If you were a marijuana smoker, and you wanted to buy some Hashish … you might find yourself in a Pot Store. In which case you would want to know the prices. You would probably look at the Hash-Tag.
Or, let’s say you LOVE Corned Beef all fried up with potatoes. And you love games like “You’re IT!”… and such. You may find yourself combining the two… like a big game of Hash-Tag.
Forget all that. I am feeling a little bit like the Pied Piper. And a tiny bit like The Yellow Brick Road. You can “Follow Me @_yellowpiedroadpiper.
Hash Tags. They are every where. I don’t want my life defined by the hash tag. I’ll tell you that much right now. And I am not sure I want to be followed…. like I have stalkers.
I don’t want to be known as @_pollyk either. #are-you-following-me.
That is the thing though. I love technology and all that it affords us. But I totally get tired of some of the trends. #over it.
And, while we are on it. When did it become the Hash Tag? I wonder. To me, it has always been the pound sign, or the numbers symbol. I guess saying… “Follow me @pollywollydoodle hashtag up-in-arms-pollyis a LOT cooler than saying…. pound sign #up-in-arms-polly.
The technical term for a hashtag is “octothorp,” according to the Oxford English Dictionary; octo, in reference to the eight points in the figure, and Thorpe, OED says cryptically, from “the surname Thorpe… perhaps even Olympian Jim Thorpe.”
Or it takes a village….. In cartography, the octothorp is a traditional symbol for village. And here is how it goes. Eight fields around a central square. That is the source of its name. Octothorp means eight fields.”
(From octo- (“eight”) and thorpe (“field or small village”). Are you following me here? If not… you can always Hashtag THAT……. #octothorpe.
As I mentioned, I say all of this with a push me / pull me attitude. I love the world of Geekdom. I truly think many of these technological advances, are just that. Advances.
On the other hand, certain parts of it bug me. Like all the acronyms instead of actual language. IDK it bothers me. LOL. I mean… it REALLY shouldn’t bother me so much because … I use those acronyms sometimes.
I guess, as with so many different things in life, there are two sides to every coin. There are positives and negatives, to almost any situation you consider. Sometimes, it just depends which side of the table you are sitting.
Perhaps it is best to get as much as we can from the positive aspects, and try to leave the negative behind. Think in the upside of things… and let go of the down turns. As… @Monty_Python so aptly said… #always look on the bright side of life. That is advice I WILL try to follow.
Positive anything is better than negative nothing.
— Elbert Hubbard
Positive thinking will let you do everything better than negative thinking will.
— Zig Ziglar