Thu. Dec 15, 2005
The Year in 12 Sentences
“So this meme is going around, where you’re supposed to pull a line out of one of your entries for each month of the year.” Sort of “my year in 12 copy-and-paste sentences.” OK, let’s play!
January: If Jimmy blogged about jumping off the Empire State Building, would you jump off the Empire State Building just so you could blog about it, too?
February: The ad industry exists to regurgitate social trends back at us, in hopes we’ll buy what we’ve already been sold.
March: And there you have it: Earthlink is killing kittens.
April: Because from the day it happened, this has been like a dark place in my heart.
May: The very last thing we should do is leave these people alone, thankful for a chuckle in our otherwise violent yet predictable news cycles.
June: Google remedies brain farts.
July: Yeah, Susan said it sounded kinky, too, but I told her, hey, we’re married, and the Georgia Legislature says it’s OK.
August: Who needs talent, skills, or training when it can be replaced with some computing power, some loops, some software, and a lot of mouse clicking?
September: It’s everything that the combination of photos and words on the web should be ... but very very rarely is.
October: There’s a red thread running from me to that little girl, who was left at the steps of the orphanage last March 5.
November: Send some young underpaid interns down to the city library, have them dig through the research stacks, and report back what those durn blogs are talking about.
December: He’s going to bring horror, in the name of Baby Jesus!
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What red-blooded American corporation hasn’t killed a few kittens along the way? Do they even have kittens in south Florida? Those furry things with rhinestone collars don’t count.
I was pretty proud of it as my most sensationalist sentence of the year. Although I didn’t sell it in the proper ego-filled manner:
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Earthlink is killing kittens!!!!!
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I didn’t mention this back in November, but – How do you underpay an intern? They usually work for free. Can you actually charge them?
hmmmm. . . I’ll be right back.
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I ought to turn you in for not charging at least the minimum wage.
I know intern positions are handled differently at different companies. The most effective technique seems to be the form of indentured slavery where interns are paid just barely enough to take in 1500 calories per day, but never enough to get out of internship.
In the photography business, they call it “assisting.”
It’s okay. It would be illegal if I pay them and don’t pay them the minumum wage because they would then be deemed non-exempt employees. But if I don’t pay them they are not employees and therefore not non-exempt. By the same token not paying me minimum wage is not a problem because management is not non-exempt too.
(Nobody ever had a right to hate lawyers more than E.B. White.)
Your comment reminds me to be glad I’m a freelance self-employed type. My boss is an insufferable SOB with demanding expectations … but he’s somehow predictable. My employee is one of the more creative goof-offs on this planet, and when he does work, he considers rules “suggestions.” But he’s somehow predictable.
I don’t know how we work together sometimes … but it pays the bills.
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And there you have it: Earthlink is killing kittens.
Well, yeah. What did you expect?