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Post by pickinduck on May 17, 2009 12:40:15 GMT -6
The new buzz word that I've been hearing for about the last 3 weeks is TWITTER It seems to be used like bloging
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Post by sherlew (Ret) on May 17, 2009 13:00:39 GMT -6
Except that the messages are short. People who use Twitter are said to be tweeting. I guess this is related to the old expression "a little bird told me." lol
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Post by sherlew (Ret) on May 17, 2009 13:27:25 GMT -6
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Post by sherlew (Ret) on May 17, 2009 13:42:05 GMT -6
BuzzWhack's Buzzword's Dictionary has some good ones. Here's a few that caught my eye: Link airball: The corporate version of a cat hairball. Someone who makes lots of noise, disrupts everything, has the potential to make a big mess - but ultimately does nothing. Nominated by Bud Pass anticipointment: The feeling you get when a product or event doesn't live up to its own hype. "Windows ME was a huge anticipointment." Nominated by Paul Strandlund aquadextrous: The ability to turn the bath faucet on and off with your feet. Nominated by Jamie Thompson BFO: Blinding Flash of the Obvious. "Jack is having another one of his BFO moments." Nominated by Anna Sterling bio break: Meeting-speak for "bathroom break." "Let's take a short bio break before moving on to action plans." Of course, coffee is served during such breaks at business conferences, resulting in the need for more bio breaks. Nominated by Derek Moyer
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Post by Tomspy77 on May 18, 2009 9:58:24 GMT -6
Yeah the Twitter thing is all over in the main stream press right now, from NBA players getting in trouble for 'Tweeting' during a game, to articles that describe what Twitter is and how its changing communication, mostly through the fact that messages have to be ultra short. leading to some odd sometimes empty 'Tweets'. I do not have the net on my phone so I do not think Twitter would do me any good.
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Post by sherlew (Ret) on May 18, 2009 10:11:57 GMT -6
I still have to wonder if a grown man should be "tweeting" anyway. Or a grown woman for that matter.
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Post by Tomspy77 on May 18, 2009 10:22:31 GMT -6
Yeah lol....but then again, modern society has become more inter connected through portable tech over the last few years then actually talking to the people living in the real world around them...I know i work with the general public, and sometimes dealing with a person on a cell phone makes you feel like a surf in their majesty's kingdom. If you are forced to interrupt their phone call, you are given dirty looks, even though you are right in front of them!
My son loves the animated film Wal-E, and if you have seen what the Human race becomes in that movie, it looks totally possible with the way we are heading now.
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Post by sherlew (Ret) on May 18, 2009 10:33:04 GMT -6
Oh yeah I could see it happening, even if we never invent anti-gravity chairs and go live in a fancy spaceship off somewhere else. They weren't even paying attention to the wonders of the universe around them. At least they seemed more amicable than the people we have to deal with today.
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Post by Tomspy77 on May 20, 2009 22:01:44 GMT -6
^^^ Sure they are so amicable now, but wait till they build (or rather rebuild) the first mini mall...it's all downhill from there!
The only thing man really needs to do is to pay attention to the real needs of man, which you'd think would be easy but...
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Post by sherlew (Ret) on May 21, 2009 9:25:10 GMT -6
Real needs get lost under all the things we think we need. Unfortunately It's all driven by ads and affluenza. No wonder many people want to go back to a simpler time before commercialism became so rampant.
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Post by Tomspy77 on May 22, 2009 0:04:59 GMT -6
Ahh, but how many would actually do it or if they did go back to a simpler time, how many would miss the convenience of our modern age or even better yet, how many would go through withdrawals?
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Post by sherlew (Ret) on May 22, 2009 8:59:30 GMT -6
Most modern people would definitely go through withdrawals once they arrived in the past. Go back too far and you'll miss modern plumbing and the household appliances we all love. Someone will have to do the laundry by hand, along with other household chores, and I'm certain most guys would not like to do all that.
The 50s or 60s wouldn't be too bad, though there would not be as many good careers for women.
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Post by Tomspy77 on May 23, 2009 19:33:40 GMT -6
Or god forbid, that hell of hells...the eighties!!
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Post by sherlew (Ret) on May 24, 2009 10:01:55 GMT -6
Um, no thank you.
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Post by joepyne on May 27, 2009 13:57:33 GMT -6
I'd be good at Twitter since I'm a twit.
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