Hertzberg: "There are two thousand people here, every one of them a news junkie, and I haven’t seen one single person—not one—carrying a newspaper."
I am, however, carrying a copy of the new Atlantic print issue.
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04 Aug 2007 02:11 pm
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Yes, Matt, but we all know that's just marketing.
Do you all take your laptops/PDAs with you when you make a deposit? Nothing like sitting down on the pot with a newspaper. That never gets old.
I used to have a dumb terminal in the bathroom and would use Lynx to mess around on the web when I was soaking in the tub drinking beer or taking a dump. I kept killing keyboards.
Well, but the newspaper availability here at McCormick and the Hyatt is just terrible. Just flat-out terrible. I had to wait 'til I was hailing a cab in the Loop just to pick up a Chicago Reader. ...
I am, however, carrying a copy of the new Atlantic print issue
I'd bet you've stayed at Holiday Inn Express too.
I will never abandon print copies of Atlantic or National Geographic.
I will never abandon paper maps.
I will never abandon paper written letters for those special things - thankyou notes, notification that an account is 90 days delinquent and action is to be taken in 10 more days, and birthday greetings.
And books. Never abandon a good paper book read.
Future gens can do what they like.
After extensive sampling of both - electronic on line vs traditional, I've stayed with traditional for certain things as better, IMO...
The Atlantic didn't give you a bushel or two of hard copies to pass out? Better still -- for shindigs like this, olden day magazines should hand out logo-strewn flash drives with copies of the latest issue on them!
I will never abandon print copies of Atlantic or National Geographic.
I will never abandon paper maps.
I will never abandon paper...
Um, OK grandpa. Who's asking you to?
What a brave and bold stand you've taken in favor of personal preference. One that I'm sure will be duly noted and applauded by all the trees who will gladly lay down their lives for your tactile fetish.
One that I'm sure will be duly noted and applauded by all the trees who will gladly lay down their lives for your tactile fetish
whalt,
your comment made me laugh at you, not with you, along the lines of classic fodder for depicting environmentalists as simple-minded tree huggers. As if electricity and batteries are tree-friendly, and all that plastic, wires, precious metals et. al. and the craving to having to have the latest wireless thingamajoo every couple of months and disposing of the old one is advancing the fate of virgin forests. It could just as easily be said that the environmentally damaging fault of yungins since the Industrial Revolution is falling for marketing of the latest thingie whatever it is. Do us all a favor and read up on the disposable diaper vs. reusable fabric diaper issue or something. Grandpa Chris Ford is obviously using 'teh internets' and computers and didn't mention newspapers, did you notice? I'm sorry for you to surmise that you that won't be accepting paper birthday cards from crochetdy old relatives and the tradition of paper cash within them. Which is it--do you only read ebooks, or don't you read books at all?
P.S. Matt, when your book finally comes out, you gonna go whole hog ebook or are you gonna be killing trees?
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Heads in the Sand
god, I would so love it if Rupert Murdoch just spent a gazillion dollars on buggy-whips.
Posted by thag | August 4, 2007 2:18 PM