I love that moment…
…when I decide I want to go to sleep, so I close my eyes, and as soon as I do; everything I want, everything I hope for, and everything I fear pops into my mind and keeps me from sleeping. Also I’m pretty sure I used a lot of incorrect punctuation. Great, something else to keep me up, the fact that there’s a 5th grader out there who’s smarter than I am.
Leif Garret and me in Tokyo in 1979.
Sasha Braginsky, 28, climbing at Brooklyn Boulders.
(via At Brooklyn Boulders, Climbing and Camaraderie - NYTimes.com)
I hate Google+. Can’t stand it. It is agonizing to use. The stream is so noisy, it won’t even bother me when the inevitable Google ads arrive. Culturally, it feels like walking into a religious school. It swarms with disciples of the + waiting for the messianic downfall of the Evil Internet, so that the One True Google+ is all that’s left.
But I’ve been polite. It’s my beat, so I’ve covered it fairly. When it gets a feature I love, I say so. When it does something obscenely bad, I give its creators a fair chance to respond. But it’s getting harder to grin and bear it. I’ve been a happy Google customer product for a long time, because Google tools used to enhance the Internet. But as Google ships “the Google part” of its new Google+ identity, it’s breaking the Internet it once helped build. I can’t take it anymore.
