tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3972382144120426476.post8404943872431315631..comments2024-03-29T10:10:40.315-05:00Comments on Every goddamn day: 03/29/24: Drone encounterNeil Steinberghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11468057838260476480noreply@blogger.comBlogger12125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3972382144120426476.post-46883729034655995162015-11-08T01:53:04.604-06:002015-11-08T01:53:04.604-06:00Clark, Check out tomorrow's blog post (or shou...Clark, Check out tomorrow's blog post (or should I say "today's" :)SandyKnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3972382144120426476.post-18264225108948704392015-11-07T20:44:45.346-06:002015-11-07T20:44:45.346-06:00Where are the "Operable Bollards"?
They ...Where are the "Operable Bollards"?<br />They look a bit the the ones that rose out of the street on Lower Michigan on both side of the bridge just before it went up.Clark St.https://www.blogger.com/profile/09634234069783123180noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3972382144120426476.post-72286900486508501522015-11-07T18:04:17.073-06:002015-11-07T18:04:17.073-06:00I think I was grasping toward passenger pigeons an...I think I was grasping toward passenger pigeons and ended up with geese. Though I have been to the Horicon Marsh in Wisconsin for the Spectacle of the Geese, prompting one of Edie's pithiest lines. We were standing around some Door County bog, gazing skyward. Nothing, nothing, nothing. Then one lone goose came honking by. "More like a speck than a spectacle," Edie quipped. I had just enough time to smile. Then the sky went dark with birds.Neil Steinberghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11468057838260476480noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3972382144120426476.post-8218460279197489072015-11-07T18:02:25.626-06:002015-11-07T18:02:25.626-06:00Thanks! Thanks! Neil Steinberghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11468057838260476480noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3972382144120426476.post-30368366744187381792015-11-07T15:33:06.139-06:002015-11-07T15:33:06.139-06:00A novel to read: The Peripheral, by William Gibson...A novel to read: The Peripheral, by William Gibson, the guy who invented the idea of "cyberspace." Drones and other contemporary new technology (3D printing) play an interesting role. He's also just a great writer.Bill Savagehttp://chicagobydayandnight.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3972382144120426476.post-791767008402916262015-11-07T12:46:13.509-06:002015-11-07T12:46:13.509-06:00New technology sometimes has regrettable consequen...New technology sometimes has regrettable consequences and is rightly perceived to be threatening, but for the most part it makes life easier. I like Alfred North Whitehead's anti Luddite statement: "Civilization advances by extending the number of operations we can perform without thinking about them."<br /><br />One unsettling aspect can be the moment, or more, of panic experienced when the device we've become accustomed to using fails to work. Driving to the Stratford Festival a few years ago we stopped for breakfast at Rosiie's, in Michigan City, and in leaving the car I clicked on my remote thingee to lock it. Nothing happened. Dead battery. Oh great, I thought. I will have to spend a week in darkest Canada without being able to lock my car. Then a light dawned. Just use the key like you did in those all those pre-remote days and years.<br /><br />Tom EvansAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3972382144120426476.post-59788959163261778452015-11-07T09:14:08.826-06:002015-11-07T09:14:08.826-06:00Migrating geese still darken the sky, you should s...Migrating geese still darken the sky, you should see the spring migration at Squaw Creek Reserve in Missouri. Millions darken the sky and the sound is deafening. It's not the flapping but the loud honking that certainly dulls the senses. I really can't see drones becoming that numerous or even close. High numbers of drones would only crash into each other, which admittedly would be pretty amusing. Nikki Dnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3972382144120426476.post-90272271087230322712015-11-07T09:11:13.320-06:002015-11-07T09:11:13.320-06:00My first thought was, "That has got to be ill...My first thought was, "That has got to be illegal." Not specifically illegal necessarily -- I don't think the City Council has gotten around to drone legislation yet, but some sort of endangerment to the public. The perpetrator probably didn't think so, however, given that he apparently didn't mind being photographed, videotaped and interviewed. Certainly, if flying drones downtown becomes fashionable, it'll be banned. Wait until they start trying to control them from the 25th floor. Will large buildings put up signs on the sidewalk, "Watch out for falling drones."?<br /><br />johntatehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10088632798195131329noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3972382144120426476.post-84863378383775207612015-11-07T08:20:01.342-06:002015-11-07T08:20:01.342-06:00All I have to say is...you're a damn fine writ...All I have to say is...you're a damn fine writer!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3972382144120426476.post-32584891218102786142015-11-07T07:49:34.538-06:002015-11-07T07:49:34.538-06:00"to look back on when they crowd the sky like..."to look back on when they crowd the sky like migrating geese."<br /><br />I was thinking more like passenger pigeons, whose numbers once darkened the sky when they migrated.<br /><br /> "The air was literally filled with Pigeons; the light of noon-day was obscured as by an eclipse; the dung fell in spots, not unlike melting flakes of snow; and the continued buzz of wings had a tendency to lull my senses to repose..." -- John James Audubon<br /><br />Will the drones lull our senses?<br /><br />WendyChttp://twitter.com/WendyCCHnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3972382144120426476.post-56795225013845302282015-11-07T05:50:21.936-06:002015-11-07T05:50:21.936-06:00I'm not really beating myself up over that, it...I'm not really beating myself up over that, it's more of a mantra I used whenever I try to squint into the future. Nobody really has any idea, it's just that some people turn out to be right. If I predict that somebody is going to toss four heads in a row, I'm not a seer, I'm just lucky. Neil Steinberghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11468057838260476480noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3972382144120426476.post-47908260504991238972015-11-07T05:48:15.437-06:002015-11-07T05:48:15.437-06:00"Said the guy who once wrote that cell phones..."Said the guy who once wrote that cell phones were a fad." You get a whole lot of mileage out of this monster miscalculation, and I don't blame you. Kinda reverse street cred regarding foresight of any kind. Hey, we're only human. It's not like any of us can really predict the future. Except for the effects of climate change maybe.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com