Many of the people I hang out with use Facebook. Not all know about a great way to stem the flow of messages coming into your stream…
Undoubtedly some of your Facebook friends who are not those you want to hear about every single day of the week. And likely, a few of your Facebook friends are not really friends – but you don’t want to “unfriend” them and cut them off forever.
All you have to do is hover your mouse over the right edge of their latest post. A little X will magically appear. You can choose to hide that individual post, hide all posts by that person or by application (like if they are always telling you of their latest Farmville triumph) – or if you really don’t like them, you can mark their post as spam.
I fault Facebook for not making this option more obvious. I thank them for the anonymity of that control.
Our son Jay is a junior in high school. This haul of mail was one day’s set of letters from colleges and universities wanting him to apply. Sadly for them, their mailings almost instantly end up in the recycle bin. Nothing distinguishes one from another.
If you’ve always wanted to get inside my head a little more than my blog will permit you, my friend Johanna very kindly did an interview with me over at her blog, 
“Wonky” is a great word. Askew or amiss might have a close meaning, for those of you not from the UK.
Art is a wonderful way to look at our world differently. I know if I had seen the actual head of this particular high school student, she would look different. But in difference is found beauty.
A nearby 
The makers of Cheez-It snacks weren’t thinking too well. Only a tiny precentage of their buyers would ever notice the name change from “Party Mix” to “Snack Mix.” My guess is that their staff were so excited about the new name that they felt they had to announce it on the box.
I love my wife, Heather.
