Monday, December 30, 2013

The importance of being earnest

The basic limitation of Twitter is how hard it is to condense your thoughts into 140 characters. That number is too small to really say anything meaningful. For example: I showed some kids some camellia flowers, which are basically little novelty fireworks that, when lit, begin to spin very quickly from the propulsive power of the burning fuse, looking similar to this: 


They are very small and basically as harmful as a lit match, though they probably burn hotter. For some reason they are illegal. A man walked by, whom we know, and immediately said "You will go to jail for that". Contrast this to another man who said, upon seeing me give a small color pearl repeater to some kids, "just be careful; I don't want to spoil the fun, since when I was the same age something like that would be very fun". 

So it condenses to: there are three types of people - those who say "It's illegal", those who say "That could be dangerous, please don't do it because you'll get hurt", and those who say "You're going to jail for that". 

Avoid person type three.

Now, how do you condense this to 140 characters? 

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