Today marks the one-year birthday of this little blog (http://accidentalluddite.com — tell your friends!). Thank you to everyone who reads, comments and generally makes this so much fun to do.
Cupcakes for everyone!
…And I’m back. Now that I have a bit more time, I thought I’d share some fun facts with you.
Since its debut, Accidental Luddite (tell your friends!) has:
Not bad for a school experiment 
Thursday is a very special day. Anyone who correctly guesses why wins a prize!
Have you heard about the spy satellite hurtling toward earth? Scientists seem pretty dismissive of the whole thing, claiming this “space debris” is no bigger than a small bus.
Umm…that seems plenty large to me.
And mark your calendars: the satellite is expected to reach earth in the next few weeks. Experts say it will most likely disintegrate due to heat or plunk into one of our oceans.
But how bad would your day turn if it didn’t? If it landed near you or (oh crap) on you? Granted, the odds aren’t good. Still — look alive, folks!
Oh, friends, school is back and in full effect. This semester, I’m taking Managerial Communication and Integrated Marketing Communication. So interesting!
The first is all about organizational communication, from the top down. It’s especially cool because there’s a big focus on diversity. The second is about how marketing, advertising and PR collide. Tonight, we had a really good conversation about what is more important: relevance, or innovation.
I’ll keep you posted on the more interesting things we discuss.
What are you learning these days?
Ooh, I’ve just finished the best book. It’s called The Female Brain, which is written by Dr. Louann Brizendine, and I recommend it if:
Why? Because it explains why we are the way we are, why we feel the things we feel, and how we become the people we become. Oh, and it explains men, too.
Check it out — it is amazing!
Do any of you still have your Christmas trees up? My tree is still up for two good reasons:
And how can you argue with that? Fortunately, the tree is a “permanent botanical” (i.e., it isn’t real), so there’s no fire hazard. But, I don’t want it up in July.
What is the latest you’ve left up your holiday decorations? What are you avoiding these days?
Ooh, I have not forgotten about you! Honestly, I think I need an assistant. Or a nanny. There’s just so much going on at any given time (hence, writing this at 1 a.m.). But, it’s nice to be busy doing fun things.
What have you been up to?
This week, I’ve been bombarded by spam.
First, there’s the repeated message that “Your Penis Is Exceptionally Small.” Yikes! So matter-of-fact. And I think the underlying insult is unfair, given that I’m a woman. In my case, it seems the smaller the better!
Then there’s “Wow — Mens Love This.” Please — that sounds like something Sheneneh Jenkins would say.
And that made me wonder, who would people rather meet: Sheneneh, or Wanda?
It is amazing the leaps our minds make.
Sometimes I read The Onion; while it doesn’t always appeal to my sense of humor, I think the people who write it are very clever, and I enjoy clever. And, I am fascinated by the whole people-getting-news-from-non-news-sources thing (recall my love for The Colbert Report).
Well, with the writers strike, no Colbert (ACTUALLY, rumor has it he’s back tonight with all-new episodes!). So, with some free time on my hands, I picked up The Onion today — the “Election 2008 Campaign Half-Time Report.” On the front page, there’s a story about Rudy Giuliani, the “9/11 president.” A few pages in, there’s a story about John McCain and a little POW camp in Vietnam.
I thought both were really disturbing. Granted, The Onion is tongue-in-cheek. Granted, we’re in an election cycle, and these articles are like political cartoons drawn out of words. And, granted, I might not see eye-to-eye with either candidate, anyway (though that’s not the point of this blog).
Even with all of that in mind, didn’t Rudy Giuliani inspire a lot of us on Sept. 11? Didn’t he lose friends to terrorism that day? I don’t know him but, if I had to guess, he’d trade being President for preventing the attacks from ever having happened.
By the same token, what’s so funny about a man having been a POW? John McCain may be a lot of things, but I don’t think anyone would question his heroic past or how indescribably awful his experience must have been.
OK, it’s debate season, so tell me: do I have no sense of humor, or is The Onion a little too raw (get it?)?
