The Mutthering Pot

The Instagram Buy

Makes sense now, doesn't it?

Inside Facebook:

"Facebook and Instagram have been working together for weeks on an Open Graph integration for the mobile photo sharing app, Inside Facebook has discovered."

http://www.insidefacebook.com/2012/04/09/facebook-helps-instagram-with-unique-open-graph-app-rollout/

When Twitter Just Won't Do.

An Introduction

I abandoned my blog a while ago, but now I find that I need a place to house long-form comments and other information to share. Yes you can use Twitlonger, etc., but I find this much simpler and rewarding.

Struggling to find a name, I ended up using "The Mutthering Pot," a phrase which comes from a passage in Joyce's Finnegans Wake by way of Books at the Wake by James S. Atherton, as quoted in Marshall McLuhan's seminal work The Gutenberg Galaxy:

"A bone, a pebble, a ramskin...leave them to cook in the mutthering pot: and Gutenmorg with his cromagnon charter, tintingfats and great prime must once for omniboss stepp rubrikredd out of the wordpress."

The full quote from Joyce reads:

"A bone, a pebble, a ramskin; chip them, chap them, cut them up allways; leave them to terracook in the muttheringpot: and Guttenmorg with his cromagnom charter, tintingfast and great primer must once for omniboss step rubrickredd out of the wordpress else is there no virtue more in alcohoran."

Hope I typed that properly lest I be stoned by James Joyce's fans. (Or perhaps I should have been stoned when I typed it).

Anyway, I'll leave you to interpret this passage as best you can. I think that it conjures up alchemy and communications rather nicely, though written in a language that would surely confound the twittering hordes.

 

How many "health and beauty" products do you use every day?

The other day I started counting the many products I use in the bathroom every day. I counted about 14 of them which seemed ridiculous to me.

Mind you, this included essentials such as toothpaste, soap and toilet paper.

I realized the marketer's paradise contained in this one small room in our house and how much of a struggle it must be to gain market share.

This all started when I started shopping around for sulphate-free products, which by the way, are kind of difficult to find in the regular store shelves.

I'm going to try to reduce the number of products used as much as possible. we'll see how that goes. Here's the current list:

1. Toilet paper
2. Toothpaste
3. Floss
4. Hand soap
5. Facial cleanser
6. Body wash
7. Shampoo
8. Conditioner
9. Shaving cream
10. Shaving blades
11. Witch Hazel
12. Hair paste
13. Cotton swabs
14. Deodorant