Comments on: Black box http://www.vianegativa.us/2007/03/black-box/ How can we live without the unknown before us? —Rene Char Sun, 12 Feb 2012 19:48:49 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Dave http://www.vianegativa.us/2007/03/black-box/#comment-3911 Dave Sun, 18 Mar 2007 15:16:11 +0000 http://www.vianegativa.us/2007/03/15/black-box/#comment-3911 <blockquote>It's just that I don't have a degree in writing.</blockquote> Me neither. Yeah, I'm sure we'd check in on email and such on occasion, but I imagine that internet cafes are spread rather thinly where we're planning on going (northern Canada and Alaska).

It’s just that I don’t have a degree in writing.

Me neither.

Yeah, I’m sure we’d check in on email and such on occasion, but I imagine that internet cafes are spread rather thinly where we’re planning on going (northern Canada and Alaska).

]]> By: leslee http://www.vianegativa.us/2007/03/black-box/#comment-3910 leslee Sun, 18 Mar 2007 14:53:24 +0000 http://www.vianegativa.us/2007/03/15/black-box/#comment-3910 <i>— if you want to try and listen to it online</i> Snort. That would be ironic. — if you want to try and listen to it online

Snort. That would be ironic.

]]> By: May http://www.vianegativa.us/2007/03/black-box/#comment-3909 May Sun, 18 Mar 2007 09:11:33 +0000 http://www.vianegativa.us/2007/03/15/black-box/#comment-3909 It's just that I don't have a degree in writing. As regards traveling, you may find an internet cafè anywhere in the world. If only I could take a long break and see some more of the world. When I am 64... It’s just that I don’t have a degree in writing.

As regards traveling, you may find an internet cafè anywhere in the world. If only I could take a long break and see some more of the world. When I am 64…

]]> By: Dave http://www.vianegativa.us/2007/03/black-box/#comment-3908 Dave Sun, 18 Mar 2007 03:09:32 +0000 http://www.vianegativa.us/2007/03/15/black-box/#comment-3908 Funny you should mention traveling. I've just been contemplating a lengthy summer road-trip with my brothers, and already feel a twinge of blog separation anxiety. That spot was near the beginning of the broadcast -- sometime in the first twenty minutes, I'd say -- if you want to try and listen to it online. Funny you should mention traveling. I’ve just been contemplating a lengthy summer road-trip with my brothers, and already feel a twinge of blog separation anxiety.

That spot was near the beginning of the broadcast — sometime in the first twenty minutes, I’d say — if you want to try and listen to it online.

]]> By: leslee http://www.vianegativa.us/2007/03/black-box/#comment-3907 leslee Sun, 18 Mar 2007 02:01:00 +0000 http://www.vianegativa.us/2007/03/15/black-box/#comment-3907 I missed that PHC bit on Internet addiction. I so look forward to traveling, if only for the enforced unplugging. It's also good to have a job to go to since I mostly feel compelled to stay off the web except to check email occasionally (okay, obsessively, but it takes up little time compared to most other online activities, eg blogging). I missed that PHC bit on Internet addiction. I so look forward to traveling, if only for the enforced unplugging. It’s also good to have a job to go to since I mostly feel compelled to stay off the web except to check email occasionally (okay, obsessively, but it takes up little time compared to most other online activities, eg blogging).

]]> By: Dave http://www.vianegativa.us/2007/03/black-box/#comment-3906 Dave Sun, 18 Mar 2007 01:29:58 +0000 http://www.vianegativa.us/2007/03/15/black-box/#comment-3906 May - Thanks! (Your reactions are as valuable as anyone else's - don't know why you'd think otherwise.) robin andrea - I think you're even more cynical than I am, if that's possible. I'm pretty sure I would not want the so-called news to be the last thing I heard before dying, but to each each her own. Did you hear the ad for Internet addiction therapy on today's Prairie Home Companion? Cold turkey is the only way to go, they said. Sounds about right. May – Thanks! (Your reactions are as valuable as anyone else’s – don’t know why you’d think otherwise.)

robin andrea – I think you’re even more cynical than I am, if that’s possible. I’m pretty sure I would not want the so-called news to be the last thing I heard before dying, but to each each her own.

Did you hear the ad for Internet addiction therapy on today’s Prairie Home Companion? Cold turkey is the only way to go, they said. Sounds about right.

]]> By: robin andrea http://www.vianegativa.us/2007/03/black-box/#comment-3905 robin andrea Sat, 17 Mar 2007 22:49:34 +0000 http://www.vianegativa.us/2007/03/15/black-box/#comment-3905 I was just thinking the other day that if I were dying I would want someone to read me the news. That way I would feel less like staying than if they opened the curtains and just let me look outside. It's a plug-in drug, those infernal blinking lights, connection addicts. I was just thinking the other day that if I were dying I would want someone to read me the news. That way I would feel less like staying than if they opened the curtains and just let me look outside. It’s a plug-in drug, those infernal blinking lights, connection addicts.

]]> By: May http://www.vianegativa.us/2007/03/black-box/#comment-3904 May Sat, 17 Mar 2007 20:32:15 +0000 http://www.vianegativa.us/2007/03/15/black-box/#comment-3904 I am nobody to say it but: great post. I am nobody to say it but: great post.

]]> By: Dave http://www.vianegativa.us/2007/03/black-box/#comment-3903 Dave Sat, 17 Mar 2007 17:11:41 +0000 http://www.vianegativa.us/2007/03/15/black-box/#comment-3903 This post temporarily disappeared due to a Wordpress bug that erroneously designates occasional posts as "private" during a routine re-publishing for an edit. Sorry for the confusion. This post temporarily disappeared due to a WordPress bug that erroneously designates occasional posts as “private” during a routine re-publishing for an edit. Sorry for the confusion.

]]> By: Dave http://www.vianegativa.us/2007/03/black-box/#comment-3902 Dave Fri, 16 Mar 2007 15:40:06 +0000 http://www.vianegativa.us/2007/03/15/black-box/#comment-3902 Zhoen - "Blessing" would be one word, yes. Laura - No, we have high speed. The "black box" in question isn't strictly a modem, though I continue to call it that. It's a DSL box from Verizon for access to a nearby fiber network node. I think I'll change the wording of the second sentence to make that clearer. Zhoen – “Blessing” would be one word, yes.

Laura – No, we have high speed. The “black box” in question isn’t strictly a modem, though I continue to call it that. It’s a DSL box from Verizon for access to a nearby fiber network node. I think I’ll change the wording of the second sentence to make that clearer.

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