{"id":3513,"date":"2009-02-25T06:53:19","date_gmt":"2009-02-25T11:53:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/johnesimpson.com\/blog\/?p=3513"},"modified":"2009-02-25T06:53:19","modified_gmt":"2009-02-25T11:53:19","slug":"too-much-time-not-enough-seconds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/johnesimpson.com\/blog\/2009\/02\/too-much-time-not-enough-seconds\/","title":{"rendered":"Too Much Time, Not Enough Seconds"},"content":{"rendered":"

You may have already seen this (un-embeddable) video<\/a> — title: “everything’s amazing, nobody’s happy” — of\u00a0 comedian Louis CK on Late Night<\/em> with Conan O’Brien. (Hat tip to moonrat<\/a>.) If not, do that now and then return here. We’ll wait.<\/p>\n

[whistling, staring into space, picking up newspaper and re-reading <\/em>Dilbert, <\/em>Doonesbury, <\/em>Get Fuzzy, and <\/em>For Better or Worse] […dozing…] [looking up, startled]<\/em><\/p>\n

Ah, good. You’re back. What’d you think?<\/p>\n

Now, with that under your belt, let’s turn to this one from Geek Entertainment TV, “Scandalous Twitter Habits: Part Two”:<\/p>\n

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Also pretty funny, right? (Be sure to watch Part One<\/a>, as well.)<\/p>\n

But I must say, in the wake of the Louis CK rant I suffered a few moments of psychological dislocation among the giggles and snorts.<\/p>\n

If you haven’t already noticed, by the way, America’s Finest News Source has its own Twitter feed<\/a>. As far as I can tell, this was the first tweet there:<\/p>\n

The Onion reluctantly expands its Inter-net presence via Face-book. Damn the lot of you! http:\/\/urltea.com\/2u7n<\/a>
\n10:09 PM Mar 3rd, 2008 from web<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

(Because even in dizzyingly high-speed times, a sense of history is important.)<\/p>\n

And while we’re on the subject, if you’re on Twitter: what was your<\/em> first Tweet? especially the first one which didn’t mention Twitter, tweets, twittering, etc.? Mine:<\/p>\n

Work! Cereal to begin.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

You can really tell when somebody’s a writer, huh?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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