Isn’t this bed kind of neat & girly without being obvious at first? 🙂
Been sitting on these links, and thought I’d share:
One item of junk food could be your 3-days worth of sugar intake
Not surprising, but interesting nonetheless.
Food Co-Ops
What a neat concept! I only wish we had like-minded friends who lived nearby (hah! hard to do when we keep moving), to be able to do food swaps with.
Discrimination against the Deaf
They are suffering silently. I feel awful for them, and this article makes me so much more sensitive to someone who is identifiably deaf.
All about technology
Addicted to technology
Check.
Your Brain on Computers
Very interesting. I can’t multi-task, by the way. I can make notes to myself to do other things while I’m working on a task, but I absolutely cannot do two things at once. I cannot even listen to music while I work.
The Ugly Toll Impatience
I don’t necessarily find myself more impatient. I’m actually quite calm in the car, unless I’m REALLY late. Even in traffic, you can’t do anything about being stuck in it, so why fret?
I do find myself getting impatient when something is promised, but not delivered. Just don’t promise at all.
A good example would be online customer service. I’ve never expected it, but if you tell me you’re offering it, I am going to darn well expect that you deliver it, and not email me back with a: “Call this number for more assistance” message when I didn’t even want to pick up the phone in the first place.
Hmmmm…..
These three links really made me re-assess how much technology has impacted my life since the 6th grade, when I started webdesigning and discovering what the internet was all about.
I am by no means exempt from the examples in the articles, but I do use a lot of technology in my life.
Just traveling for a week for work, I have:
– GPS (much needed in a city I don’t live in)
– 4 USB keys (2 are just because I forgot to take them out of the bag)
– Cellphone (albeit not a smart phone, that would make me even MORE addicted I think)
– 2 laptops (one for work, one for personal stuff)
– 2 mice (cannot work without one, cramps my hand)
– 1 hard drive (holds videos because my laptop only has so much space)
– iPod (for listening to music in the car)
And that isn’t ALL that I own in gadgets!
That being said, I regularly forget my cellphone (and forget to charge it), I can switch off my laptops at any time (no “pull” to go back to them), and BF and I connect when we go out for walks. He hates the idea of a smartphone, while I am open to one, but when we’re together, we’re not distracted by other things.
We focus on each other, we take walks with just some money in our pocket, our house keys & sunglasses.
I would hate to be ignored for a device.
If it’s an important, million dollar, life or death call then by all means, take it. If not, please respect the fact that I’m trying to connect to you in person.
Most telling of all, when we are on vacation, I bring a netbook just to do quick checks on my emails once a day, but I am not addicted to it, at the expense of my vacation.
I don’t get the reason & need for being connected all the time. I hate texting and instant messaging.
Tweeting is all right, because I can reply to tweets any time I choose to, rather than feeling chained to my desk, and forced to converse with someone via instant messaging in real-time.
I guess I’m just an oddball.
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I do have my phone on me most of the times, but sometimes I forget to take it with me, or I forget to charge it. It doesn’t really matter that much to me (unless I really need to call/text someone to pick me up from the train station, hehe).
It’s a smartphone with unlimited internet, and I use it mostly for communication, not so much for games, etc. I also only average 20-40 texts every month – how do people manage to get to hundreds of texts every month?
When I want to focus I turn the Refresh-function off and put it in silent mode and out of my sight. Whenever I spent a day working on school work, glued to my computer, I feel a bit drained, not just from the school work but also from staring at a screen for the better part of the day.
One of my teachers this term had assigned us to do a book report. We had to read an academic book on the history of Republican China. There was a long list, varying from visual culture to the Sino-Japanese war. She was genuinely worried that students no longer read whole books, and only articles from e-journals, or parts from books on Google Books. So this was her part in trying to get us back to books made from paper, the real thing.
The cost of making a phone call is getting to be too expensive, so a lot of people use texting as their main form of communication now. Short conversations with friends throughout the week and organizing group get togethers adds up to a lot of texts very quickly!
My friends and I have done a food co-op before, but we didn’t call it that specifically. We did up 8 batches (4 or so servings/batch) of 6 or 8 different meals, and prepared them for the freezer. Everyone took home 2 of each dish. When we were super busy and on the go, we always had meals ready to go in the freezer.
I love this. I have been trying to tell my bf this. I said when we get home we should try and not be on our phones or on our computers and enjoy time without technology. He says some of the things that he loves to do and is passionate about have to do with the computer. Maybe we will have to pick one night a week that it can be computer time. I view the computer like the TV. He is against having TV, but I almost think they are the same. Anyways…. that’s my rant. 🙂 I love that you make the efforts to remove yourself from technology and being connected.