There’s a reason Facebook makes the mobile web browser experience very frustrating.
March 2021
Comments.
I was reading an article about the HBO Max mini series “It’s A Sin” and stumbled upon comments posted below the article.
Our society is doomed.
Apparently there are people that believe AIDS was just a hoax, much like COVID-19 is today. I can’t believe people say these things out loud, let alone believe these things.
I’d like to say that it’s the Internet that has given a voice to all these crazy people, but back in the early 1990s a local newspaper had a page of comments folks could call in. They’d collect messages on an answering machine, transcribe, and publish a week’s worth on page two of the paper. Even back in 1992 there were some batshit crazy people out there and because they could say their asshattery anonymously, you’d see some really stupid stuff on the page. I’d be dumb struck by just how stupid people were and I’d escape to the beginnings of the World Wide Web where you had to be quite clever to get online and even more clever to exchange words with others. There was an understood code about online behavior, but then AOL and Windows 95 happened and all hell broke loose. Pile on social media 15 years later and here we are today, on the eve of what could be another attack on Washington, D.C. because some nut jobs think Trump will become president tomorrow.
I really can’t take the stupid anymore.
I did take a look a Twitter briefly this morning, and when I saw jubilant yet idiotic comments about Texas and Mississippi lifting COVID-19 restrictions, I decided I’d had enough for the day and closed Twitter. Then I deleted it off my phone. If I want to see what’s going on in social media I’ll force myself to use a computer to do it. I don’t need to let my fingers do the walking.
There’s no reason to read comments from stupid people. And unfortunately, there’s too many stupid people.
Breakout.
Over the past year we’ve all had the COVID-19 pandemic on our minds. If there’s a positive thing that’s come out of all of this, it’s the creative use of technology combined with brilliant artistry to do some amazing things.
Here is one of the best, if not the best, cover of Swing Out Sister’s “Breakout” I’ve ever heard. It’s absolutely amazing. Enjoy.
Together Through The Years.
I have used “Life Is Such A Sweet Insanity” for this blog for nearly 20 years, but I’ve used the phrase for much longer. When I worked at Digital (DEC) in the late 1980s, we could put a little “personal message” next to our name on our emails, and mine always said “Life is such a sweet insanity”.
I have probably mentioned this before, but the phrase comes from what I consider to be one of the greatest theme songs of the 1980s. It’s actually called “Together Through The Years”. Roberta Flack sang the titles for “Valerie”, later “Valerie’s Family”, which briefly became “The Hogans”, and then finally “The Hogan Family”. I think Ms. Flack actually came out of retirement to sing this tune.
I miss TV theme songs.
