In the beginning, when I went on-line, I really felt like that guy in the Le Corbusier chair being blown away by a high fidelity Maxell cassette tape-- surfing was the perfect term for how I felt while navigating this weird and wild tsunami of information (the first word I ever typed into a search engine was "catapult" and I was astounded that there was stuff on the other end of the search) but things have changed; now that the digital world is fairly tame and civilized, "surfing" seems too athletic a metaphor; we don't careen and carve through a frothy chop of crashing dynamic digital liquid any longer, we "visit" sites that are curated to our tastes so that we feel perfectly at home . . . consequently, we need a new term for this experience: I humbly suggest "scootering around the web."
i feel like this entire sentence was an excuse for dave to casually drop 'le corbusier' and thus subliminally cast himself as superior to the great unwashed ikea-sitting masses
ReplyDeletehell, on second thought, there's nothing subliminal about it. dave's an elitist.
ReplyDeletePass le Corbusier.
ReplyDeletean elitist who lives with a family of raccoons? no such thing.
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