perldiver

I've been consciously avoiding Twitter for the longest time: it looks like it could easily be a huge time suck and, although I do see some positive potential uses for it, my suspicion is that the vast supermajority of tweets are utterly banal.  I feel that it also feeds powerfully into the "soundbite" mentality that we are all living in; 140 characters is not enough to encode a real thesis. (*)

Well, maybe it's living in the sunshine-and-dope-laden air of San Francisco, but lately I've been having lots of little one-liner thoughts that I'd like to share with friends or strangers or whatever, but it seems silly to do an entire blog post for one sentence.  So, I broke down and got a feed.

If you'd like to follow it, I'm david_k_storrs on twitter (since every one of my normal usernames was taken).  And I suspect that the vast supermajority of my tweets will be utterly banal.


(*) For the love of Asimov, yes, you don't have to trot out "F=ma" or "E=mc**2" or even "Better that ten guilty men go free than one innocent men be found guilty"(**) just to prove me wrong.

(**) Can anyone attribute that quote with cites, btw?  I always thought it was Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr, but I'm seeing references to it linked with Blackwell and I can't find anything authoritative either way.