QOTD – an Orwellian micro-chipped population.

QOTD: As things get faster and faster, I’m afraid that as a society we’ll lose sight of the things that can only be appreciated at a slower pace, particularly personal relationships with people.

QOTD: You practically picked my future thesis topic! I’m concerned about an immediate turn to high-tech as the answer to all of our problems. We assume a linear progression of technological innovation when really we’re constantly picking and choosing from a multi-directional assortment of possible directions that we can follow. The result, is we get in a technological rut. A rut where a single bad idea can propagate itself and we build upon that mistake making it worse. As a society, we are afraid to return to earlier methods because we have the conception that if its in the past, it can’t possibly help us in the future.

Our energy crisis and climate change all come back to our suburban land development. We look to high-tech inventions and miracle fuels to deliver us to a carbon-free future, but we’re just putting band-aids on broken arms. We need to reach back to traditional neighborhood development so we don’t build our human environment to the scale of cars. We need human-scale neighborhoods with public space. Otherwise, these comment strings will be our last vestige of civil discourse.

Gary, Great Episode (as usual)! Sounds like
another worthy place to explore!

QOTD: It’s a little MUCH. Thank GOD dis geezer
was born when he was. Comment #91 pretty much
summed it up!!

Gary, Great Episode (as usual)! Sounds like
another worthy place to explore!

QOTD: It’s a little MUCH. Thank GOD dis geezer
was born when he was. Comment #91 pretty much
summed it up!!

QOTD: It’s waste, trash, poisons. Let’s use this genius we have to design a clean system. I have no doubt we can, we just aren’t motivated to. What a shame. Plus I like being unreachable: get this: I have no TV and no cell phone! AHHHH! I’ll be sending you all good thoughts as I gaze across the flowering meadow at the high Siskiyou peaks out my window. (It’s a good thing Oregon makes great wines because this is a long, long way from anywhere else!)

Nice ep, G.
Not sure if I should be concerned or not… I guess maybe I’ve actually got used to people scambling for their gadgets…so I guess the BUZZ, BUZZ, BUZZ…. didn’t annoy me? Love tech when I need the info…. learned to dislike it very much when people want ME. me thinks we all need our alone time….as I “fondly?” remember me 1st cell phone….. the one I carried in a big heavy fabric bag to carry the huge 2 lb battery, ah….those were the days 😉

Nice ep, G.
Not sure if I should be concerned or not… I guess maybe I’ve actually got used to people scambling for their gadgets…so I guess the BUZZ, BUZZ, BUZZ…. didn’t annoy me? Love tech when I need the info…. learned to dislike it very much when people want ME. me thinks we all need our alone time….as I “fondly?” remember me 1st cell phone….. the one I carried in a big heavy fabric bag to carry the huge 2 lb battery, ah….those were the days 😉

That buzzing phone would absolutely drive me nuts…

Nice ep, good idea with twitter. I just don’t care to be bothered by it that much.

Gary,
I say bring back the weird tasting glass. You would get less heat than you are getting with Twidder. 😀

Gary,
I say bring back the weird tasting glass. You would get less heat than you are getting with Twidder. 😀

only problem i have had with viddler is that if i have to pause it, most of the time it won’t restart (freezes and won’t restart); i have to reload the page, start it and then move the cursor to where i left off.

Louisiana George

interesting episode, too bad all the wines have sold out so quickly.

interesting episode, too bad all the wines have sold out so quickly.

i agree with the previous poster. When are you going to be getting more of thes?!!!!. I love Portugese wines.

Since the set is still too dark, I must assume that you don’t really care, otherwise it would have been fixed by now.

Since the set is still too dark, I must assume that you don’t really care, otherwise it would have been fixed by now.

It’s just my opinion but the TWITTER is really annoying. I’d prefer not to hear it or be distracted from the real reason I’m watching your show…information on wines and wine tasting.QOTD: As far as technology goes it is way WAY overrated…Love some things but a Luddite needs down time from all the racket. Slow is good if not better.

QOTD:emails are a half duplex communications technology. It is a giant leap backwards in technology. In the dark ages of computers, you would dial up a server on an acoustically coupled 300 baud modem and the machines would take turns talking. You can accomplish so much more by picking up the phone and having an interactive, full duplex conversation in real time. Use Skype if you want to throw technology into the conversation. IM’s are like talking with walkie talkies. Talking with these technologies is like talking at someone, not with someone.

QOTD:emails are a half duplex communications technology. It is a giant leap backwards in technology. In the dark ages of computers, you would dial up a server on an acoustically coupled 300 baud modem and the machines would take turns talking. You can accomplish so much more by picking up the phone and having an interactive, full duplex conversation in real time. Use Skype if you want to throw technology into the conversation. IM’s are like talking with walkie talkies. Talking with these technologies is like talking at someone, not with someone.

The Twitter is interesting, but make it a once-a-week resource, otherwise it will take over.

Love the non-fortified Portuguese reds…today’s show not so much. The distractions were a pain and Gary’s commentary suffered too. Still a huge fan, albeit a lurking-hermit.
QOTD- Viddler, skype, twitter – man, there aren’t enough hours in the day to take advantage of all this sh**.

Love the non-fortified Portuguese reds…today’s show not so much. The distractions were a pain and Gary’s commentary suffered too. Still a huge fan, albeit a lurking-hermit.
QOTD- Viddler, skype, twitter – man, there aren’t enough hours in the day to take advantage of all this sh**.

Our favorite moment from this episode

cameraman: sniff sniff “mmmmmm”

Haha! Not sure why, but that slayed me!

Great new design Garry! Kudos… . But, can you make it Mozilla-friendly? The page is all over the place. Need to do smth about your CSS place markers.
QOTD: I love new tech, especially telematic and domotic things, but I’m afraid that instead of bringing people together it is too often used to replace people. That’s smth I hate.