Allis Chalmers

Audio post version. Listen to me read the post below while you do your own thing.

Allis likes to play and jump! Jump Allis! I shot this amazing film using my mobile device, which is all I have access to while kittysitting. When I was first getting into computers, this would have 100% blown my mind.

I’ve been reminiscing about my first days with computers and my first build. One day, suddenly, there was a computer in the house and we were all introduced to it. As in, “Family, check out this new object in our home”. I thought, “If computers have a soul,” and it was a definite possibility that they did, “it must be in that monitor that just stares out”. I think William Gibson described it as turned-off-tv grey. It would reflect my image back at me in pixels. I really liked these new guys in my life. I spent a lot of time with a Commodore 64 that is actually still with me, just packed away in storage.

After I shot the Allis film, I had a Google Talk video chat with my friend who is far away. A tiny handheld window, like how a wormhole is supposedly connecting two points of space through the boundaries of dimension. It is amazing.
Unfortunately, no matter how immediate technology can make me feel, it doesn’t close the gap of a great physical distance.

Allis is done with the munch.

Hi World: it’d be great if when I did a Google search, it would also search my bookmarks and email for the information I am looking for. Lately I’ve been stumbling upon the same website that I have already bookmarked a year ago when looking for the same answer. Sometimes I just bookmark or email myself a link to useful information, but don’t really keep track of it.