January 2011
19 posts
“True freedom comes in death.”
– Ben Webb
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“I’m dragging my feet into the 20th Century.”
– My Mom (explaining why she chose not to get a $49 iPhone)
“Let’s all eat Lilia, because she’s ice cream. Yum yum yum!”
– Adara
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The Garden of Your Mind →
suprcollidr:
I follow several writers on twitter and noticed one of them consistently tweets about television. Every night the writer tweets about some reality show they are watching or repeats a line from a sit com. I’d not think much of it except the writer I am thinking of is exceptionally talented and I wondered to myself if this weren’t a brain as able as Flannery O’Connor or Ernest...
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“Is that a fertility house upstairs?”
– Eden (asking about our noisy neoghbors)
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Facebook & Television by Ian P. Hines →
Recently on Twitter, Gordon McCleary said:
“I’m not on Facebook” is the new “I don’t own a television.”
It was retweeted eighty-eight times.
And I agree, but I don’t think he meant what I think he meant.
I think what Gordon is trying to say here is that not being on Facebook means you’re somehow dated. That you’re out of the loop. Here, I disagree.
By comparing Facebook to Television,...
Where is the iPad competition? →
I don’t understand how nearly after a year the iPad was released no one else has managed to build some other OS specifically for a tablet. There is still only a desktop-tablet (Microsoft) or the phone-tablet (Android). I’ve heard some rumors of Microsoft working on a lighter OS but it’s still a couple years out. Did it take this long of a response for the first iPhone?
