{"id":166,"date":"2007-12-26T16:48:37","date_gmt":"2007-12-26T22:48:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/?p=166"},"modified":"2007-12-26T16:48:37","modified_gmt":"2007-12-26T22:48:37","slug":"techno-lust-satiated-for-now","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/?p=166","title":{"rendered":"Techno-Lust Satiated: For Now"},"content":{"rendered":"

26\u00a082% 26%\u00a03mph\u00a0WNW\u00a0 bar\u00a029.97 steady\u00a0 windchill25\u00a0 Yuletide<\/font>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Waning Gibbous Cold Moon<\/font><\/p>\n

A thinker sees his own actions as experiments and questions–as attempts to find out something. Success and failure are for him answers above all.
\n\u00a0 – Friedrich Nietzsche<\/a><\/p>\n

2007 saw the Ellis-Olson household become late adopters in two of the more dynamic techno-revolutions abroad in the land.\u00a0 Last month we got a, wait for it, second cell phone!\u00a0 That means we now have, like many, three phones: A daddy phone, a mommy phone and a just because we trust Qwest so much phone.\u00a0 Then, this morning I went over to Ultimate Electronics and after some back and forth over price bought a plasma TV, a receiver, five speakers and an HD-DVD player.\u00a0 Due to some weirdness about Money Market checks it will be a week or so before it arrives in our house, but then it will be\u00a024\/7 movie watching for this\u00a0electro-cowboy.\u00a0 Of course, that conflicts with all those hours I spend writing and working out and giving tours and eating and such, so I’ll have to pick something to give up.\u00a0 Sleep, maybe?<\/font><\/p>\n

Next post will comment on an interesting article, Twilight of the Books<\/a>, a New Yorker piece on the decline of reading and the rise of what they author calls, the second orality.\u00a0 Some disturbing implications.<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

26\u00a082% 26%\u00a03mph\u00a0WNW\u00a0 bar\u00a029.97 steady\u00a0 windchill25\u00a0 Yuletide\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Waning Gibbous Cold Moon A thinker sees his own actions as experiments and questions–as attempts to find out something. Success and failure are for him answers above all. \u00a0 – Friedrich Nietzsche 2007 saw the Ellis-Olson household become late adopters in two of the more dynamic techno-revolutions abroad in … Continue reading Techno-Lust Satiated: For Now<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[73],"class_list":["post-166","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=166"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=166"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=166"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=166"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}