Ivi video-calls from her housesitting/dogsitting venue in Seattle, Nik drops in for food and TV and conversation, and yes … a good time was had by all.
Month: November 2016
Everybody Knows This, Right?
rDay Six-Hundred-Nine
Walking downtown, dropping in to the old EONI workplace, seeing snow on the horizon at sunset.
rDay Six-Hundred-Eight: Another Cloudy Day
Weaponizing Social Media
Following one of my little rants about Facebook, my attention is turned to this November 20 editorial piece in the New York Times:
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/11/20/opinion/the-secret-agenda-of-a-facebook-quiz.html
The money quote: “… Facebook is no longer just a social network. It’s an
advertising medium that’s now dangerously easy to weaponize.”
Sharon Jones, R.I.P.
In continuation of the extraordinary emotional drama of this extraordinary month, we learn that the extraordinary Sharon Jones has succumbed to the Big C.
If you don’t know this miraculous woman, read more here or on my music blog or almost anywhere, a Google-throw away.
Happiness Sans Facebook
Most people close to me know that I avoid Facebook, in part for some private reasons that are certainly peculiar to me and may not imply judgment of FB users in general. Here is a report of a Danish semi-experiment which suggests that happiness can be increased by ditching the venerable ubiquitous social media platform.
rDay Six-Hundred-Four
Today, Leonard Cohen — on vinyl, this time!– continues: “Old Skin For The New Ceremony” (1974)* and “The Best Of” (1975) …
* TRIVIA FOOTNOTE: Guitar accompaniment on the “Old Skin …” album is provided by Ralph Gibson, one of my early photography mentors; worked with him in New York when I spent part of the summer at the upstate communal photography farm as part of a cross-country adventure (aka “The Great Tunafish Expedition“).
I Know The Feeling
Pigs can be pessimists. Or not. According to this report.
rDay Six-Hundred-One
Mostly rain today. Brief respite for late afternoon dog walk and visit to 103. Usual trek through campus and football practice fields. Mount Emily in three variations. Leonard Cohen albums today: “Book of Longing” (2007) and “Songs From The Road” (2010).
