A List Apart presented the article "Ruining the User Experience" last week, in which Aaron Gustafson compares web usability to fine dining. right now i am not a user experience expert nor a caterer, but i might have been. once.
a book called Perfect From Now On went on sale last month. it is by one John Sellers, and there is an excerpt here, which i read. i don't know if i can call myself that kind of musically obsessed, now or ever, but a friend did tell me once that i'd make an excellent groupie for any appropriately attractive indie band. perhaps i might have.
old roommates and college acquaintances are announcing engagements and babies and all sorts. who knows what past actions, or inactions, had they been slightly different, might have led me into that same strange world of wedded bliss?
my father and i watched a short film about this guy, Richard Proenneke, who lived all by himself for more than thirty years in the Alaskan wilderness. and i, at various times, have felt such distance between myself and the rest of the world (metaphorically), but i've never built my own log cabin in the woods. i haven't run away that far... but maybe i might have.
people i might have talked to, careers i might have pursued, places i might have gone, things i might have bought. ways i might have taken. or not taken.
no regrets. i'm just curious.
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