Just got an email from Nielsen that starts this way: "SiriusXM is conducting a survey about your listening habits. The survey will only take 10 minutes or so to complete." Since I pay SiriusXM for their service and I've been doing that since they were just Sirius, I decided to go ahead and fill the survey out. The first question was for my age. When I put in 74, it said "Survey Completed - Thank you for taking our survey."#
Roughly speaking, Heisenberg's uncertainty principle says that you can't know exactly both the position and momentum of something. Put a bit differently, if you know exactly where something is, you can't see where it's going, while if you know where something is going, you can't see exactly where it is. Seems to me this applies in some way to conversation online.#
Or at least I want it to, because where it's going matters more to me than where it is.#
And man, is there an awful lot of where-it-is out there. And, because its where-it-is-ness is so strong, it almost doesn't matter where it's going.#
There's a better way to put this, and I haven't found it yet. But I just want to get it down while it's in my head. Kind of like putting down a where-it-is so I remember later where-it's-going.#
I spend way too much time sitting at this keyboard, and I'm a failure at the standing desk thing, so I need a proper office chair. Starting in 1978, my fave was the Herman Miller Ergon, introduced in 1976. It was a cushion design: one for your back and one for your ass. I've had a series of these, over many years. While they all last well, the cushions do break down, so eventually I'm sitting on something hard underneath.#
I've tried out a lot of other office chairs, and usually settle for something cheap that will do for awhile. Such as the $15 one I'm sitting on now, which I got from a thrift store, and the $25 one in the next room, which I got from the IU Surplus store here at Indiana University in Bloomington. That's an Ergon knock-off that became uncomfortable in just a day or two. #
Just got an email from Nielsen that starts this way: "SiriusXM is conducting a survey about your listening habits. The survey will only take 10 minutes or so to complete." Since I pay SiriusXM for their service and I've been doing that since they were just Sirius, I decided to go ahead and fill the survey out. The first question was for my age. When I put in 74, it said "Survey Completed - Thank you for taking our survey."#
Roughly speaking, Heisenberg's uncertainty principle says that you can't know exactly both the position and momentum of something. Put a bit differently, if you know exactly where something is, you can't see where it's going, while if you know where something is going, you can't see exactly where it is. Seems to me this applies in some way to conversation online.#
Or at least I want it to, because where it's going matters more to me than where it is.#
And man, is there an awful lot of where-it-is out there. And, because its where-it-is-ness is so strong, it almost doesn't matter where it's going.#
There's a better way to put this, and I haven't found it yet. But I just want to get it down while it's in my head. Kind of like putting down a where-it-is so I remember later where-it's-going.#
I spend way too much time sitting at this keyboard, and I'm a failure at the standing desk thing, so I need a proper office chair. Starting in 1978, my fave was the Herman Miller Ergon, introduced in 1976. It was a cushion design: one for your back and one for your ass. I've had a series of these, over many years. While they all last well, the cushions do break down, so eventually I'm sitting on something hard underneath.#
I've tried out a lot of other office chairs, and usually settle for something cheap that will do for awhile. Such as the $15 one I'm sitting on now, which I got from a thrift store, and the $25 one in the next room, which I got from the IU Surplus store here at Indiana University in Bloomington. That's an Ergon knock-off that became uncomfortable in just a day or two. #