Help I Am Tumbling!

“When’s @Kinsee coming home?” (Taken with instagram)

Found at Grandpa’s House (Taken with instagram)

Industrial San Diego (Taken with Instagram at The Strand)

Good and racist (Taken with Instagram at Shakespeare Pub & Grille)

Lego Trooper (Taken with Instagram at Toys R Us)

Georgia St Bridge

Not a bad way to start the morning.

There is a hole in my heart dug deep by advertising and envy and a desire to see a thing that is new and different and beautiful. A place within me that is empty, and that I want to fill it up. The hole makes me think electronics can help. And of course, they can.

They make the world easier and more enjoyable. They boost productivity and provide entertainment and information and sometimes even status. At least for a while. At least until they are obsolete. At least until they are garbage.

Electronics are our talismans that ward off the spiritual vacuum of modernity; gilt in Gorilla Glass and cadmium. And in them we find entertainment in lieu of happiness, and exchanges in lieu of actual connections.

In my opinion one of the best episodes of This American Life in a long time.

Which I listened to at work on my iPod, with an iPhone in my pocket, while checking email on an iPad and working on a handful of (HP) laptops.

I like how they note at the end that this episode (like all other episodes of TAL) was produced using Apple computers.

Regardless of what the economists say, I worry about myself just a bit because I didn’t toss all those gadgets out the window while listening to this story.