If the story of the blogger and his girlfriend is all about the irony of isolation despite all this connectivity, imagine the millions of daters who might never even get to first base because of technology.
Tough.
“Sent from my BlackBerry® wireless handheld”






Well, it’s just not fair. That goes against my (un)holy grails.
I remember a time when I had to disappoint because of a swimming student who turned out to have been sucked into computer games. I had to call for a meeting with the mother and ask many questions. His muscles and motor skills were just so way behind. He was rendering his body non-existent in the physical. So what are his habits, what is his diet, etc., etc.? I even found out about a pattern with his siblings.
I usually gave a refund, but, in this case, I told the mom that I cannot teach him how to swim. I had to segregate him from “normal” kids that played rough and tough in the pool, zooming to and fro. What I can do instead, I told the mom, was make him swim as if I were a physical therapist while psychologizing him a bit, squeezing out from this kid stuff he would like to be and do that had nothing to do with computers.