There is little to add to last year’s Fourth of July piece, “Fly the Flag“. I invite you to read it this year as well. Thank you for reading Barataria and have a wonderful Fourth of July.
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The musings of someone who picked it up on the streets.
Alone
I spend a lot of time alone. I get an assignment as a contractor and I go off to do it, alone. I search the listings for permanent jobs or recruiters through a long day in front of my computer screen, alone. I work on my novel or my budding collection of fairy stories set in Saint Paul, alone. My work has me spending a lot of time going through things on my own. What does this mean?
Father’s Day
Father’s Day. It’s not quite my holiday, and not just because I gave up ties for fashionable banded-collar shirts some years ago. My problem isn’t with being a Father, since I can think of nothing else I’d rather be called. What I’ve never liked about the idea is that if you take being a Father really seriously, it’s 24/7/365 and more. One day? Not even close.
Televised no, Twittered yes
The ongoing situation in Iran has shown the value of the internet, especially twitter, to get the news out. Once all of the foreign journalists were kicked out of the nation, it was up to citizen journalists to bring word of the protests to the rest of the world – and to some extent to the participants who needed to know where to gather. Twitter was especially useful because the abbreviated format works so well with mobile phones brought right to the action, and it was hard to block. They’ve provided feed and encouraged more coverage from the networks – people are indeed interested in this remote and arcane story. What’s not to love about live revolution?
Flu
I have the flu today, so I am not up for one of my usual posts. I’ll be back on Monday.
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