Posting Toasties

On Yom Kippur we reflect: what is a fast day? Really. All our days seem fast. We hunger for time out. Time off. And what do we do with our precious time . . . off? Well, here you are, online, with my thanks for being here.

And so with virtual raised glass in hand, I propose a post, a “Post Toasty,” so to speak, to cheer you on this Monday morning, to say L’Chaim - to Life! And to our counterlife, weird and wired as it is: online.

Here’s to you --- and to the vitality of the Great and Everlasting Internet, the new Word on the Street as we know it, and to those whom we’d sorely miss if ever they were cut from our daily dosage of incoming media. Is it an addiction? Perhaps. But drink up.

Cheers to the bloggers, the writers, the journalists, the humorists. To the savvy web-sters, the code-writing “standardistas,” the designers and creators of infinitely variant domains. Here’s to the RSS feeders, the syndicators, the opinionators, the taste mongers. To the curious, the readers, the scanners, the browsers, the seekers, and the Googlers. Here’s to the inventors, the followers, the critics, the babblers, the Twitter-tweeters, the thumb twiddlers, the thumb drivers, the computer jocks, the Go Daddies, the Amazonians, the buyers, the Ebayers, the sellers, the Flickrs, the flockers, the foodies, the samplers, the gamers, the gardeners, the YouTubists, the artists, the explorers of brave new words. Here’s to the pilgrims, the wayfarers . . . all out there. You know who you are.