The Happy Moron

 I’m trying out a little game I thought up. The game is to retell a fairy tale or children’s story while omitting one of the major characters.
This is the Princess and the Pea… so long as you don’t count the princess (Part III). Part I. Part II. Next Monday… Part IV!
It would be nice to [...]

Part I looked at how we might think of distance on the internet, working from the concept of physical distance applying its principles in a digital network.
It got as far as Google, but it ignored linking.
Arguably, the straight line of the internet is a hyperlink. It’s the shortest distance between two points. It’s the magic [...]

Cute.

Pick a great line, and work it into a piece of business correspondence so that it doesn’t sound silly or out of place.
This week:
“We’ll always have Paris.”
If you can slip that one past your boss,
a) You’re not focused on your work
b) Neither is your boss
and
c) You’ve got a great future ahead of you
Here’s lookin’ at [...]

A few thoughts on how far apart things can be in a virtual world.
I’ve previously said that distance doesn’t exist on the internet, and that the internet doesn’t have any corners.
This is true in some ways, but less true in others.
There are many ways you can try and conceptualize distance on the internet. The question [...]

“Networking is always important when it’s real and it’s always a useless distraction when it’s fake.
What the internet has allowed is an enormous amount of fake networking to take place.”

The internet can be used to build real relationships. Perhaps it’s not the most effective medium for doing so, but it has its advantages as well [...]

Doggone!
I guess now that everything is out in the open, there’s nothing left but to skip town.

 I’m trying out a little game I thought up. The game is to retell a fairy tale or children’s story while omitting one of the major characters.
This is the Princess and the Pea… so long as you don’t count the princess (Part II). Part I Next Monday… Part III!
In his travels, the beggar had suffered [...]

Hmmm… Illinois doesn’t want sex offenders to use social networking.
Actually, the state is making it a felony for them to do so.
“The idea was, if the predator is supposed to be a registered sex offender, they should keep their Internet distance as well as their physical distance.”
For the longest time, I was able to make [...]

Surprisingly smart.