tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7833454649093878095.post8364435762692494923..comments2024-01-15T10:12:27.170-05:00Comments on Navigating The Finite: Robert M. Pirsig (September 6, 1928 – April 24, 2017)Sextanthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02869179401767968180noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7833454649093878095.post-57290272795069951072017-07-06T08:25:40.752-04:002017-07-06T08:25:40.752-04:00Sextant, where are you? Are you OK?Sextant, where are you? Are you OK?fiftyoddhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17372578925298011630noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7833454649093878095.post-88113085094728902222017-05-23T15:40:59.698-04:002017-05-23T15:40:59.698-04:00Last week I had to go on a business trip with a co...Last week I had to go on a business trip with a co-worker. I kid you not, she spent the majority of the trip on her phone, facebooking, snapchatting, constantly texting and/or facetiming with her fiance, family and friends. She missed so much in not paying attention at the airport to the people wandering on and off flights. <br /><br />I'm a self-admitted lookie-loo and nosy broad! I so enjoyed listening to the conversations of others around me. I watched a group of 5 men and 1 woman get into a verbal altercation with the ticket agent over having missed their flight. Curses and "you just ruined my whole wedding" and F-bombs were being thrown with reckless abandon. I should have picked up my phone and video taped the whole thing. It probably would have gone viral, but it was more fun for me to just watch.<br /><br />I watched them burst into tears when they were not allowed to board even though the pilot held the plane for them and instructed the ground crew that he was ok with letting them board. I would have felt bad for them if they had not been so abusive to the young man that was just doing his job. He was on the phone with someone in authority who told him NO WAY. Was he supposed to lose his job just so these idiots could make it to a wedding? <br /><br />Anyway, the point of my story is that there is so much to see and hear and to spend your whole life looking at a 5-inch screen is such a waste of a lifetime. My two cents for what it's worth!Aliciahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18196096131750922174noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7833454649093878095.post-42592934669823097832017-05-12T13:58:56.465-04:002017-05-12T13:58:56.465-04:00I've also tried to read "Zen..." and...I've also tried to read "Zen..." and concluded I had too limited an intellect to understand it. It's on my shelf - maybe I'll try it again. Another book I could not make much of is: "All But for The" by Ali Smith. As I great admirer of your intellect, Sextant, you inspire me to think I may not be as dumb as I thought. Glad you are still posting......fiftyoddhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17372578925298011630noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7833454649093878095.post-55635180240501706902017-05-11T12:40:13.487-04:002017-05-11T12:40:13.487-04:00Wow! Never heard of ZAMM? Its a classic, but not...Wow! Never heard of ZAMM? Its a classic, but not easy sledding by any means. As I said above most of it went over my head but I got this handful of jewels from it. <br /><br />Can't say anything about Facebook/Instagram/SnapChat. Don't even know what the last two are other than something I don't want bothered with. I have an old man's cell phone. I think it can text, but I have no idea of how to do it, nor do I particularly care to learn. <br /><br />When I was young I got on a computer buying kick and had to have the latest contraption. Then I sort of grew out of that and I have tried to avoid the siren's call of ever growing technology. Pirsig wrote about the channels running wide but not deep back in the late 60s early 70s before all this instantaneous communication of "this is what I am having for dinner" or "my cat taking a nap." So imagine how broad and shallow the waters run today. Why when I see a group of young people together, who should be having a wonderful time with each other...they are young...their knee and back pain is not the over riding fact of their life, all you see is heads down peering into small screens and hear is tap tap tap? Is it the Googlization of the mind, where there is so much choice that you do nothing but search for ever better results and miss what is right before you? <br /><br />http://robohub.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/Cover_Atlantic_Facebook.jpg<br /><br />One of the sadder Atlantic covers I have seen. <br /><br />Indeed conversation...the exchange of ideas and thought. Great to hear from you, Alicia. I hope all is going well. Sextanthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02869179401767968180noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7833454649093878095.post-61385455446400513242017-05-10T15:44:39.582-04:002017-05-10T15:44:39.582-04:00I've never read or heard of this book but I li...I've never read or heard of this book but I like the quote above and I quite agree with it. I think that's why I like to read book and blogs, blogs especially. <br /><br />Sometimes when I'm talking in person to someone I can see them drift off, thinking about how they would much rather be checking on their phone into their Facebook/Instagram/SnapChat accounts. And while I'm sure they are interested in what I have to say it's a new world of people with short attention spans. But when I read a blog I can read it, re-read it, take what interests me and post a comment such as this and get a running dialogue with the blogger. Hmmm, I think that is conversation right? Good to see/read you my friend!Aliciahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18196096131750922174noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7833454649093878095.post-15967983605430440642017-04-28T11:19:37.481-04:002017-04-28T11:19:37.481-04:00Strange, I had the Kindle copy open to the quote I...Strange, I had the Kindle copy open to the quote I copied, and I began reading from that point. I actually got interested in the story again and read about 10 pages. OK the pages I read was a dialogue with John and Sylvia, his fellow riders about motorcycles and a refusal to maintain them, and not a musing by Phaedrus on the short comings rhetoric and dialectic. But still I found myself thinking, I should read this again. <br /><br />Olga always a pleasure, thanks for stopping by and commenting. Sextanthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02869179401767968180noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7833454649093878095.post-81136580429549956612017-04-28T10:32:24.829-04:002017-04-28T10:32:24.829-04:00I think you have motivated me to read that book ag...I think you have motivated me to read that book again.Olgahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00692441479616299920noreply@blogger.com