Rodents rock ! I'm worried that since one of my neighbours spotted one of the rats who live on my land, basically off the bird seed that scatters from the bird table feeders, he will be hell bent on me killing them. Wishing you a cracking new life too.
"I still sleep on a box-spring mattress and cook oatmeal on the stove in the same way my great-grandmother did. I don’t have a wing suit. The future must be running late." I liked the end - made me smile - but I also think the problem with now is that lots of future predictions were wrong and many were barely imagined (like a computer in your hand though Tesla had an idea about a hand-held communication device.) So the future many predicted isn't here - but we have a very wild present. I mean the there were predictions via people like Chester Gould (Dick Tracy's watch), Philip K. Dick, Orwell, Hunter S. Thompson (read his letters to see how continually prescient he was), and various science and science fiction writers who did accurately predict what was coming or, at least, trending in various arenas of life. I want to read a book about those who got things right and what was special about them about why they saw what others didn't. My favorite predictor was John Culshaw - a famous recording engineer - who basically predicted in the 60s in an addendum in the Ring Resounding what was going to happen in the media and music It was so jarring reading it after virtually all his predictions came true. I don't have the book in Hilo, but just to give a sample, he wrote in 1967 about the future of access to music: "The listener will be able to command a performance to take place by dialing some code through which a computer will channel the performance to him.” Bottomline: I am so in the future from my teenage years in 1960 - I can barely fathom it. I think the future is right on time.
Rodents rock ! I'm worried that since one of my neighbours spotted one of the rats who live on my land, basically off the bird seed that scatters from the bird table feeders, he will be hell bent on me killing them. Wishing you a cracking new life too.
"I still sleep on a box-spring mattress and cook oatmeal on the stove in the same way my great-grandmother did. I don’t have a wing suit. The future must be running late." I liked the end - made me smile - but I also think the problem with now is that lots of future predictions were wrong and many were barely imagined (like a computer in your hand though Tesla had an idea about a hand-held communication device.) So the future many predicted isn't here - but we have a very wild present. I mean the there were predictions via people like Chester Gould (Dick Tracy's watch), Philip K. Dick, Orwell, Hunter S. Thompson (read his letters to see how continually prescient he was), and various science and science fiction writers who did accurately predict what was coming or, at least, trending in various arenas of life. I want to read a book about those who got things right and what was special about them about why they saw what others didn't. My favorite predictor was John Culshaw - a famous recording engineer - who basically predicted in the 60s in an addendum in the Ring Resounding what was going to happen in the media and music It was so jarring reading it after virtually all his predictions came true. I don't have the book in Hilo, but just to give a sample, he wrote in 1967 about the future of access to music: "The listener will be able to command a performance to take place by dialing some code through which a computer will channel the performance to him.” Bottomline: I am so in the future from my teenage years in 1960 - I can barely fathom it. I think the future is right on time.
Oh wow, congratulations on the new job!