I just deleted my MySpace account. I don’t know why that felt so good to do, but it did. With the advent of Facebook and the fact that I don’t live my entire life on the internet, I had stopped logging in to MySpace long ago. Good bye, internet-ical tether.
Of course, I still have a Facebook account and there’s THIS page as well, but it’s funny how perspective changes with environment. None of my friends in AK have ever heard of the internet, and they get along just fine. They also go hiking, and play in boats on the water, and enjoy nature. Which is not to say that my friends in SEA don’t do the same, but it’s slower here. It’s like when I worked and lived on Vashon Island. It’s just slower in some parts.
I could go out to the glacier (see previous post for photos) and sit down without a book, or a walkman, or anything around me at all, and be content to just sit back and watch the glacier just sit there. And I have.
That’s all. Digital vs analog. Cyberspace vs innerspace. Ones and zeroes vs earth and fire and water and air. Virtual vs physical.
I enjoy xkcd.com. It’s a geek comic that I’m sometimes not geeky enough to get fully, but the person(s) in charge there are pretty seriously hilarious at times. Case in point…
We all get emails from time to time that have been forwarded a thousand times, and they contain various funny images. Usually it goes like this: Open email; view contents; teehee; delete.
This time I actually felt compelled to modify and post them on the site, cuz they just got me laughing that hard. Here ya go…
I’ve posted a lot of stuff today. Not so much in many different posts, but I did a lot to the Photos page. Somewhere along the way, I needed to look up the proper spelling of a specific location in the Star Wars universe, so I googled the spelling. One of the resulting entries was WOOKIEPEDIA!!! How awesome is that? I laughed out loud right there in the coffee shop, freaking out people next to me.
I don’t know when the last time was that we spoke, but I’ve been dry since Easter. I’ve had a couple nights of excessive intake in the last month, but mostly I’ve been sober. Not to pat my own back or anything, but I’m clearly better than you.
At any rate, I saw this today and it cracked me up.
While you sit there in your cubicle, making life easier for the next person who may push the papers that you’ve just affixed your signature to, there are others out there on the fringe making life better for us all by doing things that we never dreamed would be necessary.
I was emailed this little gem by Dave W, who has found out that the fine folks at Qualcomm are doing just that. Imagining a better world for all of us.
While clicking away at random just now, I found myself at this site. There is some world class hilarity to be found in some of your own text interactions with folks out there, and here’s an entire site devoted to just that. I give you….texts from last night!
Folks, it’s true…the economy is tanking. Seems like yesterday that I was able to frivolously spend money on luxury items like…toilet paper and soap. Don’t believe me? Well take a look at this, courtesy of The Onion.
