William Cox

Impulses

Posted on Saturday, March 16th, 2019 by William Cox

ACTION REQUIRED, the e-mail demands, NOW. Give money. Sale! One day only! You might like this video. Sign our petition now or terrible things will happen! How w...

communication

AT&T Fell for Media’s Inflated Sense of Self-Importance

Posted on Friday, March 15th, 2019 by William Cox

AT&T was wrong to acquire DirecTV and TimeWarner. Now what?

parentheses/poem

Shards

Posted on Thursday, March 14th, 2019 by William Cox

If you mustsit inside on a bright and lovely day,focused--for definitions that mean unfocused--on the screen of a computer,not the world around,then the shards ...

reflections

Exit Numbers

Posted on Thursday, March 14th, 2019 by William Cox

I recall being supremely irritated when Pennsylvania changed the exit numbers on I-81 from sequential to numbers based on the mileage. My complaint was that I n...

impulses

Posted on Wednesday, March 13th, 2019 by William Cox

DirecTV Plus option will no longer include regional sports networks. —Business Insider Um, guys, I don’t think you understand what keeps television on li...

impulses

Posted on Wednesday, March 13th, 2019 by William Cox

Learning anything new today, kids? I did. the meteor that created the Chesapeake Bay

impulses

Only the Emperor’s Clothes Change

Posted on Wednesday, March 13th, 2019 by William Cox

It’s remarkable how little changes over time. Doesn’t this 1989 complaint of Audre Lorde’s sound familiar? “We are a territory of the most powerful ...

impulses

Posted on Tuesday, March 12th, 2019 by William Cox

One of my nieces is visiting for a while, and, as the other children are in school, the question asked is, “But what will she do all day?” I don’t know. W...

impulses

Posted on Monday, March 11th, 2019 by William Cox

I’m glad to see that some people are talking about this silliness of working for a living.

impulses

Posted on Thursday, March 7th, 2019 by William Cox

… Amusing Ourselves to Death (1985) 📚 … The Information Diet (2011) 📚 … Digital Minimalism (2019) 📚 …

impulses

Posted on Thursday, March 7th, 2019 by William Cox

I’m reminded of the style Presteign of Presteign in The Stars My Destination (1957) 📚 .

impulses

Posted on Thursday, March 7th, 2019 by William Cox

Border Walls are Symbols of Failure: Every border wall has a particular historical context behind its creation. Yet they all announce the same message to the wo...

parentheses

Posted on Thursday, March 7th, 2019 by William Cox

I have one of my browsers set to fu no cookies none zip zilch ever mode, and it’s pretty amazing how many sites simply do not work now.

drink/impulses/parentheses

Posted on Wednesday, March 6th, 2019 by William Cox

A couple of pages later in Chronogram, what appears to be a lovely little cocktail made with a pine shrub and bitters: The Evergreen. Since there is no citrus i...

learning

Hi-Phi Nation: a Philosophy Podcast

Posted on Wednesday, March 6th, 2019 by William Cox

The February 2019 dead tree edition of Chronogram, a local magazine here in the Hudson Valley of New York, had a brief interview with Barry Lam of Vassar Colleg...

family/parentheses

Puppies

Posted on Wednesday, March 6th, 2019 by William Cox

We are watching some puppies for the Guiding Eyes this week. They are cute and sleeping on my foot right now, but make a persuasive argument for having a tile f...

impulses

Respect

Posted on Wednesday, March 6th, 2019 by William Cox

One of my favorite things about the Internet is discovering kindred minds, often in unexpected places. Cate Huston writes in Why you can’t manage humans like th...

impulses

Call a Spade a Spade

Posted on Tuesday, March 5th, 2019 by William Cox

[S]cholar Edward Baptist (Cornell) has provided new terms with which to speak about slavery. In his 2014 book The Half Has Never Been Told: Slavery and the Maki...

impulses

Posted on Tuesday, March 5th, 2019 by William Cox

Maybe challenges to the status quo persist for millennia without changing the system because they aren’t actually a threat.

rant

Math Hatred: A Systemic Problem

Posted on Monday, March 3rd, 2014 by William Cox

If you put a kid who’s teaching himself to read so he can play his favorite games, who can do simple sums, and who can count well past 200, in full-day Ki...