The Persistence of Yammer

The volume number above informs me that this is the beginning of the fifth year of The Listening Post. That's right--I have raved and mumbled continuously for four whole years, and show no signs of letting up anytime soon. If you have nothing to do for the next fourteen hours, you could read it all again in my blog or, you could whittle a little banana tree and a little family of monkeys eating tiny bananas underneath it, and then paint it all in loving detail with itty-bitty modeling brushes, and still have time left to go out for a pizza and beer. One of the beauties--and the horrors--of the internet, is that nothing need ever go away. Newsprint goes to stuff Christmas packages, radio vanishes in the moment it airs, but all the misstatements, rash promises, "seemed like a good idea at the time" brainstorms, assorted typos and grammatical errors that are committed to the Web have a lifespan similar to the Great Pyramid at Giza. Let's spend the next couple of years talking about it.