11th
December
2020
Please don’t ask; I realize that I am hours ahead of my regular schedule. I blame it on the dog, for waking me up. Also, on the perfectly clear night sky which should have shown me Auroral beauty, except that I can’t claim to have seen anything out of the ordinary. Oh, and my footprint in the snow (still involves the dog).
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posted in environment |
10th
December
2020
A solitary image; enough to remind me of my moment of madness. Fashion folly. At the moment when I was about to become a ‘teen, something in the music industry triggered a desire to wear dots. Big dots. In a contrasting colour to the background. “I mean, come on Mom, all the other guys are wearing this!”
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posted in history |
9th
December
2020
Maybe we should all go back to the web on Post-Its. You remember, when you were able to keep a collection of URLs, organized, in your cubicle. Or how about the refined version, published by some firm that really didn’t understand what was happening. The Top 100. Perhaps you need a different tool: Gopher worked. Sort of.
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posted in computing |
8th
December
2020
Do my children realize the one, salient difference between them and me? One word: history. I belong to an era they can never know. Let’s use a pair of acronyms: BW and AW.
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posted in education, media |
7th
December
2020
Some things just take longer than expected. The car has arrived, after its voyage on a fancy carrier truck, and the time from here to there was only twenty-five days. Similar to travel by bicycle, back when my knees had less to protest about. Oh well. Scratch that job off the list. The extra keys will go out in the morning mail, and it shouldn’t take much longer (despite the pandemy and the holiday rush). If someone asks for my opinion, I’ll break it down in terms of dollars per hour.
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posted in travel |
6th
December
2020
Keep on singing the “Don’t worry, be happy” song. It won’t fix anything, but you will be distracted.
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posted in health |
5th
December
2020
The science is inexact, but viral transmission leaves many of us feeling like we’re in harm’s way. Today, the unscheduled press conference by our chief health officer carried some unsettling news. Three new cases, in the capital, associated with a small restaurant frequented by local high school students. You see, we had already learned about a single student who had spent some quality time, with friends. In local restaurants. Before testing positive and undertaking the required self-quarantine.
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posted in health |
4th
December
2020
As a student of social history, I love to see where I haven’t been. Is that the right verb?
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posted in history |
3rd
December
2020
I should have seen this coming: my life has been virtualized.
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posted in environment |
2nd
December
2020
According to the calendar, we still have three weeks to reset. Put life back to normal. My hunch is that it will not happen.
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posted in health, travel |
