Paper or Plastic?

14May08

Have you ever gone to the grocery store at non-peak hours and found only self-checkout lines available to you? I find nothing to be quite so reprehensible as being forced (forced!) to scan my own items, fumble through unfamiliar produce menus, and then bag my items in what will inevitably be a less-than-skillful way, often [...]

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Tags: libraries, lonely in the library, replacing human interaction, self-check out, technology

Armchair ethnography

14May08

While slinking through the blogosphere gathering research for an upcoming post, I stumbled upon a strange subculture of young straight couples blogging in Utah.  These pairs blog together, as in they share a blog and uniformily name it after their dyadic selves, surnames included.  Because they bravely put themselves out there for public derision by a New England spinster - rife with too many [...]

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Tags: blogging, mormons, research, spinters who proudly wear cardigans