I want to become a successful blogger. I think what I write about is interesting, entertaining, and informative. I post a couple of times a week and promote my posts through a variety of channels in hopes that people will read what I’ve written. Well, I recently found out that Facebook is ruining what progress… Continue reading How do I let people know I’m trying?
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The Island of Misfit Costumes
It’s the last 10 days before Halloween night and I’ve thought a lot about costumes. My usual choice is something weird or otherwise confusing. For example, a couple of years ago I dressed up as Slutty French Fries (pictured), a play on the idea that the cliché girl costume is always a slutty version of… Continue reading The Island of Misfit Costumes
Something about Instagram and Facebook
The big internet shock from the other day is that Instagram was purchased by Facebook. I have mixed feelings about this. My immediate reaction is that this is bad for innovation. A large, well established company buys a small but energetic company and probably ruins what’s great about it. Then I think about examples like… Continue reading Something about Instagram and Facebook
Broken Boy
I’m fragile. Sometimes emotionally, but right now I’m talking physically. Somewhere between playing videogames, being a full-time web developer, and writing for this blog, I hurt my wrists. (I know, it’s the easiest injury to make fun of in the world, but we can get over that, right?) Well, I take great pleasure in writing… Continue reading Broken Boy
Vetting Facebook Status Updates
A post over at A Confederacy of Spinsters, called Your Status Update Not Welcome, inspired me to write a comment. After a couple of minutes trying to think of a concise sentence or two for the comments section of their page, I decided I needed to write a full-blown post about it. From the original… Continue reading Vetting Facebook Status Updates
How I’ve Influenced the World
It’s been said a person would need to be a narcissist to be a stand-up comic. It’s probably true, I’m certainly not a counter example to this. I have an act, a blog, a Twitter, and Facebook and Google+ pages in addition to my profiles. I push all this stuff ad nauseam and probably annoy my… Continue reading How I’ve Influenced the World
Teaching a Phone to Talk (Part 2)
I have a smartphone (more specifically an HTC Aria running Android Froyo). The auto-correct feature for typing is pretty good and it allows you to add words to its dictionary that it might not otherwise have. It turns out, as of this morning, I have 217 words that I added to my dictionary and most… Continue reading Teaching a Phone to Talk (Part 2)