A week ago, I invented a Twitter game called Passive-Aggressive Friday (hashtag: #PAFriday). For losers who don’t know how Twitter works, here’s some background info: Hashtags (words or strings of words preceded by “#”) are the Twitter convention for “tagging” toots (140-character updates) and making them easily searchable. On Twitter, you talk directly to other [...]
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The Skimmer
Certain types of people make me suspicious. For example: people who claim to love reading, but can’t string together a coherent written sentence.[1] I wonder if they’re trying to seem more cultured or informed than they really are. If they really do “read” a lot, I suspect they’re doing it wrong. Maybe they’re skimming, without [...]
The Serial Bestie
Certain types of people make me suspicious. For example: people who have a new “best friend” every six months, and completely shut out their previous “best friends”. I wonder if they think it’s normal. I suspect it happens because the friender rushes to love people (not romantically, but like, “Jimmy’s so cool. I love that [...]
The Independent Contractor
Certain types of people make me suspicious. For example: people who list five occupations on their online profiles. I wonder if they actually get paid to do any of those things. I suspect they suck at most of them. There’s nothing wrong with sucking at something. To paraphrase a smarter person than I: anything worth [...]