"In his domestic administration my father had this system . . . to keep a journal and insert in it all occurrences of any note . . . A record very pleasant to look at when time begins to efface the memory of events, and very well suited to get us out of perplexity: When was such and such a thing begun? When completed? What retinues came? How long did they stay? Our trips, our absences; marriages; deaths; the receipt of happy or unhappy news . . . An ancient custom, which I think it would be good to revive, each man in each man's home. And I think I am a fool to have neglected it." (Montaigne, Book I, Essay 35 (publ. 1580))

Thursday, January 02, 2014

Tweets

New year, new (at least for me) social media - I'm going to start occasional tweets.

Content TBD; my general concept is that I will tweet the same type of comments about things I read or otherwise run across as I would make to folks if I was sitting in the same room (or walking around, or whatever) with them; meaning likely topics will include sports, public policy, low-IQ tech stuff, books, music, food & drink, random ideas, who knows what.  A positive difference:  the 140-character limit should discourage rambling.  (Longer stuff, diary-style entries, book summaries, trip reports, look-backs, etc. will continue on the various blogs per usual.)

So far I have two followers (CPG and EPG).  Quality over quantity, right?

My very first tweet (with attached photo) is embedded below (after today you'll have to go to twitter.com to find them).

My Twitter user name (if that's the right term) on Twitter:  @PaulGales1.

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