From Voyageurs National Park on FB: Called “Catamaran” by locals, Bert Upton is among the strangest of historical characters on area waters. He lived in a hut built over a dug-out at Squirrel Narrows. Found frozen to death in the 1930s by Kettle Falls pioneer Oliver Knox; Upton was perched lifeless in the snow just a half-mile from his home. Shunning civilization, Upton defined the word hermit. First spotted rowing his crude log raft on Namakan, no one knows how he got there. Upton’s accent implied an English heritage but any personal inquiries brought a stony silence. Some suspected him a man fleeing the law; others saw a bizarre outcast; everyone knew he was peculiar. Just five feet tall and wildly unkempt, Catamaran wore hacked-off pants and walked barefoot with a stick. Winter demanded shoes but no socks, a cast-off Mackinaw, and a trailing cap made from the leg of old underwear. He was oddly religious, and suspicious of being poisoned. Surviving on snared rabbits and fish, he ofte...
Is there a known problem with Ars Technica? I check it out a few times a week.
ReplyDeleteNo idea. But even as a non-tech person I could tell that article was garbage. And every Android dev and Google employee in my circles was laughing at it, so I feel my first impression was correct.
ReplyDeleteWhy is my experience of G+ so damn different from that of every single tech pundit out there?
ReplyDeleteThe degree of factionalism is nuts. You (general third person, not you specifically) don't have to choose one tech news Web site and then belittle the others. It's not football. Sheesh.
ReplyDeleteBut to the point: the demise of Google+ has been predicted for as long as there has been a Google+.
I suggested to my gaming group we use G+ to coordinate our new campaign communications. They said no, let's use FB because nobody uses G+. I raised an eyebrow.
ReplyDeleteMy circles on G+ are more than double the size of my friends list. Virtually everyone I know on G+ are gamers. Who game. On G+.
I don't know a single person in real life outside of the RPG community that uses G+ for anything. When I mention that I use it rather heavily I usually get blank or confused stares.
ReplyDeleteI like G+, but I don't think the mainstream narrative completely lacks merit.
Beyond gaming, it's the place I get 90% of my cool tech and science news/content.
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ReplyDeleteMy 14 year old sister uses it. So it might be popular with the tumblr generation.
I don't know any other 14 year olds, so I assume she's representative of all 14 year olds.
G+ is sort of like an invite-only party. Tech journalists who make a living gawking at and reporting on what's going on with strangers are sad they were not invited to the party. Since they can't find out, they make up a bunch of lies to assure everyone that the party was totally lame to begin with.
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