Echo Chamber, Empty Room

On occasion, I wonder if my voice is really being heard. Don’t use it that often, but when I do, it’s nice to get feedback. Hell, even an echo off the back wall would be good enough. It’s easy enough to Like, Comment, or Share in this modern age. But, y’know, sometimes I also have …

Mushroom, Cloud

There once was a DARPA defense project to create a decentralized communications network that had very few points of weakness and therefore could survive a nuclear attack. ARPAnet. Academia joined on. The network grew, proved it was functional. Project a success, network renamed The Internet, as in “a network of networks”. All was well. Electronic …

Still Just a Rat in a Cage

Been a few weeks; figure I should say something. Neglecting my journal in lieu of posting quick status updates on Facebook. I hate that site, because I keep going back to it, clicking “Refresh”, hoping something good pops up. Psychologists have learned all about the strength of randomized rewards, and how it can best be …