Tag: brain

  • You are not a gadget – Jaron Lanier

    I’m reading Jaron Lanier’s You are not a gadget, at the moment. Lanier is one of the original geeky gurus of the net. He’s taking stock and having a think about where we are going in this book, which he calls a manifesto. I haven’t got to the manifesto part yet, but his musings are…

  • Double Speak

    British Gas are advertising price cuts at the moment. A concerned voice says, “We understand how difficult things have been, so we are making things easier for you by cutting our prices.” This is not quite true. What they mean is that the price of Gas has come dow to the point where they ca’t…

  • Day off

    I’ve been so busy since Christmas, I’ve decided to do nothing today – and so far I’ve succeeded. I went to have a look at a really bad auction, just a load of old rubbish and now I’m going to slob out in front of the TV. There comes a time when your brain needs…