Internet Todo List for Enthusiastic Thinkers, S1E26
I'LL INTERNET IT TO YOU
I don't like using technology or brand names to describe communication anymore. It requires too much auxiliary information. "What's your Facebook? Are you on Twitter? Oh, I don't do Pinterest, how do I find you there? Should I sign up?" I am increasingly a grumpy old technology veteran; for me, the message is the message.
Instead, I like to tell people I'll just "internet" them some information. I'm pretty sure I can find someone via Facebook, or email, or whatever. I'll send you the information with whatever network I find and you seem active on.
It works pretty well, and it's fun to say.
FAVORITE PARKS-AND-REC-JOKE WATCH
This is an amazing little joke from this season of NBC's Parks and Recreation.
- I am super jealous that I didn't think of this joke, and don't even know how I could sit around writing jokes and come up with this joke.
- This is a brilliant joke.
- How great is it that we can just GIF a great sitcom joke now?
- How is it I don't know how to create a GIF? It is as magical to me as putting an object in orbit.
AN KILOGRAM
It turns out, a kilogram isn't exactly what it used to be. In Paris, there's a chunk of material that, more than a hundred years ago, was the definitive kilogram. But over the years, that chunk of material has shed weight and now it's not quite a kilogram. This week, The Economist devotes two articles to the curious story of my favorite increasingly non-standard object.
THE LETTER
I've recently added "The Letter" to my list of songs which, when played or appearing on one's radio by chance, must be played at the loudest possible volume (constrained by the fidelity of the available audio equipment). For the record, "Wouldn't It Be Nice" and the first movement of Beethoven's Ninth Symphony are the only other pieces on this list.
If you're new to "The Letter", relax, you're probably not. Here's the original. Al Green's "The Letter" has deepest groove, and a "don't talk to yo mamma like that" that vibe. The Beach Boys version is a demo, I think, and of interest almost as a deconstruction of the song. And of course, there's Joe Cocker's cover, which I can only describe as an absolute outpouring of that which makes music good.
See you next week, friend in "interneting"!
~akk