Today I offer an anecdotal snapshot of how hard it is to get paid to do anything in the current economy. The following took place only minutes ago:
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Pictured below is a perfectly ordinary Facebook conversation from this morning on the topic of economic inflation. I couldn’t resist an opportunity for wiseass humor — also perfectly ordinary. What I had not seen before was Facebook advertising pages to me based on keywords I had just typed. This screenshot is from immediately after I had posted the “inflamed shins” comment:
Some of you may have noticed that comments on recent posts have gone missing. If you haven’t noticed, I sure as hell have. Posts since November 2009 that had comments still say that they do in the meta-link at the top of the post (e.g. “2 comments,” etc.), but those comments just don’t appear at the end of the post.
I don’t know what the hell is wrong. At the moment, I cannot summon the fortitude to spend more time slogging through the WordPress support forums and troubleshooting possible fixes. I’ve just recently done many hours of that after upgrading to PHP 5, and the resultant day and a half when all my blog content was AWOL.
If it’s at all reassuring, I can tell recent commenters this: Read the rest of this entry »
As some of you may recall, back on February 4th I put up a post which began:
It’s February 4th, assholes. Do you still actually think the city garbage men are going to pick up your Christmas tree?
Why mention it again, lo these many months later? Yes, I’m afraid so:




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