Yesterday, Google finally made Google+ Pages available to the masses. I immediately logged in and started creating pages for all the web properties I own, and I’ll tell you why I decided to spend an afternoon clicking and linking on Google+.
What’s in a number? Today, we’re living in the time of five ones. In ten days, we’ll be in the realm of six ones. I find those facts both wonderful and eerie.
The naming of products can be a funny and tricky thing. There is the often repeated and yet false story about how the Chevrolet Nova failed to sell well in Latin America because the name means that the car does not go in Spanish. Even the naming of web sites, thanks to the lack of spaces in the url, can turn an innocuous store like Pen Island into the less than innocuous Penisland. A place to find out Who Represents actors suddenly seems like it could really be about Whore Presents when you don’t parse the name of the site correctly.
Simon Cowell’s X Factor is a major flop of talent and expectation and now, thanks to an interview he did with MTV, we know Simon wasn’t interested in creating anything new or unique or special on his new show — he just wants to find Snooki, Part II:
Simon Cowell knows a star when he sees one. But fans might be surprised to learn that when the reality TV judge took his X Factor” auditions on the road this year, he was eager to hit the state of New Jersey. It turns out Simon hoped to find contestants with the same indefinable qualities as the castmembers of MTV’s hit “Jersey Shore.” …
Asked to pick his favorite castmember, Cowell singled out Snooki, saying the pint-size 23-year-old had that “X” factor. “In fact,” Cowell revealed, “She recently came in to meet some people from my company. I would say they were more starstruck by Snooki than anyone they’ve ever met in their lives,” he said. “I mean, they were genuinely thrilled. They were taking pictures with her.
“Yeah, so that was the reason why I came to New Jersey: I wanted to find the next Snooki.”
Over the Summer, Janna and I were thrilled to spend another married year together as we celebrated our anniversary. Our marriage is the number one greatest achievement of my life. Sharing your life with someone is a massive challenge and every single day the relationship changes and re-breathes and moves again in sometimes unimaginable ways as once expressed in — Promise Before Dying — published in Urban Semiotic on July 18, 2005:
Then she asked me if I would bury her under a tree with shade when she died.
I promised her I would.
Then she asked me if I would bury her under a tree with shade that had leaves that change colors in the Fall from red to purple to orange.
I promised her I would.
Jersey City is on the rise! First, we had the BigBelly solar trash compactors dotting our streets to help clean up the trash and gutters. Then, we had the wacky, and ongoing, Janky Pole episodes. Now we have newly discovered solar panels installed, so far, on some non-Janky Pole utility poles all across our fair city.
I feel, as a parent, quite fortunate to have stumbled across an excellent article with advice on how to become a patient parent. As a parent, one of the most important qualities one must acquire is patience. Losing ones temper with a son or daughter never goes well and does not help matters in any situation. It is certainly not helpful when it ends with screaming from the parent or, worse, any kind of violence be it in spanking form or otherwise.
