Death By Twitter
Jun. 26th, 2009 08:46 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
peterbirksThe death of Michael Jackson will surely go down in history as the first "very" famous death of the Twitter generation. When these 20-somethings are 50-something (it isn't far away, kids, even if you think that it is) they will be able to look back and say "And where were you when your mobile twitter feed told you that Michael Jackson was dead?
A piece of news that was too late for many of the early editions of UK papers is now old hat.
Many of those youngsters (many tens of thousands, in fact) will say "ahh yes, I was at Glastonbury that year", with perhaps one or two adding that "It flooded, of course, despite two weeks of fantastic weather beforehand. Springsteen and Neil Young were still alive then, but I mainly remember it being the debut for Dame Louise Golbey. Of course, she was a youngster then, rather than a Dame, not the world megastar that she is today".
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Ahhh, one of those mornings where there is one hell of a lot to write (for work). I could put 20 stories in the newsletter this morning. Sadluy, those damned things do not write themselves. So, although none is particularly sticky to write, the sheer volume makes it tiring. Indeed, I came to this after a two-hour stint, because I needed a break.
I'd often fit in a couple of hundred hands or more as a "break" at this point, but I've discovered that doing so really tires me out if I then have to go back to "insurance writing work". Whartever playing online poker is, it isn't relaxing.
Three very interesting hands on Pacific on Wednesday night, An A9, an AA and a KQ, I think. Must dig them out later today and post them with comments.
Oh well, back to work.
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A piece of news that was too late for many of the early editions of UK papers is now old hat.
Many of those youngsters (many tens of thousands, in fact) will say "ahh yes, I was at Glastonbury that year", with perhaps one or two adding that "It flooded, of course, despite two weeks of fantastic weather beforehand. Springsteen and Neil Young were still alive then, but I mainly remember it being the debut for Dame Louise Golbey. Of course, she was a youngster then, rather than a Dame, not the world megastar that she is today".
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Ahhh, one of those mornings where there is one hell of a lot to write (for work). I could put 20 stories in the newsletter this morning. Sadluy, those damned things do not write themselves. So, although none is particularly sticky to write, the sheer volume makes it tiring. Indeed, I came to this after a two-hour stint, because I needed a break.
I'd often fit in a couple of hundred hands or more as a "break" at this point, but I've discovered that doing so really tires me out if I then have to go back to "insurance writing work". Whartever playing online poker is, it isn't relaxing.
Three very interesting hands on Pacific on Wednesday night, An A9, an AA and a KQ, I think. Must dig them out later today and post them with comments.
Oh well, back to work.
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