Yesterday, while waiting to cross the street to pick up some burritos, I overheard an uptight middle aged lady complaining about other people's short attention spans. I was really tempted to grab and shake her and demand that she take some responsibility for the state of things. Honestly, what is it people are supposed to be paying attention to exactly anyway? As someone afflicted with an excessively long attention span, I can testify that it isn't much help, who knows, even more disorganized perceptions than are currently the general rule might be a real boon.

I feel like I should really be doing something to foster oppositional civil societies in postcolonial environments, but aside from the obvious mass air drops of Moomin books, I'm not sure what would be most effective. Maybe I should be ratcheting up my technical competencies as extremely and rapidly as possible and heading off to Africa to do network deployments and training. I'm not sure what portion of the population needs to be made into melancholic sysadmins to instantiate a Fourieresque wonderland, but I imagine there's a tipping point somewhere- lemonade seas here we come.

Speaking of melancholy, anybody know where I can lay my hands on a copy of the Panofsky/Saxl book 'Saturn and Melancholy'? I'd really like one.