The Daily Mail published the article titled “‘Jail is just like being on holiday’: Killer boasts on Facebook from his prison cell“. In essence, this article discusses one prisoner’s ability to use a smuggled cell phone to update his Facebook status.
Now most all of us have Facebook accounts that we check regularly. My question is, are we really so consumed by our Facebook accounts that we need to smuggle cell phones into jail to let the world know that “Allison is in solitary” or perhaps “Allison is on highway clean up duty today”? I mean I’m sure if I ever ended up in prison (possibly for J-walking) my family and friends would love a to the minute update of my life behind bars. They would, I’m sure, stay riveted to their computers so they could read whatever gem of a status update I posted. “Allison is Jill’s Bitch”.
I think the article says bad things for both Facebook users, as well as gaurds of prisons. First of all, how easy is it to spot someone using a cell phone in jail? I’ve never been inside a prison, so I have no idea how easy or difficult it would be to hide,. However I could guess that one could pick the cell phone user out of a crowd, because he’s the one who is always having pizza orders show up at the jail.
I posted a comment to this article, and I can’t wait until it shows up. On this site users are able to rank comments. So hopefully, my comment was worthy of a few “green arrows”.
Universal Hub, begs the question in one article, can we hire a guy from Malaysia who can pull a train with his teeth, to help with poorly running T’s? This is after one Orange Line train had to be pulled by another train on February 15. (http://offonatangent.blogspot.com/2009/02/im-on-very-disabled-orange-line-train.html)
In my opinion we should totally look into this. Although it would also be helpful if he could also pull buses and ferry’s that are run by the MBTA. I can’t remember the last time I was on the MBTA, and there was no issue with trains, buses, or yes, even the ferry with out my chosen means of transportation was either running early, late, or stopped moving at some unscheduled point along my journey
I posted my thoughts briefly in the comments section of the article. (http://www.universalhub.com/node/23308). So far they haven’t appeared in the comments section. I’m guessing there is some sort of screening processes that occurs before they approve a comment to show up on the site. Hopefully I make the cut. I’ll add to the post if I make it up, as well as if anyone responds to my comment.
{Edit} Well I made it up! second comment. I’ll admit it, I tried to be sassy and sophisticated, but I just sound goofy and bored. I’ll take it though. This was my first comment ever, on any kind of news story or blog. Here’s what my comment says:
It’s a bird, it’s a plane, NO! It’s teethman!
I sure hope that he has good denial care.
As someone who frequently takes public transportation in Boston, I must admit that having someone to save us from hours stuck underground with no escape would be an invaluable asset. My question is, can he pull buses and boats as well?
And for your viewing pleasure, some guy in Malaysia pulling a train with his teeth.
Bill Keller, executive editor of the New York Times,decided to answer questions from friends, foes, fellow journalist, students, and those who wanted to see their names on the NYT website. Most of the Q’s and A’s were boring and political, but a few questions stood out from the rest.
One of these times was when Keller responded to questions, which appeared to be mostly from students, about being a journalist.
Q. Hey Bill, my name is Daniel Edwards and I live in Albert Lea, Minn. I am a sophomore journalism student at my high school. I have the opportunity to ask you a question or two about anything I want, as long as it relates to journalism of course!
What did you do, or sacrifice, to get to where you are now?
How did you make you way up the ranks in journalism, from a nobody, to a somebody?
and finally…..
Do you have a car space with your name on it?! With a nice car in it?! = D
And, finally, no, Daniel, I do not have a parking space. Like most people in New York City, I take the subway to work.
Unfortunately he was a little to honest here. If he is interested in encouraging young people to become journalists, he should have said that “he doesn’t need a car, because when you become an executive editor at the NYT, you learn how to fly”.
Ben Franklins’ Silence Dogood Letters were his way of getting published in his father’s newspaper, the New England Courant. Because his older brother was jealous ,he coined this pen name in order to free himself from any objections.
I think the persona that Franklin took on in the Silence Dogood Letters, is pretty amusing, especially coming from a 16 year-old boy. Dogood was a widowed woman of middle age. To think that Franklin, was able to write convincingly as a middle aged women, is a feat in and of it self. I feel like this was an early sign of the great things that Franklin would do later on in life. This displayed Franklin’s ability as a word smith as well as his remarkable intelligence at such a young age.
My favorite part of the letters came from Letter Four:
Now I bethought my self in my Sleep, that it was Time to be at Home, and as I fancy’d I was travelling back thither, I reflected in my Mind on the extream Folly of those Parents, who, blind to their Childrens Dulness, and insensible of the Solidity of their Skulls, because they think their Purses can afford it, will needs send them to the Temple of Learning, where, for want of a suitable Genius, they learn little more than how to carry themselves handsomely, and enter a Room genteely, (which might as well be acquir’d at a Dancing-School,) and from whence they return, after Abundance of Trouble and Charge, as great Blockheads as ever, only more proud and self-conceited.
I love this, because I think it really fits in a contemporary sense. The concept that is drilled into our minds now, that we must go to college, whether we are qualified or not, is similar to what Dogood is describing. Sending a person to an institute of higher learning, when they are not ready or qualified will do little more than teach someone to “walk the walk” or possibly to fail in their endeavors. Also as a contemporary standard, I don’t feel as though most college students realize how lucky they are to be in a place of higher education, as well as possessing the desire to learn. Franklin’s writing, in general, but specially in the Dogood letters, have the ability to transcend time, and I think that this is the most remarkable aspect of Franklin’s skills.
And for you Ben Franklin buffs out there, a little bit of drunk history for you.
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