i’m sorry
for interrupting and wasting your work time!
of course, you’re the one who came here to read it so i suppose you’re partially to blame.
last night, my parents buzzed by chris’ place to bring me a “sorry-your-day’s-so-sucky” coffee and hugs. since they were still there as he got home, chris invited them to stay for dinner. in the course of dinner conversation, after some explanation was given or something smart happened…i don’t know…maybe she was asking if he knew how to hack something again…i may not have been paying attention…but in the course of it all, my mom exclaimed that she liked that i dated geniuses. =)
though the first one broke the mold, most of the others who have caught my interest tend towards the brainy end. i’m sure it’s because they’re attracted to my own smarts, of course, of course…but it is what it is.
along with the territory, i’ve learned, seen, and heard about lots that i may not normally be exposed to.
like ieee’s spectrum magazine. when you date an engineer a tv repairman, you come to enjoy the articles in such a periodical since it’s the only one within reach from the potty.
as it was, yesterday, i found myself intrigued by the cover article’s description (“E-mail, tweets, and Facebook updates are destroying our productivity and our leisure”), and i soon found myself sucked in.
the article infoglut didn’t really mention twitter or facebook much. it focused more on extraneous emails that clog inboxes and steal time from “information workers” (engineer, dr, lawyer, etc), but it was interesting nonetheless.
and it made me wonder/think about several things:
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