Tig (affectionately named by her brother as a child) was born in Jackson, MS and raised by her single mother in Pass Christian, MS. During hot summer days, her artistic and free-spirited mother would feed the children all three meals at once, then hose down their diapered bodies in highchairs to cut back on cooking and cleaning, leaving more time for her to paint donkeys on the outside of their house. The family eventually moved to Texas, where they gained a new father who provided structure and alas…a house with no donkeys painted on the walls. While serving time in a Texas high school, Tig failed three grades by entertaining classmates rather than entertaining the notion of a successful academic career. She decided to drop out of school in 9th grade at the tender age of 43 and move to Denver, CO., where she worked briefly in the music industry before moving to LA to lodge herself firmly into the always fun and always easy world of comedy. Secrets (Please do not share this information with anyone)
"The early World Wide Web - Web 1.0 - was all about information. It was a way for people to find pieces of data more easily than ever before. But Web 2.0 is something different. It's about collaboration rather than information. It's about networking, sharing, organizing, reaching out to one another. Our government today is still in 1.0 mode. You can go to SF311.org and get information about trash pickup, road work, streetlight repair. You can go to the Web sites of different government departments and download documents, applications, reports. But we haven't yet reached Government 2.0 - the collaboration stage, in which businesses and social networks are operating today. That's the stage we have to get to in order to innovate our way out of this mess: We have to engage the collective wisdom of people outside of government, rather than just relying, as we always have, on those who work within the monolith." Give me your hands Show me the door I cannot stand To wait anymore Somebody said Be what you'll be We could be old and cold and dead on the sea But I love you more than words can say I can't count the reasons I should stay Give me some rope Tie me to dream Give me the hope to run out of steam Somebody said it can be here We could be roped up, tied up, dead in a year I can't count the reasons I should stay One by one they all just fade away I'm tied to the wait and sees I'm tired of that part of me That makes up a perfect lie To keep us between But hours turn into days So watch what you throw away And be here to recognize There's another way Give me some rope Tie me to dream Give me the hope to run out of steam Somebody said it can be here We could be roped up, tied up, dead in a year But I love you more than words can say I can't count the reasons I should stay One by one they all just fade away But I love you more than words can say The 88 the88.net  "And given the critical role played by tool use in human evolution,...we must understand technology as natural and sacred, not alien and profane." "...understand technology as a public good - a way to achieve broadly agreed upon societal goals, whether for improved health or cleaner air." "Humans have long been cocreators of the environment they inhabit. Any proposal to fix environmental problems by turning it away from technology risks worsening them by attempting to deny the ongoing coevolution of humans and nature." "The solution to the unintended consequences of modernity is, and has always been, more modernity - just as the solution to the unintended consequences of our technologies has always been more technology. The Y2K computer bug was fixed by better computer programming, not by going back to typewriters. The ozone-hole crisis was averted, not by an end to air-conditioning, but rather by more advanced, less environmentally harmful technologies." "Would we like a planet with wild primates, old-growth forests, a living ocean, and modest rather than extreme temperature increases? Of course we would...Only continued modernization and technological innovation can make such a world possible." |
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