September 28, 2008

The main reason I haven’t been keeping up the blog this last week is that I went in for an overnight “Sleep Study”, returned with a bunch of “electrode glop*” in my hair and, having ended the 8-hour test sleepier than I started, tried to wash out the glop NOT with a normal shower but with a big bowl of warm water and a washcloth on the table next to my bed… right next to the laptop computer I use to blog in bed (yes, I am that disabled/lazy). And of course, most of the water spilled right onto the keyboard of the laptop and the display flashed and went off, never to go on again. I had already altered WordPress’s “update your blog anywhere” features to work best (i.e. only) with that laptop, and Twitter was so much easier to communicate with, even if I was limited to 140 characters at a time, AND YOU CAN SEE RIGHT HERE WHAT HAPPENS WHEN I AM NOT LIMITED MY GOD I AM SO WORDY.

One I got the backup laptop able to blog, I wasted a lot of time “fixing” my design to render properly on Internet Explorer 6.0 (the only major browser where the rounded corners do a weird little levitation thing that looks crappy). Actually, it was never successfully “fixed”, and my only message to IE 6.0 users is: UPGRADE YOUR FRAKKING BROWSERS!!! GET INTO THE 21ST CENTURY, YOU EEDIOTS!!! EVEN MICROSOFT HAS A NEWER VERSION!!! ARE YOU AFRAID OF 7??? IS IT BECAUSE 7 ATE NINE???

Anyway, since I have said a few brilliantly funny things on Twitter lately, I will be recycling them in the next few posts (often expanding from the 140 character limit to my usual blather-til-you-drop style). And, of course, document the rest of the “So Disbarred” Twitter Meme, which I am right now regretting I got started with.

So stay tuned, fasten your seat belts, tip your waitress and GET A FRAKKING DECENT BROWSER, MORANS!!!

*that’s a Medical Term

My Internet Idol Lore Fitzgerald Sjöberg has made Twitter approximately 75% more fun (if not any more useful) with what he calls “Twitter Mobs” or “audience participation comedy”. He occasionally puts out a funny meme (like substituting “Mothra” for “Mother”), posts a few examples, and lets his just-under-a-thousand Twitter followers pick it up and run with it… often into a wall.

Being one of the Sjöbergazzi, I have been one of the first to jump on his rickety bandwagons, and take pride in some of my silliness (Now you know what I’ve been doing instead of blogging). But the only way to follow the fun is via Twitter Search, which is not so good for the Internet Permanent Record (rejected @ MetaFilter), so, since it’s one of those “somebody’s got to do it” things and I’ve been doing self-esteem exercises where I repeat “I am somebody” over and over, I decided to create a more static digest of the best Twitter Mob Meme yet: “Jack Thompson is SO Disbarred”…
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