Generational Projects

MikeNM

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May 04, 2022

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This episode of In Our Time is about the Sistine Chapel. It's an excellent dissection of the politics, the art, and the legacy of the construction. It's well worth an hour of your time. However what sticks out to me is that the grand buildings of the Renaissance were massive generational projects that morphed and changed as . . .

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The Endless Now

MikeNM

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November 30, 2021

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There is a conflict between personal survival and the ecological footprint of modern humans. Well, it's not a conflict, but there is a paradox. Methuselah generations living into their 100s and also going to be facing questions about their footprint on the world. At the same time, does someone living well into their 100's . . .

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The Media Not The Messenger

MikeNM

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October 31, 2021

Reworking the approach to media focused entirely on a massive influx of streams, and not editorial curation, has, unsurprisingly, made a mess of public discourse. This isn't because people are inherently stupider than they were before Facebook, nor are they any less media literate. Not that people were ever . . .

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Text As Mutable Art Form

MikeNM

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September 30, 2021

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Video and Audio Dominate The Web

Not to criticize the medium, but many YouTube channels are literally someone talking directly to the camera with static art or stock video interspersed.
Ten years ago, these probably would have been blogs or early social media posts. Ten years before that, a forum post or an entry on a . . .

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Exploiting My Lack of Motivation

MikeNM

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August 31, 2021

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Getting any new equipment can always alter your workflow in interesting ways. I've spent a fair amount of years falling down the mechanical keyboard rabbit hole. I was lured in by the original Matias recreation of the Apple Extended II keyboard, which made an awful clatter. (Actually, I was originally lured in by a southpaw . . .

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Tech Whine: Adding Words To The iPad Dictionary

MikeNM

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July 31, 2021

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I have been an iPad user since the original; I even have one of those weird keyboards with a thirty-pin connector sitting on a bookshelf. In all that time, I've had an IT job support in executives using the iPad as a secondary machine, written tons of Software reviews (Pour one out for Macgasm), and overall been an advocate of . . .

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One Nation Under Nostalgia

MikeNM

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June 30, 2021

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The past is ever-present in American Culture. The Republic was founded as Roman fan fiction. The lost Republic was a grand age before the corruption of Kings. A bit further up the coast, they were more worried about the original lost golden age back in the garden. The key is that the past must be mythic and unreachable. As our time . . .

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