Comments on: Dodgeball: When New York City Is Your Playground

By: eoin

eoin — Thu, 22 Apr 2004 02:36:40 +0000

Thanks Dervala. Not only is your blog brilliant ( if – ahem – not updated as frquently as we would like :-) ) but you link to the best stuff.

Not talking about Dodgeball necessarily, though it is interesting, but Professor Shirky is an absolute gem.

By: Jerry

Jerry — Wed, 21 Apr 2004 19:19:07 +0000

I have been experimenting with Apple’s iChat DV a bit. Bought their little camera so I can do both video and audio and it works rather well. I don’t really find it all that useful except when one of my children wishes to show me the latest lost tooth, bad bump on the knee, or artwork of one of my grandchildren. :)

My PowerBook and little Nikon digital are my constant companions. I found a lens attachment for the Nikon that’s equivalent to a 35mm lens of 300mm and with my Fisheye attachment I have all kinds of interesting opportunities I might miss if I were chatting on a cell phone. ;)

The value of tech gadgets is obviously relative and each makes a choice. My youngest son, a teacher, carries a PowerBook around and on his belt he has a PDA, digital phone, pager, and digital camera. With all that equipment all he needs is a helmet and flak jacket to be a well dressed man about Baghdad. The folks over there strike me as being encumbered with a good many gadgets.

Wouldn’t it be something to have the exclusive battery franchise for Iraq? But I suppose that’s already taken by Halliburton. ;)

By: Dervala

Dervala — Wed, 21 Apr 2004 10:08:59 +0000

I don’t have a cell phone either these days. Or any gadgets other than my laptop. I try to keep my unpaid life offline, but it’s a struggle.

By: Jerry

Jerry — Wed, 21 Apr 2004 02:51:24 +0000

Hmm.. Must be late: Correct that to: Have never owned one, never seen the need.

(Sort of a gaggle of Freudian slips?)

By: Jerry

Jerry — Wed, 21 Apr 2004 02:49:42 +0000

I’ll have to think about getting a cell phone. Have never known one, never seen the seen.

After reading about Dodgeball I’m still not certain I have the need. A PowerBook with Airport (WiFi) joins me in my travels along with a digital camera. That’s too much tech for me already.

Color me a dinosaur.

By: I.

I. — Wed, 21 Apr 2004 01:13:01 +0000

Awesome logo! Not that I ever got hit while playing dodgeball, of course.

I’m not sure I’m social enough to use it, but it’s a lot more appealing than any of the other so-called social networking junk I’ve seen.

I’ll sign up if you’ll sign up . . .