15 Twitter Users Overreacting to Life’s Small Problems

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RT @SamekAshley: On a side note I’m going to feel…

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When the theater major called his journalism minor…

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Date a girl who reads.

I earned a +8 or +9 spousal bonus when I told my wife this little essay, by Rosemarie Urquico, made me think of her. It’s easy to date a girl who reads. Give her books for her birthday, for Christmas and for anniversaries. Give her the gift of words, in poetry, in song. Give her…

Beam me up, Chewie.

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Benefits Of Being A Social CIO

SHU’s Phil Komarny: Every get, starts with a give: We have all heard the phrase, you get what you give, and in the world of social media that phrase takes on a much more weighty meaning. Go ahead, prove me right, create a twitter account and follow 100 or so people. Just read, don’t interact.…

Password Modesty

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Explaining Twerking to Your Parents

I still haven’t seen the video, but this event is the pop-culture gift that keeps on giving. Every child dreads this day: sooner or later, your parents will come to you, innocently wide-eyed, to ask you about twerking. How you handle this difficult conversation is extremely important and could have a significant impact on the…

RT @Historiator: #scholarsunday @urbanhumanist @ja…

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My 11yo, of the opening chapters of a YA novel with an orphan heroine

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The school mocked. I turtled.

Draft: “As my classmates tormented, I shrank into my turtle-like shell.” Suggestion: “The school mocked; I turtled.” (Yes, I am #marking.) Similar:At Computers and Writing #cwcon for the weekend.Am I wise now? At an event for encouragi…AcademiaUniversity disavows chocolate milk, concussions studyThe University of Maryland on Friday dis…AcademiaShe was accused of faking an incriminating video…

RT @avantgame: So, to conclude: SuperBetter works,…

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There, in my morning snapshot of the kids home-schooling in the kitchen, is the cable I should have brought to work.

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The future of handwriting

Even after the proliferation of print, the humble pen continued to flourish. History owes a lot to the literates who, entirely off their own steam, chose to document the times they lived in. Without people such as Samuel Pepys, there would be huge caverns in our knowledge of major events that happened in relatively recent…