Airport Tweets

Continuing the previous post's aural fixation, I hear a loud cell phone user going on and on about needing to set up a 20 minute call to discuss the next steps on something.

Suddenly the hard to ignore conversation switches to the "land grab" that is twitter.

The cellophile brags, 'look I tell you I got all the major airport codes, like LAX and I got newyork and brooklyn' and so on. Seems impressive enough.

But then I'm thinking - well yeah what would an airport tweet?

'wear socks without holes'
'we inspect all fluids'
'your airline is to blame'
'trains suck'
'OMG more snow - check web site for details'

For that matter what would a city tweet?

'how many times do we have to tell you - sort your recycling?'
'how about that new stadium?'
'the governor is to blame'
'suburbia is overrated'
'OMG more snow - check web site for details'

I'm also thinking surely the terms of use for twitter include not impersonating an airport or neighborhood or city.

There are in fact tweets for airports: LAX, ORD, and SFO, - doh SFO is Studio SFO, doesn't even look like airport updates. Looks like SJC is private. PHL is, or was by the time you read this, tweeting about a power supply.

Likewise there are tweets for cities: newyork, brooklyn and sanjose - doh sanjose's tweets were disabled - due to " due to strange activity".

Indeed.

Advanced Duck Milking

Basic duck milking has been covered elsewhere.

Likewise there are related quotes such as: "Son, one day you'll become a doctor or a lawyer or a duck-milker. You'll be looked up to. You'll be respected."

There is even a delightful TIME article from 1932 masquerading as a 21st century web page that helpfully defines the slang "go milk a duck" as an "expression of annoyance" widely used at Vanderbilt.

There is even the stray intriguing photo that is perhaps related to ducks and milk. Admitedly the duck in this case is a nurse.

As for advanced duck milking?

That's a different story.



Now I may not have used "duck milking" during the Depression at Vanderbilt and I might not have thought to set up a password protected web page at Tripod on the topic of duck milking but yes, To Blind Eve returns zero results for advanced duck milking - then again the blogsphere is flat (it's more of a blogoflat, think help I'm stuck on the long tail and can't get off) so who knows maybe I'm just pretending not to be a Vanderbilt graduate with a Tripod account?

Regardless here goes, advanced duck milking - make sure the duck isn't rabid.