Never Clever » Online http://thosecleverkids.com/blog “What people forget is a journey to nowhere starts with a single step, too.” Sat, 26 Jun 2010 15:42:40 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 Humorless http://thosecleverkids.com/blog/2008/04/14/humorless/ http://thosecleverkids.com/blog/2008/04/14/humorless/#comments Mon, 14 Apr 2008 19:29:49 +0000 admin http://www.thosecleverkids.com/blog/2008/04/14/humorless/ I always take a peek at the people who add me on Twitter to see if it's someone I know, someone from the area (I'm interested to see how meatspace communities can spring up around virtual ones; hashtags is a great way to create brand-new communities on-the-fly*) or just a spambot. I just ignore the spam, life's too short to get fired up about it. But don't tell that to people who get added by BeerOfTheDay:

I can't decide if I like #2 or #3 better. #1 is standard Internet eltisim, but the other two seem to suggest a cognitive disconnect, like there was a fifteen second span after they opened the email where they thought, "I wonder who I know that joined Twitter and called himself BEER OF THE GODDAMN DAY." Hmm, Pete Coors? Nope, he's more of a mimeographed screed sort of guy. Adolphus Busch? Dead. Sam Adams? Fictional. It's a wonder anyone makes it out their door in the morning.

* #completeperverts still available

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