Strange relationship
Posted by Richard Mankhey
Sometimes I come across snippets of wisdom I’d like to save for later or humorous perspectives on life that strike me funny and this is both of those.
My continual fascination and flabbergastedness with Twitter, Facebook, and such drew me to this humorous picture which was oddly appropriate to find today because at my company monthly team meeting we discussed the impact of social media on businesses and if you know anything about Twitter, this is priceless:
As I said, I’m still slightly confused by the whole Twitter thing but I’m on it [bobalouie], my mom’s on twitter [SuDeepe]…it’s kind of like Facebook status updates, but most would call it a form of “micro-blogging” since you’re limited to 140 characters. I kind of see it as a “Note to myself” tool that you can send things to on the fly and have collected in one place for later.
For instance, here is an OBVIOUSLY important tidbit I posted about 5 hours ago:
“Wednesday is officially Champagne Day! Since about 4:30 pm…woo-hoo!”
In addition to this narcissistic micro-blogging you have the added dimension of being able to “follow” people and get updated by SMS text message when they “tweet” or update their status…and people can follow you, also. It starts to get complicated when you don’t want to offend anyone and NOT follow them, or by not replying to their direct messages (some treat Twitter like another IM client), which brings me to the pearl of wisdom I mentioned earlier that has soooooo many more applications than Twitter, it is relevant and strangely related to the cartoon above:
“Seeking approval from others is a full time job with no vacations or benefits.”
Ain’t that the truth?
Madonna-rama-ding-dong
Posted by Richard Mankhey
I have a love/hate/want-to-dress-like relationship with Madonna, but then most gay men do…or are supposed to anyway…that issue in and of itself is probably worth a complete sociological study…
Anyway! So I laughed out loud when I came across this little blurb in Blender Magazine’s February 2009 issue:
Literally Laughed-Out-Loud. So witty. While I’m making fun of Madonna, I’ll also share this little gem I came across on Fresh Hotness, a NSFW blog devoted to erotic images of males and occasional ‘Desperate Housewives’ clips:
See what happens when you don’t let your children tweeze or shave their eyebrows? I’m talking to YOU Mom!
What will they think of next?
Posted by Richard Mankhey
Thanks to the wonders of science, technology, and other disciplines that spend at least part of the time working to better the human race, it is commonplace to see new and exciting products and services popping up daily.
Less commonly encountered is a new application of an entrenched technology like RAM (random access memory), that essential bit of your computer that makes it “think” faster the more there is.
So recently while searching Amazon.com for some of the stuff for my older laptop, a Dell Inspiron 8600 (born on 12/4/2003) with 256 MB of RAM…yes, I just said 256 MB of RAM. For those less interested than I in such numbers and acronyms, I’ll use an analogy:
256 MB of RAM in my ancient Inspiron IS TO Today’s standard PC memory of 4 GB
just as
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IS TO
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Make sense? Good. So I decided it’s time for an upgrade and skipped the $86 option from Dell.com because the same 1 GB of memory is available from Amazon.com at $14.88, thank you very much.
But that’s not all! The memory you can purchase from Amazon.com also has orthopedic healing properties! Or so says a customer reviewing the product:
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I won’t hold my breath for miracles but this may be the next thing you’ll see on late night info-mercials between the “Sham-WOW!” and “Thigh-Master” slots.