all2swift

On Ownership

all2swift Nov 04, 2017 14:10

I really think I miss ownership. We don’t bother with permanence any more if we can manage it. We subscribe to music or movie services. We lease cars and even phones. Computer software and apps are moving towards subscription rather than outright ownership. We don’t really bother much with physical objects when we can find an ethereal alternative ( Read more... )

#pastpresentfuture, #rumination

GOOD

all2swift Jun 27, 2008 19:52

Good of you to stop by this final time. This one, singular, last time. I did promise a last entry, didn't I? I did. I wrote that I would post publicly once again, and so I shall. Mostly for a single person, really, but more about that later. I'm a bit late; about a year, to be exact, but here I am, posting, so who's to complain, eh? Who ( Read more... )

Penultimate Entry

all2swift Jun 07, 2007 11:29

So I have a date tonight to try and pack a few things. You know, like my life. Our lives. We're moving out of New Haven. If you even know where that is. I've spent ten years here, my wife nine, and our daughter all her life of nearly three years. A decade is a long time, regardless of one's age. I've known this town all my adult life, really ( Read more... )

I think I began writing this in February?

all2swift Apr 06, 2007 08:45

I used to wonder about the insanely high pitched sounds girls make when their (predominantly male) celebrities of choice appear. I really did. But I've figured that one out now. I really have ( Read more... )

wife, little one, work

Rinse. Lather. REPEAT.

all2swift Nov 15, 2006 21:40

My daughter is old enough now to have begun imitation in earnest. For the most part, I really enjoy this new habit, since it’s an incredibly effective way to learn useful things like new vocabulary and how to flick bad drivers off. It’s also endearing much of the time, since she’s half mastered words like zygoma, patella, Achilles, axilla, and ( Read more... )

wife, little one

All Hallow's Eve

all2swift Nov 01, 2006 22:42

Ten thoughts on last night ( Read more... )

wife, little one

Jabber

all2swift Oct 18, 2006 23:38

Doode, does anyone actually use the LJ Talk/Gizmo thing? Besides typefiend, who appears online right now. I'm just curious about this, because the Jabber system is totally cool (GTalk is based on it, and it's open source, and a buncha other things ( Read more... )

The Foot Sees

all2swift Oct 03, 2006 23:55

I saw a couple playing footsies at lunch today. Do the proverbial "they" even call it the proverbial "footsies" any more? Or am I dating myself, like the chief resident who told me he "booked" across the hospital when a patient coded? Unless people other than actors in police dramas still say "booked." But I digress. So back to footsies ( Read more... )

Ok Go

all2swift Sep 12, 2006 22:00

Once upon a time, there was this guy who discovered he actually liked to write. And then there were blogs. And then he wrote a lot. And then he didn't. And then he did again. And then he didn't. And so on, and on and on and etc. and on ( Read more... )

Hello. You May Remember Me. Or Not.

all2swift Jul 25, 2006 23:06

There exist in this world (so I've been told) a great many conglomerates in which work is accomplished (or merely accrued) by a situation not at all unlike the feudal system (though not quite like it, either). Certain individuals with greater importance (lords and ladies, say) command so-called "lesser" individuals (serfs, perhaps) in the pursuit ( Read more... )