How prophetic.
Check out this television report from 1981 about reading your newspaper on your computer …
Still in Hell … But Doing Better
January 24th, 2009 Permalink
Notes from aside the camera
How prophetic.
Check out this television report from 1981 about reading your newspaper on your computer …
Last month I wrote a bit about the “Four Circles of Hell” and the start of our search for replacement cars. Phases one, two and three two have been completed, but phase four is not going so well.
(For the record, phases one and two were combined when we traded in my Subaru for a Honda Ridgeline, providing us with a vehicle that can tow and haul people and stuff in a massive amount of comfort. Phase three happened on Thursday when our trusty truck, Declan, went to a new home.)
The last week has been filled with a lot of thinking and conversations. It started last Thursday when I headed up to the University of Tennessee for the founders’ meeting of the Intercollegiate Online News Network.
I wasn’t sure what ICONN was, or what it would become, and, to be honest, I’m still not. But we talked a lot about online journalism, we practiced some micro-blogging via Twitter and we agreed that building a coalition of the willing, so to speak, was what we needed. Where it goes from there, I’m just not sure. But it’s going to be cool.
I’m in Tennessee for a two day meeting of the Intercollegiate Online News Network. They met once before last year, so I’m still catching up.
There are couple of purely photographic sites I visit that are all about abandoned stuff. I don’t know why I like stuff that has almost fallen down and been forgotten, maybe it’s just unrepentant nostalgia.
Walking into my office the other day, this seemed eerily reminiscent of some of those photos I stare at.
Spotted on a walk across campus where my companion, who has known me for 20 years, didn’t even pause in his diatribe when I stopped, stooped and shot.
That’s a good friend.
There may be another video at some point, not sure I like it enough … but two driving scenes, through the windshield of Sylvester, same day, same general area … different levels of snow clearing in effect.
Home, at last.
I love to travel. I love to see new places, meet new people. I love to see old places and people just as much, which was what the last two weeks was all about – catching up.