stuff

dear lord, what are we going to do with all of it?

There is so much stuff.

I was cleaning out some things left behind in the garage of a previous house yesterday, and one of the big items in there was an entire crate of VHS video cassettes.

These are now useless, outmoded, and take up a ton of space not to mention the amounts of petroleum, chemicals and energy that went into their manufacture. They are not resaleable, or even donateable, and as far as I know you can't even recycle them.

So what is left - the dump? They will take a very long time to biodegrade. A VERY long time. I'm sure that by the time they do, no one will be using physical media for video. At all.

Which is honestly the way it NEEDS to be.

Eventually, DVDs will become outdated, and even if they didn't there are tons of them sitting around unwanted and unwatched even now. Millions of pounds of packaging.

Seeing this pile of poly plastics in front of me really made me quite upset about our use of resources.

As did the pile of left over mail from when I used to live there.
Bill after bill, catalogs, mountains of junk mail that was never looked at or had a purpose.
All made by deforesting are planet.

If there ever was a blight on this world it is certainly physical media.

I don't really like reading off of a screen all that much - but when you consider what it takes out of the world, even paper needs to go.

Come on people (including myself) - technology can totally solve this issue.

Maybe the Amazon Kindle will do well??

feed me

arrgh...trying to get rss feeds into facebook is maddening...

But of course...

...google is ready for this sort of usage - the login sceen for
blogger asks me if I want to 'remember this iPhone'...

Meta

How weird and wonderful the world is becoming...

I have just really set up a blog from a coffee shop without a standard
"computer" ( I used my iPhone ).

Of course it could be argued that this is technically a computer - and
it is - but it is radically different than a standard desktop etc.

The sort of device freedom afforded by this thing is truely
revolutionary - yet at the same time is entirely normal in the
evolution of tech. This HAD to happen eventually. It doesn't really
sink in until you have one of these things, but -

- the Internet is MEANT to be used from anywhere
- email SHOULD be as ubiquitous and readily available as SMS text
messaging
- sites like Yelp and google maps only really come alive when you can
access them from a street corner

I think this is what they call "convergence" =)

It's not without hiccups (I am composing this in the iphone mail
client as the blogger editor doesn't quite work properly under the
iPhone 1.0 OS), but it is a huge leap forward.

And hell - I did register and do all setup on a new blog - in the palm
of my hand!

Genesis

Ok so this is gonna be new...

I have a blog site for my musical pursuits at

www.fr33st4t3.com

already, but I need something for more general life posts so here it is.

I am an sf resident, dj, producer, geek, and have also been studying
japanese for a looong time.

So much so that I have combined this with my tech fetish and now do
Japanese tech support for a living at a company called Xinet.

It rocks!

But I wanted to post insights in this realm somewhere, so hopefully
they will find a home here.