history geek, so once I have a new gadget I like to think about how far it has come since I played with my first one...
So if I ever got the laptop I want ( MacBook Pro 15") I would start thinking back to the first laptop I used (a 486 ThinkPad with a gray-scale LCD, 8 MB RAM and maybe a 120MB HD and weighed about 9LBS) and marvel how that now a PDA or a Nintendo DS is far more powerful than that laptop. And how the Macbook or any laptop is so much better than that now.
And yet, no matter what, this electronic marvel is processing info the same way the very first computers did- little "switches" going going on and off, and the binary logic that controls them. When is my quantum or neuron based laptop with the holographic data storage coming?
So while I was finishing up in the john tonight, I was think how things are still pretty primitive in here....
My razor is not much different from the sharp edge of clam shell that someone once used to slice off their whiskers. -Where is the pill or cream that can safely make my facial hair stop growing for as long I like?
The TP I use not much different from a handful of leaves. -Where are the three seashells or nanobots to leave me clean feeling?
My toilet, still your basic hole in the ground-Where is the....? (have to give that one some thought)
My battery-powered toothbrush-still just a brush.
The shower-still just water and soap-Where is my mist and sonic-based shower?
Well you get the idea. What do you think?
PS-Bonus point to whoever knows what movie the three seashells comes from.
considering how cold it is, everone is bundled up trying to keep warm, so there isn't that much weirdness to see, but there is still plenty to overhear, so i thought i'd share a few things i've heard in the last few years.
i take a commuter train everyday - and usually the announcements are read off a card - take the train often enough and you can repeat them word for word with the conductor. but one night, the conductor was either drunk, working his last shift before a much needed vacation or practicing his comedy routine. at the end of the usual spiel about what stops the train would make, and keeping the train clean, the conductor added " and please ponder this, if a vampire can't see his reflection in the mirror, why is his hair always neat and perfect?"
i was listening to the weather report one morning last week - and one genius actually said, "and Saturday, the temperature will go up to 38. It'll feel like summer" NO IT WON'T. Just because its not 5 degrees, doesn't mean i'll confuse it with 90 and humid.
more later . . . .
What's your favorite radio station, past or present?
WLIR, Long Island, which became WDRE for a while. it wasn't the station i listened to most often in high school (then and now, i had a weird fascination with 50s and 60s music), but it was the only thing keeping me from being a total geek. to this day, when i think of 80s music, i hear english alternative new wave.
What is your earliest memory?
Submitted by Megan.
going for physical therapy at NYU hospital. I went there a lot as a kid - and then after surgery, also at NYU, I got a private therapist that I saw every week until I was around 12.
the marathon is still a month away and already its playing havoc with the city. one aspect of my job is to make hotel reservations for my overseas employees when they visit NYC. And of course, we have a major conference in LA, the second week in November. so they all fly into NY the weekend earlier -
but if the only people taking room in hotels were running in the marathon, there'd be plenty of rooms available. but that isn't the case.
please explain to me why someone would come to NY to stand on a crowded sidewalk and watch other people run by? is it the thrill of handing a runner a cup of water?
if its a sporting event, sell tickets - it will thin out the crowds and getting around the city won't be such a nightmare.
i can't wait for it to be over - november 6th won't come fast enough
did you know that an apartment in new york city recently sold for over $15 million? besides the fact that there was someone willing to spend that kind of money, what kind of apartment is that expensive? for that kind of money, i'd need to get the entire building. can anybody tell me, are apartments in other cities this expensive?
for the last two years i have been looking to buy an apartment in manhattan, and the only thing i could think about affording is the size of a closet that doesn't even have a full kitchen (no, i'm not being greedy, i don't need an eat-in kitchen, but an oven would be nice!)
now, i don't consider myself a fashion icon and i probably have more in common with ugly betty than jennifer aniston, but even i know when someone has stepped over the line from trendy to fashion victim.
the latest example? rubber shoes.
you know what i mean - some of you are probably wearing them right now. rubber flip flops and even worse, rubber clogs are NOT fashionable, i repeat, NOT cute. even in the most casual office, of which i happily include mine, are those ugly shoes, especially the ones with holes cut into them a good look.
i know one thing, whoever decided to create these objects of hideousness is laughing his way to the bank, but curiously, his feet are cool and sweat free.
I've started this blog for one simple reason - every day as i walk aound manhattan, there's something crazy or weird that i see that i need to share with others - but i end up forgetting about them before i tell anyone, and by the time i remember no one believes me. i always want to take out my digital camera and take a picture as proof of the city's weirdness, but rule number one in new york city is do not make eye contact with others. and never, ever take a picture of someone without their permission.
"Tech-ignorant"
This is my feelings about most of you.
But don't feel bad, everybody can be ignorant about a profession they are not in.
The difference being, I would not buy something as useful and complex, as say a SUV just because I took a few driving lessons from some friends. And then once I have it, think I can drive it fast through all kinds of terrain in all types weather, park it on a steep hills with the windows and doors open every night, never go to a mechanic when those cryptic warning lights come one, and wonder later why my new SUV is slowing down.
So maybe I will help you out with your tech issues or maybe I will just make fun of you.... Read on and decide.
J.
