So now it’s blogging. Okay, call me a Luddite. Several have. I’ve been operating computers since 1985 and I’ve bought more PCs than cars. But truth to tell, cars and computers are a lot alike to me—I drive them both without any idea of what’s going on
under the hood. As long as the thing gets me where I want to go, I’m satisfied.
And as I’ve told Dickie time and again, there’s no point in learning something if that thing happens to be a passing fad—like DOS, for instance. If I had been able to learn DOS (and I wasn’t able, as Dickie’s epic teaching sessions tearfully demonstrated) it would have been time and good brain cells wasted. Because where is DOS today? Gone, that’s where. Vanished at the whim of some computer wizard named Gates.
But now blogging is here where DOS once was.
Until very recently I bundled blogging into the tech package with texting. I though blogging was 1) unsafe 2) incredibly narcissistic and 3) completely devoid of profitability. But now the Luddite is a blogger. And I’m reminded of the late Don Marquis who wrote: “wotthehell, wotthehell, there’s a dance in the old dame yet.” And as if to prove I’m still here, this is the opening entry on my new blog Old Dame Dancing. (more…)
The Angel Who Stops For A Beer
Monday, June 15th, 2009Thus does Mr. Doyle begin the story of his personal financial equilibrium.
“Seinfeld,” he explains, “has a belief that in the end, you end up even. For instance, if he were to lose twenty bucks on the subway on the way to work, somehow, by the end of the day, somebody will come to him and say: ‘Seinfeld, I’ve got twenty dollars worth of comp tickets. Take them!’” (more…)
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