As we were making lunch today, David asked me what hashtag meant. I explained as best I could, given that I have never been on twitter, #luddite, #tryingtowaititoutlikeaneighttracktape that it added a comment on something you said or wrote to categorize it or explain what it meant. I wanted to say like "It's hot outside, hashtag global warming #bitterarewe? #he'snine, but I figured that was a completely different conversation, so I made some other weak example, and he said, "Like you could say, 'Someone took my sweater, hashtag rude." #mysonisbrilliant. I said, "Exactly!" Then I told him how annoying it was when people started saying it all the time #nipthatinthebud, and I showed him the Jimmy Fallon Justin Timberlake SNL sketch #seeIknowsomethingaboutpopculturebutnotmuch, #nowIwantacookie. Then I started having this internal conversation with myself #talktoyourselfmuch? about how the whole phenomenon of hashtags was really cool when it added a layer of meaning that wasn't obvious #saynotoDeanaTroy, and anyway haven't librarians #librariansrock! always categorized information for it to be searchable, and in this ocean of information that we live on, we can use all the life rafts we can get #metaphors4ever!