Archive for the ‘The Kids These Days’ Category

Tie Or Die: A Made-for-TV Contest

What began as mere Facebook boasting between two coworkers about tie collections quickly escalated into a daily style duel to run the full month of October. Perhaps it was NBC that told the story best during their live interview with the Tie Or Die guys this week.

OMG, ppl luv writing, nu study sez.

“Sure, old farts–myself included–have derided the lol-tastic world of text and IM speak, but at least people are organizing their thoughts in the written form–albeit an evolving changing form.”

David Lynch: Interview Projects

David Lynch’s Interview Projects is a collection of amusing and entertaining shorts of people during a road trip across the USofA

Modern Life Is Rubbish

Hot on the heels of this article in Time yesterday on the perils of your parents joining Facebook (featuring myparentsjoinedfacebook.com, which will surely have a book deal in 3,2,1…) comes this crackling chestnut of a e-mail from my Mother, gently touching down in my inbox under the wispy subject “why not?”: So my Mom has [...]

What time is it? 123456789

At 12:34 and 56 seconds today, the date was, for us Americans in the EST, 123456789. Kelly and I asked everybody in the agency to grab a screenshot in that exact moment (above, her screen). The following image shows the results we got. From the top right: Tom, Tim, Mike M., Brad, Meredith, Mike B., [...]

Lost in translation in Bel Air

Dear readers, do you remember “The Fresh Prince” tv-show? I bet all of you can sing the whole opening theme, or at least who is over 21, as Mike suggests. Well, me too. But because my rickety Country even today doesn’t speak that much of English, all the movies and tv-shows were/are dubbed, often including [...]

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