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m0thy

The art of update

Feb 28, 2009 16:08

A topic du jour of late is that of facebook, of whether to get one, of its true value, of its idiosyncrasies that draw strong love/hate reactions. I have one. I have grown a little weary of the constant updates from old high school friends who are "changing a diaper" or "tired" or "going to bed" or "enjoying a beer". I think a part of this was ( Read more... )

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ozy_y2k February 28 2009, 22:16:02 UTC

A few observations:

1. If you're gonna maintain a site on a social network in 2009, I think you owe it to yourself and society-at-large to use it to start fucking with unimaginative people. That's what they're THERE for, after all. (The people, not the networks.)

2. Hyenas do not do so well with asparagus. It makes their pee smell funny.

3. I once had some paint which managed to outsmart ME, so I'm not sure exactly how appropriate the metaphor really is. I could have sworn that it told me it was "eggshell", but I went ahead and applied it to my ceiling and, boom, it was CLEARLY off-white. Curse you, paint, you win THIS round.

m0thy February 28 2009, 22:45:38 UTC

1. I actually did use "fighting fire with firewood".
Actual comment: "I don't understand" blech. people are blech.

2. I came across a pile of wet, soggy asparagus that a customer dumped out into our parking lot yesterday. Looked good enough for Hyenas to me.

3.I was listening to music while typing this, some of these are lyrics to songs...I can't remember which song the paint line was from...wait...it's Soul Coughing. Don't confuse your textures with your tints. Ecru is the new white.

4.I am lonely and bored.

ozy_y2k February 28 2009, 22:53:54 UTC

Sadly, I have found that Facebook (and its myriad variants) do not really help with #4. That is, unless your sole method of communication is via single-sentence declarations about the state of your relationship with your child/pet/significant other/least-favorite professor/virus of choice. D:

m0thy February 28 2009, 23:11:13 UTC

Not that LJ isn't full of some of the same inane bullshit. Your observations in your earlier post were pretty much spot on in my opinion. I saw bell0 was musing over some of the same issues.

Feel like hanging out? I could be there in 5 hours.

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