Suhweet Jesus it's been a while. Almost a year to the day to be precise. What have I being doing during this void? Parenting, careering, expanding my mind (not pharmaceutically). I'm not even going to bother to review my previous ramblings. It's another year, I'll be 36 at the end of the month and the weather is taking a turn for the wonderfully allergenic after a fairly annoying winter full of horrid mood swings. I'm in a love/hate with Mama Nature and her bitchiness.
Anyway, to the point of this collection of alphanumeric characters:
Twitter + Facebook = insta-connection with everything you didn't want, but that you now somehow can't do without.
Twitter fills my phone with de-mystifying, de-deifying celebrity jibber jabber via txt msgs. To be fair, these folks don't have the luxury of inline spell check and grammatical advice, but holy crap are some of our more empirically prized celebrity citizens stupid.
Not these folks however. This is my current stable of tweet heads:
@Jon_Favreau - filming "Iron Man 2" in LA (directing, writing and acting)and adjusting to new sleep cycles.
@ThatKevinSmith - filming "A Couple of Dicks" in NYC (directing) and rabidly following the Devs cup run.
@tonyhawk - returning from family vacation in Mexico and points south.
@robcorddry - a funny guy.
@rainnwilson - another funny guy.
@THE_REAL_SHAQ - pandering to Oprah's new found twitteriness (fucking lame).
@rustyrockets - shameless self promotion with some pretty weak forced humor('bout to be unfollowed).
Facebook - glorious time waster, but not in an uber bad way. Seems to have decent security. I can feed it pics, 'thoughts', and videos from my mobile phone and while online I can directly interact with my 19 friends (since joining 4 days ago) that are currently scattered in places like Taiwan, Leeds, Vancouver, Montreal.. the list goes on. Most of it is fairly impersonal chatter via comments on pics or thoughts, but I do have 6 threads going with folks I hadn't talked to in 15+ years. I haven't even begun to scour the user base, and 6 of my 19 friendlies found me within 48 hours of signing up. Each day sees new or expanded conversations, more friend requests and recommendations along with the discovery of 'applications' that can be added to the facebook account to keep you there (hence the nickname 'crackbook'). Things like games, surveys, quizzes, and other generally benign time suckers litter the landscape and are 'just one click away'..
I've never been further removed from the people I'm so well connected with, or is it the other way around?
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