Comments on: Boston Is Definitely My Kinda Town http://www.plannedobsolescence.net/boston-is-definitely-my-kinda-town/ falling indelibly into the past Sun, 20 Jul 2008 23:07:20 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6 By: KF http://www.plannedobsolescence.net/boston-is-definitely-my-kinda-town/#comment-1361 KF Fri, 29 Oct 2004 22:03:56 +0000 http://www.new.plannedobsolescence.net/?p=617#comment-1361 <p>Francois, first off, thanks for your comment.  I’m not sure we deserve any kudos yet—or perhaps that’s just superstition on my part, holding my breath to see if the world really maybe can become a better place next week.  But I know my life has been made better, both by the connections I’ve made out here in bloggerland and by the at least partial satisfaction of my desperate need to communicate some small subset of the chaos in my brain.  I needed to make something.  I needed it to be made of words.  And I needed SOMEBODY to read it.  And all of this—the technotinkering, the new friends and colleagues, and the ability to publish small snippets of thought and then let them go drifting on toward their inevitable obsolescence—all of this has made my world better. </p> <p> There’s a milestone in all of this, as well, which is what’s making me take a turn toward the elegiac:  your comment, Francois, is number 1000.  So yes:  let a million fishbowls bloom, and let a thousand conversations begin therein. </p> <p> Thanks.  To all of you. </p> Francois, first off, thanks for your comment.  I’m not sure we deserve any kudos yet—or perhaps that’s just superstition on my part, holding my breath to see if the world really maybe can become a better place next week.  But I know my life has been made better, both by the connections I’ve made out here in bloggerland and by the at least partial satisfaction of my desperate need to communicate some small subset of the chaos in my brain.  I needed to make something.  I needed it to be made of words.  And I needed SOMEBODY to read it.  And all of this—the technotinkering, the new friends and colleagues, and the ability to publish small snippets of thought and then let them go drifting on toward their inevitable obsolescence—all of this has made my world better.

There’s a milestone in all of this, as well, which is what’s making me take a turn toward the elegiac:  your comment, Francois, is number 1000.  So yes:  let a million fishbowls bloom, and let a thousand conversations begin therein.

Thanks.  To all of you.

]]> By: Francois Lachance http://www.plannedobsolescence.net/boston-is-definitely-my-kinda-town/#comment-1360 Francois Lachance Fri, 29 Oct 2004 02:00:04 +0000 http://www.new.plannedobsolescence.net/?p=617#comment-1360 <p>Kathleen, I don’t know how you measure compassion. I do know that from the outside of your country I observe a degree of civility as the November election draws near and political polarization can slide into demonizing the opposition and descent into quelling dissent. In part I attribute the tone to the civil society recreated by bloggers both left and right leaning. And I mean recreated in the sense that the unpaid labour in the domestic sphere contributes to the well being of citizens and communities. It is as if a million fish bowls have bloomed. You’ve influenced lurkers. I don’t mean in terms of how the will vote but how they will treat each other regardless of how they vote. If freedom begins in dignity ... o blather all i mean to say is kudos, you can be proud of yourselves. </p> Kathleen, I don’t know how you measure compassion. I do know that from the outside of your country I observe a degree of civility as the November election draws near and political polarization can slide into demonizing the opposition and descent into quelling dissent. In part I attribute the tone to the civil society recreated by bloggers both left and right leaning. And I mean recreated in the sense that the unpaid labour in the domestic sphere contributes to the well being of citizens and communities. It is as if a million fish bowls have bloomed. You’ve influenced lurkers. I don’t mean in terms of how the will vote but how they will treat each other regardless of how they vote. If freedom begins in dignity … o blather all i mean to say is kudos, you can be proud of yourselves.

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