This popped up in a random Google search this morning …
He does “gaming” of the computer game kind. I told him I had a blog and that while blogging was an utterly useless waste of a person’s time, “gaming” over the age of 10 seemed to be a hundred times more futile.
– from a quite funny blog post ‘Thursday Night Dating Horrors’ by Cactus Kate
Made me chuckle.
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Below the fold, James Taylor’s That’s Why I’m Here, featuring a lyric which rang out to me in the late 1980s…
“Try to remember, working’s no crime
Just don’t let ’em take and waste your time.”
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Brian Edwards, writing about the Darren Hughes ‘sex scandal’ that wasn’t, reflected on blogging …
http://brianedwardsmedia.co.nz/2011/06/darren-hughes-sometimes-you-just-know-you-got-it-right/
Nice.
And I agree with him re the speculative media witch trial — not just news media. I remember comedians making [the no-charges-will-be-laid/innocent] Hughes the butt of their jokes … as they are wont to do. Tragic.
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