Did it happen?

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To be fair, this instinct is not new. People have always rehashed a fun night out among friends. In the past it was either done in person or over the phone. At some point it was also done through posts on internet forums.

Now it gets done instantaneously and perhaps to a wider audience. So clearly there are shifts in how the culture gets diffused.

But the underlying motivations for living through memories is very very old.
 
originally posted by Florida Jim:
Mmmmmmmmmmmmm, doughnuts.
Best, Jim
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Where are you buying your doughnuts? I continue to be disappointed by local sources, even the expensive ones with fancy flavors.
 
originally posted by Jay Miller:
originally posted by Florida Jim:
Mmmmmmmmmmmmm, doughnuts.
Best, Jim
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Where are you buying your doughnuts? I continue to be disappointed by local sources, even the expensive ones with fancy flavors.
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As you know, Jim gets his donuts for $0.10, delivered.

Mark Lipton
 
originally posted by Rahsaan:
To be fair, this instinct is not new. People have always rehashed a fun night out among friends.

But the underlying motivations for living through memories is very very old.
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Caves of Altamira, anyone?
 
originally posted by Rahsaan:
To be fair, this instinct is not new. People have always rehashed a fun night out among friends. In the past it was either done in person or over the phone. At some point it was also done through posts on internet forums.

Now it gets done instantaneously and perhaps to a wider audience. So clearly there are shifts in how the culture gets diffused.

But the underlying motivations for living through memories is very very old.
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Most certainly.

However I regret (though it might make me seem behind the times) the urge to dumb it down. We have a method at our disposal that has nearly unlimited capacity and global reach and the instinct was first to limit the message to 100 (as the case may be) characters; next -- just send a photo 'cause we now all have that capability; finally we will be back to grunts.

I didn't start out to make this about the VLM. Cleary Nathan is a literate, intelligent-beyond-description, human with the added benefit of supreme taste in matters viniferous. But compare what we get now (a photo on instagram) with what might have been on posted on the Translucency Report. A grunt as to Vermeer. (And of course I acknowledge there are many reasons an individual might kill his blog.)

The VLMTR is just one blog that I miss. Blogs be dead, and personally I am poorer for that. I am glad to see that message boards seem to be holding on, even though the medium seems a relic.

I don't mean to take a dump on technology. The abundance of wealth produced in the last 40 years is staggering. And I use every aspect that seems to enhance beauty. Facebook, from my perspective as an amateur photographer, is an aesthetic abomination. Twitter mostly seems to lead to Twitter wars. I suppose Instagram has the benefit of being vague enough to not lead to Insta-wars.

17,000 years ago Paleolithic humans used minerals and resin to paint the caves at Lascaux. We still marvel at them. In a year people might be mining Twitter for digital marketing trends. Pisarro would draw a blank looking for beauty on Twitter.

Rant over, though I would add the Disorderly more than pulls it weight in terms of thinking in full sentences.
 
originally posted by Michael Lewis:
Tristan, here is a summary of what you are missing...
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I laughed.

It also shows both sides of the issue: the best (by far) print of Chimes at Midnight available to U.S. viewers is the one uploaded to YouTube.
 
originally posted by Michael Lewis:
Tristan, here is a summary of what you are missing...
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These nearly-repetitive lines remind me of the text of a large choral work. Does anyone here know whether this infographic would scansion properly onto Bach's B-Minor Mass or Mozart's Requiem? Or, P.D.Q. Bach's oratorio "The Seasonings"?
 
originally posted by Tristan Welles:
I didn't start out to make this about the VLM. Cleary Nathan is a literate, intelligent-beyond-description, human with the added benefit of supreme taste in matters viniferous. But compare what we get now (a photo on instagram) with what might have been on posted on the Translucency Report. A grunt as to Vermeer. (And of course I acknowledge there are many reasons an individual might kill his blog.)
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You should probably make that "kill his own blog," lest VLM think you are singling out his blog as feasibly inciting death wishes for many reasons.
 
originally posted by Tristan Welles:

However I regret (though it might make me seem behind the times) the urge to dumb it down... We have a method at our disposal that has nearly unlimited capacity and global reach and the instinct was first to limit the message to 100 (as the case may be) characters...The VLMTR is just one blog that I miss. Blogs be dead, and personally I am poorer for that.
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I can't speak for the evolution of the VLMTR, it may or may not have anything to do with evolving technology.

But I do know that my twitter feed is full of intelligent people posting 140 character teasers with weblinks to much longer treatises on all sorts of issues. I'm an academic and from my professional perspective the internet has enabled much richer intellectual discourse with global reach, compared to 50 years ago when five old guys needed to travel to Cambridge to have an exchange.

I would bet that the same people who trade in simple grunts on twitter/instagram/wherever were trading in the equivalent grunts before the technology.

But I could be wrong. And I'm sure there's research out there on it.
 
originally posted by Rahsaan:
But I do know that my twitter feed is full of intelligent people posting 140 character teasers with weblinks to much longer treatises on all sorts of issues. I'm an academic and from my professional perspective the internet has enabled much richer intellectual discourse with global reach, compared to 50 years ago when five old guys needed to travel to Cambridge to have an exchange.
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I'm a computer professional and I am interested how you curate the list of feeds that you read?
 
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