Book Board Chat

I have no desire to listen to the hate video. However it is hard to think that a child would develop such a "hate" unless they heard it expressed in the "inner family" (or if they were deliberately trying to garner publicity through "shock and awe"). I would cringe as a parent thinking people would think that I expressed such feeling while remaining PC in my outward public appearance.

My mother had several of Myra's cookbooks. Julia Child was Myra's downfall. I recollect that Myra did not transition into the technology of TV, whereas Julia was loved in her TV persona. Switching in technology left many people in history in the dust (ie. silent films), I wonder what that says about graphic novels (dumbing down is my personal opinion) and e-books that can be stored on electronics which is good until you have a EMT burst (sun flares) or hard drive failures (I have had a few of those). Then you lose every book on your storage device. When I download books from internet archive, they are not really ebooks because they are actual pictures (for the most part) of actual printed books (for now). But because I downloaded them I can also save them to CDs. Some new technology which is being developed is similiar to Dick Tracey's wristwatch, where the computer in in the watch and the keyboard/screen is the air/space in front of you where you can move, rotate, enlarge etc with the movements of your hands. I saw an MIT demo of this developing technology and it was amazing and very SF.