Jeffrey C. Long

The throat sighs!

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Last night I had my headphones while using my ipod touch and realized why my subconscious suddenly wanted typewriter sounds when I typed on my laptop. The ipod touch makes typing sounds. There you have it. The mind works in strange ways. 

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I finished the introduction to my book “Too Much Information: Backing Up” today. Writing is hard work. Before I sat down to work on it, an idea struck me. Computer users lack the physical connection between the tactile response of a keyboard and the sound associated with it. Many authors still use typewriters for numerous reasons, [...]

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Banks are scamming the public to keep debit card overdraft fees.: Credit card and bank reform are designed to protect the public. Yet the banks are using fear tactics to get the public to opt-in to the very practice that the government was trying to protect the public from in the first place. Worse, banks [...]

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A frustration for anyone who has lived with me has been the piles of books spread all over. Most recently, the trunk of my car holds the library of my current thoughts. But on my way to the park today I realized I had all I needed in the slim device in my pocket. The [...]

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“Stupid risks are what make life worth living.” – Homer Simpson

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Two days ago I was reading “Politics” by Ralph Waldo Emerson. It was remarkably thought provoking, speaking well to the sea change going on in American politics. But the grammar and vocabulary made it a struggle to read. I’m fairly literate. But it was hard to read. It got me wondering, “who was reading this [...]

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“ The Problem E-mail takes too long to respond to, resulting in continuous inbox overflow for those who receive a lot of it. The Solution Treat all email responses like SMS text messages, using a set number of letters per response. Since it’s too hard to count letters, we count sentences instead. four.sentenc.es is a [...]

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It seems like such an obvious thing. I’ve been annoyed with it in the past but it hasn’t written to the level of driving me nuts. My voice mail on my spring phone starts at the oldest and moves forward. This doesn’t make sense because what I want to hear is that call I just [...]

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