Friday, February 06, 2009
This One Time...
I fell into a trash compactor while it was compacting. I was 16, working at Benihana's as a dishwasher on an early evening trash run. I was stomping down some boxes on a platform loading compactor when I fell in, with the top half sticking out of the hole, the piston slowly closing.
At the Time I thought it was just a sliding door that closed on the platform while the ram smashed boxes. I didn't know the door was the piston.
Luckily for me, my coworker Mark had come with me that day to grab a smoke before the rush, and hit the emergency stop. I would have either been crushed or cut in half.
This was a story that came to me while thinking of my 25 Random Things about me I'd been tagged with at Facebook.
Yes, I'm using Facebook, but to be honest I think it's totally lame. Everyday I'm hit with little green sprouts or beads. Really, I think the whole thing is bullshit. It's a shitty design with a shitty non-intuitive interface...it's a mall that sports a Kmart as an anchor store.
Maybe I'm not using it correctly, but using it feels empty...I don't like but I'm there anyway. Go figure.
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I'm asked about twice a week to join Facebook.
My usual response is like the old man yelling at kids to get off his lawn. I just don't understand it.
Gia is on Facebook and I see what she does with it (or what little she does with it) and it boggles my mind. Twitter underwhelms me also.
My usual response is like the old man yelling at kids to get off his lawn. I just don't understand it.
Gia is on Facebook and I see what she does with it (or what little she does with it) and it boggles my mind. Twitter underwhelms me also.
"it's a mall that sports a Kmart as an anchor store."
This is the best description I've seen yet.
This is the best description I've seen yet.
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: 8:33 AM
I really really hate facebook too, but like you, yet there I am.
I don't get it. WHY is it so huge? WHY is it that older people are all ga-ga over it? How the hell did they figure out how to use it?
Like you, I work on the Interwebs for a living, and that shit baffles me.
*throws a kitchen sink covered with rainbow glitter at you*
I don't get it. WHY is it so huge? WHY is it that older people are all ga-ga over it? How the hell did they figure out how to use it?
Like you, I work on the Interwebs for a living, and that shit baffles me.
*throws a kitchen sink covered with rainbow glitter at you*
A) I'm still trying to figure out building and working on websites. I've come to the conclusion that it's a huge Kludge, (an inelegant work around), that somehow works in spite of itself.
B) Facebook is the least common denominator. It's a garbage site where your friends are and you can poke each other. It's Walmart.
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B) Facebook is the least common denominator. It's a garbage site where your friends are and you can poke each other. It's Walmart.
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