Panasonic will discontinue its famous SL-1200 record-player after 38 years of service. The SL-1200, a favorite of DJs around the world, is fading away due to a lack of demand, and the difficulty of sourcing some analog components needed to make it.
Join hundreds of survivors and caregivers as they walk to raise funds and awareness for the Lymphoma Research Foundation!
The Lymphomathon is a non-competitive 5K walk where survivors, family, friends, community and corporate teams walk in honor and in memory of those whose lives have been touched by lymphoma. Funds raised by participants will support the Foundation’s mission of eradicating lymphoma and serving those touched by this disease.
This year, I’ve been asked to be the photographer for the event. I’m humbled to have been asked, and excited for the opportunity to support this important cause.
I’ve enlisted the help of my sister-in-law, Sylvia and, the other half of the runoff, Austin, to help me.
In 2008, tech scholar Nicholas Carr sparked an earnest debate when he proclaimed in The Atlantic magazine that Google is making us stupider.
Habitually link-hopping down the rabbit hole of online information, Carr argued, has degraded our collective attention span and threatens to permanently downgrade our intelligence. Rather than reading for context and nuance, the Internet encourages us to skim for fast facts that lack substance.
But Carr hasn’t spoken the last word in whether the Internet makes you smart or dumb – far from it, in fact.
Not only did his Google thesis quickly attract rebuttals extolling the potential intellectual virtues of Internet use, but the Pew Internet Project, in conjunction with Elon University, also surveyed 371 telecommunications experts to help settle the score. Responding to the question of “whether Google is making people stupid,” a majority of respondents – 81 percent – countered that the search engine and the Internet is doing just the opposite.
Rain in Arizona is a significant, emotional event. Similar to the excessive heat experienced in L.A. a few days back, when we desert rats are bombarded with persistent rain, we tend to freak out.
Today is one of those days. I went for a walk around my office building and misjudged just how fast this storm from was moving.
It made the last hour of work pretty uncomfortable.
The ability to change your mind in the face of evidence and argument is the hallmark of scientific practice. It should also be the basis for civil discourse in a free and democratic society. Now that science has become inseparable from the functions of society, the need for civil discourse with evidence and argument driving the potential for changing minds must be recognized as our only salvation. Without civil discourse and open minds we will lack the all-important capacity to move, to effect changes, in the face of the wholly singular challenges our historical moment seems heir too.
At the time I was first considering a coffee shop, I was reasonably unhappy with my real estate career. If you missed it, I wrote about what was making me unhappy with real estate on the Phoenix Area Real Estate Blog last August. It was in May of 2009, however, that the notion of creating a coffee shop began to seriously take hold.
Lately, I’ve been struggling with the “doing it wrong” mentality that’s so prevalent in our culture. It’s nothing new and I’ve certainly been guilty of uttering a snarky judgment or two myself. Perhaps I’m simply more aware of, or sensitive to, negativity of late, but you don’t have to look hard to see the cries of “doing it wrong” permeating the conversation.
The problem is this: merely calling something, or someone, out as “doing it wrong” has no value. It is a judgment, not constructive criticism and, more often than not, is simply translated to, “I disagree with you, and therefore you’re wrong.” Unless it is followed up by suggestion for improvement, “doing it wrong” is nothing more than a petty complaint. A whiny cry from someone who didn’t get their way.
If we’re really interested in making something better, then we need to figure out how to contribute in a positive manner and influence action that can create a better community. Otherwise, we’re all doing it wrong.
I have no problem with people expressing their beliefs, though it may be a good idea to have someone proof read your ideas before putting them on a license plate.
My sister-in-law shares her feelings about twitter. This happened a few months back, but I wanted to wait to make sure she was okay with me sharing it.
