The Note

T h e   N o t e 

A Walk Across the Rooftops

The traffic lights are changing

The black and white horizon

I leave the quiet redstone

and walk across the rooftops

-Paul Buchanon

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Controlled burn

The difference between a controlled burn and an uncontrolled burn could not be more obvious, or more elusive. Keith Moon on Who’s Next and Keith Moon on the last day of his life. Murder, premeditated vs. second degree.

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Look up and to the right

Google Glasses will likely be here by Christmas. They will look something like this.

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There’s a prism at the end of that thing. You look up and to the right and there’s a translucent rectangle. There’s the time. There’s the temperature. Command it and it starts videorecording everything you see.  Ask for information, and there it is. Ask for directions and they are displayed. We’ll never be more connected to the digital world. But our faces will be upturned from the slabs we've been holding in our hands. Our heads will be up, once again. We'll be looking at the world.

We'll look geeky, though.

Here is issue 62 of Right Hand Pointing. My thanks to Laura M. Kaminski, Mark Cunningham, Steve Tomasko, Paulus Kapteyn, Sara Hughes, Janice D. Soderling, Steven Minchin, Simon Perchik, Robin Wyatt Dunn,  Catherine Owens, John McDermott, Meredith Weiers, Barbara Raimondo, co-editors F. John Sharp, F. J. Bergmann, readers Eric Burke, Jordan Smith, and Howie Good.

Enjoy.

Dale