(Disclosure: Chen, maybe because of the New Orleans connection, popped up among our backers, to the tune of $2. I didn't know him and I had no plans at the time to write about the company).
The beauty of a diverse and multifaceted festival is that little connections pop up, too modest to qualify as full-blown themes and surely not planned as such.
The word "connection" is popping up in taglines and ads; new books on the need for connection are being written, such as The Culture Code, Back to Human and The Crisis of Connection; and loneliness and the longing to connect is the heart of Dear Evan Hansen, the Tony-winning musical on Broadway.
As I turned on the wireless networking switch on the front of the notebook, I noticed a little connection guide pop up.
Reports are trickling in that BlackBerry users in New York and Washington are experiencing, yet, another outage with the typical message 'blackberry data connection refused' popping up when users try to access e-mail.
"Facebook values real-life connections," warns a message that pops up when a Japanese user withholds information, like the traditional characters used in names.
When the new list pops up, tap on "Connections" to open up all of your current Zoosk connections.
Picking up on the post office connection, the pop-up has been painted blue with red accents, and exclusive-to-Los Angeles offerings include socks labelled "Priority". Kule prices start at $38 for socks and go up to $295 for cashmere sweaters.
Most recently awarded a fellowship from Open Society Foundations, "Fractured Connections" will bring the deeply personal experience of family separation and diasporic connections in pop-up installations to NYC.
It's a convenient connection that could pop up if people really tried to dig in and find skeletons in the closet.
