I was reading this article and, beyond being struck by the national shame of the subject matter, was intrigued by my reaction to the photo accompanying the piece. Doesn’t the guy in the lower left look like he’s on a cell phone call? Not quite so possible in 1961, and I’m sure his posture indicates […]
I came across this post recently, and must admit that these peeks into strangers’ lives is also fascinating to me. I’m not sure I agree with the poster about these glimpses being poor substitutes for social interaction; instead I think that just as a motivation (certainly minor, probably unacknowledged) for visiting our friends and neighbors […]
I was reading this article and was immediately bugged by the assertion of “the following grammatical rule: there is only ONE space after a period.” First, it’s nothing to do with grammar; it’s a typographical rule. Second, I’ve been double-spacing after periods since I learned to type, way back in the wooly mammoth days when we […]
So for my recent birthday, Mrs The Fyd got me a great present: an iPhone. This very cleverly turned out to be good for her, since naturally she got one too. Anyway this thing is absorbing, given the number of apps available. While browsing through them the other day I saw that there was a […]
I was looking for a phone number on the Safeway Pharmacy website, and noticed that they have a blog. I hesitate to investigate this phenomenon further. Something I leap at with alacrity, however, is the amazing satellite photo o’ the day from NASA.
I am a middling-t0-late adopter of technology, but I recognize a fucking waste of time when I see one. So I’ve opened up a Twitter account as ‘thefyd’. Though I’m sure the feeds are full of absolute inanities and glories of the mundane, I hope to surpass (or more accurately, to underachieve with regard to the […]
IMG_1285 Originally uploaded by thefyd Last year I deleted a bunch of files on my laptop because I was running out of hard drive memory. Among the apps deleted was whatever allowed the computer to recognize my camera, and hence download photos. So for months I’ve not been able to transfer pictures from my […]
Society will have crossed another Rubicon if, at the next Apple shareholders’ conference, some investors with an errant notion of disclosure rights demand to know if Steve Jobs has suffered massive diarrhea recently. That entire ridiculous article should have been edited down to the last paragraph (excluding the last sentence, because it’s none of our business): […]
Today as I got off the bus, I noticed that the time & temperature sign of the KeyBank branch was claiming it to be 40 degrees. Maybe in Cleveland, but not here. As I walked along the frigid streets, I said to myself I very much doubted that sign. The temperature sign on the building […]
Earlier this evening I was shoveling snow off the sidewalk, when I heard something I thought at first was a car’s open-door alarm. I wondered who would be sitting in their car with the door open in this weather, when I realized the sound as that of an old-fashioned telephone. Who would have their window […]
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