Where's My Brain: Knitting Edition
Aug. 30th, 2014 09:29 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
livingdebAt craft night last night, I got my 22-stitch-wide scarf into the conditions of being as narrow as 14 stitches and as wide as 28 stitches (or so--I don't remember the actual numbers). I don't even know how. Fortunately, even with all the ripping out, I ended the night with a longer scarf than I started out with.
(And I ended that sentence with not one, but two prepositions. I have talents.)
Quote of the Day - "The corporations, especially in the mid twentieth century, were actively looking at the way they could could trigger off psycholological impulses deep within us that would cause us to desire new products that we had never ever thought of desiring before, so in that respect it's pushed upon is. But, it's only possible to do that because (as Microsoft would put it) there are security vulnerabilities within us." - Alastair McIntosh in "Consumed: Inside the Belly of the Beast"
That's an interesting way to look at advertising - Is this enticing ad taking advantage of a security vulnerability that I have? Or even: Is this consumer craving I have stemming from a security vulnerability that I have?
(And I ended that sentence with not one, but two prepositions. I have talents.)
Quote of the Day - "The corporations, especially in the mid twentieth century, were actively looking at the way they could could trigger off psycholological impulses deep within us that would cause us to desire new products that we had never ever thought of desiring before, so in that respect it's pushed upon is. But, it's only possible to do that because (as Microsoft would put it) there are security vulnerabilities within us." - Alastair McIntosh in "Consumed: Inside the Belly of the Beast"
That's an interesting way to look at advertising - Is this enticing ad taking advantage of a security vulnerability that I have? Or even: Is this consumer craving I have stemming from a security vulnerability that I have?