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What is Social Media?
I just saw a presentation which says “Social Media is an umbrella term that defines the various activities that integrate technology, social interaction, and the construction of words, pictures, videos and audio.” I don’t like that definition. My definition is “Social Media is when the creation and distribution of content, which used to be handled [...]
Of Pink Toes and Gayness
An eight year old girl wanted to know if I was a boy or a girl because my toes were painted pink. But when it comes to men with beards and pink toenails, most of us are just about that confused.
Even for Summer, that’s Dressing Light
I had, walking home this evening, one of those experiences which could only be described as “only in New York” if only I were more fond of cliche. I turned the corner onto my block, and I was largely insulated from the outside world by virtue of my iPod (which is a replacement for the [...]
Is that a brick in your pocket, or are you just happy to see me?
With my iPhone having drowned and being saddled with a loaner phone from 2004, I’ve had the opportunity to look back on our experience with phones back then. My thoughts in retrospect.
Of Obama and Blackface
When a white guy plays Barack Obama on SNL… what’s a racial divisive society to make of it?
Well I’d take it as a complement
Today I noticed that a buddy’s girlfriend has a great ass. My inclination was to tell him so. But who knows… every guy is different. And I don’t know where he keeps his ball-peen hammer.
