This thought has been plaguing me for quite a while now: exactly what should I be on social-media-wise so that all my friends think I'm super-cool and hip? After consideration I think the fact I'm using the word "hip" has more or less determined how little capacity I have for being cool, so this might all be a moot point. But it's not too late for you. So, ask yourself, which social-media is right for you?

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Terms keep changing. Technology keeps changing. What's considered cool keeps changing. Back-in-the-day they had floppy discs and syquest drives, and zip drives and you name it. Thumb drives, or Flash drives are the current favorite. I've got a bunch of them myself. Handy for porting around files in the comfort of your pocket.

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I'm not a big fan of paper.I mean, I do love books and have about a billion of them so I guess I can't make a blanket statement like that. What I should have said is that I don't like print, as in, print advertising. It's just so limiting and 1-dimensional. Well, except for this guy.

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I like it when things occur to me from out of the blue. Like when I just let my mind wander, not focusing on anything in particular. I find some of the more interesting ideas come to me that way. So that's how the importance and ignorance of numbers came to me. Let me explain.

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It struck me last week that at some point in the years to come, when I'm older, the technology we're using now, that we think is cutting edge and pretty damn cool, will look ancient and pathetic to future generations. I can't believe my dad watched black-and-white television with like 3 channels when he was a kid. I can't believe they had records or 8-track tapes. And did you know there was a time when you couldn't watch a movie of your choice from the comfort of your own home? Yeah, sounds like the dark ages.

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I think I've hit another wave of nostalgia over the last few weeks. This I blame on my son. His want of having me play Halo is doing some serious damage to my cool factor and the fact I grew up on video games.

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So maybe I'm still stuck in grammer school, sitting at the table with my big box of Crayola crayons, because I'm still drawn to large washes of color. Especially when they're in a sequence. Now, I don't go gaga for rainbows but if you can do it like Linda Lundgren, then you'll catch my attention. I'm just going to sit here and think to myself, "pretty".

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I'm always fascinated when dramas play themselves out in corporate America. Enron, Big Tobacco, Wall Street. And especially when the public gets involved in some way, such as with say the whole Facebook debacle. You can't get the public much more involved in that if you tried. What I find the most fascinating is the time span of these things, because, it's speeding up.

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Probably about 10 years ago I stumbled across a web site, or more accurately a single page, that said "You have reached the end of the internet." Now, at the time that was pretty funny considering how many millions of pages there were and the improbability of actually having seen all of them. We all had a good laugh. Problem is, we're now about 18 months away from that being true.

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So. Yeah, I'm not entirely sure where to go with this. Just saw the new 2012 Olympic mascots London has rolled out and, yeah, I don't know what's going on. Sexless, reflective, alien hosts. Well, okay. I guess that's an option. Just not one I ever considered.

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