Under a Gibbous Moon

I can honestly say, I don’t like Facebook. I don’t even remember the last time I checked it.

At one point, it was useful. It allowed people to easily stay in contact with friends who lived in disparate parts of the country or even the world. At some point though, that changed. Facebook changed into VagueAcquaintanceBook. I see people who have several hundred “friends” even though they are actually the ex-brother-in-law of the sister whose cousin they met at a party one time.

FaceBook also changed into SpamBook. I got really tired of being asked to help someone find the Pearl of Wisdom so that they could could get and extra 100 fun bucks so they could buy the armor they needed to slay the dragon so they could steal his hoard and use the proceeds to adopt a panda. Fine, you like the game but don’t drag me into it.

So until FaceBook actually turns back into Facebook, I’m going to continue not use it.

It’s that time of year again, Beloit College in Wisconsin has put out their annual list of milestones, touchstones, minutea that make up the generation of the years incoming freshman.

Key items on the list is the lack of watches (who needs one when you have a clock on your cellphone?), computers have always had CD-ROMs (but who the hell needs CDs anyway?), and Hollywood has always been making terrible movies out of old sitcoms.

SEVERE WARNGING – reading this list may make you feel extremely old.

I’m going to go somewhere and cry now.

Ok, probably not. But this infographic from Information is Beautiful shows exactly how petty people can be on the internet.

Fights ranging from whether or not to capitalize the “The” in the Beatles to how to spell yogurt have raged back on forth across the Wikipedia servers with neither side willing to give an inch.

With all the difficulties that face this world I am glad that some people are willing to stand up and fight to say that traditional mayonnaise is indeed made with lemon juice.

God bless you all. (sniff)

Here is a bit of advice for those of you in the business world or graduates sending out resumes for that job you want. The letters “t” and “g” are close to each other on the keyboard. Way, way too close to each other. For this reason, I will never close a work-related e-mail with “regards” again.

It’s been almost a year since Geocities went dark. Now, for all of you who miss that tacky goodness, you can convert the web page of your choice into the artistic meme that was Geocities.

Here’s mine.

WARNING: May Be Hazardous to Vision and/or Sanity