Turn Table Button

I start this new blog, as I like most the rest of the world feel the need to express myself digitally.  I am also placing my Cyborglibrarian blog on hiatus as my current job takes me out of a library setting and places me in the throws of educational technology.

To explain the name of this blog, I will use the example of how I just realized my microwave has a button for engaging/disengaging the turn table.  I've been using this microwave for 6 months and had a similar model before this one, however it wasn't until I was fumbling around late last night attempting to turn off the "surface light" that I discovered this button.  It seems most of us traverse through life just doing what we can to make it, not paying attention to all the functionality our surroundings have to offer.  I know this is my usual approach focusing only on what is necessary to complete the task-at-hand.  Somewhere along the way I manage to pick up the trivial and enough to know what I am doing.  Thankfully I do pretty well to absorb information fast so my makeshift approach to life hasn't hindered my success.

Nonetheless I am impressed by those who are able to patiently pay attention to the details and do everything correct from the start.  Trial and error, making due with what I have and accepting the impermanence of it all, is my mode of operation and in this information overloaded world I'm not sure anyone can survive paying attention to all the details.  So tag along as I fumble my way through and ponder philosophical issues of technology use in daily life.