Quote of the Morning

From a TechCrunch piece entitled "Can Anything Stop The Facebook Juggernaut?":

As usual, William Gibson put it best: “Facebook feels like a mall. Twitter feels like the street.” (Which I suppose makes Zynga the mall’s arcade.) It’s one thing to shop there occasionally, but quite another to be a full-fledged mallrat—and according to the stats, that’s what we have collectively become. I want to believe that eventually we’ll wake up, and grow up, and realize that new and interesting things mostly happen elsewhere.

And so, I speculate hopefully: what if Facebook is the new LiveJournal?

You might not remember LiveJournal, a now-moribund social-blogging site...

Black Friday

No, I did not go to a shopping mall today. I do like crowds sometimes, but only happy crowds, not impatient shoppers shoving people aside in an attempt to get the best deal on something they never really wanted anyway. I did walk through a mall parking lot on my way to somewhere else, which was bad enough.

Still not feeling all that well. Eventually I made my way to a library, which was unusually empty and quiet; checked out a couple of DVDs; carefully made my way past a crowded shopping mall; and went to a supermarket, which was also unusually empty and quiet. Here at home I've been doing things like reading or talking to relatives on the phone, but now I'm thinking it must be my bedtime and how oh how can it be only 8:40 in the evening? My bed is calling me, and you know you need sleep when your bed starts talking to you. Good night, my dears.