Ana was just raising the volume on our boombox. She could have held down the button (it’s the chiclet variety) but instead she clicked the button repeatedly, rocking a little back and forth with each click, until she reached the desired volume.<\/p>\n
She was using her body as a metric. She was also compensating for a crappy interface. This boombox lacks a visual display of the volume. Moreover, a chiclet button is nowhere near as precise or handy as an old-fashioned dial.<\/p>\n
We have the expression “too big for one’s britches” meaning someone whose sense of self is out of proportion with their reality; namely their physical reality. In the virtual world, it’s all too easy to lose track of the proportions that have helped our civilization advance. (See da Vinci’s Vitruvian Man<\/a> for example.) <\/p>\n The Nintendo Wii, among other new interfaces, may help restore the human body to its helpful role in our play and work.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Ana was just raising the volume on our boombox. She could have held down the button (it’s the chiclet variety) but instead she clicked the button repeatedly, rocking a little back and forth with each click, until she reached the desired volume. She was using her body as a metric. She was also compensating for…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5,13,17],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1138"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1138"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1138\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1138"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1138"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1138"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}