The fear was palpable.
Sure, it was getting close to Halloween.
And there were always issues around whether or not to watch scary movies.
He thought it’d be a nice change of pace to see the new Halloween movie on the big screen, but I supposed that was just him.
There are the disruptors.
The people disruptors disrupt often end up as central figures in innovation.
The volunteer disrupted, who take the most to get them to do the least, are essentially reduced to glorified beta testers for the laboratory disruption.
The recorded stories of their technology testing and experience are the stuff of legend, or so some of them believe.
The data is pruned, quantified, qualified, and typically kept locked away in a metaphoric safe, with the key safely deposited under the planter on the front stoop.
This method of data collection is eerily similar to the new Halloween movie.
Or my dreams.
Or both.
The subheading that yearned to be more
At one time, he was comforted by the falling of rain.
Now he often dreaded it.
At times he imagined the power going out.
Or he questioned how long it would be before it did.
He was a conscientious optimist, the kind with good intentions, especially when he leaned into the benefits of staying positive.
When his mind went the other way, however, when the outcome of something was to be harmful and so clearly foreseen well in advance of when it should be, he felt terrible for not being positive.
But he was optimistic that the outcome would be harmful, so he supposed he actually could be considered at least somewhat encouraging.
Reflecting on the year past before the year has passed
Do you ever think if you would become retrospective if the year were only ten months long?
It might be a great end of October day, just days before Halloween.
The precipitation might not be frozen, but a good cold, autumn rain leaves most wondering where the hot toddies or mulled wine are.
And that’s a normal feeling to have.
Would making the year shorter solve any of our problems?
Even if I think about it, I’m not sure that it would.
I’d love to see a PC come on the market that morphs into a newer model every four years up to 12 years total.
For the English majors out there, that’s a new PC that unfolds and builds itself anew (only different) three times.
It would make it a lot easier than ordering a new desktop computer every four years, like your phone, for instance, if a new computer just suddenly revealed itself from the faux ashes of your old one.
Would you consider this useless tech?
Perhaps.
But it’s the kind of stuff one thinks of indoors when watching cold rain falling from the cozy confines of the inside.
No matter what becomes of my pandemic PC model of the future, I know a good brainstorming session will land more poor pictures than good ones.
But like life, if you can somehow glean the few good ideas from all the not-so-good ones, it might be enough.
I can’t help wondering if it might be like watching the new Halloween movie on the big screen, too.