Do you suffer from the malady of Exclamation Point Excess in social media?  I do!  But  I had never realized the effect of it all on Eddie the Exclamation Point, until today …

Is this Facebook’s greatest contribution – a fundamental enhancement to our common vocabulary?

Thanks, BC, for pointing this out!

Ever wonder why the Maya Calendar will run out later this year?  Thanks to those crazy folks at Bizarro, now we know.

What did you lose, Ziggy?  Sometimes, I think I am losing my mind.

By the way, did you know that Dictionary.com defines “cyberspace” as “the realm of electronic communication?”  Such a mundane definition for such an intriguing subject!

Sometimes I’m tempted to ditch my mobile phone, but frankly, I would feel naked without one. What will Ziggy do?

Back on the small Idaho dairy farm where I grew up, “Culling the Herd” meant sending cows that didn’t give much milk to the slaughterhouse to make way for more productive bovine.  I hadn’t heard the term referring to getting rid of Facebook friends until I read the “Pearls before Swine” comic strip today.  A bit crass, but sort of descriptive, don’t you think?

After posting this bit of irony, I suppose I’d better not de-friend anyone unless there is a darn good reason, don’t you think?

Do you have a secret Identity, an alter-ego, a second (or third) personality manifesting itself secretively in cyberspace?  If so, you must be a superhero, according to Ziggy (aka Zigmeister), our ever-erudite philosopher.

All our married kids have at least 1 HDTV system in their homes – one son has four!  But their “stuck-in-the-dark-ages” dad still has the same old reliable Sony flat screen 36″ set that was state-of-the-art back in 1997.  I can really identify with Earl Pickles.

And yes, Opal, I may also be an obsolete old thing.

But seriously, when we break down and buy a new HDTV system later this year, what on earth should we do with the Trinitron?  Give it to Earl?

By the way, the ghostly image in the screen is not me bowing in obeisance to the TV Gods.  I am just taking a photo for this blog.

As my memory shifts towards and merges with cyberspace, I think about my all time favorite bumper sticker:

Now, what else was I going to say?  I think I’ll go check Evernote and get back with you.

Back in the day, it was an old timer by the side of the road, who, when asked for directions, uttered the immortal words, “You can’t get there from here.”

Now, Ziggy has to deal with Google Maps.  I think I miss the old timer.