Tuesday, June 16, 2009

KISS = keep it simple sir...

To run or jog is to have both feet in the air for a bit, to walk is to have one foot always in contact with the ground - and the body moving forward, to fall is to have both feet in contact and stuck in last position and the body moving floorward to meet something introduced by gravity's effect. Once on morning jogs in Seoul Korea my running partner would hear something and notice I was no longer beside him, I had tripped over a cobble stone and moved from jog to fall. He laughed at me a lot over those, I ripped more knees in jogging togs that way. I go slower now and lift my feet a tad bit higher, or pretend to. An hour and sixteen minutes today, beautiful day and life is great.

About KISS, I understand that the Iranian government is at the mercy of Twitter and CNN, I saw it on the news, now we are all hoping for a break in the Wall like Berlin. Well, y'all may be but I am not, I tried to call my mother this morning, and I find myself on a voice mail box, oh, good. Bell could call Watson and not get a voice mailbox, but I can't. In some ways I think technology is wonderful, and in others I think I would rather just be without. It takes time and memory for video streams - some of which are worthy most of which aren't, it takes time and memory for my message to my mother to be stored. And I would rather have talked to her, but that doesn't seem to be the option, remind me to look hard at my wife's Sprint cellphone- it has way more than she wants or needs and a simple cellphone for calling from is all she wants, if I had one it would be all I wanted - but I don't and I haven't missed it. I have the whole internet, and I can miss the current Iranian Revolution if I want to, not accessing Facebook from here, not twittering (I leave that to the birds, they do it better than I ever will) and somehow I notice that our soldiers are still dying in Iraq and Afghanistan for President Obama, the War on Terror and Iraqi Freedom, and the rest of us... why am I supposed to care about Iran? I figure that Israel can take them out if necessary, and internal problems won't come across the waters - but then I am so simple.

1 comment:

Old NFO said...

Good points Earl! As always! thanks