digital

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Digital is not better. It's a multi-billion dollar advertising scheme. A way to sell more junk. What do you have that's digital that's better than a purely analog counterpart? My typewriter never crashed and lost a complete document. I generated less paper before the computer than after I got one-and it was of better value. Well, I guess the whole 'blog' thing is a digital phenomenon. There you go. Is this a good thing? Yakking around the campfire was probably more enjoyable. I'm pretty sure I would be punished if I even made an open fire for yakking around (I'm in the city).

I guess it's probably better to have digital photos on your computer than to have actual prints. The prints instill some sense of value since they actually exist. Hard to throw them away. So you live your life with some photo collection in a shoebox, never looking at it (unless you're a 'scrapbooker'), then one day it gets tossed in the trash or goes to Goodwill. With digital, you stick your photos on your computer and then it crashes or some other problem occurs and your photos are just gone. Less clutter, faster loss.

Our whole digital life is going down the drain rapidly. Nothing exists. It's all ephemeral. This blog doesn't even exist in any sort of concrete way. I can delete and edit to my heart's content. Sounds like 'Big Brother' doesn't it?

yeah, more ranting on this later. Pressed for time lately. Photos and pictures coming (because of a suggestion/request) soon.

a saying

this one never ceases to amuse me, continues to baffle:

"It's like trying to shove a 220 lb woman into 200 lb panty hose."

That should stand on its own. I've been trying to get 'entermation' going. Changed it some. It's right over there, click it.->

I know what you're thinking, two blogs too many, huh? oh well, I guess it's like trying to shove a 220 lb woman into 200 lb panty hose-but that's why they have menus in restaurants...

year six

Is this the beginning of the sixth or only fifth year of the Apocolypse?

Well, whatever it is, we seem to be off to a good start. Rain on the Rose Parade brought me a mixed bundle of joy and grief. I don't appreciate parades. They make no amusement for me. Sorry about the poor folks who marched in the thing and got sopping wet and cold. A lot of work on the floats down the drain much quicker and more literally than in the past. Since the whole thing was conceived and continues as an advertising scheme, it doesn't instill deep meaning in me. tut tut.

So there's war, disease, stupidity, etc. (is there ever not?). Government seems bent on getting the whole end of the world into gear and making sure it actually ends. So what else is new? What's the solution? You got it: Get rid of Baywatch and Benny Hill. Maybe add in the elimination of Fox TV.

Well, happiness and joy to you in 2006. If you celebrate some other year, that's even better. Jewish? 5766 (in September). Chinese=4704 in about a month. Got the idea? Yeah, it's really only the Apocolypse if you're on the Gregorian Calendar. Does Not Apply otherwise. A way out? I think so. Pick a system and start using it for everything. Ought to go over really well for payroll and banking and billing and such. That way, when the rapture happens, you're passed by-free to go on your merry way (I think). Give it a try, what have you got to lose?

go here: http://webexhibits.org/calendars/calendar.html lots of fun info for just such a purpose. I really enjoyed the Mayan part. I think I'll adopt that one, personally.