writinginthewild.com » Miscellaneous http://writinginthewild.com "nothing natural about it!" Fri, 03 Feb 2012 11:00:26 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Less Than Zero http://writinginthewild.com/2011/11/16/less-than-zero/ http://writinginthewild.com/2011/11/16/less-than-zero/#comments Wed, 16 Nov 2011 15:11:55 +0000 Ray Watkins http://writinginthewild.com/?p=5034 In the year ahead, Texas plans to reduce its arts budget by 77 percent; Wisconsin by 67 percent. Kansas will eliminate arts funding altogether. Even New York, with an economy that is driven by culture, will cut funding by 12 percent. Since National Endowment for the Arts statutes don't allow a state to receive a distribution without an arts budget, Kansas will receive no appropriation from the NEA either, leaving the arts without a penny of public support in that state ("As Appropriations Dry Up, Arts Infrastructure Is Dismantled"). One of the main reasons economics in general, and the discussion of politics in particular, bugs me so much is that so little energy seems to be devoted to...]]> http://writinginthewild.com/2011/11/16/less-than-zero/feed/ 0 An Aging Luddite http://writinginthewild.com/2011/07/13/an-aging-luddite/ http://writinginthewild.com/2011/07/13/an-aging-luddite/#comments Wed, 13 Jul 2011 11:00:14 +0000 Ray Watkins http://writinginthewild.com/?p=4557 quote as a comment on my site recently:
First we thought the PC was a calculator.  Then we found out how to turn numbers into letters with ASCII -- and we thought it was a typewriter.  Then we discovered graphics, and we thought it was a television.  With the World Wide Web, we've realized it's a brochure.
I went on short trip last weekend to Meramec Caverns-- my GPS is the greatest thing since sliced bread on these trips--and I was struck, once again, by the image of people waving their cell phones around in the air, trying to get what we euphemistically call "service." I understand the impulse. The motel and the campground that surrounds the...]]> http://writinginthewild.com/2011/07/13/an-aging-luddite/feed/ 0