Not only am I not breathlessly awaiting the newest thingy from Apple, which is premiering today, I’m not even among the merely skeptical. The only line you are likely to find me in this afternoon is this one with Union College professor Yu Chang.
watch out, kids!
don’t let those red mushrooms
cast a spell
…… by ISSA (translated by David G. Lanoue)
Call me an old luddite, or helplessly behind the times, but this self-proclaimed podriah is going to stick to single-purpose telephones, while enjoying the haiku and senryu of Honored Guest poet Tom Clausen:
strip mall —
the shimmer of leaves
on a new tree
muffler shop
a man managing
his cough
in our doorway
a man reads to me
a bible passage
beginning late . . .
the under attended
concert
the cashier
holds another large bill
up to the light
water
from the flower vase
returned to the garden
old friends talk —
each holding
car keys
breakdown lane
plastered
with political stickers
dining room
next to my wife’s chair
her dog at attention
……. by Tom Clausen from Upstate Dim Sum 2007/1
p.s. Have you ever noticed how hard it is to give up punditry (or even consumerism) cold-turkey? If you’re wondering about the economic and policy implications of America’s $850 Billion current-account deficit, see “Debtor Nation,” in the latest Harvard Magazine (July-August 2007).
Is this technophobia dressed up as sophisticated indifference?
The touch screen technology alone is enough to get me excited as I suspect it is a trivial prelude to a whole new way of using communication technology in the future – ie tap tap replaced by squeeze-and-rub is so much more organic, more direct and I suspect will allow much more complex interactions.
Although I bet when the “smaller-flake” technology developed there were droll observers that hefted their chunky flakes that were saying… “give me the old reliable single purpose flake anyday…
Comment by Jason Irons — August 13, 2007 @ 1:15 am