waltertore
2277 posts
May 25, 2012
7:29 PM
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cell phones, texting, smart phones, give me one big headache. I find them rude when you are talking to someone and they say"I have to take this" or pull out their phone, look at the screen and start typing something. Plain bad manners IMO and I am going to my grave without em or dealing with people that use them around me. Here are some from tonight:
I'm like the turtle
time to step back and out again
to young to die to old to know
dying without texting or playing a video game
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walter tore's spontobeat - a real one man band and over 1 million spontaneously created songs and growing. I record about 300 full length cds a year.
" life is a daring adventure or nothing at all" - helen keller
4,000+ of my songs
continuous streaming - 200 most current songs
my videos
Last Edited by on May 25, 2012 7:53 PM
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didjcripey
254 posts
May 26, 2012
2:19 AM
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that's a shame Walter; the new age of information and communication technology makes connectivity between people and access to information, ideas and art (including music) possible in ways that had never been dreamed of;
but, each to their own.
What's the difference between texting and writing a post on an internet forum?
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Lucky Lester
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SuperBee
275 posts
May 26, 2012
3:19 AM
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ive been pondering that same question ever since i read the OP earlier today...especially seeing Walter has >2000 posts. but i think it is a bit different. not texting per se. its the omnipresent nature of the devices and the way they seem to interfere with actual physical interactions which i think bothers people. even my daughter who is fully into it, sometimes comments on how it can be rather antisocial when we are both sitting in the lounge checking out facebook or such on our mobiles...i am working on staying in control of the device rather than becoming a slave to it, but i understand it can easily take over. it certainly was a problem in my daughter's school last year, but i think they have more or less successfully controlled it now
there are definitely some potential downers about the technology, but as you say Lucky, a whole lot of good things. i'm not too gloomy about it. Its quite similiar to TV really.
you should have heard the fuss when they invented flush toilets and brought them inside the house. Disgusting! I'd never have one! well, we've got one but we only use it in exceptional circumstances.
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Miles Dewar
1257 posts
May 26, 2012
7:22 AM
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What a wonderful song theme! That is REALLY keeping' up with the times! Cell phones these days... I could get RICH if I was a phone thief...
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"I find them rude when you are talking to someone and they say"I have to take this"
For the sake of argument, what if I am a nurse that is on call?
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Rockerduck
31 posts
May 26, 2012
9:31 AM
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Walter I'm with you on that. I don't like 3 or 4 letters to mean complete sentences either. I've been vocal about this since my first beeper. Call someone and talk to them. Don't break up or get fired by email. I'd rather a group of us get together and talk than to type this.
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waltertore
2278 posts
May 26, 2012
9:37 AM
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I sing about my life. The songs never cease to flow. We all have a unique life and I encourage all to sing about theirs! The ambulance came to our neighbors this morning. Here are some songs inspired by it. Walter
everybody has to walk that death road
days of blue
when the abulance pulls down your street
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walter tore's spontobeat - a real one man band and over 1 million spontaneously created songs and growing. I record about 300 full length cds a year.
" life is a daring adventure or nothing at all" - helen keller
4,000+ of my songs
continuous streaming - 200 most current songs
my videos
Last Edited by on May 26, 2012 9:37 AM
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waltertore
2279 posts
May 27, 2012
7:17 AM
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here are some this morning with our collie Benson joining in on In a Fit. Walter
In a fit
music temptations and compromise
don't know why I keep drinking
growing older and taking care of yourself
you want to be on that stage
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walter tore's spontobeat - a real one man band and over 1 million spontaneously created songs and growing. I record about 300 full length cds a year.
" life is a daring adventure or nothing at all" - helen keller
4,000+ of my songs
continuous streaming - 200 most current songs
my videos
Last Edited by on May 27, 2012 7:21 AM
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nacoran
5739 posts
May 27, 2012
8:33 PM
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Texting is no worse or no better than any other technology. It's how you use it that matters. It's great if you want to quickly ask someone to come over to hang out or to remind someone to pick up milk at the store. I don't mind IM, although I don't use it much anymore. It lets you talk with people all over the world that you couldn't talk to otherwise more immediately than a forum can, but it's really better when it's replacing not communicating. When it's replacing talking on the phone it's not as useful. For most purposes phone > IM. Forums are slower than IM, so they are better for longer forms of communication. It's all great if you can't be in the same room. If you are in the same room with someone else, talk to them instead!
As for video games, they are the new Friday night poker game. People get together around the X-Box to hang out and it's no better or worse than lot's of other ways to hang out. Personally, I'd rather jam, but not all my friends are musicians. Some video games are really useful learning tools. They say surgeons who play lots of video games are better surgeons. I wouldn't be surprised if some other manual dexterity activities might benefit from video games too. There's not nearly as much manual dexterity involved in the harp as say a guitar, but I bet for the more manually oriented instruments video games probably help a bit, as long as you are doing them in addition to practice instead of as a replacement for practice. There are some great video games that help with puzzle solving and spacial relationships too.
The problem is that video game makers bring in psychologists to figure out things like optimum incremental reinforcement patterns and all the sudden it's 4 a.m. and you don't know where the day went. :)
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SuperBee
292 posts
May 28, 2012
7:45 AM
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Yes it the addiction thing. Ha, I was allocated keyboard duty in the band for 1 song next gig, so practicing at the piano tonight. I can barely strum open chords and never played keys at all. I usually trip up drumming fingers on the table I'm so unco. Don't play vid games since the controls required more than 2 fingers. But at the piano tonight it occurred to me that video games probable really help a brain to develop that dexterity connection. Anyway, my problem is really persistence so I'm persisting at the keys. I think there could be some future in it.
I am very interested in the brain at the moment. Pinky, not so much
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JInx
213 posts
May 28, 2012
12:08 PM
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Why do people think their pet peeves are interesting?
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Sun, sun, sun
Burn, burn, burn
Soon, soon, soon
Moon, moon, moon
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waltertore
2281 posts
May 28, 2012
3:20 PM
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here are some from this afternoon during a nice thunderstom. Walter
can't change the past
when I take your hand
when your the last family member alive
not blaming the world for my troubles
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walter tore's spontobeat - a real one man band and over 1 million spontaneously created songs and growing. I record about 300 full length cds a year.
" life is a daring adventure or nothing at all" - helen keller
4,000+ of my songs
continuous streaming - 200 most current songs
my videos
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SuperBee
296 posts
May 28, 2012
8:01 PM
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@jinx: Walter just wrote that OP as an intro for his song links which he posts regularly. No one has their arm twisted to respond if they don't care. I dunno if it's even a question of thinking its interesting. It's just throwing stuff out there. Wed all be up a stump i think if we can only say "interesting" things.
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Honkin On Bobo
1040 posts
May 30, 2012
1:16 PM
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Facebook account - none
"Twit"-er account (appropriately named) - none
smartphone - none
video games - none
texting- extemely sparingly
posting here - a lot less than I used to
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....everybody draws their own line in the sand
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Gnarly
262 posts
May 30, 2012
1:24 PM
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Just to respond to where the thread wound up, not to Walter's Sponto of the moment . . .
I just returned from 5 days out of town, went to Canada and had no Internet connection for 5 days.
What a pain . . .
Texting doesn't bother me, I don't play video games, but I do play cards on my computer--hey Walter, does that count?
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waltertore
2283 posts
May 30, 2012
6:12 PM
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I don't know what is right or wrong except for myself and I usually learn that the hard way most times :-) Walter
here is one from tonight:
you can't change no one but yourself
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walter tore's spontobeat - a real one man band and over 1 million spontaneously created songs and growing. I record about 300 full length cds a year.
" life is a daring adventure or nothing at all" - helen keller
4,000+ of my songs
continuous streaming - 200 most current songs
my videos
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