The Clock Ticks, The Tech Pile Grows
One pleasant advantage of having a few years under my belt, is the ability to drone on endlessly about my phenomenal, life-changing adventures in the ’70s and ’80s. And as I pontificate about my collected memories, I can watch happily as Millennial listeners sigh and consider their own meager experiences. They may have youth and […]
Let’s Grow a Few Heroes
Remember when we used to have heroes? You know, those people you could look up to, admire, maybe even want to be a little like? And I’m not just referring to the really special iconic individuals like Martin Luther King Jr. or Mother Teresa. I’m talking about those day-to-day cultural heroes we’d hold dear, bring […]
Smartphone? Or Smutphone?
Porn is everywhere. And it’s killing us. Hey, even Playboy says that pornography is soaking through every nook and cranny of our culture. The men’s sex mag stated that some 30 years ago 40% of adults watched porn. Now it’s reached a saturation point of over 80%. The publication didn’t say anything about how many […]
The E-Laugh’s on You
I got a text from my twentysomething daughter the other day that responded to a message I had sent with a “hahaha.” And being at that time of the afternoon where my brain desperately seeks out anything to settle on other than the work before me, I got to thinking about her seemingly laugh-out-loud response. […]
The Robo-Future is Here … With Your Turn-Down Service
Are you one of those who’ve been staunchly steering clear of all those techy thingamajigs and touch-tablet whiz-bangs? You know, maybe holing up in your grandmother’s Wi-Fi-free basement because you fear all those Hollywood future-apocalypse movies might just be right and someday robots will indeed take over the world? Well, if so, your biggest nightmare […]
Please Fix My Tone, Watson
Listen up, boneheads, and you might actually learn something. Now, if I were a particularly tone-deaf individual, I might actually think that the above sentence was an interesting way to grab your attention. Or maybe a wink-wink way of being cute/funny. On the other hand, a number of people read those nine words and immediately […]
Why, Back When I Was Young …
We are awash in many, many screens. Tiny ones and pretty big ones, twirling-swirling-thingamajig ones. … All right, I’m no Dr. Suess, but you get the point. And if you saw Adam Holz’s blog from yesterday you know that some experts are every bit as concerned about we adults and our immersion in today’s tidal […]
I’ve Got to Copyright My What?
We live in a strange age, ladies and gents. It’s a time of Snapchat, selfie sticks and smartphones that come packing multi-megapixel cameras and infrared sensors. Sadly, this is also an age of something called “Revenge Porn.” Now, if you have absolutely no idea what that is (lucky you), it’s essentially nonconsensual pornography. Say, for […]
The Un-Super Suit
I’d venture that in this day of superhero movies and techy whiz-bangs, just about everybody would be up for their own Iron Man suit. You know, something you could stroll over to the local supermart in without fear of anything—from runaway carts to overhead flying pigeons to passing drippy ice cream kiddos with the dropsies. […]
For The Love of Kitties
Personally, I’ve never been a big fan of cats. That meow-meow mislike may well spring from long-ago when I worked on a farm one summer and was rudely awoken each morning by a horrisonant housecat howling in heat. (See, even the memory of that teeth-gnashing, sleepy eyed event makes me fly into alliteration.) I am, […]