I know a lot of folks are up in arms about the very important order changing the name of the Gulf of Mexico to the Gulf of America, but those folks are missing out on some opportunities. Sure, this renaming will cause a few complications. The biggest of which is that John Cougar Mellencamp’s best song, “Pink Houses,” currently has this lyric: Well, there’s people and more people/What do they know, know, know?/Go to work in some high-rise/And vacation down at the Gulf of Mexico, ooh, yeah This name change totally screws that up, and I’m sure John will be […]
Month: January 2025
Facebook is pretty sure I’m not me
My days on Facebook — at least personally — may be numbered … and not by choice. They just can’t stand my face. Allow me to explain. Or don’t allow me; I’m gonna explain it anyway. On December 11, Facebook suffered a massive outage that knocked thousands upon thousands of users off of its platform and logged them out. No big deal, I thought. It’s probably just yet another unnecessary tweak that somebody made to justify having a job, and it caused a minor glitch. Well, I was wrong. I mean, yeah, it probably was some stupid tweaking that they’re […]