This semester, I’m taking a class on research in social media. A classmate and I have created a research project investigating whether you can maintain satisfying relationships with people over social networks (i.e. blogs, Facebook, Twitter, etc)
If you can spare 15 minutes, please click the link below and respond to our survey. It is totally anonymous, and we need to get 100 respondents within the next few days. Please respond if you can.
Thanks!!
I’m really glad this brick told me it was a brick. Otherwise, I might not have known.
Who knew that this series would be the inspiration for the costuming on so many of Las Vegas’ shows?
I’d like to propose a change in our country’s social security system.
The way I see it, generationally speaking, families are having fewer and fewer children with each passing generation. My grandparents had 11 kids. My parents had 5. I will be lucky if I even get a mickey mouse handful*
At the same time, we’re not sure we are going to have enough money and labor in our system to pay for the children of the baby boomers who are now entering our social security and medicare systems.
My solution is the following:
Put the married, under 35 year olds all on Social Security. Pay them a decent living wage just to stay at home and make babies, raising a large next generation. Make all the 62 year olds through the totally decrepit go back to work.
This way, we young people have all the liberty, time, and resources to reproduce that we need, and we get some economic value out of all those old farts milking the system for all it’s worth.
Whaddya think, Ethel?
* for the record, mickey mouse has 3 fingers and a thumb.
Like a phoenix from the ashes, I rise again to blog…
…Renewed in spirit, and with fresh new opinions to opine…
…Unashamed of even the most poorly-researched commentary…
…and unafraid of being lampooned, harassed, technologically abused, and left for dead.
Here’s a quick smattering of topics to get us up to speed:
Politics:
Congress now has a “jobs agenda” instead of a “jobs bill.” Switching from an actual bill to an agenda seems to mean it will be even less likely that anything actually gets done in congress. Is there a negative approval rating? That’s seems to be what they are heading for. People were harassing Obama that he got very little of his ambitious agenda done in his first year, but I would definitely say Congress gets the prize for completely wasting its time working on mondo-legislation that will be forever gridlocked. My solution? Congress needs to focus on incremental, consensus change. Get what you can get, because it will be better than getting nothing at all.
Religion:
Lately I’ve been reading a biography of Brigham Young. So far, I’m at 1848, right after he’s entered the Salt Lake Valley for the 2nd time. Here are few things I didn’t know I never wanted to didn’t realize:
American Idol:
I’m not going to be able to watch the Top 12 Boys and Girls until Thursday… so stay tuned for a massive blog on Thursday.
After yesterday’s post, I feel like we need something a little lighter.
It is, after all, donut day!
Let’s go back to 1849, the time of the gold rush. Prospectors from all over the United States flocked to California upon news that gold deposits had been discovered. Big ones.
This morning I ran across the following paid advertisement on Facebook:
Yesterday I indicated that there was more to Saturday’s saga than just yard work…