What would happen if you stopped updating your blogs, stopped turning on Twitter, Skype and whatever else you’ve got on, if you didn’t upload any pictures or text to any social network? Nothing bad, that’s what. Nothing bad at all. Think about it for a second. Then forget I mentioned it. It’s okay. Bye now.
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When I was a kidyounger I had a policy for pain inflicted on me by other persons. (Not malicious pain, just the kind that happens, y’know.) I’d forgive the first offense (I don’t mean small stuff, I mean real pain!) and allow the person (friend, lover) to hurt me again should they so “choose”. The […]

Oh, not when they tell you about the horrible smell, the terrible consequences on pretty much every part of your body or anything like that, no. When they say that yeah yeah quitting smoking is hard, I know, but the withdrawal symptoms are only very bad fro a few days, a few weeks… a month […]

On jase, là, comme dirait l’autre. Ces temps-ci je me pose de méchantes questions. Entre autres sur les médias sociaux. Allergique à FB, je suis sur Twitter. Skype est ouvert. J’ai deux comptes Flickr. J’ai envie de tout lâcher et de tout effacer et désinstaller. (Ah oui, y a LinkedIn aussi, qui ne me demande […]

I can be pretty rigid. Inflexible. Things get organized in my head and when people try to fuck with that I feel like they’re fucking with me. (Ridiculous, I know, and after a few deep breaths I see it too.) It’s not that I refuse to change — oh boy do I not — it’s […]

Y’know, it’s funny. I had a personal site from very early on, I blogged before the word existed. I was online when all you could do was browse catalogs from public/university libraries (and even then only if you knew how), download Shakespeare’s plays in .txt and images that filled your screen would download in mere […]

This isn’t even to toot my own horn. Yes, I offer professional services for translation and proofreading, but this is a general note, if you’d please take heed. Every day I see texts (online, on labels, in print, etc.) that should not have been offered to the public due to their low quality (opening the […]

I do think it’s a fact that young(er) people see privacy differently than what used to be the norm. Never mind that they send nude pictures of each other through their cellphones and all that, the point is they don’t see privacy as something to be preciously guarded. Neither do I, I guess, compared to […]

Further thoughts on the previous post.I wrote “as long as I’m captain of the ship, I’ll be happy”. Notice how the ship doesn’t have any sailors? Yeah. Perhaps I should say “as long as I’m captain of this kayak…” (and then I’ll drool, because I really would love to have a kayak, but that’s another […]

Y’know when we were growing up and they said things had changed and we’d not do like our parents and work for 35 years at the same company and then retire? Boy we’re they (whoever they are) right! I don’t think I’ve ever kept the same job at the same company for over three years! […]