November 19, 2007
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I’M IN CONTROL HERE (AN ALEXANDER HAIG MOMENT, KODAK STYLEY)…
My life is under control. I am on the right path. Everything is going my way. I have accomplished something that few humans in my current circle of peers have ever come close to. I have backed up every digital photo that I own/have access to onto a disc and have placed it lovingly into a protective sheet in a three-ring binder. Do you know what this means? Are you aware of what this portends? This seeming victorious leap over that pesky chore on the to-do list from hell, “back-up ALL photos since time immemorial” is nothing to celebrate really, because what I have set in motion is the certain imminent obsolescence of not only my method and tools of digital photo back-up, but most likely the definition of the medium in general. Sorry. If it would help I could also learn to text message so that nasty form of communication could also be replaced by something else. Maybe something less annoying, solitary, offensive, and anti-social that perhaps sucks the character and poise out of people at a relatively slower rate. Maybe there’s a new way to communicate with your best friends across town that involves holding an old woman’s hand, looking deep into her eyes and asking her about her day.
Kim
