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What’s one piece of travel advice you always follow? View all responses This is a question that has different answers depending on when you posed it to me. Please bear with me while I excavate my memory. Pose it to my 1960s Pius Itinerant self, and he'll promptly point out that you always begin a …
What was your first ever video game? View all responses My first computer at home was an Apple IIc. In 1984, I was three years into my career as an applied anthropologist, dividing my time between creating cultural programs and creating documentation on the community I was working in. The computer was pathetic by today's …
Do you set personal goals for yourself? View all responses I've been finding the issue of personal goals to be a bit problematic recently. I'm trying to separate myself from goals I've previously set that are tied up with career, jobs, and money. This doesn't mean that I've stopped working, being concerned with money for …
What do you think is the future of AI? View all responses There is no AI slop in my posts. Yes, there may be lots of organically produced slop, but hey! It's all my own. This is a blog post. It's supposed to be an expression of my thoughts and ideas. I do use a …
Which book’s world would be the absolute worst to live in? View all responses Let's see: The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress, Fahrenheit 451, Dune, Brave New World, 1984, or perhaps the creepy dystopian adventure of our own developing horror story called real life? Hmmmm, actually some of those worlds look less threatening than day-to-day …
What’s something you’ve done that you never thought you could? The other day I was trying to figure out how many years I've spent lugging cameras around, editing video, adjusting mic levels, and setting up lights. It's over thirty by now. And I expect I'll be doing it for another two or so before I …
If you could switch lives with a famous person for a week, who would it be and why? View all responses It's not an agenda item for me. And it never was. The reason why is pretty basic. At one point in my life, I got exposed to lots of the intimate lives of the …
I don't think that I was too different than the average stubborn, hardheaded youth when I was young. Want to give me advice? Sure, I'd listen. But you might have had a hard time locating me. I'd pull into town with big ambitions, but after as little as a week or two, get royally pissed …
Changing an entire lifestyle can take an instant or years. My change from Pius Itinerant, bad boy about town, was telescoped into a period of a few weeks after a violent episode with a jealous boyfriend and his .38. But as I said, change can come quickly. Within a few weeks, I was a college …
I've been in video on and off since the early 1980's. It was one of the skill sets I added while making a living as an applied anthropologist. It was not just another way of documenting behavior and events; it was a way of presenting them to a wider audience. I had some great teachers, …
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