Want to Protest? Changing Your Facebook Picture Accomplishes Nothing

3rd February 2012 By Leave a Comment

Protests Then and Now

Explain to me, again, how changing your Facebook profile picture does ANYTHING in regards to protesting something (like the recent SOPA events):

 

…or “supporting awareness” of a cause (i.e. cancer research) by buying pink things whose profits most likely won’t end up going toward research?

 

The most recent ones I have seen refer to getting rid of Facebook Timeline:

 

or to trying to raise awareness of an issue that – let’s face it – people don’t need to be made more aware of, like Breast Cancer:

 

Why not just write to the makers of Facebook, or donate to Macmillan Cancer Research?

It’s active, not passive. Donation helps fund cancer research; changing your Facebook picture accomplishes nothing.





		

		
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Facebook’s Newest Change: Timeline

		
		
17th December 2011  By  2 Comments 
		

			
It’s 2 am and I’m very tired.


I’m not sure I like all the parts of the Timeline, but it’ll take some getting used to. For instance: do I really need to re-read all the stuff about getting kicked off BYDLS in August 2010, my horrible experience with DHE (dihydroergotamine) in June 2010, and other negative events? Why would anyone else want to? On the other hand, life is made up of both good and bad extremes. I’m not saying I want only the good stuff visible. I don’t like it when people tell me to “move on” or “get over it” and other such platitudes because they’re afraid to deal with something difficult either, so how can I expect less of myself what I would ask from others?


		

		
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How Knitting Behind Bars Transformed Maryland Convicts

		
		
11th December 2011  By  Leave a Comment 
		

			
Today, I picked up this article from Tara Swiger’s Facebook page and went, “Wow!”


http://www.good.is/post/prisoners-transform-through-knitting-behind-bars/


 


Excerpt:


In late 2009, Lynn Zwerling stood in front of 600 male prisoners at the Pre-Release Unit in Jessup, Maryland. “Who wants to knit?” she asked the burly crowd. They looked at her like she was crazy.


Yet almost two years later, Zwerling and her associates have taught more than 100 prisoners to knit, while dozens more are on a waiting list to take her weekly class. “I have guys that have never missed one time in two years,” Zwerling says. “Some reported to us that they miss dinner to come to class.”


		

		
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Dangling Modifiers and Giving Ray Bradbury a Blowjob

		
		
21st November 2011  By  1 Comment 
		

			
I’m evil.


Sloppy grammar - go home and do it again!


I’ve found yet another geeky reason to link to Fuck Me, Ray Bradbury by Rachel Bloom: Talking on Facebook about dangling modifiers and the need for correct grammar and spelling:


Grammar hammering needs to be done when the butchering of grammar by the unwashed masses means that one can’t understand the message. Or it makes the writer look idiotic. Aren’t people (adults) embarrassed when their grammar and spelling are sloppy?


There is a verse that goes,


Come on baby, I’m down on one knee

I carved our names on a Halloween Tree

You write about earthlings going to Mars

And I write about blowin’ you in my car


(Reprinted from http://lyrics.wikia.com/Rachel_Bloom:Fuck_Me,_Ray_Bradbury)


The last line is an example of a dangling modifier. Is Rachel singing about giving Bradbury a blowjob in her car, or is she singing about writing about giving him a blowjob in her car? Is she doing the sex act in the car, or is she merely writing about the scenario (which contains the sex act), but isn’t actually performing fellatio on him at that time?


Either way, Mr Bradbury reacted thusly:




For your pleasure, dear readers: Use these!


http://dictionary.reference.com/


http://thesaurus.com/


http://www.spellchecker.net/spellcheck/


 


 


 


		

		
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