Posts tagged "twitter"

June 17, 2013 10 Comments

I am not the Jennette you are looking for

It started with this tweet: It's not impossible that a stranger would tweet that they like me. Hell, a stranger once tweeted that they hated me. But my blog and book audience skews female, and it seemed unlikely that someone who appears to be a young, average-weight, male was a die-hard fan of Half-Assed. Upon... [Read More]

November 11, 2012 8 Comments

An explosion heard on Twitter

The scene from the multi home explosion on the southside of Indianapolis. @indystar twitter.com/MattKryger/sta…— Matt Kryger (@MattKryger) November 11, 2012 For two minutes last night it seemed possible that my mother's apartment complex had exploded. (It didn't.) It was midnight. I was checking Twitter. An Indianapolis friend said there had been a loud boom on... [Read More]

October 12, 2012 2 Comments

The best way to watch the debates

You don't always have to see something to know it's there. You can observe its effects on other objects and deduce its existence. That's how Neptune and Pluto were discovered, not by direct observation but by the effect their gravity had on the orbits of other stellar objects. Similarly, you don't have to watch the... [Read More]

January 3, 2012 11 Comments

Plants: My new toxic avengers

I am now a plant person, not by desire but because of my downstairs neighbors and Twitter. My neighbors because they smoke, smoke rises, and flipping the building upside down is not a feasible solution (and would make it really hard to shower). Twitter because @idontlooksick told me plants remove toxins from the air. The... [Read More]