Re: Against Kierkegaard (was Re: Google Reader and More: Google Abandoning of Apps/Services)

Posted by Steve Smith on Mar 15, 2013; 6:31pm
URL: http://friam.383.s1.nabble.com/Google-Reader-and-More-Google-Abandoning-of-Apps-Services-tp7582001p7582038.html

OK Glen...  Looks like you've been called out, now we want to see YOUR
version of this classic!

Well, I don't know anything about "classics", per se.  But here's the
distinction I'd make.  The vector should be:

from this -- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QC9SKjdoTXg

to this -- http://youtu.be/BqzizzNkv-s

OK... you got me good.   Despite feeling RickRolled (on the first one anyway), I get your point (though Leigh's reference between the 60's concept of being on a cloud and Owen's of being "in the cloud" *was* apt)... this seems yet more.

Of course, this all just has me feeling *yet more* like a dementia-ed schizophrenic whose meds got replaced by psychadelic mushrooms... 

In particular the background image of the second video and lines like "When Atoms Roar" and "All their Lust shall Build a World".    In fact, the world we are building with our "Digital Ecologies" is apparently as attractive as the Sixties "tune in, turn on, drop out" psychadelia and I fear no more satisfying in the long run ("All their Lust shall Build a World").

I'll see your "Kingdom Come" and raise you a "Bag of Groceries".

I shall procrastinate no more forever,
 - Steve


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