head in past in future

But the other thing is that all these things that “have happened” before now are still in my future.  I haven’t read about them, or talked them through with friends… There’ll be multiple (infinite?) dimensions to unpack.  New versions of history, new takes on Futurism.  A guy could spend forever in the past alone, never mind today or tomorrow.

Education just never ever ends.

head in the past

“Driving while looking in the rear-view mirror”. McLuhan, wasn’t it? Well that’s me. Responding to yesterday… or, at best, today.

Some folks think I’m some kind of radical technophile. My boss lady recently expressed surprise that I have books in my house. Said she reckoned that I’d stow all my needed media on a nice machine. But I like bookshelves. Paperbacks going brittle and yellow. Something about knowing that the book has a limited number of reads in it. How many times will this book get read by me and my wife and my son before it finally goes to loose pages and crumbly bits in one of our hands? I like that. Being in the cycle. Earth to tree to page to brain to dust blown back out into the yard, to Earth. My son will read books his great-grandad sends. These here ideas were important enough to me to send them forward in time to you.

Here’s an Elric adventure that smells like pipe smoke.

I can’t catch up, though. The newest music? Forget about it. I’m listening to My Bloody Valentine and John Cale and Digable Planets and the Cocteau Twins. I’ve heard of the Flaming Lips. I’ve heard Luke Vibert and 16 Horsepower, but I haven’t yet metabolized them. I’m still on, like, Stereolab and Michael Hurley and Deltron 3030. Can never quite catch up.

New moves in architecture? I’m just now touching on Sophia Vyzoviti. I just can’t quite catch up.

internet archive library

Poster:	brewster	Date:	June 25, 2007 09:07:27am
Well, the Internet Archive is now officially a library according to the State of California! It turns out that to receive a particular kind of federal funding, you have to have your state sign off that you are a library.With a minimum amount of back and forth (including their saying “we have not evaluated something like the Internet Archive before”) we were given the approval. Nice to know! -brewster news about it: http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/07175/796164-96.stm This post was modified by brewster on 2007-06-25 16:07:27