the archives

Tag: Facebook

Your Diet is Boring and Sad (and triggering)

When you talk about dieting, you may be triggering people you care about. If you don’t want to hurt people you like, please stop talking about dieting.

August 24, 2014
We’re not public property

A quote from Rachele’s amazing rant about the scummy, scamming diet company “Venus Factor.”

March 9, 2014
Sliced Bread

To me, the internet is the greatest thing since sliced bread.

January 27, 2014
In which I bitch about Facebook’s changes (you knew this would happen sooner or later)

Facebook recently changed everything again, without asking its users (again) or seemingly thinking about how to make things better (again). I’m reminded of the de-motivational poster that shows a comic of two pigs, talking about how their home is free and all the food is even paid for! The caption reads “Facebook: you’re not the…

September 26, 2011
Writer Wednesday: it’s like the future sneaked up behind me and shouted “Boo!”

I’ve just spent the past few hours reading about Twitter hashtags for writers, finding new and varied blogs about writing and the writing business, finding prompts and challenges for blogging, and finding out that self-publishing may be losing its bad rap sooner rather than later. Which is awesome, because legacy publishing is kind of B.S.-tastic.…

August 3, 2011