Spring rolls and DSL

[gurdonark]

red-bellied woodpecker, originally uploaded by gurdonark.

Work continues to provide new challenges, but is much less stressful than before.Beatrice and I go for an early morning walk each day. I think this is a good thing.Last night my wife attended a talk by the writer Cheryl Strayed at the Dallas Public Library. I repaired to the building called Food Court by the Asian grocery, where a nice woman made hand-made huge spring rolls. Tonight I am trying to add software to the Damn Small Linux build I have on a virtual machine. I loaded a fun primitive drum machine, but still need to add a modern browser. I am not good at all at locating and installing programs. But I learn something each time I try.

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[bardcat.livejournal.com]

lovely as always. i wish i would take the time to learn more about birds. i know so little. for instance here, i've heard of course of red headed woodpeckers but never a red bellied one. hope you have a wonderful weekend.

[ensenchiridion.livejournal.com]

It'd be nice, for journal entries, to have a "like" function that works like a "tag" function so that one could hover over the specific thing they appreciate about an entry and "like" it. In this way, we could like one things only, or several things to show that we appreciate the accumulation of awesome. That said, I appreciate the accumulation of awesome herein.

[gurdonark.livejournal.com]

That's an excellent idea, and it is prescient in the sense that I think that as social media evolves, it will move from a "one-size-fits-all" simple platform like facebook or twitter. I think that social media will instead change into something that is more interconnected and nuanced, a kind of combination of Skype, IM, electronic mail, bulletin board and media exchange. In that world, one will be able to communicate beyond the human barriers that govern our "likes" and "unlikes" now. Already, one can share an image or a song or a video or a text or a mix of several in different fora, to create a gestalt of communication superior to the parts. Yet I foresee a framework mor like twitter than like facebook, but one to one and extremely multi-media. All the tools already exist, but are largely underused, in places like google+.

I was in a box electronics retailer today and asked to be shown Windows 8.
I think that Windows 8 may be defeated by the press campaign waged against it, but its virtue is the understanding that our apps are no longer one program and the another, but a dynamic set of changing things that all happen simultaneously. The particular product may evaporate--but this idea will catch on, whether it is MS or Apple or a third party that does it. Apple has helped insert the idea in the collective imagination, and makes incredible devices, but is not as good with social media and is too closed-end for the sea change. MS must carry the enterprise and satisfy people who only want plug n play, and has a wrong pricing model for the new era. I'll be interested to see if it's Android that takes us to the next place.

Meanwhile, I am trying to learn the Linux tools, so that I have an alternative if MS' operating system changes puts all my music-making software out of commission.

I hope you're doing great! I am so excited for y'all by some of the new posts I am seeing in other social media. The effort to re-ignite look like they're sparking a bit. I think it's like magicians pulling new rabbits out of their hat, which,if you ask me, is a far better metaphor than the wrong-ism about old dogs and new tricks. As for you individually, it's amazing to imagine how much your life has changed in such a short time! Exciting.
Fun times ahead.