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Happy Father’s Day!

by Jay on June 21, 2009 | No Comments

I just wanted to take a minute to say if you’re reading this and you are a father, Happy Father’s Day!.

Last night my wife mentioned to me that her mother who is in a nursing home was having a “Senior Prom” and wanted to know if we (the family) could come to the prom. I said “sure, why not”. I mean how bad could it be. The old folks want to feel young again and that’s cool. I know when I’m that age, I’ll tear it up in my wheel chair as they spout nick names for me like “hot rod” and “Evel Knievel” to which I will just throw up my thumbs up sign while swerving through the halls of the nursing home screaming “watch out!”.

Anyway, I kinda went off subject there for a minute. So, this “Senior Prom” thing should be cool. All of the residents of the nursing home got new dresses and suits for the event and there will be catered food (yum). I’ll post actual photos of the even tomorrow, but here’s one that I think represents the night as it will occur.

If they start spiking the punch with little blue pills, I’m outta there! I swear it!

UPDATE:

I stayed home and let the wife and kids go to this thing, so unfortunately I won’t have any photos of grandma doing the Macarena or gramps trying to do the Hand Jive (no pun intended). Sorry kids, maybe next time!

Twitter To Start Verified Accounts

by Jay on June 8, 2009 | No Comments

By now you may have heard all the hubbub about St. Louis Cardinals manager Tony La Russa’s Twitter account being hacked. It seems Tony is so peeved about the hack that he’s now suing Twitter. Apparently someone got a hold of Tony’s Twitter account and made some statements that he didn’t particularly find amusing. Now, Twitter is responding with the possibility of verified accounts, which may or may not be a good thing.

In my humble opinion, I believe verified accounts would be a good thing in that you would know exactly who you’re talking to. On the flip side, the anonymity wouldn’t be there and some may have a hard time saying things they would normally say, knowing that no one knows the “real person” behind those comments. I think it will be good, especially for celebrities who Twitter. I mean who wants to talk to some “wannabe” celebrity when they can Twitter with the real deal, right?

Either way, someone will always come up with some way to get around the system and each time they do, Twitter will be there to counter. In Twitter’s latest blog post, the also say that Mr. La Russa’s lawsuit was basically a waste of judiciary time and “Twitter has not settled, nor do we plan to settle or pay.” Go Twitter!

Twitter Burglary?

by Jay on June 2, 2009 | No Comments

Twitter Bad Decision Is it just me or should some people just refraine from using social media at all? In this scenario, a man decides to tweet his whereabouts while arriving on vacation to see some friends in Kansas City. Unfortunately when he and his family returned home, they found that their home had been robbed.

Police were not ready to like the robbery to the Twitter post, @izzyvideo say he will not stop Twittering because of the incident.

All I can say is next time, you may not want to share as much information about where you’re going and what times you’ll be there. Unless of course you have a security system and a pack of Dobermans waiting at the front door.