There are digital natives and there are the digimudgeons. The digimudgeons are already over the internet. They were clicking and dragging Geocities sites before most people even had dial-up in their own homes. They joined Facebook when it was a college-only site. The signed up for Twitter in 2007 before their bosses and families were on there. They miss Television Without Pity and Google Reader. And they are pretty sure the social web is destroying…
We used to gaze at each other for hours, lit by curiosity and liquid crystal. Forgive me for bringing this up so suddenly. I know it’s been a while. It’s just that tonight on the drive home I got to thinking about the times we shared, and how I discovered so much of myself through you, with you. And how much I pine for those days. They were simpler. We were learning so much so…
The buttery and soothing tones of Brooke Gladstone’s voice informed me tonight on the drive home from work that Television Without Pity is no more. The archives will stay up but NBC Universal, which owns the site (?????), has shuttered it and there will be no new recaps. I haven’t been on TWoP in years but this still hurts my heart all the same. I suppose it is just another fact of life when you’ve…
… that there are several other Lindsey Turners in the world, and one of them is a vastly superior designer while another is a vastly superior photographer. Seriously, Universe. You are mean.
Listen. I don’t hate fun. Really, I don’t. I have even been known to HAVE fun every now and again. I encourage it. Within reason, of course! But this is getting ri-frickin-diculous. That link that you probably hovered on but did not click is a roundup of all the April Fools pranks Google staged in 2013 alone. I realize that Google is a global ginormamegacorporation that employs tens of thousands of people, so it’s possible…
Remember this bit of strategic foreshadowing? No? Well, that’s why Al Gore invented the hyperlink. So my pal Ed and I sat down and had a little chat about the social web and what a sticky wicket it is, and we recorded that conversation for posterity and for a time capsule element I will one day beam into my children’s head pods’ humor modules. My one regret is that I was having such a mouth-stuffing…
My friend Ed was kind enough to ask me to blather on and on into a microphone about The Internet the other day. Details on that to come a little later. Our server at Republic Coffee saw us hooked up to lapel mics and wanted to know what we were doing, exactly. “This is how we give blood,” Ed quipped. Good show. [Project 365]
I have a Tumblr. I’ve had it for a long time, but never done anything with it since I’ve got the blog and the Twitter and the Flickr and the dear god all that other crap. I finally figured out what to use it for. Phone photodump! You know, if you are into that sort of thing.
Here’s how it used to look before computers had all these fancy pixels. Can’t remember where I first got the link for a proper HT but the site is Pixelfari.
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