~ Paul Tillich, The Writer’s Almanac
Quote: “Astonishment is the root of philosophy.”
~ Paul Tillich, The Writer’s Almanac
Category: field notes
How to find wifi hotspots for digital nomads
If you’re traveling on the road and need some wifi connectivity, a couple websites help locate hotposts. Obviously, any Starbucks in America will have free wifi, as well as Barnes and Noble, but for other places I use jiwire and openwifispots to find wifi hotpots.
polyglot
adjective • 1) containing, or made up, of, several languages. 2) versed in, or speaking, many languages.
noun • 1) one who speaks several languages. 2) a book containing several versions of the same text, or containing the same subject matter in several languages. 3) a program written in multiple programming languages (programming).
From Greek, πολύς (many) + γλῶττα (tongue, language)
language matters… language is not merely descriptive. it’s creative.
// just returned from watching downtown fireworks from beaucatcher mountain somewhere on college st & mountain st. ice cream & fireworks ftw
RT @mountainxpress: man at tea party: i’m a rabble-rouser. #mxnow // this is how to start a country. long live the rebellion.
Happy Independence Day, “Smoke Signals”
“Happy Independence Day Victor, are you feeling independent?”- Arnold
one of my favorite movies…
fiddlin pig: thursday $5 lunch special includes a big boneless rib sandwich, side & drink… except i’m broke today…
Twitter is like golf. I feel like an idiot for doing it, but I have to admit that sometimes it’s fun.
// i woke up from a dream in which coleman barks & i read sufi poetry in translation together…
yes… i my new, cheap coffee press… & other morning accouterments…
// she says, ‘most people don’t want to think & when you challenge their ideas they take it personally.’ i say, ‘what does that make me?’
// at lunch, coworker says i’m anti-everything… i’m not anti-everything, i’m just not a lemming… & i need to work on my people skills…
// was asked this weekend if i still blog: yes, no, blogging is so 2004… blogging is not publishing, publishing is not blogging…
// you’re a coworker, not my friend. happy friday…
// there has got to be a better, efficient way to process/reply to all these emails and still have time to complete other tasks at work.
// okay, it took 5 cups of coffee to get going today. but now i wonder how i’m going to sleep tonight.
10 Ways to Save Money
10. Get better at re-using your stuff
9. Cut your food costs
8. Dress and look sharp with less cash
7. Start working for yourself (crazy as it sounds)
6. Cut the cable and get your TV free
5. Trim your cell phone costs
4. Invest in your career
3. Trick yourself into spending less, saving more
2. Get serious about Craigslist
1. Reduce your bills by simply asking
from lifehacker:
Top 10 Ways to Save Money in a Recession
(via wyliefisher)
How the city hurts your brain – Boston Globe
The reason such seemingly trivial mental tasks leave us depleted is that they exploit one of the crucial weak spots of the brain. A city is so overstuffed with stimuli that we need to constantly redirect our attention so that we aren’t distracted by irrelevant things, like a flashing neon sign or the cellphone conversation of a nearby passenger on the bus. This sort of controlled perception — we are telling the mind what to pay attention to — takes energy and effort. The mind is like a powerful supercomputer, but the act of paying attention consumes much of its processing power.
Interesting. Is this another call to simple, rural living?
// watched high fidelity the other night… i want to be a record store owner… do record stores still exist?
// somedays i fantasize that i’m a reviewer for the new york review of books… all day long i read engaging books and write elaborate book reviews… and then i wake up and realize most people don’t read engaging books… nor literary criticism… i’m such an anachronism.
Blogs survive as scavengers
News-gathering is expensive. (Read previous posts on this theme here (The (read) sky (between) is (the) falling (lines)) and here (Pornographers don’t sell pornography).) That’s why I present this from Simon Dumenco for AdAge.com:
“unlike Salon, which… pays for its content, HuffPo [HuffingtonPost] has an ethically questionable content-generation scheme: It doesn’t pay most of its bloggers at all. Worse, it sometimes even lifts content wholesale from other sites that do pay for their own content…” (http://adage.com/mediaworks/article?article_id=133541)
Seth on the death of the personal blog
From BlogAsheville:
Many local bloggers have neglected their blogs recently, with varying reasons/excuses.
So, do bloggers need a bailout too? No. Read Seth’s take on the personal blog demise:
There’s a difference between a blog about YOU… and a blog about the reader. Guy Kawasaki’s blog, and my blog for that matter, are not about us, about what we ate yesterday or how great we are. They are about you, the reader.
I guess there’s an easy analogy:
Your blog could be like a newspaper (written by a staff)
or it could be like a book (written by an author)
So, enough about me. How about you?
The point is not to show up on a list, the point is to start a conversation that spreads, to share ideas and to chronicle your thinking.
Coffeehouse Junkie 