Categories: It Happened to Me

Buzzword Abuse is Cheap Entertainment

(Alternate title: In which our hero shows that he’s been reading too many articles about these newstyle web applications)


The scene: the Tucows offices, early afternoon.

Co-worker: Hey, Joey! How’s married life treating you?

Me [making finger quotes, a.k.a. “sarcasm tongs”]: “Married life?” What is this, the twentieth century? It’s now called Life 2.0.

Joey deVilla

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