{"id":49856,"date":"2015-03-16T22:43:51","date_gmt":"2015-03-17T04:43:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2015\/03\/16\/the-wonders-of-my-auxiliary-brain.html"},"modified":"2015-05-11T08:12:15","modified_gmt":"2015-05-11T14:12:15","slug":"the-wonders-of-my-auxiliary-brain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2015\/03\/16\/the-wonders-of-my-auxiliary-brain.html","title":{"rendered":"The wonders of my auxiliary brain"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Without my smartphone, I&#39;m a lot more stupid than I would be otherwise.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;As We Age, Smartphones Don&#39;t Make Us Stupid &#8212; They&#39;re Our Saviors&quot; : <a href=\"http:\/\/lauren.vortex.com\/archive\/001094.html\">http:\/\/lauren.vortex.com\/archive\/001094.html<\/a><\/p>\n<p>I wouldn&#39;t be able to call up what the square footage of our kitchen is when vendor asks. I wouldn&#39;t know the phone number for our CIO. I wouldn&#39;t know the best way to get from my house to a friend&#39;s house on a Friday afternoon. I wouldn&#39;t be able to show what our remodel looks like. I wouldn&#39;t be able to confirm what time that meeting is tomorrow. I&#39;d forget that book that someone recommended to me. I wouldn&#39;t be able to easily find out my daughter&#39;s grades, or my mom&#39;s travel itinerary, or my wife&#39;s wish list.<\/p>\n<p>(Well, I still can&#39;t find that out, but it&#39;s not the smartphone&#39;s fault.)<\/p>\n<p>Smartphones can be used stupidly, but net-net, I&#39;m better of with one than without one.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<div style='text-align:center'><a href='https:\/\/plus.google.com\/photos\/101083456815352083930\/albums\/6127060019217948769\/6127060030472340546'><img src='https:\/\/lh6.googleusercontent.com\/-T1LbMEqUGF8\/VQewopnMREI\/AAAAAAADLRM\/J1fhBposmwk\/wpid-zombie-walk-moviles-smartphone-humor%255B1%255D.jpeg?imgmax=660' style='max-width:650px;' \/><\/a><\/div>\n<div style='text-align:center'>\n<a href='' style='width:50px;height:50px;display:inline-block;background-size:cover;background-image:url();'><\/a>\u00a0\n<\/div>\n<p><span style='font-size:small;'><a href='https:\/\/plus.google.com\/+DaveHill47\/posts\/2qtGc7E9Pmi'>View on Google+<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Without my smartphone, I&#39;m a lot more stupid than I would be otherwise. &quot;As We Age, Smartphones Don&#39;t Make Us Stupid &#8212; They&#39;re Our Saviors&quot; : http:\/\/lauren.vortex.com\/archive\/001094.html I wouldn&#39;t be able to call up what the square footage of our kitchen is when vendor asks. I wouldn&#39;t know the phone number for our CIO. I &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2015\/03\/16\/the-wonders-of-my-auxiliary-brain.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The wonders of my auxiliary brain&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":49857,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106,137,65],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-49856","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-plusposts","category-henoed","category-my-mobile-pda"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/wpid-zombie-walk-moviles-smartphone-humor5B15D.jpegimgmax=660.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":8374,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2005\/12\/02\/happy_blogovers.html","url_meta":{"origin":49856,"position":0},"title":"Happy Blogoversary, Les!","author":"***Dave","date":"Fri 2-Dec-05 3:26pm","format":false,"excerpt":"While you'd think a site named \"Stupid Evil Bastard,\" written by an avowed atheist who looks like a Hell's Angel, wouldn't exaclty be my cuppa, I make SEB one of...","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Blogging &amp; Internet&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Blogging &amp; Internet","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/blogging"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/images\/les.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":20,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2003\/07\/12\/peanut_butter.html","url_meta":{"origin":49856,"position":1},"title":"Peanut butter","author":"***Dave","date":"Sat 12-Jul-03 9:41am","format":false,"excerpt":"Once upon a time, I was a peanut butter snob. 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