Technology

Phone switchhooks must die, or: Any sufficiently backwards technology is indistinguishable from magic.

I've just come off an hour-long marathon attempting to call my grandmother, who is currently in the hospital after having fallen and broken her femural neck and her forearm. On that excursion, which I'll detail below, I realized two truths.

1. Phone switchhooks must become a thing of the past in all cases and applications.
2. Any sufficiently backwards technology is indistinguishable from magic.

All right, so bear with me for a little bit...

If you're reading this, you may have noticed that this web site hasn't been here before. So, what happened?

As the first, welcoming blog post already indicated, I've decided to take up blogging again. Perhaps this presentation of who I am and what I do might help in procuring a job (after two depressions--the world-wide economic one and a hefty personal one--proceeded to kick me while I was already down). Also, I'm looking forward to debate and discuss interesting topics more in-depth than Facebook and consorts allow, and with more people than just my best friend who is one of the few people interested in shedding light on what's going on in the world.