Buzz OFF
February 15, 2010
Now Google has launched “Buzz”, a competitor to Facebook. No thanks. Not interested. “Following” me? I’m going nowhere. I don’t know if I go as far as this guy in my opposition to it, though he does make some very interesting points (you should read what he has to say before proceeding with Buzz). I signed up for Twitter awhile back; posted about five Tweets, and decided I didn’t have time for that either (plus, with all due respect to avid Tweeters, it strikes me as being at least for a lot of folks all about indulging their narcissistic tendencies, though I wouldn’t tar every Tweeter with that brush). I tried to find out how to unTwitter, but it seemed more hassle than it was worth, so I’m just treating it with willful neglect at this point. Occasionally I’ll get a notification that someone else is following me. As with Buzz, I’m going nowhere.
For me, it’s just a matter of one more thing I do not need to add to my online life. What I need to be thinking about is what to subtract, frankly, not what other way I can clutter my time up with something else. I’m on Facebook. I like Facebook. I don’t need anything else, even if Google tells me Buzz is better. I just don’t care…
Now Here’s a Thoroughly AWFUL Idea
February 11, 2010
In this highly consumeristic culture of ours, I suppose it was only a matter of time before a site like this one came out:
Now, I am certainly not interested in judging the motives of the Christian man who partners with a non-believer to run this site, but I honestly question the wisdom of allowing anybody and everybody–with motives unknown–to give thumbs up or thumbs down to a given congregation. I could say more, but my computer is being balky this week, so I will leave it at this…
What’s 50 Million Among Friends?
February 9, 2010
Proving for the umpteenth time that they are hopelessly out of touch, House Democrats voted to spend $50 million to buy up property and make it a national park. Oh…did I mention where the property was? In St. Croix, U.S. Virgin Islands, a place accessible only via an expensive airplane ride. Yep, 10% unemployment, and what America needs is to poot away 50 extra large.
Sorry for Yesterday’s Problem
February 5, 2010
In the event you logged on yesterday and were directed away from this page to some spam site, my regrets. Some shred of human debris decided to hack my computer, apparently, whilst I was in a public place, and inserted some nefarious code into some line somewhere that directed folks to various other sites. Thankfully, to my knowledge, none were p*rn sites or anything like that, but sorry for the problem, and it should be all better now.
Sweet Fifteen
February 1, 2010
Practically Perfect Daughter turns 15 today. She is such a delight, such a joy, such a ray of sunshine. It’s shocking to me that this little baby girl whom we welcomed to the world such a (seemingly) short time ago is well into her teenage years now. The years fly by ever-faster, it seems; there’s no slowing them down. Memo to self: savor these days; they won’t return.
This phrase comes from the 1978 "Jonestown massacre" in which most members of the Peoples Temple cult, blindly following their leader Jim Jones, committed suicide by drinking cyanide-laced Kool-Aid.
Osborne: A Contrarian's Guide to Knowing God
Schlossberg: Idols For Destruction
