He holes up in his Jidda hotel room, scrolling through the personal photos on his laptop, "the vast grid of his life in thumbnails," and like Saul Bellow's Herzog, writes letters he never sends.
Sited dramatically on the edge of the river, the buildings continue the pattern of college courtyards, with bold Portland stone facades framing big picture windows, creating animated grids of college life so you can see what your neighbours are up to – particularly popular among exhibitionists.
The power companies, of course, subsidized the development and marketing of these products, and intentionally or not, dependence on the grid became a fact of life in America.
Unexpected wireless charges are a chronic affliction of life on the grid.
Rocco's parable of life off the grid is warm and sweet; my own daughter liked it a great deal despite being a little scared of the dark.
"Bonanza" begins as an oddly idealized vision of small-town life featuring long stretches of silence and natural beauty, interrupted by its residents' articulately describing the freedom and pleasures of life off the grid.
But they and other experts also point out another unfortunate fact of life on the grid that has been revealed by the presumably accidental breakdown on Thursday: taking down the system through a deliberate act -- terrorism -- would be ridiculously easy.
To set up some standards for the V2G technology is necessary because the smart grid will touch so many aspects of life in the twenty-first century and the development of standards involves a wide range of stakeholders national and international, private and public, large and small.
Quality of life (EQ-5D) and depression severity (GRID-HAMD, BDI-II and QIDS-SR16) will be used for estimating quality adjusted life years (QALYs) for cost-utility analyses.
My working life is a grid of colour-coded tasks, measured against campaign execution plans and logged thrice daily.
