Yearly Archives: 2011

Okay, I have written to “Facebook” twice now (I put Facebook in quotes because no one is really there — there is no “Face” in Facebook).  I still have not had a response from them to help resuscitate my crippled account.  Maybe they are still busy counting their billions from Goldman Sachs while their servants fan them with palm fronds.  What I do know is, they are not spending any time or effort answering me.

Facebook is yet another outfit whose idea of customer service is a byzantine list of FAQs and whose contact info is buried so deep in their website you have to Google it to find it.  Enough of that.  I’m going to start a bonfire, get a blanket, and go back to smoke signals.

Update June 20, 2011:

The “Facebook Team” contacted me today, about three weeks after I first notified them, and unlocked my account.  It wouldn’t have been the end of the world had I been locked out of Facebook forever.

No, this time it’s not about Sarah Palin.  This is about our local television station, WLOS, and whoever the hack is who edits their news segments.

(I apologize in advance for the links — WLOS forces you to watch a commercial before they play the news clip.  But I have no other way to tell the story, so please bear with.)

I don’t know what they call the technique used here (interlacing?) but yes, when I watch it, it drives me nuts.  The editor seems to think it is the height of creativity when the subject is only allowed to deliver one sentence (more often, a phrase) before he/she is interrupted by the reporter, who also utters one sentence or fragment thereof, then back-and-forth they go, in this mad game of narrative ping-pong until the story ends.

Nuts?  You want nuts?  Then watch this one.  Warning: you may get a concussion just sitting there, as your brain bounces with ever-increasing speed inside your skull.