Then again, it's in a newspaper...

According to the Mail Online:

Facebook has become such a pervasive force in modern society that increasing numbers of employers, and even some psychologists, believe people who aren't on social networking sites are 'suspicious.'

How things have changed.

There was a time when putting yourself "onto the Internet" was pretty edgy stuff, so much so that back around the time I signed up with LiveJournal (in mid-2000), some political animal—was it Newt Gingrich?—went on a tear about how this kind of behavior was not A Good Thing™ (which got me thinking and eventually onto LiveJournal).

Although I have no basis for evaluating the credibility and biases of the Daily Mail, what the story suggests does not sound outlandish. After all, lots of people everywhere are just looking for excuses to label others as "suspicious" characters.

This trend has quite a bit to go, I think, and the end result is not going to be pretty.

Cheers...

Rug pull!

Maybe I wasn't paying attention, but that great big heap of work I've been working on has shrunk to just one remaining article, on Scythian kurgans. I've been getting a good stream of The Routine Stuff™, lately, but the volume has a tendency to vary.

Which is not entirely bad. I do need to address the issue of the stuff in the garage (and in my office). And there is the issue of the mushrooming event that's going to be held right here in Pagosa (during which I must make sure to vector people away from all of my private little "spots").

And maybe even relax for a bit.

Cheers...