Things Lost to Connectivity

[garrow]

Things That Make You Go Moo

There's a holstein joke to be had there too....

 

[TigerVols]

Slow-mo shots watching them milk!

6 quarts.

 

[Neutral Corner]

I'm also none too fond of the notion that I need to call them every time I'm headed out of state and play Mother May I to have access to my own money. I get why they do it and I'm no Q-Anon conspiracy freak but that still doesn't set right with me. We are still a free country for the moment.

The other side of the coin - I got a call from my credit union's card watch service over the Thanksgiving weekend. I had unusual charges, could I confirm them?

There was $1400 dollars in two charges from some company in Harlem I knew nothing about. My card got locked down till Monday when I had a new one issued, but I didn't wind up out the fourteen hundred. If it had gone through at least some of my end of month autopays would have bounced.

 

[dixiehack]

The way I learned about Nollywood movies was when my credit union called this spring asking if I had signed up for a streaming service for them. I had not so they locked my card until I could come in for a replacement. No funds lost.

(Nigerian cinema, if you were curious)

 

[da man]

The way I learned about Nollywood movies was when my credit union called this spring asking if I had signed up for a streaming service for them. I had not so they locked my card until I could come in for a replacement. No funds lost.

(Nigerian cinema, if you were curious)

The prince was watching!

 

[DanOregon]

I was looking for a "general social media" thread, but I guess it fits here. It seems to me that now that we have gone a full generation with "social media" we are seeing how its use has actually changed human behavior. How we argue, how social media has "re-centered" everyone to their own world. Rather than all of us being a part of "one world," and behaving accordingly, we all have our "own worlds"- we've gone from "one circle" to billions of "circles."
I notice it when people make big pronouncements that they are leaving a social media platform, joining or re-joining one or just ranting about a driver who cut them off or an annoyance about a leaf blower on a local site I'm subscribed to. I don't know if these behaviors are healthy or not, but I do wonder how it has changed our world in the last 20 years.

 

[Scout]

Getting lost while driving…
Not knowing where a good place to eat is…
Running home to check your mashages…
Not knowing where your kids are…
High school parties (neighbors snitch)…
Not knowing the exact minute when you will get home…
If there is traffic ahead…
Is a thunder storm coming and when will it be here…
What mail will be in your mailbox today…

 

[wicked]

Getting lost while driving…
Not knowing where a good place to eat is…

I used to go out for random drives at 2 a.m. (This is back when I worked nights and overnights.) There was something peaceful about it, having no destination in mind. Now I'd have my phone's maps in front of me, and it just isn't the same. Also higher gas prices kind of killed off that habit.

As much as Yelp and Google reviews are useful, I do miss stumbling upon the hole in the wall or hearing from a friend about the great place that few know about.

 

[Cosmo]

That's one of my favorite parts of my annual trip to London, just taking the Tube to a random spot and walking around the neighborhood, looking for interesting shops, pubs, restaurants, etc. Some are misses, some are hits, but that's the point of adventure, right?

 

[Flip Wilson]

Getting lost while driving…
Not knowing where a good place to eat is…
Running home to check your mashages…
Not knowing where your kids are…
High school parties (neighbors snitch)…
Not knowing the exact minute when you will get home…
If there is traffic ahead…
Is a thunder storm coming and when will it be here…
What mail will be in your mailbox today…

Tell me more about these in-home mashages.

 

[PCLoadLetter]

That's one of my favorite parts of my annual trip to London, just taking the Tube to a random spot and walking around the neighborhood, looking for interesting shops, pubs, restaurants, etc. Some are misses, some are hits, but that's the point of adventure, right?

Couldn't agree with this more. I don't do the tourist spots. My favorite parts of my trips overseas are always the little things I stumble across by accident.

My last trip to London we went for a walk and stumbled across a street fair where people were dancing to a Pakistani psychedelic rock band. They were great. It beat the hell out of queuing up to see Buckingham Palace.

 

[dixiehack]

That's one of my favorite parts of my annual trip to London, just taking the Tube to a random spot and walking around the neighborhood, looking for interesting shops, pubs, restaurants, etc. Some are misses, some are hits, but that's the point of adventure, right?

Used to be going to a new city meant buying a guidebook, but that's OK because there was an entire section of the bookstore devoted to travel. Now the travel section is lucky if it gets a shelf to itself at Barnes & Noble.

Speaking of bookstores, you used to find them in these wondrous places called shopping malls. Not only were these malls places to buy all sorts of great stuff, but people would go walking around them while spending practically nothing. It was the day's entertainment! And if you got bored with your local mall, every other month or so you'd make a trip to the big city to go to a bigger mall. The opening of a new regional mall was created with the same sense of awe that a new sports arena might generate. The state DOT would sometimes build a new interstate exit just on the basis of the mall opening there.

Fittingly enough, one of the early Birmingham malls is now an Amazon distribution center. Internet killed the retail star.