James Buckhouse at Medium

Something marvelous happens when you treat your phone as punctuation, rather than a metronome. Hugs burst forth from across the bar instead of smirks from friends to whom before you might have merely shown a funny gif. Laughs and forgotten screenplays emerge as intricate theories or urgent product visions. Musical re-mappings and rhyming games mix with foreign languages, fun, trust, hope and debate. In other words—conversation. Crass, elegant, classy, funny, dirty, dire yet brilliant conversation.

Gizmodo writes of an exercise machine that lets you know how well you're doing.

People only see what they are prepared to see. Ralph Waldo Emerson #spirituality

— Frederic Brussat (@FredericBrussat) December 2, 2013

"We do not see things as they are. We see them as we are." ~The Talmud

— Zen Essentials (@ZenEssentials) December 2, 2013

Jeff Bezos let the cat out of the bag about this on 60 Minutes last night (I missed it), and its all over The Times, WaPo, and Twitter this morning. NOVA's notice leads to a pretty thorough overreview of drone applications I especially like the mention of uses for utility companies.

Utility companies could benefit from drones. Trapnell predicts they will one day patrol pipelines and power lines to monitor for problems. Small helicopter drones may fly close to wind turbines to make video inspections..

That puts me in mind of one of my favorite stories, The Bear and the Honey Pot.

Do I really have to wait five years for my first thirty-minute delivery?

Did you say "Rabbit, rabbit" today? I chatted w/ @rachelnpr of @NPRWeekend about lagomorphs and luck: http://t.co/fI3wBUme0x

— MarthaBarnette (@MarthaBarnette) December 1, 2013

I've been trying to remember this since I first heard of it from a friend. Didn't hear the part about Black Rabbit or Tibbar, Tibbar though