Love, Inc. …
Posted by Sarah - 14/02/04 at 12:02:30 amNothing says love like a pivoting snowbrush. At least, that’s what the “Improvements” catalog claims.
Nothing says love like a pink teddybear, or pink flowers, or a pink chocolate thing that vibrates. At least, that’s what all the teddybear, chocolate, jewelry, and perfume manufacturers would have you think.
I think nothing says love like your eyes, when you say “I love you”.
You’re all I want for Valentine’s Day, Rick!
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Smile! You’re on Al’s camera …
Posted by Sarah - 11/02/04 at 08:02:23 pmOn Saturday we went to the 9:30 Club to see and hear one of our favorite bands: moe. We have a particular perch we like, and so arrived quite early in order to make sure we could secure our seats. While standing in line, we kept noticing people going in and out of the band bus, which was parked near the entrance to the club.
I wasn’t paying much attention, so I was surprised when I eventually realized that Al Schnier, (guitar/keyboards/vocals) was holding court outside the main entrance. Lately, moe. has been letting folks video and audiotape some of their concerts, so Al was surrounded by mini-DV cams, and the fans holding them. Somehow, it wasn’t a paparazzi madhouse. I was mesmerized by the natural vibe, and the way that Al seemed to blend in, to emanate a sense of calm that everyone around him picked up. I had no desire to participate, just wanted to hang back and listen in. After about 10 minutes of relaxed interaction, Al disappeared back inside the club.
My focus wandered back to the people standing next to me in line, and to the fact that I could no longer feel my toes due to the cold temperature. Before I’d realized it, Al had come out of the club again, gone into the bus, and popped back out with his own DV-cam in hand. Now it was his turn to ask the questions.
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Video Chat Tennis, Anyone? …
Posted by Rick - 10/02/04 at 08:02:28 pmVideo chat is like conversation ping pong. It takes practice. It is not as simple as it might seem, and isn’t similar to other forms of communications with which we are familiar.
When you chat with a friend on the telephone, you can do other things. You can multi-task! You can prep dinner with the phone cradled against your ear, and still make out the music coming from the CD you have on in the other room. Your friend might be attending to personal hygiene matters—such as clipping their nails, you dirty-minded gutterheads—while sneaking peeks at Jeopardy on the tube, for all you know.
With instant message (IM) you can juggle even more tasks. You can check the weather, catch up on the news, check e-mail, listen to music, and still be able to discuss the unimportance of Janet Jackson’s bejeweled mammary on IM with a friend halfway around the world. Your friend, in turn, might be chatting with their partner, reading an article you just sent about what an asshat our president is, while listening to BBC radio. Whatever your “buddy” may be doing, you can rest assured, they are not sitting there with baited breath waiting for you to reply. They are doing other things. Just. Like. You.
Even in-person conversations can flow uninterrupted while participants do other things. Dining probably being the most popular, I’d assume. One small difference with face-to-face interactions is that—more intimate ones, at least—can often involve silence. Silence is a beautiful thing. Not the silence of sitting in front on the telly, waiting for the commercial break. The silence of sitting in front of a fireplace, or reading in another’s company.
But none of this is preparation for video chat…
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Be careful what you wish for …
Posted by Rick & Sarah - 05/02/04 at 10:02:23 amAfter over a year of eating at the coffee table, spilling food and drink down the fronts of our respective shirts, we decided that enough was enough. We needed a dining room table, and pronto. Besides, we have a dining room now; it seemed a shame to let it go to waste.
And so the great dining room table hunt began. We ambulated the antique shops, caroused the consignment stores, wandered the web, and perused the papers, slowly searching for a terrific table for our beloved bungalow. Eventually, we decided that if we were going to attempt to match Sarah’s grandmother’s china cabinet we were going to have to finish it ourselves…
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