Distances: Doublespeak

Monday, March 14, 2005

Doublespeak

And in this pair, AOL states a new anti-privacy policy and retracts it verbally at almost the same time.

Here are the most concerning phrases of the policy: All your AIM are belong to us.

And here's the retraction (of sorts): But we won't use them.

FAQ, Jeopardy-style:

-Jen
-27 (3/1/78)
-Boston, MA
-VIA
-Love it!
-Engaged! There's a website - email me for the address.
-14 October 2006.
-3 years this past September.
-Awesome; it's always been that way, though! Yeah, I know, it's great!
-Yes, we used to share a three-bedroom with my best friend from college, but he left in early August to get his MBA in Chicago. Now we're sad and furniture-less. We've had a new roommate since September.
-Martial arts.
-Six days a week when at all possible. (Yes, that goes with the martial arts answer - really!)
-Yeah, a while, style-dependent. Going on ten years for my primary style.
-Uechi-ryu karate, Hung Gar kung fu, Jeet Kune Do, Kali/Arnis/Escrima
-No, he doesn't.
-Number of Gmail invites
available: 100+ (as of 12/03/05 - Google seems to keep wanting to restock all of my addresses!)

Distance is such a strange concept. It describes, simultaneously, the presence and absence of space. Often, when contemplating distance, I imagine an immense and barren landscape, stretching out before me with only the horizon to catch me before I am catapulting through sheer nothingness. How easy it is, at those times, to be intimidated by loneliness. Yet life is about distances, whether it's a journey from one place to another, mentally or physically, striving for balance and boundaries between work, life, and play, or seeking personal space, more of it, less of it... Life is the complex navigating of all distances so to remain whole.

Distances

Monday, March 14, 2005

Doublespeak

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