Still working through my backlog of Email, but I hope to hit all your blogs within the next few days. Hang in there!
In the meantime, since I got this bully pulpit, I’m gonna use it. If you have a Twitter account, and want to learn a lot about the twists and turns of the global business picture (or just don’t use the bloody thing), please start to follow Aaron Heslehurst, the BBC Business reporter, at @bbcaaron. I love the guy – he’s outrageously funny (blame it on his Aussie roots), tremendously knowledgeable, a total airplane geek (his report on the first flight of the Boeing 787 bordered on the orgasmic) and most importantly of all, lagging behind his fellow BBC presenters with only a couple hundred followers. Let’s put him over 1,000 – or 10,000! Tell him @johnzenaru sent you – and feel free to annoy me with a tweet if you want. Just don’t expect too quick a response – you know how us old farts can’t make heads nor tails of all this new-fangled jim-crackery! 😉
See ya ’round the Intertubes!
EDIT: Aaron responded to me, and has challenged me to get him 10k followers. Let’s do it, people! 😀
A Windy City boy, lost in rural Ohio, just shooting the breeze.
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Sorry John. I am not a twit. I don’t tweet.
Hey, no worries. It took me 10 minutes to figure out how to add Aaron to my (VERY) small list, then another 5 or so to be able to write the tweet to him! Like I said to my buddy Archon – I’m that rare combo, a computer-programmer Luddite! 😀
Well I’m glad to see you around.
Done! Also let him know you sent me! I am soooo happy to have you back.
It’s actually feeling good to be back, thanks for the welcome back. Now I’m just waiting for a tweet from Aaron that goes, roughly, “Just who the heck ARE you?!?”. THAT will be the prize. (Now where is that “evil grin” emoticon?)
It was either Twitter or Moris Code. I opted for the latter.
Now, remember, he’s an Aussie. Ya should’ve written the note on a Foster’s can – that would guarantee delivery! 😀
OK, job done. Another 900 or so and your credibility is safe 🙂
Yeah, and I saw the tweet you sent. Are YOU gonna pay my bail, when the FBI comes a-knockin? 😉
Bail? What makes you think you’re gonna get bail? Just do what the Armenian mafia does – make them an offer they can’t understand.
Btw, along those lines, a promising looking new series just started The Blacklist, give it a try.
Oh yeah, I saw an ad for that – James Spader, Dr. Daniel Jackson from Stargate, the movie (as opposed to the Stargate series). I’ll see if I can catch it, long as it doesn’t compete with any of my car building or blowing-stuff-up shows. 😀
Armenian, eh? I was leaning more towards Quebecois, convince the US government they want a nuke, then let the US Army clean ’em out. Leave lotsa prime, cheap real estate not too far from my homies in Ontario! 😉
Here’s 2 more e-mails for you to catch up on and it’s not going to stop.
Hey, from you, any Email is a gem in waiting. You even have your own folder in my Inbox! So you keep churning out the good stuff – and maybe, if you’re REAL nice to me, I’ll turn my PR talents onto your site, once I get Mr. Heslehurst a few dozen more readers! 😀
Ah ha … the truth is out that you are favoring Twitter over blogging! Meanwhile, I’m in the same boat as Elyse.
No way, Frank – Twitter confuses the heck outta me! I’m just shilling for a really cool guy, who was nice enough to write back and thank me for my efforts on his behalf. Who knows – we’ve started an Email conversation, maybe one of these days you’ll tune into BBC America and hear me mentioned! (Hey, a guy can dream, right? 😉 )
I’m stuck at the helm, while Frank and Elyse dance on the foredeck. No tweets shall pass these arthritic old fingers….Great idea though.
Somehow, from you, I expected nothing else. 😉