http://flinch.org life in the so-called space age Sun, 25 May 2008 22:54:58 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en I twitter. Look for me there. It's not often anymore I feel like sitting down to write a blog entry, and am more likely to dump random thoughts into that micro-blog. But not giving this up quite yet, either. The more tools, the more possibilities. http://flinch.org/?p=243 This culture confuses excitement and fulfillment. Fulfillment can't be mass produced and sold in 30 second increments. It's not quantifiable. Excitement is much easier to package and monetize, and because it's not fulfilling, getting a little just makes us want more. We are bombarded by it and our appetite ... http://flinch.org/?p=242 Q: Why is it that whenever you're looking for something, it's always in the last place that you look? A: Because once you find it, you stop looking. The same is true of all perception. Once your expectation has been met, you accept it as truth. Consider, though, what you might have ... http://flinch.org/?p=241 * It's not about software, it's about communities. * We're heading towards relationship-based computing instead of document-based computing. * The cognitive dissonance between online and offline identities is dissipating. * The distinction between different media types is blurring as they converge. * We can--and should--harness the unique engagement experience of games to help us ... http://flinch.org/?p=239 Got a Mac with an iTunes library full of unprotected AAC files, and want to play them through your networked TiVo DVR using the TiVo Desktop software? You can't. TiVo only plays MP3's. Unless... You install the LAME MP3 encoder command-line executable. Then, TiVo Desktop will automatically convert your unprotected AAC files ... http://flinch.org/?p=238 Numbers are used as justification when there is no personal relationship. Think about that for a moment. If I trust that you're going to give me correct change, I don't even count it when you give it to me. Why bother? I trust you. And I trust you because I know you--we ... http://flinch.org/?p=236 Dear God, grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference. I first remember learning this insightful, elegant prayer at a young age from a wooden inscription hung above the door of a neighbor's ... http://flinch.org/?p=235 Oh what a lovely summer. New releases from three of my most favorite electronica artists. BT is releasing a new album at the end of August entitled This Binary Universe. His MySpace page and blog have a teaser video and hint at some details: a musical and spiritual epic masterpiece accompanied ... http://flinch.org/?p=233 Here I use the term technology in a very broad sense to mean any skill, technique, or body of knowledge which is intellectual rather than instinctual and improves human productivity; for example, language, religion, and agriculture were some of the earliest technologies; internal combustion engines, democracy, computers, psychology, and quantum ... http://flinch.org/?p=231 I heard someone mention it on TV the other day -- "Youth is the engine of the world." Apparently this phrase can be credited to Matisyahu, though I haven't heard his music yet. (Just added it to the list of things to check out, though.) The truth of the phrase has ... http://flinch.org/?p=230