http://content.usatoday.com/communities/technologylive/post/2011/06/foursquare-hack-turns-nyc-into-giant-game-of-risk/1

Strange and/or cool, but I think that I am too out of the modern loop to really understand this. 

It doesn't seem to actually be that similar to Risk.

yeah, after actually trying to digest it that's what i thought too.

i'm right there with you Alpha!

Good, at least I am not alone in my misunderstanding and inability to assimilate new technology.  It is ironic that less than a decade ago I was on top of the innovation happening in Computer Science and wanted to devote my life to furthering its uses.

It is ironic that less than a decade ago I was on top of the innovation happening in Computer Science and wanted to devote my life to furthering its uses..

..but now I just use it to conquer the world.

Alpha wrote:

Good, at least I am not alone in my misunderstanding and inability to assimilate new technology.  It is ironic that less than a decade ago I was on top of the innovation happening in Computer Science and wanted to devote my life to furthering its uses.

I still don't have a cell phone.  I think that puts me into a very rare group.  (Ok - technically my wife and I share a pre-paid account, that costs us $10/year & we only use for emergencies).   But I'm not technophobic.  I just have to decide which aspects of technology get a share of my attention.

Ozyman wrote:

 (Ok - technically my wife and I share a pre-paid account, that costs us $10/year & we only use for emergencies).   

So which one of you gets to use it in an emergency?  ..or are you joined at the hip?

haha  - Actually pretty joined at the hip.  We both work in the same building so we carpool into work together, although she usually is the one carrying the phone.

M57 wrote:

It is ironic that less than a decade ago I was on top of the innovation happening in Computer Science and wanted to devote my life to furthering its uses..

..but now I just use it to conquer the world.

There are other things too, but this would have been a better post.

@Ozyman - I have a cell phone, but I perceive that I am one of the few who do not text or use web on it.  Both are blocked currently and in my lifetime I have sent 5 texts and received 39.  It is amazing that if you do not respond, they do not come (the same practice works with well for emails).  I would lose the cell phone if I could, but it is useful for emergency (I routinely ignore calls on however).  No aim/myspace/facebook/twitter ever - this is my only social activity online.  Anyway, those are a few of my technological eccentricities.

*edit - sorry for the personal life story hijack, I am done.