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Blindly Building MySpace
December 26, 2007"The Simpsons" had it right on when it comes to showing how the younger generation helps old foggies over 30 navigate the Web.
Marge tries to find a little info about a family-oriented topic while Lisa and Bart peer impatiently over her shoulder and bark commands to their slow-surfing mother. She accidentally orders an appliance and gets no info.
Finally she relinquishes the mouse to Homer.
He finds the info with one click.
I've had shockingly similiar experiences with my daughter.
The twentysomething was helping me navigate MySpace on Christmas Eve.
"Click there! No, there!" she said.
I clicked in what appeared to be slow motion to her but was frantic and harried to me.
"OK, scroll over. Down more. More. OK, there. No, don't scroll down anymore. Go back."
Somehow even with a master's degree and years of experience in the professional world, my IQ had plummeted on MySpace.
"Gosh, I had to tell you everything," she said.
Luckily, she likes me because I'm her mom.
So she stuck out the grueling process of shifting my profile from sunflowers to an Andy Warhol daisy design with coding that allows me to do more things.
The change was crucial because I couldn't post an important picture of James Blunt on my page.
First, she had tutored me in RockYou.com, a photo-sharing site. So it's no surprise her patience hard worn a little thin.
But it was all worth it when I successfully posted the pic of Blunty, proof that even a mature woman can learn that newfangled computer stuff.
Posted by Trish Choate at 12:28 PM | Permalink
Jason Stratham with hair
December 07, 2007Jason Stratham's cueball head has been another weapon in his tough-guy acting arsenal.
The dome, bottomed by a stubbly chin, helped make us believe he was tough enough to smash through a few layers of brick if necessary and use the cueball to do it.
But as I consider going to see "Revolver," I have to decide if I want to see Stratham with hair.
It just seems wrong.
On the other hand, it's not unattractive by any means.
And I'm quite intrigued.
I must know: Is it real?!?
I am the daughter of a barber, and many times I'd be watching an epidsode of "Mannix" or whatever, and he'd proclaim: "That's a hairpiece."
This radically altered my perception of the world even though the comb-over and then the shaved head rapidly replaced the hairpiece for most men -- with exceptions like Ted Danson.
So I'm peering at Stratham's publicity stills for Guy Ritchie's new movie, and I'm wondering:
Is it real?
No, can't be.
Wait a minute. Could it be?
I may have to go to the movie just to decide whether or not this hair thing works for Stratham and just how much of it is his.
Oh yeah, and it could be a good movie.
Posted by Trish Choate at 10:53 AM | Permalink
