Here be dragons.
With this avatar and the name, Bewitching Vagabond, I wrote a regular column, newsletters, picked featured links and maintained communities for BackWash.com (2001 – 2008, I think).
We built a social community, before social media. It was known as “the Internet by personality”.
I was peeling carrots and I asked my nephew to get me a kettle to put them into. He said it was a pot. I didn’t really care what he wanted to call it. Just get it so I can make dinner. I was visiting at his house, his Mother’s house. But he went on about it, correcting me.… Read the rest
Attack kittens. I gave my nephew a shirt with a kitten like a fire breathing dragon attacking a city.
I found these as shirts at Amazon. Little monster kittens like King Kong and the Kracken.
The Mountain Krakitten Adult T-Shirt, Grey, Small
The Mountain Men’s King Kitten, Gray, Small
Fun, but not very affordable. Why are so many things printed on T-shirts.… Read the rest
To say we are bombarded by information is just scratching the surface. We are endlessly flogged with marketing, and information. Most of what we see and hear is marketing based, or focused on selling. Does it even turn off in our sleep any more? Do you have dreams with product placement?
… Read the restIt’s hard to relax when information follows you wherever you go.
The processed food fad is more than a fad. Yet, I wonder if we will end up not having fast food as we see it now but artificial food such as that created for astronauts. Food which contains the ‘right’ ingredients, processed and preserved to last for years, decades even. All the body needs without the actual need to chew.… Read the rest
People are beginning to prefer no human contact, it seems to me. Not just the mobile phone thing, but the germophobe stuff and choosing to send a text rather than risk catching someone actually live on their mobile phone.
The germophobe thing is odd enough. When did we become so prissy about germs? I think it is based on the lack of actually touching anything.… Read the rest
Not so long ago young women of my generation were thinking how awful an arranged marriage would be. Marrying (or even dating) someone chosen for you by someone else. A blind date with the expectations of changing your life for you.
Now we give this power to online dating sites. Match us up with their algorithms and theory of personalities and data of interests… is it really any different than an arranged marriage?… Read the rest
In the medical field lack of human touch could save lives and yet cause some patients to lose hope or feel alone. Terminal patients need humans care and yet it’s not an easy job to care for someone as they die. Infants have failure to thrive listed as a reason for death. How much of that is just lack of human touch, a feeling of being cared for, wanted?… Read the rest
A long, long time ago I wrote a profile for a friend’s website. The posts I wrote are mostly lost I think. I did save at least one. But, I did find my profile, with some digging via the archives.
… Read the restLaura is secretly handling the Canadian World Domination plot. It’s all very polite and litter free but for the odd moose rampage.
Tomorrow is the Canadian federal election. I already voted, early. Tonight I’m wondering, in this new democracy where people are allowed to make one choice only, call it coerced, whatever word you like. Will this be our last election?
First, I thought about future elections requiring a vaccine passport. Only those who have been vaccinated several times (with “the vaccine” not all those other vaccines, they just don’t count now) will be allowed to vote.… Read the rest