January « 2010 « Throatpunch

Anti-Social Networking… and an apology of sorts

So… due to personal issues, I de-activated my Facebook account last week. The crisis resolved itself (sort of… it’s a long story), but I’ve actually been enjoying my time away from Facebook, as it tends to be a distraction.

I learned a valuable lesson when I de-activated my account: Social Networking sites don’t necessarily strengthen already [...]

Are you bored?

If you’re bored, it’s your own damned fault. There’s a whole world out there waiting for you. There are books you haven’t read, songs you haven’t heard, people you haven’t met and places you haven’t been. It’s not that you’re bored… maybe you’re just boring.

It’s like the Hatcoys and the McFields up in here!

When I saved the screen capture for yesterday’s “Drug Debt Sparks Fued” post, I ignored my usual practice of numbering the images I upload and saved the jpeg as “fued.jpg”, never thinking that I’d be uploading “fued02.jpg” or “fued03.jpg”. KRIS-TV’s Mitch Bryan proves me wrong:

Local journalism at its finest

Yahoo’s new homepage features links to local news stories, most of which I never bother to check out. I couldn’t pass pass up this story, though: Drug Debt Sparks Fued. In case they’ve cleaned up the headline, here’s a screen capture for you (and note the spelling in the URL of the article):

Not to [...]