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Ben Franklin’s Facebook Status

By ~LS~ On July 4, 2010 · Add Comment · In Fun Facts, Humor, Random Musings and tagged Tagged With: Al Franken, Books, Facebook, For Wordies, Humor, Silliness

Today’s Times Book Review section has a nicely written, humorous article on Ben Franklin and his Almanac: Ben Franklin is a Big Fat Idiot. The title made it mandatory reading for me given my utter adulation of Al Franken. In fact, the author, Joe Queenan, seems to have as much of a crush on Franklin as I have on Franken.

To his disappointment, Queenan discovered that the Almanac was not nearly as inspirational as he remembered it to be and so he laments the resultant bit of tarnish on Franklin’s halo. His claims that Franklin’s aphorisms failed “the acid test of validity and usefulness.” Take this one, for example: “Keep your mouth wet, feet dry.” Ok, I agree, teh stoopid.

The first thing that came to mind as I read the article was Facebook. Ben Franklin seems to have written down whatever [...]

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Email signatures

By ~LS~ On June 24, 2010 · 1 Comment · In Humor, The Quotidian (yadda yadda), The Web and tagged Tagged With: For Wordies, Silliness, Weird Stuff

Lately I’ve been getting a lot of email with a certain type of signature file that cracks me up. Usually the emails are from people in corporate offices, but some people at school have them too. They are wordy, legalistic disclaimers about privacy and liability. They are often difficult to understand and they sound full of it. I know the people who have these signatures attached to their emails usually have no control over their presence. In some cases, though, that’s not the truth.

So I’m taking revenge. I have written my own signature file and here it is:

Caution: electronic email sent through the internet is not secure and could be intercepted by CARNIVORE, Echelon, NarusInsight, Amazon.com, Google.com, or other government or commercial surveillance entities. For your protection, do not send any information whatsoever over the internet. Any information that you do send will be considered the intellectual property [...]

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My signature

By ~LS~ On June 18, 2010 · Add Comment · In The Quotidian (yadda yadda) and tagged Tagged With: Silliness

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Same as it ever was – Random facts about today

By ~LS~ On February 25, 2010 · Add Comment · In The Quotidian (yadda yadda) and tagged Tagged With: Silliness

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Googol it!

By ~LS~ On September 17, 2009 · Add Comment · In The Web and tagged Tagged With: For Wordies, Silliness, Trivia

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Why I’m retro (and not in a good way)

By ~LS~ On May 29, 2009 · Add Comment · In Generations, Pop Culture, The Quotidian (yadda yadda) and tagged Tagged With: Age, Consumption, Generations, Pop Culture, Silliness

1.I still play on text-based games (muds, mux, etc.). Most of the gaming world has moved onto MMORPGs.

2. My cellphone is the one they sell to senior citizens. Big digit buttons, no keyboard for texting. I don’t text. I don’t surf. I don’t even download ringtones. In fact, I don’t even keep my cellphone on. I just turn it on to call out.

3. Until my new computer this week, I didn’t have the capacity to play DVDs on my computer.

4. Until this week, I was using html frames instead of CSS for my website.

5. I would rather play D&D 3.5 than move to 4.0. Partly because I don’t like 4.0 and partly because I just don’t want to bother to learn a new system.

6. Teaching public speaking. I have long thought that public speaking organized around the standard informative, commemorative, and persuasive schtick was utterly [...]

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