Posts Tagged ‘technology’

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They Are Not Idle Warnings

by adam on March 22, 2011 at 12:01 am
the first apple fanboy that says anything at all gets smacked right in the lips

Today was evidently a good day for everything to stop working. At work, one computer had a broken power supply and another was so riddled with viruses that it would barely  boot. Amy’s sewing machine has arbitrarily stopped sewing (and is only technically a machine as a result). Our freezer is not freezing things. AWESOME. [...]

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New From DogCo

by adam on March 8, 2010 at 12:20 pm
this is only slightly less likely to get one arrested than going and kicking the dog. slightly.

I found a really interesting article about how today’s youth aren’t encourage to build things any more.  I’m not sure if it’s out of a sense of fear of injury or not wanting the kid to experience failure (goodness knows success is rare enough) or what the deal is. The article’s author talks a bit [...]

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Shortcomings of Technology

by adam on August 21, 2009 at 5:12 pm

You know when you’ve spent forty minutes composing an email and you’ve really done a thorough job of thinking through all your points, presenting them in a concise, clear manner, grammar checking and proof-reading and then you hit ‘Delete’ instead of ‘Send’?  Additionally, you’re so frustrated by this chain of events that you storm off [...]

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