by John Paczkowski
Posted on July 14, 2008 at 4:34 PM PT
I am learning to get online myself, and I will have that down fairly soon, getting on myself…I don’t email; I’ve never felt the particular need to email. I read emails all the time, but the communications that I have with my friends and staff are oral and done with my cell phone.”
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John Paczkowski has been poking fun at the tech industry and the personalities that drive it since 1997. From 1999 to 2007, he wrote the award-winning tech news Web log Good Morning Silicon Valley for the San Jose Mercury News, Silicon Valley's daily newspaper. Read more »
Here is a statement of my ethics and coverage policies. It is more than most of you want to know, but, in the age of suspicion of the media, I am laying it all out.
While the technology behind the Telephone is new, the design is reassuringly old-fashioned, reminiscent of a phrenologist’s horn or ear-candle in form. We found the experience far more comfortable than the one we had with the Telegraph.
12:58 AM: Breakfast: Two schools of fish from Tokyo Bay. Calories: 782,000. How I was feeling when I ate this: confused, irradiated, hating my size.
11:37 AM: Exercise: “Taxi Stomp” (alternating legs, for 30 blocks). Calories burned: 148,900,183.
1983. The Beatles announce their first tour in thirteen years, but likewise announce that Michael Jackson will be going on tour with them as a one gigantic mega-concert event.
Best video mashup ever.
A Facebook Memorial
Wow.
Worth it for the Rickrolling photo alone.
Excellent.
Flughumor!
… you vacuous, toffee-nosed, malodorous perverts
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Comments
Well, he’s no digital native, for sure. And while I admit it is disappointing that a man so close to running our country can seem that out of touch with the modern world, I also find it surprising that he would not have prepared himself better for the question. Even if he has a staff to gather the news for him, it would be refreshing had he actually taken a few hours in the past decade or so to “go online” to gain some perspective on what the kids are doing these days. Hey, at least he’s got a cell phone.
Posted by Glenn Fannick at July 14th, 2008 at 6:26 pm