{"id":29744,"date":"2016-02-15T01:00:53","date_gmt":"2016-02-15T06:00:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=29744"},"modified":"2016-02-05T08:46:12","modified_gmt":"2016-02-05T13:46:12","slug":"qotd-staying-in-touch-with-the-everyday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2016\/02\/15\/qotd-staying-in-touch-with-the-everyday\/","title":{"rendered":"QotD: Staying in touch with the everyday"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>Posted something at the work blog today about these apps that help you do things you previously did with low-tech means, like assembling grocery lists. One of the comments praised a grocery app that gave you turn-by-turn instructions in your store. I never, ever want to hear my phone say \u201cYou have arrived at frozen breaded chicken patties.\u201d The idea of people walking through a store, pushing a cart, staring at the screen to see where the coffee is located &mdash; as opposed to looking up for the word COFFEE &mdash; is the sort of thing from a comedic dystopia. Then: story in the <em>WSJ<\/em> the other day about someone else starting a service that delivers groceries to your house. The predicate for the business: \u201cno one likes to go grocery shopping.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>I love to go grocery shopping. I went grocery shopping tonight; hit four stores in 90 minutes. Explain to me how it is possible to have an understanding of modern American culture without going to the grocery store. Someone who grocery-shops weekly has a better grasp on our civilization than somoene who spends four years getting a doctorate in Marketing. If they offer such things. I suspect that anyone interested in marketing gets out there and markets as soon as possible, and a doctorate would be useful only for teaching other people about Marketing, which you\u2019ve never done, but studied.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s like Journalism school. Saying you understand Journalism because you went to Journalism school is like saying you have a command of the basics of Dentistry because you used a pencil to black out the teeth in a picture of someone\u2019s head.<\/p>\n<p>James Lileks,<a href=\"http:\/\/lileks.com\/bleats\/archive\/15\/0115\/011515.html\" target=\"_blank\"> <em>The Bleat<\/em><\/a>, 2015-01-15.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Posted something at the work blog today about these apps that help you do things you previously did with low-tech means, like assembling grocery lists. One of the comments praised a grocery app that gave you turn-by-turn instructions in your store. I never, ever want to hear my phone say \u201cYou have arrived at frozen [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[79,57,41,13],"tags":[262,159,92],"class_list":["post-29744","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-education","category-humour","category-quotations","category-usa","tag-culture","tag-shopping","tag-software"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-7JK","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29744","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29744"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29744\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29745,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29744\/revisions\/29745"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29744"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29744"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29744"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}