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Saturday, October 30, 2004

 

When it comes to technology and pop culture, I've never been really big on keeping up for the sake of keeping up. I use what works for me, listen to and read what interests me, and don't really worry about being on the cutting edge. I think I could stand to pay a little more attention though. I finally got cable modem installed at my new apartment this morning, and the Comcast guy laughed at my old ass computer. I'm going to see Wilco tonight because hey, I loved AM, Being There, and Summerteeth but I haven't gotten around to listening to their most recent album until, um, right now.

Well, as Robert Pirsig puts it in Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance

"What's new?" is an interesting and broadening eternal question, but one which, if pursued exclusively, results onlyin an endless parade of trivia and fashion, the silt of tomorrow. I would like instead, to be concerned with the question "What is best?," a question which cuts deeply rather than broadly, a question whose answers tend to move the silt downstream.

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