Showing posts with label irony. Show all posts
Showing posts with label irony. Show all posts

Thursday, March 31, 2011

Don't Like This

Facebook is the third largest country in the world, as gurus of social media gleefully continue to point out. Which prompts me to misquote Uncle Joe:
How many divisions does Mark Zuckerburg have?
(Well, maybe there's thousands of US Marines updating their statuses in between jumping out of Humvees and shooting guns. That doesn't make Facebook itself a nation.) You don't pay anything to use Facebook. Up front. But as the axiom of the internet goes, if you're not paying for the product, you are the product.

Wednesday, February 10, 2010

Shocked

I had a shock today when I weighed myself - 174.5 lbs. I was so gobsmacked that I lacked even the basic arithmetic to convert that into stones.