I turned 26 two days ago and I received quite a number of birthday well-wishes. This is a quantitative breakdown of the greetings – and the replies I gave. It’s mostly real, but it’s mostly tongue-in-cheek too. Enjoy 🙂
Category - IMHO
Once upon a time, the simple life comprised waking up, making a nice cuppa tea and having lunch while tuning in to podcasts/The Simpsons/South Park for three hours.
If that was the simple life, then life has become infinitely more complicated – I just had to limit myself to watching/listening to three podcasts.
Very surprisingly, I complied. There’s work to be done, so even blog posts have to be constructed hastily.
Anyway, I’ve either been very deprived of entertainment, or the three podcasts I caught were really good. In any case, do catch them if you can:
- Midwest Teen Sex Show Episode 23: Vaginas.
- the mrbrown show: drive safe below
- the mrbrown show: new media gahmen
Also, do consider being friends with @yandao1957 if you can. He’s a poor chap, take pity on him.
The whole comparison to water usage is a deliberate attempt to mislead.
The standard telecom contract for data services has been based on bandwidth provided since the invention of data circuits. Indeed, the ISP’s price their services based on the bandwidth to which one subscribes. If I have subscribed for an 8Mb/sec service, how can I be a “bandwidth hog” for using 8Mb/sec of bandwidth? I paid for it, and I have the right to use it.
— Waleed Hanafi, Singapore – ISP’s to customers – “You are evil”
It’s an old article but I think it’s a very good example about how language and the media have the power to shape public opinion, and the media having a responsibility to report the news in an objective way. But if that doesn’t happen, then readers have to develop media literacy and critical thinking skills in order to separate the wheat from the chaff in terms of information and data processing.