Houseguest Eris writes...
At first, I thought it was going to be a bad use of my week in Spain to spend my afternoons writing about being in Spain. We are nothing if not meta. It has amused me, truly, to be this far from home and still so highly connected. Actually, it has disturbed me to sit around the kitchen table talking about the downfalls of Twitter’s database organization or IM’ing people who are sitting in the living room on whether or not they want another glass of wine.
I believe it was Rob who thought one of the things missing from this adventure was a “Valle Wag”. [Paul says: ahem] The fact that we all got the joke and laughed at the joke is proof that you can take the geeks out of the city, but you can’t take the city out of the geeks. At any given moment, one of us is twittering, checking email, making blog posts, sending text messages, creating start-ups, talking about start-ups and having discussions of other various tech-related topics.
None of this behavior seems out of place.
On one hand, these things have become so ingrained into our lives that they are as much a part of our daily habits as showering. And yet, is that true or is that just an excuse to enable behavior more addictive than it is essential?