Driving under the influence

  • One-legged work-out

    Most people are out to celebrate the upcoming New Year (Tet). Dzzzzzzzzzzzzo! Heineken toast! Except for one young man, crutches aside, lifted his body (one leg dangling, the other with flipping blue jeans) up to train his upper-body. Now, that got my attention. I complimented him on finding out the right angle to wrap his hands around…

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  • Screen and Self

    Long ago, we lived in the oral culture. Orators would speak for hours on end. Now we communicate in short bursts and sound bites (injected with acronyms, see OPP blog). In between, we had enjoyed the print culture, the Morse code, radio, film and TV , before we got to the Internet with  SMS,  touch-screen and voice-activation. I was…

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