DISQUS

Those t-shirts are another sign Twitter's popularity is peaking.
One day after a few dozen washes people will be too embarrassed to
wear the. Sooo 2008.

I'm so glad I don't
recognise a single
name on that whole
list.

Did you know that many people suffer from Social Media Avoidance Disorder? They would never touch Twitter.

One day my favicon just started to show up. Maybe I signed up, but I don't remember. If it's that easy, why pay for it?

Twitter is getting cluttered with newsfeeds and other crap, and will soon be taken over by the corporations and the marketers. Yuck.

Your post title reminds me of one of the funniest commercials I've seen in a long time:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bmizveWpKOk

:-)

The eyes have it! Use the brain ones for writing short shopping lists on the other side. Seriously, they don't look good, at least not in that photo!

Torah,
Have you ever thought of writing a book about your life? If so, this post is a pretty good start. Looking forward to reading more.

EVERY first day of school and university was plagued by having been called out by my first name. Since every kid in our family is called by the second name, I had to do the same routine over and over. Some of the kids had to hear my schpiel about as often.

Finally as an adult one passport renewal I simply dropped the first name. Nobody noticed, and have been living without it ever since.

That satirical magazine was known as Frank. They were relentless on the Mulroneys, but with so much great material to work on, who can blame them? My favourite front page about Mila: Got up Late, Went Shopping.

Princess Margaret? Say No More!

Turner was unfortunately very un-telegenic. He licked his lips and cleared his throat very often while speaking - it was like an annoying tic.

Hey man, where did the sun go? Pffffff.... dunno. Hey, pass it around, willya?

That "just watch me" clip is pretty well-known to anyone who's ever watched a documentary on the October Crisis. It was a pivotal moment.

Trudeau also had his fans from Western Canada - as you can probably tell, I'm one of them. The anti-Trudeau pack is mostly Alberta, which went uninterruped Tory for ages. Trudeau's goal was always a strong federal government to help keep the country breaking apart, which is why he brought in official bilingualism and a break on oil prices for all Canadians. That Albertans didn't like to share doesn't surprise me, but that says more about them than it does about Trudeau.

Truly a great Canadian.

I saw him twice in my life in person. First time was as a first-year university student in 1978 when he gave a speech at the UBC Student Union Building. Place was jam-packed. There was this real jerk a row over from us heckling him all through his Q&A. As Trudeau tried to answer a difficult question - what he attributed voter apathy to - the heckler piped up: Selling fear Mr. Prime Minister, selling fear!

Trudeau burned in to him with: look, if you don't want my answers, don't ask me question, you creep. He was directing his anger at that one heckler, but in a TV ad during the next election, the Tories claimed that Trudeau called ALL college students "creeps."

Second time I met him was many years later, while skiing in the Eastern Townships - 1992 or 3 I think. He was still a great skier - we got some photos of him for the paper I was working for - Sherbrooke Record.

Thanks for the look back.

To your last question: yes. Through the mouth, as usual.

Then again, if you have the money and the time, are single with no commitments, take a couple of years out and go travelling around the world.

At the end of the road, say when you're 85, you'll treasure the memories much more than the extra money you'll have made.

Wordpress.com is definitely not immune to spam blogs. A few months ago wp.com was awash in a splog shower, a huge dump of spam sites all pushed out there at once.

But a great feature of wordpress is tag surfing - sort of like an internal stumbleupon where you can click through a selection of blogs that match your selection of tags. If you come across a spam blog, you simply report it to wordpress.com as spam for a modlook and it gets zapped over the following day. During the height of the splog storm I was doing my part, helping to zap 15 - 20 a day - didn't have time for more.

Maybe there aren't many people there... but those who count might be linking to your blog. I've never been on digg or stumbled upon much, but one link to pharyngula and wham! hit count hit the roof. It was fun.

Your experience is about what I went through with Copyscape's free service. I was at first excited that such a site even existed, and was impressed at how they had sniffed out a few thiefs, but later when I had a second look, I thought: there must be a problem with their system. It simply doesn't do the job.

I suppose there are people who wonder how modern civilisation managed to advance to the point we are today without Twitter, but I bet they're outnumbered about a billion to one.

Hi,

Did you try to leave a comment on my blog about that post? I would like to approve it, but it looks a lot like an automatic comment - ie spam. If you would like to leave a personal comment, please try again.

thanks,
Ian