If you have Closed Captions turned on for your HDTV viewing enjoyment for someone in your life, you tend to leave the Captions on — even if you don’t need them because of a disability or language want — because you have to turn the Captions on and off via direct intervention with the HD cable box by turning off the box and going into BIOS mode for the low-level settings of the hardware.
It is already five days into National Novel Writing Month and I don’t have much to show for it. Another National Novel Writing Month “competition” has arrived and I am, once again, most likely not going to have fifty thousand words written by the end of the month. In all likelihood, I will abandon the novel I started planning a few months ago but only really decided upon a few days ago, and I will not look back upon the text until next year, when I wonder what I have been doing for the last eight years.
Continue reading → Finding the Value of National Novel Writing Month
How did the word “whatever” become the new “F-You?” Why is “Whatever” the poster boy for uniting public passive-aggressive behavior?
I love it when people have no idea about the definition of “Karma” — but still freely use it anyway in a sentence as an enforcer against their hoped-for punishment of someone else’s bad behavior. They think Karma is something immediate and predictable and tangible and just around the corner waiting to pay you back. If you make an immoral decision, God will wait get you in death — but Karma will punish you next Wednesday!
Before there was the Boles Blogs Network, there was just Urban Semiotic and planning articles was simple. Either I was writing an article for Urban Semiotic or Go Inside Magazine — not too difficult. More blogs were added — three, here, four there, then three more — until the 13-blog strong Boles Blogs Network was created. Across the network, we cover all the niches of living. By the time we hit that magical number 13, I had a problem — no good way to keep up with knowing when I hadn’t written an article for a blog in a long while, and what I was planning on writing for any given blog.
Continue reading → Organizing the Boles Blogs Network with the Paper Notebook Technique
Are you offended by the image below of a bare-knuckled woman with naked arms drinking from a Beck’s beer bottle? vb.ly is a link shortening service that takes NSFW (Not Safe For Work) content and “safe-ifies” it by giving an SFW — Safe(r) For Work — link to click. Unfortunately, for vb.ly, the “.ly” domain belongs to Libya, and Libya is a country that adheres to Sharia: Islamic Law — and Libya doesn’t want any booze-holding, tatted chicks riding their domain anywhere near NSFW territory.
Continue reading → Sharia Law and Censoring NSFW Link Shorteners
When people ask me the point of Twitter, I have often pointed to the Twitter stream created by Justin Halpern in which he posts things that his father has said, verbatim.
Continue reading → Shit My Dad Says: But Did Sam Halpern Say it or Not?
Facebook can be a fascinating space. Facebook can also be a bore. I am always disappointed by friends who post wall updates that are copied and pasted from other sources.
Continue reading → Facebook Platitudes, Jokes and Smart Things
Sometimes a rough day can be made better with an animal intervention, and yesterday was just such a day when the lovely Janna SMS’d me this image of her modeling the cutest cat hat I ever did see saw.
We know “Panopticonic” is not really a word. “Panopticonic” is really a “word” I invented for my Boles Network Blog by the same name. When I started the Panopticonic blog, “Panopticonic” appeared nowhere on the internet and that word failed to return any results in a Google search. I do so love it so, though, when I get a Google Alert in my Inbox showing me that — “Panopticonic” — is being colloquially employed as a “real world” in a real publication like Salon Magazine.
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