Modern communication too often boggles my senses. Yeah, some may think "Oh, another LUDDITE." Others may ask, "Hmmmm, what's a LUDDITE? I'll Google that."
Over on Facebook I've Liked Lord knows how many sailing related pages. Call me Captain META Data, call me one of many Captain META Data's. After reading them it seems Thursday instantly becomes Saturday and then I turn the smartphone off for an hour or two and the whole world goes into a panic. "We were so worried about you!"
In a rare break from having my eyeballs buried in my smartphone I flashed upon Moitessiers' Rubber Band. So I took a walk to the library leaving my smartphone behind (which of course resulted in some folks having panic attacks thinking I might be dead). Walking on the sidewalk and seeing most other passers by with their souls buried in their smartphones I kind of felt like I forgot something. And there were all these people driving cars on the road adjacent to the sidewalk with a large percentage of the drivers holding their smartphones on the steering wheel or their eyes buried in the smartphone while using incredible peripheral vision to keep the car on the road.
Inside the library I walk past the jam packed computer room and got lost deep in the maze of bookshelves. I didn't really get lost, I knew where I was going I was on a mission. Bernard Moitessiers' "The Long Way" wasn't where it should be. Someone most likely checked it out. I didn't feel like checking the library catalog. You'll have to just trust my memory on this. Distorted memory maybe but here it is.
In preparing for his voyage that ended in "I go on!" Moitessier spent alot of time finding an appropriate rubber band for sending canisters of camera film (remember that stuff) to passing ships to send back to the Times of London Newspaper who sponsored the sailboat race Moitessier was in. I remember Moitessier saying he took two rolls of film for everything he photographed I guess as insurance should one be lost or maybe one for his own to keep?
Moitessiers' rubber band was a slingshot to get the goods over to the passing boat. I've got this mental picture of a plastic bag and duct tape thing. That mental picture probably isn't too accurate. I really don't remember what Moitessier used to protect the film.
Back in the spring of the year 1621 the Mayflower departed New Plimoth for it's return to England, carrying some letters from the settlers and memories of the adventure with the ships surviving crew. That's a picture of communication in them days, long before the LUDDITES.
Now I have this urge to toss my smartphone into the ocean.
I write this on a laptop computer as a storm blows through the northeast United States.
Fair Winds
Captain Bill
Over on Facebook I've Liked Lord knows how many sailing related pages. Call me Captain META Data, call me one of many Captain META Data's. After reading them it seems Thursday instantly becomes Saturday and then I turn the smartphone off for an hour or two and the whole world goes into a panic. "We were so worried about you!"
In a rare break from having my eyeballs buried in my smartphone I flashed upon Moitessiers' Rubber Band. So I took a walk to the library leaving my smartphone behind (which of course resulted in some folks having panic attacks thinking I might be dead). Walking on the sidewalk and seeing most other passers by with their souls buried in their smartphones I kind of felt like I forgot something. And there were all these people driving cars on the road adjacent to the sidewalk with a large percentage of the drivers holding their smartphones on the steering wheel or their eyes buried in the smartphone while using incredible peripheral vision to keep the car on the road.
Inside the library I walk past the jam packed computer room and got lost deep in the maze of bookshelves. I didn't really get lost, I knew where I was going I was on a mission. Bernard Moitessiers' "The Long Way" wasn't where it should be. Someone most likely checked it out. I didn't feel like checking the library catalog. You'll have to just trust my memory on this. Distorted memory maybe but here it is.
In preparing for his voyage that ended in "I go on!" Moitessier spent alot of time finding an appropriate rubber band for sending canisters of camera film (remember that stuff) to passing ships to send back to the Times of London Newspaper who sponsored the sailboat race Moitessier was in. I remember Moitessier saying he took two rolls of film for everything he photographed I guess as insurance should one be lost or maybe one for his own to keep?
Moitessiers' rubber band was a slingshot to get the goods over to the passing boat. I've got this mental picture of a plastic bag and duct tape thing. That mental picture probably isn't too accurate. I really don't remember what Moitessier used to protect the film.
Back in the spring of the year 1621 the Mayflower departed New Plimoth for it's return to England, carrying some letters from the settlers and memories of the adventure with the ships surviving crew. That's a picture of communication in them days, long before the LUDDITES.
Now I have this urge to toss my smartphone into the ocean.
I write this on a laptop computer as a storm blows through the northeast United States.
Fair Winds
Captain Bill
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