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Market Research Mirage

August 23, 2011 | 1 comment

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:

I am seated at the computer screen, plugging away as usual. On the surface of my desk, my cell phone rings gently and vibrates loudly. I pick it up and look at the caller ID readout, which displays an unfamiliar number from an obscure area code. The phone continues to ring as I consider letting it go to voicemail. Then, impulsively, I touch the screen to answer the call.

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We Have Failed as a Society

June 8, 2011 | Comment

Or, in tweet-speak: #societyepicfail
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Facebook Is Innovatively Ridiculous

April 29, 2011 | 2 comments

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:

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2010 Comment-Con

August 29, 2010 | 2 comments

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.

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It’s August 26th, Assholes

August 26, 2010 | 3 comments

As some of you may recall, back on February 4th I put up a post which began:

xmas-treeIt’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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