Question of the Day

[Lightning Rod]

Is using the internet a way to isolate yourself or a way to reach out and touch the world?

[stilltrucking]

Convoy, it is just a cb for me clay, just voices in the night, a line of trucks and cars from jersey docks to pacific shore. Drivers isolated in there wheel estate, just keeping in touch

BTW I have never heard the still smill voice as auditory, I never heard it the way you said you did when you were being set up. Never heard it like an actual voice speaking to me, I think it is so small and so still it is just silence. for me the words silently scrool across my forehead. But you got ears, a musician may hear it differently.

raindrops on my windshield
tear drops on my keyboard
urban hermit

[Lightning Rod]

I've thought of it that way too, truck. Like voices in the night on a lonely highway. CB radio was a precursor to the internet. Lonely cowboys sore in the saddle with miles to go looking for a joke or a gospel tune to help get them to Albekirk.

[stilltrucking]

not just a bunch of peckerwood motor mouths, music too, I heard some great harp music, singing, and story telling, and poetry too. Losing the road almost killed me until I found litchicks. My dsl is slow, rained today always happens after a rain. You been folling what's been happening in neuvo laredo. texas been good to me , love texas the state of the heart, it's texans I can't stand

[Anonymous-one]

Get connected and see the world :
http://www.earthcam.com/usa/newyork/tim ... /index.php[/url]
What other media will make it possible to interact with people around the world live?

[Arcadia]

internet equal new perspectives
new perspectives not equal to isolation (most of the time)
new perspectives equal to more interesting isolation (sometimes)

[YABYUM]

Yes.
and No.
For some, maybe typing is talking.
For me, typing makes me want to talk to you.
The internet has proved a nomads friend.
The internet is a short stop on the way to meeting inspirations.

[hester_prynne]

It's a way to speak out.
It's a way to speak one's mind in search of like minds.

It beats the hell out of tv.

H

[wylde]

.yes.

[Glorious Amok]

it keeps starting off as one and ending up as the other.

and, yeah ... it beats the hell out of tv.

[mtmynd]

Well, elRod - I can do both but not at the same time. It depends upon my mood shifts.

[Atit]

i think it depends on what you use it for. in someways it can be helpfull, i mean i remember i use to type on Litkicks all the time, as some of you may know. it was helpfull to a degree because at that time i felt like i had knowone to talk to and the people on those boards seemed to have a lot of intresting things to say, a lot of things i hadn't thought about before. but at the same time, there were people in the "real" world that were very similar and in one since i think maybe if i hadn't had Litkicks i would have met them sooner? i don't know...i think its really about balance. here, i am back writting on boards like i did three years ago, i don't know why, maybe its because i feel like i am missing something again...i don't know. this is Aly, i use to write on Litkicks as Kerouac&Dylan.

[stilltrucking]

Cecil I can not isolate my self in a truck going down the higway with out stopping in between Sherman Tx and LA. I was in a sardine box of a truck for months at a time , stray dog aeverwhere, I awas a odd fish in an ocean of fish, i could stand in the middle of times square and be isolated, Clay do you mean isolated as in on top of a mountain, or alienated from the people you are in contact with locally? like being an urban hermit, never going out?

geez clay i forgot the orginal question
thank you cecil

[stilltrucking]

oh my god look who it is
didn't even see ya there
that old geezer lady from litkicks


hello Aly
welcome
hope you remember me

[Atit]

kinda weird hun? i'm a sophmore now at the college of santa fe, bet you never thought you'd here from me again.