4.30.2010

video: inverse reality

As the characters in video games get more fit, sculpted and athletic, the game players become more sedentary, amorphous and obese.

4.25.2010

more and less

I know more than I think I do—and so much less than I should.

4.23.2010

ad in

In the 21st C, who would have imagined that the computer industry’s biggest player (Google) would be a major advertising concern with a technology arm.

4.21.2010

gritty reality

The digital sand castle began to pixilate, to disintegrate and crumble.

4.18.2010

polar forces

Civilization arises from two inimical and polar forces: market and art.

4.16.2010

bidirectional bootstrap

Letting down a bootstrap to pull up one less fortunate.

4.15.2010

renewed ruins

At the tourist destination the renovations to the ruins were going well.

4.12.2010

tyrant defined

Tyrant: A leader whose head can’t be turned other than by a noose.

4.11.2010

win the days

To have won the days between then and now is enough.

4.08.2010

social wisdom

No matter the extent or depth of one’s knowledge, wisdom cannot be attained in a state of aloneness. Wisdom is a social phenomenon. It requires that one’s knowledge be deployed interpersonally or socially toward some good. That good may be artistic, scientific, altruistic, practical, etc., but wisdom is always instrumental and not isolate.

4.04.2010

first failed translation

The translation problem between languages pales before the struggle to translate the material world into any language.

4.02.2010

mapped or lived

Determinism is a mapping of history. While free will exists only in the present.

4.01.2010

immortal flaw

Immortality would be a bore. The best life ends in due course.