I’m painfully aware that I haven’t particularly been a paragon of positivity these past few years. I’m pridelessly petitioning any pantheon or cosmic presence for power and perseverance in the pursuit of pleasance. As the panel of my peers, please have patience while I program my persona to permanently pause the pity party. Perhaps pretending …
Tag Archives: Facebook
Nonlike
I read a blog article written by Some Guy On the Internet who was performing an experiment. Instead of clicking “Like” on articles, statuses, and comments his friends posted, he would withhold clicking and, instead, would make actual comments if the urge warranted. What he found is that his Facebook experience became more human, less …
Deface
I don’t know about you guys, but part of me is getting turned off by this social media thing. Law of diminishing returns, I guess. I mean, I like keeping in touch with the people I know from near to far, from now to then, but it goes with the territory that reading up on …
Sentry
It started out on the trajectory of being a normal Tuesday. Stan clocked in at his job at the photomat, put on his smock, mixed up the morning’s chemistry, pulled the rolls of undeveloped film and job tickets from the basket. Birthday parties, vacations at Yosemite, smiles in front yards. Then a cold gaze struck …
MixMaster Kitchenaid
I just wrote this on Facebook: You won’t hear about this in the mainstream media, but you need to know about the Theory of Peak DJ Names which predicts that by 2068 we will completely exhaust our supply of unused DJ names, the last one being DJ Buffalo Wings With Honey Mustard Sauce. This fate …