About time. And product. And being more deliberate.
…in the McLuhan sense.
From this (I don’t have McLuhan’s Hot & Cool within reach) I say cool – require intense audience participation and are low definition.
For reference, television and phone conversations are ‘cool’ – while movies and radio are ‘hot’.
A confused, elderly woman with a full, knotted, plastic shopping bag was in front of the scanner. The security checkpoint line out of Minneapolis stalled as I put all my stuff in multiple bins.
When a uniformed TSA person asked her if she had a boarding pass, she mumbled the need for help getting a ticket for Transworld Airlines.
“I can’t help you ma’am, I’m the supervisor and I could lose my job if I left my post.”
After a couple exchanges identical to this, the supervisor thankfully handed the woman off to another TSA person.
Reminded me how customer service is smarter, cheaper, more effective, and generally happier than level-orange security.
Reminds me, why are airports so dreary and generally unhappy. Thankfully, Ze Frank gave me the airport smile I was looking for.
Rex pointed me to the NYTimes article on Google’s energy efficiency proposals.
I’ve been reading so much Jonathan Schwartz (“Value of Being Green“)lately that I’m happy to see another big player talk about improving the energy efficiency of computers.
The energy efficiency issue made sense to me when explained it this way:
Ramsey’s talking about Sirius’ new Internet Radio offering. While I’m not a big fan of the satellite model, the strength of satellite is that it’s an alternative to the AM and FM dials.
Admittedly, I’m coming at this from the listeners perspective. Not the spectrum owner, or the advertiser.
Then again, as a listener I prefer having control of when and what I listen to. As such, I’ve got everything in iTunes.
I’m rooting for Sirius. This is a great move on their part – be available anywhere. In fact, I’d love to see them increase their monthly subscription fees. More power to the listener.
Check it out at FeedSeeder.com, 10 minutes, 65mb.
“It was the first year-over-year decline in median prices since April 1995, when that measure slipped only 0.1 percent. And it was the biggest year-over-year drop since the record 2.1 percent decline recorded in November 1990, when the nation was in recession.”
Outer Mongolia.
It’s a threat in my mind. Somehow worse than Siberia. A place where you “get sent”. A bit of romance there if only for the seemingly still nomadic lifestyle. Until the rain storm, seemed like a nice, quiet vacation spot. Like northern Wisconsin in autumn. Remote.
If only I had a hand-cranked Russian jeep growing up.
I’d stick with the packing up of the nomadic tent over attempting to guide a aboriginal bull. Figuring out the knot and getting a camel to stand up sound easier than keeping helmets and water within grasp.
The TiVo gets eliminated this week for not recording the Roadblock and the elimination.
On a side note, I don’t think I’m the only one confusing Studio 60 and 30 Rock. As much as I prefer Aaron Sorkin productions, I keep thinking there’s another pair of hobbits lurking.