Is the Mattel games department hiring?

Ever feel like your memory soaks up the wrong info; like some of your wires are missing?

Sure, I can remember jingles and lines from movies, but do I know what happened in the news during the past year? Damn.

Do you think the Dow Jones test will ask me to list the names of the Harry Potter characters? No? How about lines from a Friends episode? Shit. Why am I spending money on journalism school? I should be writing useless trivia questions for the next Scene It? game.

Wish me luck. I need all the positive vibes I can get.

New Yorker blogger gives Wishbone a nod

I was an avid Wishbone watcher. I saw him don a beard in Rip Van Winkle and also challenge the Phantom in Phantom of the Opera.

So, you can imagine how excited I was to see this interview on The Book Bench.

What’s the story, Wishbone? Woof!

Check out my other Wishbone post…

The IT Crowd presents the mystical Internet

I have read a few different articles discussing the Internet and cybersecurity over the past few days. One piece addressed the government’s role in protecting information, another piece discussed the issues of protecting copyrights across international borders and a collection of pieces focused on digital publishing and online libraries.

Despite the differences in subject matter, each of these pieces made an attempt to simplify technical information for their target audiences. These articles did a great job of making the information clear for those, like me, with a limited understanding of computer-related properties. However, I could not help but think about comedic sketches that exaggerate the population’s minimal understanding of technology that it uses every day.

Once again, I refer you to clips from the British sitcom The IT Crowd.

Jen and the Internet Box — from Season 3
** In this clip, Moss and Roy play a joke on their computer-illiterate boss, Jen.

You can break the Internet — from Season 2
** In this clip, Jen presents faulty information (courtesy of Moss and Roy, of course).

I have a blog?

Good blogs are supposed to be updated more than once a month? Ooops…

I would like to say that I have been busy, but that would be a lie. A big, convoluted lie. So, instead, I admit that I have been so busy with being lazy that I have not updated my blog.

Now that I have less time on my hands my blog will be updated more often. Odd, huh?