Rant

It used to be that putting a person's phone number into your speed dial was a compliment.  Now, I mostly put people's numbers into my phone just so I know not to answer when they call.  Consequently, when someone asks for my number, I no longer know how to take it.

Rant

It's time someone had the balls to say it publicly: the only people who think that teenage boys should go to prison for possessing nude pics of their teenage girlfriends are the fathers of the girls stupid enough to take the photos in the first place.  Yes, sexting is a serious problem, but in comparison with the drug use and teen pregnancy that has plagued recent generations, it's a fairly benevolent form of teen stupidity. Appropriately mild punishments need to be legislated, and the news media needs to move on to new scandals.

Rant

I love the fact that my generation has no inhibitions about wearing costumes in public.  I love going to a comic shop on new comic day or to movie theater on opening night and seeing people my age standing in line in costumes.  As hard as I try, I can't imagine my father or one of my grandfathers wearing wizard robes at my age, and I think that may be their loss.  Of course, there a lot fewer photos in the family album that send them into a full-body blush.

Rant

I firmly believe that facial tattoos are the single greatest invention in the history of mankind.  They let you know in a single glance that there's something not right with a person, so you don't have to waste time that could have been spent distancing yourself from them wondering.

Rant

Sometimes, I'll look at my watch three or even four times in under a minute and still not know what time it is.  Watch glancing just isn't a sign of impatience anymore.  The rest of the world needs to accept this.

Rant

Now that even my refrigerator has a keypad, can we all agree to stop using cursive?  At about age forty, it becomes completely indecipherable to everyone else.

42.) Disconnection is the new counterculture.

Source: "Exodus" by Nicholas Carr, April 8, 2010.