Twitter even allows you to convey complex if slightly tongue-in-cheek ideas, but possibly only to people who bother to follow the links:
CDUlawschoolCDU Law School
1/2 Houses not o/priced tiny.cc/iwt9a but will fall over time due boomer retirement tiny.cc/2sw9b Hmmm...
CDUlawschoolCDU Law School
2/2 Commercial property through floor & prone to bubbles tiny.cc/df8ug super r/s. Shoe box under bed only answer...
Can one do a TAFE course to learn this language (if one can be bothered)?
Have you considered auditioning for the Grumpy Old Men TV show, whyisitso? You'd be a natural.
Don't worry Ken, men often go through a mid-life crisis before reaching old age. You'll get over it.
Ken hasn't reached old age???
I'm oscillating between the red sports car delusion and the lawn bowls reality.
So Ken , you are hip and down with the young kids?
"So Ken , you are hip and down with the young kids?"
Being serious for a sec, tweeting and maintaining the CDU Law and Business Online social media presence, until other volunteer academics have finished exam marking, is currently consuming all my available blogging time. At the same time, Nicholas, Richard and Don aren't posting so I'm trying to generate some meaningful new content on Troppo by recycling tweets. It's very much an experiment but IMO there's real meaning and nuance in them if read in sequence including the linked material. Whyisitso obviously doesn't agree but he's a crusty old Tory so you'd expect that. The abbreviated expression is dictated by the 140 character limit of Twitter not a desire to be hip and down with the young kids.
If I wanted to be a twit I'd also have to get a Twitter account.
come on Whyisitso ,
you have always been a bit of a neattweet
And "my" puns have always been a-paul-ing,
that is your punningshment Whyisitso
There is something karmic about seeing an academic being burdened with a character limit given their propensity for burdening students with word limits.
Ah yes, the retirement investment strategy with (the now) horizon period of a day trader and everything correlated 1:1.
The funniest thing I read for a while was Nic's comment of about a week ago about all those "clairvoyants" on the ECED thread predicting gloom and doom.
Honestly, if you have a time horizon longer than a week even in real estate you're a long term investor.
And speaking of criticism from unlikely quarters - how is this about Noam Chomsky. I would have thought such a bottom up kind of guy would welcome the populist and participatory possibilities for information sorting that Twitter opens up. But apparently no.
Now that you mention it I'm surprised Ferrari haven't already come out with a merchandised set of red lawn bowls. I presume we will see the new kit this Christmas.
Desipis
A word limit is a blessing. It forces a student not to stray too far from the bleedin' obvious into far flung territories that may well be interesting - even relevant, but are time consuming when 'time is of the essence'.