This time of year can be a little overwhelming. Not even including school. The problem is that just as baseball is getting condensed enough that I can really focus on it and commit to one team or another (as my team is so often such a colossal letdown), college football and the NFL are getting in gear. Post season baseball will always... I think always.... take precedence over any other games that are, but it's hard not to feel a little schizophrenic switching constantly between the many, MANY channels that are home to various ball games to check on this or that.
So I said today, "We should make an app for this."
The app itself is not so brilliant: just a simple interface that allows you to put in which games you are watching and get alarms as a quarter/half/period/inning/half time begins/ends. Yeah. Basic but useful. For all I know this already exists in some form.
More worth noting I think is the phrase, "We should make an app for that." We should make an app for having too many TV channels. We should make an app for our incredibly overtaxed multitasking brain centers. We should make an app to make things even eeeeeasier, even though it is through pursuing ease that we breed astonishing complexity.
Our approaches to problem solving and question answering have changed so much. In the past few months, I have used Google to find campsites and roadside attractions, to stream sporting events and bad reality TV, to look up my own new home address, to learn how to make omelets... There is just no excuse to not know pretty much everything. And there's no incentive to remember any of it. And I just had to ask my boyfriend for help remembering the word "incentive". I could have looked up "motivation" on thesaurus.com and probably would have gotten to it pretty quick, but I figured in light of this entry I'd ask something other than the internet for help for once.
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in terms of the baseball/football/etc stuff. i'm fairly certain there are scoring apps you can download, though typically you've got to pay for them. the free stuff is often unreliable.
ReplyDeletei think the term you bring up "we should make an app..." has totally immersed itself in our consciousness. and it's gotten to the point that we are almost totally over reliant on apps, browsers, smartphones, and the like. we live in a society of instant gratification and i wonder how spoiled this makes subsequent generations as things get more spoonfed and simplified. will it totally drain creativity? are we becoming drones? how can we counter this as educators?
A little more amusing post here. Maybe you guys don't even remember some of these things?
http://www.wired.com/geekdad/2009/07/100-things-your-kids-may-never-know-about/