You guys, I found the prettiest desk chair on Facebook Marketplace. It was a 3-minute Uber ride away. We picked it up last night. It's perfect, I love it so much.🥰 The only problem with having been hunting for a new chair online is the dreaded avalanche of ads for chairs I'm getting and will get until the end of time. I'm telling you, retargeting has to be the dumbest martech (marketing technology) they ever came up with, and I am ov…
...I embrace new tech. It's just that I can sniff out the SHADY or SOON TO BE OBSOLETE new tech. My whole career was in cutting edge tech. Shit, I worked for Wellfleet/Bay Networks/Nortel--we were one of three that helped construct the cloud. I worked for Trip Advisor back when we were writing blurbs about the landmark attractions and seeding the website with user reviews, ya know, just to get it rolling. I helped start EditShare when it was…
Oh for fuck's sake. I just asked Google a simple question about hanging a birdbath from the porch. I got the most useless and bizarre results. I scrolled for three pages in utter confusion...then I remembered the announcement in the tech pages for the changeover today: Google Search is ALL AI now. Wow, Google. Really? I really doubt anyone asked for this. I wonder what's going on this morning in the offices of the millions of MarTech SEO…
Now here's the thing. I don't do this for any kind of ostentatious putting-on of airs. I'm not vain at all. Just the opposite. You can ask my psychiatrist. Or my therapist. No, I am occasionally Googling myself to see if Google has had any sweet sweet mercy on # Blogger and indexed our # blogs at all. Because we would really like Google to index our blogs. Lack of blog indexing is a frequent topic of discussion in certain web forums. …
Not that I've been on it much lately, so me deleting my account won't mean anything to Pinterest. I created my Pinterest account when we first moved from Comm Ave to Lower Allston, as a kind of Look Book for home decor ideas.I also had some pins of 19th Century dinner rings--I had one once and thought I'd get another some day. But now it seems Pinterest is already chock-a-block with AI slop. Why? What are they thinking? That was a pu…
I’ve Googled myself before, but not since Google added an AI search engine feature. I admit I'm pretty salty about AI. I never use that AI search result when Googling anything, preferring the actual results rather than the AI summary that shows up. But. Ummm…maybe I should re-think that. Because when the AI summarized me, it got me pretty well. I mean I don’t know what I’d add here. I searched “SuperLowBudge.” That’s my handle everywhere fro…
