How Old is Old?

I have just finished helping my grandma applying for a US visit visa. I looked at her birthday, it is March 13th 1928. So she is about 81 years old. Can you believe that? I can't. She just stayed over at our place for the last few days. She is a little slow but amazingly still very mobile, moving up and down the stair, helping with kitchen, and still able to converse with us and my sister's kids. Sometimes I noticed that she looks bored and I wonder is she being happy now? But I think she is...

Twitter

Should I twitter or should I not? Ehm very tempting, seems like a little harmless toy. Have you?

The Real Journalist

Did anyone read the story of journalist David Rohde on NYT this week. It is truly an extraordinary piece of journalism, in essence totally redefine McLuhan's "medium-message" stuff. The medium is intertwining with the message, and at multiple times paradoxically blurring and highligthing the contrast. In the beginning, he is the medium and the planned interview is the message. Then he becomes the medium that becomes the message (when kidnapped). From there he creates a new parallel quantum world message and medium existing as one and also distinct at the same time (in captivity until the escape). And finally he (the medium) and his kidnapping experience (the message) are becoming the way (the medium) to create a new message (the NYT article). If I don't express my line of thought adequately let it be so but that article (or a serie of articles) is simply fascinating to me. Check it out.