Monthly Archives: November 2008

EVDO is for me.

By Stella Gassaway, stellarvisions | Published: November 23, 2008
This is the story of try­ing to get high speed inter­net access where i live in philadelphia. Let’s start with Ver­i­zon. Call them up. Give them the address. Can’t find the address in their data­base. Hmmm. We’d like to see if we can get FIOS. Wait­ing on hold. Time passes. The rep can’t find our [...]
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iphone discovery 3

By Stella Gassaway, stellarvisions | Published: November 18, 2008
I crawl around the iphone store now and again to add more fod­der to my need for an iPhone. Here is a really cool app that solves one of the prob­lems that dri­ves me crazy from time to time. I use my lap­top for almost every­thing — that means no num­ber keys. I hate the [...]
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modern culture news sources rebound : twitter

By Stella Gassaway, stellarvisions | Published: November 8, 2008
I’ve been a bit obsessed with tech­nol­ogy and mod­ern cul­ture recently. Maybe immersed in it is more accu­rate. This morn­ing I had my first real paper cup and a string com­mu­ni­ca­tion moment in a tech­no­log­i­cal space. Twit­ter is like a shout down a long hall­way. Today I heard this call from far away. earth­quake. It [...]
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Myst for the iPhone

By Stella Gassaway, stellarvisions | Published: November 6, 2008
A screen­shot from Myst. Myst is the first game I actu­ally pur­chased. I had played many games as early as the line com­mand games and Adven­ture. But Myst was some­thing dif­fer­ent an immer­sion, in a quiet space, an adven­ture with dan­gers that didn’t run towards you and ask you to kill something. Vis­it­ing the almost silent [...]
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iomega gets it right again

By Stella Gassaway, stellarvisions | Published: November 1, 2008
It reminds me of a flask with something warm inside for when the cold winds blow. Or maybe a cigarette/cigar case -- something very personal. The kind of gift you give to someone you are very fond of, something to inscribe.
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