It’s 3am and I just posted my last tweet for the day, it was a link for some of my twitter newbie friends. Now I know that its ridiculous to be on twitter at this time of day but I can’t help it. I believe the problem if one could even call it that is PAX, with so many people from the convention on my twitter list its a constant barrel of laughs and interesting content.
I have the laziest blogging team on the face of the earth, but atleast people are using twitter. Maybe they’ll macroblog now.
I’ve been using twitter for quite awhile now but didn’t really get into it hardcore until mid last year because of the PAX trip. Now having inched up close to the 200s in the number of people I’m following its getting tough to stay on top of the crazy and fun conversations going on. Using device updates to keep a handle on the people I should probably be paying attention to has helped to keep alot of confusion at bay but this morning I started Twitterfon after a couple hours and the amount of tweets was astounding. I can only imagine what its going to be like this year now that twitter is starting to blow up. Maybe twitter will finally add a groups feature.
Watching my friends play chess on this sad little glass chessboard is obviously the highlight of my new year. But that New Year’s party before this was something else!
I just finished watching Wall-E. Now I know several of you are thinking LAME! Not to mention a few of you said that when I so much as mentioned it to you, I choose to believe this is because your friends are thugs. Wall-E if nothing else is a fun way to show off your HD TV at 1080p it has a surprising amount of oomph behind it. The story of Wall-E besides being a love story between two cute robots is that humans broke the planet and left on a “vacation” while robots were supposed to be cleaning. The movie never explains why the other billion Wall-E robots stopped working but at least a whole bunch of humans return and try to farm a little plant.
Now I know that a constant stream of ridiculous activities and experiences pepper my life but there is a problem! Filtering all of this. Now I could just stream a constant running log of all the things I do but even if I changed the names to protect the innocent it wouldn’t be terribly hard to figure out who I was talking about. But you know what they’ll live!
Chris realizes he is destined for great things. As he sat quietly in Billy Juan’s he looked heavenward and was inspired.
People constantly make promises to themselves that are rarely if ever kept. A huge offender of this is the dreaded New Years Resolution. I’m curious as to why people feel the need to wait and entire 365 days and sometimes 366 just to lie to themselves. I’m not trying to preach to anyone because I know also practice this activity. There’s been many promises made in my day and a lot of them I didn’t keep ranging from what not to eat or drink, who to hang out with, or how to spend my time. But at the time of making these promises I earnestly felt that I’d keep them, I’m curios if there is a way to ensure that the same conviction that made the promise can be carried through day to day life in order to ensure its completion. Say for instance something as going to the gym, its easy to buy the membership, easy to decide you’re going to go, its even easy to go buy a large amount of gym gear. But when it comes to actually getting off your behind and going that’s a whole other ball game. Putting down the videogames, hanging up the phone, telling your friends bye, that is tough. Even knowing that your goal has obvious and tangible advantages doesn’t even help. In light of the recent financial turmoil a significant amount of people are thinking towards education to ensure that they are kept away from the chopping block. But for some reason I don’t think that’s going to be the secret recipe for most people. Well maybe if I can ‘stay the course’ with my new commitments anyone can.
This is my dog, he is a good dog and there are many like him but this dog is mine.
Just got in the door and started my usual browsing habits when I came across this ridiculous article on Gizmodo about black Friday. Basically you can get the $6k Sony Vaio TT for around $1k during a Webcast lasting from noon to midnight on black Friday. This got me thinking about how I was going to accomplish my shopping this year. Several of my female friends basically ran amok the last two weeks trying to cash in on the pre-black Friday sales all over the place and are now done with their shopping. Unfortunately for me I’m not even sure what anyone in my family wants, I’m leaning heavily towards gift cards but that feels slightly like a cop out. Most likely on December 20th you’re going to see me in stores stepping over piles of discarded merchandise and screaming children to grab a hold of what feeble gift ideas I can come up with. There needs to be a service where you can pick a total budget or budget per person and just let the website figure out what to buy the people based on some simple survey style questions. To take it a step further you should be able to order these items from said site and have them shipped. Hopefully in 2009 we’ll have Christmas shopping truly at the click of a button.
