Tag: smart phone

• Deliver your words not by number but by weight

  Even though my periodic conceit is that of a feuilleteur, I find I am still drawn to occasional texting. Sometimes there is simply no need for verbosity -the information that I am late but enroute, does not require an essay to explain. And yet, even the word ‘sorry’ prefixing the text, may fail to express…

  gozzter

  October 9, 2019

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  BBC Future, culture, emoji, Emojipedia, interpretations, Keith Broni, smart phone, societal lenses, texting, upside-down face Emoji, Vyvyan Evans

• Digiphilia

  My computer seems to be constantly doing things behind my back, or under my fingers. One minute it’s performing some sort of update, the next, applying a patch or pretending to, at any rate. I have to trust that whoever makes the little signs that pop up is honest and doing things in my best interests.…

  gozzter

  November 4, 2015

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  angst, app, backup, busy, computers, heavy periods, irregular periods, memory, password, post-it paper, protection racket, smart phone, start of period, the Cloud, updates, writing

• The Gyne Phone

  The iconoclasts were people who destroyed religious icons for various reasons. It’s a practice that began thousands of years ago. And somebody’s messing with the icons again -but this time, it’s the  iconoplasts… The icon has ancient roots and the word derives from the Greek word eikon meaning ‘likeness’ or ‘image’. Originally, it was usually…

  gozzter

  October 9, 2015

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  app, icon, iconoclasm, iconooclasts, iconoplasm, iconoplasts, Iran, IT, Judin, memorization, memory, menarche, menses, oral tradition, Phoenix, Robert Frost, smart phone, software engineers