shuttle rides = someone else drives

the shuttle is a lot more posh than the city bus, so I try to catch it whenever I can. It's a great way to let someone else do the driving, so that I have more reflection and device time. Too much life out here on the west coast is spent behind the wheels of cars. It takes so much intention to pay attention for the aberrant driving of others, so even if you can listen to an mp3 while driving or something, your attention is severely divided. Riding the shuttle helps me gain back enough device time to make regular blogging possible. I cant say that I would be so dedicated to keeping this up were it to eat into other activity time.

Besides, where but on a college shuttle will you find such blatant and hilarious disregard for posted rules?

...damn! Can't upload images to Blogger! T'will have to show you what I mean a bit later.

Twitter, Second Life, iPhone

My digital tools twine into tighter webs with one another, spanning a bridge between this world and the Metaverse. I use Twitter on my iPhone, and Second Life and Twitter just linked up, and to top it? News of a Japanese company developing a SL Client for phones. (Though I have to admit I doubt it will have anything to do with the iPhone, even though I can think of some really novel ways a palm sized touch screen could be used in Second Life.)

with phones we are all at standby 24/7 to our social realities... I never turn my phone off anymore, unless out in the woods with no service area. Satellite coverage makes that a rarity... I kind of find it a treat that I live so close to a cell hole- Mt Hood National Forest. Its kind of like these spaces without digital hookups become their own unique kind of landscape all of a sudden. Does preserving space where its not possible to connect as we become more and more entwined with technology matter?

Still waiting

For my iPhone update that will include some Flash support. Of course they added iTunes, and one more channel of marketing to my poor over-saturated brain. Now if only they would give me some love for teaching and learning tools already made!!