'Out Of Gas'
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
Shit, we brought Nilly here from ISRAEL, and coordinated a five city tour of America. As much as I like to think we're innovators, I can't believe we're teh only ones to have gone to such lengths for one of our fellow internet axe murderers.
Sorry. I'm passionate (overly) about this stuff, these days.
The only reason people don't send it is because it doesn't travel well.
Come to think of it, if I knew a diner in your neighborhood that delivered and that you loved chicken soup that would totally happen.
Pre-telephone (and cheap telephone) people had relationships that consisted almost entirely of passionate correspondence. And then that just about died completely... until the interbunny revived it in a more instant form. I think that is the more apt comparison.
Oh, the nature of my pants notwithstanding, I don't mean sexually passionate.
Exactly! I just told someone the other day that Emerson was just a low-tech blogger, and that Jefferson and Hamilton worked out the Constitution and Bill of Rights over a low tech flame-war. Same shit, different century.
Even though it doesn't ship well, there has even been Buffista soup conveyance -- when TB took pho to Hec's ex-GF when she was new in Portland and didn't know anyone (including TB).
And Allyson, you're right to be passionate about this stuff.
For about a generation "correspondence" went away. And then it came back like blazes. I wonder about the books that will be published in a decade or two containing the emails and IMs between two noteable politicans or artists. Or even a group of them.
Yup - when we got our hands on printing presses, we made handbills and booklets. It's the technology that's changed, not the behavior.
I have in my head that someone has done some sort of study documenting the social evolution of the typical online community, and it includes a "hey, we should meet in meat space" phase.
Plus, I bet if I asked -t (which I am not), I would have chicken soup at my door in a little over 2 hours.
when TB took pho to Hec's ex-GF when she was new in Portland and didn't know anyone (including TB).
and an Easter basket.
I just told someone the other day that Emerson was just a low-tech blogger, and that Jefferson and Hamilton worked out the Constitution and Bill of Rights over a low tech flame-war. Same shit, different century.
::loves Allyson::