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Heheheh, it's the favicon for his page. :)

Cold Turkey by none other than great hero to the geek race Kurt Vonnegut. It compares America to a junkie who's having trouble finding that last fix.

A highly recommended read on what appears to be a similar topic. My favorite line:
There is a tragic flaw in our precious Constitution, and I don't know what can be done to fix it. This is it: Only nut cases want to be president.

"So it goes . . ." - Kurt Vonnegut

Handwriting requires a different style of thinking, especially when writing in ink. I've become too dependant on the backspace and delete keys when I'm composing something on the computer.

I believe that one of the best examples of how the medium changes what one writes is found in the novels by Kurt Vonnegut Jr..

His earlier works, such as Slaughterhouse Five and Welcome to the Monkey House were written or typed on an old typewriter, are distinguished by an efficiency of words, short chapters, and a unique irreverence for both literary and social convention. Then someone boughjt the man a word proccessor and he wrote Hocus Pocus which is very wordy, has standard length chapters, and seems rather conventional in comparison to his other work.

I think that handwriting still has it's place, although it is a shrinking niche. But it is clear to me that the product of writing by hand and writing by machine are definately not equivalent.

I believe you're referencing Vonnegut's Breakfast of Champions, in which exactly what you described occurs. Granted - I haven't read God Bless You Mr. Rosewater. I suppose it wouldn't surprise me much for Vonnegut to do something weird like placing the same event in two books, heh :P

Regardless, I find it mildly ironic that you reference Vonnegut for that point, considering his focus for at least the last decade. However, while I don't know Vonnegut's opinions on modern art, that sort of clever confliction would seem to almost typify him.

I believe you're referencing Vonnegut's Breakfast of Champions, in which exactly what you described occurs. Granted - I haven't read God Bless You Mr. Rosewater. I suppose it wouldn't surprise me much for Vonnegut to do something weird like placing the same event in two books, heh :P

Regardless, I find it mildly ironic that you reference Vonnegut for that point, considering his focus for at least the last decade. However, while I don't know Vonnegut's opinions on modern art, that sort of clever confliction would seem to almost typify him.

I believe you're referencing Vonnegut's Breakfast of Champions, in which exactly what you described occurs. Granted - I haven't read God Bless You Mr. Rosewater. I suppose it wouldn't surprise me much for Vonnegut to do something weird like placing the same event in two books, heh :P

Regardless, I find it mildly ironic that you reference Vonnegut for that point, considering his focus for at least the last decade. However, while I don't know Vonnegut's opinions on modern art, that sort of clever confliction would seem to almost typify him.